Atlanta artist Jamaal Barber featured on MTV's 'The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist'

Atlanta artist and printmaker Jamaal Barber. (Courtesy of Jamaal Barber)

Pursuing a full-time career as an artist is challenging. There are regular ups and downs and sometimes unforeseeable hurdles.

MTV’s show “The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist” takes the subject of reality into the world of reality TV by creating a high-stakes art competition.

Out of thousands of artists, only seven were chosen to compete for a $100,000 prize and an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Gallery in Washington, DC.