Education

2024 The Art Students League of New York, New York City (ongoing)

2023 Grand Central Atelier, Queens, New York (ongoing)

2023 The New Art School Modality, “FESTAC ’77: Witnesses, Art Histories, and Documents,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Solo Exhibitions

2018    seedling, Limited Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2013    black & gray, The Local, Oberlin, Ohio

Selected Group Shows

2023 Invoking Autonomy/Invocando Autonomia, Plaza De La Raza, Los Angeles, California

2020 Tracking Movement to Reinvent Narratives, GalleryPlatform.LA

2020 CALAFIA: El Fin del Paraíso, MexiCali Biennial, Steppling Art Gallery (SDSU, Imperial Valley Campus), Calexico, California

2019 CALAFIA: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise, MexiCali Biennial, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California

2019 Tell Me a Story and I’ll Sing You a Song, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2019 The Second Head, Office & Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2018   CALAFIA: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise, MexiCali Biennial, RAFFMA, San Bernardino, California

2018   Plain Sight, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2018   Reaching Point Break, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, California

2018   Los Angeles Plays Itself, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, British Columbia

2018   Radiant, Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles, California

2018   RELAY 2, Slide Space 123, Oakland, California

2018    Emerging Visions: Creative Practice at the Nexus of Freedom and Justice, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, California

2018    we make space, and space makes us, NAVEL, Los Angeles, California

2013    Geographies of Self, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

Bibliography

The Racket Journal, “Issue 69,” October 2022

The Atlantic, “Birtherism and Trump,” May 2020

Texts

Otherwise Noted: A Review of Tell Me a Story And I’ll Sing You a Song,” Curate LA, 2019

Curatorial

2018 Palmss Issue 3, Los Angeles, California

2016 Palmss Issue 2, Los Angeles, California

2015 Palmss Issue 1, Los Angeles, California

Panels and Performance

2020, “clarissa,” Shanrica Evans (Writer/Director), Los Angeles, California

2020, “Izzy’s Demons,” Gregory Garay (Writer/Director), Los Angeles, California

2020, “Stories That Move” Artist Talk, Big City Forum, Los Angeles, California

2019, Tell Me a Story and I’ll Sing You a Song Panel Discussion, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2019, To Freedom: Questioning and Queering the Undercommons, 2019 Sequels Symposium: “Fugitive Futures: Graduate Students of Color Un-Settling the University,” The University of Texas, Austin

2019, Rip Roar: A Pechakucha Event for 11 Artist Books and Zines, Other Books LA, Los Angeles

2019, “I Am Somebody:” In Conversation with Tyree Boyd-Pates, Essence Harden, and Chinwe Okona, Now Instant Image Hall, Los Angeles

2018, SOUNDBATH, The Ace Hotel, Los Angeles

2018, The State of Black Popular Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

2017, There’s Levels to This, University of California, Los Angeles

2017, Writing Herself, The Main Museum, Los Angeles

Residencies

2021 Camera Obscura Art Lab (COAL) Resident Artist, City of Santa Monica

Juries and Board Membership

O, Miami Poetry Festival Board of Advisors, 2019 - 2021

Candor Arts Reading Residency, 2018