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Born in 1993, St. Louis, MO

Lives and works in New Haven, CT

 

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS

2023

Birthplace, Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), St. Louis, MO

2022

What Makes the Earth Shake, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA 

Soft Shadows, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

2021

Progress of the Soul, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy 

2020

Like the Shapes of Clouds on Water, August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Life is Elsewhere, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

2017

Black, Brief, & Spirited, The Millitzer Studio and Gallery, St. Louis, MO

These Brief and Spirited Things, The Residential Gallery, Des Moines, IA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Fifteen Years, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

2023

CURRENTS, Lehmann Maupin, Palm Beach, FL

Public Private, Pond Society, Shanghai, China

2022

In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Dissolving Realms, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami's Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL 

2021

Black Bodies, White Spaces: Invisibility & Hypervisibility, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX

Realms of Refuge, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL 

Life in Flowers, Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy

From the Limitations of Now, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed: Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI

Art Finds a Way, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

2020

IRL, Unit Gallery, London, UK

Synchronicity, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Voices, Studio 525, New York, NY

Open Air, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

Abstraction of Black Citzenship: Art from St. Louis, Seattle University, Seattle, WA

Winter Salon Part III, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019

As long as we are flyin' all this world ain't got no end,  Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

Conjuring Wholeness in the Wake of Rupture, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY

Again, Always,Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Between Two Worlds, Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Interwoven, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY

2017

Water & Dreams, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Water & Dreams, The Chicken Coop Gallery, Portland, OR

Now Figuration,Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Bridge Work 02: From Memory to Metaphor, Arts Literature Lab, Madison, WI

2016

Post Mode 2.0, John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Bridge Work 02: From Memory to Metaphor, The Pitch Project Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

MIAD Juried Exhibition, MIAD Contemporary Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2015

Post Mode, NYSRP Gallery Yale Norfolk Final Exhibition, Norfolk, CT

Creative Fusion, MIAD Contemporary Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

The Gold Show, Netherlands Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Open Studios, The Pitch Project Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2014

Deconstructing the Local, MIAD Contemporary Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2013

Progress, Contemporary Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

UMSL/STLCC Print Invitational,Gallery FAB, UMSL, St. Louis, MO

African American Heritage, Terry M. Fischer Gallery, STLCC-FV, Ferguson, MO

Varsity Art XVIII, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

 

GRANTS/AWARDS

2018

Robert Reed Drawing Scholarship, Yale University

2015

New York Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY

Residency, Yale University School of Musicand Art, Norfolk, CT

Yale Norfolk Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Milwaukee, WI

2014

Transfer Scholarship, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI

Varsity Art XVIII Award, STLCC-FV, St. Louis, MO

2012

Board of Trustees Scholarship, STLCC-FV, St. Louis, MO

 

EDUCATION

2019

MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2016

BFA,Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

2014

AFA, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St. Louis, MO

 

COLLECTIONS

LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (promised gift)

Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

Long Museum, Shanghai, China

Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA (promised gift)

Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL

Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China