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​b. 1989, Washington D.C
Education 
2018  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
          Skowhegan, ME



2015   M.F.A. New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

2013   B.F.A. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,PA
2010   School of Art and Design at Montgomery
           
Community College, Silversprings MD.  
2009  Washington Studio School, Washington D.C
2008  Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington D.C 
            
Diploma of Visual Arts/ Diploma  
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Solo Exhibitions

2025  When There’s Nothing I Can Do: I Go to My Heart, Lehmann 
         
Maupin, New York, NY
2024  The City Lights Can’t Shine Quite Like the Stars: Got So Far
 
         
I Forgot My Raising I Forgot Where I Come From, Lehmann
          Maupin, New York, NY                                            
2023   A Moment Alone in the Shade, Lehmann Maupin, New York
2022   You Know I Used To Love You but Now I Don’t Think I Can: 
         
There Ain’t No Right Way To Say Goodbye Again, Lehmann
          Maupin, London, UK
2021    Hey Tomorrow  Do You Have Some Room For Me:Failure is
            Apart
Of Being Alive, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2020  I Guess By Now I'm Supposed To Be a Man: I'm Just Trying
           To Leave Behind Yesterday
, UTA Artist Space, Los Angles, CA

2019   My Heart is like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, Rachel Uffner  
           Gallery, New York, NY

2018  Revisiting the Arena, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
2017  The Area, Long Gallery, Harlem, NY
2016  
AIR Works, Guild Hall, Long Island, NY
         
 Life was a Party to be Thrown, Beez & Honey Pop up Space,
​          New York, NY
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Group Exhibitions
2025  The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian
​          Museum of Art, Washington D.C.          
            New York Academy of Art Chubb Fellows and Friends,

​          Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
            In Plain Sight, Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO 
            Visions of the World, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech

​          Republic
            Justice and the Inalienable Rights, Tyler Art Gallery at SUNY

​          Oswego, Oswego, NY
2024   A New Subjectivity 1979/2024, Parrish Museum, Water Mill,
 
         
NY         
 
         Day for Night: New American Realism, National Galleries of 
         
Ancient Art, Rome, Italy
            Some Dogs Go to Dallas, Green Family Art Foundation,
 
         
Dallas, TX
2023   Friends & Lovers, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY

          Talk of the Town, curated by Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck,
            Dallas 
Museum of Art pop-up, Dallas, TX

2022  Black Melancholia, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on- 
           Hudson, NY
 

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

           A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, ICA Boston,
           Boston, MA

2021  From The Limitations Of Now, Philbrook Museum of Art,
           Tulsa, OK

2020  Artists for New York, Hauser and Wirth, New York, NY
           Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family 
           
Collection of Contemporary Art,Lehman College, Bronx, NY
2019   Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth
           Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
           
On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary 
           
American Art, The MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland
           PhxArt60:The Past Decade,The Phoenix Art Museum,
           
Phoenix, AZ
           
Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch,
           Los Angeles, CA
 

2018  Ten Years, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
          Problem Solving: Highlights from the Experimental
          Printmaking 
Institute, Mechanical Hall Gallery, University 
          
of Delaware, Newark, DE
          
Portraits of Who We Are, David C. Driskell Center at the
          
University of Maryland, College Park, MD (catalogue)
2014  Mutual Interest No.3,  Shanghai University, Shanghai, China 
2012  Promising Artist of the 21st Century, Sophia Wanamaker    
           Gallery,
 San Jose, Costa Rica                                  



​Awards
2021   Artist Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2019   The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2018   Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 
2017   R
ecipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant
         
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 
2016  Scott & Patricia Moger PGTA Award
            Artist in Residence, Guild Hall Center for the Arts, Long Island, NY 

2014   Bob Colacello Scholarship  
            Artist in Residence, Shanghai University, China
2013   Bob Colacello Scholarship  
           The Lance Roy Lauffer Memorial Award 
            The Artist House Gallery Award 
            The Benjamin West Award  
2012  Fred and Naomi Hazel Award 
           Elizabeth Arrasmith Memorial Award 
           The Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize                                          
2010  The American Artists Professional League’s American Artists Fund
​            Award

2009  The Black Exhibit Meritorious Recognition
2008  Duke Ellington School of the Arts Excellence in Painting Award
            Duke Ellington School of the Arts Most Improved  
            Goldie Arnold Memorial Award
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Public Collections
Aishti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Asbury, NJ
Pérez Art Museum of Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China

Zabludowicz Collection, London, England 

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