b. 1989, Washington D.C

​Education 
2018  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
          Skowhegan, ME

2015   New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

2013   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
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

Group Exhibitions
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 
2019   The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2018   Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 
2017   Recipient 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 
2104   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
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland,
​College Park, MD
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Asbury, NJ 
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China