I am excited to share that I'm an Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City! I join two other visual artists (Christian Moses and Jacquelyn Strycker) to make up the 39th Cycle of the museum's Artist Studios Program. More info on the program and a link to my profile on the museum website can be found here!

Group exhibition curated by Kenturah Davis featuring new comic weavings by me. More information can be found here.

UN-MUSEO DE RAICES MOVEDIZAS / A-MUSEUM OF QUICKROOTS EXHIBITION
GOVERNORS ISLAND NOLAN PARK
August 4 - August 31, 2019

A-Museum of Quickroots (“Raices Movedizas”) activates perceptions, stories, images, texts, and gatherings as iterations of a migrant museum. The project ignites places with the cultural and interpretive agency of an institution at the hands of collective effort. Against the backdrop of establishments that undocument migrant imaginations, Raices Movedizas is a witness. It documents these emergent imaginations through exhibitions, performances, and publications. This iteration of Raices Movedizas is realized in collaboration by Myrna Lazcano, Mauricio Higuera (et al.), Pablo Mariano Diaz, Christian Hincapie, Clare Kambhu, Anderson Luna, Siara Mencia, Mandy Messina, Johnathan Payne and Maya Strauss. A reception on August 24 will include an outdoor installation of A-Museum along with performances and the invitation to picnic in the park.

More information can be found here.

I will have works on view in this group exhibition alongside other brilliant artists at The CMPLX, a new visual and performing art space in Memphis created by The CLTV. Exhibition is on view from March 16 to April 13, 2019.

HEADS/TAILS: Yale MFA Painting/Printmaking 2018

HEADS opens July 27-August 26
Opening reception August 3, 7-9 PM

TAILS opens September 7-30
Opening reception September 7, 7-9 PM

Excited to be presenting new work alongside my woes in a second MFA show, this time on the East Coast! Thanks N2N!

Way Out Now
Yale MFA Painting/Printmaking 2018
June 16 - July 21, 2018

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to present Way Out Now, a group exhibition of Yale’s 2018 MFA Painting and Printmaking graduates. Way Out Nowwill present twenty-three artists from the United States, Klamath Tribes, Mexico, and Colombia. This exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, works on paper, video, and printed matter. “Way Out Now” is our gallery’s second show with Yale School of Art MFA artists. Each artist has pursued studies in the category of “Painting” or “Printmaking,” yet they navigated that space in a way that manifested in a variety of forms - often blurring or transforming any distinctions between painting and sculpture, photography, multiples, writing or performance. Several artists appear to prioritize formal investigations, while others articulate their ideas around subjectivity (gender identity, race, personal histories) through form.

The artists in this exhibition are Camille Altay, Felipe Baeza, Natalie Ball, Ernest A. Bryant III, Lauren Chun, Kenturah Davis, Daniel Ginsburg, Adam Higgins, Clare Kambhu, Kathryn Kerr, Antonia Kuo, Wyatt Lasky, Leslie Martinez, Alexandria Mento, Kent O’Connor, Johnathan Payne, Estefania Puerta, Julia Rooney, Ilana Savdie, Vaughn Spann, Maya Strauss, Emma Webster, and Chase Wilson.

More info here!

Wow that was quick! Excited to share that I will be presenting my thesis work in Wild Seed: Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA Thesis Show alongside some stellar colleagues/co-conspirators/Yaliens of mine. Group 1 reception is Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 6-9 PM and Group 2 reception is Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 6-9 PM. Both are at The Green Gallery in Yale School of Art, located at 1156 Chapel St, New Haven, CT. See you there! Exhibition identity courtesy of the infamous Nate Pyper.

I'm thrilled to share that I will be in a group show alongside some incredible artists and fellow graduate peers at Kravits Wehby Gallery in NYC. If you're in the city, please come check out what we've been up to at Yale this semester. Poster designed by Shikeith the Great.

Publishing Camp: Queering Dissemination is a two-day event organized by myself and Nate Pyper (GD '18) at Yale School of Art's E.I.K. Gallery. The event explores the idea of publishing and information disseminations as queer and radical acts, and how publics and counter-publics are engaged and confronted. Alongside a curation of digital media artworks by graduate students from Yale Schools of Art, Architecture, Drama, and Music within the gallery space, visual artists Shawne Michaelain Holloway, Nicole Killian, and Rindon Johnson were invited to present their work and to be in dialogue across their specific disciplines, practices and locations. Event identity courtesy of the unstoppable Nate Pyper.

I organized a school-wide after party on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 to celebrate the completion of the first week of critiques at the Yale School of Art. The after party was held Partners Cafe, a local gay bar in New Haven, CT. Gif designed by the indelible Nate Pyper.

I will have some juicy monotypes on view at Crushed: Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair. Come through with your dirty self! Check out this feature of the fair in Hyperallergic here.

I am beyond ecstatic to share that I am showing my work for the first time in New York City in a group show curated by visual artist Wardell Milan. Kink and Politics: The Ties That Bind is at David Nolan Gallery, located at 527 W 29th St, New York, NY 1001. The show is up until July 28, 2017. If you are in NYC this summer, please check it out.

I have two works on paper featured in the second issue of Newspaper. Come celebrate the issue launch event with us!

I have select works in a phenomenal group show at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco, CA. The exhibition also includes works by Romare Bearden, Aubrey Williams, McArthur Binion, Cullen Washington, Nate Young, Lavar Monroe, Blessing Ngobeni, and Tony Lewis. More information about the exhibition and the participating artists can be found here.

I double-dipped on the curatorial front this semester, collaborating with three fellow MFA peers to create Black Joy. Black Joy is a 26-hour multi-sensory experience that combines visual art, performance, spoken word, dance, and music. Taking a broad conceptual approach to what Black Joy means, this community event illuminates the multiplicity inherent within the Black Diaspora. I'll be showing some small works on paper at this event. The Facebook event can be found here.

Friday, October 28,2016
Ecstatic to share an event I helped curate this semester alongside eight of my fellow YSA peers. "Bringing together a community of queer art and artists, Queering Space asks the questions: what is a queer perspective and how does queerness meet form? The many propositions put forth by the artists on view refuse to locate those articulations in a fixed position but rather a fluid space of possibility." For more information about the exhibition and a list of the participating curators and artists, click on the link--- Queering Space.

I was invited to partake in an incredible opportunity to bring my artwork to an international audience this fall. I am beyond excited to share my participation in the fourth iteration of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, taking place the weekend of October 6-9, 2016 at Summerset House in London. I will be showing my work via Jenkins Johnson Gallery. A link to the gallery website can be found here, and a link to view a 360-degree panorama of the gallery booth at the fair can be accessed here. My artist profile on the 1:54 website can be accessed here.

I was given the wonderful opportunity to share about my work for the OtherPeoplePixels Blog! Click the four hearts to check it out <3<3<3<3 Sincere thanks to Stacia Yeapanis for reaching out to me and for conducting the interview.

I am thrilled to share that I will be pursuing a MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Yale School of Art this fall! Check out my page on the School of Art website here.

Great news! I am one of five artists participating in Memphis' first ever Art CSA! I am currently making 35 additions of an artwork that will be distributed in "shares" to community members. More information can be found here. Buy a CSA so I can buy a turkey and make more art!

Thrilled to share that I will be exhibiting and performing alongside other Memphis artists in do it. do it began as a collaboration between international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Bertrand Lavier and Christian Boltanski. Their collective effort to shift the normative conventions of art exhibitions has resulted with a large catalogue of instructions by over 300 artists and several renditions of do it exhibitions worldwide. I intend to do a live performance at Crosstown Arts on Saturday, March 5th at 6PM. See you then!

AMUM
April 9 – May 7, 2016
9 to 5, Monday through Saturday
Reception Friday April 8, 4:30 to 7:30 PM

Crosstown Arts
March 4 – April 2, 2016
10 to 6, Tuesday through Saturday
Reception Friday March 4, 6 to 9 PM

I've got some new writing to share with you all. I wrote a review for Joel Parsons' recent Crosstown Arts exhibition You Are The Hole in the 84th issue of Number. Number is an independent journal of the arts for Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The review is on page twelve of the PDF of the issue, which can be accessed here.

I am one of nine artists participating in the 2nd Terrain Biennial, which has expanded from its founding city of Chicago to various U.S. cities and abroad. My work will remain installed 24/7 from August 23 to September 30. More information can be found here.

A wonderful one-night-only exhibition of new collaborative works with the great D'Angelo Williams at First Congregational Church in Cooper-Young. Come check us out.

I will be presenting a new mixed media installation and live endurance performance at Crosstown Arts on May 9, 2015. Come through.

I am in a wonderful group show this winter at TOPS Gallery located in Downtown Memphis. Come check out the only gallery in town sporting a white epoxy floor! More information can be found here.

Wonderful news! I am honored to share that I am one of five artists selected to receive a 2014 ArtsAccelerator Grant by ArtsMemphis! I cannot express how affirming and gratifying receiving this award is. You can check out my grant proposal, as well as the proposals of the four other grantees, here.

A new series of hirsute, lumpy, bodily, supple drawings at Beige. There'll also be fun treats and takeaways in Joel's newly acquired vending machine, courtesy of The Pumping Station.

I am one of several artists participating in a performance/art exhibition at Beige, a queercentric artspace co-curated by Joel Parsons and Steven McMahon. More information can be found here.

I'm excited to share that I was selected to exhibit work in a juried figurative art exhibition in Phoenix, AZ! The show was juried by Jerry Schutte, Associate Professor of Visual Art at Arizona State University. If you're in Phoenix during the duration of the exhibition, please check it out. I'm flattered that my drawing was used for the brochure cover!

Shemer Art Center
February 21-March 22, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 7-9 PM