Born 1982. Lives and works in New York, NY.

EDUCATION

Masters of Fine Arts, State University of New York at Purchase College, Purchase, NY (2012)

Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA (2010)

Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2008)         

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

Un Voyage Dans Le Bonheur, LE CAW, Luxembourg (2022)

Rock Steady, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY (2021) [SOLO]

City Artists Corps Grant, Umbrella Space, New York, NY (2021)

Every Woman Biennial, Super Chief Gallery, New York (2021)

PLAY, curated by Laurie De Chiara, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (2020-2021)

BIG BANG, Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY (2020)

Regress, ABC NO RIO, New York, NY (2020)

GROUNDED, Elsewhere Space, Bushwick, NY (2019) [SOLO]

Dutch Masters, Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY (2018)

SPRING/BREAK Black Mirror, curated by Kristen Racaniello, New York, NY (2017)

POST-ELECTION, curated by Kate Gilmore, September Gallery, Hudson, NY (2017)

Summer Anagram, Nurture Art, Brooklyn NY (2016)

Bomb Pop-Up, Brooklyn, NY (2016)

Line Up, Ess Ef Eff, Brooklyn, NY (2016)

Colors, Louis B. James, New York, NY (2015)

Mingled Bodies, curated by Jovanna Stokic, Vanity Projects, New York, NY (2015)

Mingled Bodies, curated by Jovanna Stokic, Vanity Projects, Miami, FL (2015)

This Dog Needs a Name, curated by Kerry Cox, Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2015)

Art Basel Muwkonago, curated by Sean J. Patrick Carney at Bahamas Biennnale Gallery, Muwkonago, WI (2014)

Four Lives, curated by Keri Oldham, Field Projects, New York, NY (2013)

You Are My Sunshine, Associated Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2013)

Funny, curated by Jen Hitchings, Weeknights, Brooklyn, NY (2013)

8 DEGREES, Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, NY (2012)

Make The Road By Walking, Curated by Stamatina Gregory, The Passage Gallery, Purchase, NY (2011)

Kinsey Institute Juried Show, Jurors: Christopher Bedford, Garry Milius, and Betsy Stirratt. Bloomington, IN (2011)

And I Have a Bridge to Sell You, Passage Gallery, Purchase, NY [catalog] (2011)

Soon Yee Purchase, 206 Rivington, New York, NY (2011)

MFA Show, curated by Jeremy Zingler, Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase, NY (2011)

Inside Out, SMFA spring art auction, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA (2010)

AWARDS/GRANTS

City Artist Corps Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts (2021)

ACE Grant NYC, Rema Hort Mann (2018)

Nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant (2017) 

SELECT PRESS/ ARTIST BOOKS

MAAKE Magazine, curated by Tyler LaFreniere, Issue 13, Happy Valley, PA

ART MAZE Mag, curated by Julie Curtiss, Issue 23, Summer 2021, London, UK

Heinrich, Will. “12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens,” The New York Times, April 26, 2018 [print]

American Songbook, curated by RJ Supa, Louis B. James Gallery, New York, NY, 2015

Ma-Me-Mn-Mo-Mt, Courtney Childress and Aaron Krach, New York, NY, 2013

 

CURATORIAL

Country Come to Town, Standard Space, Sharon, CT (2021)

Tell Me Again - Eliot Greenwald, Spring Break, New York (2019)

Water Sports - Todd Bienvenu, yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017)

Static Limit - Esther Ruiz, yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017)

Touching in the Dark - Mandy Lyn Ford & Sara Faux, yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2016)

60 Minutes, Vanity Projects, New York, NY (2015)

60 Minutes, Vanity Projects, Miami, FL (2015)

No Name, co-curated with Aaron Krach, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2013)

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