Education

2020   BFA in Studio with a concentration in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking,

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Magna Cum Laude

Group Exhibitions:

2021 “demos/desires”, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR, curated by Clifford Prince King

2021 “EngangeMINT” Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2021. “Articulate” Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA, curated by Courntey Ware lett, Brandon Ball, George Galbreath, Esohe Galbreath

2020 Georgia State University’s Fall 2020 B.F.A. Exhibition, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2020 “do it (home)” YoungArts Online Exhibition, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

2020 AXA Art Prize Juried Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, juried by Ian Alteveer, Lauren Haynes, Brett Littman, Eugenie Tsai

2020 Georgia State University’s 2020 Juried Student Show, Atlanta, GA, juried by Shannon Morris

2020 “andyet: an exhibition of young emerging talent” Dalton Gallery Juried Exhibition, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA juried by Veronica Kessenich, Yu-Kai Lin, and Joseph Peragine

2020 “Atlanta Exhibition” Aviation Community Cultural Center Exhibition, Atlanta, GA curated by Tisha Smith and Okeeba Jubalo

2019 “Within Interdependence” YoungArts Exhibition, YoungArts Gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Deanna Haggag

2019 “Inspiration” Community Cultural Arts Council Douglasville Exhibition, Douglasville, GA, curated by Demetri Burke, Shancheze Johnson, and Charly Palmer

2019 “400: A Collective Flight of Memory”, Community Cultural Arts Council Douglasville Exhibition, Atlanta, GA curated by Jamaal Barber and Tisha Smith

2019 Paideia Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, curated by Tracy Murrell

2017 YoungArts 2017 Finalists Exhibition, YoungArts Gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Franklin Sirmans, juried by Derrick Adams, Loni Johnson, Naomi Fisher, Robert Chambers

Curatorial Work

2019    “Inspiration” Community Cultural Arts Council Douglasville Exhibition, curated by Demetri Burke, Shancheze Johnson, and Charly Palmer

Selected Awards and Achievements

2020 Red Bull Arts Microgrant

2020 Juried Student Exhibition Award by Larry and Gwen Walker in honor of Casandra Wood Walker

2019 First Place in Georgia State University’s Juried Ethics Week Exhibition

2018 Made Mark Scholarship Recipient 

2017 Finalist for the national YoungArts competition and program in visual arts

2016 First Place in the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Competition 

Publications

2021 “Artistic Voices: Portraiture Painting with Demetri Burke” Georgia State’s the College of the Arts, https://thearts.gsu.edu/2021/01/22/artistic-voices-portraiture-painting-with-demetri-burke/

Commissions 

2021 “Together, a short film”, commissioned by the YoungArts Foundation

Residencies 

2021 The Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program 2021 Mellon Summer Academy at the High Museum of Art

2017 National YoungArts Week at the YoungArts Miami Campus