EDUCATION

MFA Candidate in Photography, Tulane University, 2023

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 2022

BFA, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, 2017

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Collection Graduate Student Worker, Tulane University, 2021-2023

Archivist, Preservation Hall, 2023 - Present

Dean, Skowheagan School of Painting & Sculpture, 2024

 

GROUP SHOWINGS

2025

Free, Fearless, Fantastical, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC

2024

Delicate Sights: Photography and Glass, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Culture, Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

In the House, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC

Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC

I’ve Been Here Before, curated by Shabez Jamal, Sibyl Gallery, New Orleans, LA

I’ll Be Your Mirror - Reflections of the Contemporary Queer, the CARR Center & CCS-Center Galleries, Detriot, MI

2023

The Ripening, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC, NY

Acaba, y empiezas tu, como la agua sin la luz, la segunda ola (It starts, and ends with you, like water that shines without light, the second wave), Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Diaspora Solidarities Lab presents, Alive in Their Garden, RCAH at Michigan State Univerity, Afro-Latinx Lab

IN THE SPIRIT OF BLACK is curated by Shana M. griffin and Eric Waters, with the curatorial assistance of Kalamu ya Salaam, Girard Mouton III, and Renee Royale, Ashe Cultural Center, New Orleans, LA

Presence and Precarity, A Louisiana Fairytale, Preservation Hall, New Orleans, LA

2022

Alien Race, LA Art Core, Los Angeles

What is Left Unspoken, Love, The High Museum of Art, ATL, GA

2021

Honey Suckle, Omar Tate, Chef in Residence at Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, NY

This is Who We Are, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC, NY

2020

Queer Art Mentorship Annual: Arcanum, Online Exhibition, 2020

Isolation to Revolution / Rebirth to Dissent, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC, NY

Shady Parts, Chasm Journal, Online Exhibition

LGBTQ Heritage, Curated by Leon Mostovoy in collaboration with West Hollywood Trans Artist Grant, ACCA Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

Where Will I Be Buried???, Curated by Muse Dodd & Catherine Feliz, Flux Factory Online Gallery

A Place to Visit V.2, Curated by JIP & Olympyia, Online Gallery

Por Los Ojos De Mi Gente (Through the eyes of my tribe), Curated by Alanna Fields & Antonio Pulgarin, Baxter Street CCNY, NYC, NY

Us, Curated by Savannah Spirit for Undercurrent Projects, Artsy

Pen + Brush: This Is Who We Are, Maggi Peyton Gallery at the Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer. NYC, NY

Tribute, FDU art gallery, Teaneck, NJ

The Now, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC, NY

2019

Textbook - A Show of Text & Art - , Pocket Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Mirror Mirror On The Wall : Curated by Lise Curry, Callahan Center Art Gallery, NYC, NY

In Conversation : Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity, African American Museum in Philadelphia, PHL, PA

Reclaimed : An Exhibition, Hygienic Art Gallery, New London, CT

God's Pride : In Our Own Words, The Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy, NYC, NY

Home: Where I Seek, I Find Myself, Curated by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn & Adama Delphine Fawundu, Photographic Museum of Humanity

Fake Woke/Fake News, Los Angeles, CA

In Our Own Words, The Church of Saint Matthew and Saint Timothy, NYC, NY

Home: Where I Seek, I Find Myself, Curated by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn & Adama Delphine Fawundu, Photographic Museum of Humanity

You’re Welcome, Flux Factory, Brooklyn, NY

Bridges to the Other Side, 187, Toronto

Front and Center/ed A Black Artstory Presented by Black Gotham, Putnam’s, Brooklyn, NY

En Foco Presents Apartment Series: Membrane, Hamilton Landmark Gallery, NYC, NY

Furies, Fairies, Visionaries, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC, NY

2018

SPECTRUM: Exploring Gender Identification, MCLA Gallery 51, Springfield, MA

On Adornment, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC, NY

ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offerings!, Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art Staff Art Show, Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY

We Dream in Color, Queer/Art Presents, Macy's Herald Square, NYC

Phoenix Rising, Parlor Room Sessions, Brooklyn, NY

Change. Conversations with the Creator, National Black Theatre, Harlem, NY

A Seat at Our Table, Brooklyn Fete, Brooklyn, NY

2017     

Recent Works: Fall 2017, Boylan Project Space, Brooklyn NY

Reliquary: A Gallery of Altars, Catland Books, Brooklyn, NY

She Ritual, Center for the Arts Gallery at Westchester Community College, White Plains, NY

Transitions, Aquarius Studios, Brooklyn, NY

Respond BC!, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

2016       

Holla Back, An Artistic Expression against Male Oppression, Studio 301, Brooklyn, NY

Art Royale Presents: Amazonia, Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

 

PANELS/ARTIST TALKS

Challenges & Opportunities Institutionalizing Interdisciplinary Community Engaged Student Scholarship, Impact Conference, UMASS Amherst, 2023

Fridays at Newcomb, Tulane University, 2022

The Stonewall National Museum & Archives, Livestream, 2021

Exploring Afro-Latinidad, NYU, 2020

Where Will I Be Buried Artist Talk, Livestream, 2020

LGBTQ+ Heritage Meet the Artists, ACCA Gallery, LA, CA, 2020

Meditations on Black Masculinity, Curated by the Frances Project, African American Museum in Philadelphia, PHL, PA, 2019

Taking Up Space: An Interview with Felicita Felli Maynard, Curated by Support Black Art, 2019

Art Talks, Curator Discussion with Jenn Hampton, Pen + Brush Gallery, NYC, NY, 2018

Pride and Prejudice: Examining Queer of Color Narrative, Curated by Andre Terrel Jackson, ArtWorks, Trenton, NJ, 2018

RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/OTHER

SLA Graduate Summer Research Award, 2022

Mellon Community Engaged Fellow, 2021-2023

Art Matters Artist 2 Artist Grant, 2021

Queer Archive Work Residency, 2021

Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, 2021

Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow, 2020-2021

Virtual Brooklyn Art Book Fair 2020, Presented by Endless Editions

Smack Mellon Art Ready Mentor, 2020 & 2021

Queer|Art Mentorship Fellowship with Lola Flash, 2019-2020

Intern in the Digital Collections Department, Brooklyn Museum, 2018-2020

BRIC Media Arts Fellow, 2018-2019

NURTUREart Artist Residency, 2018-2019

Smack Mellon Artist Residency, Brooklyn NY, 2018-2019

New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow, 2018-2019

New York Times Portfolio Review, 2018

Charles G. Shaw Art Award, 2017

SCREENINGS

Queer Art, ARCANUM, Screened “Primp”, online showing, 2021

Queer Threads: Curious Cabaret; Premiered “Primp” online showing, 2020

BRIC Media Arts Fellowship Screening of “Ole Dandy, the Tribute”, BRIC, 2019

PRESS/PUBLICATIONS

Interpreting Site, Art Papers, Summer 2024

Intervenxions Vol. 1, The Latinx Project at NYU, 2022

What is Left Unspoken, Love Exhibition Catalogue, 2022

Precog Magazine Vol. 6, 2022

Pen & Brush In Print No. 5, 2021

How Arts LGBTQ+ Nonprofit Queer|Art Supports Those the Mainstream Has Long Ignored

Queerness and Blackness in the Archive: An Interview with Felicita “Felli” Maynard, The Latinx Project at NYU

COLLECTIONS

Thomas J. Watson Library, Special Collections

The MET Museum

SF MOMA

Newcomb Archives, Tulane University