CV
Education
2013-2018
University of Minnesota
Gender Women's and Sexuality Studies, Ph. d.
2009-2010
Whitney Independent Study Program
2007-2009
University of Pennsylvania
Interdiscplinary Practices, M.F.A.
2002-2005
University of Alabama Birmingham
Art Studio and Art History, B.A.
Artist Residences
University of Minnesota 2019-2020
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Visiting Artist Fellow, Houston, TX 2018
A Studio in the Woods, New Orleans, LA 2018
Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, 2012 IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011
Center for Photography at Woodstock, 2009
Hanze University, Frank Mohr Institute, 2008
Grants/Fellowships/Awards
2018
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Visiting Artist Fellow, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2017
Visual Arts Fund, Grant Support for The Black Power Station, Midway Contemporary Art/Andy Warhol Foundation
Knight Arts Cities Challenge, Finalist
2016
McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
Artist in Neighborhood Partnerships, Center for Urban Research Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Fellow, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2015
Imagine Fund, Special Events Award, Black Geographies Summer School, with Dr. Zenzele Isoke, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Research Award, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
Council of Graduate Students, Community Building Grant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2014
Idea Fund, Diverse Works Houston, with TBA Collective, Houston, TX
Susan Geiger Award, Dept. of Gender Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Fellow, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2013-16
Fellow, A. Givens Sr., Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Graduate Fellow, Diversity of Values in Experiences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Graduate Research Partnership Program, Ethnic Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2010
Van Lier Foundation Grant, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Exhibitions and Projects
2018
Group Exhibition, Freedumb, Maime and Weavers Ultra, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibition, Round 48: Beyond Social Practice, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Group Exhibition, Constructing the Break, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
Solo Exhibition, Neither One, or Somewhere in Between, Film North, St. Paul, MN
Solo Exhibition, She Ain’t Gone Nowhere, Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham, AL.
2017
Group Exhibition, We the People, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN.
Group Exhibition, The Emperor Is Naked, Workroom, Minneapolis, MN.
2016
Group Exhibition, Selected Works. The Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN.
Solo Exhibition, Suspension. University of Kentucky Bolivar Art Gallery, Lexington, KY.
Collaborative Project, Say It Back To Me, Collaborative sound project with TBA, Vinyl Album Houston, TX.
2015
Collaborative Project, Black Geographies Summer School (Summer Workshop) with Dr. Zenzele Isoke, Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Kristy Clemons, and Adjoa Akofio-Sowah, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2011
Group Exhibition, Road to Equality, Freedom Riders Museum, Montgomery, AL
Group Exhibition, Made in Woodstock V, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
2010
Group Exhibition, Art in General, New York, NY
2009
Group Exhibition, La Jatée: Response, University of Pennsylvania, Meyerson Galleries, Philadelphia. 2009
Group Exhibition, Thesis Exhibition, IceBox, Philadelphia. 2009
Group Exhibition, Where There is Smoke There is Smoke, Michael Steinberg Gallery, NY
2008
Group Exhibition, Invisible Man, University of Pennsylvania, Meyerson Galleries, Philadelphia. 2008
Confrences, Presentations and Creative Projects
“Black Economies and Black Ecologies,” Public Lecture with Chaun Webster, Convening: Resistance and Rebellion, Givens Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
“Say It Back To Me,” Collaborative sound project with TBA, Vinyl Album Houston, TX, Forthcoming.
“Black Geographies Summer School” (Summer Workshop) with Dr. Zenzele Isoke, Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Kristy Clemons, and Adjoa Akofio-Sowah, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, MN, July 2015.
“Spatializing the Technics of Black Conviviality,” Co-Presented with Elliot James, History Ph.D., University of Minneota University of Western Cape, Hogsback, SA, July 2015.
“Assata Shakur: Black Atlantic Displacements and Domestic Terrorist Assemblages,” Feminist Transgressions, National Women’s Studies Association, San Juan, PR, November 2014.
“Creative Pedagogy” Creative Campus with Artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Community
Roundtable and Discussion. Tuscaloosa, AL, March 2013
“Claudia Jones, Black Radical Subject in Exile.” Brown Bag Lectures Series, The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center and the Department of Gender and Race Studies. Tuscaloosa, AL, January 2013.
“‘Is She, Ain’t She’: Black Women’s Visual Politics Reclaiming Black Feminist Criticism.” The Politics of Justice: New Visions of Culture and Society, Southeastern Women’s Studies Association. Fairfax, VA, March 2012.
Co-Curated Exhibitions: “Homegrown;” “Watchwords,” “Battle 4 A Cause”
Cauldron Projekts: Experimental Art Space, Coordinator/Cofounder, Birmingham, AL 2011