Education
2021 MFA in Visual Arts. Lesley Art & Design at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2020 MFA New Hampshire Institute of the Arts. NH
2007 BA cum laude, Africana, Puerto-Rican & Latino Studies, Hunter College – City University of New York, New York, NY
2001 Art Regents Diploma. F.H. LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Art to the People Jamaica. Online Exhibition and LinkNYC Series curated by Greg Mays, Founder & Executive Director of A Better Jamaica, Inc. and the Jamaica Arts Council. Queens, NY
2019 - Crown on the Throne. M Collection Store Series. M Collection. New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2023 - Cross Cultural Perspectives co-curated by Adrienne Wheeler and Atteqa Ali. The Newark Museum of Art. Newark, NJ.
2023 - Women in the Heights: Women of Substance, Past, Present, Future curated by Andrea Arroyo. NoMAA Gallery@4140 Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. United Palace. Washington Heights, NY.
2022 - Make Me Wanna Holler Poem Booth Fall Exhibition curated by Candace Nicholson. Gallery Aferro. Newark, NJ
2022 - The Keeping: Whole and Connected presented by Femme Curator Arts & Newark Arts Festival. Newark, NJ
2022 - In Real Life Music. Music∙ Art∙ Fashion∙ Sound Experience curated by ChiffaniBrands, Brown Mill Company. Newark Arts Festival. Newark, NJ
2022 - Women in the Heights: Up Close and Personal curated by Andrea Arroyo. Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Washington Heights, NY.
2021 - Lucid Noir. Newark Arts Festival curated by Urban Kween & Femme Curator Arts. Newark, NJ
2021 - Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19 conceived by Elizabeth Awalt. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Connector Gallery. Cambridge, MA
2021 - BLACK ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN REALM: IDEAS, MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES curated by Atim Annette Oton. Calabar Gallery. Harlem, NY
2021 - MFA in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition June 2021 curated by Andrew Mroczek for Lesley University School of Art & Design. Lunder Arts Gallery. Cambridge, MA
2020 - Art4Equality X Life, Liberty & The Pursuit Of Happiness Group Exhibition + Public Art Series curated by Indira Cesarine & presented by The Untitled Space in collaboration with SaveArtSpace and Art4Equality New York, NY
2020 - Current. Newark Arts Festival curated by Urban Kween & Femme Curator Arts. Newark, NJ
2019 - Call to Create. Mother Mercy Cohort Exhibition curated by Johnette M. Ellis. Boston, MA
2019 - Black and Brown: An Unparalleled Truth curated by Urban Kween, Newark Arts Festival. Newark, NJ
2019 - Hybrid: An Interactive Experience Fusing The Arts curated by ChiffaniBrands, Newark Arts Conservancy. Newark, NJ
2019 - ArtWorks, Inc. Seminar Fellow Group Exhibition. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning funded by the Jerome Foundation curated by Heng-Gil Han. Miller Gallery. Jamaica, NY
2019 - Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival Group Art Exhibition, curated by Julia Kito Kirtley. Knockdown Center. Maspeth, NY
Bibliography
2019 - Miller Gallery. ARTWorks Group Show, Exhibition Catalog
Fellowships & Residencies
2019 - Call to Create. Mother Mercy Cohort
2018-2019 - Artworks, Inc. Seminar Fellowship. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning & The Jerome Foundation. Jamaica, NY
2018 - Cambridge Writer’s Workshop Granada, Spain Retreat Participant
Awards
2020 - MFA in Visual Arts Strauch-Mosse Merit Scholarship
2018 - CWW Summer in Granada Writing Retreat - Diversity Scholarship
Other Relevant Professional Experience
2009 - “Black Girl Manifesto” (poem) published in Letters to a Young Sister by Hill Harper
2008 - “Make Me Wanna Holler” published in The Crisis Magazine – An NAACP Publication
2002 - Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam Finalist and Team Member