Born 1981, Bronx, New York
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Education and Residencies
2019 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida
2018 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
2017 LMCC Process Space Residency, Governor’s Island, New York
2017 Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York
2017 NYU Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, New York City
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine
2013 Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Artist Residency, New Berlin, New York
2010 MFA, Painting and Drawing, Parsons The New School for Design, New York City
2006 MA in Art Education, New York University, New York City
2003 BFA, Illustration, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Honors and Awards
2020 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbria. Italy
2019 Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, Flushing, New York
2019 NXTHVN Studio Fellowship, New Haven, Connecticut
2018 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York City
2016 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts/Robert Blackburn Studio Immersion Fellowship, New York City
2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York City
2015 Virginia A. Myers Visiting Artist in Printmaking (2015-16), University of Iowa, Iowa
2014 Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (2014-15), Provincetown, Massachusetts
2014 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (2013-14), Provincetown, Massachusetts
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Pretend Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens, Gagosian Gallery, New York City
2019 In Praise of Shadows, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City
2019 Monuments to an Effigy, Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
2019 Of Water and Spirit, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York
2018 A Litany for Survival, Stone Gallery at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
2017 Try a Little Tenderness, The Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
2017 Collage Collaborations, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York City
2016 All the women in me..., Levitt Gallery at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
2015 No one belongs here more than you, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Stars in my pocket, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2014 Perpetual Adorations, Scaramouche Gallery, New York City
2014 Out Through The Sun, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Group Exhibitions
2021 An Infinity of Traces (co-curated by Ekow Eshun), Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021 Social Works (curated by Antwaun Sargent), Gagosian Gallery, New York City
2019 Better Nights (curated by Mickalene Thomas), The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
2019 NXTHVN: First Year Fellows, Tilton Gallery, New York City
2019 Painting Is Its Own Country (curated by Dexter Wimberly), The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina
2019 Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
2019 deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2019 Role Play, Postmasters Gallery & The Orange Garden Room, Rome, Italy
2019 Sleeping Rooms Lie Awake, LMAK Gallery, New York City
2019 Manifold, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, New York
2018 The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure The Night, MassMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
2018 Nine Moments for Now, Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2018 States of Freedom: The Figure in Flux, Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Massachusetts
2018 Cosmic Traffic Jam, Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2018 Postcards from New York II, Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2018 Said by Her, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York City
2018 #SayHerName: Watch Us Werk, VanDernoot Gallery at Lesley University, Boston, Massachusetts
2017 Black Women Artists for Black Lives, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2017 SIP Fellowship Exhibition, Robert Blackburn Gallery, New York City
2017 Collage Collaborations, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York City
2017 Black Pulp!, Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
2017 Black Pulp!, Contemporary Art Museum at USF Tampa, Tampa, Florida
2017 Round 46: Black Women Artists for Black Lives, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
2017 Vanishing Points (curated by Andrianna Campbell), James Cohan Gallery, New York City
2016 Black Women Artists for Black Lives, New Museum, New York City
2016 Cultural Landscapes, The Fed Galleries at KCAD, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2016 Black Pulp!, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT and International Print Center New York City
2016 Alexandria Smith and Katherine Toukhy, Five Miles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Africa's Out, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Fraught Imaginaries (with Karmimadeebora McMillan), Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Inside/Outside: Works from the Skowhegan Archives (curated by Michelle Grabner), Common Street Arts Gallery, Waterville, Maine
2015 Africa's Out, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York City
2015 Power, Protest, Resistance, Rush Arts Gallery, New York City
2015 Tales and Passions, Galerie Placido, Paris, France
2015 INSITU: Women Artists in Place, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, New York
2015 Selected Works: FAWC Fellows, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2014 I found God in myself: 40th Anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City
2014 Made in Paint, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, New York
2014 Last Night I Had a Glimpse of the Good Life, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York City
2014 I See You: The Politics of Being, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
2014 Context and Counteractions, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts