Born 1976 in Brooklyn, New York
Lives and works in Queens, New York
EDUCATION
2013 MFA, Columbia University, New York City
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2002 BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York City
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Denniston Hill Artist Residency, Catskill, New York
2022 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, New York City
2022 KinoSaito Artist Residency, Verplanck, New York
2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York City
2020 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington (postponed)
2019 Black Rock, Dakar, Senegal.
2019 Lighthouse Works Public Art Commission, Fishers Island, New York
2018 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2018 Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2018 Project for Empty Space, Newark, New Jersey
2018 New York City MTA Arts & Design Commission, Brooklyn, New York
2017 Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, Florida
2017 Open Space Labs, Ottawa, Canada
2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York City
2015 Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy
2015 Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 LMCC:Process Space Residency, New York City
2015 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida
2015 Urban Glass Merit Scholarship, Brooklyn, New York
2014 FSP/ Jerome Fellowship Shafer, Minnesota
2013 Tropical Lab 7, La Salle University, Singapore
2013 A Blade of Grass, Artist File Grantee, Brooklyn, New York
2010-11 Acadia Summer Arts Program, Brunswick, Maine
2009 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
2009 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009-07 Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2009-07 Apexart: Outbound Residency to Kellerberin, Australia
2008-10 Art in General’s New Works Commission, Brooklyn, New York
2006 The Peekskill Project Public Art Initiative, Peekskill, New York
2006 Roma Independent Film Festival (Best Feature Nominee), Rome, Italy
2006 SFX Amsterdam Film Festival (Official Selection), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 The Brooklyn Icons Project , Brooklyn, New York
2004 Jamaica Flux Public Art Project, Jamaica, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Who Writes History, ArtsWestchester, Westchester, New York
2020 Walk With Me, Project for Empty Space, Newark, New Jersey
2020 In Your Absence The Skies Are All The Same, Midnight Moments, Times Square Alliance, New York City
2019 Vanishing Lines, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, New York
2019 Future Continuous (dual show with Andre Wagner), Studio Museum of Harlem, New York City
2019 Zulu Time, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2018 Where The Sky Begins, City of New York MTA permanent installation, Brooklyn, New York
2018 Skywriters & Constellations, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
2018 Zulu Time, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
2018 Off-Axis (dual show with Yoshua Klos), Time Equities, Art-Buildings, New York City
2017 Zulu Time, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
2017 Where Does The Time Go…, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City
2016 What Endures, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California
2016 Solastalgia, Cue Arts Foundation, New York City
2015 What's Left to Burn?, Bindery Projects, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2014 Blind Sum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City
2014 A Life in Pictures, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, Massachusetts
2014 The Conspiracy of Good People, Young World, Detroit, Michigan
2012 A Life in Pictures, apexart, New York City
2011 Love to Lose, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California
2010 Wayward North, Art in General, New York City
2009 The Clouds Are After Me, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York City
2008 Winter in America, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California
2008 The Clouds Are After Me, Meyers Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2008 The Clouds Are After Me, Branch Gallery, Durham, North Carolina
2008 The Clouds Are After Me, Main Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2007 The Lost Rivers Dream Index, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
2006 Walk The Plank, Gallery 138, New York City
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 Inheritance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
2023 Love & Anarchy, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
2023 Thinking Historically in the Present (curated by Hoor Al Qasimi), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2023 Everyone We Know is Here (curated by Heidi Hahn), Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2023 Black American Portraits, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2022 Hank Willis Thomas & For Freedoms: Another Justice: Us Is Them, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
2022 Chasing Icebergs: Art and A Disappearing Landscape, The Olana Partnership, Hudson, New York
2022 Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Speed Art Museum Collection and Beyond, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
2022 The Janet and Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
2022 Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2022 Our Whole, Unruly Selves, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2021 American Epidemic, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
2021 New Histories, New Futures, Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio
2021 Another American’s Autobiography: Selections From the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Easton, Pennsylvania
2021 All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, Bemis Center, Omaha, Nebraska
2021 Fantasy America, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
2020 Unreachable Spring, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
2020 This Is America | Art USA Today, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2019 Street Dreams, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2019 As Long As We Are Flyin.., Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
2019 A Thousand Plateaus, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2019 The Wretched of the Screen, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 Destroy, he said, Art Basel: Film, Basel, Switzerland
2018 The 50 State Initiative, For Freedoms, Des Moines, Iowa
2018 Shadow Stories & Matters of Time, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
2017 Project 107: Long Wolf Recital Corps, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2017 The Half-Life of Love, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
2017 More Than A Two Step, MoMA PS1 & For Freedoms Laboratory, New York City
2017 The Exposed Suture, Rond-Point Project, Marseille, France
2017 Sabbath, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
2016 Paradoxical Stranger, Momo Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Time+Space: Futures, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
2015 Draw: Mapping Madness, Inside Out Museum, Beijing, China
2015 Draw: Mapping Madness, Dali Contemporary Art Museum in Yunnan, China
2015 Winter in America, Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, New York
2014 Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Mnemonikos, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 Rapid Pulse: International Performance Art Festival, Defibrillator, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Pictures are Words-Not-Unknown, LiShui Museum of Photography, LiShui City, China
2009-2011 StreetWise, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2009-2011 On Screen: Global Intimacy, Krannert Museum of Art, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois;Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda; Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (traveling exhibition)
2009-2010 Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Para/Site, Hong Kong, China (traveling exhibition)
2008 Videocracy, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
2007 Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City
2007 Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City
2007 Night Vision, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2007 Dark Matters, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2007 For the Love of the Game, The Wadsworth Museum, Hartford, Connecticut
2007 Black Light/ White Noise, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
2006 UnderPlayed, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2006 The Black Alphabet, The Polish National Gallery, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
2006 The California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
2005 Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City
2005 URB Visual Urban Arts in the 21st Century, The Finnish National Gallery, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland