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Education
Master of Fine Arts in Art Direction, Pratt Institute, New York, NY (2009)
Bachelor of Fine Arts & Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (2006)
Accolades
2022 Governors Island Ice Sculpture Fest
2022 Rockefeller Center & Climate Museum ‘“Flag Project’’
2021 New York City Artist Corps Artist
2017 Bronx TV ‘’Bronx Artist Show’’ with Daniel Hauben
2015 BronxNet Television Artist Interview
2014 Bronx Artist Documentary Project Book
2014 Good Trade Book
2013 Bronx Artist Day Proclamation with Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
2011 Indian Arts & Crafts Association Member-Artist
2010 New York Daily News Write-up ‘’Never give up your Roots‘’
Residences
2021 Ucross Foundation Native American Artist Residency
2021 Stonehenge Artist Residency
2021 FABNYC/ LES History Project
2021 San Antonio Jumpstart Artist Residency
2021 Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Residency
2020 Surf Point Foundation
2019 Guttenberg Art Center
2017 SpaceWorks (The Bronx Father Project), Bronx, NY
2016 Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY
2016 Wave Hill Artist Residence, Riverdale, NY
2016 The Kelly Street Residence with the Laundromat Project
2015 Ace Hotel Artist Residence
2014 The Laundromat Project, Bronx, NY
2013 Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, NY
Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland
2012 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ EMERGENYC
2009 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2008 International Center of Photography NY Hall Farms Artist Fellowship & Residence
Artist Talks & Panels
2022 Calabar Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Artist Kwanzaa Kush Art Talk, Culture Push Inc. / Black Utopian Fellowship
2021 East Coast Native American Artist Today, NY Queens Museum of the Arts
2021 NYU (LES Black History of 1900s) FABNYC Young Artist Discussion
2019 Drawing Center NYC Bronx Arts Space " Bronx Native Artist" Clifford Chance Lawyers
Minority Corporate Counsel Associate / Artist Talk
2016 Speak Out Artist Talk, Bronx Arts Space
2015 Shifting Sands New Dynamics in the Bronx Art Scene, Hosted by No Longer Empty
Emerging Leaders of New York Arts Creative Conversation at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab
New School Social Science class Artist Q&A with the Laundromat Project at the Kelly Street Garden
2013 Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx Artist Talk
Grants and Awards
2022 LMCC Community Art Engagement Award
2021 Bronx Council on the Arts (Photography Award)
2021 The Laundromat Project Creative Action Fund
2020 Puff Foundation
2019 BRIO (Fine Art)
2019 Rema Hort Mann Foundation (RHMF)
2018 Artist Community Engagement Grantees in NYC
2016 Artist Fund Grant NY
2015 Citizens Committee for NYC Grant
2014 BCA Community Artist Grant
2010-2014 Bronx Museum, Artists in the Marketplace
2010-2011 BRIO (the Bronx Recognizes Its Own)
2009 Change Inc. Grant
2007 Bronx Council on the Arts Fellowship, Art Handler
2005 International Center of Photography Fellowship
2001 Mark Rothko Fellowship With the MoMA Scholarship Award
1999 Price Waterhouse Award
Fellowships
2021 Enfoco Photography Fellowship
2021 San Antonio Jump-Start Performance Co. Artist fellowship
2021 Culture Push 2021 Black Utopian Fellowship
2021 FABNYC /Black and Indigenous Lower East Side History Fellowship
2021 UCross Foundation Native American Fellowship
2021 Works On Water / Tending the Edge Artist Fellowship
2021 Ankhlave Garden Fellowship/ Queens botanical garden sculpture project
Public and Private Collections
2013 The New York Women Foundation with the Bronx Museum of the Arts
2009 Art Politics Magazine
2008-2006 Mayor’s Office of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
2007 Allentown Native American Museum, Pennsylvania
2006 Three Rivers Council American Indian Museum, Pennsylvania
Selected Group and Solo Exhibitions
2022 OUTCROPPING / Indigenous Art Now Southampton Art Center NY, Curated by Jeremy Dennis
2022 Protest Signs
2022 From the Inside Out Exhibition, Somerville Arts Council, MA
2022 Brooklyn Utopias at the Old Stone House Outdoor Exhibition
2021 Penn State University "C/O Commonwealth"
2021 Art on the Ave NYC Grand Central Station
2021 Land Markings Old Stone House
2021 Creative time/ Red stage Performances " The Gathering"
2019 Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island, KHC Queensborough College, Curated by Katherine Griefen & Danyelle Means
Urban Indians; Native New York Now, Museum of the City of New York, Curated by Rebecca Hayes & Jason Lujan
'What's Love got to do with it " Drawing Center NYC, Curated by Lisa Sigal & Rosario Guiraldes
ArtConnectionNY, Art Fair, New York, Curated by Alexandra Wagle
Foreign/Familiar: Immigrants in the Bronx, Longwood Art Gallery, Curated by Julia Pimes Mata, Bryan E Glover, Alex Lappin
Race and Revolution, Smack Mellon, Curated by Kathy Fuller & Larry Ossei-Mensah
2018 Open Session 13 Artist, Drawing Center NYC
2017 Resistance After Nature; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Haverford College, Curated by Dylan Gauthier
Solo Show at Clifford Chance NYC Law Firm, Curated by Jacob Robichaux
Lesson Learned, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Che Baraka
2016 Affordable Art Fair New York, Curated by Ayesha Williams
Bronx Africa, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, Curated by LeRonn P. Brooks
Speak Out, Bronx Arts Space, Bronx, NY
Coney Island Boardwalk, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Maria Roberts
Bronx Botanicals, The Point Campus, Bronx ,NY, Curated by Carrie Clark
2015 Two Fold Artist –Teacher Dedalus Foundation Brooklyn NY. Curated by Cecile Chong
To Forgive and Remember, Judaica Museum, Riverdale, NY, Curated by Susan Chevlowe
People, Power & Protest SkyLight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ,Curated by Daniel Simmons & Oshun Layne
RECALLed, AIOP Art in odd places, New York, NY, Curated by Sara Reisman & Kendal Henry
Peoples Protest, Metropolitan College of NY, Bronx, NY, Curated by Natasha R. Johnson
After Afropolitan Weeksville Heritage Center, Curated by Desiree Gordon & Aisha bellCaldwell
2014 Trade Blanket/ Manta DeIntercambio Bronx, NY, Casita Maria for the Arts Curated by Christine Licata
The Other/Underside Bronx Arts Space Bronx ,NY, Curated by Linda Cunningham
Hands Up, Down Shoot, St. Louis University Museum of Art, Curated by Freida L .Wheaton
I KAN-DO DAT, Skylight Gallery Brooklyn, NY, Curated By Daniel Simmons & Oshun Layne
Main Land_MIX The New Museum NYC, Curated by Leenda Bonilla Pagan
2013 Curate NYC Top 150 Entries Artist Rush Art Gallery, NYC, Native American Edition Bronx Museum of the Arts NYC
Harlem Art Factory Fest Chashama NYC Bronx Arts Space, Bronx, NY
Degree of Privacy Forward Flux Theater Lab, NYC Art with a Purpose, Rush Art Gallery NYC
I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, ABC No Rio Gallery, NYC, Curated By Jason Luna
Dimensions Variable Multiracial Identity, Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, Curated By Gabriel de Guzman
2012 Wreath Interpretations The Arsenal Gallery, NY
The Festival of First People Howland Cultural Center Beacon, NY
AiOP Art in Odd Places NYC Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ EMERGENYC
Art Auction Benefiting Habitat for Humanity of Washington, DC and honoring Peggy Cooper Cafritz
2011 Wave Hill /Bronx Museum “Bronx Calling”
The first Biennial Bronx Skate park Exhibit Public Art Project “Mapping Skate Parks’’ Traveling Exhibit, “Land-fill Art”
2010 The Millbrook Gallery, New Hampshire, “Native American Artists in the Northeast”
2009 Longwood Art Gallery, New York, “ANTHEM: An All-American Dystopia” Queens Museum
of Art, New York, “Image of Death” Ulster Community College Gallery, New York, “FOOD”
2008 St. Lawrence County Arts Council, New York, “Arts for Healing Art Show” Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, “Unheard Voices”
2007 Manhattan Borough President’s Office Art Show, New York
2006 The Point Gallery, New York, “The Love and Fear Experience”
2005 The Point Gallery, New York
“Clotheslines” The Point Gallery, New York
“Urban Life” Design School Gallery, New York
Bronx Academy for Art and Dance ( BAAD), New York, “Blacktino”
2004 NAACP - Actso Arts winner NYC / Maryland / Ohio Manhattan Borough Presidents Office, NYC
2001 4W Circle of Art and Enterprise, New York, “In the Eyes of ” 2000 West Side Arts Coalition, NYC
1999 ICP Gallery, New York, “People and Fashion”