Education
- Fine Art & Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn New York, BFA, 2006
- Art Direction, Pratt Institute New York NY MFA 2009
Accolades
- 2017 Bronx TV ‘’Bronx Artist Show’’ with Daniel Hauben
- 2015 Bronx Net 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 ‘’
Residence
- 2021 Stonehenge Artist residency
- 2021 San Antonio Jump start Artist residency
- 2021 Works On Water / Tending the Edge
- 2021 Visual Arts center of New Jersey residency
- 2020 Surf Point foundation
- 2019 Guttenburg Art Center
- 2017 Omi Artist Residence New York SpaceWorks (The Bronx Father Project ) Bronx NY
- 2016 Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Queens NY Wave Hill Artist Residence, Riverdale NY 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 Vermont
Artist Talks & Panels
- 2021 NYU ( L.E.S Black History of 1900s )FABNYC Young Artist Discussion
- 2021 Queens Museum Native Artist Spotlight Panel
- 2021 Culture Push Inc, & The Black Utopian Fellowship Artist Talk : NIA
- 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
- Bronx council on the Arts (Bronx recognize its own )Photography Award 2021
- The laundromat project creative action fund.2020
- Puff Foundation 2019
- BRIO 2019 Rema Hort Mann Foundation (RHMF) 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, 1995
Fellowships
Public and Private Collections
- 2022 En Foco 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
- 2021 Penn State University "C/O Commonwealth"
- 2021 South Hampton Art Center ''OutCroppring Indigenous Art Now'' Curator Jeremy Dennis
- 2021 University of North Carolina Wilmington CAB Art Gallery '' Protest Signs'' Curator Keltsey Mattachione
- 2021 Old Stone House , Brooklyn NY , '' Land Markings'' Curated by Katherine Gressel & RedMoon Arts Inc.
- 2021 Art on the Ave '' Intersections Exhibition ''
- 2021 Creative time/ Red stage Performances " The Gathering''
- 2021 FABNYC & M'Finda Kalunga Gardens ''LES Black & Red" Solo Public Art and Performance
- 2019 Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island, KHC Queensborough College Curators Katherine Griefen & Danyelle Means Urban Indians; Native New York Now, Museum of the City of New York Curator - Rebecca Hayes & Jason Lujan 'What's Love got to do with it " Drawing Center NYC Curators Lisa Sigal & Rosario Guiraldes Art ConnectionNY, Art Fair NYNY Curator Alexandra Wagle Foreign/Familiar: Immigrants in the Bronx, Longwood Art Gallery Curators Julia Pimes Mata, Bryan E Glover, Alex Lappin Race and Revolution, Smack Mellon Curator KathyFuller & Larry Ossei- Mensah
- 2018 Open Session 13 Artist, Drawing Center NYC
- 2017 Resistance After Nature; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Haverford College Curator Dylan Gauthier Solo Show at Clifford Chance NYC Law firm Curator Jacob Robichaux Lesson Learned Curated by Che Baraka St, Joseph’s College Brooklyn NY
- 2016 Affordable Art Fair NY, NY Curator Ayesha Williams Bronx Africa, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx NY Curator 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 Sky Light 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/Under Side Bronx Arts Space Bronx NY Curated by Linda Cunningham Hands Up, Down Shoot Saint 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 Frist 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, D.C. 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” Art and Design School Gallery, New York, “Students Body of Work” 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”
