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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”