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Selected CV

 

education
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.A, Fine Art Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
Drawing and Painting Studio Art Center International Florence, Italy

 

awards

2021 New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Interdisciplinary Performance and Visual Arts Fellowship Award)

2020 Distinguished Alumni Lecturer, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2020 Dr. Doris Derby Award (Dashboard)

2019 Visual Artist of the Year, Jersey City Arts Council

2018 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant

2018 Franklin Furnace Award

2016 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship for the Performing and Visual Arts

 

residencies

Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland, Maine 

Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York

La Maison Rouge/Maison des Artes, Martinique

Fresh Milk Art Platform, Saint George, Barbados

 

lectures/panel discussions

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY 

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco

Pérez Art Museum / Indigo Arts Alliance

African Diasporic Art Museum of Atlanta

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Studio Museum Harlem

Black Portraiture:Â V: Memory and the Archive Past. Present. Future.

Black Portraiture:Â IV: The Color of Silence
Cooper Union

Emerson College
Pratt Institute

Emerson College
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts

Mana Contemporary, Chicago

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Seton Hall University
Caldwell College

Art on the Vine art fair, Martha's Vineyard
Jersey City Museum
Studio 66, Trinidad


collections

Weisman Art Museum. Minneapolis, MN

Hudson Valley MOCA. Peekskill, NY

Newark Museum. Newark, NJ
Seton Hall University. South Orange, NJ

Solomon Collection, Miami, FL

Armand-Paul Collection

 

solo exhibitions

2020-2021 Nasher Public: Nyugen Smith, Nasher Sculpture Center. Dallas, TX

2020 Bundlehouse: Rising Into Something Else, Emerson Contemporary, Emerson College. Boston, MA

2019 Performance: While You Sleep (an excerpt from a Jouvay dream), Nordic Black Theater, Oslo, Norway

2016 Solo exhibition Title: Of Matter and Memory, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

2013 Once Upon A Time Down There: SCOPE, Miami Beach

2013 Thy Kingdom Come, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

2012 Distinct Ethnic Magical Tales, 40owls New York, NY

2011 To the Kapitol (everybody come), Solo(s) Project House, Newark, NJ

2011 Sophisticating the Negro, Paul Vincent Gallery, Hoboken, NJ

2010 Nyug’ Nuts: Seeing Voices, Hearing Faces, Kedar Studio of Art, Newark, NJ

2010 Bundle House Worldwide: Soon Come, A Condos, Jersey City, NJ
2008 1 X 1 Series Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2008 Bundle House, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA


forthcoming:

Masta My Language

Alabama Contemporary Art Center

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group exhibitions 

2021 Estamos Bien / La Trienial, El Museo del Barrio. NY, NY. March 13 - September 26, 2021

All In / All Out. Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY Until March 27, 2021

2020 Listening to the Echoes of the South Atlantic. Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway. Curated by Selene Wendt. February 6 - April 5, 2020

2020 Creating Dangerously: 3 generations of Haitian Artists: Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT. Curated by Yulia Tikhonova

January 14 - March 12, 2020

2019 After the Fracture in collaboration with Marvin Fabien. Perez Museum, Miami, Florida. 

2019 Mapping Life: The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ. Curated by Midori Yoshimoto

2019 The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, Perez Museum, Miami, Florida. Curated by Maria Elena Ortiz and Marsha Pearce, Ph.d from July 18th, 2019- June 7, 2020

2019 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. Delaware Art Museum

2019 In the Words, In the Bones, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz

2019 The Sea is History: Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway. Curated by Selene Wendt

2019 Seeing the Unseen, Morris Arts / Dodge Foundation, Morristown, NJ Curated by Greg Leshé

2018 Art one the Vine art fair, Martha's Vineyard

2018 Art, Artists & You. Children's Museum of Manhattan. Curated by David Rios Ferreira

2018 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, NYC

2018 Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Hyphen American Gallery 102 at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

2018 Evil Nigger Part IV: A Five Part Performance for Julius Eastman by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and Lamont Hamilton, collaboration with Shantelle            C. Jackson, The Kitchen, NY, NY

2017 PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL

2017 Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at Museum of Latin                   American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA

2017 Evil Nigger Part IV: A Five Part Performance for Julius Eastman by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and Lamont Hamilton, collaboration with Shantelle           C. Jackson, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY

2017 Other Homes, Arsenal gallery:Â (exhibition and performance), New York, NY

2017 Festival International d'Art Performance, Fort-de-France, Martinique

2017 High John the Conqueror AINT'T GOT NOTHING ON ME: American Hoodoo and Southern Black American-Centric Spiritual Ways, RUSH Gallery,                 New York, NY

2016 PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL

2016 Collage Effects: Art of the African Diaspora, William Paterson University, Paterson, NJ

2016 Art In Odd Places (AiOP) NYC: October, 2016

2016 THREAD, Performance: Ann St. Gallery, Newburg, NY

2016 Good Food, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ

2016 Performance Anxiety II: Performance, Maverick Expo at Gallery Sensei, New York, NY

2016 I Had to Watch Him Bleed: Performance, PULSAR, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Spring Break Art Show: Performance, COPY PASTE, New York, NY

2015 Truth As Evidence Performance with Cheryl Pope with participation from youth that have been affected by    the criminal justice system, White               House, Washington D.C.

2015 Dark Diction, Curated by Social Health Performance Club, JACK, Brooklyn, NY

2014 (Un)Mediated, Kunsthale Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Through the Looking Glass, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ

2013 Martinique Biennial of Contemporary Art 1st Edition. Morne Rouge, Martinique. Curated by Tumelo Mosaka

2013 Message In A Bottle, QF Gallery, SCOPE, Miami Beach, curated by Lori ZImmer

2013 Every Which Way But Loose, QF Gallery, artMRKT Hamptons, curated by Lori Zimmer

2013 Multiplicity, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

2013 REACH a multi-city exhibition of contemporary practitioners, Wistariahurst Museum: Holyoke, MA

2012 Blessed Are the Artists, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ

2012 FLUX, Nuit Blanche, Washington, DC

2012 Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL

2012 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, RUSH Arts, New York, NY

2012 SITE, Long Island University Brooklyn, NY

2012 Get it on the Record, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ

2012 Figure Fragments, Bushwick Open Studios 2012

2012 Implications of Nature: Performance Art:Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn NY

2012 Lonestar Performance Explosion: Performance Art Biennial, Houston, TX

2011 Dandy Lion, Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD Curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis

2011 Art Basel, Miami: Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL

2011 ‘Til Judgement Day: performance: Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY

2011 Dandy Lion, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, Curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis

2011 Letting Go, Newark Open Doors 2011, Curated by Rogue Video and Performance

2011 Annual October Group Show, 58 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2011 Habeas Corpus – SITE Festival/Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

2010 Planet of Slums, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

         Curated by LaToya Ruby-Frazier and Omar Lopez-Chahoud

2010 Sanctioned Array jury-selected videos, WHITE BOX gallery, New York, NY

2010 The Golden Door Mini-Golf Course (Hole #9-The Glass Ceiling) Hamilton Sq. Jersey City, NJ

2010 This Incredible Life, Clyde Stacks gallery, Milton Hershey School, Hershey, PA

2009 \ ‘flo \ : art, text, new media, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

2008 Elemental, EsOro Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2008 Red Badge of Courage, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ

2008 SPRAWL, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2007 The Modified History of Downtown Newark, New Jersey School of Architecture, NJ Institute of Technology

2007 Book as Body, Body as Book, 13th Annual Book Symposium, Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

2007 Fire and Ash, Ben Shahn Center Galleries, William Paterson University, Paterson, NJ

2007 Detritus, Walsh Gallery-Seton Hall University, So.Orange, NJ

2007 Black Rock, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

2006 I Rock Many Styles, 58 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2006 Telling the Story: Artists’ Books, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

2006 Bras For A Cause, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Off the Rack: Art Made from, On or About Clothing, The Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ

2006 Monumental, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2005 C.O.D., Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, NJ

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