EDUCATION
2012 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2009 M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2004 B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Exhibitions
2018
Isla: Regarding Paradise, Curator Jackie Milad, Towson University, Baltimore, MD
Revival, Curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Longwood Gallery, Hostos College, NY
Totems, Curator Eliana Blechman, Time Equities, Art-in-Buildings, NY, NY
2017
La Charada China, Curated by Cube, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
Bochinche: Creative Misunderstandings Series, Faena Forum, Miami, FL
LemonPepperGarlic Perfomance Sculpture, Overtown Arts Festival, Miami, FL
New Monuments, Installation for The Moth, New York, NY
Somos II, Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates, MECA Art Fair, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Days Chasing Days, Curator by A.G.S, The Fort, Little River, FL
SVA + SK, Curator by Lauren Haynes, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2016
Ganggang: Creative Misunderstandings Performance Series, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Disguise:Masks & Global African Art, Curator Kevin Dumouchelle, Brooklyn Museum
OMGWTF, Curator Books Bischoff & Christina Gonzalez, Primary Projects, Miami, FL
NeverTakeItFromUs, Curator Sean Uyehera, Project Space, San Francisco, CA
El Museo @ S.V.A., Curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2015
The Fatalist: Creative Misunderstandings, Curator Pamela McClusky, Seattle Art Museum, WA
Disguise: Masks & Global African Art, Curator Pamela McClusky, Seattle Art Museum, WA
nGangulero, Curator Tim Detweiller, MadArt, Seattle, WA
Loquacious #2, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis, MN
Artpowwow, Curator Natalia Yvonne, L.E.S. Projects, New York, NY
Kongo in Guatemala, Curator Jamie Denburg, New Roots Foundation, Guatemala
Socío, Manhattan Community Arts, New York, NY
Act Second, Director Adam R. Burnett's, Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY
2014
American Beauty, Curator William Villalongo, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
UNTITLED, Curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Miami, FL
Cruel Optimisms, Curator Noah Khoshbin, Luminaria, San Antonio, TX
Rachetamente, Curator Katherine Cohn & Eric Booker, Calder Foundation, New York, NY
The Glass Delusion, Curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
Content & Contextualization, Curator Evan Garza, Provincetown Art Museum, MA
Mammoth, Curator Adam Burnett & Seth Cohen, Chashama Gallery, Harlem, New York
Class Wars: The Next Generation, Performance for Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, El Museo Del Barrio, NY, NY
MAKE/DO: Contemporary Artist Perform Craft, Curator Lauren Rosati, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2013
UNTITLED, Curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Miami, FL
This is Where We Jump, Curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, 7th Bienal at El Museo Del Barrio, NY
Mendacity, 2nd A.I.M. Biennial, Curator Lia Zialoff, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
Creative Misunderstandings: Drawing Series, Pinta Art Fair, London, U.K.
if color, then also dimension;if flatness, then texture, etc., LMCC Art Center at Governors Island, NY
Group Show, Curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Des Pacio, San Jose, Costa Rica
They Might Well Have Been Remnants of the Boat, Curator Katherine Cohn, Calder Foundation, NY
Loquacious, Flow13, Randall’s Island Park Commission, New York, NY
2012
Green Go's in El Barrio, Curator Alejandro Guzman, Taller Boricua, New York, NY
Black Foliage, Curator Mathew Craven, NudaShank, Baltimore, Maryland
0012, Curator Edra Soto, Journeys End, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Intellectual Derelict, Curator Jorge Rojas, via online at InterState Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Evidence of Ritual, Curator Jabari Owens-Bailey, Museum of Contempory African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY
The Existentialist, Curator Jorge Rojas, LowLives 4, New York, NY
Intellectual Derelict: Performance Series, Curator Gabriel de Guzman, WaveHill, Bronx, NY
2011
El Vejigante: Death Before Dishonor, Curator Ed Woodham, AIOP at TheaterLab, NY, NY
Delusional Dreams, Curators Jessica Gallucci, Abby Merrick, Jill Murphy, Kat Cohn, AD Projects, NY
[...] Lies the Truth, Curator Christine Licata, Taller Boricua, New York, NY
The Procreation, Curators Christine Licata & Fernando Salicrup, Taller Boricua, NY, NY
El Santero, Curator Kalia Brooks Art in Odd Places, New York, NY
2010
Masking Realities, HammerSpace.info, New York, NY
Citadels Slave Chicano Burns, Curator Jonathan Hartshorn, Alburquerque Public Libarary, NM
2009
A New Currency, Curator Dan Cameron, 55 Delancey Street, New York, NY
Cardsharper, Curator Lauren Ross, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Case of Conscience: Spiritual Remonstrance, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Reverie, Refurbishing, Revelry & ViceVersa, Curator Thomas Lanigan-Shmidt, Visual Arts Gallery , New York, NY
2005
Deadly, Galleria Sin Titulo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004
National, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Brave Destiny, Williamsburg Art & Historical Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Immigrants by Mail, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Nsala Maleko, Curator Clayton Patterson, Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Museum, New York, NY
Residencies
2018-19 Studio Program, Sharpe-Walentas, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Artist-in-Residence Program, The Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY
2016 Project Space Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015 Visual Arts Residency, New Roots Foundation, Antigua, Guatemala
Studio Arts Fellowship, MadArt, Seattle, WA
Jerome Fellowship, Artist Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN
2013-14 Visual Arts Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2012-13 Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Press, Publications, & Awards
2018 The Aesthetics of Art: Understanding What We See, by Liza Reina Papi
2017 SVA x Skowhegan, by Lauren Haynes, SVA Visual Arts Press
2016 Vice.com, by Antwuan Sargent, 25 Artist Reimagine the African Mask
2015 Disguise: Masks & Global African Art, by Pamela McClusky & Erika Dalya Massaquoi
Village Voice, by Molly Grogan, Would She Like It If We Told Her
The Stranger, by Jen Graves, The Vejigante Variations
The Seattle Times, by Gayle Clemens, Grand Illusions
2014 New York Times, by Holland Cotter, American Beauty
Interview Magazine, by Alexandria Symonds, Brooklyn Artist Ball014
New York TImes, by Holland Cotter,
Museum Born of Politics
2013 New York Times, by Holland Cotter, Constellation of Identities, Winking, & Shifting
Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, by Gabriel de Guzman, Bronx Museum of Art
Beautiful Decay, by Paul Ochi, Creative Misunderstanding Through Art
2012 Sculpture Center, Curators Notebook
2011 BoweryBoogie.com, Art Rollin' Down the Bowery
2010 Insight Magazine Volume III, Issue I, Fokus Publication
2006 Book on Palo Mayombe, Photograghs & Drawings, Author Raul Canizares
2004 Award Honorarium, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio