EDUCATION
2017 MFA, University of North Carolina, (UNCG), Greensboro, NC
2006 BFA, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015-2022
Black River, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Salt Lake City, UT
Warm Water, (Traveling Exhibition) Weber State University, Ogden, UT,
UICA, Grand Rapids, MI, SECCA, Winston Salem, NC
Black River, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
Here We Stand, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
February Sun, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Swim: An Artist Journey, Myrtle Beach Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, SC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016-2022
Healing Through the Preservation of Our Histories and Ourselves,
This is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany
Memories and Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Painting is its Own Country, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
Afrocosmologies: American Reflection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
An Essential Presence, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
(Un)common Collections, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Truth Be Told: For Freedom, Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC
The Rest of History, Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA
7 x 7: I See Him in Me, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Anachronism and Liberation, Tiger Strike Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
80 x 80, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Positive Negative National Art Exhibition, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
RESIDENCIES 2016-2019
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Gibbes Museum of Art, Spoleto (Artist in Residence) Charleston, SC
SOMA. Mexico City, Mexico
McColl Center of Art and Innovation, (Artist in Residence) Charlotte, NC
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS 2016-2022
Art Watch on WCHE 1520AM, Tracing Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Wilmington, DE
Fox News (Charleston, SC)
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom
(Whitewall Magazine, Art Papers, New York Times)
Hyperallergic.com
Wall Street Journal
Hyperallergic.com
Winston Salem Journal
New American Paintings (South Edition #136)
Fox News (Grand Rapids, MI)
NPR (Grand Rapids, MI)
LA Weekly
WANA Podcast.com (iTunes, Soundcloud)
Triad City Beat (At MFA Thesis, Charles Williams Stands Out – May 10, 2017)
ETV SCETV / NPR SC2016 Arts Now NC
Washington Post (No Day At The Beach - Oct 11, 2015)
America Art Collector (Issue 83)
GRANTS / AWARDS 2012-2022
Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts Grant, New York, NY
SouthArts, Atlanta, GA
Forward, Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) Grant
CAPE Art + Exchange: Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
NEA National Endowment for the Arts (NOMAD) St. Petersburg, FL
New American Painting Annual (South Edition #136, curated/juried Katie Pfohl of NOMA)
Selected Artist, 28 Positive Negative National Juried Art Exhibition
East Tennessee State University, (curated/juried by Michael Rae Charles from PBS Art 21)
Riley Institute Diversity Leadership Award, Charleston, SC
Griffith-Reyburn Artist of the Year Award; Coastal Community Foundation, Charleston, SC
Alumni Spotlight at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Savannah, GA
21 Emerging Under 31, South West Magazine
Dave Bown Project, 25 Selected International Artist, Chicago, IL juried / curated by Karl Hecksher, Owner of K5 Editions, NYC, NY; Andrea Karnes, Curator of Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Mary Kate O’Hare, Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum
PUBLIC / PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Durham, NC
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA), Jackson, MS
Weber State University, Ogden, UT
21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY
New York Public Library, NYC
NY Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), Knoxville, TN
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), Raleigh, NC
Petrucci Family Collection of African American Art, Selby, NJ
Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
Myrtle Beach Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, SC
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Georgia Museum of Art/University of Georgia, Athens, GA
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Brenda & Larry Thompson
Kerry & C. Betty Davis
Michael & Susan Hershfield
Susan & Michael Hort
TV
911 Lone Star, (season 2) Fox Studios
Delilah, WB Warner Bros. Television
Reckless, CBS Television Studios
2017 MFA, University of North Carolina, (UNCG), Greensboro, NC
2006 BFA, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015-2022
Black River, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Salt Lake City, UT
I Sit and Sew: Tracing Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Sun + Light, (Traveling Exhibition) Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA ,
Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, Residency Art,For Which It Stands, Monica King Contemporary, Tribeca, NY
Inglewood, LA
Warm Water, (Traveling Exhibition) Weber State University, Ogden, UT,
UICA, Grand Rapids, MI, SECCA, Winston Salem, NC
Black River, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
Here We Stand, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
February Sun, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Swim: An Artist Journey, Myrtle Beach Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, SC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016-2022
Healing Through the Preservation of Our Histories and Ourselves,
Petrucci Family Foundation’s Collection of African American Art, University of St. Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VAAnother American’s Autobiography: Sections from the Petrucci Family Foundation’s
Collection of African American Art, Sigal Museum, Easton, PAReckoning and Resilience, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
This is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany
Memories and Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art
(Traveling Exhibition 2022 – 2025) David Owsley Museum, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WVA View of City: Knoxville and Undercurrents, Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), Knoxville, TN
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Painting is its Own Country, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
Afrocosmologies: American Reflection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
An Essential Presence, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
(Un)common Collections, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Truth Be Told: For Freedom, Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC
The Rest of History, Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA
7 x 7: I See Him in Me, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Anachronism and Liberation, Tiger Strike Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
80 x 80, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Positive Negative National Art Exhibition, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
RESIDENCIES 2016-2019
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Gibbes Museum of Art, Spoleto (Artist in Residence) Charleston, SC
SOMA. Mexico City, Mexico
McColl Center of Art and Innovation, (Artist in Residence) Charlotte, NC
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS 2016-2022
Art Watch on WCHE 1520AM, Tracing Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Wilmington, DE
Fox News (Charleston, SC)
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom
(Whitewall Magazine, Art Papers, New York Times)
Hyperallergic.com
Wall Street Journal
Hyperallergic.com
Winston Salem Journal
New American Paintings (South Edition #136)
Fox News (Grand Rapids, MI)
NPR (Grand Rapids, MI)
LA Weekly
WANA Podcast.com (iTunes, Soundcloud)
Triad City Beat (At MFA Thesis, Charles Williams Stands Out – May 10, 2017)
ETV SCETV / NPR SC2016 Arts Now NC
Washington Post (No Day At The Beach - Oct 11, 2015)
America Art Collector (Issue 83)
GRANTS / AWARDS 2012-2022
Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts Grant, New York, NY
SouthArts, Atlanta, GA
Forward, Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) Grant
CAPE Art + Exchange: Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
NEA National Endowment for the Arts (NOMAD) St. Petersburg, FL
New American Painting Annual (South Edition #136, curated/juried Katie Pfohl of NOMA)
Selected Artist, 28 Positive Negative National Juried Art Exhibition
East Tennessee State University, (curated/juried by Michael Rae Charles from PBS Art 21)
Riley Institute Diversity Leadership Award, Charleston, SC
Griffith-Reyburn Artist of the Year Award; Coastal Community Foundation, Charleston, SC
Alumni Spotlight at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Savannah, GA
21 Emerging Under 31, South West Magazine
Dave Bown Project, 25 Selected International Artist, Chicago, IL juried / curated by Karl Hecksher, Owner of K5 Editions, NYC, NY; Andrea Karnes, Curator of Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Mary Kate O’Hare, Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum
PUBLIC / PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Durham, NC
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA), Jackson, MS
Weber State University, Ogden, UT
21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY
New York Public Library, NYC
NY Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), Knoxville, TN
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), Raleigh, NC
Petrucci Family Collection of African American Art, Selby, NJ
Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
Myrtle Beach Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, SC
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Georgia Museum of Art/University of Georgia, Athens, GA
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Brenda & Larry Thompson
Kerry & C. Betty Davis
Michael & Susan Hershfield
Susan & Michael Hort
TV
911 Lone Star, (season 2) Fox Studios
Delilah, WB Warner Bros. Television
Reckless, CBS Television Studios