Born Miami, Fla

EDUCATION:

1981-82 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

1986-87 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

Resides: Lives and works in New York, NY

RESIDENCY + GRANT:

2018 Trestle Art Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx, NY

2008 Urban Artists Initiative/NYC Fellowship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2010 What Becomes of a Broken Heart, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY

Taller Boricua Latino Cultural Center, Curated by Christine Licata, NY

Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2005 I Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2002 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

1996 “No Sante”, Wasis Diop (Painting used for the video), Mercury Records, Paris, France

1995 Prêt-à-Porter, Robert Altman film, (Paintings used for the studio of Fashion Designer Xuly Bet)

1990 Galerie du jour, Agnes b., Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION:

2022      Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo MI, Curated by Rehema Barber, Larry      Ossei -Mensah

2018 WATCH IT BURN, Trestle Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Carmen Hermo

2017 Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition, Baxter ST At CCNY, New York, NY, Curated by Andrianna Campbell

2015 Approaching - 273.15 C, academic gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Michael Sarff of Over the Opening

The Third AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, Curated by Laura Napier, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin

2014 Ten-10 Curators/100 Artworks, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY

2012 GET IT ON THE RECORD, Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, Curated by Yulia Tikhonova

2010 Dreamtime overtones from a fantastic brown planet, Aljira A Center for
Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, Curated by Edwin Ramoran

2009 Everywhere, Nowhere, Somewhere….Powerhouse Memphis, Memphis, TN, Curated by Rehema Barber

THE HAPPENING: Kinesics as Art Object, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY Curated by Nico Wheadon

SCOPE International Art Fair, Rush Arts Gallery, New York

Glass Case Exhibition Series, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Nico Wheadon

2006 Flattened, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois, Curated by John Brunetti

2002 Transcending the Common, Klein Arts Works, Chicago, IL

Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Arts Works, Chicago, IL

16h Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, Jurors: Kathy Cottong and Michael

Rooks, Curators, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1999 44th Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France, Nicole Ginoux, Direction Artistique

1997 Galerie d’art d’Orly, Aéroports de Paris, Paris, France

1990 Art Junction International, Galerie du Jour, Agnes b., Nice, France

1989 FIAC International Art Fair, Galerie du Jour, Agnes b., Paris, France