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Born in New York, NY

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education

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2017

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

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2012 

Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

MFA, Painting and Printmaking

 

2006

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

BFA, Honors, Fine Art Concentration

 

solo exhibitions

 

2018

-Don't Look For Me, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE (forthcoming)

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2017

-Hear, My Dear, Blackburn Gallery at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY 

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2016

-And I Will be the Same, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM

 

2015

-Sounds Familiar, Mariboe Gallery at the Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ

 

2012

-5 and 7 or 12, The Study at Yale, New Haven, CT

 

2010

-We'll Take Manhattan, P.S.122 Classroom Gallery, 2010 New York, NY

 

2006

-We Fight but First We Dance, Go Fish Gallery, Go Fish Gallery, New York, NY

 

2004

-I Can Be A King, home of the artist, New York, NY

 

special solo installation projects

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2017

As My Sins Flow Down the Hudson, Spring Break Art Fair, New York, NY (forthcoming)

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2015

Supermane and the Hidden G, AC institute, New York, NY

 

2014

I Can Love You Better, Shin Gallery, New York, NY

 

selected group exhibitions

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2018

-You Are Who I Think You Think You Are, American Medium, New York, NY

-The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
-Black Pulp!, African American Museum Museum at USF, Tampa, FL

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2017

-Staff Show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

-Uptown Triennial: Nasty Women, Bad Hombres, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

-Spots, Dots, Pips, and Tiles: An Exhibition around the Game of Dominoes, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL

-Black Pulp!, Zikha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

-Black Pulp!, Contemporary Art Museum at USF, Tampa, FL

-The Sunday Painter, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL

-Selections by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY

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2016

-Spots, Dots, Pips, and Tiles: An Exhibition around the Game of Dominoes, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY

-OMGWTF, Primary Projects, Miami, FL

-Black Pulp!, Curated by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson, IPCNY, New York, NY

-Self Portraits, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY

-Black Pulp!, Curated by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson, Yale University Edgewood Gallery, New Haven, CT

 

2015

-Underdonk @ ESXLA, Eastide International, Los Angeles, CA

-The Landscape changes 30 Times, Anahita Gallery, Tehran, Iran

-La Lucha 2, Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY

-TXT: Art, Language, Media, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY

-The Fire Next Time, Galerìa Leyendecker, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España

-Consequential Translations, Centro Cultural de España en Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana

-Contemporary Auction, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St Louis, MO

-Long Story Short, curated by Karin Bravin, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

-Pagina, curated by Peter Hristoff, Antica Libreria Cascianelli, Rome, Italy

-Slow Jams, 109 Ingraham street, Brooklyn, NY

 

2014

-Narratives of Self Exile/ Narativas del Auto Exilio, Curated by Miguel Luciano, Bronx Art Space, Bronx NY

-In Sheep’s Clothing, curated by Dexter Wimberly, Gallery 220, Brooklyn, NY

-Start “Art Within Reach”, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

-Discernable Regularities, Collar Works, Troy, NY

-Soul, Novella Gallery, New York, NY

-Paintingwall (Janus at 8:16), Touch Gallery, Cambridge, MA

-Do the Yale Thing, curated by Dexter Wimberly, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI

-Things Still Left Unsaid, Stephen Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY

 

2013

-For Ed: Splendor in the Grass with Olympic Lad & Lass, Yale University Greene Gallery, New Haven, CT

-Some New Work in an Abandoned Apartment, 353 Cornelia Street, Brooklyn, NY

-La Bienal: Here is Where We Jump, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado and Raul Zamudio, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

-Show #5, The Parlour, Brooklyn, NY 

 

2012

-Priene Hali Benefit Auction, curated by Peter Hristoff, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

-Untitled group show, curated by Jacob Robichaux for Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, NY

-Inaugural Exhibition, ConnCat Center for Arts and Technology, New Haven, CT

-The Everything That Stored the Boy, Bump Storage, New York, NY

-Eyes Off the Flag, Koki Arts and Motus Fort Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

-Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale University Greene Gallery, New Haven, CT

 

2011

-Buy What You Love, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY

-301, La Casa Cultural at Yale University, New Haven, CT

-Bosch Young Talent Show, co-curated by William Villalongo, Stedelijk Museum, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

-Naked Time, The Wall/353 Crown St, New Haven, CT

-To/From: 2nd Year MFA Show, Yale University Greene Gallery, New Haven, CT

-College Arts Association Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

 

2010

-1st Year MFA Exhibition, Yale University Greene Gallery, New Haven, CT

 

2009

-Octet, curated by Peter Hristoff and Susan Anker, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

 

2008

-Roger Carmona and Kenny Rivero, Gallery Fofo, Rahway, NJ

 

2007

-Fresh Ingredients, The Zed Gallery, Miami, FL

 

2006

-Constructivismo 2006, curated by Libertad Guerra,  Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY

-12.16.06, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY

 

2005

-I Am Who I Am, curated by Gunars Prande, Galerie Atelier Herenplaats, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

Engagements

 

2017

Selections Panel Discussion, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY

Interview,Open, Bronxnet TV, Bronx NY

2013

-Artists Talk Story Line, Gallery Talk at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 

-Freshly Minted, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 

 

Residencies and Awards

 

2017

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

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2016

-Mana Contemporary BSMT Residency, Newark, NJ

-The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

 

2015

-Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, New York, NY

 

2015-2016

-Roswell Artists in Residence Program, Roswell, NM

 

2014-1015

-Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Program, New York, NY

-Visiting Scholar​ ​at the Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Resources, New York University, New York, NY

 

2011

-Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Travel Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT

-Doonesbury award, Yale University, New Haven, CT

 

Teaching



2017

-Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

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2016

-Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art and Design, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

-Cameron Visiting Artist, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

 

2015- present

-Teaching Artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

 

2014 - Present

-Adjunct Faculty, Visual and Critical Studies Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

 

2015

-Visiting Artist, Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ

-Visiting Artist, Steinhardt Department of Art and Education, New York University, New York, NY

 

2015

-Visiting Artist, Williams College, Williamstown MA

 

2014

-Guest Critic, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

-Visi ting Artist, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

-Teaching Artist, Friends of the Highline, New York, NY

 

2013

-Juror, Department of Education Dedalus and Rothko competition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

-Gallery-Studio Program Coordinator/Senior Museum Educator, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

 

2012-2013

-Teaching Artist/Educator, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

 

2012

-Painting, Drawing, and Glass Mosaics instructor, Exploration Summer Programs at Yale University, New Haven, CT

 

2012

-Printmaking Assistant, Exploration Summer Programs at Yale University, New Haven, CT

 

2012

-Teaching Fellow, Silk-screening, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

 

2011

-Visiting Artist, Williams College, Williamstown MA

-Teaching Fellow, Basic Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

 

2010 - 2012

-Wurttle Gallery Teacher, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

 

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