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Education

MFA, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL - 2021

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Bedimmed Boundaries: Between Wakefulness and Sleep, 5th September - 19th October, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York City, NY

2023

Tidal Wave of Colour, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA

A Day of Rest, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London UK

2022

Perspectives, Monica de Cardenas, Milano, Italy

2021

You are here, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London UK

The Expats Studies: Impressions on Paper, The Sacristy Gallery, Chicago, IL

2019

Aura of Quiet, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions and Fairs

2025

When We See Us” Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden - [forthcoming]

Through Their Eyes, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, CA

Art Fair: Expo Chicago 2025: Re-Membering, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

The Human Situation: Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, New York

Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni, Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL

Portrait of An American Family: A Selection from the Barnes Contemporary, Septieme Gallery, Paris, France

When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

2024

When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Moreover: 50 Paintings pt 3, The Green Gallery, WI

When We See Us, A Centaury of Black Figuration in Painting, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

When We See Us, A Centaury of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa

All That I’ve Got is You, Hope 93, London

2023

Frieze London 2023, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

Black American Portraits, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, GA;and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN

The Power of Portraiture, Recent Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC

The Art Basel 2023, Miami Beach, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

2022

The Power of Portraiture: Recent Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC

Great Women Painters, edited by Alison Gingeras, Phaidon Press Limited

African Art Now, Osei Bonsu, Octopus Publishing Group

2021

Black American Portraits, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA

Rested, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY

Gaabo Motho, Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany

Amendments, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Stretching the Body, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2020

Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami

Synchronicity, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA