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2022

GASP Gallery Group Exhibition - March 2022 - Los Angeles, California

ReCall ReVive BFA Solo Thesis Exhibition - A402 Gallery - California Institute of the Arts

Works Latch and Preservation shown at the 2022 Black Gallery Night - Black and White Gallery -California Institute of the Arts

Co-Curator and Coordinator for Stevenson Blanche Gallery - California Institute of the Arts (2021-2022)

2021

Recipient of the Tina Perry-Whitney and Ric Whitney Black Arts Grant at California Institute of the Arts

2020

Recipient of the Black Artist Fund Grant, 1011 Magazine

Recipient of the Lillian Disney Scholarship at California Institute of the Arts

You Can’t Take This From Me, acrylic self-portrait selected for publication by Raven Chronicles Press in the Take a Stand, Art Against Hate Anthology

2019

You Can’t Take This From Me, acrylic self-portrait selected for publication by Genre: Urban Arts

Andrea and Albert Friedman Annual Scholarship awarded for Untitled charcoal Self-portrait at the Young Contemporaries 2019 35th Annual Juried Show, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University

Education

2022 BFA, California Institute of the Arts