Artist CV
Education
2025
Master of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2017
Master of Education in Counseling, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
2009
Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications; Minor Studio Art, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Residencies
2025, Black Rock Senegal, Dakar Senegal, Africa
2023, Anderson Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
2023, Arquetopia, Cusco, Peru, South America
Group Exhibitions
2025
A History of Photography: Rotating Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
Rick Lowe Studio Presents: Prologue, Untitled Art Fair, Houston, Texas
Butter Art Fair, Indianapolis, Indiana
Musical Scales: Balancing Black Music Practice, Lineage, & Sonic Inheritance, Community Artists Collective, El Dorado Ballroom, Houston, TX
MSI Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Seeing Texas, University Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
MFA Thesis, Blaffer Museum, Houston, Texas
Architecture of Culture, Gensler, Houston, Texas
2024
Multiplicity, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
MSI Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
40th Annual Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Jung Center, Houston, Texas
Traces of Being, Weingarten Art Group and Houston Endowment, Houston, Texas
Bending Light, Women and their Work, Austin, Texas
11th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas
2023
Six Degrees of Separation: Phase Two, Hogan Brown Gallery, Houston, Texas
10th Annual Rising Star Exhibition, Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts at Turner House, Dallas, Texas
Six Degrees of Separation, Hogan Brown Gallery, Houston, Texas
Who Lit the Fire?, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas
Mental Group Exhibition, Harris County Cultural Arts Center, Houston, Texas
The BIG Show, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, Texas
Bert Long Jr. Gallery Spring Survey Exhibition, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, Texas
39th Annual Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Sabine Studios, Houston, Texas
GALEX 56 Exhibition, Galesburg Community Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois
SAALM 93rd Annual Juried Exhibition, San Antonio Art League and Museum, San Antonio, TX
We are here Group Exhibition, Love Texas Art Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
MSI Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Transformation is Group Exhibition, Elgin Street Studios, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
2022
WIP First-year Group Exhibition, University of Houston, Houston, TX
9th annual Texas Juried Exhibition, Artspace111, Dallas, Texas
38th annual Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Sabine Studios, Houston, Texas
BIPOC Is The Theme national juried exhibition, Buckham Gallery, Flint, Michigan
Houston Forever Group Exhibition, Prauper Studios, Houston, Texas
MSI Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2021
8th Annual Art Beat Miami Exhibition, Little Haiti Recreational Center, Miami, Florida
Brand 49 Juried Exhibition, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, California
The Microscopic Show Curated Group Exhibition, The Community Artist Collective & BAAT, Houston, TX
Solo Exhibitions
2024
For the Record, Art is Bond Gallery, Houston, Texas
From Federal to Hopetown, The Anderson Center for the Arts, Texas Biennial, Houston, Texas
2023
Paper Cuts: Annual Fellowship Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
I want to be famous Solo Exhibition, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas
2022
Emerald City Solo Exhibition, Elevate Creative Studios, Houston, Texas
Awards
2025
First Place, Wendy Wagner Foundation Grant, Houston, Texas
2024
2024 Jones Artist Award, Houston Endowment, Houston, Texas
First Prize “Best in Show,” MSI Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
First Prize “Best in Show,” 40th Annual Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, chosen by Kerry Inman, Inman Gallery, Sabine Studios, Houston, Texas
Third Prize, 11th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition, chosen by Maggie Adler, curator at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Artspace111, Dallas, Texas
2023
Carol Crow Fellowship Award, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
First Prize “Best in Show,” MSI Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2022
First Prize “Best in Show,” 9th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition, chosen by Daisha Board, owner of Daisha Board Art Gallery, Artspace111, Dallas, Texas
First Prize “Best in Show,” 38th Annual Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, chosen by Alison Greene, curator at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Sabine Studios, Houston, Texas
Special Projects
2025
Guest Curator, Wholeness is a Myth Juried Exhibition, Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
Panelist, Artists for Understanding Cultural Convening, Houston, TX
Panelist, Black Houston Conference: Dark Matter: STEM & The Arts, Rice University, Houston,TX
2024
Artist in Dialogue, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Publications
2024
Papercity Houston, May Issue, 2024
For the Record Exhibition, City Book, 2024
2023
“I want to be famous at Artspace 111,” Good Morning Texas, wfaa.com, June,5 2023
2022
Friend of the Artist, Volume 15
BET Celebrity College Hill, “Episode 1”
Permanent Collections
Museum of Fine Arts Houston Permanent Collection
Michael Dale Collection
Lester & Penelope Marks Collection
John Guess & Melanie Lawson Collection
Carter Knowles Collection
Experience
2019-2025- Secondary Graphic Design Educator, Galena Park ISD, Houston, TX
2017-2019- Secondary Professional Communications, Galena Park ISD, Houston, TX
2012-2017- Secondary Journalism Educator, Galena Park ISD, Houston, TX
2010-2012- 5th Art Educator; Aldine ISD, Houston, TX
2008- Intern at Wade Wilson Art Gallery
Certifications
Texas Educators Art EC-12
Texas Educators Journalism 8-12