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

From Federal to Hopetown Exhibition, ForwardTimes,2024Houston Artist Kaima Marie Akarue Explores Migration, Memory 

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