EDUCATION
2022
MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2017
BFA, Photography and Imaging, New York University, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2024
Caribbean Film Series curated by Third Horizon in partnership with the Luminal Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
When the Eye Speaks, curated by Eleanor Kipping, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
I Am Standing Here Surrounded By So Much Beauty, curated by E. Jane, OCD Chinatown, New York, NY
Third Horizon Film Festival, Koubek Center, Miami, FL
Sight/Geist, curated by Charles de Agustin, The 8th Floor, New York, NY
Dyke Hands, curated by Languid Hands, 198 CAL, London, UK
Iconoclasmania, curated by Sabrina Ford, Open Book Performance Hall, Minneapolis, MN
The Sun Never Sets, curated by Serubiri Moses and Fitsum Shebeshe, Unit London (online)
Film Diary III: Coldest Winter, curated by Saint Piñero and Sage Ó Tuama, New York, NY
2023
Deep in the Mud, We Are Enmeshed in All Its Forms curated by Jhenelle Brown, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
ca(r)milla curated by Brittany Adeline King, gallery albany, New York, NY
ca(r)milla curated by Dani Brito, Video Viewing Room, The Kitchen, New York, NY
View here, alongside a conversation with Jewelle Gomez ->
Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Alice Yard at Granderson Lab, Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago
Salient Webs curated by Sam Richardson, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Before I Let Go Summer Tour curated by Cameron Granger, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
If Work curated by Frankie Altamura and Miranda Samuels, anonymous gallery, New York, NY
I wanna be with you everywhere organized by Arika, Amalle Dublon, Jerron Herman, Carolyn Lazard, Park McArthur, Alice Sheppard & Constantina Zavitsanos, Performance Space New York, New York, NY
Things We Do in the Dark: Cinematic Experiments in Kinship curated by Farrah Rahaman, Express Newark, Newark, NJ
2022
Tangible Possibilities curated by Reg Zehner, No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH
States of Becoming curated by Fitsum Shebeshe, The Africa Center, New York, NY
Adornment | Artifact curated by jill moniz, Eastern Projects and Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Video Caribx curated by Ashley Deosaran and Luis Vasquez La Roche, documenta15, Kassel, Germany
Porous Projections curated by Huda Takriti and Kyungrim Lim Jang, Afro-Asiatische Institute, Graz, Austria
beautiful experiments curated by ri tai and kiki nicole, Ori Gallery, Portland, OR (online)
2021
put your hands where my eyes can see curated by Cameron Granger, Flux Factory, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Intersectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Miami Design District, Miami, FL
Alternating Currents curated by Niama Safia Sandy, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
Third Horizon Film Festival curated by Jonathan Ali, Miami, FL
Intersectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Harvey B. Gantt Center
for African-American Arts + Culture at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
never created, never destroyed convened by S*an D. Henry Smith, White Columns, New York, NY (streamed online)
2020
I Fashioned Myself A Mirror curated by Tamika Galanis, Archive Acts, Tulsa, OK (streamed online)
Rendezvous (w/ Cameron Granger) curated by Tiffany Smith and Clare Britt, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (online)
how to break a horizon: a memory as retold by the sum of its residue, trinidad+tobago film festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Inner/Out curated by Ariel René Jackson, Moonmist Gallery, Austin, TX
Phone Call curated by Ginevra Shay, Rose Arcade, remote
time now for ghosts curated by Jamillah Hinson, Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Public School One, Iowa City, IA
2019
Intersectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace and Sanjit Sethi, Flagg Building, The Cocoran School of Art and Design, Washington, DC
Resident Artist Exhibition, Red Bull Arts Detroit, Detroit, MI
(after)care curated by No Longer Empty, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Don’t @ Me curated by Black Artists Union, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Artifact #3: Terra Nullius, NLS Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica (solo)
2018
Structures Manifest curated by Adia Sykes, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
Block Party curated by Tess Sol Schwab, Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York, NY
To Break the Ocean curated by Zalika Azim and Marquita Flowers, AC Institute, NY, NY
2017
Universal Belonging curated by Mikhaile Solomon, PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL
»Thread Count«, curated by DER GRIEF, CO-OP at Unseen Photography Fair Amsterdam, Transformatorhuis at Westergasfabriek, Netherlands
Rock Paper Scissors and a Three-Armed Shovel: The 7th Annual Zine & Self Published Photo Book Fair, Baxter Street Camera Club, New York, NY
Show Two, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
2016
The Caribbean Digital III, small axe, Columbia University, New York, NY
Mi Querido Barrio Augmented Reality Exhibition, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Harlem, New York, NY
Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, New Museum, New York, NY
I Am ONE: Trinidad and Tobago Pride Arts Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
YJC & BUFU Present: R U 4 REAL. An Exhibition on Authenticity and Anger, BUFU Studios, New York, NY
APPROXIMATELY 800cm3 OF PLA, UFES Gallery, Vitória, Brazil
2015
Date Night, a Bi-monthly Art Salon curated by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., New York, NY
Respond, Smack Mellon, New York, N
RESIDENCIES
2024
International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Surf Point Foundation, York, ME
2023
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY
Macdowell, Peterborough, NH
Lucas Artists Residency Program, Saratoga, CA
2021
Automata Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Red Bull Arts Detroit, Detroit, MI
Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2018
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
NLS Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2017
ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, WI
PANELS, FELLOWSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
2023
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Elaine G. Weitzen ISP Studio Program Fellow, New York, NY
Heal Up! Career Pathways in Creative Wellness, panelist, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York, NY
2022
Queer|Art|Mentorship, fellow, Queer|Art, New York, NY
Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, participant, New York, NY
2021
Artist Changemaker Fellowship, Denise Allen Fellow, Global Fund for Women, San Francisco, CA
Intimate Architectures: Displacement, Irruption, and Emergency in the Americas (panelist),
Hemi Graduate Student Initiative Sixth Convergence, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York, NY
Performing the Otherwise: Practices of Pleasure, Regeneration, and Rest (panelist), UCLA Center for the Study
of Women’s 31st Annual Thinking Gender Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Leslie Lohman Artist Fellowship, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2019
Art and Law Program Fellowship,
Cornell Art and Architecture Planning, New York, NY
2018
Nova Film Festival and Lab (panelist), Billie Holiday Theatre, Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
Black Portraiture[s] IV: The Color of Silence, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Black Archive: Past Present Futures with BUFU, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Manifesto Making workshop with Press Press, Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY
Create Change Fellowship, The Laundromat Project, NY, NY
Vision and Justice lecture series, led by Dr. Sarah Lewis, Brooklyn Public Library, New York, NY
On Feminism, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2016
IMPACT16: ›RIFT ZONES – BRUCHZONEN‹, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany
A Different Lens: Vision and Justice, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY (moderator)
Black Feminisms: Theories, Praxis, Performance, 41st Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Port au Prince, Haiti
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2023
Air/Light Magazine, Erin Marie Lynch, To dissolve into the sea:" An Interview with Kearra Amaya Gopee
Exhibition text for Ca(r)milla, Katherine Reynolds
desire paths, press press (forthcoming)
Los Angeles Review of Books, Winter 2022, Kali Tambreé, BLACK(ENED) (DIS)SATISFACTION
2022
Foto Femme United, Issue 33, Cassia McAreavey, Tutorials on Radiance
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women and Gender Studies,
Volume 22: Racialization, Spectacle, Liberation, edited by Chriss V. Sneed and S.M. Rodriguez
2021
Boy.Brother.Friend, Issue 3, Adjoa Armah, Tutorials on Radiance
Shoutout LA, Meet Kearra Amaya Gopee | Artist & Cultural Worker
2020
Intersectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City, Dr. Jafari Allen, catalogue essay
CRWN Magazine, Cee Sando, Black on the Blockchain
W Magazine, Michael Beckert, 21 Queer BIPOC Photographers Illustrate What “Pride” Really Means
Auburn Avenue, this love is above my paygrade honestly, The Gender Issue, edited by Bettina Judd
2019
Angela’s Pulse Performance Projects, Dancing While Black Journal, curated by Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Lisa Allen-Agostini, A migrant artist arrives at Terra Nullius
2018
The New York Times, Antwaun Sargent, Where ‘Block Party’ Has A Score of Meanings
Press Press, Press Press, Sentiments: Expressions of Cultural Passage
2017
Trinidad Guardian, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Moving on Up
Press Press, Sentiments, Issue 1
The Air Sheets, Issue 3, curated by Vanessa Thill and Claire Mirocha
2015
Sula Collective, Issue
TEACHING
2023
Teaching Artist, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York, NY
2022
Teaching Assistant for Anuradha Vickram, Modernism, UCLA
2021
Teaching Assistant for Marco Rios, Advanced New Genres, UCLA
2020
Teaching Assistant for Anuradha Vickram, Modernism, UCLA
Teaching Assistant for Asuka Hisa,
Art 100: Contemporary Art Museums—Learning and Engagement, UCLA
2018
Regional Proxy, Black Lunch Table
2017
Educator, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, New York, NY
2015
Teaching Assistant for Keisha Scarville, International Center for Photography’s Teen Academy, New York, NY