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
2022
States of Becoming curated by Fitsum Shebeshe, The Africa Center, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Adornment | Artifact curated by jill moniz and Jeffery Spier, Getty Villa Museum, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
Swept Away: Love Letter to A Surrogate curated by Anuradha Vickram, Warren Neidich and Renée Petropoulos, 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
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
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
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
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
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
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