Education
2017-2019. School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY, MFA, Fine Arts
2012. San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), San Francisco, CA BFA Painting
2011. Glasgow School of Art, Winter Exchange Program, Glasgow Scotland, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2024. Francois & Friends, YO Studio, North Canaan, CT
2023. BEST CULT, Spring Break Art Fair, New York, NY
2020. Works From Home, Artpartment NYC, Brooklyn, NY
Nobody’s Fashion Week, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
Masks, Mirages, and the Morphic Mirror, London Biennale in
Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Museum of Secret Talents, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2019. Chain Curators Performance, Live performance of Ever Seen
A Lamp Turn A Look?, in collaboration with Zac Thompson,
Para//el Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY
Chautauqua School of Art Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition,
Fowler-Kellogg Gallery, Chautauqua, NY
4 x 4, Live performance of Coffee, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2018. Magic Plastic Lounge, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
It’s Bedtime Somewhere, Live performance of Rebounding,
in collaboration with Pei-Ling Ho, Astoria, Queens
The Craftswoman, SVA Flatiron Project Space, New York, NY
2017. Bodily, Live performance of Backflow Becoming, SVA CP Projects Space, New York, NY
Out Of Their Skin, SVA Flex Space, New York, NY
2016. First Thursday, Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Block Party, Frame Art Studio, San Francisco, CA
2015. Art Explosion Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2014. Sugar Rush, En Em Art Space, Sacramento, CA
Misfit Toy Factory IV, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
14th Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2013. Bitch, Cell Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Misfit Toy Factory III, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
13th Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Artspan Open Studios, Art Explosion Studios, San Francisco, CA
2009-2012. Courtyard Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011. Arts and Beats, Terra Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Related Artistic Experience
2018. Performer in Thuy Nguyen’s, An Act Of Simultaneous Looking, Brooklyn, NY
Performer in Franklin Cain Borges, Braving The Wilderness, SVA Flex Space, New York, NY
2017. Performer in Boryana Rossa’s, Golden Carelessness, Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY
2012. Participant in Dora Garcia’s, Instant Narrative, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Related Professional Experience
2023. Lead Painter for Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
2021-2023. Lead Painter for Mickalene Thomas, Navy Yard Brooklyn
2019. Artist Assistant for Sharon Louden, Dumbo, Brooklyn
2018. Installation Assistant for Tactics, Works, Terms, Forms,
Statements: SVA MFA Thesis Exhibition, NYC
Installation Intern for SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC
Teacher’s Assistant for Mark Tribe, Chair of SVA’s MFA Fine Arts
Program, NYC
2015-2016. Artist Assistant for Brett Reichman, San Francisco, CA
2014. Painting and Drawing instructor, City Studio, Boys and Girls Club
of San Francisco, CA
2013-2014. Exhibitions Intern, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2010-2012. Utrecht Art Supplies Employee, San Francisco, CA
Merits
2012. Allan Stone Prize for Continued Practices in Painting Recipient, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2011. Exceptional Achievement Award in Painting, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2009-2012. SFAI Studio Space Award
2008-2012. SFAI Deans List
SFAI Deans Scholarship
First Place, Art & Poetry Competition, La Jolla Art Association, San Diego, CA
Press
2023. Hyperallergic, The Imperfect Charm of Spring Break
Art Show, Lakshmi Rivera Amin
SVA Continuing Education, Defining Queer Family in the Art Fair
Space, Stephanie Mcgovern
2019. The Cut, The Met Gayla Was Queer, Fabulous, and Totally
Absurd, by Andrew Nguyen
2016. Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 36
2014. Feature in Kosmosis Zine Vol. 1: Retrograde, Brooklyn, NY
Rogue Habits, “Exploring Identity and Emotion through Oil and Watercolor”, San Francisco, CA