EDUCATION

2023                MAT, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2015                BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2012                AA, Laguardia Community College, Long Island City, NY

 

EXPERIENCE

2023 -              K-12 Program Visual Arts Teacher, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2022-2023       K-12 Visual Arts Teacher, Corona Arts & Sciences Academy, Queens, NY                                       

2021-2022       K-12 Visual Arts Teacher, PS/IS 188 The Island School, New York, NY

 

AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

2023                Right of Return Fellowship, Center for Art and Advocacy, Brooklyn NY

2023                Art4Justice Grant, Art For Justice Fund, New York, NY

 

EXHIBITIONS

2025               Group exhibition, The Center for Art and Advocacy Inauguration, Brooklyn, NY

2023               Group exhibition, The Courage to Play and Dream (SVA), New York, NY

2020               Group exhibition, HBO Presents: O.G. Experience Art Show, New York NY

 

COMMISSIONS

2025      Illustrations for The Alabama Solution, dir. by Charlotte Kaufman  

2024      Illustrations and Animation for Paint Me a Road Out of Here, dir. by Catherine Gund

 

PUBLICATIONS

2025        A Showcase of Formerly Incarcerated Artists Grows in Brooklyn, The New York Times

2024       John R. Whitman, Prisons of Creativity: Artistic Innovation During Incarceration  

2022       Craig Taylor, New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time 

2015       SVA’s Portfolio 36     

2009       Paul Taggart, Wrestling His Demons to Release the Artist Within, The New York Times 

 

RADIO/TELEVISION

2023        Interview, The Takeaway Radio/Podcast

 

CREATIVE PROJECTS

2019       Subject of Drawing Freedom, short documentary produced by Motto Pictures