Education
2024 Master of Fine Art, Print Media, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI
2017 Bachelor of Art, Art, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI
Honors
2022 Gilbert Fellow, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2021 Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Grant
2020 Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee (Drawing)
2019 Red Bull Arts Detroit Grant Awardee
2016 Honored as a "Modern Man" by Black Enterprise Magazine
2014 North Carolina Central University "40 under 40" Alumni Honoree
2013 Grand Prize Winner at Michigan Fine Arts Competition
2009 Winner of the National Association of Black Journalists Moneta Sleet Jr. Photo Competition
2008 National Emmy Award winner for New Approaches in a Regional Documentary
2008 Local Emmy Award Winner (2008, 2010, 2018)
2008 Michigan Press Photographer of the Year
2002 Recognitions from NABJ, SPJ, AP, SND, MPPA, and NPPA (2002-2010)
2002 Black College "Best Photography" Awardee (2001-2002)
Fellowships/Residencies
2022 Good Hart Art Residency, Good Hart, MI
2021 ISCP/International Studies and Curatorial Program Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Mellon Residency, University of Michigan Institute of Humanities, Ann Arbor, MI
2019 Kresge Visual Arts Fellowship, Detroit, MI
2014 Red Bull House of Art Residency, Cycle 8, Detroit, MI
2008 Newspaper Association of America Minority Fellow (Photography), Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, FL
Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations/Critiques
2024 Workshop, PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT, PENLAND, NC, AUGUST 11-16.
2024 Workshop, Undergraduate Critiques and Lecture, University of Michigan Flint, Flint, MI, March 11-14.
2023 Undergraduate Critiques and Lecture, Duke University, Durham, NC, October 2-4.
2023 Undergraduate Critiques, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, October 3.
2023 Undergraduate Critiques and Lecture, Austin Community College, Austin, TX, January 26.
2021 Lecture, Penny Stamps Lecture series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September 30.
Selected Solo Exhibits
2023 The Patron Saints of a Black Boy, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2022 Relief From The Heat, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2022 Never Free To Rest, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Never Free To Rest, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
2021 Never Free to Rest, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Up From the Red Clay, M Contemporary, Ferndale, MI
2020 Contemplation of Flight, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL
2019 American Ornithology”, Solo Exhibit, M Contemporary, Ferndale. MI
2016 Fly Away” Solo Show, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2014 Country Boy Thoughts, ArtRages Gallery, Detroit, MI
Selected Group Exhibits
2023 My Presence Is Present, Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
2023 Skilled Labor, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023 Get Together, Reyes Finn, Detroit, MI
2023 Continuum, Kinsey Collection, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Prizm Art Fair, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL
2021 Operation Varsity Blues, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
2021 Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
2021 Dual Vision, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2020 Uptown Triennial 2020, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, Harlem, NY
2020 Multifaceted Narratives: An Exploration of Black Figurative Art, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2020 Art on Paper Fair, M Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2020 Soul: Melanated Life in Print, Link and Pin, Austin, TX
2019 Prizm Art Fair, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL
2018 Beyond the Balcony, National Civil Rights Museum, Arts Village, Memphis, TN
2018 Gasoline Rainbow, Gold/scopophilia*, Montclair, NJ
2017 Detroit Grind, Rush Arts, Chelsea, NY
2017 LAX/DTW, Inner State Gallery, Detroit, MI
2017 Evidence of things not Seen, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2016 We See, College for Creative Studies
2016 15 Steps, Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI
2016 Friends of Friends, Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI
2016 Detroiter, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015 We Have A Dream, Inner State Gallery, Detroit, MI
2014 ART 75, North Carolina Central University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2014 Harnnett Biennial of American Prints, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2014 Avec Plaisir, NCA Gallery, Detroit, MI
2014 The Print, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2014 Cycle 8, Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI
2014 ArtPrize, Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids, MI
2013 Doorways to Detroit, Live Coal Gallery, Detroit, MI
2013 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC, Birmingham, MI
2013 Project Postcard, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Collections:
Mint MUSEUM, CHARLOTTE, NC
FLINT INSTITUTE OF ART, FLINT, MI
University of Michigan Institute of Humanities, Ann Arbor, MI
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Texas at Austin (Galleries at Black Studies), Austin, TX
Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
The Bunker, West Palm Beach, FL
Mercedes-Benz
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
Mott Warsh Museum, Flint, MI
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Marygrove College, Detroit, MI
North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA