EDUCATION
2019 MFA, Advanced Photographic Studies, International Center of Photography-Bard College, New York, NY
2006 Certificate, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2003 B.S., Biology, The City College of The City University of New York, New York, NY
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
2023 The Film Photo Award
The Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship
The En Foco Fellowship
The Louis Roederer Discovery Award (shortlisted)
The Prix De La Photo Madame Figaro (shortlisted)
The Aperture Portfolio Prize (shortlisted)
2022 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellow in Photography
2021 Artist In the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship, The Bronx Museum of Arts, The Bronx, NY
2020 The Shpilman International for Excellence in Photography (nominated)
2019 The Houston Center of Photography Fellowship (honorable mention), Houston, TX
2011 The Santa Fe Prize for Photography (nominated)
2010 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellow in Photography
2009 EN FOCO, New Works #13 (honorable mention)
RESIDENCIES
2023 Artist-in-residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2021 Artist-in-residence, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2015 Artist-in-residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2009 The Eddie Adams Workshop
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2024 Caribbean Dreams, Des Moines Arts Center, IA (solo)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Not Gay, The Marion Art Gallery, SUNY Fredonia, NY
The Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship exhibition, Pittsburg, PA
Full Stop, The En Foco Fellowship exhibition, The Bronx, NY
Moving Definitions, The Louis Roederer Discovery Award exhibition, Arles, France
2022 Caribbean Dreams, Light Work, Syracuse, NY (solo)
Beyond the Flat, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
Possibly Easy, HilbertRaum, Berlin
Picturing Girlhood, Express Newark/Black Portraiture[s] VII: Play & Performance, Newark, NJ
Subject-Object, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
2021 Eco-Urgency: Now or Never, Lehman College Art Gallery, The Bronx, NY
Queer Moments: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Caribbean Dreams/Fluctuations (with Joshua Lee), Empty Set Project Space, The Bronx, NY
Tiger Strikes Asteroid: It feels like the first time, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020 The Living Room Kitchen, The Andrew Freedman House, The Bronx, NY
2019 In Conversation: Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity, The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The Center Annual Exhibition, The Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX
With Pleasure, Baxter Street at CCNY, New York, NY
Two or Three Real Memories, ICP-Bard Studios, New York, NY (solo)
2018 Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2017 Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, The ICP Museum, New York, NY
One day this kid will get larger, the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2014 Kamoinge + EN FOCO: Advancing the Frame, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
2013 Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Youth, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
2012 TESTIMONY: A Living Exhibition of Queer Youth, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
EN FOCO/IN FOCUS: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2011 EN FOCO/IN FOCUS: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY
Moving Walls #18, The Open Society Institute, New York, NY
2010 INVISIBLE, The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY (solo)
EN FOCO, New Works #13 Exhibition, Calumet Gallery, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
En Foco, The Bronx, NY
The Open Society Foundation, New York, NY
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
The Harvard Art Museums
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 “Documents from the Closet”, Ryan Patrick Krueger, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, Brooklyn, NY (reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail)
2021 “And when you come back…”, Hernease Davis, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, Brooklyn, NY (mentioned in Hyperallergic’s December 2021 picks)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2021-present Member, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, Brooklyn, NY
TEACHING
2021-present Part-time Faculty, Parsons School of Design, Lang College | The New School