b. 1985, El Paso, TX
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION:
2011 MFA: Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2009 BFA: University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
2008 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT
ONE PERSON EXHIBITS:
2019
When You Look At Me You Only See My Surroundings, Frieze London, London, EN
2017
Fat Cat Came to Play- Company, New York, NY
Pull A Comb Through Your Coal Black Hair- Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2020
TBA
2019
Great Force- Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
On Refusal: Representation and Resistance in Contemporary American Art, The MAC, Belfast, IE
Open Call 2018- The Shed, New York, NY
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
2019 Whitney Biennial- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Stonewall 50- Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX
Peel- Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA
Tissue- Company, New York, NY
2018
Paris Internationale- Paris, FR
Queer/Art: "After Mentorship"- HBO Pop-up, Provincetown, MA
Le Colt est Jeune et Haine- DOC!, Paris, FR
Revival: Contemporary Pattern & Decoration- El Museo Del Barrio at Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx ,NY
Aesthetics of Matter- VOLTA curated by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont, New York, NY
Queering Space II- Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2017
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon- New Museum, New York, NY
FOUND: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction- Leslie- Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
2016
Washashore- Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Queering Space- Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
Open. Wide. Sparagmos- Hercules Art Studio Program, New York, NY
James Baldwin/ Jim Brown and the Children- The Artist's Institute, New York, NY
2015
A Constellation- Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2014
Queer Art Mentorship Show- Leslie- Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Project Space, New York, NY
Gay- Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
TEN- Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY
2013
Outside the Lines: Rites of Spring- Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX
Tis Bank- Torrance Shipman, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Disappearing Acts II- Anna Kustera, New York, NY
Bricoleurs- BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Disappearing Acts- Anna Kustera, New York, NY
2011
Bosch Young Talent Show- Bosch Young Talent Show, Stedlijk s’Hertogenbosch, s’Hertogenbosch, ND
2009
A Proposito: Pan- Latino Dialogues- Ely House Gallery, New Haven, CT
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2016
Art Matters Artist Grant
2015
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Grant
FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES:
2018 Denniston Hill, Glen Wild, NY
2017 Recess Art, New York, NY
2016 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2014 Workspace Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2013 Queer Art Mentorship
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:
2018
Eric Sutphin. “Exhibition Reviews.”, Art in America, March 2018
2017
Holland Cotter. “When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign.”, The New York Times, September 28, 2017
Carl Swanson. “ He and She and They.”, New York Magazine, Date
Holland Cotter. “Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Found:Queer Archaeology;Queer Abstraction’.”, The New York Times, August 23, 2017
GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES:
2019
Whitney Biennial 2019 Catalogue, Yale University Press
2018
Trigger:Gender As A Tool And A Weapon, edited by Johanna Burton, New Museum Publications
2014
Rites of Spring (Outside the Lines), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Publications