Education
Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Awards
- Oregon Community Foundation, Creative Heights Grant, 2022
- Glean (Recycled Materials) Portland Residency, 2021
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Black Lives Matter Artist Grant, 2020
Ash Street Project Ceramics Residency & Summer Session, 2019
Pop-up Residency, McColl Center for Art & Innovation, 2016
Haven Foundation Grant, 2012
Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant, 2012
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant 2010, 2006
Special Grant, Arts & Science Council, 2003
Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, Sausalito, California, 2002
Creative Fellowship, NC Arts & Science Council 2000
Caversham Press Printmaking Residency, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa 2000
Chivas Regal Artist-In- Residence and Commission 2000
Cultural Heritage Artist of the Year, 1999
Artist Residency at Tryon Center for Visual Art, 1999
Artist Project Grant from the NC Arts Council, 1996
Emerging Artists Grant from the NC Arts & Science Council, 1994
Featured Artist
2004
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
2003
Lew Allen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
1999
Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1993
Cleveland Community College, Shelby NC
sOLO eXHIBITIONS
- 2023 I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got , Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR
- In the Raw, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- 2022 In My. Own Little Corner, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
- 2021 Beneath the Surface, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- America’s Original Sin, Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, AL
2020 The Shacks My Daddy Built, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 And Miles to Go Before We Sleep, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Nodder Doll/Living Doll, Kinfolks, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Nodder Doll/Living Doll,
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2016 10th Annual Black History Exhibition, Arts Center of Greenwood, Greenwood, SC
2015 Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2014 In the Hood, The New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
2011 Rice/ Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011 Totems to a Past: Pounder Kone’ Artspace, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Juke Joint Installation: Diggs Gallery, Winston Salem State University
2009 Juke Joint Installation:
YMI Cultural Center, Asheville, NC
In Mixed Company:
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Riice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2008
In Mixed Company
Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC
Joie Lassiter Gallery Charlotte, North Carolina
2007
Rice/ Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2005
Rice/Polack Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003/04
Juke Joint, Traveling Installation:
Smithsonian Institution, Arts & Industries Gallery, Washington DC
American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002
Juke Joint, Traveling Installation:
African- American Museum in Philadelphia
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
Black As… looking beyond the stereotype, Noel Gallery Charlotte, NC
2000
A Door to American Culture, Installation (Chivas Regal Residency Commission) Afro American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
Through the Window Into My Grandmother’s Garden,
Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Kinfolks, Installation:
- Tobacco Farm Life Museum, Kenly, NC
Juke Joint Traveling Installation:
Dallas African- American Museum Dallas, Texas
Kansas African- American Museum Wichita, Kansas
1999
Juke Joint, Traveling Installation:
Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
Charles H Wright Museum of African- American History, Detroit, MI
1998
Kinfolks, Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1997
Juke Joint Traveling Installation:
Harriet Tubman African -American Museum, Macon, GA
Greenhill Center for the Arts, Greensboro, NC
McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
Penn Center for the Arts. St Helena Island, SC
Amazing Grace: The Black Church Installation, Museum of the New South Charlotte, NC
1996
Juke Joint Traveling Installation:
Afro- American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
The College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Afro- American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
1995
One Hundred Percent Natural,
Heritage House, Charlotte, NC
1994
Slaves To Fashion
Supra Natural Style 1994, Atlanta GA
1993
Slaves to Fashion
Pfeiffer College, Charlotte, NC
Newberry College, Newberry SC
1992
Slaves to Fashion
Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte NC
1990
Girls In Basic Black
YMI Cultural Center Asheville, NC