Education
2012 Ph.D. Student /Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts (ILA) Emory University
1997 B.F.A. Painting/Computer Art, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1995-1996 Independent Study / Painting, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
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Artist in Residence
2011 Rising Sons Lounge, Atlanta GA
Public art commission by City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs
2010 Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
2010 The McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
2008 The Caversham Center, Printmaking, Balgowan, South Africa
2004-current Taller Portobelo, Portobelo, Panama
Awards
2011 NBAF Impressions Emerging Artist Award
2009 Artadia Award
2008 Caversham Fellowship, Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta, GA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Sophisticated Ignorance
Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
HARD 2 DEATH
Backslash Gallery, Paris, France
ART HISTORY neXt
Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Second Childhood
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010
Whirl Trade
The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ALL FALLS DOWN
Grambling State University, Grambling, LA
2009
Coming From Where I'm From
Bell-Roberts Gallery Cape Town, South Africa
Black Presidential
Volta 5, Basel, Switzerland
Black Presidential
Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery, New York, NY
Whirl Trade
Get This Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008
FAHAMENON
NEXT Chicago, Chicago, IL
Something Like a FAHAMENON
Vaknin Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Sitting By The Front Door
MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA
Stunt'd Like My Daddy
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007
Million Dolla Baby
Lyons Wier Ortt, New York, NY
Hustle & Show
Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Things Done Changed
Vaknin, Atlanta, GA
2006
NEOPOP and Circumstance
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
NEOPOPular Demand
MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA
2005
NEOPOP Goes the World
Ty Stokes Gallery, Dallas, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
The Reflected Gaze
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2008
I Am a Man, curated by Kevin Powell,
MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY
Bare Walls, No Boundaries
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Amistad Center, Hartford, CT
Spectrumed
Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC, curated by Fahamu Pecou
Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Taking Possession
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
2005
Arts, Beats & Lyrics
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Como Se Cuenta El Cuento
Sonja Haynes Center, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2001
Santuario de los Reyes,
Festival Iberoamericana de Teatro de Cadiz, Baluarte de Candelaria, Cadiz, Spain
Curatorial Experience
2011
Home: An Emerging Artist Exhibit
City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta GA
2007
Spectrumed
Flanders Gallery, Raleigh N.C.
Selected Talks/Public Lectures
2011
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Harvey B Gantt Center for African American Art + Culture, Charlotte NC
2010
Grambling State University, Grambling, LA
2009
SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
University of Delaware, Newark, Del Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Ft. Worth, TX
Visual Arts Network of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
2008
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Publications
2012
Art on Deckz Dawud Knuckles
(featured artist)
2011
NoPlaceness: Art In a post-urban Landscape
"We Are no Danes in Denmark: Displacement and the liquid self in Atlanta Art" by Jerry Cullum
(featured artist)
5 Cities/41 Artists Artadia 08/09
"Good Business is the Best Art" by Franklin Sirmans
(featured artist)
2009
DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip Hop
Cey Adams and Bull Adler (featured artist)
2008
FAHAMENON
Self published catalogue
Media
2010-present The15Project.wordpress.com
self-authored blog featuring short articles on current events, interviews and musings on pop culture
2009-present PassageofRight.wordpress.com
Self-authored blog featuring autobiographical accounts of one's personal journey through understanding manhood