Curriculum Vitae
Selected Books & Chapbooks
2020
Heaven is a Photograph, CLASH Books (author/artist)
Naomi & the Reckoning, Finishing Line Press (author/cover artist)
Her Plumage: An Anthology by Quail Bell Magazine (editor/author/cover artist)
2019
Belladonna Magic, Shanti Arts Publishing (author/artist)
Desert Fox by the Sea, Hoot 'n' Waddle (author/artist)
Force Fed, Quail Bell Press (author/artist)
Things Mother Said To Me During Puberty, Quail Bell Press (author)
The Silhouette Woman, Moonchaps by Moonchild Magazine (author/artist)
2018
Water for the Cactus Woman, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing (author/artist)
Harlem Mestiza, Maverick Duck Press (author)
2017
Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares, Semi-Perfect Press (author)
Ova, Dancing Girl Press (author)
Selected Solo Exhibitions, Screenings & Performances
2020
View From the Jaguar’s Lair, Cold Coffee Gallery, Albany, NY (virtual)
2019
Murmur Tongue/Murmullo Lengua, Brooklyn Public Library’s Caribbean Literacy & Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY
Poemario: Tierra Madre, El Salvador, The City College of New York-CUNY Cohen Library Archives Gallery, New York, NY
Belladonna Magic, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Lady Pandora, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Urban Tropicality, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, New York, NY
Water for the Cactus Woman, Valet Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017
Criaturas, Hanover Town Hall, Hanover, NJ
Yo Soy Mujer, Art Works, Richmond, VA
Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings & Performances
2020
Counterspaces: Intergenerational Resilience, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Manioc (writer/director), Poetic Theater Productions, New York, NY (virtual)
The White Blacks (actor), directed by Melanie Maria Goodreaux, Theater for the New City, New York, NY
2019
Quail Bell Magazine, New York City Poetry Festival, New York, NY
Listen: Artists Respond to Politics, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY
Measured Hate, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
Artistas, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA
Un-Teaching, UnSpace Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
It’s Not Me, It’s My Image, Gallery House-Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Open/Ended Identity, Pratt Institute Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Looking for America, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
Untitled 3 by Support Creativity, Nuyoricans Poets Café, New York, NY
Capital Lives, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Fagelbo Film Festival, FatVillage Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
El Corazón, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2017
Reformation, Henry Luce III Center for Arts & Religion, Washington, D.C.
Performance and Subversion by Liveart.Us, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Reflections, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
East New York: Not the New Frontier, Arts East New York, Brooklyn, NY
Casus Vector, Artzond Festival of Conceptual Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
A Luta Continua, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Filmideo, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
40 Under 40 Virginia Artists, Shenandoah Valley Art Center, VA
2016
Platform, New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Digital Fringe, Philly Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Thanks, Y’all, Waveland Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, Waveland, MS
Selected Collaborative Projects
2010-present
Quail Bell Magazine, Brooklyn, NY/Richmond, VA (with Gretchen Gales & Ghia Vitale)
2020
Butterflies, poetry film, Visible Poetry Project, (with Teri Elam)
Artist in Quarantine, artist video (with John Davis & Deniz Zeynep)
Oración, music video (with John Davis & Dmitriy Kosoy)
2019
Cynthia Silver, digital chapbook, Moonchaps by Moonchild Magazine (with Sam Jowett)
2018
Mud Want, poetry film (with Deniz Zeynep & Mari Pack)
Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos Woodblock Project, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA (with Alexis Nutini)
2012
Guadalajara in 35mm, University of Guadalajara/Virginia Center for Latin American Art Guadalajara, MX/Richmond, VA (with Kristen Rebelo)
2010
The VCU Reel Dame Film Festival, Grace Street Theatre, Richmond, VA (with Olivia Blackwell)
Selected Residencies
2019-present
HeartShare Human Services of New York, Brooklyn, NY
2020
AnkhLave Arts Alliance Fellowship at Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, NY
1708 Gallery Space Grant, Richmond, VA
DC Arts Center Curatorial Fellowship (postponed to 2021)
2019
VCUarts Anderson Gallery Space Grant, Richmond, VA
Beach64 Retreat, Averne, NY
2018-2019
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, New York, NY
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum's Habitat for Artists, Woodstock, NY
2018
Brooklyn Public Library-Eastern Parkway Branch, Brooklyn, NY
Laberinto Projects, Lago de Coatepeque, El Salvador
Invisible College, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Annmarie Sculpture Garden-Smithsonian Affiliate, Dowell, MD
2016
The Inner Loop's Writers in Residence Program at Woodlawn & Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House, Alexandria, VA
Selected Awards, Grants & Recognitions
2020
Table Work Press National Playwriting Award
The Merry Beggars' "Quarantine Plays" National Radio Drama Competition
ICRL Playwriting Competition Award
2018
"Ms. Muse" by Ms. Magazine
Brooklyn Poets' "Poet of the Week"
2017
Peapod Truck Design Contest, Brooklyn, NY
Prospect Park Alliance's Connective Project, Brooklyn, NY
ArtBridge's Brownsville Matters public art competition, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Library of Virginia's REMIX Archival Art Contest, Richmond, VA
Bustle Editors’ Pick, "The Best of Bustle," New York, NY
Across the Margin Editors’ Pick, "Best Fiction of 2016," New York, NY
2015
Tom Tom Festival Lamppost Banner Competition, Charlottesville, VA
2014
“Top 20 Media Visionaries In Their 20s,” FOLIO:, New York, NY
2012
The Puffin Foundation's National Emerging Artist Grant (Photography), Teaneck, NJ
2011
Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40, Richmond, VA
Education
2019
MFA, Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice, The City College of New York-CUNY, New York, NY
• Theresa Connor Art Department Fellow
• Connor Art Department Travel Award
• Blanche Mason Starkweather Award
• Nyman Family Award
2018-2020
UrbanGlass Bead Project Fellow & Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Brooklyn, NY
• Scholarships in stained glass sculpture, enamel painting, flame-working, kiln casting & glassblowing
• The Chelicca Bead Project Alumnae Fund scholarship winner
2018
Window to Flatbush Fellowship/BRIC Arts Media Video Editing Certificate
2015
THREAD Storytelling in Modern Media Summer Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Graduate coursework in Folklore, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2012
BA, Film, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA
BA, English/Creative Writing concentration, Virginia Commonwealth University, College of Humanities & Sciences, Richmond, VA
CE, Product Innovation, da Vinci Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business, Richmond, VA
• Minors in Spanish, French & European Studies
• VCU Spanish & English Translation & Interpretation summer scholar in Guadalajara, Mexico
• VCU Glasgow Artists and Writers Workshop scholarship participant in creative writing
• VCU French Language & Culture summer program in La Rochelle, France
2020
Heaven is a Photograph, CLASH Books (author/artist)
Naomi & the Reckoning, Finishing Line Press (author/cover artist)
Her Plumage: An Anthology by Quail Bell Magazine (editor/author/cover artist)
2019
Belladonna Magic, Shanti Arts Publishing (author/artist)
Desert Fox by the Sea, Hoot 'n' Waddle (author/artist)
Force Fed, Quail Bell Press (author/artist)
Things Mother Said To Me During Puberty, Quail Bell Press (author)
The Silhouette Woman, Moonchaps by Moonchild Magazine (author/artist)
2018
Water for the Cactus Woman, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing (author/artist)
Harlem Mestiza, Maverick Duck Press (author)
2017
Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares, Semi-Perfect Press (author)
Ova, Dancing Girl Press (author)
Selected Solo Exhibitions, Screenings & Performances
2020
View From the Jaguar’s Lair, Cold Coffee Gallery, Albany, NY (virtual)
2019
Murmur Tongue/Murmullo Lengua, Brooklyn Public Library’s Caribbean Literacy & Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY
Poemario: Tierra Madre, El Salvador, The City College of New York-CUNY Cohen Library Archives Gallery, New York, NY
Belladonna Magic, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Lady Pandora, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Urban Tropicality, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, New York, NY
Water for the Cactus Woman, Valet Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017
Criaturas, Hanover Town Hall, Hanover, NJ
Yo Soy Mujer, Art Works, Richmond, VA
Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings & Performances
2020
Counterspaces: Intergenerational Resilience, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Manioc (writer/director), Poetic Theater Productions, New York, NY (virtual)
The White Blacks (actor), directed by Melanie Maria Goodreaux, Theater for the New City, New York, NY
2019
Quail Bell Magazine, New York City Poetry Festival, New York, NY
Listen: Artists Respond to Politics, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY
Measured Hate, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
Artistas, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA
Un-Teaching, UnSpace Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
It’s Not Me, It’s My Image, Gallery House-Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Open/Ended Identity, Pratt Institute Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Looking for America, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
Untitled 3 by Support Creativity, Nuyoricans Poets Café, New York, NY
Capital Lives, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Fagelbo Film Festival, FatVillage Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
El Corazón, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2017
Reformation, Henry Luce III Center for Arts & Religion, Washington, D.C.
Performance and Subversion by Liveart.Us, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Reflections, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
East New York: Not the New Frontier, Arts East New York, Brooklyn, NY
Casus Vector, Artzond Festival of Conceptual Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
A Luta Continua, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Filmideo, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
40 Under 40 Virginia Artists, Shenandoah Valley Art Center, VA
2016
Platform, New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Digital Fringe, Philly Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Thanks, Y’all, Waveland Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, Waveland, MS
Selected Collaborative Projects
2010-present
Quail Bell Magazine, Brooklyn, NY/Richmond, VA (with Gretchen Gales & Ghia Vitale)
2020
Butterflies, poetry film, Visible Poetry Project, (with Teri Elam)
Artist in Quarantine, artist video (with John Davis & Deniz Zeynep)
Oración, music video (with John Davis & Dmitriy Kosoy)
2019
Cynthia Silver, digital chapbook, Moonchaps by Moonchild Magazine (with Sam Jowett)
2018
Mud Want, poetry film (with Deniz Zeynep & Mari Pack)
Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos Woodblock Project, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA (with Alexis Nutini)
2012
Guadalajara in 35mm, University of Guadalajara/Virginia Center for Latin American Art Guadalajara, MX/Richmond, VA (with Kristen Rebelo)
2010
The VCU Reel Dame Film Festival, Grace Street Theatre, Richmond, VA (with Olivia Blackwell)
Selected Residencies
2019-present
HeartShare Human Services of New York, Brooklyn, NY
2020
AnkhLave Arts Alliance Fellowship at Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, NY
1708 Gallery Space Grant, Richmond, VA
DC Arts Center Curatorial Fellowship (postponed to 2021)
2019
VCUarts Anderson Gallery Space Grant, Richmond, VA
Beach64 Retreat, Averne, NY
2018-2019
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, New York, NY
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum's Habitat for Artists, Woodstock, NY
2018
Brooklyn Public Library-Eastern Parkway Branch, Brooklyn, NY
Laberinto Projects, Lago de Coatepeque, El Salvador
Invisible College, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Annmarie Sculpture Garden-Smithsonian Affiliate, Dowell, MD
2016
The Inner Loop's Writers in Residence Program at Woodlawn & Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House, Alexandria, VA
Selected Awards, Grants & Recognitions
2020
Table Work Press National Playwriting Award
The Merry Beggars' "Quarantine Plays" National Radio Drama Competition
ICRL Playwriting Competition Award
2018
"Ms. Muse" by Ms. Magazine
Brooklyn Poets' "Poet of the Week"
2017
Peapod Truck Design Contest, Brooklyn, NY
Prospect Park Alliance's Connective Project, Brooklyn, NY
ArtBridge's Brownsville Matters public art competition, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Library of Virginia's REMIX Archival Art Contest, Richmond, VA
Bustle Editors’ Pick, "The Best of Bustle," New York, NY
Across the Margin Editors’ Pick, "Best Fiction of 2016," New York, NY
2015
Tom Tom Festival Lamppost Banner Competition, Charlottesville, VA
2014
“Top 20 Media Visionaries In Their 20s,” FOLIO:, New York, NY
2012
The Puffin Foundation's National Emerging Artist Grant (Photography), Teaneck, NJ
2011
Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40, Richmond, VA
Education
2019
MFA, Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice, The City College of New York-CUNY, New York, NY
• Theresa Connor Art Department Fellow
• Connor Art Department Travel Award
• Blanche Mason Starkweather Award
• Nyman Family Award
2018-2020
UrbanGlass Bead Project Fellow & Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Brooklyn, NY
• Scholarships in stained glass sculpture, enamel painting, flame-working, kiln casting & glassblowing
• The Chelicca Bead Project Alumnae Fund scholarship winner
2018
Window to Flatbush Fellowship/BRIC Arts Media Video Editing Certificate
2015
THREAD Storytelling in Modern Media Summer Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Graduate coursework in Folklore, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2012
BA, Film, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA
BA, English/Creative Writing concentration, Virginia Commonwealth University, College of Humanities & Sciences, Richmond, VA
CE, Product Innovation, da Vinci Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business, Richmond, VA
• Minors in Spanish, French & European Studies
• VCU Spanish & English Translation & Interpretation summer scholar in Guadalajara, Mexico
• VCU Glasgow Artists and Writers Workshop scholarship participant in creative writing
• VCU French Language & Culture summer program in La Rochelle, France
