CV
b. Anchorage, Alaska
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

EDUCATION
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture | Madison, Maine
2016 MFA New Genres | UCLA, Los Angeles, California
2006 BA Anthropology (Archaeological Studies) | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS + COMMISSIONS

2023 BLUR BALLAD | Emalin | London, UK
2023 GRAVITY GARAGE | Reyes|Finn | Detroit, MI
2022 63/22 | BMW x Frieze Open Work | London, UK
2022 HOLLOWSCENE | Commonwealth and Council | Los Angeles, CA
2022 IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS | Chisenhale Gallery | London, UK
2022 TAKERS | LAXART | Los Angeles, CA
2022 END OF SUBJECT | 52 Walker | New York, NY
2021 SOME WEATHER | CIRCA 2021 + Chisenhale Gallery | London, UK; Tokyo, JP; Seoul, KR
2021 CIVIL STAGE | Anchorage Museum | Anchorage, AK
2021 THANK GOD YOU'RE HERE | 56 Henry | New York, NY
2020 PRIVATE DANCER | California African American Museum | Los Angeles, CA
2020 AUDIENCING | MoMA PS1 | Long Island City, NY
2019 HOT WORLD | Reyes|Finn | Detroit, MI
2019 EASY LISTENING | University of Texas - Austin Visual Arts Center | Austin, TX
2019 EMPTY/OPEN | Coaxial | Los Angeles, CA
2018 DESCENT | Commonwealth & Council | Los Angeles, CA
2018 Keynote Drift | Atlanta Contemporary Art Center | Atlanta, GA
2018 EXTENDED PLAY | 56 Henry | New York, NY
2017 RIFF FATIGUE | Artist Curated Projects | Los Angeles, CA
2016 LOW MAINTENANCE: i only believe in horsepower now (Graduate thesis exhibition) | UCLA New Wight Gallery | Los Angeles, CA


SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Whitney Biennial: "Even Better Than The Real Thing" | The Whitney Museum | New York, New York
Non-Specific Objects | Petzel Capitain | Berlin, Germany

2023
Taipei Biennial "Small World" | TFAM | Taipei, Taiwan
Impossible Music | ICA Carnegie Mellon | Pittsburgh, PA
Moveables | ICA Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA
Is and Isn't: A Context for Denzil Hurley | Canada Gallery | New York, NY
Creating Its Own Occasions As A Stage Does at Juf  | Juf | Madrid, Spain
Drawings by Sculptors | Helena Anrather | New York, NY

2022
Signaling | Kito Saito | New York, NY
Hand to Your Ear, Part 2 | Emalin | London, UK
Beneath Tongues | Swiss Institute | New York, NY
Commonwealth and Council  | Petzel | New York, NY
New Document | Cooper Cole | Toronto, Canada

2021
Chewing Fat | Kristina Kite Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Hand to Your Ear, Part 1 | Emalin | London, UK
Counter Cartographies | Anchorage Museum | Anchorage, AK
Give, Up | Frieze No. 9 Cork St. | London, UK
Rites of Passage | Oxygen Biennial | Tblisi, Georgia
The Youngest Day | Carlier Gebauer | Berlin, GM
Wild Frictions | Cincinnati Art Center (Cincinnati, OH) + Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin, GM)
친구 | 47 Canal | New York, NY
Substrata | Epoch Gallery | Virtual

2020
Extra Tough | Anchorage Museum | Anchorage, AK
Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio | Nottingham Contemporary | Nottingham, UK
In, Of, From: Experiments in Sound | University of Florida Art Gallery | Gainesville, FL
Restless Index | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Inner Out | Moonmist | Houston, TX
The Spread | deBoer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cult of the Crimson Queen | Ceysson & Bénétière | New York, NY 
Dear Delia | Shoot the Lobster | New York, NY 
SOUND OFF | LACE | Los Angeles, CA

2019
Mud Muses | Moderna Museet | Stockholm, Sweden
Rosebud | Matthew Marks Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
In the Historical Present | The New School Kellen Gallery at Parsons | New York, NY
Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium | Bemis Center | Omaha, NE
Formula 1 | CUE Foundation | New York, NY
Notebook | 56 Henry | New York, NY
Structures that Cooperate: Get Paid! (CCCO #2) | Cubitt | London, UK
Fall Apart | Martos Gallery | New York, NY

2018
Relics | Ceysson & Bénétière | Paris, France
Made in LA 2018 | Hammer Museum | Los Angeles, CA
Demolition WoManhood | Skibum MacArthur | Los Angeles, CA
Soft Focus | Reyes Projects | Detroit, MI

2017
CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #1 & 2 | Rodeo Gallery | London, UK
Fictions | The Studio Museum in Harlem | New York, NY
Race, Love, and Labor | Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery | Stony Brook, NY
Earputty | 56 Henry | New York, NY
Regrouping | LUX | London, UK

2016
CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #2 | LAXART | Los Angeles, CA
Occupy Space Differently | Ochi Projects | Los Angeles, CA
Cinque Mostre 2016 - Across the Board: Parts of a Whole | American Academy in Rome | Rome, Italy

2015
The Middle Future | Public Fiction | Paris, France
Rachel's Killin' It | Zuckerman Museum of Art | Kennesaw, GA

2014
As We Were Saying | EFA Project Space (Elizabeth Foundation) | New York, NY (cur. Claire Barliant)
Race, Love, and Labor | Samuel Dorsky Museum | New Paltz, NY (cur. Sarah Lewis)
Hearsay | Zuckerman Museum of Art | Kennesaw, GA
Rooted Movements | LMAK Projects | New York, NY
Foreword | Gallery 72 | Atlanta, GA
The Last Brucennial | Bruce High Quality Foundation | New York, NY

2013
WORD! | Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Decatur Book Festival) | Atlanta, GA
Consuming Passions | Hagedorn Foundation Gallery | Atlanta, GA (cur. Amanda Parmer)
BLOW-UP | {Poem88} | Atlanta, GA
(in)complete | {TEMP} | New York, NY

2012
Made in Woodstock VI | The Center for Photography at Woodstock | Woodstock, NY
Shared Southern Stories | Emily Amy Gallery | Atlanta, Georgia
Living Walls (Street Art Conference) | Atlanta, Georgia
Still Figuring It Out | RAC | New York, NY
Linearity | Mint Gallery | Atlanta, Georgia
Breathing Room | School of Visual Arts | New York, NY
100,000 Cubicle Hours | Atlanta Contemporary Art Center | Atlanta, Georgia

2011
*Ground Floor | Dashboard Co-op | Atlanta, Georgia
Irrational Exuberance: A Recession Art Show | The Invisible Dog Gallery | New York City, NY

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2023 Denniston Hill Artist-in-Residence | Woodridge, NY
2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant
2021 FOCA Artist Award
2019 Fountainhead Residency | Miami, FL
2019 UT Austin Artist-in-Residence | Austin, TX
2019 Coaxial Artist-in-Residence | Los Angeles, CA
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture | Madison, ME
2018 NADA Acquisition Gift for Pérez Art Museum Miami
2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant
2016 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Award | UCLA
2015 Robert J. Webster Scholarship | UCLA
2015 D'arcy Hayman Scholarship | UCLA
2015 Smith Scholarship | UCLA
2014 Graduate Division Award | UCLA
2014 D'arcy Hayman Scholarship | UCLA
2014 Resnick Scholarship | UCLA
2013 National Endowment for the Arts Southern Constellations Fellowship | Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
2013 Artist-in-Residence | Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2012 Studio Artist Program | Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2011 Artist-in-Residence | Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York

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