EDUCATION 

MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, ​Baltimore, MD

​BFAMaryland Institute College of Art, ​Baltimore, MD 

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, AND FELLOWSHIPS

2024

MASS MoCA, Artist-in-Residence, North Adams, MA

2021            

Bayard Rustin Residency Fellow, New York, NY

2021                

Independent Arts Award Maryland State Art Council

2018                

Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, Artist-in-Residence, Washington, DC          

2013                

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Artist-in-Residence, Silver Spring, MD

2010                

Skidmore College Summer Art Teacher Fellow, Saratoga Springs, NY

2004                

Joan Mitchell MFA Award Nominee                                                                                  

2004                

Fine Arts Work Center Summer Fellow, Provincetown, MA                                                

2002                

Women's Housing Coalition, Artist-in-Residence, Baltimore, MD

MUSEUM  COLLECTIONS

The Phillip Collection, Washington, DC


ART FAIRS 

2024

EXPO CHICAGO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS  

2023

Threads of Memory, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

Time Is Filled With Swift Transition, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY

2020            

Works by Desmond Beach​, Chesapeake Gallery, Bel Air, MD

2019            

Color Me This​, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

2005            

Wanted, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS                                                                                               

2024

Stitching the Revolution: Quilts as Agents of Change, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

2023

POUR, TEAR, CARVE, The Phillip Collection, Washington, DC

2021

Inside Outside, Upside Down, The Phillip Collection, Washington, DC

Cladogram, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 

2008

Person Of The Crowd: The Contemporary Art Of Flânerie,​ Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2004               

The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

GALLERY GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Roots and Routes, Richard Beavers Gallery (Brooklyn), New York, NY

Subject Matters, Richard Beavers Gallery (SoHo), New York, NY

2023

To Be Made Whole, Pace University Art Gallery, New York, NY

Counting the Seconds Between Lightning and Thunder, Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY

2022

Voices of Freedom, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

High Contrast, Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

tet[R]ad: Cultivating Collaborative Creative Community, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

SALLY, The Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts 

2021        

Grey Area, Treat Gallery, New York, NY

Repercussions, Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD

2019            

1st Annual Juried Exhibition​, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY                                                                                  

r​ag mad soft​, Waller Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Duplexity​, M6 Annual Juried Exhibitions, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Contemporary 2019: Contemporary Figure​ Biannual,​ The Art Center, Grand Junction, CO 2018

Alteration,​ LoosenArt, Rome, Italy

2016            

I AM ART NYC​, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY

Self & Subject,​ Photoworks, Glen Echo Park, MD

2011        

Black Male Identity Project, ​Baltimore City Community College, Baltimore, MD

2010            

Studio 312​, Case Gallery, Skidmore College

“Pinch” A Sculptural Invitational​, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Columbia, MD

2007          

Artscape Outdoor Sculpture Visual Arts Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2006            

Artscape Baltimore 06 Visual Arts Exhibition Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2005            

Tribes Gallery, New York, NY

25thAnniversary​, School 33, Baltimore, MD                                                                     

Artscape Baltimore 05 Visual Arts Exhibition​, Baltimore, MD 

2004            

Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

Celebrating the Spirit,​ Carroll Arts Council, Carroll County, MD

Strange Land​, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

Strange Land,​ Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2003            

Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Rosenberg Gallery

2002

Window and Door Project, Baltimore Office of Promotion & Arts, Baltimore, MD

FreeStyle, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD                                                                    

Jazz, Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Baltimore, MD                                                      

Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Outdoor Sculpture, Baltimore, MD

Remembering 911, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD