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I am exploring time, personal archives, adornment, spatiality, aesthetic objects, and love through the lens of....quantum blackness



EDUCATION

2019 MFA Washington State University. Pullman, WA

2016 BA Jackson State University. Jackson, MS

EXHIBITIONS

2025 Growing Pains: A Journey Through Girlhood, The Lower Eastside Girls Club,Manhattan, NY

2025 THE SPACE SHE HOLDS, AM:PM Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2025 BLOOM, Artful Walls Gallery, Harlem, NY [In collaboration with GROWN Magazine]

2024 How do I look, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, Portland, ME

2021 Roots Run Deep: A Contemporary Survey of African American Hair Culture,

Brewhouse Gallery Pittsburgh, PA

PUBLICATIONS

2021 NY Mag

2021 Cool Hunting



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