• Born 1984 in New York. NY, USA.

    Lives and works in New York, NY, USA.

  • My work investigates how external referents can inform one’s sense of self. This series began by strategically manipulating mirrors to explore the dominant role a viewer’s perspective plays in forming self-awareness and identity. With surfaces interrupted by text, symbols, or material obfuscation, mirrors prompt an inquiry of the border between reality and illusion, flatness and volume, and the way we mentally document space and self-perception. The revelation of the mirror-object’s malleability exposes the mind’s capacity to present a mental and physical self-identity as informed by something outside of the self.

    Additionally, my work examines the horizon line as a visual phenomenon. An external referent, it functions as a perceptual construction of dichotomic space, existing as an optical limit or reference, yet remaining in a state of perpetual variability in relation to the viewer. These works attempt to momentarily reify the viewer’s consciousness of an intersection between themselves and the divergent elements of space, time, and physical and cultural location – what art critic Douglas Crimp termed the “coordinates of perception.”

  • EDUCATION
    2012
    Masters in Fine Arts (Sculpture): Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

    2006
    Bachelor of Arts (English): Georgetown University, Washington, DC


    ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
    2010
    Prior Degree Program (Sculpture): The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    2008
    Continuing Education Program: School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
    Summer Studies: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI


    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
    2021
    The Armory Show – Armory Off-Site: Bella Abzug Park; New York, NY (with Niyi Olagunju)

    2019
    MoMA PopRally x The Bronx: Beauteous – Group Exhibition: The Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY (with Niyi Olagunju)

    2016
    People, Places, & Things – Three-Person Exhibition: 326 Gallery, New York, NY

    2014
    Small Works & Toy Stories – Group Exhibition: ART 3 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

    2013
    Summer Show – Group Exhibition: Waterhouse & Dodd, New York, NY
    May Show – Group Exhibition: Waterhouse & Dodd, New York, NY
    Half of Your Life is Behind You – Solo Exhibition: Kips Gallery, New York, NY

    2012
    Sons and Daughters of the Sun and Star – Two-Part Group Exhibition: Pop-up gallery, Hiroshima, Japan & Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
    Hands on an Art Body – HOMECOMING! Committee Collaborative Exhibition: Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX
    Transmission – Group Exhibition: Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
    Cookies go stale. Fortunes are forever. – Solo Exhibition: Moudy Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
    Bridged – Group Exhibition: Quality Ironworks Building, Dallas, TX

    2011
    Launch Party – HOMECOMING! Committee Collaborative Exhibition: Pop-up gallery, Fort Worth, TX
    Art in the Metroplex - Juried Group Exhibition, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX (Juror: Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Menil Collection)
    The Hand that Feeds Me: TCU/MFA/500X – Group Exhibition: 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX

    2010
    Weird It Up! – Group Exhibition: The (Con)Temporary Art Space, Chicago, IL

    2009
    Hypothetical Planets – Group Exhibition: The Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


    COLLABORATIONS
    2021
    Untitled (AFH Installation) with Niyi Olagunju: The Armory Show – Armory Off-Site

    2019
    Untitled (AFH Installation) with Niyi Olagunju: MoMA PopRally x The Bronx: Beauteous

    2011-12
    HOMECOMING! Committee, Co-Founding Member


    RESIDENCIES
    2021
    The Artist Studios Program: Bronx River Art Center, The Bronx, NY


    GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
    2012
    Graduate Travel Grant: Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

    2011
    Graduate Scholarship – Full Tuition: Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

    2010
    Graduate Scholarship – Full Tuition: Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

    2009
    Enrichment Scholarship: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    SAIC Grant: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • 2021
    “Armory looks to bring the public back outside with modern art installations” Night Gallery, September 8
    ”The Armory Show Debuts Armory Off-Site” Kayla Herrera-Daya, Whitewall, September 1
    ”The Armory Show 2021 at Javits Center ~ September 9-12 + Armory Off-Site & Online” GothamToGo, August 18

    2012
    "Mirror Mirror #7: HOMECOMING! Committee" Margaret Meehan, Glasstire; May 14
    "TCU Graduate Students Make Last Stand" Gaile Robinson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram; April 08