Education
MFA 2015
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
BFA 2012
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC
Associates 2006
Fayetteville Technical Community College, Fayetteville, NC
Teaching
2022-present
Associate Professor of Graphic Design + Studio
School of Art and Design, UIUC, Champaign, IL
2016-2022
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
School of Art and Design, UIUC, Champaign, IL
2015-2016
Adjunct Professor, Art Department
D’Youville College, Buffalo, NY
2016
Adjunct Professor, Art Department
Niagara County Community College,
Sanborn, NY
2015
Adjunct Professor, Art Department
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Honors + Recognitions
2020
’Center for Advanced Study Fellow’, UIUC
2019-2020
‘Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow’, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University
2018
Nomination, ‘Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design’, Virago-Man Dem (Illustration) with (Choreographer Cynthia Oliver), along with John Jennings + John Boesche. New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2023
‘Black Utopias: Black Distractions + Disruptions in Time Space>>’,
UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2022
‘Future Spaces in Community Places’, Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
2020
‘Afrofuture Worlds,’ Lights Fine Arts Center, Kalamazoo College,
Kalamazoo, MI
2019
‘Black Imaginings,’ Buffalo Arts Studio (as part of Buffalo Arts Studio’s Justice in the Arts programming), Buffalo, NY
2018
‘Branding the AfroFuture’, part of Union College's Art Installation Series, Schaffer Library at Union College, Schenectady, NY
2016
‘Into the AfroFuture’, Solarium Gallery at Houghton House, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY
Group Exhibitions
2024
‘The Democracy Project’, curated by Reynaldo Anderson and
The Black Speculative Arts Movement, Part of: Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, Carnegie Hall
2023
‘Audacious Black Freedom Dreams’, (BLACKMAU), Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
2022
‘Black Angel of History’, exhibition as part of Afrofuturism Festival at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
2021
‘Animated DJ Set’, (45-minute visual art + sound animation as part of “Die-Urbane: A Global Hip Hop Party vol. 1,”), in collaboration with The Black Speculative Arts Movement, Berlin, Germany (via Twitch TV). (Die Urbane is a Political Party based in Berlin whose political platform is Hip-Hop.)
2021
‘Cosmic Listening’, featured in “Futures,” exhibition (as part of Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary celebrations), Smithsonian’s Arts & Industries Building, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
2019-2020
‘The Alchemist’s Notebook: The Satire, Remixes, and Haunts of Black Kirby’, Virginia Lacy Jones Exhibition Hall, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center Consortium, Atlanta GA
2018-2019
‘UNCAGED: Hero for Higher’, UCR ARTSBloc,
Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA
2018
‘Soul R Systems: Visual Conversations on Afrofuturism 2.0’, HAU Theater, Berlin, Germany
2017 ‘
MotherBoxx Studios, Elektrik Revival: Remixing The Black Speculative South’, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2016
‘Visible Noize: An exhibit featuring the afrofuturistic art of John Jennings, Stacey Robinson, Tim Fielder and David Brame’,
Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston MA
2016
‘From Slave to Citizen (In Conversation with Claudia Rankine)’, Solarium Gallery at Houghton House, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY