Education

2019

MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2014

BA, Visual Arts, Africana Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Exhibitions

2021

The Power of Vulnerability, Gallery 1202, Gilroy, CA

2020

Between You and Me Online Program, Contemporary Irish Arts Center LA, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Galore, MFA Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2017

No Longer Negotiable, Nous Tous Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Foundation for Arts Resources (FAR) Bazaar, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA

2016

ONYX Fine Arts Exhibition, Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building Gallery, Portland, OR

2015

Black Genius, Genus, Genesis, Collaborator in Jamondria Harris’ Future VeVe. NorthPortland Library, Portland, OR

2014

Reasons for Smoking, Cedar St. House, Oberlin, OH

Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio Visual Art Awards, Wehrle Gallery, Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, OH

2013

Geographies of Self, Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People, Oberlin, OH

2011

City Streets, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI

Teaching

2021-present

Instructor, Photography and Video Art, Harvard-Westlake School, Studio City, CA

2020-21

Visiting Teaching Artist, Online Digital Photography & Composition Workshops, Barbara Seniors Harkins Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

2019-20

Artist Mentor, Venice Arts: A Los Angeles Center for Photography & Film Education, Venice, CA

2017-19

Teaching Assistant and TA Consultant, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

ART 495 - Art Department TA Training

ART 150 - Senior Art Studio with Rodrigo Valenzuela

ART 100 - Issues in Contemporary Art with Mario Ybarra Jr.

ART 31A - Modernism C with Sami Siegelbaum

ART 31A - Modernism A with Sami Siegelbaum

Presentations & Publications

2020

Visiting Artist Lecture (Online), UCLA Summer Session

2015

"Naming a Radical Queer Girl Tumblr Aesthetic,” in collaboration with Alicia Eler. .dpi Feminist Journal of Art & Digital Culture.

On Returning Home and Works in Progress: A Conversation with Bukola Koiki,” ART21 Magazine

2014

Mixed Remixed Festival, Featured Reader. Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

Awards

2016

Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Program, UCLA

2014

Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio - Excellence in Visual Art Grand Award

Affiliations

2017 - 2021

College Art Association

2014 - present

Phi Beta Kappa Society

Other Work

2019-20

Life Drawing Model, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

2015-16

Life Drawing Model, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

2014

Studio Assistant, Lyle Ashton Harris Studio, New York, NY