I firmly believe in the functions of portraiture, storytelling and the supernatural. The orality of my Nigerian and African American heritage has encouraged an interest in conduits, channels, modes of communication and how they contribute to culture and identity. I remain an artist that prefers to tell stories on multiple platforms; employing sculpture, performance and writing in my lifelong engagement with photography. By Illuminating spaces just out of view, I seek to prompt a further investigation into how one perceives their surroundings/place in time.
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Education
Yale University, MFA
Howard University, BA
Solo Exhibitions
Sister Gaze: The Instant Archive, Nous Tous Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2020
Show Me The Light, Superposition Gallery at 1-54 Art Fair, Harlem, NY, 2023
Selected Group Exhibitions
Love Letter to LA, Superposition at Phillips, Los Angeles, CA 2023
Freedom, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY 2023
Between the Self and its True Home, The New Wight Biennial, UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, CA 2022
The dark, too, blooms and sings, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA 2022
Resilience, Hamptons Benefit for Eastville Historical Society, Superposition Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY 2022
Staring at the Sun, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY, 2022
Romance, Action, Mystery, Yale MFA Photography Thesis Show, New Haven, CT, 2022
Brought It Home, Yale MFA at the African American Cultural House, New Haven, CT, 2022
10268#, Yale School of Art Second Year Show, New Haven, CT, 2021
No Masters, Yale School of Art First Year Show, New Haven, CT, 2020
We Are More Than a Moment, Gallery 51 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, online, 2020
More Than You Know, Parish Gallery, Washington, DC, 2008
Awards & Fellowships
California Arts Council, Emerging Artist, Los Angeles County Grantee, 2023
Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist, Los Angeles Grantee, 2020
Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, 2021