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Education
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder Colorado, B.F.A
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A.
Awards, Scholarships, Grants
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-Martha Kate Thomas Fund for Artists, Boulder, Colorado
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-Juror Award, Axis Gallery 13th Annual Juried Competition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California
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-Presidential Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
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-Barbara DeGenevieve Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
-Educational Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Selected Exhibitions
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2025
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-The Body Imagined: Figurative Art in the Bank of America Collection, Mattatuck Museum, CT
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-Paglees: Between Reason and Madness, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
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-Atra, Hunt Gallery Webster University, Webster Groves, MO
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-TBD-solo Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn,NY
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-TBD-solo East Window Gallery, Boulder, CO
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2024
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-Artist Panel, Center for South Asia at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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-Artist Talk, Center for South Asia at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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-Between Reason and Madness, South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL
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-What Is Seen and Unseen, South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL
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-Diasporic Solidarities, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston, South Carolina
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-Fracture/Repair, Art Speak, Vancouver, BC
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2023
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-Item Number, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
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-Artist Talk, Winnigstad Theater, Portland, Oregon
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-Artist Talk, Denver Art Museum
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-Tracing Roots, Les Iles Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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-Time To Heal (March For The Ancestors)Amsterdam, Netherlands
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-"Re-Shaping The Sugar" Whitebox Gallery, New York, New York
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-In My Home Clothes, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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-Sense Of Brown, CBK Exhibitions, Netherlands
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2022
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-Lambi Kahani, Rule Gallery, Marfa, TX
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-Bhumi's Daughters, Project For Empty Space, Newark, NJ
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-Migrating Sun, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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-Breathe Into The Past, Colorado Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Co
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-Made in Paint, Golden Art Foundation, New Berlin, NY
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-Ankhlave Garden Project, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
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-Caribbean Visions, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
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2021
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-More is More, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
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-Sonder, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
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-Far and Familiar, Rice Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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-Pelting Mangoes, Artworks Gallery, Loveland, CO.
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-Ankhlave Garden Project, Queens Botanical Gardens, Queens, NY
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-Encounters, Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY
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-Unraveled, Restructured, Revealed, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
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2020
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-Pelting Mangoes, Flsxt Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
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-Material Intentions, Flxst Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
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-The Right To Herself, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado
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2019
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-Home, Is a Place Called Home, Rule Gallery, Denver, Colorado
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-In The Fold, Rule Gallery, Denver, Colorado
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-The New UnNatural, Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois 2019
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2018
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-A Violence, Pulse Art Fair, Miami Beach, Florida
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-A Violence, Project For Empty Spaces, Newark, New Jersey
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-Frame Of Reference, Rule Gallery, Denver, Colorado
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-Axis Gallery 13th Annual Juried Competition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California
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-Contemporary Photography 2008-2018, Site Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
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-Made in Colorado, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, Colorado
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-Mnemonic, H Gallery, Ventura, California
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2017
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-Positive, Baltimore Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
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-EXPO Chicago 2017, Chicago, Illinois
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-MFA Thesis Exhibition-Sullivan Gallery, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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-Blackbox: An Afrotuturist Opus, Sugs Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
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-Artists Exhibit, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California
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2016
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-The Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
-Learning to see Color-Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver, Colorado
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2015
-Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2015, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington Indiana
-Playing With Beauty, Redline Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2014
- Transcendence, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
-Blind Optimism, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
Collections
-Art Institute of Chicago, Photo Department, Chicago, Illinois
-Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Chicago, Illinois
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-Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California
-Special Collections, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
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-Flatten Museum, St. Olaf University, Northfield, MN
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-Bank of America, Charlotte, NC
Selected Publications
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-Book Cover: Rest and Resist, e-book, Yale Books. Image; “Chandika” 2024
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-Journal Cover: Manoa Journal, 2024. Image: “Lalika’s Daydream"
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-Book Cover: book of Poetry, Kaya Press, Image: “Ties That Bind” 2024
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-Caribbean Visions, Katzen Arts Center, Catalogue 2022
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-New American Paintings West 2022
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-Harper's Bazaar, India, Fall 2021
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-Elle India, August, Fall, 2021
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-All She Makes Art and Culture Magazine, 2021
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-Coolitude Vol 2. by Khal Thorabully and Marina Carter, 2021
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-The New Unnatural, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Catalogue, 2019
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-Mnemonic, An International Collection Of Photography, 2018
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-School Of The Art Institute of Chicago Magazine, Fall 2018
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-Axis 13th National Catalogue, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California, 2018
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-School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate Catalogue, 2018
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-Expo Chicago, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art Catalogue, 2017
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-School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Photo Catalogue, Essay by Allison Grant 2017
-School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Photo Catalogue, Essay by Meg Onli 2016
-Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
-School of The Art Institute Library, Chicago, Illinois
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Selected Press/Appearances
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-Podcast: Beyond Beauty with Jacqueline Coffield, Columbia University Libraries
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-Artist Talk, Stanford University, Stanford, Ca
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-Art Panel, Stanford University, Stanford, Ca
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-TBD, masterclass, Portland, Oregon
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-Artist Talk, Portland, Oregon
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-Artist Talk, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co.
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-Artist Talk, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
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-Artist Talk, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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-Artist talk, Columbia College,
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-Art Loft, PBS, Miami, Florida, 2019
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-Artist Talk, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 2019
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-https://www.widewalls.ch/pulse-miami-beach-2018/
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-https://coolhunting.com/culture/pulse-art-fair-play-videos-2018/
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-â€https://theknow.denverpost.com/2018/07/13/made-in-colorado-exhibit-denver/189625/
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-Artist Talk, School Of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2018
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-Panel Discussion, Passing and Crossing, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2017
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-Easy-Netflix, 2nd Season, Chicago, Illinois (2017)
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Residencies/Fellowships Awarded
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-Project For Empty Spaces, Newark, NY 2022
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-McColl Center, Charlote, NC 2021
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-Golden Arts Foundation, New Berlin, NY 2021
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-Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont 2018
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-Fountainhead Residency Fellowship, Miami, Florida 2018
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Organizations
-Parlor Room Visiting Artist Program, School of Art Institute of Chicago 2016-17
-Member of the Month of Photography Denver, Denver, Colorado 2014
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