CV
Education
2025 MFA Candidate, Literary Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI
2014 BA in English: Creative Writing, University Of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
awards & grants
2023 USA Fellow
2021 Bakers Artist Award presented by Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance
2020 Best Art Platform Award for as they lay presented by Baltimore Magazine
2019 Artist of the Year Award given by Baltimore City LGBTQ Affairs & Commission
2018 Ruby Artist Project Grant given by the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance
2016 Best Live Act given by Baltimore City Paper for “Best Of”
Best Party for Kahlon given by Baltimore Magazine
Grit Fund Grant, the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, grant for Kahlon
2014 Best Party for Kahlon given by Baltimore City Paper for “Best Of”
Best Renaissance Man given by Baltimore City Paper for “Best Of”
Residencies
2022 Making Home, Visiting Artist Residency hosted by Brown Arts Institute, Brown University
2019 Black Artists Retreat hosted by Theaster Gates
2018 Music Residency at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
Baltimore Artist Retreat by The Deutsch Foundation
RBMA Bass Camp at Bonnaroo by Red Bull Music Academy
music projects
2019 FIYAH!!!
2016 Mongo
2014 Infinity Epiphanies
ALREADY
2013 Push & Slay
2012 Invictos
sound design/sound art
2023 The Culture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2021 weighted sky, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Curatorial/Cultural Work/Art Projects
2021 Soft & Solid: Fugitive Harmonies in Pursuit of Home, as they lay, Athens Biennale
2020 the softer i feel the freer i be, virtual exhibition, as they lay, Baltimore Museum of Art
2019 as they lay, a curatorial project based platform, Founder
2017 Proximity to Dead Skin, EMP Collective, Baltimore, MD
Brown Paper Zine Fair, Eubie Blake Center, Baltimore, MD
2016 Kahlon: Mini Music Fest, The Crown, Baltimore, MD
Multimedia Presentation, I’m Alive, The Crown, Baltimore, MD
Multimedia Community Block party, People 4 People, Baltimore, MD
Multimedia Presentation, The Ointment, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Reading Exhibition, Scriptures, The Word; Activating Text as Liberation, Otion Front Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2014 (2014 - 2017) Community-based Music and Art Show Series, Kahlon, Baltimore, MD
media work
2017 Podcast, drumBOOTY, Founder and Host, Baltimore, MD
lectures/panels/workshops
2021 Lecture + Discussion, Defining a Space and Agency for Marginalized Artist, hosted by The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
2020 Guest Lecturer, Where You From? Baltimore Hip Hop, hosted by Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Lecture, Artist Roundtable (Art as Activism I: Music/Gender/Sexuality/Identity) hosted by the Music Department at Towson University
2019 Panel, Become Again: Affirming Spaces, hosted by Curatorial Practice MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Music Production Workshop, Pushing Into The Future of Club Music, hosted by VANs, Washington, D.C.
2017 Artist Talk, In Conversation with Abdu Ali, hosted by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2016 Panel, People of Color in DIY, MacRock Festival, Harrisonburg, VA
2015 Panel, Bridging the Gap of Disparities in the Baltimore Art Scene hosted by Art-Part’heid, Baltimore, MD
Presentation, Do The Right Thing, for The Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
writings
2021 Op - Ed, A Conversation with featured artist s.e.a., Little Patuxent Review
2020 Interview, A Little Tenderness with Tschabalala Self, Office Magazine
Interview, Artist Theresa Chromati on Complexity, Intuition, and Public Art, Pin Up Magazine
2018 Poetry, A Chipping Hammer, Niijournal, London, UK
Poetry, I Know How God Speaks, Niijournal, London, UK
Op - Ed, Body Play, Art Papers Magazine
2016 Essay, Looking for Black Art in Baltimore, Conversations With Joyce J. Scott & Theresa Chromati, Art Papers Magazine
Select group exhibitions
2019 Mickalene Thomas: A Moment’s Pleasure, Baltimore Museum of Art
Select musical performances
2020 Performance, Singulis • Et • Simul, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati, Ohio
2019 Music Performance, Culminating Monument Quilt Display, The National Mall, Washington D.C.
Music Performance, Boiler Room, Virtual
Music Performance, Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, PA
Music Performance, Trauma Bar, Berlin
Music Performance, Fuchs2, Prague
2018 DJ Performance, United States of Bass, Red Bull Music, Philadelphia, PA
Music Performance, Art After Hours: Afropolitanism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Balt, MD
Music Performance, Session Sundays, MoMa PS1, Queens, NY
Music Performance, Millennium Stage Series, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
2017 Music Performance, Génériq Festival , Mulhouse, France
Music Performance, Hip Hopsession at Pôle Etudiant, Nantes, France
Music Performance for Subbacultcha Magazine at s105, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Music Performance, Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway
2016 Music Performance, I’m Alive, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Reading, Tender FM x BALTI GURLS, The Crown, Baltimore, MD
Music Performance, Renne Fayre, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Music Performance, Summer Music Series, Holding SpaceS, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY
2015 Music Performance, Via Fest, Pittsburgh, PA
Performance Art, Borders, Boundaries, & Barricades presented by LabBodies, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD