St. Lucia, Jamaica, & Barbados, W.I.
working in S.F. Bay Area
Exhibitions
2023
Group Exhibition | Our Mothers, Ourselves - Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco | April - May
2018
Three Person Exhibition | Athor/ity: Her Story, Her Power - Evergreen Valley College Art Gallery, San Jose | March - April
2017
Group Exhibition | Dia De Los Muertos Collaboration with Carmina Eliason – SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco | August – November
Group Exhibition | The Black Woman is God– SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco | June – August
Group Exhibition | Crop Up - 3rd St Village, San Francisco | April - May
2016
Two Person Exhibit with Jay Ruland | MOWI - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Library, San Jose | June - August
Group Exhibition | Night Light - SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco | June
Group Exhibition | The Black Woman is God– SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco | June – August
2015
Making a Scene: 50 Years of Alternative Bay Area Alternative Spaces – SOMArts Gallery | July 9th – August 20th
Strange Paradise: National Juried Exhibition – First Street Gallery New York, New York | June 27th – July 18th
Natural Extraction – WORKS Gallery | May 1st – 23rd
San Jose State University Graduate Photography Students – Rayko | May 14th – June 19th
Lift Off – Art Ark Gallery | May 1st – 18th
Divergence: Emerging Legacies – De Young Museum | April 24th – 26th
Photo Alchemy – Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery | March 4th – April 19th
MOWI: Legends & Myths – Stories from the Indigenous Peoples – Gallery 3, San Jose State University | March 1st – March 5th
MOWI: Legends & Myths – Stories from the Indigenous Peoples – Herbert Sanders Gallery, San Jose State University | March 1st – March 5th
MOWI: Legends & Myths – Stories from the Indigenous Peoples – Black Gallery, San Jose State University | March 1st – March 5th
MOWI: Invasive/Native – West Indian Botanica – Black Gallery, San Jose State University | February 9th – February 19th
2014
The More the Merrier – Art Ark Gallery | Novermber 7th – December 5th
Photography Now? – California Polytechnic State University | October 3rd – November 1st
Culture Retention Evolution Dissolution: A critical Study through West Indian Botanica – San Jose State University | August 25th – September 2nd
Emerging Artists Exhibition – California State University East Bay | March 11th – April 10th
California Dreamin’ – Marin Community Foundation | February 5th – May16th
Bodies – North Seattle Community College| February 20th – March 31st
MFA Showcase – San Jose State University | February 10th – 14th
2013
Cultural Synthesis – Installation | November 4th – 8th
Cultural Displacement – Installation | September 3rd – 20th
It’s Only Natural – Linus Galleries | July 26th – August 4th
Men - Linus Galleries | April 29th – May 29th
Interiors and Exteriors – De Young Museum | April 19th
Women – Linus Galleries | April 3rd – May 3rd
Six – Herbert Sanders Gallery | February 4th – 8th
Tango and the Modern Nude – Art Ark Gallery | February 1st – 15th
2012
West Indian Child - Installation | November 19th – 21st
Stark – San Jose State University | September 17th – 20th
Out of State – WORKS Gallery | May 24th – June 24th
Photo Alchemy – Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery | May 3rd – June 17th
Body – Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition | March 19th – 23rd
Musings – Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition | March 19th – 23rd
One Of Many – Herbert Sanders Gallery | February 6th – 10th
2011
Black & White – Collaborative Exhibition with Ryan Kalem | October 17th – 21st
Education
2015
MFA Photography
San Jose State University
2012
BFA Magna Cum Laude
Photography
San Jose State University
2012
BFA Magna Cum Laude
Pictorial Art
San Jose State University
2007
Associate Degree
Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations CAPE
Harrison College, Barbados, W.I.
2005
CXC Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate CSEC
Queen’s College & Harrison College, Barbados, W.I.
Publications
2015
Westin, Monica. ““Making a Scene: 50 Years of Alternative Bay Area Spaces” at SOMArts." Artforum.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 July 2015.
MFA Now, Archive Project / Juried Exhibition, 2015
2014
Cal Poly's University Art Gallery exhibits modern photography with vintage feel in Photography Now. (2014, October 2). The New Times, Volume 29, Issue 10, 40
MFA Now, Archive Project / Juried Exhibition, 2014
SJSU Humanities & the Arts Promotional Video, Photography
“Here & There,” BIM: Arts for the 21st Century, Vol 6, 2014, 40
2013
MFA Now, Archive Project / Juried Exhibition, 2013
Linus Art Galleries Online Exhibition, “Men - Accepted Artists Slideshow”,
Linus Art Galleries Online Exhibition, “Women - Accepted Artists Slideshow”
2011
The San Jose State Photography Guild 2012, “Light Leak”, Jostens Press, 2011, 26-27
Grants
& Awards
2013
UWI (Cave Hill) Co-operative Credit Union Post Graduate Degree Scholarship
2013
Violet Speddy Scholarship
2012
Tower Foundation Scholarship
2012
California Urban Art & Design Scholarship
2010-2012
SJSU Dean’s Honour Student, Overall GPA- 3.73 | Department GPA – 3.8
2006-2007
Senior Art Student Recognition Award, Harrison College, Barbados