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