Exhibitions

Embodiment: Figure in art
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2020
Hidden lives Illuminated
20 animated short films by incarcerated artist,

Co-Director, Eastern State Penitentiary Historical sight, Philadelphia PA
 2019

ABOLITION NOW!
Group exhibition, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA 2019

HypeMan.
Solo exhibition, InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia PA 2019

Discomfort Zones.
Group exhibition, Carroll University, Waukesha WI 2019

GreenPoint Gallery Grand Salon.
Group exhibition , 2nd place , Brooklyn NY 2019

Whitey on the Moon.
Solo Exhibition, InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia PA 2018

Shit Holes.
Le Chapeau Project group exhibition, Philadelphia PA 2018

Bond of knowing.
Group exhibition, Tyler School of art, Philadelphia PA 2018

UnGallery.
Group exhibition, Los Angeles CA 2018

GreenPoint Gallery People’s Choice.
Group exhibition, Brooklyn NY 2018

Consent= Compulsory.
Group exhibition, Channels gallery, Philadelphia PA 2018

Life and Death.
Group exhibition, West Philadelphia PA 2018

Our Black Arts Festival
Group Exhibition, Circle of Hope Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2018

Green Point Galley Grand Saloon
Green Point Gallery, Green Point Brooklyn NY, 2018

All my friends are Dead and Other Fun Stories.
Solo Exhibition/ Dance Party, Higher Grounds. Philadelphia PA 2017

 Jerks Productions Group exhibition.
Tattooed Mom, Philadelphia PA 2016 2018 2019

Dock Street Brewing Co.
Solo Exhibition,
Philadelphia PA 2015

OUTCRY!:
A Popup Exhibition addressing police violence and race relations in America. The African American Museum in Philadelphia, (AAMP), and The First Person Arts Festival, Philadelphia PA 2015

Cedar Park Bar and Kitchen.
 Solo Exhibition, Philadelphia PA, 2015

3rd Street Gallery.
Group exhibition, Philadelphia PA 2015

Crime and Punishment Brewery Co.
Brewerytown Social, Solo Exhibition at Philadelphia PA 2015

'Murica.
Group Exhibition, PhilaMoca, Philadelphia PA 2014

First Thursday
The Toshiro Kaplan Studios, Seattle WA 2012

Education

BA. The Evergreen State College. 2011

Teaching

2018-2019 Co-Teaching Artist, Hidden Lives Illuminated, Eastern State Penitentiary historical site, Philadelphia PA

2017-2018 Applied Behavioral Analysis Counselor, Melmark School, Berwyn PA

2015 Artistic Director, Mastery Charter Shoemaker campus Summer Academy, Philadelphia PA 

2013-2015 Part time Advisor, El Centro De Estudiantes, Philadelphia PA

2012-2013 ABA Behavioral Interventionist, SD Associates, Burlington VT

2010 Team member with Gateways for incarcerated youth, Olympia WA

Speaking

Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF), Keynote Panelist, University of Pennsylvania 2021

Film

We Speak For the Trees, Lorax Coalition, animator, 2021-2022
Lenfest, Media in neighborhoods group (MING), Philadelphia 2021
Hidden Lives Illuminated films (20), Director, Philadelphia 2019

Residencies

Inbreak: Race, faith, and Art, Spring 2022
Highergrounds, Artist in residence, Philadelphia PA, 2016-2020

Awards and Press

2019 “The hardest thing about filming in prison is prison,” Incarcerated filmmakers are showing their work on the walls of Eastern State Penitentiary, Samantha Melamed, The Philadelphia Inquirer

2019 Second place, GreenPoint Gallery January Grand Salon, Brooklyn NY


2018 Citation from the Philadelphia City Council recognizing the artist participating in Le Chapeau Project’s “Shit Holes” exhibition, Philadelphia PA


2018 “Picasso-meets-Basquiat”, The Argonaut, Los Angeles CA

Odds ‘N Ends

Beverage Design
Philadelphia Asian Performing Artist, Philadelphia 2021
Asian Arts Initiative,Philadelphia 2019
Fempire, Philadelphia 2019
Ungallery, LA 2018
Life and Death, Philadelphia 2018
All My Friends are Dead, Philadelphia 2017

Prototyping engineer
John B Henry antique firearms and rare collectables. Philadelphia 2013-2014

Graphic Design
Cutiepie Farm, Philadelphia 2019
The Black Lotus Collective, Seattle WA 2011