1958 Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Grows up in Arkansas, Texas, & Florida to retired US Army parents: father is Caucasian, mother is of Chinese & Japanese descent.
1977-1980 Attends University of South Florida, Tampa studying Fine Art and English Literature
1987 Moves to Boston, Massachusetts. Works as a freelance video producer
1993-1994 Attends School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Now Tufts University) Graduates 1994 with Fifth Year Certificate
1994 Moves to New York City
1994 - Present: Divides time between NYC, Shelter Island, NY and Savannah, GA
STATEMENT:
This artist has a responsibility to work as an agent of social change. Art, and particularly photography with its inherent duality of “truth” vs. interpretation, must be rooted in the context of contemporary and historical events, and experience as lived.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
September 23 - January 1, 2023 Color Code, The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
October - December 2022 Just Food. curated by Clover Archer, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
April 2022 Group exhibit. Sulfur Studios Savannah, Ga
October, 2021 Friends of African American Art group show, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
April 18- September 6, 2021 E Pluribus One, The Parrish Museum, Water Mill, NY
August 7, 2020 - January 31, 2021 last meal...one person show, The Parrish Museum, Water Mill, NY
October – November 2020 Friends of African American Art group show, The Jepson Center, Savannah, GA
June 15, 2018 Featured speaker at PechaKucha Night, The Parrish Museum SEE VIDEO HERE
April 28 – May 16, 2018 Altered Egos, Crush Curatorial, Amagansett, NY
August 2016 – January 2017 Artists Choose Artists, The Parrish Museum, NY Selected by Tony Oursler
May 2015 The Gun Show, Senaspace, New York, NY
2013 Guild Hall Members Show, East Hampton, NY Selected Best New Artist by Whitney Museum Curator Elisabeth Sussman
2011 Appetite, The Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science, Tallahassee, FL
Dinner, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY
Small Works, The Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2010 Black Monday, The Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2009 Lots for Sale, Greenport Harbor Gallery, Greenport, NY
2007 Tragedy & Transformation, Lana Santorelli Gallery, Southampton, NY
Artists for Peace, Surface Library, East Hampton, NY
2005 – 2010 Small Works juried exhibitions, The Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2003 last meal… book published by Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine
Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL
1994 New Works, The Alternative Museum New York, NY Curated by Andrew Perchuk
1993 The Gallery at SMFA, Boston, MA
The Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, MA
1980 The UC Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa
Portraits, The Ybor City Gallery
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS + INTERVIEWS:
Conversation with Associate Curator Savannah Petrick, Parrish Museum, November 27, 2020 WATCH HERE
Jyllands-Posten Denmark, article by Uffe Christensen, November 14, 2020
BBC World Service, August 16, 2020 READ HERE
Interview with Sara-Jayne King on Cape Radio, South Africa, August 12, 2020
Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 97, October/November 2020 READ HERE
Wall Street Journal International, August 31, 2020, by Daniel Gauss READ HERE
2015 these chickens, self-published
2010 The Cigar Box Project, self-published
2005 Contemporary Justice Review, Volume 8 Number 3
2004 Quo Magazine, Spain
Max Magazine, Germany
2003 November 27, The East Hampton Star, Review of last meal… by Robert Long
1995 Asian American Journal, New York, NY
1988 Soujourner Magazine, Cambridge, MA
COLLECTIONS:
The Parrish Museum, Water Mill, NY
The Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
The McEvoy Family Foundation
and many private collections.