EDUCATION
2024 MFA: The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2022 BFA: University of Ottawa, ON
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2024 Teaching Assistant at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Course Title: Oil Painting
2023 Teaching Assistant at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago Course Titles: Repertoire •Oil Painting •Fashion–Sewing Techniques: Fundamentals •Fashion Construction
2023 Classroom Assistant at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago Course Titles: Color Theory •Fashion Studio
2022 Live Interactive Painting at The Drake Hotel, Toronto
2021 Mural Artist at The University of Ottawa
2021 Free Lance Graphic Designer at The University of Ottawa
ACHIEVEMENTS
2024 Odyssey Travel Grant Award
2023 Eco Echo: Voices from the Past Proposal 3D signage project: Made it to the 2nd round for the World Trade Center, New York (One of 5 artists selected)
2022 Suzzane Rivard-Le Moyne Award
2021 Emerging Artists to Watch, Online edition, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 From Blue, to Bright, Fourtunehouse Art Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Pictures Of Nothing, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2023 Dopamining, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2023 Summer Group Show, Gallery Henoch, Chelsea, NY
2023 Embodied Knowledge, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2023 Black Heritage Month, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
2023 Black and White, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2023 Intense Tactile, Online Edition, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
2023 Color, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Perennial Hug, North Shore Gallery, Glenview, IL
2022 Annual December Juried Show, SOAG, Ithaca, NY
2022 101, Base Space (SAIC), Chicago, IL
2022 2nd Annual Juried Show, Art Gallery of Mississauga
2022 How I Love You, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2022 Summer Lounge, Court Tree Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2022 People Patterns, Gallery 115, Ottawa, ON
2022 The Pique spring edition, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2021 Visual voices, Online Edition, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
2021 Le Mapping, Gallery 115, Ottawa, ON
2019 Portrait Plates, Gallery 115, Ottawa, ON
PUBLICATIONS
New American Paintings, No. 165, MFA Annual Issue
Spaces of Relevance, https://tv1.bell.ca/fibetv1/shows/spaces-of-relevance
Artists Seek The Knowledge Within, https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/ely_center_embodied_knowledge
Vogue Forces of Fashion, https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/inside-forces-of-fashion-2023
