(b. 1997)
Works between Los Angeles, CA and Paris, France
They are represented by Petrine, Paris
Education
2031 PhD, Culture & Theory, University of California, Irvine
2024 MFA, New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019 BFA, Photography & Media, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 Bodenrader, Chicago, IL, USA (upcoming)
2025 The Virtual Estate of Elena Becher, Liste Art Fair Basel with Petrine, Basel, Switzerland
2025 The Sphinx, Petrine, Paris, France, with Graham Wiebe
2024 The Virtual Estate of Roy Hoffman, Timeshare, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023 Cimiteria, Petrine, Paris, France
2022 Does One Write About An Encounter With Nothing, Jargon Projects, Chicago, IL, USA
Group Exhibitions
2025 *NEW* Cosy 1 bed home | Shoreditch | Long stays., Project Space, London, UK
2024 Spectral Fine Arts Trust, Final Hot Desert, London, UK
2023 Ballast: Recent Aesthetic Practices Responding to Anti-Blackness, Barbara and Art Culver Museum, Riverside, CA, USA
2023 Tabernacle, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 Cassandra Press : On Self-Defense – A Cassandra Press Reader In Action, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2021 Graphite Journal XII, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020 James Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
2020 ARCHIVE MACHINES, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018 Homecoming, National Occupancy, Public Storage L.A., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Collections
Collection Lafayette Anticipations — Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris
Publications
2023 The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse, published by Petrine, Paris, France
2022 Black Tensors: Collected Writings on Afropessimist Semiotics, published by Active Cultures, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 An Ossuary for the Hunted: Notes on Speech, Anticipation, Christian Animality, and the Uses of Hounds in an Anti-Black World, Cassandra Press
- 2021 Dark Shimmers: A Politics of Oscillation, Hammer Museum, Graphite Journal 12th Annual Publication, “Attention/Atencion”,
Lectures/Panel Discussion
- 2024 Leviathan Playground: A Cassandra Press Workshop led by Boz Deseo Garden and Charlotte Zhang, Heidi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2023 Reading, The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse (Introduction), tabernacle, FOCA
- 2023 Panel Discussion, Active Culture’s Epistemic Circularity, The Garden Series
- 2022 UC Irvine’s 16th Annual Comparative Literature Conference: Consummatum Est; Discourses of the End, Drift & Pile: Ash, Antiblackness, and Interpretation, University of California Irvine
- 2020 Panel Discussion, Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery , Conversations with the Artists
- 2020 Q & A, Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Teaching Experience
- 2023 Seminar, Living Hell: On Anti-Blackness, Psychoanalysis, and Capitalism
- 2023 Seminar, Film in/as Faith: Film Theory and Philosophy (with TJ Shin)
- 2022 Seminar, Animacies: Environmental Inhumanities Through Critical Race, Disability, & Queer Studies (with TJ Shin, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, and Cielo Saucedo)