Brooklyn, New York, United States
I am an art historian, editor, curator, writer, researcher, educator, and former ballet and contemporary dancer based in New York. I joined The Joan Mitchell Foundation as Program Manger for Artist Legacy & Engagement in 2026. From 2020-2025, I was a Curator and Head of Program Research and Development at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought in New Orleans, Louisiana--a contemporary art organization committed to art, artists, and writers of the diaspora. Projects included the co-curating the first posthumous retrospective and print monograph of the Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard, 'Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN' with Andrea Andersson for the Museo Tamayo in Mexico and the Center for Art, Research and Alliances in NY (2024-2025); the exhibition 'Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul,' co-curated with Andrea Andersson for Art + Practice in Los Angeles and the St. Claude Gallery at the University of New Orleans (2023) and the accompanying print publication 'I Will Keep My Soul' co-imprinted with Rivers, Siglio Press, and the California African American Museum in LA; the exhibition 'Troy Montes Michie: Rock of Eye,' co-curated with Andrea Andersson for the California African American Museum in LA and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston (2022); the exhibition 'Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind,' co-curated with Andrea Andersson, for MASS MoCA in North Adams (2021); and the 2021 Atlanta Biennial, 'Of Care and Destruction,' for the Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia (2021). Before my appointment at Rivers, I was a Professorial Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at American University in Washington, DC (2018-2021), and an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Writing at the University of Tennessee (2015-2018). I have published on the work of Tina Girouard, Helen Cammock, Crow artist Wendy Red Star, painter Mequitta Ahuja, photographer Vesna Pavlović, and Soheila Sokhanvari. I also work regularly as an art critic and essayist for publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Daily Serving, and BURNAWAY.org. I received an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Award for 'Short-Form Writing' in 2017 for my body of work on artists working in the Southeastern US and have been nominated for The Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism three times.