EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2017. Bachelor of Fine Arts.
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR, 2016. Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA, 2012-2013. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.
Alliance Française de Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2014 - 2016
RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
New York Film Festival Artists Academy, New York, NY, 2019.
La Selva Film Accelerator with Lucrecia Martel, Barcelona, Spain, 2019.
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 2017
SOLO SHOWS
Obsidian, Lyles & King, New York, NY, January 2023
ii-V-I, Chart Gallery, New York, NY, 2021
GROUP SHOWS
Wanda Coleman Songbook by Cauleen Smith, 52 Walker, January 2024
The Rose, The Lumber Room, Portland, OR, July 2023
Artist’s Space, New York, NY, May 2023
Tangible Possibilities, No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2022
If We Never Get Better, Tilt Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 2022
Black Melancholia, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2022
Kickin’ the Can, Drama Club Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2022
I as Other, Lyles & King, New York, NY, 2022
Beneath Tongues, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, 2022
Moveable Image, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, 2022
I Belong to This, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK, 2021
Dreamscapes: Imaginings of a Black Pastoral, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, 2021
The Skin I Live In, Lyles & King, New York, NY, 2021
Live From New York, Helena Anrather, New York, NY, 2021
In a Silent Way, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal, 2018
To Break the Ocean, AC Institute, New York, NY, 2018
Eclipsing, Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL, 2018
Multiple Sides of the Bed, MINKA Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
BFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, 2017
DeNue, SUGS Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2016
Relational Aesthetics of Some Sweet Strangers, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2016
15 (Because We Are Here For the Walls That Say Maybe), Fat City Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2015
Blackness is More Than One Story, Siragusa Gallery - SAIC, 2015
Intersection, Siragusa Gallery - SAIC, 2015
Fresh Juju, Black Harvest Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, 2014
SCAD Foundations Honors Show, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2013
GROUP SCREENINGS
The Get Free Telethon, Red Bull Arts, 2020
New Cinema Club, 2020
Onion City Film Festival, 2019
Ten Toes Down, MoCP Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2018
Sincerely, Yours, Microlight, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
What We Say in Cars, Brooklyn, NY , 2018
Infinity, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
SOLO SCREENINGS
Heat Situated/Necessary Accessories, The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
Tender Noted, Wendy’s Subway, 2022
TOUCH by Sable Elyse Smith, Swiss Institute, 2021
Public Excess Issue No. 1, 2016
MOUTH, SAIC BFAW Publication, 2015
SAIC Photography Department Catalog, 2014 & 2015
Body, Manifold, SUGS Gallery publication c/o Amina Ross, 2015
PERFORMANCES
Genesis Medley, Artist’s Space, New York, NY, 2023
Dreaming Otherwise, Performance Space New York, New York, NY, 2021
To America, Death of Classical, Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, NY, 2020
If the wind were water we’d all be really whet… by Kaleigh Moynihan, Prairie Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2017
The Walk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017
Last Week by Beau O’Reilly, Curious Theatre Branch, Prop Thtr, Chicago, IL, 2017
‘I Can’t Reach the Sugar on My Back’ - An Anti Love Song About Love Songs Made With Butter in My Hands and a Dandelion to My Chin by Shala Miller. Reading, Curious Theatre Branch Rhinofest Vaudeville, Prop Thtr, 2017
The Play by Kayleigh Moynihan, Activate Chicago in Association with the Loop Alliance (Creative Director: Cheryl Pope), 2015
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art
The Akeroyd Collection
Hessel Museum
LECTURES/TALKS/PANELS
Queer Art Prize Panelist, juror, 2020
Intersectionality Critique Panel, panelist, SAIC, 2014 & 2015
ACHIEVEMENTS
Google Image Equity Fellow, 2023
NYFA Artist Fellow, 2023
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship, 2017
Student Leadership Award, SAIC, 2017
Goldman Sachs Scholar, 2015
SAIC Dean’s List for Outstanding Sophomores, 2015
Excellence in Leadership Award, SAIC, 2015
SAIC Merit Scholarship, 2013
SCAD Merit Scholarship, 2012-2013