My artwork reinterprets African diaspora artifacts and archives, examining the historical forces that continue to shape conceptions of the Black body — as both autonomous subject and anonymous object. In a more literal sense I make physical, dimensional, figurative sculptures that move between representation and abstraction, mediating conditions of the past, present, and a speculative future.
My work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Bronx Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Barbican Galleries, London, among others. Recent exhibitions include Form/Reform at the Brattlesboro Museum, The Promise at the Speed Museum of Art, and Past as Prologue at the National Academy of Design.
I have been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the US Fulbright Program to Ghana — a formative experience that deepened my engagement with African diaspora histories. I have held residencies at Instituto Sacatar, Art Omi, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Chelsea College of Art, London. My work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Hyperallergic, and Art Papers and I have published writings for The Brooklyn Rail and British Art Studies. Since 2004 I have been a member of the faculty at the City University of New York.