Writings
Most recent:
Patron Magazine Essay: Art Influencers
Catalog Essay: Richard Prince: Selections from The Karpidas Collection
Catalog Essay: Bitter Waters Sweet
Art in America: Essay on Julie Speed
Nasher Magazine: Sound As Suture
Art in America-Cover story Interview with artist Jammie Holmes
A collection of writings can be found here.
Education
2003 B.F.A. Studio Art, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
1998 A.A. Fine Art, Tarrant County College, Hurst, TX
Professional Experience
2021 - Present - Chief Curator, Houston Museum of African American Culture
2019 - 2021 News Editor, Glasstire Magazine
2009 - 2019 Curator, Art Corridor Galleries, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
2023
In Conversation with William Kentridge, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Juror, Art At A Time Like This, Houston, TX
Juror, Nest Heritage Craft Prize, Dallas, TX
Announced Curator, CAM Perennial, Houston and San Antonio, TX
Juror, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2022
Fotofest, In Conversation With Mark Sealy of Autograph, London
Panel Discussion: Witnessing Worlds in Transition, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Juror, Voertman Competition, University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries, Denton, TX
Panel Moderator, Noor Images: Agency and Authorship: Approaches to Visual Storytelling
2021
Juror, Tito’s Prize, Austin, TX
Juror, Society of Photographic Ed
Juror, CADD + Maddrey Prize, Dallas, TXucators Member Exhibition
Art 101, Meet the Muralists, Panel Moderator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
2019
Teaching Artist, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Teaching Artist, Teen Artist Program, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Guest Artist, University of Texas at Dallas ATEC
2018
Curator’s Talk, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
Pecha Kucha presentation, American Institute of Architects Conference, Fort Worth,TX
Pecha Kucha presentation, Design Society, Dallas,TX
2015 -2017
Various programs, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, Kimbell Art
Museum Fort Worth, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, University of Texas at Arlington,
Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, University of North Texas, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, TX, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, Sam Houston State
University, and Rachovsky Warehouse, Dallas, TX. Full list on request.
Selected Publications
2022
Richard Prince and the Death of Photography, Catalog Essay, Karpidas Collection, Dallas
Letitia Huckaby: Boundless, Catalog Essay, Art League Houston
Hello Cruel World: Julie Speed’s Paintings of Dark Imaginings, Art in America, October 24, 2022
Art as Social Practice: Technology For Change, Book Chapter, Routledge
Sound as Suture, Nasher Magazine, Spring, 2022
Jammie Holmes on Painting His Hurt and His Hope, Art in America, November
2021
Too Much of a Good Thing: “30 Americans” at Arlington Museum of Art, Glasstire, June 3
2018
Kamrooz Aram at the Modern Art Musem of Fort Worth, April 23
Trio, Ellen Carey, Rania Matar, and Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas, January 24, Fort Worth Weekly
Artist Residency Programs
2023
Artist in Residence, The ION, Houston, TX
2019
Carter Community Artist, 2019, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort, Worth, TX
2017
Critic-in-Residence, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU, Fort Worth, TX
Artist-in-Residence, Stir Crazy Baked Goods- August
Dallas Museum of Art Visiting artist program April 2017 – June 2017
2014
Artist in Residence, April 2014 – April 2015, Centraltrak, UT Dallas Residency, Dallas, TX
Public Art Projects
Featured Artist, ArtPrize (2023)
Ongoing East Rosedale Street (I-35 – 287), Fort Worth, TX, 2014 – 2019
Modern Billings Artist Billboard Project, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
2017
Coombs Creek Park, Dallas, TX, 2015 – 2016
2014-2017
The Ark on Noah St NEA Funded “Activating Vacancy“Initiative, 10th St.
Historic District, Dallas, TX
2014
Dear House NEA Funded “Activating Vacancy“Initiative, 10thSt. Historic District, Dallas, TX
Selected Exhibitions (* Solo shows marked by asterisk)
2023
The SpLaVCe Program, ION Building, Houston, TX
The SpLaVCe Program, Marfa, TX
2022
*Christopher Blay: Paintings, Prints, and Collages, 2011 – 2022, The Carillon
Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
*Christopher Blay: SpLaVCe Ship, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Learning to Draw, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
*Future Power: Traps and Targets, Hotel St. George, Marfa, TX
2021
Amarillo Biennial, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
*Power, Traps, and Targets: New Work by Christopher Blay, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2019
Pop-Up Locker Exhibition, University of Texas at Dallas
2017
Texas Biennial 17, Big Medium, Austin, TX
*KWTXR UNT on the Square gallery, Denton, TX
2016
*KWTXR South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
The ArtSmarter Prize, Frank Artsmarter in collaboration with Glasstire Magazine, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Prox.y Grackle pop up gallery, Fort Worth, TX
*Cos Niggers Can’t Breathe, Tarrant County College, Northwest, Fort Worth, TX
Selected Curated Exhibitions
2023
Johnny Floyd: GODBODY, Houston Museum of African American Culture
El Franco Lee II: Mid-Career Survey, Houston Museum of African American
Culture
Evita Tezeno: Out of Many, Houston Museum of African American Culture
Ellsworth Ausby: Odyssey, Houston Museum of African American Culture
2022
Negative Women: Four Photographers Questioning Boundaries, Houston Museum of African American Culture
African Cosmologies: Redux (co-curated with Fotofest), Houston Museum of African American Culture
David-Jeremiah: Early Career Survey, Houston Museum of African American Culture
2019
Lillian Young: Redaction, Arlington, TX
2018
Moosh! Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
The YPs: New Photography in Fort Worth, Gallery 76102, Fort Worth, TX
Black Borders: Artists of Color, Reframing CultureFort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Art Collectives: 1990-2015: F6 Collective, Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
Riley Holloway: The Artists, Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
Fort Worth Art Collectives: 1990-2015: Studio 4, Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
2017
Fort Worth Art Collectives: 1990-2015: Grand Studios, Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
The Pits, Joanne Cervantes, Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
Ya Casi:Paintings by Erika Duque, Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
Black Faces and White Walls, Rosie Lee, Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
2016
Candice Hicks: Read Me Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
Space Puppet Relay Team, Nick Bontrager, Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
Adam Palmer: Drawings and PrintsArt Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX
2015
Vicki Meek “Blues Talk: It a’int no Chit-Chat”Art Corridor II, TCC Southeast, Arlington, TX