ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice as a multi-media artist, filmmaker, writer, and curator is grounded in the personal, socio-political, historical, and cultural rubrics of exile, memory, colonialism, and migration, shaped by my positionality as a queer person of Afropean and Caribbean heritage. I was born on Petite Martinique (the smallest sister island of Grenada), situated in the Grenadines between Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Petite Martinique and neighboring Carriacou share intertwined histories of seafaring, fishing, boatbuilding, agriculture, and traditional rituals. The islanders carry embodied memories of these practices and of their Creole heritages, rooted in African, French, and Scottish ancestries, expressed through music, dance, ceremony, and craft.
Since my earliest years growing up on the islands, my imagination has been shaped by these rituals and traditions; nurtured most profoundly by my father and by the generations of shipwrights and seafarers in my family—many of them autodidactic—whose craftsmanship I grew up watching. These influences, and the place I come from, remain a constant presence in my creative practice. Yet what I create, and how I understand culture, history, and representation, are always shifting and do not always align with that particular place or its history. Still, the emotional rupture, longing, and memory tied to my past, and to the place I come from, persist as a strong current; they remain the central locus of my artistic inquiry. This fluidity echoes Édouard Glissant’s notion of “rhizomatic identity” (identity as an ever-branching relation with the Other) and reflects how I experience myself in the world: as someone who has lived and worked across multiple countries.
By blurring the boundaries between memory, personal experience, and the historical archive, my work employs auto-fiction and autobiographical intervention as key methodologies. This hybrid approach allows me the creative freedom to mine and interweave personal and collective memory, history, and politics with speculative reconstruction; the resulting narratives challenge the linear, authoritative accounts often imposed by colonial and postcolonial historiography. My filmmaking and installation practices have thus evolved toward experimental and essayistic forms: modes that facilitate self-narration, critical reflection, and deeper engagement with both individual and collective subjectivities and histories.
Rooted in queer decolonial narratives (particularly those shaped by Caribbean, marginalized, and postcolonial experiences), my practice seeks to question inherited ways of knowing by foregrounding identities, desires, and relations that have long been rendered illegible. I am drawn to the wider imaginative vistas these stories open up, especially when working in the Caribbean. They create a space where counter-histories, myth-making, and alternative modes of remembering can surface, moving freely between fact and fabulation, between documentary impulse and invented memory, what’s more, repositioning the queer body and narratives within broader historiographies.
In my mixed-media paintings, I draw from media images, textual fragments, historical archives, and various forms of ephemera. Through a process of layering, erasure, reworking, and extraction, these materials are transformed; they become recollections of time and place rather than mere “headlines” or remnants of the past. As Rauschenberg (an enduring influence) suggested, the artist’s role is to “be a witness to his time.” I take this seriously: the possible often feels true, and truth itself carries multiple faces and unfinished endings.
My studio functions as an ongoing installation: an evolving exhibition of memory, research, and projection. Thematically interconnected materials remain on view as a mode of daily meditation and inspiration (newspaper clippings; poetry; music; found objects; handwritten notes). Together, they form a living archive that continuously shapes and expands the work.
Education, curation, and community-building have become central to my practice. Through transnational pedagogical projects, research-driven exhibitions, interventions, and collaborations across Grenada, Scotland, England, and the African diaspora, I engage archives and histories through collective inquiry and intergenerational storytelling.
This commitment also shapes my role as founder and creative director of the Nova Frontier Film Festival and Lab. Over the past eight years, the festival has become a vital hub for artists and filmmakers from marginalized communities to incubate and launch new works, engage in critical, timely conversations, cultural exchange, and creative cross-fertilization. Together, these efforts reflect my broader vision: creating spaces where new relationships, ideas, and imaginaries can take root.
SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - October 27th - May 2026 — Africana Americanxs In Transit Across the Black Kairibe — Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2025 — July 1st - August 4th — Colonial Imaginary - Glasgow Print Studio, Scotland — Solo Exhibition.
2025 — June 3rd - July 15th - Homo Sargassum Exhibition - Oceanic Month - United Nations, New York
2025 - May 8th - May 11th - 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, NY
2025 - May 3rd - Oct 31st — Palimpsests… Paxton House - Scotland — Solo Exhibition
2024 - Nov 2nd - Aug 2025 — Making Home — Smithsonian Design Triennial — Exhibiting with Balck Artists + Designer Guild (BADG)
2024 - Sept 26th - 27th — March 2025, Homo Sargassum Exhibition, FSU’s Museum Of Fine Arts, Florida
2024 - Greatness Reveal: The Art of African Americans from the Butler Collection, Curated by Dr. Louis Zona and Dee Banks, The Butler Institute of Art, Ohio
2024 - Seeing Is Realizing There Is Always More to See, curated by Sharon Kendrick, The Elizabeth Foundation For The Arts, New York
2024 - I Threw Myself in A Concrete Mixer - Gallatin Galleries, New York University
2023 – A League Of Nations, Art Students League, curated by Ksenia Nouril, PhD, New York
2023 – Cugoano 250: Visualising Britain’s Black Past, curated by Ekow Eshun, Saint James Church, Piccadilly, London
2023 - Invisible Bodies, The HUB-Robeson Galleries, curated by the Border Gallery and Emireth Herrera Valdés, Penn State
2023 – Eulogies and Palimpsests, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio — Solo Exhibition
2023 – New Voices from Maine in American Art, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine
2022 – Eulogies, Moss Galleries, Portland, Maine — Solo Exhibition
2022 – Palimpsests: Tales Spun from Sea and Memories, 59th Venice Biennale - Grenada National Pavilion
2021 - The Ocean and Interpreters, Curated by Caryl Lvrisse-Crochemar and Takamori Nobuo, Hong Gah Museum Taipei, Taiwan
2019 – Second Eulogy: Mind the Gap, 58th Venice Biennale - Grenada National Pavilion
2019 – Ebsploitation, curated by Ebony L Haynes, Martos Gallery, New York
2017 – Divided States of America, curated by Alison M. Gingers, Stuart Comer, and Ariella Wolens, LGBTQ Center, New York
2017 – New Yorkers Against Guns, curated by Candice Fortin, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, New York
2017 – Queer Geographies, Bric Arts, New York
2016 – Truth is Contrary, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York — Solo Exhibition
2015 – Fin de Dialogue, Camac Centre D’Art, France — Solo Exhibition
2014 – National Academy Museum and School, New York
2013 – The Self/The Other, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York — Solo Exhibition
2010 - Mythos - Andre Zarre Gallery, New York - Solo Exhibition
FILM, PRODUCTION DESIGN, CURATION
2025 - Queer Diasporic Horizon, Detroit Queer Biennial - Curator
2023 – Unmoored: Deconstructing The Narratives of Self/The Other, Moss Galleries, Portland, Maine - Curator
2016 – Lyle Ashton Harris : Uma Vez, Uma Vez, 2016 Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil - Art Director
2017 – We All Stumble, film commissioned by the Robin Hood Foundation, directed by Michael Marantz - Production Designer
2016 – Verizon: Innovative Learning, Directed by Michael Marantz - Production Designer
2015 – Tri, feature film directed by Jai Jamison -Production Designer
2015 – Mary Komosa: City of My Dreams, music video, Warner Music, Inc. (MTV European Music Award for Art Direction and Design) - Production Designer
2014 – Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, documentary directed by Thomas Allen Harris - Production Designer
2012 – Robbery on The Champs Elysées, directed by Donna Vermeer - Production Designer
2004 – A Lover's Discourse, adapted from text by Roland Barthes, directed by Donna Vermeer - Production Designer
RECENT LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, & SCREENINGS
2025 - October 14th 17th — Africana Americanxs In Transit Across the Black Kairibe — Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2025 - Art, Design, and the Palimpsest of History and Memories, Pratt Institute, New York
2025 - The Annual Dimatteo Lecture - The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (OML)
2024 - Homo Sargassum Symposium Exhibition, FSU’s Museum Of Fine Arts, Florida
2023 - Encountering Children of Empires, Culzean Castle, Scotland - Key Note Speaker/Symposium
2023 - Palimpsest: The Journeys of 18th-Century Abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano, Georgian House, Edinburgh, Scotland - Screening and Panel
2023 - Art, Identity and the Global South, Cleveland Art Institute, Ohio - Screening and Panel
2023 - Material and Memory, The Art Students League, New York, Screening and Lecture
2022 - At Home: Artists in Conversation, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut - Screening and talk
2022 - Transiting The Queer Uncommons, York Unversity, Summer Institute, Toronto, Canada – Key Note Speaker/Symposia
2021 - Master of Fine Art Lecture Series, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York - Screening and Lecture
2021 - Second Eulogy: Mind The Gap, Brooklyn Museum, New York - Screening and Panel
2020 - Narratives of the Diaspora, NYU Center for the Humanities, New York - Screening and Panel
2019 - Second Eulogy: Mind The Gap, The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Screening and Panel
COLLECTION
Brooklyn Museum, NY
The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
The Butler Institute Of American Art, Ohio
Farnsworth Museum, Maine
National Academy Museum, New York
Art Students League of NY
GRANTS & AWARDS
2024 — Creative Capital
2022 — 59th Venice Biennale - Grenada National Pavilion
2022 — Ford Foundation (Just Films)
2022 — Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2019 — 58th Venice Biennale - Grenada National Pavilion
2016 — Steward Family Foundation, Inc
2015 — Ténot Fondation Fellowship, Paris, France.
2015 — MTV European Music Video Award for Art Direction and Design
ARTIST RESIDENCY/FELLOWSHIP
2025 — The Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education
2024 — Terra Foundation, the Center for Black European Studies, and the Atlantic, Carnegie Mellon University
2023 — Culzean Castle/National Trust for Scotland
2022 — York University, Summer Fellowship
2015 — Artist in Residence, Camac Centre D'Art, Paris, France
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & JOURNALS
2025 --- Africana Americanxs In Transit Across the Black Kairibe, Howard University - Exhibition Catalog
2025 — Homo Sargassum, State University's Museum of Fine Arts (FSU MoFA) - Exhibition Catalog
2023 — NKA Journal Of Contemporary African Art, Duke University Press
2022 — Milk Of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale Catalog
2021 — L’Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea
2019 — May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale Catalog
TEACHING APPOINTMENT
2020 — Present - Lecturer, Directing and Projection Design, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
2019 — Present - Visiting Lecturer, NYU Steinhardt, Studio Art, New York, NY
EDUCATION
1995—1997 - Art Students League of New York, Studio Art
1998—2000 - National Academy Museum and School, Studio Program, NY
2004— Sorbonne, Paris, France, Languages et Civilizations
2005—2007, New School University, Media and Film Studies
2008—Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Summer Intensive, Film Directing