I am an artist, activist, curator, writer, social ecologist and non-profit computer, website, a/v technical consultant, installation, and art handler committed to building communities and support around social justice, art and activism.  Living on my own at an early age has taught me how to care for myself and others, motivating me to continue to focus on art as a cathartic creative reimagining and a way to shed light on social injustices.  I was a creative director of Empirical Nonsense, a cultural arts space based in the lower east side, and was previously the interim director of the Feature Hudson Foundation, a foundation dedicated to Hudson’s life through his creative contributions and unique vision to the arts and cultural experience as an artist and as the art dealer of Feature Inc. 

I have been a working artist for over 15 years with solo exhibitions at Envoy Enterprises (NYC), Aljira (Newark, NJ), Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles, CA), The Center for Book Arts (NYC), Le Petit Versailles (NYC) and Gene Frankel Theater (NYC).  In 2017, I self-published an artist book edition, breadcrumbs, at MoMA PS1 for Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair with Allied Productions Inc.  I co-developed/ran an art program with Sylvia’s Place shelter for queer trans youth from 2013 - 2017.  This social practice program later evolved into a working collective with numerous exhibitions and institutional support. Previous work focuses on displacement, gentrification, and growing concerns of capitalism through drawings of abandoned places and public signage.  This body of work comes out of my past dedication and work at a housing advocacy organization, Picture the Homeless, previous art and food programs at Sylvia’s Place Emergency Shelter, my own housing situation, and living in New York City.

I also engage in aesthetic philosophical inquiries highlighting the importance of everyday gestures by working with personal archives, relationships of the collection and collectivism to societal consciousness, personal identity and holistic cultural understanding to help develop and preserve shared experiences within queer identity.

This work has been awarded several grants/fellowships from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Open Society Foundation, New York Foundation For the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and The Puffin Foundation.  These projects have also been reviewed in The New York Times, Art In America, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, ArtNEWS, Washington Post, LA Weekly, Huffington Post, BlackBook, among numerous other publications.

My projects bring back art, life, and experiences to something that is inherent in our human condition – the need to share and connect to the deeply personal and transformative - and in that a process of learning, exploring, shifting energies and alternative histories that are experiential and heartfelt.