C.V

Born Washington, D.C.

Lives and works in Lenapehoking (Philadelphia, PA).


Education

M.A. in Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY | 2023
B.A. in Art, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC | 2015

Select Exhibitions

2026 (Re)Mediating Soils: Field Notes | Hess Gallery, University of Lethbridge, Albert, CA [upcoming]
2025 20th Annual Juried Art Exhibition | William Way LGBTQ+ Community Center, Philadelphia, PA
2025 Open House | Pretty Boy, Philadelphia, PA
2024 Dig Deeper: [some] Art, Science and History of Troy Clay | The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
2021 Take a Number: Artists and Bureaucracy | Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
2021 Left Field v.2 | ACAB, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Perfect Knowledge of the Ground | Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
2019 Natura/Naturans | Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
2019 Transformer’s 16th Annual Silent Auction and Benefit | Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
2018 Land/Trust | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2018 Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence | University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Nydorf’s Gift: Guilford Printmakers 1978-2018 | Founders Gallery, Greensboro, NC
2017 Art in Nature: (Re)Use and Abuse of the Land | Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
2017 Creative Corridor: Artists of the Gateway Arts District | Marlboro Gallery, Largo, MD
2017 Transformer’s 14th Annual Silent Auction and Benefit | Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
2016 Transmogrify | Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC
2015 PITH | Guilford College Senior Art Thesis Exhibition, Founders Gallery, Greensboro, NC.

Talks and Lectures

2026 Artist Talk, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, CA [upcoming]
2025 Panel Discussion, UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies Vol.22 (Below), York University,
virtual
2025 Panel Discussion, Clay from the Ground: Collaborations with the Land, New York State Museum,
Albany, NY
2023 Conference Presentation, “Reverberations: Nature Sounds as Experience, Connecting Art, Science and
Learning,” North America Association for Environmental Education Annual Conference, virtual
2023 Conference Paper, “Deep Listening: Sonifying Soil Microbes,” AAG Annual Conference, Denver, CO
2022 Artist Talk, Student Environmental Justice Alliance, George Mason University
2022 Artist Talk, Alterstories from the Soil – Exploring Ecological Un/Belongings Symposium,
University of Warwick, virtual
2022 Panel Discussion, Care, Soil, & Non-Human Environment, VISUALIZING CARE:
Imaginaries & Infrastructures, Duke University, virtual
2022 Panel Discussion, After Redevelopment…, DC History Conference, Washington, DC
2022 Conference Paper, Arboreal Devils…, DOPE Conference, Lexington, KY
2021 Artist Talk in Conversation with Sobia Ahmad, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2021 Guest Lecturer, Energy and Culture Course, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2021 Artist Lecture, Ceramics School, Detroit, MI.
2021 Artist Lecture and Workshop, Material Mnemonics for Environmental Justice, Virginia
Environmental Justice Summit.
2019 Lecture and Workshop, Haunted Ground: Slavery, Trash, Soil, and the Logics of
Ecological Destruction. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC.
2018 Artist Roundtable, Fieldwork: Relationships and Responsibilities to the Land, Maryland
Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2018 Introduction to China Martens, Artist Mother Studio Conference, Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington, DC
2017 Artist Talk, Public Soil Memory for the Plantationocene, 39th St Gallery, Brentwood, MD
2015 Research Presentation, Beside Paranoia: An Exploration of the Dan River Coal Ash,
Undergraduate Research Symposium, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
2014 Research Presentation, Reciprocity, Respect, and the New Doctrine of Discovery:
Grounding the Ethics of Traditional Healing Knowledge, Hege Library, Greensboro, NC

Curation

2023 Reverberations, USDA Forest Service and The Nature of Cities
2023 crit | viz | geogs: Revisiting Critical Visual Methodologies at the American Association of
Geographers Annual Conference
2020 Perfect Knowledge of the Ground panel at NYC Urban Soils Institute Annual Symposium

Residencies

2025 (Re)mediating Soil Residency, Coutts Centre for Western Canadian Heritage, Alberta, CA
2021 Ceramics School, Hamtramck, MI

Publications

2025 Pamphlet “Digging and the Doctrine of Discovery,” published as part of Dig Deeper: [some] Art, Science
and History of Troy Clay
2025 Essay “Deep Listening: Tending Future Soil Song,” in UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental
Studies, Volume 22 (Below)
2023 Essay “Material Witness: Sediment and Carceral Architecture in Lorton, Virginia” in Room One Thousand,
Architecture Journal of University of California, Berkeley
2019 Essay “How the Soil Remembers Plantation Slavery,” published in Edge Effects Magazine, co-authored
with Bii Robertson
2020 Editor of Perfect Knowledge of the Ground reader. Published by the Washington Project for the Arts and
reprinted by the NYC Urban Soils Institute’s Art Extension Service
2018 Writing and Research Support for Artist Mother Studio, funded by DC Arts and Humanities grant
2018 Co-editor of Maternal Journal Vol 1