Education

2024

• Master of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2022

• Master of Library and Information Science | Archive and Digital Humanities | The University of North Carolina 

2021

• Getty/MAC USP Curatorial Practices: Critical Curating and Decolonial Studies in Visual Arts - African Diasporas in the Americas

2018

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography with a minor in Media Studies from The University of North Carolina Greensboro

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Solo Exhibition

2024

• Gatewood Gallery, Greensboro, NC

• Horace Willimas House, Chapel Hill, NC

 

Group Exhibition

2024

• Dirty Abstractions, Union Hall, Denver, CO

2023

• Conceptual Photography, Dar’t Gallery, CO

2017

• Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC

• Art Showcase at the Weatherspoon Museum of Contemporary Art, Greensboro, NC

2016

• Portal Exhibition  Southeastern Center For Photography, Greenville, SC, US.

2012 

• Coletivona. Casa AipimExhibition - Salvador, BA, BR. 

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Teaching

2024 - present

• Lecturer of Media Studies at UNC Greensboro

• Courses: MST325 - Gender and Film, MST375 - Editing I, MST427 - Film Production Design Analysis.

• Spring of 2025:  MST459: doing Visual History, MST321:Latin American Film

2023 - 2024

• Professor of Photography at UNC Greensboro. 

• Courses: ART285 - Photo I 35mm, ART286 - Photo I Digital, and ART385 Photo II  2019 -2022

• Multimedia - audio, video, graphics, and printing -  instruction and instruction coordination at the University of North Carolina Greensboro UL DMC/Makerspace

2017 

• Introduction to Digital Photography at Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC, US.

• Introduction to Digital Photography at High Point Central High School, High Point, NC, US.

• Introduction to Digital Photography and Digital Darkroom, Summer Camp at the Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC, US.

• Alternative Processes in Digital Darkroom, Summer Camp at the Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC, US.

2012

• FIAR 3 - Pinhole and 16mm workshop

2011

• Documentary workshop series with the production of a collective final project The Cinema of My Neighborhood Cinema Society of Santo Antônio, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

• Introduction to Stop-Motion and Chroma Key Workshop at the " Quebra Bunda" community | Cinema Society of Santo Antônio, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

• Digital Photography Workshop at the " Quebra Bunda" community | Cinema Society of Santo Antônio, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

2010

• Video documentary youth  workshop  "Threes of Memory" 

2009

• 16mm Film youth workshop at the " Quebra Bunda" community | Cinema Society of Santo Antônio, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

 

Video Documentaries

2012

• Carolina 85, Director, producer, videographer, and editor.

• XSegregated, Director, producer, videographer, and editor.

2011

• GIAP - Centennial Memories of Resistance, videographer.

2010

• Mnemocine Tijuana, Director, producer, videographer, and editor.

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2009

• Utopia and Barbarism, videographer

2007

• Honestino’s  File, Director, and Producer.

2005

• Memory and History in Utopia and Barbarism, Assistant Director and Editor.

2004

• O Olhar de Castro Maya/Castro Maya’s Look, Assistant Director and Editor.

2003

• Paulo Carneiro: Espelho e Memória/Paulo Carneiro: Mirror and Memory, Assistant Director, Assistant Producer, and Assistant Post-Producer.

2002

• UNESCO Opening Spaces, Assistant Director, and Editor.

• JK – O menino que Sonhou Um País/JK - The Boy who Dreamed of a Nation, Assistant Producer

 

Conference Presentations

2022 

• NC Series - Inclassificáveis - a Digital Exhibition of Brazilian Artists' Books, Zines, Comics, and Cordéis from the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries' Collections

2021

• CAA 2021 Annual Conference - Brasil Zero-Zero and Challenges to Public History 

2020 

• VX Brasa - Brazilian Studies Association Conference. Paper abstract selected to be presented on March 26th. Early Post-Colonial Street Vendors Portraits Classification: Ethnographic or Family Album? Postponed due to COVID-19. 

2019

• Library Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill! Short Film Festival as a Bridge Between Local and Global Communities. 

• Conference on African American and African Diaspora Studies Culture and Enrichment - Afrofuturism in Film: Resilience and Creativity Short Films

2016

• 30th National Council for Undergraduate Research Conference, the paper “Rosebud” and the “Glass Ball:" Two Tricks to the Myth-Making of Citizen Kane.

2016

• Pittsburgh University Film Studies Undergraduate Symposium - presentation of the paper “Rosebud” and the “Glass Ball:" Two Tricks to the Myth-Making of Citizen Kane.

2015

• 16th UNCG Annual Undergraduate Honors Symposium presenting the paper “Rosebud” and the “Glass Ball:" Two Tricks to the Myth-Making of Citizen Kane.

2010

• Cinema Defines You: Your Film Society as a Part of Your Community, Mexico City, DF, Mexico at the 1st Iberoamericano Film Society Forum

 

Publications

2023

• Contact Sheet, Light Work publication 

• Art Seen Magazine

2022

• Getty/MAC USP Curatorial processes: Critical Curating and Decolonial Studies in Visual Arts - African Diasporas in the Americas.

2020

• Hariban Award Catalog - Kyoto, Japan

2016

• NC Docks - Rosebud and the "Glass Ball": Two Tricks to the Myth-Making of Citizen Kane”

2017 

• The Hand Magazine Issue #18

• The Hand Magazine Issue #16

• Photographer’s Forum Magazine Best College and High School Photography 2017 book

• 30th National Council for Undergraduate Research Conference Journal - Rosebud and the "Glass Ball": Two Tricks to the Myth-Making of Citizen Kane”

2015

• Art In Odd Places

 

Awards, grants, and scholarships

2023

• Art Greensboro Artist Grant

• Best in Show Prize at the D’Art Gallery Conceptual Photography Exhibition, Denver, Colorado  curated by Mark Sink

2022

• 100% New Artist Society Scholarship to pursue the Master of Fine Arts at the School of the Institute of Art and Design of Chicago

2022

• Artist Support Grant, Arts Greensboro, NC

2021

• UNCG University Libraries Innovation Grant Award -Risograph project

2020

• Hariban Juror’s Choice Award granted by Lucy Gallun, Kyoto, Japan

• Silver 2020 Fine Art Award from the Budapest International Photo Award

2019

• SPE Student Awards for Innovations in Imaging

2018

• The Light Factory Throwdown Portfolio First Place Award

2012 

• The North Carolina Humanities Council mini-grant for the production of the documentary project Carolina 85

• The Secretary of Culture of Bahia State Artistic Mobility Award granted to participate in an Artistic Residency at Elsewhere Living Museum, North Carolina, U.S.

2010

• The Secretary of Culture of Bahia State Artistic Mobility Award granted to participate in an Artistic Residency at La Casa del Tunel, Tijuana, Baja California. Mnemocine Tijuana

• The Cultural Foundation of Bahia State granted the production of The Cinema of My Neighborhood project.

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Artist Talks

2023

• Parsons School of Design, NY

• UNC Greensboro Afro-Latin American/Latinx Studies Project (ALAL) colloquium

2022

• Fred Moten Colloquium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2021

• ART 495 capstone class UNCG Art Department

2020

• Halide Project

Residencies

2022

• Light Works AIR program -  Syracuse., N.Y.

2012 

• Elsewhere Living Museum, Greensboro, NC, US.

2010

•  La Casa del Tunel, Tijuana, BC, México.

 

Performances and Interventions

2023

• Untitled - Chicago, IL

2019

• Untitled - Greensboro, NC

2015

• Art in Odd Places Greensboro, NC

 

Work in Collections

Light Work

Southeastern Center for Photography

UNC Greensboro Marha Hodges Special Collections

 

Curation

2024

• Initiations at the Sonja Haynes Center and Museum  for Black Stories and Cultures, Chapel Hill, NC

2023

• Latitudes, African American Atelier, Greensboro, NC

2021

• Six Feet: Bounnderies, Belonging, Becoming, Revolve / RAMP Gallery, Asheville, NC (Co-Curation)