b. 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
2019
Fellowship
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2016
Residency
Artist-in-Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2013
Degree
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
2011
Degree
BFA, Columbia College Chicago
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2022
Brake Run Helix, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Wherever we will to root, OXY ARTS, Los Angeles
2020
The Lily League, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Harvard University
2019
Twice As Good Is Too Much, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
2018
An Unwavering Tendency Toward the Center of a Blistering Sun, Company Gallery, New York
2017
A Subsequent Offering, Human Resources, Los Angeles
The Necessary Reconditioning of the Highly Deserving, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles
2014
The Fence Mechanisms, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles
2013
Dear John, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles
2012
Slow Dance, Matt Austin and EJ Hill, ACRE Projects, Chicago
2011
There is no I in it, Karen Bovinich and EJ Hill, The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK (forthcoming)
2022
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2021
Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, New Orleans, Louisiana
Feedback, Jack Shainman | The School, Kinderhook, New York
View From Here: Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2020
For a Dreamer of Houses, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
2019
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, Curated by Essence Harden and Leigh Raiford, California African American Museum, Los Angeles
2018
Lost Without Your Rhythm, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2017
Rendez-Vous | Lyon Biennale, Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Artists of Color, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
Future Generation Art Prize 2017, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Future Generation Art Prize 2017, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016
Tenses: Artists in Residence 2015-16, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2015
Bloody Red Sun of Fantastic L.A., PIASA, Paris
Surface of Color, The Pit, Los Angeles
Writing Bodies, Curated by Litia Perta, EFA Project Space, New York
2014
Have At It, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2013
Postcards From Familiar Places and Other Uncommon Sites, POPA Gallería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide, Infernoesque, Curated by Geoff Tuck, Berlin, Germany
Internal Visualizer, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York
2012
A Romantic Measure, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
The Tipping Point of Me and We, Curated by Tempestt Hazel, Little Black Pearl, Chicago
2010
X-TREME Studio, Curated by Sabina Ott, A+D Gallery, Chicago
Selected Performances, Projects, Site Interventions
2014
O Captor, My Captor, In collaboration with David Bell, Grace Exhibition Space, New York
Signaling Through the Flames, LAXART, Art Los Angeles Contemporary
2012
Untitled, In collaboration with Collin Pressler for Industry of the Ordinary's Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Help is On the Way (for Mark Aguhar, Trayvon Martin, and the rest of Us), Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles
2010
Corpo/Ilicito: The Post-Human Society 6.9, In collaboration with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra, SOMArts, San Francisco
Crawl for Your Life, intervention at “Muskets and Memories Civil War Era Reenactment”, Boscobel, Wisconsin
Selected Awards, Honors, Residencies
2024
USA Fellowship, United States Artists, Chicago
2023
Stanton Fellowship, The Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles
2018
Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York
Mohn Public Recognition Award, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Artadia Los Angeles Award, Artadia, New York
Grants to Artists Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York
2017
Art Matters Grant, Art Matters Foundation, New York
Future Generation Art Prize (Nominee), Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv
Artist-in-Residence, Praxis Studio, California State University, Dominguez Hills
2016
William H. Johnson Prize, William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles
Fellowship for Visual Artists, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles
2014
Teaching Artist Fellowship, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
2012
The American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
2011
Hokin Honors Exhibition, Fourth Place, Columbia College Chicago
2010
ACRE Residency, Steuben, Wisconsin
2009
Pougialis Fine Arts Award, First Place, Columbia College Chicago
Public Collections
Dallas Museum of Art
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York