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b. 1995 (Cotonou, Bénin)
selected exhibitions
2023 Maternessance, Les Ateliers Coffi, Cotonou, Bénin
2022 Broken Glass Ceilings and The Freedom of Love, Cherry Mountain Arts, Chicago, IL USA
2022 The Rounds, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL USA
2021 I Sense Something has Changed, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL USA
2021 WELCOME: Recent Acquisitions to the Art Collection, Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL USA
2017 Theater 3, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL USA
2017 part 3: a story i’ve never heard but have always known, SAIC Fiber & Material Studies Dept, Chicago, IL USA
2017 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fall BFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL USA
2017 the weird and lonely solo show, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency Print Gallery, Saugatuck, MI USA
2017 Split Ends., Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL USA
awards & residencies
2021-2022 Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH Residency
2020 Red Bull Arts Chicago Microgrant
2020 Spudnik Press Cooperative Fellowship
2017 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Student Leader Award Nominee
2016 Sligo Journal of Arts & Letters Pushcart Prize Nomination
2015 SAIC Honors Scholarship
2015 Merrill Golightly Scholarship
2015 Ventura Valdez Poetry Award
2014 Georgetown University Community Scholar
published works
2017 Split Ends..., Fiber & Material Studies Studios Spring 2017, Chicago, IL
2017 A Time in Space by Amanda Alexandria (Chapbook) (Editor)
2017 angry, Untitled Magazine
2017 blood disputes, Untitled Magazine
2017 sun songs, Untitled Magazine
2016 Immigrant Dreams, Sligo Journal of Arts and Letters
2016 life after death, Sligo Journal of Arts and Letters
2016 this is us, Sligo Journal of Arts and Letters
costuming
2014 Lead Costume Designer : Nomadic Theatre’s production of “boom” by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
2014 Assistant Costume Designer : Nomadic Theatre’s production of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard
2013-2014 Costume Shop Assistant : Georgetown University Theater Department
partnerships & commissions
2020 South Side Community Art Center x Chicago Printer’s Guild ‘Raise It Up!’ Fundraiser Initiative
2020 Spread in December Publication of New City Art Chicago via Red Bull Arts
collections
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL USA
Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL USA
education
Georgetown University
Concentration in English and Studio Arts
2013-2014
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bachelor in Fine Arts, 2017
Concentration in Fiber & Material Studies & Writing