Education

2012               George Washington University, Studio Arts, MFA

2001               Syracuse University, Painting, BFA

2000              Syracuse University Florence Center, Studio Arts, Florence, Italy

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2023 The Current: Baha Mar Art Prize

2021 Independent Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council

2010 – 2012   Morris Louis Fellowship, The George Washington University

Solo Exhibitions

2024 FUZE Art Fair with Galerie Myrtis, Nassau, Bahamas

2023 A Human Synthesis, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN 

2022 Are We There Yet, Pyramid Atlantic, Hyattsville, MD 

2019 Reparations: Some Things are Just Owed and Some More than Others, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD       

When Our Rivers Collide, Tony Hungerford Memorial Gallery, Southern Maryland College, La Plata, MD

2018 The Prophet’s Library Vol. II, Carl Van Vechten Gallery, Fisk University, Nashville, TN 

2017 The Prophet’s Library, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN

2013 Targets & Goals, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC 

Select Group Exhibitions

2024 A Nation Takes Place, Minnesota Maritime Art Museum, Winona, MN

DMV Collects the DMV, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC

Chosen Family, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD 

2023 SCOPE Art Fair with Galerie Myrtis, Miami, FL 

Breathing Room, Morton Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA 

There Within Lies the Gospel Truth, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD  

Re-Pair: Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, Begonia Labs, Nashville, TN

2022 The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, Annapolis, MD 

The Ties that Bind, IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC 

Long Runner, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA

Ontology, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD 

Rooted in Voyage: Connectivity Through Objects, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA 

2021 Freedom is One: Palestinian-Black Kinship Then, Now, and Tomorrow, Museum of the Palestinian People, Washington, DC 

Inside Outside, Upside Down, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC 

Renaissance: The Contemporary Expression of the Ancestral Spirit, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD 

Literary Muse, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA 

Repercussions: Redefining the Black Aesthetic, Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD 

Mazes and Maps, Pyramid Atlantic, Hyattsville, MD 

2020 Remnants, Art of Noize Gallery, Washington, DC  

Renaissance: Noir, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA  

2019 Meaning in the Material, Mosely Gallery, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD 

No Language, The Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD 

Building Bridges II: The Politics of Love, Identity, and Race, 13th Bienial de la Habana, Galeria Carmen Montilla

2018 SILOS, Art League Houston, Houston, TX 

Faculty, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY 

2017 Black Man in a Black World, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD 

Spiral, Recoil, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE 

Summer ’17, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD 

‘Merica, School 33 Arts Center, Baltimore, MD 

2016 Prizm Art Fair with Galerie Myrtis, Miami FL 

SILOS, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 

Lest We Forget, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD 

It Takes A Nation: Art for Social Justice, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC  

SILOS, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC 

To Be Black in White America, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD 

2015 Prizm Art Fair with Galerie Myrtis, Miami FL 

Topography, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN 

Power, Protest, & Resistance: The Art of Revolution, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

How We Lost DC, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC 

My Big Black America, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

2014 Prizm Art Fair with Galerie Myrtis, Miami FL 

Emergence 2014: International Artists to Watch, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD 

General Public, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC 

2013 Living and Working, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC 

Human Ecology, The Gallery @ Community College Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD 

Sondheim Artscape Prize Semi-Finalist Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 

Homage to Harriet, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD 

No Strings Attached, 39th Street Gallery, Brentwood, MD2020

Collections

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC 

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC  

Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, Baltimore, MD 

Kaiser Permanente, New Carrollton, MD  

Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection, Washington, DC 

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 

Public Commissions

2025 Los Angeles, California – Charles White Memorial Park – exterior bronze sculpture

Washington, DC – Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, interior relief mural 

Kansas City, Missouri – Brush Creek Cultural Heritage Corridor Trail, A Journey Through the American Civil Right Movement – embedded concrete mural series of 14

Norfolk, VA – Olde Huntersville Park– exterior sculpture 

Tulsa, OK – Pathways to Hope, Sankofa: Greenwood – exterior relief mural 

2024 Baltimore, MD – Office of Promotion & The Arts, Layers of Love/The Infinite Hug – exterior concrete sculpture 

Brentwood, MD – Art at the Divide, Windom Barrier Project – exterior sculpture 

Catonsville, MD – Catonsville Courthouse, We Are Here – indoor mixed media wall sculpture 

2023 Washington, DC – Department of General Services, Wall of Values – indoor digitally printed mural 

2022 Washington, DC – The Phillips Collections @ THEARC, A genesis – indoor mixed media wall sculpture 

2020 Washington, DC – Calvin Coolidge High School, The Optimist. The Believer. The  Achiever. – exterior bronze sculpture 

2019 Washington, DC – Boone Elementary School, Nyla’s Dreams – exterior aluminum and bronze sculpture 

2018 Washington, DC – Bancroft Elementary School, Taking Flight: Mission to Mars – indoor three-dimensional installation and mural 

Washington, DC – MacFarland Middle School, Free Hand – indoor three-dimensional installation and mural 

2017 College Park, MD – The Hotel at University of Maryland, In Flux – indoor three-dimensional installation

Washington, DC – Ron Brown High School, Read. Think. Act. – indoor mural 

Washington, DC – Kenilworth Recreation Center, Cityscape VII & VIII – indoor mural 

2016 Arlington, VA – American Alliance of Museums, Shift. Rotate. Repeat – outdoor sculpture

Press

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Chosen Family,” The Washington Post, February 23, 2024 

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Black Like Me,” The Washington Post, April 7, 2023 

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Exploring connections in the Black Experience,” The Washington Post, October 20, 2022 

Jorgensen, Sarah Kate, “East City Art Reviews: Wesley Clark Are We There Yet,” East City Art, July 12, 2022 

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Connections in text, image, writing and drawing,” The Washington Post, July 9, 2022 

Jenkins, Mark, “Local artists look back on a year of upheaval in this Phillips Collection exhibition,” The Washington Post, August 11, 2021

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Celebrating the art of game with unexpected delights,” The Washington Post, July 2, 2021 

The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art, and Design, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. 2021, plate #24, pp. 249-265 

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Rizzoli Electra Publications, Inc. 2018, p. 69 

Smith, Tim, “Galerie Myrtis exhibit focuses on ‘Black Man in a Black World’,” The Baltimore Sun, September 1, 2017 

Smith, Tim, “A Hot Summer Exhibit at C. Grimaldis Gallery,” The Baltimore Sun, July 3, 2017 

Burd, Sara Lee, “Wesley Clark: The Prophet’s Library,” Nashville Arts Magazine, June 2017

Walker, Julie, “16 Artists Who Made Sure Black Lives Mattered at Art Basel Miami Beach,” TheRoot.com, December 5, 2016 

Uszerowicz, Monica, “In Miami’s Little Haiti, a Fair Spotlights Artists of the African Diaspora,” Hyperallergic,  December 2, 2016 

Weaver, A.M., “Fifty Years Later, Artists Continue to Spread the Message of the Black Panther Party,” Hyperallergic, October  21, 2016 

Carroll, Angela, “Lest We Forget,” BmoreArt.com, October 13, 2016   

Smith, Brendan, “Black Power in Art: Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter,” BmoreArt.com, September 26, 2016 

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: East of the River,” The Washington Post, September 9, 2016 

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Heading Home,” The Washington Post, September 15, 2015 

Jenkins, Mark, “Bill Rock & Wesley Clark,” The Washington Post, July 5, 2013