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Education:
2020
University of Illinois at Chicago, Art Department, MFA - Moving Image
2018
University of Virginia McIntire Department of Art, BA Studio Art - Cinematography Concentration
Distributor:
Canyon Cinema
Screenings and Exhibitions:
2024
Gene Siskel Film Center: Conversation at the Edge, select works, Chicago, IL
Peripheries Film Festival, Sweet Void Cinema: On Sunday, Chicago, IL
University of Chicago: Compilation, Appropriation, Assemblage & Paige Taul, select works, Chicago, IL
IDOC 2024: 71, Iowa City, IA
Walker Arts Center: Kinetic Visions in the Bentson Mediatheque:7-7-94 For my babe, Minneapolis, MN
Jupiter Magazine Inaugural Screening: On Sunday, Chicago, IL
2023
Barbican Gallery: Alice Neel Portraiture on Film: I am, London, UK
Gene Siskel Film Center: Nightingale Projects, As Is: 10:28,30, Chicago, IL
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Canyon Cinema: Reid’s Records, San Francisco, CA
Other Cinema: The Promise, San Francisco, CA
Union Docs: The Promise, New York, NY
Sojourner Truth Festival: Interior Lives: 10:28,30, Chicago, IL
Black Light Cinema Project: South Side Community Arts Center, select works, Chicago, IL
National Gallery of Art: Portraiture and Short Visual Diaries: Goat, Washington, DC
Anafi International Film Festival: In the Face of God, Anafi, GR
Chicago Film Archives Media Mixer: On Sunday, Chicago IL
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sports Mysticism: Too Small to be a Bear Chicago, IL
Woodbine: What’s Good Bruce?, Ridgewood, NY
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: select works, Milwaukee, WI
Mills Folly Microcinema: select works, Milwaukee, WI
Resting Places: Cinema at the End of Life, Wexner Center, The Promise, Cleveland, OH
BAMFA: Black Life + Paige Taul , Berkeley, CA
2022
New Black Wave, Vol. 2: What’s Good Bruce?|10:28,30, Los Angeles, CA
Duluth Superior Film Festival: select works, Minneapolis, MN
Amherst Cinema: select works, Amherst, MA
This Long Century: What’s Good Bruce?, Ecstatic Static
To Render the Infinite: Visual Genealogies of Black Kinship, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
Nightingale Cinema: select works, Chicago, IL
Prismatic Ground: Goat, New York, NY
Essay Film Festival 2022: select works, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK
Prime Time Reverie: 10:28,30, curated by Canyon Cinema’s Aaditya Aggarwal, San Francisco, CA
Flesh to Spirit: Materiality and Abstraction: After DeCarava, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
2021
FilmDiary, Anthology Film Archive: The Promise|10:28,30, New York, NY
Transformation and Renewal, The Flaherty: The Promise, New York, NY
Image Gardeners, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts: 10:28,30, San Francisco, CA
Houston Cinema Arts Festival: Goat, Houston TX
CROSSROADS 2021 10:28,30 San Francisco, CA
HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark: Study Room, Burgring, Austria
Onion City Film Festival: Too Small to be a Bear, Chicago, IL
Media City Film Festival, ThousandSuns Cinema: It’s a Condition|Reid’s Records
IDOCS 2021: Maciré, Iowa City, IA
Prismatic Ground: Four Portraits by Paige Taul, New York, NY
Always Moving: African American Portraiture in Film: After DeCarava, San Francisco, CA
Light Field Collective: Canyon Cinema Salon: I know the End, 10:28,30, San Francisco, CA
Hyde Park Art Center: Virtual MLK Day Celebration, A collection of works, Chicago, IL
2020
Mirror Lab: It makes me wanna, Minneapolis, MN
Virginia Film Festival: Reid’s Records, Charlottesville, VA
McGuffey Art Center: I am, Charlottesville, VA
Collective Misnomer: What’s Good Bruce, Denver, Colorado
UnionDocs, Evening Hours: 7-7-94 For my babe, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Rockaway Film Festival: 7-7-94 For my babe/The Promise, New York, NY
BlackStar Film Festival: I am, Philadelphia, PA
Chris White Gallery, “Keepsake”: It makes me wanna, Wilmington, DE
San Francisco Cinematheque CROSSROADS 2019: After DeCarava, San Francisco, CA
Heaven Gallery, Moving_Image_00:05: It makes me wanna, Chicago, IL
2018
Virginia Film Festival 2018: Transit, Charlottesville, VA
San Francisco Cinematheque CROSSROADS 2018: Transit, San Francisco, CA
University of Virginia, McIntire Department of Art Fourth Year Thesis Exhibition, Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Student Film Festival: Transit, Charlottesville, VA
Student Arts Fund Grant Recipient Showcase at Open Grounds, Charlottesville, VA
Feature in the Princeton Undergraduate Journal of Art: Kunstkammer: I am
Alumni Exhibition Ruffin Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2016
Second Street Digital Media Gallery Exhibition, Charlottesville, VA
Shows:
2022
[Solo] EXPO-CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
[Solo] Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2021
[Group] Ground Floor - Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2020
[Solo] ROMAN SUSAN: It makes me wanna, Chicago, IL
Residencies
2024
ZARATÁN Air, Lisbon Portugal (upcoming)
2020 - 2021
Chicago Artists Coalition - BOLT Residency, Chicago, IL
2019
Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2018
Mountain Lake Biological Station, Pembroke, VA
Guest Speaker and Lectures
2022
Essay Film Festival Retrospective and Lecture - Birkbeck, University of London,UK
2021
Hyde Park Art Center - MLK Day Speaker
“Just Among Us” podcast - interview w/ Cierra Mckissik
2020
ROMAN SUSAN - Artist talk with Ruth Hodgins and John Marks
LATITUDE - Chicago School after School
2018
Interdisciplinary Symposium Guest Speaker: Divination, Transit,Charlottesville, VA
Professional Experience:
2024
Assistant Professor - Current
Juror Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film Topics: L.A.Rebellion - Spring Semester, UIC, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Lecturer: Media Practices - Spring Semester, School of the Art Institute Chicago, IL
2023
Visiting Artist / Full time faculty- School of the Art Institute
Onion City Experimental Film Festival Juror - Chicago, IL
2022
Summer College in the Arts: Art & Art History Program Instructor - Summer Term, Chicago, IL
Oberhausen Seminar Participant, Oberhausen, DE
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film Topics: Self in Cinema - Spring Semester, UIC, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Intro to Moving Image - Spring Semester, UIC, Chicago, IL
Associate Lecturer, Production: Fiction - Spring Semester, UWM, Milwaukee WI
2021
Camera Operator, Committee of Six dir. Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Chicago, IL
Summer College in the Arts: Art & Art History Program Instructor - Summer Term, Chicago, IL
Associate Lecturer, Production: Fiction - Spring Semester, UWM, Milwaukee WI
2020
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Intro to Moving Image - Fall Semester, UIC, Chicago, IL
Associate Lecturer, Production: Fiction - Fall Semester, UWM, Milwaukee, WI
LATITUDE panelist: School After School, Chicago, IL
International Student Exchange Program Coordinator in association with the Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
Introduction to Moving Image Undergraduate Instructor - Spring semester, UIC, Chicago, IL
2019
Introduction to Moving Image Undergraduate Instructor - Fall semester, UIC, Chicago IL
University of Illinois at Chicago Access Fellow, Chicago, IL
Audio Visual Technician Assistant, Chicago, IL
2018
Religion, Race, and Democracy Fellow, Religious Studies UVA, Charlottesville, VA
2017
Mellon Museum Intern at the Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
Cinematography Studio Assistant, McIntire Department of Art, Charlottesville, VA
The Black Monologues Videographer, Charlottesville, VA
Paul Robeson Players Film Advisor, Charlottesville, VA
2016
Production Assistant for Kevin Everson, Charlottesville, VA
Cinematography Studio Assistant, McIntire Department of Art, Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Student Film Festival Director, Charlottesville, VA
Adrenaline Film Competition Participant, Charlottesville, VA
The Black Monologues Videographer, Charlottesville, VA
San Francisco Cinematheque Communications and Development Intern, San Francisco, CA
Filmography:
On Sunday, archival footage, 05:07
71, HD video|archival footage, 18:52, b&wGoat, 16mm transfer, 02:40, b&w
Maciré, 8mm transfer, 03:30, b&w
Too Small to be a Bear, archival footage, 05:09, b&w
For the People in the Back, 16mm transfer, archival footage, 04:37, b&w, color
Teef, found footage, 16mm transfer, 08:14,color,
10:28,30, 16mm transfer, 04:23, b&w, VHS transfer
The promise,16mm transfer, 05:25, b&w
In the face of god, archival footage, 03:25
It’s a condition,16mm transfer, 2:26, b&w
Reid’s Records, 16mm transfer, 4:19, b&w
What’s good Bruce?, 16mm transfer, 3:30, b&w
After DeCarava, 16mm transfer, 1:41, b&w
7-7-94 For my babe, 16mm, 3:22, color
It makes me wanna, 16mm, 2:32, b&w
I am, 16mm, 3:01, b&w
Transit, 16mm 3:05, b&w
Divination, mini DV, 9:34, color
Self Preservation, digital, 3:00, color