Curatorial Projects (Selected)
Between 2012 - 2016, I was the Director of fort gondo compound for the arts, a community arts forum founded in 2002 on St. Louis' Cherokee Street consisting of two neighboring storefront galleries (fort gondo and beverly) - producing nearly two dozen exhibitions a year, a poetry series, a publication series and an ancillary program series. During my tenure, I established nonprofit status and garnered a 2-year program support grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts (2015-2016), a Daedalus Foundation grant (2014) and several local arts grants. The space closed permanently in December of 2016. Image: Tuan Nguyen's harmonica, solo exhibition, 2014.
Day of the Locust, a group exhibition exploring modes of failure as productive strategies for overcoming the constraints of ideology and idealism. White Flag Projects, November 3 - December 10, 2011. Featuring artists Katherine Bernhardt, Rochelle Feinstein, Jonathan Horowitz, Lee Lozano, Jon Pestoni, Charlotte Posenenske and Mamie Tinkler.
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The True Praxis of Dotty Page, Willy Nilly & the Book of Roof, Read Daily by Savant in the Cathedral of St. Anamnesis, & the Sacred Dentures of Emma Street, solo exhibition, the Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, April 30-May 23, 2010
Everybody’s Autobiography: Robert Gober & Kerry James Marshall, two-person exhibition, SGC International Curated Exhibition at the Center for Creative Arts (St. Louis, MO), March 17-April 24, 2011.
100 Boots Poetry Series, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Spring 2017 - 2019, co-curated with Ted Mathys. (Pictured: Don Mee Choi; photo by Chris Bowman)
XOXO, group exhibition, Des Lee Gallery (St. Louis, MO), February 8 - March 10, 2018. X marks the spot, the kiss, the nixing-out; O is the void and the hug, the encircling gesture that says that’s it and, all together, I love you truly but casually.The artworks in this show burlesque common strategies of evoking authenticity, using intimacy and self-revelation as methods for unmasking the constructedness of status quo identity. Featuring artists Zoe Buckman, Nicole Eisenman, Fantich & Young, Chantal Jaffe, Terrence Koh, Marilyn Minter, Toyin Odutola, Mickalene Thomas and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others.
Overview is a Place is a group exhibition featuring seven emerging St. Louis-based artists who explore the pendulum swing of empowerment and dislocation from self and place as a consequence of cultural essentializing. SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York City), March 6 - 12, 2018. Featuring artists Lyndon Barrois, Jr., Addoley Dzegede, Jen Everett, Kahlil Robert Irving, Basil Kincaid, Katherine Simone Reynolds and WORK/PLAY.