EDUCATION
American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy | 2009
Summer Fellowship
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT | 2009
M.F.A., Painting and Printmaking
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD | 2007
B.F.A., Painting Major, Art History Minor
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012
Voices of Home | Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Intersecting Cultures/Virtual Worlds | Underground Gallery at the Betsy, Miama, FL
Two Men 2011: Tim Roseborough & Leslie Smith, III | Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Balls | Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, MN
In/Ex | Gallery M, New York, NY
Joel Dean, Fabienne Lasserre, Leslie Smith III | Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Emerge CT: 2009 MFA Graduates from UConn, Western Connecticut State and Yale, Stamford, CT
Yale University School of Art M.F.A. Thesis Show, New Haven, CT
2008
Verge | Galapagos Art Space, New York, NY
2007
Visions of Conflict: Rendering Dissent | Gormley gallery College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD
MAEF Juried Exhibition | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art B.F.A. Thesis Show, Baltimore, MD
2006
Taylor Companies Retrospective Show | Taylor Companies, Washington DC
HONORS & AWARDS
American Academy in Rome, Al Held Affiliate Fellow | Rome Italy | 2009
Best in show, Maryland Artist Equity Foundation Juried Exhibition | Baltimore Museum of Art | 2007
Freda Eichelberger Scholarship | 2006 -2007
Thailheimer Scholarship | 2003 – 2007
ARTS Scholarship, MICA | 2003 – 2007
National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Finalist and Scholarship recipient | 2003
COLLECTIONS
The Collection of Kera and Bennie F. Johnson
Taylor Companies | Washington DC
Numerous private collections
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Erica Agyeman "The Medium of The Message" International Review of African American Art, Issue 23.4,
(December 2011): 35-38
Glen McNatt "Saying Their Piece About Fighters, War" Baltimore Sun, July 25, 2007
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2007-07-25/features/0707250164_1_dame-of-maryland-college-of-notre-notre-dame
LECTURES & VISITS
Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY | 2011
Gallery Talk & Panel Discussion “Contemporary African American Art”
Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL | 2011
Visiting Artist
Lecture and painting, printmaking workshop
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD | 2010
Visiting Artist
Lecture and Undergraduate Thesis Studio Visits
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT | 2010
Visiting Critic
Painting Studio II, seniors and juniors undergraduate majors
University Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI | 2010
Visiting Artist
Lecture and Graduate Studio
