SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 We Are Carver, Illges Gallery, Corn Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus State University, Georgia

2015 Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville

Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, North Carolina

2014 Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN

SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2018 For Freedoms 50 States Project, Billboard for Vernon Dahmer, Jackson, Mississippi

2013 The Long March, commission for permanent collection, Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, Alabama

2012 A Civil Rights Memorial Exhibition, Tennessee State Museum

2011 Coming to California, permanent commission, Oakland Museum of California

2010 I See it Now, commission for A Biography of the Bay Area, Part Two, SF Camerawork, San Francisco

2009 Along the Way, commission for permanent media wall, Oakland International Airport and Oakland Port Authority

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2022 (forthcoming) We Are Carver, or This is my last year in high school before ___________, self-published

2020 (monograph) Road Though Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, University of North Carolina Press with Duke Center for Documentary Studies

Essay, Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, Southern Cultures, Summer 2020 Art & Vision Issue, Center for the Study of the American South, UNC

Chapter, “for Maurice Leroy Cox,” This is Not a Gun, edited by Cara Levine, SmingSming Books & Candor Arts

2019 Chapter, “My Baby Saved My Life: Motherhood in an American High School,” Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History, edited by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, Kalia Brooks (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers)

2018 Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, edited by Mark Sloan and Mark Long, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (catalog)

2017 Compose, Design, and Advocate, 3rd Edition (textbook), A Rhetoric for integrating written, oral, and visual communication, Wysocki/Lynch Series, Longman Publishing

2016 Southern Accent: Seeking the South in Contemporary Art, edited by Miranda Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and Speed Art Museum (catalog)

2015 Photography Careers, edited by Mark Jenkinson, Taylor & Francis Group

2014 The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas, Aperture Books, edited by Jason Fulford & Gregory Halpern

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 The Way Home, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippi

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, LSU Museum of Fine Arts, Louisiana

Posing Beauty in African-American Culture, curated by Deborah Willis, Detroit Institute of Arts

2020 Migration and Meaning in Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, curated by Deborah Willis

Posing Beauty in African-American Art, curated by Deborah Willis, Delaware Museum of Art

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Hunter Museum of American Art, TN, traveling to the Meridian Museum of Art, MS

2019 Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Gregg Museum of Art & Design (Raleigh, NC), Power Plant Gallery (Duke University),

Posing Beauty in African-American Art, curated by Deborah Willis, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore

2018 All Sorrows Can Be Borne, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, S.C.

Posing Beauty in African-American Art, curated by Deborah Willis, Mobile Museum of Art, AL

2017 Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, curated by Miranda Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker

“Re-imagining A Safe Space ” Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY, curated by Deborah Willis and Melissa Harris

Posing Beauty in African-American Art, curated by Deborah Willis, SNAP! Space, Orlando, FL

2016 Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum, Durham, NC, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker and Miranda Lash

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

2021 Invited Fellowship, Norton Museum of Art, Florida

Photography Book Award Longlist, Krasna Krausz Foundation, UK

2020 Shortlist, Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Book Prize

NEA Art Works Grant, for the exhibition Rising Water: Artists Working in Response to Hurricanes, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University

2019 Invited Residency, AIR Serenbe, Georgia

Visiting Artist & Scholar in Residence, Columbus State University, Georgia (2013-2019)

2017 Invited Residency, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

2015 Distinguished Fellowship, Hambidge Center for the Arts, Georgia

2013 Visiting Artist & Scholar in Residence, Columbus State University, Georgia (2013-2019)

2012 Santa Fe Prize for Photography

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & EDITORIAL

2020 Nashville Scene, Road Through Midnight Explores the South’s Racist History, by Kim Green, April

2019 Art Forum, Norton Museum of Art Announces New Artist-in-Residency Program, September

2018 CNN, How Get Out the Vote Took Over Billboards in 2018, by Hunter Schwarz, November 5

Wired Magazine, The Political Education of Silicon Valley, July

Vice Magazine, Queer Alchemy, June 27

Burnaway Magazine, Artists and Scholars Grapple with Southern Symbols in Louisville, by Jennifer Fraley, March

2017 Sanctioned Injustice, Oxford American Magazine, edited by Alexa Dilworth, July

Militia Barbie, with Frontline journalist Karen Duffin, Pop-Up Magazine, Summer

2016 Forget the Coasts. Look to the Hinterlands, by Holland Cotter, New York Times, November

SELECTED LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS

2020 Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, Southern Festival of Books

Jessica Ingram, in conversation with Dr. Kimber Thomas, University of North Carolina

Capturing Sites of Remembrance and Resistance, conversation with Dr. Cheryl Finley, Art History and Curatorial Studies Collective, Atlanta University Center

Race and Representation in the American South, with Sheila Pree Bright, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee (canceled due to COVID-19)

Invited participant, Women & Migrations: Forum on Migration Working Group, New York University, Global Research Initiative, Athens Greece. Convened by Dr. Deborah Willis and Ellyn Toscano (canceled due to COVID-19)

Road Through Midnight, in conversation with Deborah Willis, Strand Books, New York

Road Through Midnight, in conversation with Eric Gottesman, For Freedoms Convening, LA County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA

2019 Invited Lecture, Public Memory in the New South Symposium, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, SC

Invited Visiting Artist, Insight Artist Series, Locate Arts, Nashville, TN

We Are Carver, Columbus State University

2018 Invited Panelist, Reckoning: Monuments and Racial History Symposium, SFMOMA, “Visualizing Racial Histories” Panel with Leigh Raiford and Martin Berger, moderated by Jordana Moore Saggese

2017 Invited Panelist, “Picturing Social Movements from Emancipation to Black Lives Matter,” College Art Association National Conference, co-chairs Deborah Willis, PhD and Cheryl Finley, PhD, with Sarah Lewis, Kellie Jones, Dipti Desai, and Charlton McIlwain

Invited Panelist, Convening of Southern Symbols: Remembering our Past, Envisioning our Future Symposium, Speed Art Museum, with Nari Ward, Dr. Fitzhugh Brundage, Sonya Clark, Dr. Dierdre Cooper Owens, Dr. Jason Johnson, Dr. David Blight. Convened by Miranda Lash, Curator of Contemporary Art

Invited participant, Women & Migrations: Forum on Migration Working Group, New York University, Florence, Italy, Convened by Dr. Deborah Willis and Ellyn Toscano, participants including Dr. Cheryl Finley, Dr. Kellie Jones, Imani Uzuri, Wangechi Mutu, Dr. Kalia Brooks, Sama Raena Alshaibi, and Dr. Isolde Brielmaier.

Invited Panelist and Moderator, “Re-Imagining a Safe Space,” NYU Tisch School of the Arts, with Wendy Ewald, Samara Gaev, Scheherazade Tillet, Mangue Banzima, and Nina Berman.

CURATORIAL/SYMPOSIA/CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

2020 Rising Water: Artists Working in Response to Hurricanes, including works by Richard Misrach, Apsen Mays, Chandra McCormick, Keith Calhoun, Willie Birch, Frances Gallardo, Sarah Welch and Trenton Doyle Hancock, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts

2016 Telling Histories: Storytelling and Civil Rights Symposium, Tennessee State Museum, including historian Dr. Charles McKinney, Carrie and Howard Gentry, and the Princely Players

2015 Self Made, including works by Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel, Tammy Rae Carland, Liz Cohen, Gregory Halpern, Doug Hall, Lindsey White, Nigel Poor, Dru Donovan, and Michael Light, Bolinas Museum, CA

COLLECTIONS

Oakland Museum of California, Birmingham Airport Authority, Oakland International Airport, Tennessee State Museum, private collections