1975 Born in Chicago
Lives and works in Carrizozo, NM
EDUCATION
2005 MFA, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY
1998 BFA, Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
20-21 On High, Project Space, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2019 Entangled, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM
2018 The Light Becomes You, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY
Spread Wild, Pleasures of the Yucca, SMACK MELLON, Brooklyn, NY
PIECESCAPE, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, CA
FLOORED, Williamson|Knight, Portland, OR
2017 Salty & Fresh, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Paula Wilson: The Backward Glance, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Salty & Fresh, Cherry & Lucic, Portland, OR
Back it Up, Museum Blue, St. Louis, MO
2014 Undress, Center for Contemporary Arts, Spector Ripps Project Space, Santa Fe, NM
2010 First Story, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2008 The Stained Glass Ceiling, Bellwether, New York, NY
2006 Paintings and Drawings from the Hanno Valley, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, Italy
2000 What’s So Personal, The Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL
1999 Matching Green, Fruit of the Tree’s Gallery, Lincoln, NM
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Prototypes, Converge 45, Portland’s Monuments & Memorials Project, Portland, OR
Staying with the Trouble, curated by Kate McNamara, Tufts University Galleries, Medford & Boston, MA
A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, curated by
Delita Martin and Tanekeya Word, Minneapolis, MN
Marking Time / Making Space, Blue Galleries at Boise State University, Boise, ID
Mobilizing The Land Scape: Contemporary Artists Explore Landscape and Place, Curated by Emily
Noelle Lambert, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College, Keene, NH
2020 Lover Earth: Art and Ecosexuality, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Drawn: Concept & Craft, curated by Tomas Vu and Wendy Earle, Southeastern Center for Contemporary
Art, Winston-Salem, NC|
Since n’ React to the Drop (online viewing room), curated by David L Bell, OCHI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Constellations (online viewing room), David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
2019 In This Body of Mine: Strange Fire Collective, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of 1619, curated by Kalia Brooks Nelson, Leroy Neiman Gallery,
Columbia University, New York, NY
hands all blue, collaborative work with iris yirei hu, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Performance, a group show curated by Kalup Linzy, Florida Museum of Photographic
Arts, Tampa, FL
2018 Fragment, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Paradise Summit Miami, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
sweet cheeks, Big Pictures Los Angeles, curated by Mélanie Faure & Doug Crocco, Los Angeles, CA
Venus Occults Jupiter (curated by Jennie Lamensdorf), Love Apple Art Space, Ghent, NY
Spirit Ground a film screening organized by UNDERGRUND COLLECTIVE hosted at Coaxial Arts,
Los Angeles, CA
Aguacate, ASSEMBLAGE, Lincoln, NE
Island Press: Recent Prints, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Thinking Through Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
2017 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
The Unhomely, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
Women Painting, Miami Dade College, Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL
New Faces, Different Places, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2016 The Home Show, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM
Girls Who Dance in Dissonance, Wayside, Los Angeles, CA
Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Self-Proliferation, Girls’ Club, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Faces and Vases, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts Cultural Center, curated by Black Salt Collective,
San Francisco, CA
2015 Summer Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Paula Wilson & Jovencio de la Paz, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI
Perception Isn’t Always Reality, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside-Out Art Museum, curated by Tomas Vu, Beijing, China
2014 Lake Effect, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, curated by Mike Andrews, Saugatuck, MI
2013 I Am the Magic Hand, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Organized by Josephine Halvorson, New York, NY
Sanctify, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, Curated by Teka Selman, New York, NY
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011 Art By Choice, Mississippi Museum of Fine Art, Jackson MS
The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York NY
2010 Art on Paper: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Defrosted: A Life of Walt Disney, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
41st Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Carrizozo Artist’s Show, Gallery 408, Carrizozo, NM
2009 While We Were Away, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Spelman
College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Horizon, EFA Gallery, Curated by David Humphrey, New York, NY
Black Alphebet, Contexts of Contemporary African American Art, Zacheta National
Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2006 Turn the Beat Around, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
The Manhattan Project, Fred Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2005 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Studebaker Building, Curated by Jeffrey Uslip,
New York, NY
Recess: Images & Objects in Formation, Rush Gallery, Curated by Derek Adams, New York, NY
2004 Past Perfect, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
After Goya, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, Curated by Tomas Vu Daniel, New York, NY
Hungry Eyes, First Year MFA Exhibition, Columbia University, Ira D. Wallach Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Signs, Public Art Installation, Chicago, IL
2001 Brat(Wurst): A Show of Chicago Artists, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Young Love, Mapreed Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Art in St. Louis, Honorable Mention, Curated by Jerry Saltz, Art St. Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO
AWARDS, HONORS, AND RESIDENCIES
2020 Hodder Fund Grant, Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ
2019 Award of Distinction, Washington University, Sax Fox School of Design and Visual Art,
St. Louis, MO
2018 Speaker, Art Recognition Commencement Ceremony, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art,
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2017 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA
2014 ‘BAZAAR,’ P3 Studio Residency, The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Curated by the Art Production Fund.
Cannonball Visiting Artist Residency, Miami, FL
2009 Fabric Workshop and Museum Residency Grant, Philadelphia, PA
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2009
Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2007 Short List, Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
2006 Giverny Residency, Art Production Fund, Giverny, France
2004 Edward Mazella Jr. Scholarship for Excellence in the Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York
1998 Women’s Studio Workshop Intern, Rosendale, NY
Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency, Johnson, VT, 1998
Milovich Award in Painting, School of Art, Washington University, MO
1994 Founder and Director, The Danchimah Nigerian-American Laboratory Schools Creative Arts
Center, Abia State, Nigeria
COLLECTIONS
The Studio Museum Harlem
New York Public Library
Yale University Art Gallery
Rubell Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Middlebury University
The Norton Collection
Saatchi Gallery
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Moore College of Art and Design
Girls’ Club
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Bowdoin College Museum of Art