VILLAGER

Education:

University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

2021-2022 MS in Marine Estuary Environmental Science

completed 19 of 30 credits


Towson University, Towson, MD

2020 BS in Environmental Chemistry, minor in Biology

Awards:

2025 - Baltimore Mayor's Office Individual Artist Award, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Free Fall Baltimore Grant, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Maryland State Arts Council Grants for Artists Award, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Black Arts District Community Sponsorship Grant, Baltimore, MD

Artist Talks and Guest Lectures:

2024 - Visiting Artist Lecture, Gouache and Paint, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Visiting Artist Lecture, Architecture, Urbanism, and Built Environments PhD Dissertation Circle, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Facilitator, HAVE FAITH- with HOPE McCorkle and FAITH McCorkle, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Artist, OHUN ÀṢẸ, Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower 

2024 - Panelist, Kreative Keynotes, Vinyl and Pages, Baltimore, MD

2023 - Panelist, Holiday on Holliday, Baltimore City Hall, Baltimore, MD

2022 - Artist, Chesapeake Arts Center, BUSH BOY!, solo exhibition Artist Talk

Selected Performances:

2024 - The Peale Museum, THE POWER OF CHOICE 

2024 - Creative Alliance, All the words I haven't said - Keyboard and Voice Accompaniment

2024 -  Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, Pheonix in the Portal

2024 - Creative Alliance, Bahia Meets Baltimore: A GENTE Fundraiser

2024 - Maryland Art Place, Spiritual Ginger

2024 - THE ROUSE COMPANY FOUNDATION GALLERY, THANKS THANKS THANKS,

Solo Exhibitions: 

2024 - Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, ÀṢẸ: Embodying the Divine, Baltimore, MD

2022 - Chesapeake Arts Center, BUSH BOY!, Brooklyn Park, MD

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024 - Atrium Artspace, HARD TO NAIL, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Riggs & Leidy Gallery (MICA), B24 Artscape, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Artspace Vigidal, Sou(l): Mostra de Arte Afro-Diaspórica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2024 - Papermill Playhouse, AFROFUTURISM: 100 years after the Harlem Renaissance, Millburn, NJ

2024 - SGK Virtual Gallery Space, Heritage & Harmony: Black Artists Shaping Futures, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Alchemy of Art, Illuminating the Unseen, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Motor House, Category is Red, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Accelerator Space, Baltimore Art Auction to Benefit Love & Cornbread, Baltimore, MD

2024 - University of Maryland School of Medicine, Unveiling Equity, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Waller Gallery, Just Among Us, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Chesapeake Arts Center, Creative Freedom: Celebrating Black History Month, Brooklyn Park, MD

2024 - THE ROUSE COMPANY FOUNDATION GALLERY at Howard Community College, MOLASSES, Columbia, MD

2024 - Motor House, TRUCE | The war in the world | The war within, Baltimore, MD

2023 - Baltimore City Hall, Holiday on Holliday: Baltimore’s Mosaic of Holiday Hope & Harmony, Baltimore, MD

2023 - Max Gallery, The Awakening, Baltimore, MD

2023 - Superchief Gallery LA, BLAQ SHEEP, Los Angeles, CA

2023 - Gallery 410, We Create By Being, Baltimore, MD    

2022 - OCA MOCHA, Full Scope, Baltimore, MD  

2022 - OCA MOCHA, Embodying Empowerment, Baltimore, MD

2022 - Motor House, Learning to Love As I Do, Baltimore, MD     


Auctions:

2024 - Calabar Gallery NIGERIAN ART AUCTION in collaboration with TAAG Gallery, Nike Art Gallery, USA, Lagos Art Shows, NYC


Community Engagement + Facilitation:

2024 - Stage Hand, dancing with my shadows: a journey to self-discovery by HOPE, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Guest Juror, MORGANNALE STUDENT WORK EXHIBITION, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Creative Consultant, ARCH 305: Design and Human Behavior, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Facilitator, CONVERSATIONS IN CANVAS with Kehinde Applewhite, Gallery 410, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Facilitator, CONVERSATIONS IN CANVAS with BlissArmyKnife, Mezzanine Gallery, Bromo Seltzer Tower, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Facilitator, CONVERSATIONS IN CANVAS with Adewale Alli, Baltimore, MD for CONVERSATIONS IN CANVAS, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Lead Facilitator, RHYTHMS AND RECONNECTION, Bromo Seltzer Tower, Baltimore, MD

2023 - Lead Facilitator, Cyanotype Workshop, Nomu Nomu, Baltimore, MD

2023 - Installation Assistant, Heaven is in Baltimore, Eubie Blake Center, Baltimore, MD

2022 - Volunteer, Nomu Nomu, Baltimore, MD

2022 - Mural Painter, Project Backboard, Patterson Park Basketball Courts

2022 - Facilitator, Community Art, Paint, Filbert Street Garden, Brooklyn Park, MD    

Curatorial Projects:

2024 - Guest curator, HARD TO NAIL, Atrium Artspace, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Curator, ÀṢẸ: Embodying the Divine, Mezzanine Gallery, Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, Baltimore, MD

2024 - Co-Curator, A SUM OF ME- solo exhibition by Kehinde Applewhite, Gallery 410, Baltimore, MD                                                          

Press and Publications:

Baltimore Banner, The artist VILLAGER creates rituals of remembrance with ‘AfroAbstracture’ in BOPA exhibit 

NUNAR, VILLAGER’s Art Ignites an Expansive Vision of African Identity

NjArts.net, Afrofuturism exhibit at Paper Mill Playhouse is also concerned with the past

Bmore Art, Annie Howe, VILLAGER, Maryland State Archives, 

Baltimore Banner, Artists exchange between Baltimore and Brazil highlights Black culture, 

BmoreArt Calendar, ÀṢẸ: Embodying the Divine” – solo exhibition by VILLAGER

Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts,  Artscape, B 24 Exhibition 

Actuality, Perception of self                                                                

7: the magazine by Ethan Velez          


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