JAX
jax.inthenet@gmail.com
Education
2021 BA University of California Berkeley
2024 MFA University of California San Diego
Grants/Awards
2016 Yes! Magazine Spring Powerful Voice Winner, Los Angeles, CA
2017 KASP/TAAP Scholarship Award, Berkeley, CA
2017 Singer Scholarship Award, Berkeley, CA
2018 Leadership Award, Berkeley, CA
2019 Leadership Award, Berkeley, CA
2021 Art Projects Grant, Berkeley, CA
2021 UCSD MFA Fellowship, San Diego, CA
2023 UCSD Russel Grant, San Diego, CA
2023 BSP Travel Grant, San Diego, CA
Exhibitions
2019 Group Exhibition, BlackGirlHealing: THIS Sh*T IS FOR US, Art Exhibition, Fannie Lou Hamer Resource Center, Berkeley, CA
2020 Group Exhibition, Student Senior show, Pocket WRAG, University of California Berkeley
2020 Group Exhibition, In Commemoration of 2020, Artsteps, University of California Berkeley
2022 Group Exhibition, Tether, University of California San Diego
2022 Group Exhibition, Frieze: San Diego, Main Gallery, University of California San Diego
2022 Group Exhibition, The Sun Doesn’t Mean to be so Hot, West Gallery, Cal State Northridge
2022 Group Exhibition, Vis Drawing Showcase, SME, University of California San Diego
2022 Solo Performance, For All You’ve Done For Me, Commons Gallery, University of California San Diego
2023 Solo show, Thank You, Kindly, Performance Space, University of California San Diego
2023 Group Exhibition, i heard you whisper when the veil was thinning, so clearly you said,”together we’re softer”, Harvest & Gather, Witches Tower, San Diego CA
2024 Group Performance Showcase (durational performance) Material Intimacies, Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA
2024 Group Exhibition, GLAMFA, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2024 Group Exhibition, NOT NOW BUT NOW, Mandeville Gallery, University of California San Diego
2024 Solo Thesis Exhibition, Carpal Tunnel Crick Cracks in the Tendons of My Flexors: These Hands Will Never Be the Same, Performance Space, University of California San Diego
2024 Group Exhibition, NextGen 2024, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego , CA
Curatorial Projects
2020 Senior Showcase: Paradigm Shift, University of California Berkeley (online show)
2021 Black Student Union community showcase, University of California Berkeley (online show)
2021 Spring Student Leadership Committee debut showcase, University of California Berkeley (online show)
2022 Abandoned Undergraduate Showcase, University of California San Diego (permanent installation)
2022 The Shape of Films, Performance Space, University of California San Diego
2023 Find Me in the White Room, Main Gallery, University of California San Diego
Organizations
2017-2018 Intern, Black Student Union, University of California Berkeley
2019-2021 Communications Director, Black Student Union, University of California Berkeley
2020-2021 Board Member, Art Practice Student Collaborative, University of California Berkeley
2017-2018 Events Intern, Gender Equity Resource Center, University of California Berkeley
2021- Ms.Demeaner, independent group
2021- The IUD’s, independent performance group
Teaching Experience
2018-20 Poetry For The People, student-teacher poet, University of California Berkeley
2021-24 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California San Diego
Vis 1: Intro/Art Making: 2-D Practices (taught twice)
Vis 11: Introduction to Visual Culture (taught twice)
Vis 84: Film History
Vis 41: Design Communications
Vis 10: Computing Arts Lecture Series
Vis 7: Movie Magic: Melies to Marvel
Gallery/Theatre Experience
2018-19 Costuming assistant, Zellerbach Theater, Berkeley, CA
2019-20 Gallery library intern, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2020-21 Gallery preparator intern, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2021-21 Programs & Exhibitions intern, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2022 Facilities Intern, UC San Diego
2022-23 Lighting design intern, UC San Diego