My writings.
ART
Juxtapoz Magazine
“Amanda Ba: Frustration & Desire” Winter 2025
“Elizabeth Glaessner: The In-Between” Fall 2024
“Wendy Red Star: What’s in a Name” Fall 2024
“Not in Charge: An Interview with Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson” Fall 2024
“Nostalgia for the Present Tense: An Interview with Chelsea Ryoko Wong” / August 2024
“The Roller Coaster of Life: An Interview with Justin Hager” / July 2024
“Joy Yamusangie: Primary Colors” / Summer 2024
“rafa esparza: A Sense of Generosity” / Summer 2024
“Euan Roberts: Take Me Away from this Lonesome Town” / June 2024
“Bony Ramirez: Cutthroat” / Spring 2024
“Philly and Friendship: Tierra Whack and Alex Da Corte Make The Best Art Together” / April 2024
“This is BOLD: A Conversation with Aplerh-Doku Borlabi and Gallerist Jonathan Carver Moore” / April 2024
“Review: Geoffrey Holder @ James Fuentes Gallery is an Altar to the Legacies of Black Art Making” / March 2024
“Interview: Curator Naz Cuguoglu on the Asian Art Museum's "Into View: New Voices, New Stories” / February 2024
“Sarah Lee: At Moonlight” / Winter 2024
“Rashaad Newsome’s AI artwork “BEING” Makes its Sundance Premiere” / January 2024
“Interview: Carolyn Drake Questions the Myths of Masculinity in "Men Untitled"“ / November 2023
“Genevieve Gaignard: A Hit to the Head” / Fall 2023
“Review: “The Night is Not Over”for Louis Barbe” / October 2023
“Kimsooja: Weaving the Light @ Cisternerne in Copenhagen, Denmark” / August 2023
“Kezia Harrell: To Be Precious” / Summer 2023
“Gary Simmons: Public Enemy @ the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago” / July 2023
“Sadie Barnette: The Lexicon Of” / Spring 2023
“Jesse Mockrin: A Tragedy in Two Parts” / Spring 2023
“Genevieve Cohn: Carrying Stones” / Winter 2023
“Kehinde Wiley: Magic” / Fall 2022
“Kate Pincus-Whitney: Generosity of Spirit” / Summer 2022
“As I Live and Breathe: Angela Hennessy” / April 2022
"Joy Labinjo: Fun & Games” / Spring 2022
“Esteban Samayoa: Cancer Sun, Cancer Moon” / Winter 2022
“Shaina McCoy: It's a Family Affair” / Fall 2021
“Jenna Gribbon: The Pleasure of Looking” / Summer 2021
“Shannon T. Lewis: A Performance of Many Lifetimes” / Spring 2021
“Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: You’re in America” / Winter 2020
“Lina Iris Viktor: Dark Mark Has Substance” / Summer 2020
Elephant Magazine
“How to Feel: Five Artists Reflect on the Legacy of Alvin Ailey” / December 2024
“Reimagining Community on Two Wheels with ‘And Still We Ride’” / October 2024
““Get in the Game”: Seph Rodney on the Exhibition About Winning, Losing and Everything In-Between” / October 2024
“Collecting the World’s Debris with Lonnie Holley” / July 2024
“The Nigerian Renaissance in Venice” / April 2024
“Essence Harden is Everything and Everywhere, All at Once” / March 2024
“Good in Any Hood: Andrew Pierre Hart Opens at Whitechapel Gallery” / February 2024
“The Guggenheim’s Ashley James Is Focused on the Work – Like She Always Has Been” / December 2023
“Reginald Sylvester II’s Afro Futuristic Works Are Omens of The Apocalypse” / November 2023
“Even Ja’Tovia Gary Has to Slow Down” / October 2023
“Micaiah Carter’s Debut Monograph What’s My Name Carries on the Legacy of the Honoured Black Photographer” / August 2023
Alta Journal
“Lava Thomas: Portrait of Phenomenal Women” October 2024
“Mickalene Thomas’s Visions of Love” September 2024
“Simone Leigh’s Timeless Artwork Gets a Major Los Angeles Show”
August 2024
BylineByline, “Inside The Brain Of Bay Area Artist Jenny Sharaf”
April 2024
NY Mag’s The Cut, “Women at Rest: Ten Black artists imagine the freedom of leisure at ICA San Francisco’s “Resting Our Eyes” exhibition”
January 2023
San Francisco Chronicle, “Oakland Artist Woody De Othello Molds his Imagination From Everyday Objects”
February 2021
Nob Hill Gazette, “Reimagining the Museum Experience with Susan Dackerman, Cantor Art Museum”
June 2019
Nob Hill Gazette, "Claudia Altman-Siegel Gallery: The Power of Ten”
May 2019
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INSTITUTION + GALLERY PUBLICATIONS
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, “Meet Bay Area Artist Clare Rojas” 2024
Stems Gallery, “Shaina McCoy, No Tears for the Sun” 2024
ICA San Jose, “Blood, Sweat, and Time: Emerging Perspectives on Mildred Howard and Adrian Burrell” 2024
MARUANI MERCIER Gallery, “Kwesi Botchway, Rumors of Blackness” 2022
GNYP Gallery, “Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne” 2022
Marianne Ibrahim Gallery Publication, “Amoako Boafo MONOGRAPH” 2021
Stanford Cantor Arts Center Magazine, “Reflections on the Forces that Push and Pull us Towards Home”
May 2021
MARUANI MERCIER Gallery, “Esiri Erheriene-Essi, The Future Isn't What It Used To Be” 2021
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ESSAYS
New York Times, “The Other Talk”
January 2019
Mother Magazine, “Having a Bad Mother on Mother’s Day”
May 2019
The Bold Italic, “Black People Are Struggling With How to Forgive You”
June 2020
REPRESENT COLLABORATIVE, “Eat the Cake? When Your Birthday Aligns With Tragedy”
May 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine, “Copenhagen, Paris, and Sweet Sweet Sarajevo” / January 2024
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FICTION
Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest, Shortlist, “A Chance to Be Reborn” 2024
San Francisco’s Writers Conference, Finalist for Fiction, “Band-Aid” 2020