b. in Prince George’s County, MD
EDUCATION
2017 MFA, University of Texas at Austin
2014 BFA Print and Photography, Old Dominion University
2011 AAA Studio Art, Tidewater Community College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 the meaning wavers, with Betelhem Makonnen, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
2019 Preludes, Collaboration with Alicia Link for Partial Shade A Platform/Co-Lab Project, Austin, TX
2018 were friends/foes now foes/friends, Cage Match Project, Austin, TX
2018 we good – we OK, NWOSU AIR Solo Exhibition, OK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon, Texas Biennial, Houston, TX
2021 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2020 vaya pues, BOX13 Artspace, Houston, TX
2020 Preludes screening, SPE Media Festival, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2019 Preludes screening, Señorita Cinema: Super Shorts!, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
2019 Preludes screening, Inteference Fest: Women Making Noise 2019, The North Door, Austin TX
2019 Poems, Protests and a Dream, MECA, Houston, TX
2018 Our On Goings, Moonmist , Houston, TX
2018 Staycation: Thresholds, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
2018 Mujeres del Sur, The Union Art Center, Houston, TX
2018 incREDible Red Dot Event, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
2018 The Temperature 01: Raw Hide curated by Ian Breidenbach, The Neon Heater, Findlay, OH
2018 Partial Shade 2: Finer Feelings, Austin, TX
2018 I Am Art: Celebrating 40 years of Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2017 Trouble, Visual Arts Center, Austin TX
2016 Paraphrase, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
2016 Partial Shade, Austin, TX
2016 The W, Austin, TX
2016 SOTA Benefit, Samuel Merritt University, Oakland, CA
2014 No Vacancy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
2011 40th Annual Student Art & Design Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Tidewater
Community College, Portsmouth, VA
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2016 College of Fine Arts Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin
2016-17 College of Fine Arts/Diversity Graduate School Continuing Fellowship
2015-16 Russell Lee Endowed Presidential Scholarship: Photo, University of Texas at Austin
2015-16 College of Fine Arts/Graduate School Diversity Supplement Fellowship, University of
Texas at Austin
2014 Art Department Photography Grant, Old Dominion University
2013 Lorraine & Dr. H. William Fink Art Scholarship in honor of Ken Daley, Old Dominion
University
2011 Visual Arts Center Student Scholarship, Tidewater Community College
LECTURES/ ARTIST TALKS & PANELS
2021 Virtual Artist Lecture , Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Virtual Artist Lecture Education Program, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2020 TALKABOUT: the meaning wavers a conversation with Betelhem Makonnen and Stephanie Concepcion Ramirez, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
2019 Latino Art Now! 2019, USLAF: Latinx Art is American Art with Adriana Zavala, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado and Juan Sánchez, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2019 Poems, Protests and a Dream: Artist Talk + Performance, MECA, Houston, TX
2019 KPFT 90.1FM, Nuestra Palabra with Tony Diaz hosted by MantecaHTX
2018 Mujeres Speak Artist Panel, Mujeres del Sur, The Union Art Center, Houston, TX
2018 Visiting Artist Lecture, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, OK
2017 Trouble Colloquium, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin
RESIDENCIES
2019 The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2019 ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
2018 AIR Visual Arts Program, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, OK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 TexasMonthly, A Riveting Houston Art Exhibit Explores Race, Class, and Immigration, https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/houston-art-exhibit-in-place-of-an-index/
2019 Hyperallergic, Two Transnation Artists Connect Through Shared Experiences of Displacement, the meaning wavers at Women & Their Work Gallery, https://hyperallergic.com/532642/two-transnational-artists-connect-through-shared-experiences-of-displacement/
2019 The Intergenerational X - Reflections on Latino Art Now!2019, https://wp.nyu.edu/latinxproject/2019/04/29/the-intergenerational-x-reflections-on-latino-art-now-2019-by-sonja-elena-gandert/
2018 Austin Chronical, MASS Gallery Staycation: Thresholds, https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2018-11-16/staycation-thresholds/?fbclid=IwAR3p8O-PMmsL3AZ_uXJ4BKtNfYUpQWewuWF1EWamym7hlWtqgcc8QCnXJXw
2018 La Horchata Zine, Primavera Issue, Washington, D.C., Spring 2018, https://lahorchatazine.bigcartel.com/product/la-horchata-zine-primavera
2017 The Broadroom, “Issue 43: Let Our Dreamers Stay”, The Broad Memo. 12/13/17
https://www.thebroadroomnyc.com/broad-memo-archive/2018/1/10/issue-43-let-our-dreamers-stay