Born: Hamburg, 1985

Education: Independent Study Program (Studio), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2015–16
Columbia University, School of Arts, New York, M.F.A., 2015
Academy of Fine Arts, HFBK Hamburg, 2012

Currently lives and works in Chicago and Berlin.

2026

Inside, Before They Speak, Barbican Centre, London

2022

Me, Ourself & You, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Observer, Observed, High Line Art, New York

2021

Between Love and Loss, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

2020

New Album, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2019

Fake Truth, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany

2018

Failure Detection, MoMA PS1, New York

2016

Impenetrable Entry, Campoli Presti, London

2013

Several Reasons to Migrate, Hinterconti, Hamburg

2012

One.Equal., HFBK Hamburg

2025

Fictions of Display, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
A Decade of Artists in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Performance on Paper, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
It’s Just a Matter of Time, Palais Populaire, Berlin

2024

Mother Lode: Material and Memory, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2023

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship – The Exhibition 2023, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (catalogue)
Words Don’t Go There, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
Sightlines, Bard Graduate Center, New York
Le Bruit de La Chair. Partition pour gina pane, Fonds Régional d’art Contemporain, Carquefou, France
Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the Distant Past through the Present, The Drawing Center, New York (catalogue)

2022

Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art, Two Temple Place, London. Traveled to York Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Ford Foundation Gallery, New York
Future Bodies from a Recent Past, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art, Two Temple Place, London
Hooking Up: Meet the Collection, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Glen Ellyn, IL

2021

The Society of Contemporary Art Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York
Smashing into my heart, The Renaissance Society, Chicago

2020

Nothing is So Humble: Prints from Everyday Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio, Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom
1 Million Roses for Angela Davis, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
Frank Walter: A Retrospective, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Haptic Feedback, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin

2019

One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Contemporary Art: Five Propositions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000, Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (catalogue)
i campi magnetici, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan
Performing Society: The Violence of Gender, Tai Kwun JC Contemporary, Hong Kong (catalogue)

2018

Positioner, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
In The Air, ma ma Projects, Toronto
Sculptures, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Re: Re: Black Macho, Unleash the Queen, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt
We Don’t Need Another Hero, 10th Berlin Biennale (catalogue)
Face of Another, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum, New York (catalogue)

2017

We Go As They, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (catalogue)
Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London
That I am reading backwards and into for a purpose, to go on, The Kitchen, New York (catalogue)

2016

Whitney Museum ISP Studio Exhibition, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
In Place Of, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

2015

A Constellation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (catalogue)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York

2013

Erogenous Zone, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

2026

Trellis Art Fund “Stepping Stone Grant” (US)

2025

Creative Capital Award, Visual Arts