ARTIST IN RESIDENCE/VISITING ARTIST
2009 The Obama Effect: Re-Constructing Racial Consciousness (OBAMART), Studio 137 Gallery, Golden Belt Arts,
Durham, NC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 FibeRoids, Art on Armitage Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Colored Line of Defense, (The Obama Effect: Re-Constructing Racial Consciousness (OBAMART), Studio 137
Gallery, Golden Belt Arts, Durham, NC
2009 The Obama Effect: Re-Constructing Racial Consciousness, Studio 137 Gallery, Golden Belt Arts, Durham, NC
2008 Preoccupied with “Why”: A Thirty-Something Wonders, Walker Fine Art Gallery, Patrick Henry Community College,
Martinsville, VA (“Virginia Visionaries Program”, funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National
Endowment for the Arts)
2007 Journeys into Cathartic Abstraction, Bondurant Center/Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA
2005 Manna from the Marquee: Spiritual Guidance from the Side of the Road, Gates of Eden Messianic Resource Center &
Art Gallery, East Peoria, IL
2000 Woman’s Work, Armory Art Gallery, Blacksburg, VA
2000 Hard to Ingest, Media Room, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2 PERSON OR SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Object: Found, Multiplied, Manipulated, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredricksburg,
VA
2009 Fight or Flight, Ye Old Heart of Gold Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Art & Soul: Kindred Words, Sounds & Images, Montgomery County Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center,
Christiansburg, VA
2008 New Media/Mixed Media: A Virginia Tech Art Faculty Exhibition, Terrace Gallery, Capital One Corporation, Richmond,
VA Headquarters
2008 TXT/ART-Text and Art, Omaha Lit Fest, Omaha, NE
2005 Black History Month Show, featuring work Yonsenia White & Cody F. Miller, Gates of Eden Messianic Resource
Center and Art Gallery, East Peoria, IL
2003 Black Faculty Presence in the Arts: Recent Work by Yonsenia White and Robert Henry Graham, Armory Art Gallery,
Blacksburg, VA
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Self Evident: Contemporary American Self-Portraiture, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University,
Morehead, KY
2007 Art Movements: Past & Present, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
2007 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
2006 Members & Friends Show, ALL Gallery(Arts Literature Laboratory), New Haven, CT
2005 Stereotypes & Catharsis, Pearl Conrad Gallery, The Ohio State University-Mansfield, Mansfield, OH
2005 Race (Enter Personal Politics), Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc., Athens, GA
2005 Girardot National Juried Exhibition, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Arts Council & Lorimer Gallery, Cape
Girardeau, MO
2005 Unzipped: The Erotic Show, The Chait Galleries Downtown, Iowa City, IA
2005 Women, Words and Images, Smithtown Township Arts Council, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY
2005 Erotic Art Show, Market Street Gallery & MesART.Com, San Francisco, CA
2005 Women Shine Through, Art Harvest & WEAVE, Sacramento, CA
2004 As I Am, 3rd Annual Women’s Art Show, Jaffe Arts Center, Norfolk, VA
2004 7th Annual XXX Adults Only Invitational, Eleven East Ashland, Phoenix, AZ
2004 Crossing the Line: Wearables to Unwearables, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
2003 New River Art ’03, Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA
2003 Women, Trauma & Visual Expression Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Lynchburg Juried Photography Exhibit, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA
2003 Savvy: Media Influence in Contemporary Society, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO
2003 Found Object Exhibit, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
2003 Fire & Ice International Juried Exhibition, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
2001 Virginia Tech Faculty Show, Armory Art Gallery, Blacksburg, VA
1999 Juried Exhibition, The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
1998 Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Project, New York City, NY
PERFORMANCES AS FEATURED ARTIST
2009 Wrestling With No Response, (The Obama Effect: Re-Constructing Racial Consciousness (OBAMART), Studio 137
Gallery, Golden Belt Arts, Durham, NC
2009 An Evening of Performance Poetry with Spectral Arts featuring Yonsenia White, XYZ Gallery, Blacksburg, VA
2009 Smoke & Mirrors, Opening Reception for Art & Soul: Kindred Words, Sounds & Images, Montgomery County
Museum, & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, Christiansburg, VA
2005 Scream, Closing Day Events for Race (Enter Personal Politics) Exhibition, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc.,
Athens, GA
2004 Dodging Bullets, Goo Art Performance Collective, Haymarket Theatre Basement Stage, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg,VA
2004 Focus on God, “Café Bizosso”: sponsored by Alternate R.O.O.T.S. of Atlanta, GA and Goo Art Performance/Theatre
Collectives, Performing Arts Building, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2002 White Girls Have All the Luck, From Margin to Center Stage: Silhouette & Virginia Tech’s Women Studies Program
Benefit Showcase, Blacksburg, VA
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2009 Perspective Gallery, Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
HONORS & AWARDS
1999 Science and Technology Award
Juried Exhibition, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
GALLERY MEMBERSHIPS
2006-2007 ALL Gallery, (Arts + Literature Laboratory), New Haven, CT
LECTURES AS VISITING ARTIST
2008 “Preoccupied & Painting About It”, Preoccupied with ‘Why’: A Thirty-Something Wonders, Walker Fine Art Gallery,
Patrick Henry Community College, Martinsville, VA
2008 “Censorship in Socio-Political Art”, Claypool-Young Art Gallery & Cultural Studies Program, Morehead State
University, Morehead, KY
2005 “Race and Personal Politics”, Race (Enter Personal Politics) Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc., Chase Street
Warehouse (Unit 4) Gallery, Athens, GA
2005 “Roadside Religion”, Manna from the Marquee: Spiritual Guidance from the Side of the Road, Gates of Eden
Messianic Resource Center and Art Gallery, East Peoria, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY – EXHIBITION REVIEWS, CATALOGUES and ARTICLES as a PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Kittredge, Kevin. “Off the canvas,” (Arts & Culture section), The Roanoke Times, June 7, 2009, p. 1 & 4
(online version: http://www.roanoke.com/wb/xp-207350).
Key, Lindsey. “It’s the message, not the medium,” (New River Valley Current), The Roanoke Times, Thursday, August 30,
2007, p. 1 & 4. (online version: www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/xp-129971).
Whitmire, Lou. “Exhibit confronts past sins of prejudice, stereotypes”, Mansfield New Journal, Tuesday, October 4, 2005,
p. 3A.
Phillips, Julie. “Color Culture: ATHICA Enters the ‘Race’ ”, Athens Banner-Herald, September 7, 2005,
Panetta, Gary. “Virginia Woman’s Work Focuses on Roadside Religion,” The Journal Star, June 12, 2005, p. C3.
Drinkard, Nisha. “Crossing the Line: Wearable to Unwearable.” Surface Design Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Spring 2005):
pp. 30-33.
O’Neal, Jim. “Nude Models Spice Iowa City Art Show”, “The Gazette”, Iowa Today,” April 15, 2005, pp.1B & 6B.
Van Winkle, Alissa. “Reflecting the Bare Essentials”, The Daily Iowan, April 14, 2005, p. 4C.
Perrin, Marlene J. “I.C. Erotic Art Show to Bare All This Week”, “The Gazette“, Iowa Today, April 10, 2005, p.15.
Harrison, Helen A. “The Rewards of a Story Well Told,” The New York Times Long Island Edition, April 3, 2005, p.12.
Creamer, Anita. “Reclaiming One’s Self Through Art”, The Sacramento Bee, February 11, 2005, pp. E1 & E5.
Nilsen, Richard. “Studio Celebrates ‘Turning Legal’ with ‘Adults Only’ Exhibit of Works”, The Arizona Republic, April 8, 2004,
p. 37.
Bermudez, Julian. “Eye on Art: Trash Transforms Into Treasured Art in Long Beach Arts Exhibit”, Grunion Gazette, June 12,
2003, p.12B.
Gottlieb, Shirle. “Art for Thought: Found Object Show at Long Beach Arts Reflects the Times with Its More Serious Tone”,
Press-Telegram, May 30, 2003, p. 36.
Conwill, Kinshasha Holman. “Juror’s Statement: Commentary on ‘Hard to Ingest’ ”, Peninsula Fine Arts Center Juried
Exhibition Catalogue (August 28-November 7, 1999) p. 2.
EDUCATION
1997-1999 MFA, Visual Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ (Magna Cum Laude)
1996-1997 BFA, Studio Art, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1992-1996 BA, Studio Art, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA