Born 1989 in Detroit, USA. Lives and works in Detroit, USA.
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
The Flesh Failures, Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
Conspiracy Influencer, EMPAC, Troy, New York, USA
Cruising: The Tale of Gaslighting the Girl Boss to Gate Keep on the High Seas with Old Put and Friends, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
2020
2020 Old Put Acquire-it Network, Larrie, New York, USA (online)
The Peaceable Kingdom, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Secret Honor, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
One Arm Bandit, AALA, Los Angeles, USA
Fighting History with Lightning, MOCAD, Detroit, USA (Curated by Pat Elifritz for Unboxing: Doublespeak)
The Truth Remains that No One Wants to Knows, Larrie, New York, USA
2018
Daughters of the Toy Box, Larrie, New York, USA
Soul Dolphin, What Pipeline hosted by Park View, Los Angeles, USA
2017
The Feather Mantle, Freddy, Harris, USA
FATEBE x OLDPUT, Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
Shrine of Venus, What Pipeline, Detroit, USA, with Valerie Keane.
2016
Brown Study, Plymouth Rock, Zürich, Switzerland
God Gives Us Food, Cornerstore Gallery, Chicago, USA (with Jenn Smith)
All The Brown Butterflies, Essex Flowers, New York, USA
2015
All The Brown Butterflies, Cave, Detroit, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, USA
Search for Tomorrow, Bernheim, London | Zurich
2024
Salon Gstaad Art, Gstaad, Switzerland
2023
The Big Chill, Bernheim, London, UK (forthcoming)
Get together, Reyes Finn, Detroit, USA
MZ.25 (My Condolences), M+B, Los Angeles, USA
Benediction, Friends Artspace, Arlington, USA
2022
LtdWear6, LVL3, Chicago, USA
Neo-Tang, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, USA
GUM:SCALE, Jack Chiles Gallery, New York, USA
Double Life, The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, USA
2021
Double Life / Flayed Beings / Hidden Counterparts, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, USA
Paul Nudd’s Purple Mayonnaisery, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA
Body Double, Bernheim, London, UK
2020
Show Me the Signs, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, USA (Benefit for The African American Policy Forum Say Her Name Mother’s Network)
Six Degrees of Separation, Liebaerts Project, Kortrijk, Belgium
Warmth and Promise, Rachel Uffner, New York, USA
9 Hour Interludes, Studio Angelico at Siena Heights University, Adrian, USA (Curated by Jes Allie, Richard Haley, Trisha Holt, and Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan)
Strange Days: Hit Pause, White Columns, New York, United States (Curated by Jackie Klempay)
2019
Cruise Kidman Kubrick, Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland (Curated by Mitchell Anderson)
Daily Rush / Daata Editions, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, United States
New Image Portrait, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (Curated by Todd Kramer)
Into the Pit, Zurich University of the Arts (Nest), Zurich, Switzerland
2018
Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2018 Benefit EXhibition, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA (Curated by Adam McEwen)
Room after Room, Spring / Break Art Show, curated by Sam Strand and Emily Davidson, USA
Summer of Love, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, USA Documenting Reality, Kunsthalle Wichita, Wichita, USA
Annex at M+B, curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, Los Angeles, CA, USA PreFab/Post-Fab: Art in a Ready Made Era, curated by Amanda Kugliak and Lucy Cahill, The University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, USA
2017
A Spaghetti Dress for World Peace, Park View, Los Angeles, CA, USA
In Paper We Trust, The Dot Project, London, England
Mom... Dad... I’m Getting a Dog, Bahamas Biennale Mukwonago, Wisconsin, USA
Hope, New Scenario, curated by Paul Barsch & Tilman
Hornig, Dresden, Germany
Sinister Feminism, A.I.R. Gallery, curated by Piper Marshall and Lola Kramer Brooklyn, USA
2016
Monster Mash, Vicki Projects, Newburgh, USA
5th Feelings Film Festival, curated by Adam Levett and Chloe Wise for Pop Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Re:Re:Re:, Re:Art Show, curated by Erin Davis and Max C.Lee, Brooklyn, USA
Under the Volcano, LOMEX, New York, USA
God Gives Us Food, Cornerstore Gallery, Chicago, USA
Ever Get the Feeling We’re Not Alone in this World?, What Pipeline, Detroit, USA
15 Steps - Perspectives in Drawing, curated by Tylonn Sawyer, RBHOA, Detroit, USA
Mutiny in Heaven, First Continent, curated by Valerie Keane, Baltimore, USA
2015
The People’s Biennial, curated by Valerie Keane, Long Island City, USA
Feelings Film Festival II, curated by Chloe Wise and Adam Levett, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
E.S.P. TV, curated by Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA
A Form is a Social Gatherer, Plymouth Rock, Zürich, Switzerland
BSLA X Bobby Jesus, Bedstuy Love Affair and Tomorrow Gallery, New York, USA
2014
Video Center, The N’Namdi Center, Detroit, USA (curated by Michaela Mosher for Dlectricity)
American Basketry, Bedstuy Love Affair, curated by Jared Madere, Brooklyn, New York, USA
The Smile Face Museum, curated by Adrienne Garbini, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2013
Framing Space/Narrating Place, curated by Christine Osinski, Leeds College of Art, West Yorkshire, UK
2012
Pollygrind Film Festival, Las Vegas, NVNew Filmmakers New York, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
2011
Videoart.net Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca Cinemas, NY, NY, USA
2009
Brown, The Cooper Union, New York, NY (with Valerie Keane and Emilie Gossiaux)
PerFORMANCES
2022
Conspiracy Influencer, EMPAC, Troy, NY
2020
“The Tragic Mirror”, Zoom puppet show, Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery at Wayne State, Detroit, December 17, 2020
“The Old Put Players Present Rusalka”, Zoom Puppet Show for “9 Hour Interludes” at Studio Angelico at Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI, October 22, 2020
“The Phantom Menace Syndrome”, Zoom puppet show, Stems, Detroit to Brussels, July 2020
2019
“Old Put Signs Podcast Video Headshots in Hollywood, Baby”, AALA, Los Angeles, 1 June 2019
"Old Put Taps out of Depression at a Pizza Parlor", Scarr’s Pizza with Larrie, New York, January 6, 2019
2018
“Old Put Betsy Ross”, University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, MI, January 18, 2018
2017
"More Heart Than Brains", Bernheim, Zurich, June 10-11, 2017
“Thirsty Olde Pitre”, 13th St. Theatre, New York, March 8, 2017 (Curated by Nick Faust for Act Up)
“The Soft Side of Hardcore,” A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, January 28, 2017 (Curated by Lola Kramer and Piper Marshall)
2016
“Harvest Time Dismemberies”, Paris Internationale, Paris, October 19, 2016 “Heritage Bloodbath”, Bahamas Biennial, Detroit, July 22-23, 2016
“The Soft Side of Hardcore”, What Pipeline presented at Giovanna’s Bar, Detroit, July 1, 2016 “The Soft Side of Hardcore”, Plymouth Rock presented at A La Luna Bar, Zürich, May 20, 2016 “The Soft Side of Hardcore”, New Art Dealers Association, New York, May 7, 2016
2014
“All The Brown Butterflies”, PuppetArt Theatre Laboratory, Detroit, October 18, 2014
LECTURES / PROJECTS
Visiting artist for performance class taught by Scott Northrup at College for Creative Studies, Detroit, September 22, 2020.
“Daata 10 x 10”, Instagram Live artist talk with David Gryn, Instagram, July 22, 2020.
Visiting artist for “The Contemporary Art World” class taught by Clayton Press at New York University, May 6, 2020.
“MOCAD Discusses Digital”, Soho House, Chicago, September 20, 2019.
“Family Day Surrealist Face Painting with Old Put”, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, June 15, 2019.
“Artist Talk: Bailey Scieszka”, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, May 11, 2019.
“TALK Bailey Scieszka”, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, February 8, 2018.
“Old Put Crafts: Pinecone Dolls”, What Pipeline, Detroit, June 24, 2017.
AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
2014
PuppetArt Theatre Laboratory, The PuppetArt Theatre, Detroit, MI, USA
2010
The Benjamin Menschel Foundation Grant, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA
EDUCATION
2011 BFA The Cooper Union, New York, NY