Education
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY. Bachelors of Industrial Design (BID), cum laude, 2009

Exhibitions
2024 Couples Squared, curator: Phyllis Tuchman, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton NY

2023 Kindred Words: The Priscila and Alvin Hudgins Collection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY

2018 Out of Line, Long Gallery, New York NY

2015 Jumping the Line, Artiz Group, New York NY

2012 Hillman U. (A Dream Deferred; A Dream Fulfilled), installation of wearable art by Derrick Adams set in an environment by Michael Chuapoco, Proposition Gallery, New York NY

2011 DIFFA’s Dining By Design, New York NY

2010 Take a Seat, Cologne Furniture Fair, Cologne Germany 

2009 Studio View: Making of Derrick Adams’s “Joe Louis Boxing Gym” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY

2009 Third+Bond, Brooklyn NY

2009 BKLYN DESIGNS, Brooklyn NY

Relevant Experience
2014-2022, Studio Manager, Derrick Adams Studio, Brooklyn NY

2010-2014, Designer, Furniture + Products, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, New York NY  

2005-2009, Gallery Assistant, Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center (Non-Profit), New York NY

Press
Segal, Mark. Collaborative Creation, The East Hampton Star, July 25, 2024

Hardwood, Barry. The Expert Eye, The Magazine Antiques, May 11, 2009


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