EDUCATION
Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore — MFA
August 2022 - May 2024
Received the highest merit scholarship to the Leroy Hoffberger painting program.
Tyler School of Arts, Philadelphia — BFA
August 2016 - December 2018
Studied at the Temple University Rome campus in art studio studies and practice on a study abroad scholarship.
RESIDENCIES
Yale Norfolk Summer Arts
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Congressional Black Caucus Visual Artist Award, 2023
Leroy E. Hoffberger Fund, 2022-2024
Hoffberger Foundation Fellow, 2022-2024
MAP Black Artist Grant and Fellowship, 2020
Temple Rome Study Abroad Scholarship, 2018
Heckt Award in Printmaking, 2019
Bertha Lear Painting Award, 2015
ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES
Delaware County Community College - Juried Exhibition Artist Lecture, 2023 - Media, PA
The Yard - Luminescence Artist Panel Discussion, 2023 - Washington D.C
Maryland Institute College of Art - LaToya Hobbs Fundamentals of Drawing Class, 2023 - Baltimore, MD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Handbook on Critical Arts-Based Methods (tentative title), Vanessa López-2025
Anatomy of the Crit: Dialogues from the L.E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Joan Waltemath-2025
When A Star Burns - Self-Published, Indigo Ink Printed, 2024
Elegies, Futurities, and Now: Anti-Carceral Freedom Struggles in Urban Appalachia, 2024
“Rush Arts Philadelphia Rush Tales: Taj Poscé Studio” , Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2021
“These are must sees in the gallery this fall”, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2021
“Fellow, Mural Arts 2020 Fellowship for Black Artist” - Fox29 News - 2020
“Black Lives Matter movement has impact on artists - and they have our attention” - Courier Post - 2020
“Leave A Trail” - Connections Magazine – 2019
“Temple Univ. student heading to Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art” - Philadelphia Tribune – 2018
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Black Rock Center of the Arts “Between Sunbeams” Germantown, MD
2021 - Rush Arts “Everything & Nothing” Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Sean Kelly LA “It Never Entered My Mind” curated by Michael Sherman Los Angeles, CA
2024 - Decker Gallery “Twelve, or Some Final Hour” (Graduate Thesis Exhibition) Baltimore, MD
2024 -Perth Amboy Gallery “Diaspora” Perth Amboy, NJ
2023 - The Yard “Luminescence” Washington, D.C.
2023 - 610|215 Contemporary Delaware County Community College “Juried Exhibition by Mark T. Gibson” Media, PA
2023 - Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery Fred Lazarus IV Center “Conjure” Baltimore, MD
2023 - NoMü NoMü Gallery “Hand to Eye” Baltimore, MD
2023 - NoMü NoMü Gallery “Salt Eaters” Baltimore, MD
2023 - WPA “Benefit Auction” Washington D.C
2023 - Celeum Gallery “Behind City Walls” Chelsea NY, NY
2023 - Zo Gallery “Construction, Deconstruction” Baltimore, MD
2023 - Hudson Guild Gallery (Two Person Exhibition) “Dialogue: Taj Poscé & Wanda Payne” New York, NY
2023 - Eubie Blake Cultural Jazz Center, “To Witness, To Experience, To Reflect“ Baltimore, MD
2022 - Leidy Gallery Fred Lazarus IV Center “We Are Not Similar” Baltimore, MD
2022 - Gallery CA “To Witness, To Experience, To Reflect“ Baltimore, MD
2022 - Cherry St. Pier “Tiny Rooms for Elephants Art Festival” Philadelphia, PA
2019 – Old City Jewish Arts Center “My Freedom” Philadelphia, PA
2019 – Bishop Gallery “Still Nigga” Brooklyn, NY
2019 – Vox Populi “What Makes That Black?” Philadelphia, PA
2018 – Temple University Rome “BFA Show” Rome, Italy
2018 – Yale Norfolk School of Art “Terrain” Norfolk, CT
2017 - Blank Canvas Gallery “Past the Present” Miami, FL
2016 – Penn State Abington “Bertha Lear Juried Exhibition” Abington, PA
2016 – CCC Gallery “Converse” Newtown Sq., PA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022, “Art is Love”, Rush Arts, assistant-curator of Noah Smalls