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.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Creative Baltimore Fund Artist Grant, 2024 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
Black Rock Center for the Arts -Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. 111th Founders Day Reception
Delaware County Community College - Juried Exhibition Artist Lecture
The Yard - Luminescence Artist Panel Discussion
Eubie Blake Cultural Jazz Center - Artist Panel Discussion
PUBLICATIONS
Art Forum: Editor Pick (Julia Ribeiro#1 Show of 2024
Art Forum: DIMIN Just On The Other Side (Must See)
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
“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 - DIMIN Gallery “Just on the Other Side” Tribeca, NY, NY 2024 - Black Rock Center of the Arts “Between Sunbeams” Germantown, MD 2021 - Rush Arts “Everything & Nothing” Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - DIMIN Gallery (NADA) Miami, FL 2024 - Hamiltonian Fellows (Umbrella Art Fair) Washington D.C. 2024 - American University’s Katzen Art Center “Transcendence” Washington D.C. 2024 - WPA “Hickok Cole” Washington D.C. 2024 - Sean Kelly LA “It Never Entered My Mind” curated by Michael Sherman Los Angeles, CA 2024 - Arting Gallery “Objects Have A Double Life” Baltimore, MD 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- Eubie Blake Cultural Jazz Center “To Witness, To Experience, To Reflect II” Baltimore, MD 2023 - Zo Gallery “Construction, Deconstruction” Baltimore, MD 2023 - Hudson Guild Gallery “Dialogue: Taj Poscé & Wanda Payne” New York, NY 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 Square, PA
RESIDENCIES
Yale Norfolk Summer Arts
ART FAIRS
2024 - NADA Miami 2024 - Umbrella Art Fair
JUDGING, JURIES, & PANELS
2023 - The Yard - Luminescence Artist Panel Discussion 2022 - Eubie Blake Cultural Jazz Center - Artist Panel Discussion 2022 - Episcopal Academy - Dora Khayatt Art Awards 2018 - Episcopal Academy - Dora Khayatt Art Awards
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
2025 - Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art - Cardiff, Wales 2016 - Penn State University (Abington) Archive - Abington, Pennsylvania