EDUCATION

2015 - 2020    College for Creative Studies, BFA Photography, Minor Fine Art, Hons
2018    The American University of Paris, The Historical Foundations of Law
2017-2018    Paris College of Art, Art Conservation, Design Management, Fashion Film

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016   The Heart of Identity, The Charles H Wright Museum, Detroit, MI  
2016   Student Spotlight, Studio 1219 Gallery, Port Huron, MI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 CCS Alumni Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2024 Out of the Vault, Into the Light, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2024 ClockWork: Featuring Ahya Simone and The Mirrored Glass, Irwin House Gallery, Detroit, MI
2024 In The Beginning, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2024 Visions: 16 Detroit Artists, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2023 d.Tree Studio: Two Institutions, Three Trees, Twelve Makers, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2023 We. Look. Good, Irwin House Gallery, Detroit, MI
2022 Home: Reimagining Interiority, NYU Tish Photography, and Imaging, New York, NY
2022 Imagine This! Part One, Collected Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI
2022 Home: Reimagining Interiority, National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL
2021 d.Tree Studio Exhibition, College for Creative Studies Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
2021 Biophilia, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
2020    nothing is clear, nothing is certain, Ann Arbour Art Center, Ann Arbour, MI
2020    Visions of Detroit, Charles H Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2020    Colour Me Different, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
2020    New Media Abstraction and Identity Politics: in Traditional and Contemporary Black Visual Art, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC
2019    Art Party Auction, National Conference of Artists, Detroit, MI
2019    Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2018    C-Project Exhibition PFW, Galerie Joseph, Paris, France
2018   End of Year Exhibition, Paris College of Art, Paris, France
2017    Souvenir, Negatif Plus, Paris, France
2017   Visions of Identity, The Art of Custom Framing, Troy, MI
2017   Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 
2017    National Finalist Exhibit, National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL
2016    Cintron Auction and Book Signing, Pink Polo for Breast Cancer, Val de Vie Estate, Cape Town, South Africa
2016    National YoungArts Exhibit, Sotheby’s Auction House, New York, NY
2016   Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 
2015   Glocal Exhibition, College for Creative Studies U245, Detroit, MI
2015   Two Emerging Teen Artists, Sherwood Forest Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
2015   Art Rhythm, Dell Pryor Gallery, Detroit, MI
2015  Cintron Pink Polo for Breast Cancer, Val de Vie Estate, Cape Town, South Africa 
2015  Teen Art Program Exhibit, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2015  NAACP National ACT-SO Exhibition,  Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2015  78th Annual Student Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2015  Microsoft’s 2nd Annual Fine Art Competition, The Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2015  Scholastic Art Awards of Southeastern Michigan, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2014  Photography Competition and Exhibition, St. Andrew High School for Girls, Kingston, Jamaica.
2013  Jamaica Cultural Development Commission National Visual Art and Exhibition, Jamaica Conference Centre, Kingston, Jamaica.

PERFORMANCES

2024 Harp Duet with Anjel Mantel, The Mirrored Glass, Irwin House Gallery, Detroit, MI
2024 National YoungArts Foundation Annual Gala, Cast directed by Tony Award-Winning Actor Daniel J. Watts, Harp, Faena Forum, Miami, FL
2023 A Night In Blue, Original Composition for Cello and Harp, Detroit School of Art’s Aaliyah Hall, Detroit, MI
2023 Centaurs Become Human, Original Composition for Solo Harp, Detroit School of Art’s Aaliyah Hall, Detroit, MI
2023 Charles H. Wright Museum Sunday Strings, Solo Harp, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2023 William Grant Still Afro-American Symphony, Vaughan Williams Norfolk Rhapsody, Harp DSOCE, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, MI
2023 Charles H. Wright Museum Annual Gala, Harp Section, Urban Art Orchestra, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2023 A Night in Blue live presentation with Dr. Davis Cotton, Violin and Spoken Word, River Rouge School District, River Rouge, MI
2023 Opening Reception for Photographer Emmy Perryman, Harp, City of Dearborn Community Hall, Dearborn, MI
2023 Ribbon in the Sky, These Three Words, Solo Harp Set, Stevie Wonder Tribute Music Festival for National Minority Mental Health Month, Stevie Wonder Ave. Detroit, MI
2023 Kesswa Immersive Performance ft Urban Art Orchestra, Harp, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, MI
2023 The Soul of Black Philanthropy Juneteenth Celebration ft Solo Harp set and Harp Section with Urban Art Orchestra, Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, MI
2023 A Flight Through Memory: Original Live Score For Harp and Voice, Harp Immersive Performance, The Congregation Café, Detroit, MI
2023 Fingal Cave Overture, William Grant Still Serenade, Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnole, Conducted by Maritza Garibay, 1st Violin DSOCE, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, MI
2023 Brahms Symphony No.4, Angélica Négron Marejada, Ravel Boléro, Conducted by Maritza Garibay, 1st Violin DSOCE, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, MI
2022 Beethoven 7th, Danse Macabre, and Peer Gynt Suit No.1, Conducted by Maritza Garibay, 1st Violin DSOCE, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, MI
2021 Film Production and Performance: Respecting the Wisdom of Trees through People, Place, and History, Art Direction and Choreography, Eliza Howell Park, Detroit, MI
2020  A Night in Blue, Violin Solo, The Delta Service Through Detroit Foundation, Detroit, MI
2019  The Night Is On My Mind collaboration with Artist Senghor Reid, Flute and Violin, The Raw Space, Detroit, MI
2019  Cord Dance collaboration with Artist Yvette Rock, Flute, The Andy Arts Center, Detroit, MI
2019  Violin Concerto 3rd Movement (The River), Violin Solo, C-Project Detroit Month of Design at CCS, Detroit, MI
2019  Series of Original Violin Concertos, Violin Solo and Duet, Home of Dr. Margaret Betts, Detroit, MI
2019  Flower Child collaboration with harpist Ahya Simone, Violin, Eastern Market, Detroit, MI
2019  A Poem to My Father, Violin, Detroit School of Arts, Detroit, MI
2019  Le Cygne (The Swan) - Saint-Saëns, Violin, Hartford Memorial, Detroit, MI
2018  The Struggle of the Body in collaboration with choreographer Pascal Beugre Tellier, Violin, Galerie Joseph, Paris, France
2018  A Night in Blue, Violin Solo, IESA Arts & Culture, Paris, France
2017  A Night in Blue collaboration with dancer Diane Fardon, Océane Bazir Voice, Lucie Bailey Harp, Violin, Théâtre Douze, Paris, France

LECTURES

2023 Art, Entropy, and the Lived Human Experience: Building a Framework of Indigenous Cultural Traditions within the Caribbean and African Diaspora in Navigating and Addressing Social and Racial Disparities within America, The National Wildlife Federation, Reston, VA
2023 Healing Arts: Dismantling the D.N.A. of Microaggression in the School Environment, Dr. Denise Davis-Cotton, Ackeem Salmon, River Rouge, River Rouge School District, Detroit, MI
2023 Two Institutions, Three Trees, Twelve Makers: Curriculum Co-Design for Sustainability, Climate Justice, and African American Material Culture, Dr. Ian Lambert, Leslie Tom, Ackeem Salmon, ISSIP Award Presentation
2021 The D.N.A of Microaggression, Ackeem Salmon, Dr. Denise Davis-Cotton, and Dr. Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
2020  Art & Performance: The Understanding of Culture, Theory, and Self-Identity through Curiosity, The National Conference of Artists, Detroit, MI
2019  The Future of Detroit: Involving Detroit Youth and the Arts in Building the Future of Detroit, College for Creative Studies General Motors Auditorium, Detroit, MI
2019  The Future of Detroit: Community Presentation and Conversation, College for Creative Studies W.B Ford, Detroit, MI

ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS

2022 Using the T.R.U.T.H. Framework to Advance Inclusive and Equitable Pedagogy in Education, Denise Davis-Cotton, Ed.D., Ruthmae Sears, Ph.D., Ashley Reese, Ph.D., Ackeem Salmon

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2023. Sustainability Research and Design Specialist, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2021-2022 Art Teacher, Western International High School, Detroit, MI
2020-2021 Art Teacher, Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences, Detroit, MI
2018-2020 Interdisciplinary Studies Teacher, Detroit School of Arts, Detroit, MI

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

2024 Ashley Longshore Excellence in the Arts Award, The National YoungArts Foundation
2023 Gilda Snowden Awardee in Interdisciplinary Work, The Kresge Foundation, Detroit, MI
2021-2023 Teach for America Encore Fellow, Detroit, MI
2020 Dr. Jessie M. Colson National Artist Award
2020 Pierians Foundation National Emerging Artist Award Nomination
2017-2018 C-Project Paris, Urban Scale France Artist Residency, Paris, France
2017  National Finalist Award in Visual Arts by the National Youngarts Foundation
2016  Live Coal Gallery Residency in Woodbridge, Michigan
2016  College for Creative Studies Alumni Scholar Recipient
2016  Annmarie Stanesa Memorial Scholarship Awardee
2016  National Merit Award in Photography by the National Youngarts Foundation
2016  Live Coal Gallery Residency in Woodbridge, Michigan
2015 Dean’s Scholarship Recipient from the College for Creative Studies (Full Tuition), Michigan
2015  Gold Medal Award NAACP ACT-SO Photography Competition, Philadelphia
2015  First place in Photography at the Detroit Institute of Arts 78th Annual Student Competition, Michigan
2015  Gold Medalist Microsoft’s 2nd Annual Fine Art Competition, Michigan
2015  Three Gold Medals, Silver Medal in Photography, and the Regional American Vision Award Best of Show for Scholastics Art and Writing, Michigan
2014 Gold Medal and Merit recipient for the National JCDC Photography Competition, Jamaica
2014  Caribbean Secondary Education Council National Awardee: Eighth Place in Jamaica for Visual Arts, Jamaica

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Charles H. Wright Museum
College for Creative Studies
Detroit School of Arts