@conspiracy_of_women

b. 1991 baltimore, md
lives and works in queens, ny


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2018 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME

2018 MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2013 BFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA


SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023
Nothing is so vivid as a void that swallows your senses, ROMANCE, Pittsburgh, PA

2021
The Mirror of Simple Souls, Inadequate Lighting, Baltimore, MD

2019
Nightshade iii, with Esther Sibiude, hosted by Catbox Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

2018
THE ENEMY KNOWS THE SYSTEM, Motel, Brooklyn, NY
Sister Genus, Bad Water, Knoxville, TN
Nervous System, MFA Thesis Exhibition Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ

2015
We're Pregnant, with Riley Duncan, Motel, Brooklyn, NY


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Butterflies, David Peter Francis, New York, NY upcoming

2021
Sonia Louise Davis Selects, Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
There was earth in them, and they dug., curated by Nicole Kaack, Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019
Nightshade : a love story, written with Esther Sibiude, music by Gobby + Bach with Allyson Clare, Lucia dell Paolera, Justine Lugli, Timothy Rusterholz and narration by Jett Strauss + Georgia Wall, Montez Press, New York, NY
Shake Tomorrow, 891 N Main, Providence, RI
Screening, films by Colleen Billing, Phillip Birch, Carla Gannis, Lauryn Siegel, organized by Tatiana Kronberg, Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY

2018

Library Voice, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Leap Century, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
Chin Up Sad Masc Mask, curated by Jack Hogan, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY

2017
From error of nature, monsters and sport, curated by Julian Gilbert-Davis & Jett Strauss, Rutgers Gardens, New Brunswick, NJ
Please do not spit in the garden, MARTHA first edition release, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Welcome Back, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Lamppoon, curated by Julia Owens, Automat, Philadelphia, PA

2016
Engagement Party, LIPS, New Brunswick, NJ
Sweet Potato, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
XXL Curiosity, curated by Millie Kapp & Georgia Wall(Bottom), Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Felt Book Exhibition, Werkartz, Los Angeles, CA

2015
AS small as HANDS GET, The Snake Hole, Queens, NY

2014
nice and easy, ERA VII VI VII, Ridgewood, NY

2013
Multi-Natural Histories, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA
A Color Film: And Everything Like That, Byrd Theater, Richmond, VA

2012
New Faces, Linen Row Inn, 1708 Satellite Exhibition, Richmond, VA
Good and Good for You, Plant Zero, Richmond, VA
A Color Film and Everything Like That, East Corinth, VT


CURATORIAL

2021
A Hole Filled with Noise, Bad Water, Knoxville,
➺ Celia Lesh & Esther Sibiude

2018
QUANTUM GOSSIP, Motel Brooklyn, NY ∿ organized in conjunction with THE ENEMY KNOWS THE SYSTEM, with readings by
➺ Sonia Louise Davis, Noah Furman, Daonne Huff, Josh Minkus, Bea Orlandi, Esther Sibiude & Falak Vasa


RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

2020 - 2019
Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils's Arts Center Residency

2018
Nadine Goldsmith Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Emergency Grant Recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
New York Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY


PUBLICATIONS
AMBIENCE, organized by Margaret Kross, 2023
The Daily Stress, organized by Esther Sibiude, 2019
Completely and Without Pause, organized by Jennie Goldfarb, designed by Jen Shear, 2018
Nervous System, MFA Thesis, Mason Gross School of Art & Design, Rutgers University, 2018
MARTHA magazine, with Beatrice Orlandi, self-published, ongoing
We're Pregnant, released in conjunction with eponymous exhibition, self-published, 2015
Felt Book, The Institute for New Feeling, http://www.institutefornewfeeling.com/feltbook, 2016
In Flux at Era VII VI VII, Studija #103, http://studija.lv/en/?parent=1430, 2015


PRESS

Vogue, At the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’s Latest Benefit Exhibition, 106 Artists Unite for a Common Cause, https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/foundation-for-contemporary-art-benefit-exhibition-2021

Tzvetnik, 'Nightshade III' by Colleen Billing & Esther Sibiude, Catbox Contemporary, New York, https://tzvetnik.online/article/nightshade-iii-catbox-contemporary

Tzvetnik, 'The Enemy Knows The System' by Colleen Billing at Motel, New York, https://tzvetnik.online/article/colleen-billing-at-motel