Bio
b. Savannah, GA, 1987
EDUCATION
2017
MFA, California College of the Arts, focus in Textiles
2011
Georgia State University, focus in Textiles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
A Lacquered Egress, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Interlacing distributed intelligence/noir care, Museum of African Diaspora San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2018
Anastatica, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014
Cassandra and Witches love you too, Jewish Educational Alliance, Savannah, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Deep Horizon , Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stitch Fetish, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Orium 2, Aggregate Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Great Worry or Great Freedom, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2017
Editions, Borderline Art Collective, San Francisco, CA
Flat File Fundraiser, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Out Of Body PS8 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Transformed, Borderline Art Collective, San Francisco, CA
Jurors’ Choice/Nave Commission, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
MFA Thesis Show, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Teenage Dream, Startup Fair, San Francisco, CA
MFA Now, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Hold, 5/5 Collective, San Francisco, CA
Sooner Or Later, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Get Lost, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
After Echoes, Ctrl + Shift, San Francisco, CA
Two artists, one room, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Daydreamers 2, Quality Gallery, San Francisco, CA
CCATEXTSTYlING, College Avenue Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2015
Outside Ourselves, Ourselves Outside, Border Line, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
2022
21c Musuem Hotels Acquisition Prize Winner
2018
Methods of Act(ng)on: CCA Alumnx Residency Open Studio
2017
Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellow
AICAD Fellowship Nominee
2016
Barclay Simpson Award Nominee
2015
Byron Meyer Scholarship
Collections
21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Selected Bibliography
2022
“Art Basel Miami Beach at 20: Everything, Everywhere All at Once” Maza, Erik. Town & Country 4 December 2022
"Multimedia artist Richard-Jonathan Nelson's debut solo exhibition in NY opens at Yossi Milo" Artdaily 16 November 2022