EDUCATION
PhD, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2026
Vermont Studio Center, Windgate Craft Artist Fellowship, Johnson, VT
Baha Mar Art Prize & Residency, Nassau, Bahamas
2025
Crosstown Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Memphis, TN,
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY
2024
MASS MoCA, Artist-in-Residence, North Adams, MA
2021
Bayard Rustin Residency Fellow, New York, NY
2021
Independent Arts Award Maryland State Art Council
2018
Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, Artist-in-Residence, Washington, DC
2013
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Artist-in-Residence, Silver Spring, MD
2010
Skidmore College Summer Art Teacher Fellow, Saratoga Springs, NY
2004
Joan Mitchell MFA Award Nominee
2004
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Fellow, Provincetown, MA
2002
Women's Housing Coalition, Artist-in-Residence, Baltimore, MD
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2026
Personal Structures, European Cultural Centre Italy, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy (Presented during the Venice Biennale)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Souls of Black Folk, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2025
The Weight of Joy, Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Threads of Memory, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Time Is Filled With Swift Transition, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
2020
Works by Desmond Beach, Chesapeake Gallery, Bel Air, MD
2019
Color Me This, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2005
Wanted, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Out of Many: Reframing an American Art Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2024
Stitching the Revolution: Quilts as Agents of Change, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2023
POUR, TEAR, CARVE, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2021
Inside Outside, Upside Down, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Cladogram, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2008
Person Of The Crowd: The Contemporary Art Of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2004
The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
GALLERY GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Work on Paper, Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Looking for Terry, Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Seen, Howard County Arts Council, Howard County, MD
Genuine, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD
2025
Black Joy is a Revolutionary Act, Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Colour Theory. Amos Gallery, Lincoln University, Lincoln University, PA
2024
Roots and Routes, Richard Beavers Gallery (Brooklyn), New York, NY
Subject Matters, Richard Beavers Gallery (SoHo), New York, NY
Just Among Us, Waller Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2023
To Be Made Whole, Pace University Art Gallery, New York, NY
Counting the Seconds Between Lightning and Thunder, Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
2022
Voices of Freedom, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
High Contrast, Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
tet[R]ad: Cultivating Collaborative Creative Community, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
SALLY, The Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts
2021
Grey Area, Treat Gallery, New York, NY
Repercussions, Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD
2019
1st Annual Juried Exhibition, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
rag mad soft, Waller Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Duplexity, M6 Annual Juried Exhibitions, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Contemporary 2019: Contemporary Figure Biannual, The Art Center, Grand Junction, CO
2018
Alteration, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy
2016
I AM ART NYC, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
Self & Subject, Photoworks, Glen Echo Park, MD
2011
Black Male Identity Project, Baltimore City Community College, Baltimore, MD
2010
Studio 312, Case Gallery, Skidmore College
“Pinch” A Sculptural Invitational, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Columbia, MD
2007
Artscape Outdoor Sculpture Visual Arts Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2006
Artscape Baltimore 06 Visual Arts Exhibition Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2005
Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
25thAnniversary, School 33, Baltimore, MD
Artscape Baltimore 05 Visual Arts Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2004
Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
Celebrating the Spirit, Carroll Arts Council, Carroll County, MD
Strange Land, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2003
Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Rosenberg Gallery
2002
Window and Door Project, Baltimore Office of Promotion & Arts, Baltimore, MD
FreeStyle, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Jazz, Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Baltimore, MD
Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Outdoor Sculpture, Baltimore, MD
Remembering 911, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
ART FAIRS
2026
Field Notes from the Future (Solo Presentation) FUZE Caribbean, Nassau, The Bahamas
The Armory Show, (Group Presentation), presented by Richard Beavers Gallery
Expo Chicago, (Group Presentation), presented by Richard Beavers Gallery
2025
Hush Harbor (Solo Presentation), SCOPE Miami Beach, presented by Richard Beavers Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Expo Chicago, (Group Presentation), presented by Richard Beavers Gallery
2024
Expo Chicago, (Group Presentation), presented by Richard Beavers Gallery
PRESS
2026
My Modern Met
Artist Takes Grandmother’s Guidance To Stitch Memory, Spirit, Protection Into Monumental Quilts, Sage Helene
Brooklyn Paper
‘Looking for Terry’ exhibition examines stop-and-frisk history and reclaims Black identity in Bed-Stuy, Elijah Megginson
Hyperallergic
A View From the Easel “The studio is not neutral.”, Lakshmi Rivera Amin
2025
New York Amsterdam News
Desmond Beach’s ‘The Weight of Joy’, Malcolm Johnson
2023
New Haven Independent
Three Artists Follow The Moves, Brian Slattery
2021
The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collects: Desmond Beach, Sherman Fairchild
Not Real Art World
Desmond Beach’s Vintage-Style Photographs Shine Light on the Long History of Institutionalized Racism, Morgan Laurens