As a Charles Gaines Fellow at CalArts, Jeffrey has contributed to a range of installations and performance-based projects. Highlights include their recent thesis exhibition (ON+ON)²; Look@MElook@ME, a multi-channel installation; and PRYOR APPROPRIATION, featured both in the GLAMFA 20th Anniversary Showcase and in CalArts' 50th Anniversary Exhibition (2021/2023).
Other projects include Mask2myFace (2024), an exhibition combining video, text, and performance to examine psychological interiority, the body, and cycles of addiction and resilience. Additionally, Jeffrey’s experimental animated short BLACK FIDDLER (2022) was screened at the 2023 West Hollywood PRIDE Experimental Film Festival.
Jeffrey was also featured as a performer in American Artist’s film installation The Monophobic Response, a project centered on the work and legacy of Octavia Butler, which premiered at LACMA (November 2024) and later appeared as part of American Artist's exhibition Shaper of God at Pioneer Works (Spring 2025) in New York.
Outside of their art practice, Jeffrey has written about contemporary art for Atlanta-based magazine Burnaway and about hip-hop culture for Berlin-based magazine 032c, including a two-part feature on the 2021 exhibition Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and a review of Sesali Bowen’s book Notes from A Trap Feminist (2021).
Jeffrey holds InterSchool/Dual Master in Fine Arts in Film Directing (School of Film & Video) and Visual Arts (School of Art) from California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, a Master of Art degree in Urban Education Policy from Brown University, K-12 Secondary Mathematics and Special Education certifications from The New Teacher Project, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School.
Before matriculating to CalArts, they worked across the U.S. from 2013 to 2022 in social practice, education, workforce development, and social enterprise facilitation.
As a Charles Gaines Fellow at CalArts, Jeffrey has contributed to a range of installations and performance-based projects. Highlights include their recent thesis exhibition (ON+ON)²; Look@MElook@ME, a multi-channel installation; and PRYOR APPROPRIATION, featured both in the GLAMFA 20th Anniversary Showcase and in CalArts' 50th Anniversary Exhibition (2021/2023).
Other projects include Mask2myFace (2024), an exhibition combining video, text, and performance to examine psychological interiority, the body, and cycles of addiction and resilience. Additionally, Jeffrey’s experimental animated short BLACK FIDDLER (2022) was screened at the 2023 West Hollywood PRIDE Experimental Film Festival.
Jeffrey was also featured as a performer in American Artist’s film installation The Monophobic Response, a project centered on the work and legacy of Octavia Butler, which premiered at LACMA (November 2024) and later appeared as part of American Artist's exhibition Shaper of God at Pioneer Works (Spring 2025) in New York.
Outside of their art practice, Jeffrey has written about contemporary art for Atlanta-based magazine Burnaway and about hip-hop culture for Berlin-based magazine 032c, including a two-part feature on the 2021 exhibition Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and a review of Sesali Bowen’s book Notes from A Trap Feminist (2021).
Jeffrey holds InterSchool/Dual Master in Fine Arts in Film Directing (School of Film & Video) and Visual Arts (School of Art) from California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, a Master of Art degree in Urban Education Policy from Brown University, K-12 Secondary Mathematics and Special Education certifications from The New Teacher Project, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School.
Before matriculating to CalArts, they worked across the U.S. from 2013 to 2022 in social practice, education, workforce development, and social enterprise facilitation.