Taj has exhibited at Harper’s Gallery and Hercules Art Studio Program in New York City, New York, Villa Heike Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Agony Books in Richmond, Virginia, Boyden Gallery in Historic St. Mary’s, Maryland, and digitally through the Maryland State Arts Council. In addition, his images have been featured by Booooooom, Pomegranate Press, Black Mass Publishing, and other print publications.
Taj’s practice is dedicated to the liberatory potential of visual and textual language. His work focuses on sites of Black sociality through history, cultural traditions, memory, and the vernacular.
Select Exhibitions
2024 Holiday, Harper’s Chelsea 512, New York, NY
2024 Stòffa Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Black Mass Publishing, New York, NY
2024 Open Studio, Peach, Long Island City, NY
2024 A Field of Blue is Not a Sky, curated by Chikara Umihara, Villa Heike, Berlin, DE
2023 Toward a Self-Made Shore Black Histories in Southern Maryland, Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s City, MD
2023 Documenting Tulagi Pl, Southern Maryland Folk Life Center, Daugherty-Palmer Commons, St. Mary’s City, MD
2022 Reimagined Memory, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Capstone Exhibition, Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s City, MD
2022 Peter the Dealer, curated by Ian Lewandowski, Hercules Art Studio Program, New York, NY
2022 Nothing Left But Healing, curated by Jessie Feinman, Agony Books, Richmond, VA
2021 St. Mary’s College of Maryland All-Student Show juried by Nell Elder, Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s City, MD
2021 IDENTITY, Maryland State Arts Council Winter/Spring Virtual Exhibition
Residencies and Talks
2023 Artist talk, Toward a Self-Made Shore, Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s City, MD
2023 Artist House Residency, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
2023 Visiting lecturer, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Professional Practices
2018 O.N.S Exchange Art + Tech, SoHo, NY