EDUCATION
2010 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Painting, with Honors
2005 BFA, University of Florida, Summa Cum Laude
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Greenhouse, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Head, Heart, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
2022 Alive, Harpers Apartment, New York, NY
2022 NADA NY, Solo booth, Deanna Evans Projects
2022 On Painting, two person show with Daniel Loxton, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2021 In Time, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Pagoo, two-person with Christofer Churchill, George Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Nothing but a vague fever, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Meridian Atlas, two-person with Claudia Pena Salinas,
Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
2013 For the First Citizens of the Moon, Providence College, Providence, RI
2011 Afterimage, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 NADA NY, Harpers Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Ripe, Harpers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Landscape/Cityscape, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland OH
2022 Harper’s 25 years, Harpers Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2022 Dallas Art Fair, Hesse Flatow, Dallas, TX
2022 Litchtung, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2022 A Place of One’s Own, Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome Italy
2022 Balence, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2021 The Big Show, My Pet Ram, New York, NY
2021 House Party, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Yesterday’s tomorrow, Booth Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Melrose, Harpers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Shifted Horizons, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
2021 The Dead Don’t Die, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2020 Abstract with Figure, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Artist Registry Exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY
2020 Wild Tangents, Booth Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Strangely Familiar, Cody Gallery, Arlington, VA
2018 Here/Now, Spring Break Art Fair, New York, NY
2017 Agency, Meta Meta Meta, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Try to Smoke It, Tamour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Painting Reassembled, three-person show with Katie Bell and Joseph
Montgomery, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
2015 Untitled Art Fair, Present Company Booth, Miami Florida
2014 Fruit and vegetable stand grisailles, Den Haag, Netherlands
2013 Thanks, Lu Magnus, NY
2013 That Summer Feeling, Sweatshop Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Bodywerk, various massage parlors, China Town, NY
2013 Half Life, Ridgewood, Ny
2013 Fruit Stand, Queens Plaza, Queens, NY
2013 Mystics and Storytellers, ACNY, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Ciudad Saudade Reverse Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013 New York, I Love You Sometimes, Classic Six Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Your face is a Landscape, Field Projects, Chelsea, NY
2012 Faculty Show, Kingsborough community college, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Faculty Show, Kingsborough community college, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Artfest, Pleasant View Farm, Sharron Springs, NY
2010 Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
2010 Whatever Forever, Black Sheep Projects, Providence, RI
2010 Totemic, Gelman Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2010 20 Painters, Fletcher Space, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2009 CRIT 4, Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
2009 Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Dwelling Places, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
2009 Graduate Painting, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
2007 *New Paintings, Dead End Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 *Lumin Wakoa, The Waiting Room Gallery, Gainesville, FL
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2022 Fund for past fellows grantee, Dedalus Foundation, NY
2018-19 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Recipient, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Adjunct Professional Development Grant, CUNY, New York, NY
2010/11 VCUarts Fountainhead Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA
2010 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship, New York, NY
2009 Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2006 Printmaking Residency, M.A.I.C., Andros, Bahamas
2003/4 University Scholar under Sergio Vega, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Arts Briefs, The Provincetown Independent, April 6th
2021 The Brooklyn Rail, Art Seen, Elizabeth Buhe, review of solo “In Time”,
Deanna Evans Projects
2021 Artnet news, Editors Picks, Neha Jambhekar
2021 ArtMaze, curated by Harper Levine, edition #24
2021 Vogue, Many Artists Began Painting Outside During the Pandemic- And
They Might Never Go Back, Dodie Kazanjian, September issue
2020 ArtMaze, curated by Scott Ogden
2019 Art of Choice, Interview, https://www.artofchoice.co/?s=lumin+Wakoa
2018 Maake Magazine, curated by Holly Coulis
2018 Hyperalergic, https://hyperallergic.com/431185/spring-break-2018/
2017 Gorky’s Granddaughter, Claudia Pena Salinas and Lumin Wakoa
http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2017/02/claudia-pena-salinas-and-lumin-wakoa-at.html
TEACHING/LECTURING EXPERIENCE
2021 NYC Crit Club, Critique and Painting Logic, 6 week class, Brooklyn NY
2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
2013-19 Adjunct professor, Queensborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
2011-21 Adjunct professor, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Visiting Artist Lecture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2010/11 Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2010 Instructor of Record, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2008-10 Teaching Assistantships, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI