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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

●Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA.“How will our ancestors find us?”, March21,2026-May 2nd,2026

●Riverview Artspace, Lynchburg, VA. Summer 2026

●A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Gallery III,“Quiet Observations”,  August 9th- September 7th, 2025.

●201@105 Gallery,”Suspended Memories” March 15, 2025 - May 11th, 2025, NewYork City, NY.

●DRWC/Cherry Street Pier, December 2023 – December 2025. Curatorial Residency Recipient. Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, Philadelphia, PA.

●Abington Art Center, Abington, PA. Solo Exhibition Recipient Spring, April 2023-2024.

●Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Room VA4,"Transient Nature of Things.”Mount San Angelo, VA, November 15, 2023 – November 17, 2023.

●Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, Philadelphia, PA, Pennant Flag Exhibition,June 2023- 2024.

●Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia,“A/Bound.” Curator and Focused Participant in the Exhibition .PA, May 20, 2023 – June 17, 2023.

●The Jones Institute, San Francisco, CA, “Community Takeover, Same Sky.” Curator, Solo Exhibition with process-based art and community engagement. July 2021.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

●A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.“ Phantom charges” National Member Exhibition, July 5-August 3rd, 2025.

●616 Gallery, NYC,NY.“Harvest: The Art of standing together.” June 22-24,2025.

●Spring Box Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.“Meeting New Circles” May 8 - 31,2025.

●Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA.“Two’s A Crowd” April 10th - May 24th, 2025.

●  Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, " Studio Artists and Programming Partners Showcase," (curated by Libby Rosa) 2025

●Ubuntu Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.-“Fellowship for Black Artists Annual Exhibition.”February 8 - 28th, 2025

●Penn Medicine Radnor, Radnor, PA. August 2024 - August 2025.

●MvVO ART- AD ART Show 2024, Philips, New York City, NY. October 17, 2024.

●201 at 105 Gallery, New York City, NY, July 11th - September 1st, 2024,“GIFTED”

●Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, London, United Kingdom, August 1, 2024.“Re-embroidering Blackwork an Unstitched Coif and Other Works.”

●Cista Arts, London, United Kingdom, June 2024,“Dreams” Visual Arts Show.

●Tiger Strikes Asteroid, " 15 years Tiger Strikes Asteroid" Los Angeles, CA, March 23, 2024 – May 2024. 15th Anniversary Exhibition.

●The Naturalist Contemporary Gallery, New York City, March 19, 2024 - May 18, 2024, Art Exhibition and Gallery Space.

●City Hall Mayor’s Office of the Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE), Philadelphia, PA. February 20, 2024 - April 20, 2024 “Stories of Black Americans in Philadelphia.”

●Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA. March 2024,“Friends and Family.”

●Quipo Art Fair 2024, Temoakali, Mexico City, February 7, 2024 – February 12, 2024,Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Curator and participant.

●Cherry Street Pier, " Shared Resonance, Two Person Exhibition"  Kara MShinda/ Duwenavue Santé Johnson, GrioXArts, 

●Bloc Projects, Sheffield, England, December 19, 2023 – December 23, 2023. “Re-embroidering Blackwork: An Unstitched Coif and Other Works.” Curated by Toni Buckby.

●Masonic Temple of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. December 16, 2023.“ProcessBased Art.” Curated by Duwenavue S. Johnson.

●Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. December 6, 2023.“C-FEVA Secret Postcard Fundraiser.”

●No.5 Butchie Alley, Philadelphia, PA. December 8, 2023 – January 13, 2024.“Meoto Yunomi.”

●Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA. October 16, 2023 – November 11, 2023. 74th Annual Fall Juried Show.

● Utility Works, Lansdowne, PA. September 23, 2023 – November 18, 2023 “Threads of Remembrance.”

●Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA October 23, 2023 – November 28, 2023.“Storytellers”

●Gallery 1202, Gilroy, CA. August 18, 2023 – October 7, 2023.“An Exchange of Shifting Atmospheres.”

●CICA Museum- Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea. June 21, 2023 -July 9, 2023.“Breath.”

●LaNao, CDMX, Mexico. May 27, 2023 – July 22, 2023.“An Exchange of ShiftingAtmospheres.”

●Soft Machine Gallery, Allentown, PA. May 27, 2023 – July 1, 2023.“Worry: Our Anxious Age”

●CFEVA Members Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA. May 24, 2023 – July 28, 2023.

●Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. May 5, 2023- June 11, 2023. “Constellations”

●Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX. February 3, 2022 –May 6, 2022. “Materials: Hard+Soft International Contemporary Craft Competition and Exhibition.”

●Satellite Art Show, Art Basel, Miami, FL November 29, 2023 – December 4, 2023. Co-curator, Artist with Participants from five galleries across the United States.

● Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA June 17, 2022 – June 26, 2022. “Now, One with Everyone!”

● Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany, March 19, 2022 – April 10, 2022. Curator, Artist Group Exhibition of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia in Berlin.“Mutability of Time.”

●The National Museum, Berlin, Germany. March 2022. 5X5 – A group exhibition that nurtures communication between cultures and explores the dialogue, creativity, invention, and cultural impact that define artist-run spaces.

●La Chapelle de Sainte Lucie, Marsanne, France. June 2021. Curator and Participant in a two-person exhibition.“Same Sky, Meme Ciel.”

●The Jones Institute, San Francisco, CA. July 2021. Curator and Participant in the two-person exhibition “Community Takeover, Same Sky.”

●AHC, Oakland, CA. 2020-2021. Curator and art teacher for two annual student exhibitions.

●Betsy Ross House Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA. February 2017. “250 Years of Flag Making.”

●Squirrel Haus Arts, Saint Paul, MN, 20217. Group Exhibition.

●Oxheart, Gowanus. Brooklyn, NY. 2015 -2017. Participant in quarterly group shows.

●The Glasgow Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland. August 2015 – September 2015. Traveling Exhibition with the RSN. Juried Event.“Goldwork and Stumpwork.”

●Harrogate International Centre, United Kingdom. September 2015. World War Centennial Fair traveling exhibition with the Royal School of Needlework. Dublin, Ireland. October 16 – October 30, 2015.

●The Knitting and Stitching Show, London, England. October 1, 2014 – October 15,2014. Traveling exhibition with the Royal School of Needlework, Dublin, Ireland.October 16, 2015 – October 30, 2015.

●Underwater Healer with Erena Shimoda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014. Tokyo, Japan,Phoenix, AZ, and Apple, Inc. (Boston, MA, and San Francisco, CA locations) 2015.

AWARDS

●Radical America! Philadelphia Historical Society, Winterthur garden and Library, the Clay Studio Grant, Research and Exhibition March 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

●The Rebeccah Milena Maia Blum Curatorial Fellowship, Allen Lane Art Center 2026-2027, Grant and Curatorial Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA.

●Bartol Foundation Marrazzo Bartol Micro-grant winter 2025, Grant. Philadelphia, PA.

●Black Music City Grant Award, March 2025, Grant and Exhibition. Philadelphia, PA.

●Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program 2024, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance,July 2024, Grant Recipient. Philadelphia, PA.

●Mural Arts Black Fellow 2024, March 2024, Grant Recipient. Philadelphia, PA.

●Black Music City Grant Award, February 2024, Grant and Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA.

●Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) America 250! Commendation Medal and Certificate Set, June 2024. Alexandria, Virginia.

●2024 U.S. Military Challenge Coin, Landis C. Maddox, Brigadier General, USA Commander, Women’s History and Excellence. Philadelphia, PA.

●2021 U.S. Military Challenge Coin, John W. Raymond Teamwork, 1st Space Force Flag. Philadelphia, PA.

●2017-2020 5 U.S. Military Challenge Coins, Dedication for Craft Excellence. Philadelphia, PA.

SOCIAL MEDIA- INSTAGRAM

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ACQUISITIONS

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, January 2024.

“An Unstitched Coif.” https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1790744/coifs-duwenavue-santé-johnson/

LECTURES

●Essex County Needlecraft Guild October 2024. First Church, Essex, Massachusetts.“Hand Embroidery and American Heraldry, ” First Church, Essex, Massachusetts.

●Agnes Irwin School, Rosemont, PA. April 10, 2024. Art Week “Hand Embroidery and Art.”

●Sweet Briar College, Amherst, VA. November 12, 2023 “Needlework as Memory.”

●Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA. November 6, 2023. “Community Building Through

Traditional Needlework.”

●DaVinci Art Alliance,“Creative Conversations” Philadelphia, PA. June 16,2023.

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AFFILIATIONS

2024-2030  A.I.R Gallery. National Member, Brooklyn, New York.

2023 - Present Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Active member- Flag House Chapter, Philadelphia, PA.

2021 - Tigers Strikes Asteroid. Active member- Crane Arts building, Philadelphia, PA.

2019 - School of Needlework and Design. (Dissolved 2025). SF, CA.

JUDGING EVENTS

2025- Bartol Foundation Micro Grants, Philadelphia, PA.

2024 -Delaware River Waterfront corporation. Pennant Flag Exhibition. Philadelphia, PA.

2022-2023 -Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Open Call, Philadelphia, PA.

2022- Southern Exposure SF/ TSA,Open Call, “Mirror Material” San Francisco, CA. October 22-November 19th,2022.