Public Collections

• Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

• Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Asbury, NJ

Honors and Awards

• City of Philadelphia - 2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant Recipient — 2024

• Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant — 2024

• Jarritos Artist Grant, Finalist — Art, 2022

• President’s Undergraduate Award and Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2017–2020

• The Raymond D. & Estelle Rubens Travel Scholarships, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — 2019–2020

• Crosscurrents Juried Exhibition MFA Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — 2019

• MFA Trustee Full Tuition Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — 2020

• Faculty Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — 2020

• Philadelphia Mayor’s Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The City of Philadelphia — 2020

• The Chase Family Prize in Illustration, Honorable Mention — Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — 2020

• The Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum — 2020

• The Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists, Mural Arts Philadelphia — 2020

• 3-D Design: “Young Simba”, Montgomery County Community College 45th Annual Student Exhibition & Competition, Blue Bell, PA — 2014

Press + Bibliography

• The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2024 — The Time Is Always Now x Mural Arts
  Link: https://philamuseum.org/ttian-mural-arts

• Dosage Magazine, 2024 — The Magic Number Group Exhibition at Paradigm Gallery
  Link: https://www.dosagemagazine.com/the-magic-number-group-exhibition-at-paradigm-gallery/

• Artblog, August 7, 2023 — Hunger in Philadelphia and corner stores are focus at Da Vinci Art Alliance’s ‘Corner Stories’ by Emily Brewton Schilling
  Link: https://www.theartblog.org/2023/08/hunger-in-philadelphia-and-corner-stores-are-focus-at-da-vinci-art-alliances-corner-stories/

• New American Paintings, Northeast, Issue #164 — 2023
  Link: https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/issues/164

• Yahoo.com, September 2022 — Jarritos Mexican Soda Announces Grand Prize Winners and Top Finalists for JARRITODOS $75,000 Artist Grant Contest
  Link: https://www.yahoo.com/now/jarritos-mexican-soda-announces-grand-130000528.html

• Art Spiel, 2022 — Yikui Gu and Eustace Mamba at Commonweal
  Link: https://artspiel.org/yikui-gu-and-eustace-mamba-at-commonweal/

• Create Magazine, July 2022 — New Exhibition Opens at Commonweal!
  Link: https://www.createmagazine.com/blog/new-work-by-yikui-coy-gu-eustace-mamba-at-commonweal

• New American Paintings, MFA Annual, Issue #153 — 2021
  Link: https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/issues/153

• Mural Arts Philadelphia, September 2020 — Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists: Meet the Cohort
  Link: https://www.muralarts.org/for-artists/philadelphia-fellowship-for-black-artists/

• Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2020 — Petition calls for PAFA to fire its CEO and make sweeping changes to ‘dismantle its structural racism’
  Link: https://www.inquirer.com/arts/pafa-black-lives-matter-david-bingham-memo-20200626.html

• Hyperallergic Magazine, June 2020 — Pennsylvania Art School Asks Faculty to Keep Professional Affiliation Separate From Activism
  Link: https://hyperallergic.com/573247/pafa-faculty-school-affiliation/

• PAFA, November 2018 — Changing Gears to Pursue A Creative Passion

• HotNewHipHop.com, May 2013 — On The Come-Up: Jetpack Jones – Art Direction