Personal Statment
Cole is an engineer-turned artist who seeks to reimagine black futures through the lens negroes nature nurture or the nexus of the black experience and nature expressed through a boundless creative process that yields intentional, yet improvisational large abstract paintings

Cole is also a photographer focusing on communal connections.

Education
2020 Dartmouth College, BA, Concentration in Mechanical Engineering
2020 Dartmouth College, BE, Concentration in Mechanical Engineering

Solo*/Group Exhibition
2024 The Hillstreet Country Club: Artist in Practice*
2023 Cosecha: An Exibition about Food, SD Mesa College Art Gallery 
2023 The Last Group Show, Bread & Salt Gallery
2023 Our Art LA: Presented by Artshare LA 
2023 Life Is Studios 50th Hip Hop Anniversary Group Show
2022 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles
2022 Superfine Art Fair, Los Angeles
2022 CANceptual Street Art Show: ArtShare LA
2022 Bfree Studio: Multiples Exhibition
2022 FeeLit Records: Record Cover Art Show
2022  Divine Theory Neighborhood Photography Show*
2022  Visuals SD City Heights in Winter: Photography Show*
2022  Esco Art Alley Mural Show
2022  Thumbprint Art Gallery: Artist Annex

Residency
2024 The Hillstreet Country Club Artist in Practice Residency 

Books
2022  City Heights in Winter: An Urban Ethnography Photobook

Community Engagement
2023 Throwing Paint: An Interactive, Communal Abstract Art Class Presented by Bfree Studio
2022 Bfree Studio: Multiples Exhibition Artist Talk
2022 Visuals SD: City Heights Exhibition Artist Talk

To See
https://www.kpbs.org/events/2024/07/13/artist-in-practice-open-house-cole-douglas
2022 Shoutout SoCal Feature
2022 SD Voyager: Rising Stars


Media
Truth be Told Season 3, Apple TV