b. 1979
924 N. Noble Street #3F
Chicago, IL 60642
415-410-4189
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Education
MFA 2011 Performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
BA 2006 Studio Art, San Francisco State University (summa cum laude)
San Francisco, CA
Selected Performance and Visual Art
Spring 2012 Escape Group (with Anthony Romero).
threewalls artist-in-research residency, Chicago, IL
2011 Valley Pictures. Curated by Anthony Romero,
Crawlspace, Chicago, IL
2011 Sounds Like the City Limits. Curated by Caitlin Baucomb
Prak-sis Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Sounds Like the City Limits. Curated by Adam Rose
Ecology/Technology Dance Series
High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April-May 2011
2011 These Things Be Elevated.
Organized by Elizabeth Chodos
Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, NY
2010 Response to On Kawara's OCT. 31 1978.
(In collaboration with Colin Winnette)
Tex Gallery, Denton, TX
2010 Echo Showroom. 1460 East 53rd Street
Art Here Art Now, Chicago Artists Month, Chicago, IL
2010 Walk #2. Live to Tell You, The Op Shop, Chicago, IL
2009 Wash. New Blood Performance Festival III,
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Curatorial
2011 Practical Magic, Links Hall, Chicago IL
With Anthony Romero
2010 Live to Tell, The Opportunity Shop, Chicago, IL
With Anthony Romero
Professional Experience
2011 Instructor
The Evanston Art Center
Art School: YFA3 - Middle School
Digital Photography, Fall 2011
2011 Instructor
The Evanston Art Center
Art School: YFA3 - Middle School
Digital Video, Fall 2011
2011 Teaching Assistant with Torkwase Dyson
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture Department
Installation Me/We, Spring 2011
2010 Teaching Assistant with Sara Black
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Performance Department
Site Practice, Fall 2010
2010 Teaching Assistant with Shannon Benine
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Photography Department
Black and White Photography, Spring 2010
2009 Teaching Assistant with Mark Jeffrey
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Performance Department
The Performing Body, Fall 2009
Grants/Fellowships
2010 Richard and Ellen Sandor Scholarship in Honor
of Barbara DeGenevieve
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 Morrison-Shearer Foundation Scholarship in Honor
of Tom Jaremba
2008 National Queer Arts Festival Creating Queer Community Grant
2006 Presiden's Award, San Francisco State University
Writing, Speaking, and Conferences
2012 "I Came In Through the Window" Bodies of Work Magazine,
Forthcoming in Spring 2012
Magazine, Issue 15, 2012
2012 "Untitled" in collaboration with Anthony Romero, Stimulus
Respond Magazine, Chaos Issue 2012
2011 "At Home In My New Ground: Queering Tucson Arizona's
El Tiradito Shrine" Presentation at Queertopia! 4.0: Queer(ing)
Poetics: Text, Method, Movement, Thought
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. May 2011
2010 "Situations of Exchange" Lecturer
Propositions Lecture Series, Performance Department
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010 "Art Here Art Now" Panelist
Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture
Chicago Artists Month
2010 "Site Access Symposium" Organizer and Panelist
Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture
Chicago Artists Month
Professional Service
2011 Instructor, Art Forward, Marshall Metropolitan High School, Public Art/Mural Design, Spring 2011
2010 Volunteer, The Opportunity Shop, Chicago, IL
2009 Volunteer, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2009 Juror, Defying Gravities, Fresh Meat in the Gallery
San Francisco, CA
2000 Crewleader, California Conservation Corps, Watsonville, CA
Residencies
Summer Harold Arts
2011 Chesterhill, Ohio
Summer Ox-Bow School of Art
2010 Saugatuck, Michigan