Born in Washington, D.C.
Lives and works in San Francisco, California
EDUCATION
MBA Design Strategy, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
MFA Sculpture (Electives in Photography and 2D Design), Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
BS English Literature (Emphasis in Creative Writing/Poetry, Psychology, and Fine Art), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin
BOOKS
In the Museum of Hunting and Nature, fmsbw press, 2023
PUBLICATIONS
“California,” Our California, California Arts Council, California Poet Laureate, Lee Herrick, 2024
“Labyrinthitis”, Three Hearts, World Enough Writers, an imprint of Concrete Wolf Press, 2024
“How to Disappear”, Odes to Our Undoing, Writers Reflecting on Crisis, Risk Press, 2022
“Sky Burial”, Written Here (And There) Community of Writers Anthology, June 2021
“Sky Blue Sky,” Omniverse Issue #86, February 2020
“Voting,” Design a Better Business: Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation, Lisa Kay Solomon, 2017
“Leaving,” Canvas Literary Magazine, Spring, 1998
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Hubbell Street Gallery, Methods, San Francisco, California
2017 Venture Show, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2015 Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan
2014 Museum of New Art, The Selfie Show, Detroit, Michigan
2008 OK Gallery, Cut the Cord! From Up Here Everything Makes Sense!, Austin, Texas
2008 FLUXspace, KoKomo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Ransak Studios, Drawings Etc., San Francisco, California
2006 ArtForum Berlin, Media and Press Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2006 Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Game Show, Detroit, Michigan
2006 Saltworks Gallery, 60 Seconds of Play, Curated by Avantika Bawa, Atlanta, Georgia
2006 Gallery Project, Minimal Maximum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2006 Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 60 Seconds of Play, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2006 Hampshire College, Video Festival, Amherst, Massachusetts; Los Angeles, California; New York
2005 Museum of New Art, Detroit Now: Meditations on Movement, Pontiac, Michigan
2005 Cranbrook Art Museum, Curated Summer Exhibition, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2005 Cranbrook Art Museum, Made Here: Graduate Degree Exhibition, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2005 Cleveland Institute of Art, Exchange Show, Cleveland, Ohio
2005 Forum Gallery, Sculpture Show, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2005 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Video Festival, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2004 Museum of New Art, The Next Big Thing, Pontiac, Michigan
2004 Forum Gallery, Boxed In, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2003 Melting Point Gallery, DIY, San Francisco, California
2002 Lower Level, Always Arriving, Berkeley, California
2001 Melting Point Gallery, Threshold, San Francisco, California
2000 Lower Level, Arriving, Berkeley, California
1998 University of Wisconsin-Madison, A Sculpture Show, Madison, Wisconsin
PRESS
“Play,” Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, Issue #6, 2006
“Meditations on Movement at MONA,” The Detroiter, Nick Sousanis, July 2005
“Power in Numbers,” Detroit Free Press, Keri Guten Cohen, July 31, 2005
“Detroit Now at the Museum of New Art,” artdaily.com, July 2005
“Museum Reveals More than Meets the Eye,” Detroit Free Press, Keri Guten Cohen, November 21, 2004
“Museum of New Art Presents The Next Big Thing,” artdaily.com, November 24, 2004
RESIDENCIES
2023 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2020 The Community of Writers, The Valley, CA
2006 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023 Education Assistance Grant, Laird Norton Company LLC
2022 Education Assistance Grant, Laird Norton Company LLC
2009 Education Assistance Grant, Laird Norton Company LLC
2008 Education Assistance Grant, Laird Norton Company LLC
2007 Education Assistance Grant, Laird Norton Company LLC
2006 Partial Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2004 Merit Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2003 Merit Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art
1996 George B. Hill and Therese Muller Creative Writing Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1994 Excellency in the Visual Arts, The Book Restructured, with Daniel Kelm, The Wide Awake Garage