EDUCATION
2020 MFA Art and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2005 BFA with Honors, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2003 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2020 Greater Columbus Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant, OH
Gilmore Scholarship, OSU, Columbus, OH
2019-20 Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Team Fellow, OSU, Columbus, OH
2019 Livable Futures Discovery Theme Collaborative Project Grant, OSU, Columbus, OH
Graduate Fellow, Useful Fictions Symposium, UC Davis and École Polytechnique, France
Department of Art Research Travel Grant, OSU, Columbus, OH
Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant, OSU, OH
Presidential Fellowship, Nominee, OSU, Columbus, OH
2018 National Academy of Sciences Sackler Student Fellows Symposium, Role/Play:
Collaborative Creativity and Creative Collaborations, Washington DC
2017 Fergus Scholarship Award, OSU, Columbus, OH
2017 TechHub OSU Student Project Grant Recipient, Columbus, OH
2016 Connecting Heritage Artist Fellowship and Residency, Maryland Milestones/ Anacostia Trails
Heritage Area and the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
2016 Nomad Detroit, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
Supported by The National Endowment for the Arts + the Erb Family Foundation
2015 1st Place, East Side Art Show, St. Clair Shores, MI
2008 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Honorable Mention, DE
2007 Artist Fellowship and Residency, Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY
2006 Studio Assistant Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 Lecturer, OSU, Columbus, OH
Courses Taught: New Media (Robotics), Moving Image Production / Filmmaking Foundations I
2019 Zoom Family Studio, Wexner Center Galleries, Columbus, OH
Teaching Orientation Facilitator, University Institute of Teaching and Learning, OSU, OH
2017-19 Graduate Teaching Associate, OSU, Columbus, OH
Courses Taught: Expanded Media, Digital Imaging, Beginning Drawing
2018 Teaching Assistant, Art and Ecology, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2018+ STEAM Factory Member
2015-17 Visitors Services Supervisor at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2010-12 Partner at Butter Projects, Artist Run Exhibition Space, Royal Oak, MI
2010 Volunteer Frog and Toad Surveyor, Friends of the Rouge River
2008 Teaching Artist, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2007-08 Art Instructor, Darlington Art Center, Garnet Valley, PA
2006-13 Teaching (Penland, NC) and Studio (Detroit, MI) Assistant to Artist Susan Goethel Campbell
2006 Teaching Assistant, Camp Portfolio, Sculpture, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Spellbreaker (Breath Engine), STEAM Factory, Columbus OH
breadth of a walnut, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
2012 Teohome, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham MI
Homage to Heqet, Mott Community College, Flint MI
2010 That Which Remains, Alumni + Faculty Hall, Center Galleries, CCS, Detroit, MI
2009 RealE, Florida Atlantic University, MacArthur Library Gallery, Jupiter, FL
2008 Flock, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2004 Interrelation, Museum of New Art Annex, Pontiac, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Maker Art - Pandemia, New Art Fest, curated by António Cerveira Pinto, Lisbon, Portugal
Fructify: Reclaiming the Present + Forming a Fruitful Future, Fuse Factory, Columbus, OH
Human Satellites // Vegetal Space, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
Ballast: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
ImageOHIO 20, Shot Tower, Roy G Biv, Columbus OH
ARTexchange, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Margins: Experimental Engagements in Science, Literature, Arts, Viewpoint Gallery, Irvine, CA
TechnoMEME 2, Fuse Factory, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
Evidence, Useful Fictions, Galerie Hus, Paris, FR
Shale Forming, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2018 System Processing, Curatorial Studio, GVSU Sustainable Agriculture Project, Jenison, MI
breadth, Hiss Mag Iss.3 Release, Performance Space, Wexner Center for the Arts, OH
Hypotheses: Art Inspired by the Many Worlds of Science, Cultural Arts Center, OH
Walking Through Doorways Causes Forgetting, Neil Avenue School, Columbus, OH
Over Clocked/ Airistocrat, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
Groundwork, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH
Enviro-Art Pop Up, Sullivant Hall, Columbus, OH
Telluric Mythologies, Neon Heater, Findlay, OH
Fabio’s Second Wig, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
26th Annual Fergus Scholarship Award Exhibition
2017 Trans-species Skins, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
Inspired by Nature, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
MossBox, Box Gallery, Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Nasty Women, Binders of Them, CAVE, Detroit, MI
2016 Axiom, The City Water Building [ArtPrize], Grand Rapids, MI
w|edge folk:land Survey Project, NOMAD Detroit, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
Depths, Neighbor Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
2014 U:L:O Part II Paper for the Sky, Curated by CAVE Interstate, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Love Library, Printed Matter, NY
Ancestors, Guardians and Guides, The Charles Sumner School Museum, Washington DC
2011 Touch, Work•Detroit, Detroit MI
Detroit Works, Media Nox Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
2010 Bigger Butter, Butter Projects, Royal Oak MI
Vernal Pond 4282: Access Arts: Belle Isle, Detroit, MI
2009 Migration, Work•Detroit, Detroit, MI
Crossing Lines, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2008 Interrogating Beauty, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2007 Art on Paper, Circle Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
FILM / VIDEO SCREENINGS
2020 August microcinema, Rhizome DC, Washington, DC
Graduate Student Screenings Program, CAA Conference, Chicago, IL
2019 Full Moon Gathering, Ikattha Collective, Mumbai, India
Ohio Woman Media Makers, Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati OH
2017 Techno-Lectures of Ecology & Environment: Eco Theory, Poetry, Techno, Art, Performance, & Video, SLSA, Detroit, MI
ACADEMIC LECTURES
2020 Large Scale Data Installation Design, UC Davis, CA
TALK, Seminar Series, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Bodies in Virtual Space, Global Arts and Humanities, OSU, OH
2019 Art and Ecology Youth Class, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Artist Conversation with Michael Mercil, Transference, Urban Arts Space, OSU, OH
InnovateX, Imaginiarium Student Spotlight, Invited Student Presenter, OSU, OH
Byrd Center Symposium on Climate Research, Invited Presenter and Exhibitor, OSU, OH
Hayes Research Forum, Oral Presentation, OSU, OH
2018 Art and Ecology Youth Class, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
TechHub OSU Student Project Final Presentation, Columbus, OH
Spellbreaker (Breath Engine), STEAM Factory, Columbus, OH
National Academy of Sciences Sackler Student Fellows Symposium -
Role/Play: Collaborative Creativity and Creative Collaborations (Poster)
Hayes Research Forum, Oral Presentation, OSU, Columbus, OH
Art: A Platform for Social and Environmental Explorations, STEAM Factory, Columbus, OH
2017 TechHub OSU Student Project Grant Pitch
Inspired by Nature, Artist Talk, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2012 Homage to Heqet, Artist Talk, Flint Community College, Flint, MI
2009 ArtSalad, Artist Talk, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2007 Panel Discussion, on Artist Residencies, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2007 Jentel Artist in Residence, Artist Talk, Sheridan, WY
2006 Artist Talk, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Mapping Meaning Journal, Issue 4: Life After the Anthropocene, Print / Web, 08/2020
Ballast, MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog, by Eunice Uhm, The Ohio State University, Print, 03/2020
New Boundaries at Urban Arts Space, by Sam Richardson, Columbus City Pulse, Web, 03/2020
2019 Studio Art Program, by Nicholas Youngblood, The Lantern, Web, 01/2019
2018 Social Lawn Art, Radio Interview with Kerry Ard, WGRN 94.1, Radio, 04/2018
Thick in the Throat Honey, Episode 12 Parenting Artist Podcast, 08/2018
2010 UM’s ‘Touch’ Exhibit Invites Interaction, by Michael H. Hodges, Print, Detroit News, 12/09/10
2008 Spring Solos at AAC, Web, DCist, 2008
2007 Trifecta, Ratsalad DeLuxe, Online Arts Journal, Issue 11 05/07