EDUCATION

School of Visual Arts- New York NY — MFA 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art ED Certification

University of Wisconsin Madison - BS - Fine arts

Residencies | Projects | Honors

2017 Bridge Guard Residency, Strovo Slovakia. Three month paid residency based on connections, a socially engaged proposal running from from April - June 2017.

2017 National ParksArt Foundation Gettysburg Military National Park. The Alembic residency isan opportunity to connect the historical richness of the park with new media. One of two selected from one hundred twenty proposals.

2017 Spread Art Residency, Detroit Michigan. Two week Residency Spread Art is an
‘Art Incubator’ for especially promising emerging artists.

2015 "Ritual Art: Time and Space”  at the Old School Residency, Bulgaria. 1 of 10 artists chosen from 90 proposals worldwide for a ten day residency.

2014 diaspora, Successful $5,400 Kickstarter, a social photography/documentary.

2012 Fellowship Recipient, KCAI Teacher Institute. 1-week fellowship at Kansas City Art Institute to explore the hand of the artist in computer imaging.

2008 TICA Residency at SAIC. Two-week residency and workshops with studio space .

Exhibitions 

2017
The Art of Ekphrasis, Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Street, Roseville, CA Jan. 13 - Feb. 25

2016
Build, Ciel Gallery,128 East Park Ave, Charlotte, NC28203 October 7-29

Bushwick Open Studios, Bushwick Brooklyn NY Oct. 1-2

 Lost and Found, Loft Artists Gallery, Stamford, CT Sept. 8-October 2,

The Land of the Endless August, Gorna Lipnitsa, BulgariaAugust 27

Passiflora, Solas,  232 E. 9th Street, New York, NY, July 15

Dioramarama, Club 157, Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11206 , May 13- June 2

Thinking With Our Hands, Rabbithole Projects, 33 Washington. Bklyn, NY, April 20-21

2015 

Winding Down. Friday Studio Gallery, 350 Scholes Street, Brooklyn NY Nov. 6 - 27

Ritual Art: Time and Space. Multi-city group show touring Bulgaria2015-2016

Cosmos Cinema Gallery, 48 William Gladstone St. Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Oct 3 - 14

House of Architecture. Stara Zagora Dimov, Bulgaria. October 16 - Nov 10

Hue Gallery, 42 Ivan Denkoglu St., Sofia, Bulgaria January 15th - 25th

Artists' Association Gallery, 22 Alexandrovska St. Burgas,  Bulgaria. Feb 15 – 26

Artists' Association Gallery, 6 Borisova St. Ruse, Bulgaria March 1 - 14

Art Practice Open Studios, SVA Gallery, 335 W 16th St, New York, NY, July 25

Textually Transmitted, Structures of Authority (Curator, Artist) McKinney Chapel, BK, NY 7 16-21

Every Contact Leaves a Trace, screened at Sketched Out, Videology, Bklyn NY, July 17

Bushwick Open Studios, (solo) 114 Forrest St, Brooklyn NY, June 5-7

MAKING HISTORY. Storefront Ten Eyck, 324 Ten Eyck St., Bklyn NY, April 19-May 10

2014 

Art Practice: Open Studios 2014. SVA ,335 West 16th St,  July 28,

(Not) Here (Not) Now, (screening of Every Contact Leaves a Trace) Videology, Williamsburg, Bklyn NY, July 25th

Guilt by Association. Dungeon Beach Gallery, 63 North 3rd St. Brooklyn July 31

Already Broken, SVA Chelsea Gallery 601 West 26th Street NY NY, July 1 - July 23

Build Your Own University, BHQFU, 34 Avenue A, New York, NY, May 1-30

2013

 Forty-Six Candles, (screening of Kicking John Hughes’ Grave), Union Hall Brooklyn NY, Sept.

2012 

The Art of Illustration. KCAI Exhibition Gallery, July 22

Related Professional Experience:

2016 -worked with Juvenile prisoners in The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Harlem

2012, 2013, Scholastic Art Awards National Teacher Recognition