EDUCATION
MFA Painting 2010 University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA
Post Graduate Diploma Fine Arts 2003 Goldsmiths College, University of London; New Cross, London
BFA Painting 2002 Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD
EXHIBITIONS
Summer Invitational, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA August 2018
Emanuel College Artist Series, Sculptural, digitally dynamic installation located throughout the Arts Department. Project created in collaboration with Fish McGill and Saul Baizman, The Fenway, Boston, MA December 2017 – February 2018
Illuminus Boston, Sculptural, digitally dynamic installation at one of the largest outdoor contemporary arts festivals in the city. Project created in collaboration with Fish McGill and Saul Baizman, Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA November 2017
Edge Installation & Performance Exhibition, Presented by Trident Gallery at the Ocean Alliance, Gloucester, MA September 2017
Goetemann Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Ocean Alliance, Gloucester, MA July-September 2017
AMPLIFY & MULTIPLY, Colorado College’s Coburn Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO, March – April 2017
The System and Process For, Archive Space Project, Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, May 2016 – June 2016; Dual-exhibition with Sofie Hodara.
Common Press at 10: Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Pavilion at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 2016 – September 2016
Operations Signal Ghost & Saturnalia, Ice Box Gallery, Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, August 2015; in collaboration with the Kali Yuga Zoo Brigade
Winvasion 2014 Pageant Soloveev Gallery; Philadelphia, PA
Serpent's Hallowed Tail Feathers 2012/2013 Pageant Soloveev Gallery; Philadelphia, PA
Installed 2012 Delaware County Community College; Media, PA
Heart and Soul 2012 University City and 30th Street Station; Philadelphia, PA
Simulacra and Simulation 2011/12 Bunker Hull; Philadelphia, PA
VOX VII 2011 Vox Populi Gallery; Philadelphia, PA curated by Melissa Ho and Hennessy Youngman
Hive/Cave 2011 Pageant Soloveev Gallery; Philadelphia, PA
T.E.D.O.S.O.N. 2010 PageantSoloveev Gallery; Philadelphia, PA
Notes on Induction 2010 Solomon Contemporary; New York, NY
University of Pennsylvania 2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition 2010 Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA exhibition design by Matthew Ritchie and Jenelle Porter
Zeigen Audio Tour Berlin by Karin Sander 2009/2010 Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
Albatross 2010 Myerson Gallery University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA
Or Is It... 2010 Myerson Gallery University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA
Through The Wall 2009 New Rochelle School; Shoreditch, London, UK
145 Annual Small Oil Painting Exhibition 2008 Philadelphia Sketch Club; Philadelphia, PA
Helter Swelter 2007 Sara Nightingale Gallery; Watermill, NY
Revealing the Infinite Science of God 2005 Shinola Gallery; Baltimore, MD
Use Your Illusion March 2003 Intermedia Gallery; King Street, Glasgow, Scotland
CHOCKERFUCKINGBLOCKED 2003 Jeffery Charles Gallery; London (Whitechapel), UK
Nil Admari 2002 The Cork Factory: Baltimore, MD
EDUCATOR EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Basic Drawing I, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, Spring 2017 - Current Studio-based observational drawing class employing traditional approaches to figure drawing, measurement, perspective, and mark making while asking students’ to consider what is being communicated through their work.
Instructor, Design & Composition, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, Fall 2016 - Current Based on Bauhaus and Nōtan principals of design and composition, this course introduces students to traditional art mediums, techniques, and color theory.
Instructor, Drawing Fundamentals, Summer Intensive Studios, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, Summer 2018 - Studio-based observational drawing class for high-school students employing traditional approaches to figure drawing, measurement, perspective, and mark making while asking students’ to consider what is being communicated through their work.
Instructor, Issues and Images, Summer Studios, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, Summer 2018 - Lecture class for high-school students about legibility, politics, and the role of contemporary art in society. The class included several visits to Boston area art institutions to view, assess, and discuss a wide range of visual.
Instructor, Advanced Life Drawing, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, Spring 2017 - 2018 - Reinforced traditional drawing techniques while encouraging students to experiment with their approach to drawing and to develop their own visual language. Assignments, lectures, and studio time combine to challenge students’ preexisting ideas about the function and appearance of observational drawing.
Instructor, Design Fundamentals 1, Wheelock College, Boston, MA, Fall 2017 - Three-credit class tailored for ESL students as an abridged version of 2D Design & Composition class. Based on Bauhaus and Nōtan principals of design and composition, this course introduced students to traditional art mediums, techniques, and color theory.
Instructor, Introduction to Fine Arts, Curry College, Milton, MA, Fall 2017 - Summer 2018 - Lecture based class focused on the fundamental integrating principles of artistic expression in the visual arts, music, and dance, with a primary emphasis on the visual arts. Students are exposed to a wide variety of direct experiences in the arts, including a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts. Class discussions are a regular feature of the class, resulting from both constructive and analytical projects.
Instructor, Drawing I, Curry College, Milton, MA, Spring 2017 - This studio-based drawing class teaches foundational drawing techniques, such as measurement, perspective and mark making, while encouraging students to experiment while asking students’ to consider what is being communicated through their work.
Instructor, Collaborative Sculpture & the Politics of Collective Practices in the Arts, MIT-Singapore University of Technology and Design Collaboration Office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, IAP January 2017
Instructor, Collaborative Workshop, Lecturer, and Resident Artist, The International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory, Mangalia, Romania, August, 2016
Instructor, Drawing 1; Rendering the Architecture of MIT, Student Arts Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June- July 2016
Teaching Assistant, Color Theory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2010 / Professor Diane Lachman
Teaching Assistant, Performance Art Graduate Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2009 / Professor Sherman Fleming
Teaching Assistant, Drawing 1, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2008 / Professor Josh Weiss.
Visiting Critic, Senior Painting Studio, final critiques, M.I.C.A., Baltimore, MD, 2007
Classroom Assistant, Hernwood Elementary School, Randallstown, MD, 2004
Designed and implemented art lessons in a special needs classroom for elementary school children with autism.
Teaching Assistant, Abstract and Representation Painting Studio, M.I.C.A., Baltimore, MD, 2003 / Professor Churchill Davenport
PUBLICATIONS & COLLECTIONS
Art New England, One of three artists in the featured article examining the experience of creating art within a New England artist residency. January/February 2018 edition.
Cape Ann TV 'Monument To The Great Auk', Documentation and artist talk addressing my Goetemann Fellowship Installation at the Ocean Alliance in conjunction with the Rocky Neck Art Colony; Recorded 7/28/17 and aired on Cape Ann TV from 9/17 - 3/18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_HTaBqnWI&t=15s
Good Morning Gloucester, Podcast interview promoting my Goetemann Fellowship Installation at the Ocean Alliance in conjunction with the Rocky Neck Art Colony; show
#232, recorded 7/9/17.
Gloucester Times ‘The Great Auk Returns as Art’, Interview promoting my Goetemann Fellowship Installation at the Ocean Alliance in conjunction with the Rocky Neck Art Colony, published 7/23/17, page 1.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Pavilion at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, acquired 2016
Common Press Archive, Printmaking Department at PennDesign, Morgan Building, University of Pennsylvania, acquired 2016
New American Paintings, No. 87 MFA Annual, 2010; Juried by Rafaela Platow
∫ , Common Press, University of Pennsylvania, 2010; artists’ statements represented in visual formulas
6 Words, Common Press, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Mobtown Writers' Collective; One Year Anniversary, NewLights Press, 2004; Poems from Mobtown Writers' Collective members
Mobtown Writers' Collective; & 022404, NewLights Press, 2004, Poems selected from nine Mobtown Writers' Collective members
7:8:1 7 one word poems of 8 letters or less, New Lights Press, Tin Woodsman Editions, 2003; with Amselm Berrigan, Jeremy Sigler, John Yau
I Could Have Done Better: Writings of Nathan Thomas Wilson, From the Factory Press, 2002; edited by Nathan Danilowicz
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Goetemann Fellowship Award, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA, 2017
The International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory, Mangalia, Romania, August, 2016 / Resident artist and lecturer on collaborative practices and theory.
Alice C. Cole 2015 Fellowship, nominee, Wellesley College, 2015
Lawrence Shprintz Award, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
Joan Mitchell MFA Award, nominee, 2010
Diversity Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2008 - 2010
University of Pennsylvania - Royal College Exchange, recipient, 2009 / Directed by Nigel Rolfe; nominated by Terry Adkins.
Merit Scholar, M.I.C.A., 2000-2001
Seymour Mendelbaum Merit Scholar, M.I.C.A., 1999 - 2000
Financial Need Scholar, M.I.C.A., 1998 - 2002
Academic Honors Scholar, M.I.C.A., 1998 - 2002
Trustee Award Scholar, M.I.C.A., 1998 - 2002
Pre-College Scholar, M.I.C.A., 1998 - 2002
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