Born
1972 Cincinnati, OH
Education
2003 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Davis, CA
1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1992 Studio Arts Center International, Cleveland Institute of Art: Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Thomas Welton Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
2012 Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2012 Even the Windmills are Weakening, Recology, San Francisco, CA
2011 Open Secret, San Francisco Arts Commission Grove Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 41st Rudiment, Collaboration w/Chris Froh + DJ Sparr, Catholic University, Washington DC
2009 Divergent Timing, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2009 Natural Balance, Outdoor Site-Specific Installation, Girona, Spain
2007 missed-measure-meant, Jayjay Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2005 Remain Human: The Slatter’s Court Project, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA
2002 Sleepless Tuning, Lift Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Barrel Children, semantics gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1998 Proverbial Island, Grapevine Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1994 Terry Berlier, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Trees for Life, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2011 Material Witness, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2011 Inspiration and Insight: Contemporary Artists and Gertrude Stein, Bing Stanford in Washington Gallery, Washington D.C.
2011 Size Matters, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2011 The American Dream, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Seeing Gertrude Stein, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2010 Shadow Shop Participant, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2010 Residency Projects II, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2010 13th Annual Music for People + Thingamajigs Festival, San Francisco, CA
2010 International Artist Residency Project, Chinese Character Gallery, Duna Galeria in 2010, Ferencvarosi Gallery in 2011, Vizivarosi Gallery in
2012 Budapest, Hungary
2010 Twenty Years/Twenty Artists, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2010 GRAPHOMANIA, Astronaut Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 Chronotopia, Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archives, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Modulations v2.2, CCRMA, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archive, San Francisco, CA
2009 That’s so gay, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2009 Home is something I carry with me, San Francisco, CA
2009 From Their Studios, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
2009 Sculpture, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
2008 Code-Switchers, The Lab, Juried Exhibit, San Francisco, CA
2008 Beautiful Losers, RFD Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Swainsboro, GA
2008 Double-Parked, Block Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2008 Making Room for Wonder, Somarts, San Francisco, CA
2007 FLOW Artfair, Jayjay Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2007 Migration, DAAP Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH
2007 3 x 3, DiRosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2007 Time, FemArt 07, Mostra D’Art De Dones, Barcelona, Spain
2006 What Comes Around, Arts Benicia, Curated by Renny Pritikin, Benicia, CA
2006 Faculty Exhibition, Sonoma State University, University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2006 On Making, CCA Faculty Exhibition, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 Home, FemArt 06, Mostra D’Art De Dones, May 25 to July 10, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Unexpected Developments, Playspace, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 My Country, Right or Left, Juried Exhibition, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
2005 Space, 1050 Loft Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2005 Exquisite Corpse, ToyRoom Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2005 All I know, 12 Galaxies, San Francisco, CA
2004 Cut-ups, Ready-mades, and Color Fact, Jayjay, Sacramento, CA
2004 Cheap Rent, Slatters Court Bike Shop, Davis, CA
2003 Introductions, Jayjay, Sacramento, CA
2003 MFA Exhibition, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
2003 Wandering Library, International Artists’ Museum, Venice, Italy, Exhibit travelled to Meinz, Germany, Tel Aviv, Israel, New York in 2004
2002 Bay Area Student Sculpture Biennial, San Francisco, CA
2002 Wired, Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2001 Conjunction, semantics gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2000 Installations, Carnegie Center for Arts, Covington, KY
1999 Time Store, DiLeia Contemporary/Cultural Machine Complex, Cincinnati, OH
1999 Participant in Culture Wars, Performance with newsense enterprises/DiLeia Contemporary/CMC, Cleveland Performance Arts Festival,
Cleveland, OH
1999 Sleeping on the Job, Punch-In, DiLeia Contemporary/CMC, Cincinnati, OH
Selected Performances
2011 14th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, Oakland, CA
2010 High Water Mark, collaboration with Christophe Fellay and Ricardo Rivera, Pacific Basin, Berkeley, CA
2010 Bateria Batteries, collaboration with Christophe Fellay and Ricardo Rivera, 13th Annual Music for People + Thingamajigs Festival, Oakland, CA
2010 Nam June Psyche, collaboration with Valerie George and Anthony Hlavaty, Woodside, CA
2010 TomBoy, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Outfest Platinum, Redcat Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2010 TomBoy and Louganis with Luciano Chessa, Associazione Musica d’Insieme Milan, Italy
2010 TomBoy, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2010 TomBoy, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA
2010 41st Rudiment (World Premiere), collaboration with Chris Froh and DJ Sparr, Catholic University, Washington D.C.
2010 Inkless Imagination IV with Luciano Chessa, Hot Air Music Festival, San Francisco Conservatory, San Francisco, CA
2010 Louganis with Luciano Chessa, Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Louganis, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2009 Louganis, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Nodas, Louganis and Premiere of TomBoy with Luciano Chessa, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, CA
2009 Louganis, performed by Alfonso Alberti, Museum of Contemporary Art of Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy
2009 Experiments, High On The Ice Production, Pacific Basin Studio, Berkeley, CA
2008 Louganis, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Highways Performance Space, Los Angles, CA
2008 Premiere of Inkless Imagination IV with Luciano Chessa, Cage Festival,Mondavi Center For The Performing Arts, Davis, CA
2007 Louganis, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Old First Concerts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Tom’s Heart, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Maybeck Studios, Berkeley, CA
2004 Tom’s Heart, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, Music Department, University of California, Davis, CA
Screenings
2011 Open Your Golden Gates, Bildwechsel, Hamburg, Germany, Berlin, Germany and Group Intervention Video, Montreal, Canada
2010 House Drag, Shelter Exhibition, Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C.
2010 Remain Human: The Slatter’s Court Project, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2009 House Drag, Home Is Something I Carry With Me Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2007 Remain Human, Noe Valley Ministry Odd Monday Series, San Francisco, CA
Collections
Bildwechsel Archive, Berlin, Germany
Barbara Goldstein, San Jose, Private Collection
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Crocker Art Museum, Art Ark, Sacramento, CA
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
University of Illinois, Video Art Collection, Chicago, IL
Roberta Hollemon, Cotati, CA, Private Collection
Publications and Reviews
2011 Exhibition Catalog, Insight and Identity: Contemporary Artists and Gertrude Stein, Washington D.C.
2011 Review, Event at the Lab to pair Super 8 films, music, Kimberly Chun, San Francisco Chronicle, The Watch, August 11
2011 Exhibition Book, Seeing Gertrude Stein, publication May 2011, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2010 Review, A Community That Time Forgot, Phillip Speigel, Palo Alto Patch, November 9, 2010, online magazine
2010 Catalog, Making it Real: Selected Works 2003-10, Essay by Tirza True Latimer, self published in conjunction with Kala Art Institute Residency
2010 Review, Christophe Fellay sur la côte ouest, Eric Felley, Valais-mag, Switzerland
2010 Television Appearance, The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Kent Jones, Segment: Kent Jones Rocks Out On Thingamajigs, aired September 25
2010 Review, In Performance: Great Noise Ensemble, Joan Reinthaler, The Washington Post, The Classical Beat, May 2, 2010, online newspaper
2010 Radio Broadcast, TomBoy, collaboration with Luciano Chessa, National Radio, RAI 3, Milan, Italy
2010 Magazine Reproduction, Panhandler Issue 4, Spring, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
2010 Article, Artist Walks Audience Through Her Creative Process, Maria Ah, Connector, January 25, 2010, online newspaper
2010 Catalog, Visions From The New California, Alliance of Artists Communities, CA
2009 Review, Review, Teachable Exhibit, Michael S. Gant, Metroactive, November 4, 2009, online magazine
2009 Interview, Stanford Artists Swept Up In Rising Tide Of Environmental Awareness, Corrie Goldman, The Human Experience, Stanford University,
March
2009 Review, Biology, Geometry, Globe-Trotting-and Art?, Ruthie Arbeiter, Stanford Review, October 23, 2009
2009 Feature Article, Earth’s In The Balance As This Art Moves, Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, March 13, 2009
2009 Review, Artpicks, Tim Foster, Midtown Monthly, March 2009
2008 DVD Release, Tom’s Heart with Luciano Chessa, Strawberry Records
2008 Review, Where the Crayfish Winter, Hideous Sunday, October 14, 2008, online magazine
2007 Review, Speaking In Tongues, Jonathan Wilkes, San Francisco Classical Voice, November 18, 2007, online magazine
2007 Review, Light, Cameras, Action At Di Rosa, Linda Hufstader, Napa Valley Register, August 22, 2007
2007 Exhibition Catalog, Time FemArt 07, Mostra D’Art De Dones, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Review, Turning Trash into Art, Richard Parks, Benicia Herald, November 23, 2006
2006 Review, Exhibit Explores Nontraditional Art, Rich Freeman, Times-Herald, November 10, 2006
2006 Review, Found Objects, New Identity As Art, The Vacaville Reporter, October 21, 2006
2006 Exhibition Catalog, Home FemArt 06, Mostra D’Art De Dones,Barcelona, Spain
2005 Review, Emotional Notes, Linda Rentner, The Davis Enterprise, August 11, 2005
2005 Review, Humans Remain: A Bohemian Trailer Park Clings To Its Offbeat Identity, John Kiefer, The Sacramento News and Review, August 11
2004 Review, Slatter’s Art Museum Shows Cheap Rent Exhibition, Daniel J. Glendening, The California Aggie, May 2004
2003 Review, Through Students’ Eyes, Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, July 2003
2003 Review, Intriguing Environments, Marilyn Moyle, The Davis Enterprise, June 2003
2000 Review, Putting You In It, Fran Watson, Citybeat, April 2000
Awards, Grants, Residencies and Scholarships
2012 Artist in Residence, Villa Ruffieux, Sierre, Switzerland
2012 Artist in Residence, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder LKV, Trondheim, Norway
2011-12 Recology Artist In Residence Program, San Francisco, CA
2011-12 Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Research Fellow, Stanford, CA
2011 Arts Council Silicon Valley, Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts Sculpture, Santa Clara County, CA
2010-11 Zellerbach Foundation Commission, Berkeley, CA
2010 Hungarian Multicultural Center, International Artists in Residency, Budapest, Hungary
2009-10 Kala Art Institute Fellowship, Residency and Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
2008-9 Visions from the New California, Artists Alliance, Residency at Exploratorium, SF
2008 Summer Research Grant, Stanford University, CA
2007 Hangar Residency, Workshop on Collective Authorship, Barcelona, Spain
2004-5 City of Davis Arts Contract, Davis, CA
2003-4 California Council for Humanities, California Stories Fund, San Francisco, CA
2004 Millay Colony for Artists, Fellowship Recipient, Austerlitz, NY
2003 Nelson Artfriends Outreach Grant, University of California, Davis, CA
2002 Ora Keck Scholarship Fund, P.E.O. California State Chapter, CA
2002 Summer Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis, CA
2002-3 Nelson Artfriends Stipend, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
2001 Artsbridge Scholarship, University of California, Davis, CA
2001-3 Block Grant, University of California, Davis, CA
2000 Individual Artist Grant, City of Cincinnati, OH
2000 Honorary Exhibition, President’s Award, Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, OH
1993 Gertrude Davidson Brill Scholarship, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1992 Studio Arts Center International, Scholarship Recipient, Florence, Italy
Lectures
2011 Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2011 Exhibition Lecture for BSIW Board of Directors, Washington D.C.
2011 Exhibition Lecture, Size Matters, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture, Clayman Institute for Gender Studies, Stanford University, CA
2010 Panel, Art and Science, Visual and Critical Studies Program, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture, Graduate Seminar, University of California, Davis, CA
2010 Artist-in-Residence Lecture, Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
2010 Artist-in-Residence Lecture, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture, Graduate Seminar in Music Composition, Stanford University, CA
2010 Panel, Sustaining Art Practices, Graduate Seminar, University of California, Davis, CA
2010 Visiting Artist Graduate Critiques, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
2009 Artist-in-Residence Lecture, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2009 Panel, Contemporary Artists Influenced By Black Mountain College, Re-viewing Black Mountain College Conference, University of North
Carolina, Ashville, NC
2009 Visiting Artist Lecture, From their Studios, Cantor Center For Visual Arts Museum, Stanford, CA
2009 Panel, Art and the Environment, Natural Balance Exhibition, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
2009 Exhibition Lecture, Divergent Timing, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2008 Visiting Artist Lecture, Clayman Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2008 Visiting Artist Lecture, Object for Another World, Stanford University, CA
2008 Visiting Artist Lecture, Musical Acoustics, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, CA
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture, Women in the Creative Arts, Stanford University, CA
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture, Cantor Arts Center, Director's Advisory Council presentation, Stanford, CA
2005 Visiting Artist Lecture, California College of Art, Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 Visiting Artist Lecture and Workshop, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
2004 Panel, Regenerations, Intersexions Conference, The City University of New York, NY
2003 Visiting Artist Lecture, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
2002 Visiting Artist Lecture, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2002 Visiting Artist Lecture, Baroque to Post Modern, University of California, Davis, CA
Conferences
2009 Co-Organizer of Rising Tide: The Arts and Ecological Ethics, 3 Day conference with over 30 artists, activists, academics, community organizers, and environmentalists of fine arts, design architecture, writing, criticism discussing how the arts are addressing issues of climate change and the green revolution. Conference took place at both Stanford University and California College of the Arts campus’. (Risingtideconference.org)
Curatorial Projects
2008 Expanding, Co-Curated with Moria Murdock, Thomas Welton Art Gallery, Stanford University, CA
2004 Cheap Rent, Co-Curated with Karen Vanhercke, Slatter’s Court, Davis, CA
Teaching
2007-Present Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2003-7 Adjunct, California College of Arts, University of California, Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma State University