Education

2010 Master of Fine Arts, Stanford University, Stanford CA
2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Columbia College, Chicago IL

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris FR. "Kafka Diaries." (Video and Installation)
2009 Tropo MFG, Pomona CA. "Once More with Feeling." (Performance)
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL. "Here Not There." Old Growth. (Performance and Installation)

Group Exhibitions

2012 Highlight Gallery Projects, San Francisco CA. "3020 Laguna: In Exitum" Dreamburn. (Performance and Installation)
2011 Incline Gallery, San Francisco CA. "DOWN." I Was of Three Minds (Performance and Installation)
2011 Root Division, San Francisco CA. "A Live Animal." Sustained by Visions. (Video)
2011 Aspect Magazine at List Center, MIT, Cambridge MA. "Failure." In Extremis. (Video)
2010 Thomas Welton Gallery, Stanford CA. "Square Root." Nonexistent... (Performance and Installation)
2010 Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA. "At Bay." Old Growth. (Video)
2009 The LAB, San Francisco CA. "25th Anniversary Exhibition" Portrait of my Father... (Video)
2009 PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco CA. "Sweet & Matchless." Our Impression... (Photograph)
2009 Thomas Welton Gallery, Stanford CA. "Very Close to Far Away." In Extremis. (Video and Photographs)
2008 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL. "IN>TIME." Sustained by Visions. (Video and Installation)
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL. "Mapping the Self." I Spend the Day Walking through Clouds. (Photographs)
2007 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL. Max King Cap's "God's Punk." (Performer)
2007 Caro d'Offay Gallery, Chicago IL. Root. (Video)
2006 Escuela Superior de Artes, Tijuana MX. "Intl. Perf. Art Conference."Barter. (Performance and Installation)
2006 Cultural Center, Chicago IL. The More I Meet. (Performance)
2004 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL. "Camera/Action: Performance and Photography" Grid. (Performance)

Distinctions

2010-2012 Guest Lecturer at Stanford University Art Department
2005-2007 Exhibiting member of Marina Abramovic's "Independent Performance Group"
2004-2007 Founder and curator of Manual Labor artist collective, a community art space dedicated to exhibiting new media work in Chicago

Awards and Residencies

2012 Emergency Grant. Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York NY
2011 4 month Residency. Cité Internationale de Arts, Paris FR
2011 Studio award and teaching. Root Division, San Francisco CA
2010 Suzanne Baruch Lewis MFA Grant. Stanford CA
2007 6 month Residency. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
2007 Community Arts Assistantship Program Grant. Chicago IL
2004 Pougialis Fine Arts Apprenticeship. Columbia College, Chicago IL

Press

Kate Conger, "House is Raw Material and Venue for Art," SFGate, Feb 1, 2012
Molly Oleson, "Fleeting Art Makes Lasting Impression," Mission Local, Fall 2011
J.D. Beltran, "Mapping With Moss, Metal, and Much More," SFGate, June 26, 2010
Barbara Greene and Ellen Tani, "Wayfinding: Conceptual Cartography and the Boundaries of the Self," Square Root Catalogue, 2010
J.D. Beltran, "Monumentality Through Simplicity," SFGate, August 28, 2009
Max King Cap, "Once More with Feeling," Tropo MFG, August 2009
Bonnie Trafelet, "Old Growth at the Museum of Contemporary Art," Chicago Tribune Video, July 20, 2007
Teresa Sewell, "Performance Artist Logs Fall after Fall," Chicago Sun-Times, July 20, 2007