BORN
3 November 1982
Berkeley, CA
EDUCATION
California College of the Arts, Master of Fine Arts
9 May 2009, San Francisco, CA.
Augustana College, Bachelor of Arts: Political Science
21 May 2005, Rock Island, IL.
HONORS & AWARDS
SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Nominee, August 2012, San Francisco, CA.
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, California College of the Arts.
Nominee, May 2009, San Francisco, CA.
Ceramics Department Award & Scholarship, California College of the Arts.
Recipient, 2008 & 2009, San Francisco, CA.
TEACHING & EXCHANGE
Adjunct Professor
Department of Art & Design, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Little Rock, AR. 2017
Artist Lecture, Knowing the Subject.
Undergraduate Course, San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA. February 2015.
Teaching Artist, Marfa Fieldwork Project.
Master’s Class, Gerrit Reitveld Academie, Dutch Art Institute & California College of the Arts.
Marfa, Texas. June 2013.
Bergsjön Public. Cultural Production, Immigration Policy & Architecture.
Masterʼs Class, Konsthogskolan Valand & California College of the Arts.
Göteborg, Sweden. June 2008.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017
- Art in the Park: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Student, Faculty, and Alumni Art Exhibit, Wildwood Park for the Arts. Installation: Cloud Factory, October 2017, Little Rock, AR.
2015
- A New Deal: continuing the legacy of maritime art in the park, San Francisco Maritime Museum. 7 March - 17 June 2015, San Francisco, CA.
2014
- T H E S O M E T H I N G, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
L@TE Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA, 25 April 2014, Berkeley, CA.
- Lawyer Films Inc., llc.: ...if Lou Reed were Hank Williams…, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
Performance as part of The Possible, 27 March 2014, Berkeley, CA.
- T H E S O M E T H I N G, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
Installation & Performance, as part of The Possible, 29 January - 25 May 2014, Berkeley, CA.
2013
- T H E S O M E T H I N G, AlterSpace.
Jailcell Residency, Installation & Performance, November 2013, San Francisco, CA.
- “In Search of the Miraculous…”, Helena Hallway Gallery.
Group Show, 5 August - 5 September 2013, San Francisco, CA.
- m r d s & c r t z m ǝ: towering taller, SOMArts.
Performance & Video as part of Night/Light, 27 April 2013, San Francisco, CA.
- m r d s & c r t z m ǝ: stringing theory down, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Performance, 30 March 2013, San Francisco, CA.
2012
- T H E S O M E T H I N G, We Are Will Brown Projects. Installation & Performance, 12 June 2012, San Francisco, CA.
- T H E S O M E T H I N G, The Luggage Store d.b.a. Hotel Renoir Annex. Installation & Performance, 18 May 2012, San Francisco, CA.
- How We Leave and Return: Intersections of Art and History, The Visitor’s Center.
Group Show, 28 April - 1 July 2012, Angel Island, CA.
- Lawyer Films Inc., llc.: night/light unlawful edition, SOMArts.
Performance as part of Night/Light, 27 April 2012, San Francisco, CA.
- How Much Liquid the Ming Dynasty Vase Can Hold: an audio tour-de-force, Space Bi.
Space Bi, though housed inside, is not affiliated with the Asian Art Museum, 13 May 2012, San Francisco, CA.
- Prior Understanding, Adobe Books.
Performance as part of Rapport by Zina Al-Shukri, 25 February 2012, San Francisco, CA.
2011
- Eb/No: a show about noise, MacArthur B Arthur.
Group Show, 4 March - 27 March 2011, Oakland, CA.
- Close Encounters: the sun is bright in the dark of space, Carville Annex.
Performance as part of Space Stations, 19 January 2011, San Francisco, CA.
- The More Things Change: Shadowshop, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
V.H.S. Tapes, 20 November 2010 to 1 May 2011, San Francisco, CA.
2010
- Gold Substandard: or a fake diamond in the rough, Coalition On Homelessness Benefit Auction. V.H.S.Tapes, Edition of Five, 9 September 2010, San Francisco, CA.
- City Reader: threnody for a lost landscape, Adobe Books.
Reading Conventions Residency, Video & Performance, 2 September, San Francisco, CA.
- T H E S O M E T H I N G, SOMArts.
Action Exhibition as part of the NIGHT/LIGHT garden party, 17 July, San Francisco, CA.
- T H E S O M E T H I N G, Sight School.
Installation & Performance, 15 June, Oakland, CA.
- Solar Hamburger: an aural sacrifice, Workspace Ltd.
Performance/Installation, 8 May, San Francisco, CA.
- The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Potter Theatre.
Live Video Design, Video & Publicity Installation, 30 April to 9 May, Rock island, IL.
2009
- T H E S O M E T H I N G, Jack Hanley Gallery.
Action Exhibition, 2 October, San Francisco, CA.
- (RE)CONSIDER: unfinished projects, ArtSpace 404: Arts Council of Sonoma County.
Performance/Installation, 12 July, Santa Rosa, CA.
- Interim Infills, Big White Truck Gallery.
Group Show, 21 June, San Francisco, CA.
- Infinty, UnSmoke Gallery.
Group Show, 23 May, Braddock, PA.
- Unconnected Machines & Imaginary Office Dystopia, California College of the Arts.
2009 M.F.A. Exhibition, 7-16 May, San Francisco, CA.
- T H E S O M E T H I N G: or towards the invention of a telepathic telephone, Fishspace Gallery.
Action Exhibition, 30 March, San Francisco, CA.
- ADMIN presents: Art College Radio, Orange Alley Projects.
Six Pack Song by “Betssy Smythe” & Online Radio Stream, 13 March, San Francisco, CA.
2008
- 100 Greatest Hits, Adobe Books.
Live Performance, 24 July, San Francisco, CA.
- Bergsjön Public, Galleri BOB.
The Swedish Collective, 29 June, Göteborg, Sweden.
- Neighborhood Public Radio Presents: 100 Greatest Hits, Whitney Biennial.
Live Radio/Internet Broadcast, 7 May, San Francisco, CA, and New York, NY.
GALLERY
Preparator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
2012 - 2014, San Francisco, CA
Director, PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts. San Francisco, CA
Collection V: Bling Show & Pity P(art)y.
9-12 March 2009.
Not Enough Time, vol.ii
8-minute performance night, 11 March 2009.
Collection IV: Rafflesia Remix: A Corpse Flower Anthology & Stone Mandala.
12 January - 5 February 2009.
Collection III: Multispecies Salon II, Polyps and Pufferfish, Multispecies Extension & Collage at College.
10 November - 4 December 2008.
Not Enough Time.
8-minute performance night, 6 November 2008.
Collection II: As-Builts, Reflection 10/13/08, Letters of You & America.
13 October - 4 November 2008.
Collection I: Things We Have, Skip Zone, Mission School Resumé Writing Workshop & Sampler.
2 September - 11 October 2008.
Preparator, Figge Art Museum.
June 2005 to August 2007, Davenport, IA.
Gallerist, Mode Art.
May 2006 to August 2007, Davenport, IA.