Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies
University of California, Davis
Emphasis in Science & Technology Studies and Feminist Theory and Research
Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
University of California, Davis
M.F.A., Visual Arts
The University of Chicago
Interdisciplinary Studies in Art Theory and Practice
B.F.A., Video
The Atlanta College of Art, now part of SCAD
Minors in Photography and Art History
Grants, Awards & Residencies
L’AiR Arts Residency | Paris, France
Marxist Institute of Research Summer Seminar, MIR | UC Natural Resources Center, Truckee, CA
Global Leadership Grant | University of California, Davis
Academic Freedom from Below, Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellow | University of California, Davis
Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Artist Fellowship | New York, NY
Trans Studies at the Commons, Community Grant, Trans Studies Initiative | Lawrence, KS
Beyond the Barriers Research Fellow | University of California, Davis, CA
Djerassi Resident Artists Program | Woodside, CA
Stove Works Artist Residency | Chattanooga, TN
Public Scholars for the Future Fellow, University of California, Davis | Davis, CA
QSIDE Institute Data4Justice Accelerator Program | Williams College, MA
Digital Scholarship Incubator Program, Michigan State University | Lansing, MI
Artist-in-Residence in Critical Race Studies, Michigan State University | Lansing, MI
Visiting Artist, Sierra Nevada College Lo-Res MFA Program | Incline Village, NV
Multnomah County Cultural Coalition Grant, Oregon Cultural Trust | Portland, OR
High-Resolution Media Arts Residency, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Heimelijkhaus Media Arts Residency | Amsterdam, NL
Wyckoff Milliman Endowment Grant, The University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Wyckoff Milliman Endowment Grant, The University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Studios of Key West Artist Residency | Key West, FL
Artist as Activist Residency, The Luminary | St. Louis, MO
Hatch Artist Residency, partially funded by the Warhol Foundation | Chicago, IL
Guest Artist, El Centro Desarollo de Artes Visuales | Havana, Cuba
Hatch Artist Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL
ACRE Artist Residency and Cooperative Exhibition | Steuben, WI
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Connections Fund Grant
8550 OHIO Artist Residency | Chesterhill, OH
Department of Visual Arts Grant, The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL
The Open Practice Committee Grant, University of Chicago | Chicago, IL
The Claire Kantor Foundation Grant | Miami, FL
Ann Metzger Memorial National Media Print Award | St. Louis, MO
Links Hall Artistic Associates Residency and Grant | Chicago, IL
Festival of the Arts Grant, University of Chicago Arts Council | Chicago, IL
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
things that stayed, with alejandro t. acierto, SOIL Gallery | Seattle, WA
Broken on a Wheel, ENTRE Gallery | Vienna, Austria
hammer without a nail, Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI
the seeing machine, with Ava Aviva Avnisan, Design Innovation Gallery, Kent State University | Kent, OH
The sun never knew, Youth Advocacy Mapping Series (online)
The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building, curated by Yaelle Amir, Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR
Monument a Surface, Ditch Projects | Springfield, OR
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Submission Gallery | Chicago, IL
Screen Share, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Studio Visit Performance, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture | Seattle, WA
Lunch Poems, Roots and Culture Contemporary | Chicago, IL
On the Screen, The Franklin | Chicago, IL
Fiction Outside, PSA Projects | Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
Bath/House, curated by Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle, Bell Gallery, Brown University | Providence, RI
of sight, of mind, organized by alejandro t. acierto, Vulpes Bastille | Kansas City, MO
Cosmic Connections, curated by Josiah Golson, Stove Works | Chattanooga, TN
Letters, curated by David Josue Cordero, Space & Time Gallery | Chicago, IL
Behind the Cloud: Interrogating Digital Technologies, curated by Marissa Del Toro & Alex Santana, Latinx Project at NYU | New York, NY
this exists inside this frame but it also exists inside this other frame, curated by alejandro t. acierto, Stove Works | Chattanooga, TN
Lux Aeterna, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Deliberate Acts: Art & Incarceration, curated by alejandro t. acierto, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN
If a Tree Falls…, Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR
Unsettling Time, curated by alejandro t. acierto, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN
Ritualistic Technology II, curated by Marilyn Volkman | Amsterdam, NL
Ritualistic Technology, Noda Estudio | Havana, CU
Up from the Table, with Creative Justice, Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts | Seattle, WA
Experiments in Resistance: Media in the Age of Mass Incarceration, NW Film Forum | Seattle, WA
We have something to say, 24-hour radio transmission, Sandberg Instituut, De School | Amsterdam, NL
in a split second (it happened.), Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Trans & Queer Video Series | Brooklyn, NY
1,500,000,000,000, Triumph Gallery | Chicago, IL
The Dangerous Professors, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier, Triumph Gallery | Chicago, IL
The One Minute, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Amsterdam, NL
Out of Sight, curated by S. Surface, Seattle Art Fair | Seattle, WA
Untold Passages, curated by Emily Zimmerman, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle, WA
Screen Share Festival, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Your body is a battleground, Weinberg/Newton Gallery | Chicago, IL
Transmissions, curated by Sharmyn Rivera Cruz, The Franklin | Chicago, IL
Art Present, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, 12th Havana Biennial | Havana, CU
Interlocking Single-Mode 21-Strand Fiber Optic Cable, ART EXPO | Chicago, IL
Making Chances, Gallery 400, curated by Lorelei Stewart and John Neff | Chicago, IL
Cage Unrequited by William Pope.L, reader, Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL
Lunch Poems, Roots and Culture Contemporary | Chicago, IL
In a Brown Paper Wrapper, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry | Chicago, IL
Elementary Reading, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier, Co-Prosperity Sphere | Chicago, IL
Finocchio, curated by Scott Hunter, The Franklin | Chicago, IL
Modi Operandi, curated by Alexandria Eregbu, Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL
Perch, ACRE Artist Residency and Cooperative Exhibition | Chicago, IL
Square Root of Pi(e), curated by Alexandria Eregbu, Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL
22nd Evanston Biennial, curated by Allison Peters Quinn and Sergio Gomez | Evanston, IL
Bare Bones, The Franklin | Chicago, IL
Renaissance Revisited, South Side Community Arts Center | Chicago, IL
Summoning a New Queer Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL
Loneliness Chapel, curated by Danny Volk, Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Archetype Drift, curated by Jason Lazarus, Johalla Projects | Chicago, IL
I’m with you, Hayward Gallery, curated by Fritz Haeg and Dr. Ben Campkin | London, UK
4th International Video-Art Festival | Camagüey, CU
The Great Refusal: Videos on New Queer Aesthetics, Gene Siskel Film Center | Chicago, IL
24HRS/25DAYS Exhibition, New Capital | Chicago, IL
ARTE NO ES FÁCIL: Links Hall Performance Series | Chicago, IL
Immigrant/Emigrant, Angels Gate Cultural Center, curated by Lara Bullock | San Pedro, CA
Public Presentations
Panelist, “Coalitional Aesthetics: Sensorial Political Tactics Across Incongruousness,” ASAP17 Conference
Artist talk, “Critical Curating,” Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI
Switchboard Collective, Trans Studies at the Commons, University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
“A Queer, Anticolonial, Abolitionist Slideshow,” American Studies Association | San Juan, PR
“On Soft Protopias and Analog Temporalities,” Cultural Studies Association | Valencia, CA
Artist Lecture, Wayne State University | Detroit, MI
“Luxuriating in the Goopiness: Brain Fog as Making/Knowing,” ASAP15 Conference | New York, NY
“Queer Abolition, the Aesthetics of Unsame Solidarities,” ASAP15 Conference | New York, NY
“Designing Switchboard,” Oral History Symposium, Ohio University | Cincinnati, OH
“Double Exposing the Spectral & Their Haunts,” Feminist Theory Symposium, UC Davis | Davis, CA
Invited Discussant, “Risk Work: Thinking Through Artists’ Punitive Literacy,” ASAP14 (online)
“Care and Solidarity as Institutional Critique,” American Studies Association Conference
Artist Talk, Museum Studies Program, University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
“On the Edges of Racial Containment: Photography, Land, and the Ethnographic Gaze,” ASAP13
Artist Lecture, Vienna MA in Applied Human Rights, die Angewandte | Vienna, AUT
Panel Discussion, Vienna MA in Applied Human Rights, die Angewandte | Vienna, AUT
Artist Lecture, Stanley & Selma Hollander Visiting Artist, Designer, and Scholar Lecture Series, Michigan State University | Lansing, MI
Invited discussant, After Touch, with Marcel Pardo Ariza, Ochi Projects LA & ONE Archives
Moderator, “Shifting Curatorial Ethics: On Pedagogy, Relation, and Publics,” ASAP/12 (online)
Artist Lecture & Mapping Workshop, Vienna MA in Applied Human Rights, die Angewandte | Vienna, AUT
Artist Lecture, Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ
Artist Lecture, Studio Arts (Photography), California State University | Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, School of Emerging Media & Technology, Kent State University | Kent, OH
The Sun, Community Mapping Workshop Series, Deliberate Acts: Art and Incarceration, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN
Mapping Workshop, University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law Colloquium, invited panelist, The Henry Gallery | Seattle, WA
Invited respondent, Viewpoints, Henry Art Gallery | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Concordia University | Montréal, QC
Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art | Bloomfield Hills, MI
In conversation with curator Ashley Stull Meyers, Sierra Nevada University | Incline Village, NV
“Decarceration & Commuted Sentences in COVID,” Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR
Guest Critic, Photography Studio, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
“Longevity: Art Practices for Queer Education,” Queer Caucus for Art, CAA & Latitude | Chicago, IL
“In the Teeth of Empire: Making a Mess & Other Queer Orientations,” QTCA, CAA | Chicago, IL
ACES: Artists of Color Expo & Symposium, invited panelist, The Armory at Seattle Center | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, NJ
Artist Lecture / Performance, Noda Estudio | Havana, Cuba
Artist Lecture, Department of Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Organizer, Queer Caucus for Art, Queen’s Council honoring Fierce Pussy, Leslie-Lohman Museum | New York, NY
In conversation with Carmen Denison, The sun never knew…, moderated by Yaelle Amir, Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR
Artist Lecture, Visiting Artist Program, Cornish College of the Arts | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Vachon Gallery, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Sierra Nevada College, Low Residency MFA | Incline Village, NV
SUVAIR, Seattle University Artist in Residence Lecture | Seattle, WA
Invited Moderator, “Picnic with Sharon Lockhart,” Henry Art Gallery | Seattle, WA
Guest Critic, Cornish College of the Arts | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, North Seattle College | Seattle, WA
Host, Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Latin American and Caribbean Womxn Artists, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Pigott Lecture Series, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington Bothell | Bothell, WA
Co-chair, Queer Caucus for Art, College Art Association
Artist talks: School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL; Evergreen State College | Olympia, WA; The Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle, WA; Out of Sight | Seattle, WA
Guest critic: School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL; University of Oregon | Eugene, OR
Guest juror, PICA’s Precipice Fund | Portland, OR
Invited Presenter, “Other Media: Decolonizing Practices and Cyborg Ontologies,” New Media Caucus, CAA | New York, NY
Organizer, “Finding a Public: Latinx Cultural Production,” The Alice Gallery | Seattle, WA
Public Convo Symposium, Latitude | Chicago, IL
Guest artist, Curatorial Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL
Guest artist, Intro to Art Practice, University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Artist Talks: The School of the Art Institute, University of Illinois–Chicago, and Smart Museum | Chicago, IL
Feminism & Photography Panel Discussion, Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL
“Gender Inside of Photography,” Post-Modern Photography Symposium, Society for Photographic Education, Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN
Juror, Reeling LGBT International Film Festival | Chicago, IL
Guest Artist, The School of the Art Institute: Permeable Membranes | Chicago, IL
Artist Talks, 65Grand & Links Hall | Chicago, IL
Panel discussant, ARTE NO ES FÁCIL, Associated Colleges of the Midwest | Chicago, IL
Publications, Catalog Essays & Reviews
“Slow Technology of Abolition.” Leonardo, vol. 58, no. 3, MIT Press.
Review of Trans Care by Hil Malatino. Theatre Journal (Project Muse).
“28-minute exposure, 3:30 pm.” Foam Magazine, #64: EXTREMES, The Environmental Issue.
“Exposing the Hero.” Portable Gray, Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, University of Chicago Press Journals, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 49–65.
Catalog essay: Tagle, Thea Quiray. Hammer Without a Nail. Michigan State University.
Review: Pothast, Emily. “The Faces of the Accused and the Dead.” Medium, Form & Resonance.
Guest Editor. A New Nothing and Sleeper Studio (print publication).
Interview with Aaron Counts, Creative Justice. The Henry Gallery | Seattle, WA.
Interview with curators of the 2019 Portland Biennial. ASAP/Journal.
Review: Knowlton, James. The sun never knew…. Art Practical.
Interview with Praxis Magazine, Yale Radio, with Brainard Carey.
Catalog essay: Mac, Molly. The sun never knew…. Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University.
Catalog essay: Mac, Molly. In a Second (It Happened). The Hedreen Gallery | Seattle, WA.
Exhibition essay: Wilson, Leslie. In Silence Back. Ditch Projects | Springfield, OR.
Exhibition essay: Keogh Serrano, Ximena. Thru the Roof. The Alice Gallery | Seattle, WA.
Exhibition essay: Zimmerman, Emily. Untold Passages. The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Gamma Poetry Press.
New Media Caucus. “Other Media: Decolonizing Practices and Cyborg Ontologies.”
Review: Sierzputowski, Kate. “The Dangerous Professors.” Chicago Reader.
Catalog: Lichtzier, Ruslana. The Dangerous Professors.
Catalog: Preston-Myint, Aay, ed. Platforms: Ten Years of Chances.
Rodriguez, Oli, ed. The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics. SAIC.
Interview: Romagoza, Yali. “Interviews with Marilyn Volkman and Dan Paz.” Contemporary Art Seminar.
“Interview with Tania Bruguera.” Shifter Magazine, issue 20: What We Can Knot.
Curatorial
in the teeth of empire, FLXST Contemporary | Chicago, IL
Thru the Roof (group exhibition), The Alice Gallery | Seattle, WA
The Alice Gallery, Curatorial Collective | Seattle, WA
Arte no es Fácil Symposium, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, 12th Havana Biennial | Havana, CU
Gift Economies, Inversion, Frontier, Sometimes Art Space, Vedado | Havana, CU
Arte no es Fácil, Links Hall | Chicago, IL
Collections & Commissions
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Lux Aeterna | Seattle, WA
4Culture | Seattle, WA
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Eyeball Witness Compilation | Chicago, IL