Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies
Emphasis in Science & Technology Studies and Feminist Theory & Research
The University of California, Davis
M.F.A., Visual Arts/Interdisciplinary Studies in Art Theory and Practice
The University of Chicago
B.F.A., Video
Minors in Photography and Art History
The Atlanta College of Art (SCAD)
Grants, Awards & Residencies
Dissertation Year Fellowship | University of California, Davis
Marxist Institute of Research Graduate Fellow, MIR | UC Natural Resources Center, Truckee, CA
Global Leadership Grant | University of California, Davis
Mellon Foundation, 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