Education
MA Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL New Artist Society Merit Scholar
Thesis: Agnes Denes and the Global Imaginary: Visions from the World Picture to Interdependence
MFA Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL New Artist Society Merit Scholar
BA English Literature, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Phi Beta Kappa
Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, México
Exhibitions
2024 Alumni Showcase, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago IL
2023 The Last of Animal Builders, Edith Farnsworth House, Plano IL (curated by Alberto Ortega Trejo)
2022 Off-leash, Inga, Chicago IL
This Too Shall Pass, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago IL (Curator)
2021 Residual Marks / Exuviae, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago IL
Survey 2, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago IL
2020 Shelter in the Speculative, Spudnik Press, Chicago IL
Art-in-Place, Terrain Exhibitions & CNL Projects, Chicago IL
Hello Neighbor, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago IL
2019 Transformer, Western Pole, Chicago IL
The Waves, Annas with Flatland, Chicago IL
Naming Rights, Annas, Chicago IL
2018 helps it to feel, compels it to make, Weinberg/Newton, Chicago IL
Killers and Thrillers, Kabinett, Boston MA
2017 Transitions, SITE Galleries, Chicago IL
Body of Light, The Beehive, Boston MA
A Stranger Place, Kabinett, Boston MA
LiVEART.US, Queens Museum, New York NY
Moving_Image_00:01, Latitude, Chicago IL
To Listen. To Speak. To Act., Student Union Galleries Chicago IL
2016 Talking Points, Student Union Galleries, SAIC, Chicago IL
MFA Show, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL
Present Tense Pamphlets in conjunction with Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, 1960s-1980s, The Block Museum, Chicago IL
Trio A Pressured: Horticultural Fragment, Shapiro Center Research Symposium, Chicago IL
Presentation for Conscious Culture: Field Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo Japan
2015 Between Paradise and a Hard Place New Blood IX, Links Hall, Chicago IL
Selfie Stick Poem Screening with Carolina González Valencia, Roots and Culture, Chicago IL
Abandoned Practices Institute Performance July 1, 2015, HAMU // Hudebni a tenecni fakulta AMU, Prague, Czech Republic
Layered Cities and the Portable Studio, Kriti Gallery, Varanasi India
2014 NuVu Student Collaborative Installations, Cambridge Housing Authority, YWCA Cambridge, Cambridge MA
Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center, Allston MA
2013 Patient Project Presentation, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Boston MA
Patient Project, Brevard Health Alliance Titusville Clinic, Titusville FL
2011 Sting! XI: Object Relations, The Beehive, Boston MA
Awards
2021 Illinois Solar for All, Illinois Power Agency
Kulturmittlerstipendium, Goethe-Institut Chicago
2020 Technology Award, Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization
Illinois Solar for All, Illinois Power Agency
2019 2019–20 Hatch Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition
Illinois Solar for All, Illinois Power Agency
35 in 35 Writing Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2018 Graduate Fellowship Nominee
Graduate Dean's Grant Professional Development Award
VCS Department Travel Grant
2017 Dangler Curatorial Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago
VCS Department Professional Development Award
2016 New Artist Society Society Merit Scholarship in Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015 Graduate Dean's Professional Development Award
Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration EAGER Grant
2014 Consortium Fellow A Proximity of Consciousness: Art and Social Action
New Artist Society Merit Scholarship in Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Writing Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Collaborative Projects
2015, 2017 Between Paradise and a Hard Place, New Blood IX, Links Hall, Chicago, IL; LiVEART.US, Queens Museum, New York, NY (performance in collaboration with Maryam Taghavi).
2015-16 A Program for Plants aprogramforplants.com (in collaboration with Linda Tegg and Brian M. John).
Publications as Author
“A Program for Plants,” Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader, Columbia University Press, 2021.
“Agnes Denes y el Imaginario Sobre la Esfera Terrestre: Miradas Visionarias de la Imagen del Mundo a la Interdependencia,” (translated by Leandro Depietri Martínez) Arte y natureza, (MUNTREF, Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero), 2020.
“The god’s-eye view,” Hole Black Hole Catalog: access to holes, Flatland, Chicago, 2019. 8–10.
“Remembering, in Two Parts (alongside Joe Brainard),” Take Care, in conjunction with Take Care, Ground Level Platform, Chicago, 2019. 22–23.
“Birds Calling,” X. [international.] https://xinternationalculture.com/, 2019.
“Revisiting ‘The Secret Life of Plants’ with Michael Marder,” Botanical Speculations, (Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Press), 2018.
“The Illustrated Herbal,” Why Look at Plants?, Dr. Giovanni Aloi, ed. from the Critical Plant Series by Michael Marder, ed. (Leiden, Netherlands, Brill Press), 2018. 223–226.
“A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda,” with Linda Tegg, Brian M. John and Giovanni Aloi, Why Look at Plants?, Dr. Giovanni Aloi, ed., from the Critical Plant Series by Michael Marder, ed. (Leiden, Netherlands, Brill Press), 2018.
“Score for an Interspecies Audience Awaiting Trio A,” Present Tense Pamphlets in conjunction with Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, 1960s–1980s, The Block Museum, Chicago, 2016. 1–5.
“The Choice of Mobility: Dawit Petros,” Printer’s Devil Review, (Boston, MA, Black Key Press), Spring 2015. 54–61.
“Foot Traffic: Billy McGuinness,” Printer’s Devil Review, (Boston, MA, Black Key Press), Fall 2014. 34–39.
“Urban Turbines: Greer Muldowney,” Printer’s Devil Review, (Boston, MA, Black Key Press), Spring 2014. 66–73.
“Amber Davis Tourlentes,” Printer’s Devil Review, (Boston, MA, Black Key Press), Fall 2013. 32–41.
“Jordan Kessler,” Printer’s Devil Review, (Boston, MA, Black Key Press), Spring 2013. 28–35.
“Caleb Cole,” Printer’s Devil Review, (Boston, MA, Black Key Press), Fall 2012. 26–33.
“Georgie Freedman,” Printer’s Devil Review, (Boston, MA, Black Key Press), Spring 2012. 26–33.
“Jarrod McCabe,” Printer’s Devil Review, (Boston, MA, Black Key Press), Spring 2011. 45–50.
Bibliography
Ally Fouts, “Reframing the Relationship Between Humanity and Nature,” Chicago Reader, June 26, 2023.
Samuel Medina, “This Summer’s Must-See Exhibitions,” The Architect’s Newspaper, May 15, 2023.
Annette LePique, “Opal Pools of Milk and the Luzhin Defence,” Sixty Inches From Center, April 14, 2022.
Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright, Repair: Australian Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale Di Venezia 2018 (New York, NY: Actar, 2018). 107–109.
Nance Klehm, Interview, Spontaneous Vegetation, WLPN Radio, Chicago IL, October 9, 2017.
Irena Frumkin, SUGS ‘Talking Points’ is Personal, Political, and Thankfully Unpredictable, FNews Magazine, October 20, 2016.
Emergency Index 2015, Ugly Duckling Presse.
Meg Onli, SAIC Graduate Artist Book, 2016.
Jason Foumberg, "Critical Mass at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago," Art & Education, April 2015.
SAIC Graduate Artist Book essay by Shawn Michelle Smith, 2015.
Meera Vohra, "Taking Back the Right Impression," The Times of India, Banaras Times, India, January 24, 2015.
Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL.
Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago IL.