Education
2007
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA, Master of Fine Arts
2003
Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a major in sculpture, Suma Cum Laude
2001
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy

Group Exhibition
2010
Never Very Far Apart, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Actions, Conversations, and Intersections, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
2009
What’s on the page, Imprenta, Los Angeles, CA
Grito e Escuta, 7th Mercosul Bienial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (catalog)
Print Matters: Salon for Independent Book Art & Artist's books, General Store, Sydney, Australia
Performing Economies, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Soundscapes, Curated by Tiffany Barber, g727, Los Angeles, CA
Stay Bite: Modes of Operation, Curated by Evelyn Serrano and Karla Diaz, University of Texas, Dallas, TX
Needle in a Haystack, Curated by Nate Garcia, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Complete Neutral Tree Show, Gallery Nineteen TwentySeven, Los Angeles, CA
Exchange Rate: 2008, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
The Audacity of Desperation, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA
Just how does a patriot act: A response to US policy at home and abroad, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (catalog)
Stay Bite, Curated by the Artists for Social Justice Coalition, Lime Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
From A to B: A Field Guide to the Urban Commute, Curated by Donna Conwell, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Desire, The Gatov Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA
The Girly Show, Curated by Denise Johnson, The Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (catalog)
The Collective Body, Curated by Kristen Raizada, Galerie Califia, The Czech Republic
For Ever, 915 Mateo, Curated by Eungie Joo and Clara Kim, Los Angeles, CA
A not so simple case for torture, Gallery D300, CalArts, Valencia, CA
The Powder Room, Curated by Christine Wertheim and Georgeanne Dean, Track 16, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Abre-Alas, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2006
Mid-Residency Exhibition, CalArts, Valencia, CA
It was the blurst of times, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston, TX
GLAMFA, The Gatov Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2005
Hello my name is:, CalArts, Valencia, CA

Awards/Grants/Residencies
2010
Philadelphia Art Hotel residency, Philadelphia, PA
2009
California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship
Kitty T. Chester Curator's Laboratory Series, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Willamette Week “Best Group show of 2005” for the TROCA: Brasil exhibit, Portland, OR
2004
Franconia Sculpture Park intern artist fellowship, Shafer, MN
2003
John T. Milliken Traveling Scholarship, St. Louis, MO
Commencement Marshall, Valedictorian of the School of Art, St. Louis, MO
Secor Sculpture Award, St. Louis, MO
Crescent Hills Research Grant, Tyson Research Center, Eureka, MO
2002
University City Public Sculpture Commission, St. Louis, MO

Curatorial/directorial Projects
2009
Performing Economies, Kitty T. Chester Curator's Laboratory Series, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Exchange Rate: 2008, an international performance exchange (catalog)
2007
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium and Exhibition, collaboration with the “WACK!” exhibition at
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
TROCA: USA, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005
The Door Show, CalArts, Valencia, CA
TROCA: Brasil, The Feldman Gallery + Project Space, The Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Lectures + Workshops
2012
Co-Chair with Audrey Chan of The Feminist Art Project day of Panels at the College Art Association conference
2009
CalArts, Visiting Artist Lecture with Audrey Chan and Theresa Masangkay, lecturing in "Experimental Impuse" class
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Visiting Lecturer, Portland, OR
g727, Artist talk for the exhibition "Soundscapes," Los Angeles, CA
2008
CalArts, Visiting Artist Lecturer, Intermedia Department
B/P/D REDCAT Lounge, Panel discussion, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist, Family Day workshop on the Allan Kaprow Exhibit
CalArts, Visiting Artist Lecturer, Graduate Performance Analysis class, a class offered in the theater school for MFA students
2007
The Other Project, “How to build an event that matters," with Theresa Masangkay, Valencia, CA
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium and Exhibition, Valencia, CA, Panel Moderator for “Strategies in Contemporary Feminism,” with Catherine Lord, Andrea Fraser and Mary Kelly
NAAO conference, Los Angeles, CA, Led workshop entitled: “Feminism for Fathers”

Teaching Experience
2008-10
Scripps College, Visiting Professor, "Art Fundamentals" and "Intermediate/Advanced Drawing"
2009
Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, Culver City High School, Visiting artist workshop through the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2007-2009
Art Insitute of California-Los Angeles, "Introduction to Contemporary Art"
2008
CalArts, Visiting Professor, “Allan Kaprow: words, actions, events,” which culminated with a performance in partnership with the Allan Kaprow retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Publications
2010
"February 6" in The Open Daybook, Mark Batty Publisher, October 2010 (forthcoming)
We Are the Art, 2010, Published by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, designed by Colleen Corcoran
“The Participant,” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue #7
2009
“Performing Economies,” Day to Day, edited by Carolina Caycedo, published through lulu.com, September 2009
Exchange Rate: 2008, designed by Roman Jaster, published through lulu.com   
2008
ID 517: Special Topics in Art and Politics: A Not So Simple Case for Torture, One Star Press, A project by students from CalArts with Nancy Buchanan, Sam Durantand Martha Rosler.
2007
GIVE IT TO ME, DO IT TO ME, MAKE ME…, designed by Roman Jaster, published through lulu.com
2006
Conversation Pieces, 2006, a collaboration with Adam Overton
2004        
“Garbage Safari,” Garbage Issue, Eaten-Alive Magazine, produced by artist/designer Rachel Mason, v.2 no. 10
2003        
Free Issue, Eaten-Alive Magazine, produced by artist/designer Rachel Mason, v.1

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