Education

Master of Fine Arts from American University 2008

Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design 2003

 

Highlights

Exhibitions and/or Performances with notable spaces including:

Gavin Browns Enterprise @ Passerby                     Katzen Arts Center                                 

Green Papaya Art Projects                                    Cherry Blossom Festival

Eyebeam                                                           Brooklyn Film Series

Arlington Arts Center                                            Curator’s Office

Cell Project Space                                               Transformer Gallery

 

Solo and Group Exhibitions

2019

Assemble! 2019 Regional Biennial, Arlington Arts Center, curated by Blair Murphy, Arlington, VA

New River Art 30th Biennial, Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA

Faculty Exhibition, Montgomery College Takoma Park, Takoma Park, MD

2018

(Solo Performance) Meat Poem, After MAF Festival, Roanoke, VA

(Solo Performance) Meat Poem, Art Rat Studio, Roanoke, VA

 

2017

BC/AC: Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Silver Spring, MD

(Solo Performance) Art Rat Studio, Roanoke, VA

(Solo Performance) After MAF festival, Roanoke, VA

 

2016

(Solo Performance) Meat Poem, Art Rat Studio, Roanoke, VA

Marginal Arts Festival, Various Locales, Roanoke, VA

 

2015

(Solo Exhibition) Space: Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

Locally Sourced: Katzen Arts Center through Transformer Gallery, Washington D.C.

Marginal Arts Festival: Various Locales, Roanoke, VA

(Co-Curator) Baring Witness: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

 

2014

(Solo Exhibition) Inta Eht Fuuter: Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.

(Solo Performance) Meat Poem: For Jason: Curators Office, Washington D.C.

Centerfold Artists: Project Four Gallery, Washington D.C.

Flat File Summer Socials: Transformer Gallery, Washington D.C.

(Solo Performance) For Wilfred: Transmodern Festival, Baltimore MD

Cheers: 25 for 25 performance festival (curated by Eames Armstrong) DCAC, Washington, D.C.

Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival: Multiple Venues, Roanoke, VA

Balanced: Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Silver Spring, MD

 

2013

(Solo Performance) For Loving Friends: Cherry Blast: Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington D.C.

(Solo Performance) For the Marquis: Supernova: Rosslyn Arts Center, Rosslyn, VA

(Solo Exhibition) Chow Down: Liminal Gallery, Roanoke, VA

 

2012

Transformer Auction: Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C.

Make it Rain: Soap Box: Hillyer Art Space, Washington D.C.

Bread and Butter: Transformer Gallery, Washington D.C.

(Curator) Die!+Fun!: Marginal Arts Festival, Roanoke, VA

 

2011

Transformer Auction: Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C.

(Solo Performance) Meat Poem: For Georges: (e)merge international art fair, Washington D.C.

(Solo Exhibition) Parade: Montserrat House, Washington D.C.

Sketch: Transformer, Washington D.C.

Labyrinth: Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival in Association with the Taubman Museum

 

2010

(2010-12) Alptraum: Transformer, Washington D.C., Cell Project Space, London, Deutscher Kuenstlerbund, Berlin, The Company, Los Angeles, blank projects, Cape Town, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City, Goethe Institut-Johannesburg, Johannesburg                   

Transformer Auction: The Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C.

ReVisions: Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.

Anarchy in the Kitchen: UMAMI: Food and Arts Festival Eyebeam, New York, New York, UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, New York, The Nonstop Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Cabaret: RE-RE-Voltaire: Gallery O-H, The Red Palace, Washington D.C.

Anarchy in the Kitchen: Rooftop Film Series Brooklyn, New York

 

2009

(Solo Exhibition) “Visions from the End of the World”: Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Pulse New York: New York, New York, with the Curator’s Office

 

2008

Proximity: Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.

Meat Poem: Marbles in my Mouth: Post-Neo Absurdist Anti-Festival: New Brunswick, New Jersey

 

2007

Teacher’s Pet curated by Rob Pruitt: Gavin Browns Enterprise @ Passerby, New York, New York

(Solo Installation) Love Parade (Somebody Loved Her in the Park a Little too Hard): G Fine Art, Washington D.C.

 

Collections

Rare Book Collection at The Ohio State University

The Watkins Collection at American University Museum

 

Bibliography

2018

The Bloomsbury book of Food and Popular Culture

Edited by Kathleen Lebesco and Peter Naccarato

Food and Art: Changing Perspectives on Food as a Creative Medium

By Yael Raviv

 

2015

Washington Post

In the Galleries

By Mark Jenkins

 

2014

Washington Post

Gallery Opening of the Week: ‘ Centerfold Artist’

By Michael O’Sullivan

 

Washington Post

Spring Arts Preview

By Michael O’Sullivan

 

Washington City Paper

Gallery Owners Trade Traditional Spaces for Pop-Ups and Shares

By Kriston Capps

 

 

2013

Trop Magazine

“Mr. October”

By Zac Willis and Annette Isham

 

Washigton Post

Snapshots from (e)merge Past and Present

By Michael O’Sullivan

 

2011

The City Paper 

“On Drawing”

By John Anderson

 

Anti-Prophesies: Post-NeoAbsurdist Prophesy Poems, A.Da. 86-94,

Monocole Lash Anti-Press

Edited by Olchar E. Lindsann

 

2010

Word For/Word

 “Introduction: A Correspondance-Interview with the Post Neo Absurdists

By Michael Peters”

 

2009

Visions from the End of the World

A.V. Club

The Onion

 

Bradley Chriss

The Studio Visit

By Isabel Minalo

 

 

Awards

 

2014

Montgomery County Art and Humanities Council

Individual Artist Award for Creation of Solo Exhibition in 2015

 

 

2007

American University Art Department

Sharon Walpoff Purchase Award