b. 1985, Cedar Rapids, IA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2011 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) • Providence, RI • Master of Fine Arts
2008 The University of Iowa • Iowa City, IA • Bachelor of Fine Arts • Ceramics
2007 The University of Iowa • Iowa City, IA • Bachelor of Science and Nursing
Public • Social Art
2012 Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide • Brooklyn Arts Council and National Endowment
For The Arts Grant • Brooklyn, NY
2011 Presenter • Critical Information: Mapping the Intersection of Art and Technology,
Conference, ProVide Marketplace, 2011• the School of Visual Arts • New York, NY
2011 The Memory Block Project • Collaborative Online Public Artwork • New York, NY
2011 ProVide Marketplace • Collaborative Temporary Public Artwork • Providence, RI
2010 Panelist • New England American Studies Association Conference Time and Crime: Public Art
Controversies As Catalysts for Conversations and the Perils of Permanence. With Janet Zweig and
Ian Russell
2010 This is For You • Temporary Public Artwork • Providence, RI
2009 Arts in Bushwick • Organizational Committee • Brooklyn, NY
2008 The Iowa City Summer of the Arts • Iowa Arts Festival Board of Directors • Iowa City, IA,
Selected Exhibitions
2013 Greenville Museum of Art • Greenville, NC Tongue in Cheek (forthcoming)
2012 Mad Momos • Washington, DC (Currently on Display)
2012 Ateliers D’Art De France • Paris, FR The international film festival on clay and glass: Cup (2010)
2011 Samson Projects • Boston, MA Chain Letter
2011 RISD Museum of Art • Providence, RI Video Art Screening (Juried by Judith Tannebaum)
2011 Rhode Island Convention Center • Providence, RI RISD MFA Thesis Exhibition 2011
2011 65 Eddy Street • Providence, RI Honestly?
2011 Gelman Gallery • Providence, RI Digital Plastic
2011 Studio 304 • Brooklyn, NY Momentos-Momentum
2011 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)• Tampa, FL
Video Screening Room: Affected Productions (5 works)
2010 Imago Gallery • Warwick, RI Winter Invitational
2010 Artist Alliance • Providence, RI Eco-Arts Space
2010 Art and Design Space • Providence, RI RISD Expose
2010 NCECA • Philadelphia, PA Video Screening Room: Ceramic Apoptosis
2010 Gelman Gallery • Providence, RI Totemic
2009 Sol Koffler Gallery • Providence, RI Cracked
2009 Fish with Braids Gallery • Jersey City, NJ Animal Pharm
2009 Curious Matter • Jersey City, NJ Poison
2009 Art Raw • New York, NY Raw Art
2008 Fish with Braids Gallery • Jersey City, NJ Dolls Different
2008 Beta Spaces • Brooklyn, NY The Labryinth
2008 Eve Drewelow Gallery • Iowa City, IA The Human Remains
2007 Iowa City Summer of the Arts • Iowa City, IA Iowa Arts Fest
Honors • Awards • Fellowships
2012 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts • Residency and Fellowship • Amherst, VA
2012 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship • BRIC Media Arts • Brooklyn, NY
2012 Visiting Artist and Presenter • The University of Iowa • Iowa City, IA
2012 Revolution • Kickstarter.com project funded
2011 RISD Graduate Studies Grant 2011 • Affected Productions
2010 Graduate Fellowship & Teaching Assistantship • RISD Ceramics
2010 Funded Proposal • Sitings 2010: Museum as Action • RISD Museum of Art
2008 Undergraduate Art Scholarship • Mary Sue Miller Memorial Fund
2007 Undergraduate Travel Stipend • Dewey Stuit Fund
Publications
2012 RISD XYZ • Spring/Summer 2012 • Nursing a Creative Habit
2011 Silander, Lisa • RISD XYZ • Spring/Summer 2011 • Vintage 2011 (A very good year)
2011 West, Anne • Moth Press • Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work
2011 Komarovsky, Inna • The All-Nigher • April 14, 2011 Behind Sitings
2011 Art Czar • February 10, 2011 Talking to Rachel LaBine
2011 Art Czar • February 10, 2011 Talking to Rachel LaBine
2010 Ganz, Sarah • RISD Museum of Art, Digital Video • November 9, 2010 Object-Based Learning
2010 Cook, Greg • The Providence Phoenix • April 30, 2010 Random Stuff: ‘Sitings 2010’ at RISD
2009 Borngraeber, Irene • The Jersey City Independent • May 2009 Lee Johnson’s ‘Animal Pharm’
Tackles Contemporary Medicine
2007 Clay Times • October 2007 The Gallery
Employment
2012 Gober Studios • Freelance Commission • New York, NY
2012 MZL Home Care • Registered Nurse, Brooklyn Adult Care Center • Brooklyn, NY
2011 Americare CSS • Psychiatric Nurse • Brooklyn, NY
2011 Assistant • Nicole Cherubini, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Workshop Instructor • Oxbow School of the Arts with Nicole Cherubini
2011 Studio Assistant • Sculptors Nicole Cherubini & Taylor Davis
2011 Psychiatric and Geriatric Nurse • The Halworth House: Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Clinic
Providence, RI
2010 Intern • Collection Management and Imaging • RISD Museum of Art
2010 Instructor of Record & Departmental Photographer • RISD Ceramics
2008 Teaching Assistant • Ceramics Department • The University of Iowa