SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2024
TBD, The Specialist I Seattle, WA
2022
Broken on a Wheel, ENTRE gallery I Vienna, Austria
hammer without a nail, Michigan State University I East Lansing, MI
the seeing machine, collaboration with Ava Aviva Avnisan, Kent State Design Innovation Gallery, Kent State University I Kent, OH
2021
Youth Advocacy Mapping Series, www.twosixteen.net I online exhibition
2019
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 at Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR
2018
Monument a Surface, Ditch Projects | Springfield, OR
2017
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2023
Behind the Cloud: Interrogating Digital Technologies, group exhibition curated by Marissa Del Toro & Alex Santana I Latinx Project at NYU, NYC
things that stayed, a two-person exhibition with alejandro t. acierto, SOIL I Seattle, WA
2022
this exists inside this frame but it also exists inside this other frame, curated by alejandro t. acierto, Stove Works I Chattanooga, TN
2021
Lux Aeterna, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington | Seattle, WA
2020
Deliberate Acts, three-person exhibition, curated by alejandro t. acierto at 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
2019
Ritualistic Technology, curadurîa Marilyn Volkman and Adriân Crubelo Diaz | Havana, CU
Up from the Table, collaboration with Creative Justice, Lee Center for the Arts/ Hedreen Gallery | Seattle, WA
Experiments in Resistance: Experimental Media in the Age of Mass Incarceration, curated by Dr. Alexander Johnston, NWFilm Forum Screening | Seattle, WA
2018
We have something to say, 24- hour radio transmission, Sanberg Instituut, De School | Amsterdam, NL
in a split second (it happened.), Hedreen Gallery at Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Trans & Queer Video Series | Brooklyn, NY
1,500,000,000,000, Triumph Gallery | Chicago, IL
2017
The One Minute, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Amsterdam, NL
Out of Sight, Seattle Art Fair| Seattle, WA
Untold Passages, curated by Emily Zimmerman, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle, WA
The Dangerous Professors, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier, Triumph Gallery | Chicago, IL
Screen Share Festival, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL
2016
Your body is a battleground, Weinberg/Newton Gallery | Chicago, IL
Transmissions, curated by Sharmyn Rivera Cruz, The Franklin | Chicago, IL
2015
Art Present, Fabrica 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 at The Franklin, | Chicago, IL
Modi Operandi, curated by Alexandria Eregbu, Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL
2014
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
2013
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
2012
Im 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
2011
Pillowtalk, curated by Natalie Schuh and Stevie Greco, Peregrine Program | Chicago, IL
Floor Length N Tux | Chicago, IL
2010
Band of Outsiders, curated by Catherine Sullivan, CAA Media Lab | NY, NY
Swimsuit Edition: A Visceral Body, Swimming Pool Project Space | Chicago, IL
Art Here Art Now, Chicago Artist's Month HYPA | Chicago, IL
Ann Metzger Memorial National Juried Exhibition | St. Louis, MO
Devices for Illusory Space, Reception Gallery | Chicago, IL
2009
Revolutions DOVA Temporary | Chicago, IL
Make Magazine Screening, The Hideout | Chicago, IL (Screening)
Spiderbug / Greenlantern screening | Chicago, IL
COMA (California Occidental Museum of Art) | Chicago, IL
2008
Lots Contemporary Art Workshop | Chicago, IL
Random House Classic 1732 W. Humboldt Park Blvd | Chicago, IL
COMA (California Occidental Museum of Art) | Chicago, IL
Cash 'N Carry Lisa Boyle Gallery | Chicago, IL
Fast Forward Film Festival (placed 3rd) | Chicago, IL
GRANTS & AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024
Djerassi Resident Artists Program | Woodside, CA
Stove Works’ Artist Residency | Chattanooga TN
2023
Public Scholars for the Future Program, University of California, Davis
2022-2022
QSIDE Institute Data4Justice Accelerator Program
Artist in Residence in Creative Practice and Critical Race Studies, Michigan State University | Lansing, MI
Digital Scholarship Incubator Program, Michigan State University | Lansing, MI
2019
Multnomah County Cultural Coalition Grant | Portland, OR
Visiting Guest Artist, Sierra Nevada College, Lo-Res MFA Program | Incline Village, NV
2018
High-Resolution Media Arts Residency, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Heimelijkhaus Media Arts Residency | Amsterdam, NE
2017
Wyckoff Milliman Endowment Grant, The University of Washington | Seattle, WA
2016
Wyckoff Milliman Endowment Grant, The University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Studios of Key West Artist Residency | Key West, FL
2015
Artist as Activist Residency, The Luminary | St. Louis, MO
Hatch Artist Residency, partially funded by the Warhol Foundation | Chicago, IL
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2024
Presenter, Feminist Theory and Research Spring SymposiumI University of California, Davis
Panelist, Designing Switchboard: an Open-Source Chatbot That Collects Trans* Oral Histories, AI in OH, Oral History Association I Virtual Symposium
2023
Invited Discussant, Risk Work: Thinking Through Artists’ “Punitive Literacy I ASAP14
Panelist, Care, and Solidarity as Institutional Critique I American Studies Association Conference
2022
Invited Guest Speaker, Artist Talk I Museum Studies Program I University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Panel Discussion, ASAP 13, On the edges of racial containment: photography, land, and the ethnographic gaze I ASAP Journal Conference
Artist Lecture, Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights Program, die Angewandte I Vienna, AUT
Panel Discussion hosted by Entre Gallery in conversation with Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights Program, die Angewandte I Vienna, AUT
2021
Artist Lecture, Stanley & Selma Hollander Visiting Artist, Designer, and Scholar Lecture Series I Michigan State University I Lansing, MI
Invited discussant, After Touch, moderated discussion with Marcel Pardo Ariza I Ochi Projects LA & One Archives
Moderator, Shifting Curatorial Ethics: On Pedagogy, Relation, and Public’s I ASAP/ 12 Virtual Conference
Artist Lecture & Mapping Workshop, Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights Program, die Angewandte I Vienna, AUT
Artist Lecture, Arizona State University I Tempe, AZ
Artist Lecture, Studio Arts (Photography), California State University I Los Angeles, CA
2020
Artist Lecture, School of Emerging Media & Technology, Kent State University I Kent, Ohio
The Sun, Community Mapping Workshop Series, Deliberate Acts: Art and Incarceration, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law Colloquium, Invited panelist, The Henry Gallery | Seattle, WA
Viewpoints, Invited respondent, Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Concordia University I Montréal, Québec, Canada
Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art I Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
In conversation with curator Ashley Stull Meyers, Sierra Nevada University | Incline Village, NV
Longevity: Art Practices for Queer Education Online, panel discussion, Queer Caucus for Art, CAA & Latitude Chicago I online
Decarceration & Commuted Sentences in COVID, online- discussion, Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR
Guest Critic, Photography Studio, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness, Invited respondent, panel discussion, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
in the teeth of empire: Making a Mess and Other Queer Orientations, Queer Caucus for Art, CAA | Chicago, IL
ACES: Artists of Color Expo & Symposium, Invited panelist, The Armory at Seattle Center | Seattle, WA
2019
Artist Lecture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey
Artist Lecture, Performance, Noda Estudio | Havana, Cuba
Artist Lecture, Department of Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington
Organizer, Queer Caucus for Art, Queen’s Council: An evening of revelry honoring Fierce Pussy, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art | NYC, NY
Discussion with artist and activist, Carmen Denison, The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building, moderated by Yaelle Amir, Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR
Artist Lecture, Visiting Artist Program at Cornish College of the Arts | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Vachon Gallery, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Sierra Nevada College of Art, Low Residency MFA Program | Incline Village, NV
Artist Lecture, SUVAIR, Seattle University Artist in Residence Lecture | Seattle, WA
2018
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 of Art | 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 at Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington | Bothell, WA
Co-chair, Queer Caucus for Art, College Art Association
2017
Artist talks at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA), The Jacob Lawrence Gallery (Seattle, WA), and Out of Sight (Seattle, WA)
Guest critic at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) and 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 | NY
Organizer, Finding a Public: Latinx Cultural Production, The Alice Gallery, | Seattle, WA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Invited Contributor, review of Trans Care by Hil Malatino, Theatre Journal, 2023
”28-minute exposure, 3:30 pm” Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES - The Environmental Issue, August 2023
”Exposing the Hero” Portable Grey, Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, University of Chicago Press Journals, Vol 5. no.1 pp 49-65. 2022
Emily Pothast, The Faces of the Accused and the Dead, “Medium, Form & Resonance,” August 31, 2021
Guest Editor, A New Nothing & Sleeper Studio Print publication 2021
Interview with Aaron Counts, writer, and co-director of Creative Justice for The Bugs and Beasts Colloquium, The Henry Gallery I Seattle, WA 2020
Interview with curators of 2019 Portland Biennial, ASAP/ Journal May 2020
The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building, review by James Knowlton for Art Practical, 2019
Interview with Praxis Magazine at Yale Radio with Brainard Carey
In a second (it happened) essay by Molly Mac 2018
In Silence Back, exhibition essay by Dr. Leslie Wilson, 2018
Thru the Roof, exhibition essay by Dr. Ximena Keogh Serrano 2018
Thru the Roof, not to be missed at The Stranger, Emily Pothast, 2018
Arte no es Fácil/ Art Present: Moving Beyond Images, Forthcoming, 2019
Untold Passages, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Gamma Poetry Press, 2017
Other media: decolonizing practices and cyborg ontologies, New Media Caucus, CAA, NY 2017
The Dangerous Professors, *recommended* by Chicago Reader by Kate Sierzputowski, 2017
UW IVA Program, catalog by Claire Cowie, 2017
The Dangerous Professors, catalog by Ruslana Lichtzier, 2017
Platforms, Ten Years of Chances, catalog designed by Bojan and edited by Aay Preston-Myint, 2015
Shifter Magazine, interview with Tania Bruguera, 2015
The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics, SAIC, edited by Oli Rodriguez, 2015
Interviews Marilyn Volkman and Dan Paz, Interview by Yali Romagoza, Cont. Art Seminar, 2014
Shifter Magazine #19, #20 Proposals co-edited by Matthew Metzger and Sreshta Rit Premnath, 2013
Pillowtalk, Peregrine Program, Exhibition Essay by Natalie Schuh and Stevie Greco, 2011
On Getting One's Hands Dirty by Zachary, Whittenburg, New City, 2010
The Still in the Tableaux Vivant, The Chicago School of Media Theory, 2008
COLLECTIONS & COMISSIONS
Lux Aeterna, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington | Seattle, WA 2020
Played Haptic Surfaces Against Visual Shape #27, 4Culture Collection | Seattle, WA 2020
in a split second (it happened.), Hedreen Gallery at Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA 2018
Eyeball Witness Collection, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center I Chicago, IL 2013
CURATORIAL WORK
2020
in the teeth of empire, Porous Gallery, Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL
2018
Thru the Roof (group exhibition), The Alice Gallery | Seattle, WA
2017-
The Alice Gallery, Curatorial Collective | Seattle, WA
2015
Art Present Symposium, Arte no es Fácil, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, 12th Havana Biennial | Havana, CU
Arte no es Fácil: Gift Economies, Inversion, Frontier, Sometimes Art Space, Vedado | Havana, CU
*More detailed CV available upon request