GRANTS I AWARDS I RESIDENCIES
2025
L’AiR Arts Residency, Artistic Research Forum I Paris, France
Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Artist Fellow I NYC, NY
Beyond the Barriers, Research Fellow I University of California, Davis, CA
2024
Djerassi Resident Artist Program | Woodside, CA
Stove Works’ Artist Residency | Chattanooga TN
2023
Public Scholars for the Future Fellow I University of California, Davis, CA
2022/21
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
2014
Guest Artist, El Centro Desarollo de Artes Visuales | Havana, Cuba
Hatch Artist Residency, Chicago Artist’s Coalition | Chicago, IL
2013
Acre Artist Residency and Cooperative Exhibition | Steuben, WI
2012
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Connections Fund Grant
8550 OHIO Artist Residency | Chesterhill, OH
The Open Practice Committee Grant, University of Chicago | Chicago, IL
2011
The Claire Kantor Foundation Grant | Miami, FL
Ann Metzger Memorial National Media Print Award | St Louis, MO
Links Hall Artistic Associates Residency and Grant | Chicago, IL
Festival of the Arts Grant University of Chicago Arts Council | Chicago, IL
SOLO I TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
things that stayed, with alejandro t. acierto, SOIL Gallery 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
2026
Bath/House, Bell Galleries, Brown University I Providence, RI
2024
Cosmic Connections, curated by Josiah Golson, Stove Works Artist Residency I Chattanooga, TN
Letters, curated by David Josue Cordero, Space & Time Gallery I Chicago, IL
2023
Behind the Cloud: Interrogating Digital Technologies, group exhibition curated by Marissa Del Toro & Alex Santana I Latinx Project at NYU, NYC
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
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2024
Panelist, Listening sessions: Queer Abolition, the Aesthetics of Unsame Solidarities I ASAP15 Conference
Panelist, Luxuriating in the Goopiness: Brain Fog as Making/Knowing I ASAP15 Conference
Presenter, Feminist Theory and Research Spring Symposium I University of California, Davis
Panelist, Designing Switchboard: an Open-Source Chatbot for Trans* Oral Histories, AI in OH, Oral History Association I 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
Panelist, On the edges of racial containment: photography, land, and the ethnographic gaze I ASAP13
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 | Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, Concordia University I Montréal, Québec, CA
Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art I Bloomfield Hills, MI
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 I Chicago, IL, Evergreen State College I Olympia, WA, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery I Seattle, WA, and Out of Sight I Seattle, WA
Guest critic at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago I Chicago, IL, and University of Oregon I 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
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,
Artist as Activist Residency, The Luminary | St. Louis, MO
Hatch Artist Residency, partially funded by the Warhol Foundation | Chicago, IL
2015
Talks, The School of the Art Institute, University of Illinois-Chicago School, and Smart Museum | Chicago, IL
Panelist, Feminism & Photography Panel Discussion, Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL
2014
Panelist, Post-Modern Photography Symposium, Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN
Juror, Reeling LGBT International Film Festival | Chicago, IL
2013
Guest Artist, The School of the Art Institute: Permeable Membranes | Chicago, IL
2012
Artist Talks at 65Grand & Links Hall | Chicago, IL
Panel discussant, ARTE NO ES FÁCIL Associated Colleges of the Midwest | Chicago, IL
Panel discussant, ARTE NO ES FÁCIL, Art Chicago Speaks, Art Chicago | Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS I CATALOG ESSAYS I REVIEWS
2025
Publication: "Slow Technology of Abolition." Leonardo, vol. 58, no. 3, MIT Press.
2023
Publication: Review of Trans Care by Hil Malatino. Theatre Journal.
Publication: ”28-minute exposure, 3:30 pm.” Foam Magazine, #64: EXTREMES - The Environmental Issue.
2022
Publication: ”Exposing the Hero.” Portable Grey, Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, University of Chicago Press Journals, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 49-65.
Catalog Essay: Tagle, Thea Quiray. Hammer Without a Nail. Michigan State University.
Review: Pothast, Emily. "The Faces of the Accused and the Dead." Medium, Form & Resonance.
2021
Publication: Guest Editor. A New Nothing and Sleeper Studio, Print Publication.
2020
Publication: Interview with Aaron Counts, co-director of Creative Justice, The Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2019
Publication: Interview with curators of the 2019 Portland Biennial. ASAP/ Journal, May.
Review: Knowlton, James. The sun never knew…. Art Practical.
Interview: Interview with Praxis Magazine at Yale Radio with Brainard Carey
Catalog Essay: Mac, Molly. The sun never knew…. Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University
2018
Catalog Essay: Mac, Molly. In a Second (It Happened). The Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
Exhibition Essay: Wilson, Leslie. In Silence Back for Monument a Surface Exhibition Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
Exhibition Essay: Keogh Serrano, Ximena. Thru the Roof. The Alice Gallery, Seattle WA.
Exhibition Essay: Zimmerman, Emily. Untold Passages. The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Gamma Poetry Press
Publication: New Media Caucus. "Other Media: Decolonizing Practices and Cyborg Ontologies."
2017
Review: Sierzputowski, Kate. "The Dangerous Professors." Chicago Reader.
Catalog: Lichtzier, Ruslana. The Dangerous Professors.
2015
Catalog: Preston-Myint, Aay, editor. Platforms: Ten Years of Chances. Catalog designed by Bojan.
Catalog: Rodriguez, Oli, editor. The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics. SAIC.
2014
Interview: Romagoza, Yali. "Interviews with Marilyn Volkman and Dan Paz." Contemporary Art Seminar.
2011
Exhibition Essay: Schuh, Natalie, and Stevie Greco. Pillowtalk. Peregrine Program. Chicago, IL.
Review: Whittenburg, Zachary. "On Getting One's Hands Dirty." New City. Chicago, IL.
Publication: The Chicago School of Media Theory. "The Still in the Tableaux Vivant." Uof Chicago.
COLLECTIONS & COMISSIONS
2024
Bell Galleries, Brown University I Providence, RI
2021
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Lux Aertna | Seattle, WA
2020
4Culture | Seattle, WA
2020
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington | Seattle, WA
2019
Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA
2013
Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Eyeball Witness Compilation I Chicago IL
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