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Curriculum Vitae

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2010

I’m With You, Clapton Gardens, London

NEXT Fair, Merchandise Mart, Chicago

2009

Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival, Austin

Spring Fling Shorts Show, Space 55, Phoenix.

New Romance: Digital Art In the Age of the Internet, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans.

Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston.

2008

Bridge Art Fair Miami, Swimming Pool Project Space, Miami.

Chicago & The Universe, Roots + Culture Gallery, Chicago; Nordic Pavillion Studios, Vienna, Austria; KHM, Cologne, Germany.

AGENDA: Queering Popular Media, Current Space, Baltimore.

Repelling / Abseiling : Videos About Trust, Brooklyn Museum, New York.

Threat Level: An Evening of Queer Shorts, Elegant Mr. Gallery, Chicago.

2007

M.I.T. Visual Arts Program, Cambridge, MA.

Around The Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago.

The Cowboy and The Pegasus,Queer Fest Midwest, Pulaski Fieldhouse, Chicago.

Diamonds At Dusk, an exhibition of Chicago-based queer filmmakers, 6325 N Lakewood, Chicago.

Patheogeographies, multimedia exhibition of works dealing with political activism and "political depression," Gallery 400, Chicago.

Small Change Screenings, The Latvian Society, Philadelphia.

Locally Localized Gravity, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Gay Bi Gay Gay 2007, Austin, TX.

2006

MIX NYC 19th Annual Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York.

Curatorial

2008 - 2010

CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits, co-curated with Ethan White, a program connecting the (queer) body politic with the notion of haunting. Screened at various venues in the U.S. and London
Currently distributed by the Video Data Bank in Chicago.

2007

Every Body Moves Against Control: Pilot TV, co-curated with Dylan Mira, a selected program of works made at Pilot TV Chicago. Screened at MIX NYC, New York; Small Change Screenings, Philadelphia; Locally Localized Gravity, Philadelphia; Around The Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Chicago.

Organizing and Community Building

2008 - present

The Critical Fierceness Grant, Co-founder and administrator of a biannual micro-grant for queer artists living and working in Chicago.

2005 - present

Chances:Dances, Organizer/promoter/DJ/photographer of a monthly dance party, The Subterranean, Chicago.

2004

Pilot TV Convergence: Experimental Media for Feminist Trespass, organizer/primary documentarian of 4-day conference, Texas Ballroom, Chicago.

Awards

2006-2008

Presidential Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2006

Chicago Arts Assistance Program Grant recipient.

2002

Excellence in Writing award, Columbia College Chicago.

Education

2011

MFA, Moving Image, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design

2008

BFA, Film, Video and New Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.