EDUCATION
1989 San Francisco Art Institute
M.F.A. in Sculpture
San Francisco, California
1984 Newcomb College of Tulane University
B.A. in Philosophy/Religious Studies
New Orleans, Louisiana
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 White Elephants, South Dakota Art Museum
Brookings, South Dakota
2019 A House Divided, Lowe Art Museum
Coral Gables, Florida
2014 ReVeal, performance at southXeast, Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
2012 White Elephants, Boise Art Museum
Boise, Idaho
2010 White Elephants, John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2009 Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam
Potsdam, New York
2008 Boise State University, Visual Arts Center
Boise, Idaho
2008 Mad Cow
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Miami, Florida
2008 White Elephants
Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter Campus
Jupiter, Florida
2008 Hospitalfield Residential Arts Centre
Arbroath, Scotland, UK
2007 University of West Florida
Pensacola, Florida
2006 Oh Say Can You See
Deluxe Arts
Miami, Florida
2005 Mortification
Miami-Dade College, Kendall Campus Art Gallery
Miami, Florida
2005 Metaphor & Mimesis (two-person exhibition)
Rochester Contemporary
Rochester, New York
2005 Uncanny
The Lowe Museum
Coral Gables, Florida
2003 Child's Play (two-person exhibition)
Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland
Cortland, New York
2003 Living Room (installation)
Talleyrand Park
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
2002 Apotropaic
Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
2002 Innards
Buffalo Arts Studio
Buffalo, New York
2000 Acquired Identity
First Street Gallery
Eureka, California
1998 University of Washington Ceramic Gallery
Seattle, Washington
1998 Biggin Gallery
Auburn, Alabama
1997 Summer Open Studios
Belcher Studios Gallery
San Francisco, California
1996 San Francisco Open Studios
69 Belcher Street Gallery
San Francisco, California
1994 Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
Hangzhou, China
1994 Body Surveillance
The Exploratorium
(collaboration with Beth Custer, Brenda Hutchinson)
San Francisco, California
1991-94 Open Studios
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, California
1990 ProArts Open Studios
Oakland, California
1988 Pull Gently, Please
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
1987 North and South
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
1985 All Spaces Are Sacred
Newcomb Women's Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Right To Bear
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
2023 Have Whale, Will Travel
University of Miami Campus
Miami, Florida
2022 Axis Mundi
Wynwood Project Space
Miami, Florida
2022 War Game
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
2021 Black Mandala
Wynwood Project Space,
Miami, Florida, October 2021
2019 Toys as Art, Peninsula Fine Arts Center
Newport News, Virginia, June 7-September 15, 2019
2018 Speaking Volumes 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Holter Museum of Art
Helena, Montana, October 5-December 30, 2018
2018 BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art, Hickory Museum of Art
Hickory, North Carolina, July 21-November 25, 2018
2018 Ethics Excess Extinction, El Paso Museum of Art
El Paso, Texas, January 26-May 13, 2018
2018 Into Action: A Celebration of Community Power + Cultural Resistance
Los Angeles, California, January 13-21, 2018
2017 Play: Toys Reimagined as Art, Taubman Museum
Roanoke, Virginia, September 10, 2017-February 18, 2018
2017 BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art, Loveland Art Museum
Loveland, Colorado, June 9-August 20, 2017
2017 BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art, Musekegon Museum of Art
Muskegon, Michigan, February 23-April 23, 2017
2016 2016 Faculty Exhibition, UM Wynwood Gallery
Miami, Florida, November 1-27, 2016
2016 Wrestling the Snake: Open Season in Political Art, F.A.T. Village
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 28-August 12, 2016
2015 Faculty Exhibition, CAS Gallery, University of Miami,
Coral Gables, Florida, November 2015
2015 BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery
Walnut Creek, California, April 26-June 21, 2015. Other venues include:
Vision Gallery, Chandler, Arizona, September 1-October 31, 2015
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, December 1, 2015-January 31, 2016
Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, New York, March 1-May 1, 2016
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, June 2-July 31, 2016
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, llinois, September 10-November 27, 2016
2014 Nocturnes IV: Monstrous Strange
F.A.T. Village
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 25-November 29, 2014
2014 southXeast: Southeastern Contemporary Art
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida, February 22-March 27, 2014
2013 Arte SusteMobile
Lutheran Church Academy of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany, August 2-October 27, 2013
2012 Sram pART Project
benefit for World Bicycle Relief
New York, New York, November 2012
2012 Art Prize
The B.O.B.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 19-October7, 2012
2012 Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Aluna Art Foundation
Miami, Florida, August-September 2012
2011 Pause
LMNT Contemporary Art Space
Miami, Florida, September 2011
2011 West Prize 2011 Finalists
The West Collection
Oaks, Pennsylvania, April 2011
2010 Art of Hope
Crealde School of Art
Winter Park, Florida, October, 2010
2010 Florida Contemporary 2010
Naples Museum of Art
Naples, Florida, May 15-June 26, 2010
2010 Dead or Alive
Museum of Arts and Design
New York, New York, April 27-October 24, 2010
2010 Imaginarium
Fat Village Arts District
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February-March, 2010
2009 The Vault Show
Museo Vault
Miami, Florida, December 1-6, 2009
2009 Shift: Kinetic Sculpture
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
Wilmington, Delaware, September 18-November 19, 2009
2009 Arte Sustenibile
Traveling group exhibition, curated by Samuel Fleiner. Venues include:
Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany
Bonn, Germany, March 6-April 5, 2009
Bad Urach, Germany, May 30-August 30, 2008
Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, September 12-November 7, 2010
2009 Inflatable Sculpture
3rd Ward
Brooklyn, New York
2008 Living in Your Imagination: SPACES 30th Anniversary
SPACES Gallery
Cleveland, Ohio [link to exhibition website]
2008 Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
Holter Museum (traveling exhibition)
Helena, Montana. Other venues include:
Copper Village Museum & Arts Center, Anaconda, Montana,
September 1-October 12, 2008
The University of Montana, WMC Gallery/Museum, Dillon, Montana,
November 3-December 5, 2008
Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery, Red Lodge, Montana, January 1-February 20, 2009
Custer County Art & Heritage Center, Miles City, Montana, March 15-May 1, 2009
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, May 22-August 1, 2009
MonDak Heritage Center, Sidney, Montana, August 21-September 26, 2009
Emerson Center for the Arts, Bozeman, Montana, October 15-December 15, 2009
Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, Montana, January 7-March 7, 2010
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, March 25-June 27, 2010
Carr Gallery, Idaho Falls, Idaho, May-June 2011
Gotthelf Gallery, Jewish Community Center, La Jolla, California, March 13-June 6, 2013
Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts & History, Lewiston, Idajo, August-December 2013
UC Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, November 2014
Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 2-February 26, 2015
Waterloo Art Center, Waterloo, Iowa, June 18-October 31, 2015
Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut,
November 11-December 16, 2015
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY,
New York, New York, February 24-April 8, 2016
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia, April 29-June 3, 2016
Sechrest Gallery, Highpoint University, Highpoint, North Carolina,
August 22-December 7, 2016
Fort Collins Museum of Art/Fort Collins Lincoln Center, Fort Collins,
Colorado, January-March 2017
2007 Group Exhibition
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Miami, Florida
2007 New Art South Florida 2007
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships for Visual and Media Artists
MOCA Goldman Warehouse
Miami, Florida
2007 Animals in Art
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art
Athens, Georgia
2007 Individual Artists Fellowship Exhibition
Lighthouse Center for the Arts
Tequesta, Florida
2007 Digital VD: Viral Video Art, traveling group exhibition, curated by Moira Payne,
Eddie Summerton and Michael Windle. Venues include:
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 26, 2007
The Ice Box, Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2007
Galerie Weissraum, Kyoto, Japan, September 20, 2007
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, October 20, 2007
Groenhazengracht 1, Leiden, Netherlands, October 6, 2007
Mat's Flat UI, Holowki, Warsaw, Poland, October 20, 2007
Margaret St. Gallery, Birmihgham City University, UK, November 2007
2007 Artscapes Temporary public art installation at Barnes Park, Miami-Dade Department of Parks & Recreation,
Summer 2007, Miami, Florida
2006 Body Language
Edge Zones
Miami, Florida
2006 Group Exhibition, Deluxe Arts
Miami, Florida
2006 ½ MV2
Area 405
Baltimore, Maryland
2006 Adding Insult to Imagery
Art Center Gallery,
University of Central Missouri
2006 The Pain of Others
Edge Zones
Miami, Florida
2006 Adding Insult to Imagery
Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, Pennsylvania
2005 OmniArt III
MIART Foundation
Miami, Florida
2005 Aesthetic Evolution/Aesthetic Revolution
University of Miami Department of Art & Art History faculty exhibition
Miami, Florida
2005 Dimensions Variable
Truman State University
Kirksville, Missouri
2005 Zoo
Lake George Arts Project
Lake George, New York
2005 Dissent
SPACES Gallery
Cleveland, Ohio
2005 Babes in Toyland
Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery, Ohio State University at Marion
Marion, Ohio
2004 OmniArt
MIART Foundation
Miami, Florida
2004 Affinitas
Department of Art & Art History and School of Architecture, University of Miami
Miami, Florida
2004 Southern States Sculpture Exhibition
Center for Contemporary Arts, Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, Louisiana
2004 CUP
The New Gallery, University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida
2004 Play Things
Kirkland Art Center
Clinton, New York
2003 Wind Art
Atlantic Center for the Arts
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2003 Selections III
SPACES Gallery
Cleveland, Ohio
2002 Color, Culture, Complexity
Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
2002 Animals in Art
Allegheny College
Meadville, Pennsylvania
2002 Impromptu Faculty Exhibition
Zoller Gallery, Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
2001 Stroke of Installation
Arlington Arts Center
Arlington, Virginia
2001 New Faculty Exhibition 2001
Zoller Gallery, Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
2000 New Faculty Exhibition 2000
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Seattle, Washington
1999 Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors
Lincoln Center
New York, New York
1998 University of Washington Faculty Exhibition 1998
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Seattle, Washington
1998 Labyrinth: A Day of the Dead Exhibition
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, California
1997 From Coast to Coast
Center for the Visual Arts
Oakland, California
1997 Discards
Secession/Gallery Catherine Clark
San Francisco, California
1994 It's About Power
69 Belcher Street
San Francisco, California
1993 Group Six
69 Belcher Street
San Francisco, California
1992 Performance
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, California
1991 Betide the Well-Sprung Jowl
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, California
1989 Moonlight Masquerade
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
1989 Tableaux Vivants
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
1989 It Takes One to Know One
Works Gallery
San Jose, California
1989 M.F.A. Exhibition at Fort Mason
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
1988 Emmanuel Walter and Atoll McBean
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
1987 Spring Show
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
COLLECTIONS
Rene di Rosa
The diRosa Foundation
Napa, California
UCSF Stanford Health Care Center
Breast Care Center
San Francisco, California
The Gap/Banana Republic
San Francisco, California
Cornyn Partners
San Francisco, California
21C Museum
Louisville, Kentucky
The West Collection
Oaks, Pennsylvania
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AWARDS & GRANTS
2022 Obama Library Collection Induction for “Obama Kite”
Chicago, Illinois
2014 Routh Rider Motorcycle Rally, 1st place, Most Radical category,
Las Vegas, New Mexico
2013 Rat's Hole Custom Bike Show, 3rd place,
Most Unusual category, Daytona Beach, Florida
2011 West Prize 2011 Grand Prize,
The West Collection
2011 West Prize 2011 Finalist (purchase prize),
The West Collection
2010 Best in Show, Art of Hope,
Crealde School of Art
2007 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists,
South Florida Cultural Consortium
2006 Creative & Scholarly Research Award,
University of Miami, College of Arts & Sciences
2006 Orovitz Summer Award,
University of Miami, College of Arts & Sciences
2006 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship
2005 Florida Artist Enhancement Grant
2002 College of Art & Architecture Faculty Research Grant,
Penn State University
2002 Institute for the Arts & Humanities Grant,
Penn State University
2002 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Grant,
administered by the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance
2002 1st International KAO Kinetic Art Competition
2nd Place, Engineering Ingenuity
2001 Faculty Research Grant, Penn State University
2001 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Residency and Fellowship
Skowhegan, Maine
1995 Art Matters, Inc. Fellowship
1994 The Exploratorium, AIR Interactive Sound Festival
1992 New Langton Arts, NEA Artist Project Grant Program
1989 Harold E. Weiner Memorial Prize
Awarded by the San Francisco Art Institute
1987 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellow
Awarded by the San Francisco Foundation
1979 Tulane University Scholar
RESIDENCIES
2008 Hospitalfield Residential Arts Centre
Arbroath, Scotland, UK
2003 Atlantic Center for the Arts
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2001 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
Skowhegan, Maine
1994 The Exploratorium, AIR Interactive Sound Festival
1991-1994 Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, California
LECTURES
2020
UMAC Tokyo Seminar Lecturer
Keio University Art Center
September 9-10, 2019
2019
Lunch and Learn Artist lecture, South Dakota Art Museum,
Brookings, South Dakota, 15 January 2020
2019
Visiting Artist lecture, Anne Abel Pinkel Lectureship in Visual Arts, Pomona College,
Pomona, California, 4 March 2019
2017
"Live from the Belly of the Beast," Visiting Artist lecture, Taubman Museum, Roanoke,
Virginia, 9 September 2017
2015
Panel member, "Travel, Landscape and the New Frontiers in Sculpture," International Sculpture
Conference, 5 November 2015
2015
Panel member, "Women Artists and Installation Art," College Art Association Conference,
12 February 2015
2014
Panel Member, "Installation Art: Fine arts, Digital Media, or Social Issues Art?,
" Southeastern College Art Conference, 10 October 2014
2014
Visiting Artist lecture, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, April 8, 2014
2013
Visiting Artist lecture, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, November 13, 2013
2012
Visiting Artist lecture for Boise State University, Department of Art, at Boise Art Museum,
Boise, Idaho, November 2012
2012
Artist Lecture, Miami Performance International Festival, Miami, Florida, July 28, 2012
2011
Visiting Artist Lecture, Florida State University, Department of Art, Tallahassee, Florida, April 7, 2011
2010
Artist Panel, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture donors, New York, New York,
September 30, 2010
2008
Visiting Artist, Boise State University, Department of Art, Boise, Idaho, October 2008
2008
Visiting Artist, Northeastern University, Department of Art + Design, Boston, Massachusetts,
March 2008
2008
Visiting Artist, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland, UK, February-March 2008
2007
Art and Society, panel organizer and presenter, Southeastern College Art Conference, October 2007
2006
Ambushed II: Strategies for Engagement, panel member, Southeastern College Art Conference,
October 27, 2006
2006
Visiting Artist lecture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, October 26, 2006
2006
Visiting Artist lecture, American University
Washington, D.C., October 25, 2006
2006
Is This Art?, Lowe Docents Guild
Coral Gables, Florida
2006
Visiting Artist Lecture, Altos de Chavon
La Romana, Dominican Republic
2006
Toxicology seminar panel member, The Bakehouse Art Complex
Miami, Florida
2005
Miami-Dade College, Kendall Campus Art Gallery
Miami, Florida
2005
Miami-Dade College, Kendall Campus Art Gallery
Miami, Florida
2005
The Lowe Museum
Coral Gables, Florida
2003
Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland
Cortland, New York
2003
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
2002
Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
2000
First Street Gallery
Eureka, California
1999
Henry Art Gallery
Seattle, Washington
1998
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
1998
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
1997
Tinkers Workshop
Berkeley, California
1996
Brooklyn Community College
Brooklyn, New York
1996
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
1994
Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
Hangzhou, China