EDUCATION
2011
School of Visual Arts, MFA in Fine Arts, New York, NY
1996
The College of Wooster, Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Wooster, OH
2006
Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Post Baccalaureate in Sculpture, Pont Aven, France
1994
The Institute of European Studies, Studies in German and Art History, Vienna, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026: Solo Show Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY, NY,
2025: Solo Show Matéria, (previously Simone DeSousa Gallery), Detroit, MI
2022
The Chautauqua Institution Galleries, Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Chautauqua, New York
The Sculpture Center, Solo Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio
Arte Venture, Solo Outdoor Installation, Aracena, Spain
2021
Franconia Sculpture Park, “Aurora” Large scale outdoor installation for 2 years, Franconia, Minnesota
2020
Asya Geisberg Gallery, “From The Ashes,” New York, NY
2018
Asya Geisberg Gallery, “Reliquary”, New York, NY
2017
Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
2016
Prosjektrom Normanns, “Impart”, Stavanger, Norway
Beeler Gallery, The Columbus College of Art and Design, “Lumerian Shift”, Columbus, OH
337 Project Space, “Feel/Reveal”, Grand Rapids, MI
The University of Akron Myers School of Art, Residency exhibition, Akron, OH
2015
SiTE:LAB, UNTITLED Miami, Special Projects, “Lemurian Shift”, Miami, FL
Asya Geisberg Gallery, “Embodied Energies”, New York, NY
The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, “The Color of Temperance,” Pittsburg, PA
The Sculpture Center, “Presence Resonance”, Cleveland, OH
2013
Asya Geisberg Gallery, “Hearsay”, New York, NY
2010
Asya Geisberg Gallery, “Bad Blood”, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Saint Kate- Installation- Milwaukee, WI
2023
The Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Show
The University of Akron, Myers School of Art Faculty Show
2022
The Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Show
2021
The University of Akron, Myers School of Art Faculty Show
Wasserman Projects/David Klein Gallery- Bas Blue: group show, Detroit, MI
2019-20
Burke Prize 2019 Finalist Show, Museum of Arts and Design, curated by Samantha De Tillio and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, New York, NY
Salon, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Auction Benefit, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2017
Red Bull Arts Detroit, Group exhibition in conjunction with residency, Detroit, MI
2016
SiTE:LAB,ArtPrize2016,“EverythingisTransformed”,GrandRapids, MI
2015
601 Artspace,”From the Ruins”, curated by Jane Harris, New York, NY 2014
SiTE:LAB, ArtPrize 2014, Grand Rapids, MI
Storefront Ten Eyck, “Inhabiting Ten Eyck”, curated by Karin Bravin, Brooklyn, NY
Rooms to Let: Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
A.I.R. Gallery, “A Womanhouse or a Roaming House? ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Today”, curated by Mira Schor, Brooklyn, NY
Satellite Gallery, “Moon 3”, site-specific collaborative installation, Cleveland, OH
2013
Asya Geisberg Gallery, UNTITLED Miami, Miami, FL
SiTE:LAB, ArtPrize 2013, Grand Rapids , MI
The Willows, “Spring”, New York, NY
Station Independent, “In the Zone”, New York, NY
2012
Nomadic Art Initiatives,“Ladies and Gentlemen”, New York, NY
Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, “Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue”, Chicago, IL
2011
The Phatory,“Fragmentation”, curated by Dan Cameron, New York, NY
Visual Arts Gallery, “Things Fall Apart”, New York, NY
Visual Arts Gallery, “Exit”, curated by Matthew Moravec, New York, NY
2010
1090 Art Gallery for Latin and International Art,“FivePoems...”, VeroBeach, FL
2008
The Sculpture Center, “Off the Wall”, juried by Gregory Amenoff, Cleveland, OH
2006
Centre International d’Art Contemporain, “19”, Pont Aven, France
2006-05
Cleveland Public Theater, “All Go Signs”, Cleveland, OH
2004
Gallery 1300, “The 50/50 Show”, Cleveland, OH
AWARDS
2020
Emergency Relief Grant- The Andy Warhol Foundation, Cleveland Foundation, Takeyama Foundation, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
2019
Burke Prize Finalist, New York, NY
2017
National Endowment for the Arts Grant: Plug Project Gallery- Our Town Grant for the West Bottoms Neighborhood, Kansas City, MI
Red Bull Arts, Detroit, Fellowship Grant, Detroit, MI
Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship: Efroymson Family Fund, Indianaplois, IN
The Norwegian Art Council Art Grant, Prosjektrom Normanns Gallery, Stavanger,Norway
2016
The Frey Foundation Art Prize Seed Grant, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids, MI
National Endowment for the Arts: Exhibition grant for ArtPrize 2016: Site:Lab: Grand Rapids, MI
2015
Harpo Grant, The Mattress Factory: Pittsburgh, PA
National Endowment for the Arts: Exhibition grant: The Mattress Factory: Pittsburgh, PA
Art Prize Award $20,000 for Juried Installation Category, Grand Rapids, MI
The Frey Foundation Art Prize Seed Grant, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids, MI
2014
Slavic Village Grant, Slavic Village Foundation, Cleveland, OH
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2011
MFA Fine Art Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Finalist for Joan Mitchell Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2024: The Arts and Humanities Council- Engaged Artist-in-Residency- Indiana University at Bloomington - Environmental Futures- Semester Appointment
Residency Summer 2024: The Sculpture Space: Utica, NY
2022-23
Sculpture Center, The Davis Foundation Studio- 6 month residency, Cleveland, Ohio
Arteventure, Seville, Spain
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2021
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota
2020
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019
The Volterra-Detroit Residency, Volterra, Italy
2018
Bed-Stuy, Residency, Brooklyn, NY
Berlin, Germany - 3month self-directed research
2017
Prosjektrom Normanns: Residency and Exhibition: Stavanger, Norway
Art Omi: International Art Residency: Ghent, NY
Red Bull Arts Detroit Artist Residency, Detroit, MI
2016
The University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Residency, Akron, OH
SiTE:LAB, 18 month Resident Artist and Residency Manager, Grand Rapids, MI
2015
The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Artist-in-Residence, Pittsburgh,PA
2012
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Omaha, NE
2008
School of Visual Arts, Summer Residency Program Sculpture, New York, NY
2005
Ox-Bow and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Independent Study, Saugatuck, MI
2001-02
School of Visual Arts, Summer Residency Program in Painting, New York, NY
SPECIAL PROJECTS & INSTALLATIONS
2016 NEA grant given to dissect an entire house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The house was a gift to the artist for Habitat for Humanity- apart of the larger project for redevelopment after the project was completed and demolished. I lived in the community for a year and mobilized local young people to help with the process in an internship. The internship consisted of students living in the neighborhood, attending community college, and from RISD.
The University of Akron: 5 week seminar and studio installation course- the students created a massive collaborative installation in the school gallery. I directed them how to create an installation in the same steps and methods I use to produce my own work.
2014 SiTE:LAB Art Prize: Received multiple grants from the Frey Foundation to produce site-specific installation with materials gathered from the Grand Rapids, MI region. I created this sculpture in a former abandoned 1920’s hotel downtown Grand Rapids. I worked with student interns to assist building and gathering materials from Kendall College. College built fall course curriculum around my sculptural practice and process.
Rooms to Let, Slavic Village Installation: This project was conceived to bring attention to the issue of housing foreclosures in the U.S and in particular in the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, which was the site of the beginning of the nationwide foreclosure epidemic. Abandoned and foreclosed homes were used by artists, architects and builders to bring awareness to the neighborhood. I created an installation specific to one home, a multi-room installation using found domestic materials gathered by the community. Held community event to gain involvement and encourage dialogue.
Satellite: Moon 3, Collaborative project with the Collinwood Neighborhood in Cleveland, OH. Created Featured Installation work along with 19 other artists collaborating to create works for an outdoor installation.
2013
SiTE: LAB, Art Prize: Produced large site-specific installation in the now-abandoned Public Museum of Natural History in Grand Rapids, MI, built in 1939. Worked with organization to secure materials and build sculpture with interns from Kendall College of Design and Art.
TEACHING: MENTORSHIPS<LECTURES><STUDIO VISITS>
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Lecture and Studio visits, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lecture and Studio visits, Chicago IL
The Cleveland Institute of Art, Visiting Artist for Semester, Cleveland, Ohio
Johnston Community College, Kansas City, MO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lecturer, Chicago, IL
The Volterra- Detroit Foundation, Lecturer, Volterra, Italy
The University of Utah, Architecture Department, in Volterra, Italy
The School of Visual Arts, Masters in Art Practice Program, New York, NY
The University of Michigan, MFA Fine Arts Department, Ann Arbor, MI
The University of Cincinnati, DAAP, Cincinnati, OH
Maryland Institute College of Art, Fine Arts Department, Baltimore MA
Kansas City Art Institute- West Bottoms Project- NEA – Plug Projects
The School of Visual Arts: MFA Fine Art Department: NY, NY
The Cleveland Institute of Art: Cleveland, Ohio
The College for Creative Studies: Detroit, Michigan
The Julliard School, Theater Department Intern Program, New York, NY
The Pratt Institute, MFA Fine Arts Program, Brooklyn, NY
The Union for Contemporary Art: mentorship program: Omaha, Nebraska
The University of Indiana: MFA Fine Arts Department: Bloomington, Indiana
The College of Wooster: Fine Arts Department: Wooster, Ohio
Kenyon College: Fine Arts Department: Gambier, Ohio
Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
The University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, Ohio
The Akron Art Museum: Lecture, Akron, Ohio
Bladwin Wallace University: Berea, Ohio
Ritsumeikan University: Osaka, Japan
Hathaway Brown School, Presentation and Artist Talk, Cleveland, OH
International Council of Art School Deans- Panelist for artist perspective conference
Creative Mornings- Lecturer Grand Rapids, MI
The Akron Art Museum, Lecturer, Akron, OH
Gallery Soho20, New York, NY
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Lecturer, Omaha, NE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022-current Adjunct Faculty, The Cleveland Institute of Art, College of Art and Design, Cleveland, Ohio
Adjunct Faculty- Visual Arts, Drawing, Foundations, Sculpture
2021-current Adjunct Faculty, The University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
Visiting Artist for Semester, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2017 Visiting Artist and Juror, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2016 Visiting Artist, The School of Visual Arts, MFA Fine Art, New York, NY
Visiting Artist and Instructor, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Artist Residency and instructor at The University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
2015 Kendall College of Art and Design, MFA Drawing Department, Studio Visits
2014 Kendall College of Art and Design, Fine Arts Department, Grand Rapids, MI Visiting Faculty, Collaborative Design
Created special topics course based on site-specific activity to work with a professional artist in the studio or the real world
Mentored young artists during 5-week undergraduate course Lectured on artists’ professional development skills,
worked closely with each student to address individual needs
2011-12 The Julliard School, Theater Department Intern Program, New York, NY
Scenic Artist
● Worked with interns to implement design renderings in large scale by mixing colors, girding backdrops, preparing scenery with texture and sanding, then painted all components of the background and scenery
● Mentored production interns, teaching all techniques of scenic painting and set production for all undergraduate and graduate student productions
● Worked with other professional scenic designers including Tony-Award winning Broadway show designers
2010-11 School of Visual Arts, Undergraduate Fine arts Sculpture Department
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Intro to Sculpture
● Created lesson plans and taught various lessons on mold making, plaster casting and ceramics alternative material exploration and 3-D printing
● Assisted students with woodworking and use of woodshop
● Oversaw half of the students each class, assist with projects
1999-2009 Baldwin Wallace University, Department of Theater, Berea, OH
Scenic Artist
● Led multiple week seminars in fall semesters to execute large-scale musical theater productions with scenic designers, including the first performance given permission for and academic production of Phantom of the Opera
● Taught students painting, drawing and theater design and production skills