CV

EDUCATION

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture | 2009
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Design Media Arts
2009 | MFA
University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts
2007 | BFA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Markers, Union Pacific (London, UK)
2014
Orthogonal/Diagonal, Enjoy Public Art Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand)
2012
Landscape Abbreviated, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill (New York, US)
2011
Ideogenetic Machine, Eyebeam (New York, US)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
The Devil You Know, Simone Subal Gallery (New York, US)

2021
Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser (Los Angeles, US)

2020
Archive Machines, LAMAG (Los Angeles, US)
Returning to the Source, Wave Hill (New York, US)

2019
With a Little Help from My Friends, Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles, US)
Demolition Derby, PSLA (Los Angeles, US)
topian gardens, ltd los angeles at Gallery Vacancy, Condo Shanghai (Shanghai, CN)
We Rise (Los Angeles, US)
“and I’ll have a pepper-shaker in my cave, so laugh.” ltd los angeles (Los Angeles, US)

2018
Archaeology of the Present, LACI | AIR (Los Angeles, US)
Remote Castration, LAXART (Los Angeles, US)
Illusions of Control, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University (Riverside, US)

2017
Call and Response, Wave Hill (New York, US)
Conceptual Craft, Denk Gallery (Los Angeles, US)
Game Changers, Somerset House (London, UK)

2016
Now Play This, Somerset House (London, UK)
I Will Be Your Mirror, Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah, US)

2015
UCLA Game Art Festival, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, US)
Interplay, Singapore Science Center (Singapore)
Technē, Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria)

2014
Landscape Abbreviated, Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria)
Orthogonal/Diagonal, Future Innovators Summit, Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria)
It Should Always Be This Way, CAFKA.14 Biennial (Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada)
Game, Bouillants #06, Laiterie Les Bouillants (Vern-sur-Seiche, France)

2013
Love, Studio 13/16, Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
Beyond the Frame, Art Museum of Nanjing University of The Arts (Nanjing, China)
Coup de Ville, Warp Contemporary Art Platform (St-Niklaas, Belgium)
Open Space 2013, ICC (Tokyo, Japan)
Cube Prize Exhibition, Espace Saint-Sauveur (Paris, France)
60 Seconds of Fame, Warp Contemporary Art Platform, (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium)

2012
TEA – Collective Wisdom, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung,Taiwan)
Media City Seoul 2012, Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon (Seoul, South Korea)
Update_4 Biennial, iMAL (Brussels, Belgium)
OK Cyberarts 12 – Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, OK Offenes Kulturhaus (Linz, Austria)
File Festival, Art Gallery of SESI-SP, Fiesp Cultural Center, (São Paulo, Brazil)

2011
Creatomatic, Eyebeam-Project Space (New York, US)
Ritual, Art in Odd Places (New York, US)
Objectivity-A Vocabulary of Objects, Eyebeam (New York, US)

2010
Build Your Own World, 01SJ Biennial (San Jose, US)
Tough Art, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, US)
I Know What You Did Last Summer, St Cecilia Convent (Brooklyn, US)
Innovation Lounge, TEDActive (Palm Springs, US)

2009
Autonomies of Disagreement-Transitio_MX, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City, Mexico)
Cause and Effect, LM Projects (Los Angeles, US)
Milan Public Design Festival, Piazza XXIV Maggio – (Milan, Italy)
Clash, De Oosterpoort (Groningen, the Netherlands)
The 12th Japan Media Art Festival, The National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
New Frontier, Sundance Film Festival (Park City, US)

2008
Glow, Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, US)
Sonar – Future Past Cinema, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
INTERACTIVOS?’08, Medialab-Prado – VISION PLAY (Madrid, Spain)

PUBLIC ART

2015
Title: Red Car
Location: The Village at Westfield Topanga (Los Angeles, US)
Commission: Westfield + UCLA

2019
Title: Same Boat Now
Location: King Open Elementary (Cambridge, US)
Commission: Cambridge Arts Council

2021
Title: The Acorn
Location: Sacramento Community Center Theater (Sacramento, US)
Commission: Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

2021
Title: Cacophony
Location: Sacramento Community Center Theater (Sacramento, US)
Commission: Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

2022
Title: Cloud Lilies
Location: Mecklenburg County Northeast Community Resource Center (Charlotte, US)
Commission: Charlotte Arts & Science Council

2024
Location: Southeast Redmond Station Garage (Redmond, US)
Commission: Sound Transit Art Program

2024
Title: Vertical Ticketing Artwork
Location: San Diego International Airport (San Diego, US)
Commission: San Diego Airport Arts Program

AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Asia New Zealand Foundation Grant 2014
CCI ARC grant 2013
Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant 2012
Cube Prize nomination 2012
New Technological Art Award nomination 2012
Prix Ars Electronica, Interactive Art, Honorary Mention 2012
Wave Hill Van Lier Visual Artist Fellowship 2012
Art and Code Presentation Scholarship 2011
Eyebeam Fellowship 2011
Black Rock Arts Foundation Grant 2011
Sculpture Space Grant 2011
Skowhegan Fellowship 2009
The 12th Japan Media Art Festival – Jury Recommended Work 2008

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) Artist-in-Residence (Los Angeles, United States) 2018
Christie/CAFKA Residency (Kitchener, Canada) 2013
Watermill Center Residency (Watermill, United States) 2012
Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON (Seoul, South Korea) 2012
Sculpture Space (Utica, United States) 2012
Wave Hill Winter Workspace (New York, United States) 2012
Eyebeam Fellowship, Eyebeam (New York, United States) 2011-2012
Tough Art, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, United States) 2010
Skowhegan (Skowhegan, United States) 2009

RECENT PRESS

Yang Yini, Condo Shanghai 2019 (Gallery Vacancy) (Chinese), Artforum (August 14, 2019)
Anna Furman, How virtual art appearing along the L.A. River tackles gentrification, immigration and environmental issues, LA Times (Los Angeles, US: November 02, 2018)
Sharon Mizota, ‘Remote Castration’: At LAXART, a provocative show about female power and sexual violence, LA Times (Los Angeles, US: August 18, 2018)
Leah Ollman, ‘Conceptual Craft’ at Denk Gallery, LA Times (Los Angeles, US: October 7, 2017)

TEACHING

2018 Fall, Introduction to 3D Modeling, Media Arts + Practice, USC
2018 Spring, Introduction to 3D Modeling, Media Arts + Practice, USC
2017 Fall, Introduction to 3D Modeling, Media Arts + Practice, USC
2016 Spring, Senior Projects: Video and Animation, Design Media Arts, UCLA
2016 Winter, Video, Design Media Arts, UCLA
2015 Fall, Topics in Video and Animation, Design Media Arts, UCLA
2015 Winter, Senior Projects: Video and Animation, Design Media Arts, UCLA

LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

2020
Artist Talk, Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, US)
ICA LA INCOGNITO Art Benefit Auction (Los Angeles, US)
Artist Talk, UC Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, US)
LACE Benefit Art Auction (Los Angeles, US)

2019
Smog Orchestra, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (Los Angeles, US)
LACE Benefit Art Auction (Los Angeles, US)

2018
Archaeology of the Present: Artists Addressing Climate Change, ICA LA (Los Angeles, US)

2017
Artist Talk, PRAXIS VIII: Bodies, Technology and Space, USC School of Cinematic Art (Los Angeles, US)

2016
Distinguished Alumni Speaker, Design Media Arts Lecture Series, UCLA (Los Angeles, US)
Artist Talk, Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah, US)

2015
Artist Talk, Singapore Science Center (Singapore)

2014
Future Innovators Summit (Linz, Austria)
Ars Electronica Creative Cloud Osaka Workshop (Osaka, Japan)
Artist Talk, Knowledge Capital (Osaka, Japan)

2013
Artist Talk, ICC (Tokyo, Japan)
Instructor, Creatomatic Workshop, Warp Contemporary Art Platform (St-Niklaas, Belgium)

2012
Open Rehearsal, Ideogenetic Machine, Watermill Center (Watermill, United States)
Artist Talk, Landscape Abbreviated, Wave Hill (New York, United States)
Presenter, An Expanded Notion of the Audience Technarte (Bilbao, Spain)
Panelist, Artists in Labs: Participatory Design at Eyebeam, SXSW (Austin, United States)

2011
Presenter, Visualizing Marathon, Visualizing.org (New York, United States)
Presenter, Art and Code: 3D, Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, United States)
Artist talk, Roadshow: Korea, Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, South Korea)
Instructor, Creatomatic Workshop, Eyebeam (New York, United States)
Co-instructor, DIY Soft Sensors and Sonic Furniture, Girls Eye View: Eyebeam (New York, United States)

2010
Artist talk, Archipelago, 01SJ Biennial, (San Jose, United States)
Artist talk, Moon Theater, TED Active, (Palm Springs, United States)

2009
Instructor, Introductory Electronics and Programming Workshop for Artists
Transitio_MX, (Mexico City, Mexico)
Panelist, Different Ways of Using Technology, Transitio_MX, (Mexico City, Mexico)
Presenter, Interactivos?’08: Vision Play, Medialab-Prado, (Madrid, Spain)