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Lives and works in Detroit, MI
EDUCATION
MFA, Photography, Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI
BFA, Distinction in Photography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
AWARDS/ HONORS/ RESIDENCIES
2023 Creators of Culture Grant
2022 Artist in Residence Temple Contemporary
2021 Culture Source Flourish Fund Grant
2021 Red Bull Arts - Detroit Microgrant
2020 Velferden Centre for Contemporary Art, Norway - Artist Residency
2019 Knight Foundation, Knight’s Arts Challenge, Detroit, MI (BSAR)
2019 SÍM Residency - Artist Residency
2019 Mostly Butter - Artist Residency
2018 ACRE - Artist Residency
2018 Vermont Studio Center - Artist Residency
2017 Mercedes Benz Financial Service New Beginnings Award
TWO PERSON SHOWS
2022 Dungeon Crawl w/ Kara Gut, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH
2021 as a sort of cloud rather than a bubble, w/ Juan Neira, LVL3 Official, Chicago, IL
2021 Spawning Point, w/ Kara Gut, Stone House Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2018 Everywhere - Michelle Branch, w/ Anjuli Wright, Dubois Gallery, Detroit, MI
2017 Void 0, w/ Kara Gut, Skylab, Columbus, OH
2015 My Body Your Surface, w/Maritt Vaessin, MINT, Columbus, OH
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 No Afterlife, Neon Heater, Findley, OH
2023 Infinite Life, Stone House Art Gallery, Online Gallery
2023 CMND / CTRL, Heiress Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
2023 Extended Limb, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2023 Get Together, REYES | FINN, Detroit, MI
2022 LtdWear6, LVL3 Official, Chicago, IL
2020 Dungeons: A Virtual World
2020 Spring Group Show, Simone DeSousa Gallery
2020 WeExist, Featured Artist, Save Art Space, Detroit, MI
2020 Daily Rush Season 3, MOCAD, edition by DAATA Editions, Detroit, MI
2019 Loading, The Wrong Biennale, Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL
2019 Laura, Sim, Reykjavik, Iceland
2019 The Lucent Image, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
2019 The approach, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
2019 Beacon, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2019 To Bring You My Love, Love Story Pt. 2, Neon Heater, Findley, OH
2018 Sugar, Sugar, Collaborative Show with Jova Lynne and Meg Kelley , Public Pool, Hamtramck, MI
2018 Edition 18, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
2018 Remedios The Beauty, Granite City Art and Design District, St. Louis, MO
2018 OBJECT FETICHES, Voyage Voyage, Paris, FR
2018 Midwest Markdowns, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2017 Life 2.0, isthisit? Pavilion, The Wrong New Digital Art Biennial
2017 Six Ways to Sunday, Listen Hear, Big Car, Indianapolis, IN
2017 Into Refigural World, w/ Mitch McGuire and Jesse James Johnson Skylab, Columbus, OH
2016 CONTEXT, ROCKSBOX, Pontiac, MI
2016 Lush, Big Car:Tube Factory Artspace, Indianapolis, IN
2015 Meat Sink, MINT, Columbus, OH
CURATED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2022 MDW Fair - co-organizer, Chicago, IL
2021 Art Mile - BULK Space Page, curator
2021 New York Art Book Fair - BULK Space Table, curator
2020 Art Mile - BULK Space Page, curator
2019 New Archive & Bad Paper Pop-Up, MOCAD, Detroit, MI
2018 Good Side Book Release, Simone DeSousa Edition, Detroit, MI
2017 Void 0, Artist Talk and Q&A, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH
2016Below Your Mind: Lawncare, Liz Roberts, Studio 14, Bloomfield Hills, MI, curator
ARTIST LECTURES/ WORKSHOPS
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, American University
2021 The cclouds, Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Chicago
2021 Documenting Artwork Workshop, College for Creative Studies
2020 Documenting Artwork Workshop, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2020 Visiting Artist Workshop, Cranbrook Academy of Art Painting Department
2020 Writing for the Contemporary with BULK Space at Room Project
2020 Clare Gatto: Visiting Artist Lecture, Cleveland Institute of Art
2020 Visiting Critic, University of Kentucky Architecture
2020 Collaboration as Practice, University of Michigan, 4D Foundations
2020 Photogrammetry Seminar, University of Kentucky Architecture
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of Art Library
Cranbrook Academy of Art Library