CV
EDUCATION
MFA: STUDIO ART & PAINTING
Illinois State University
Normal, IL, USA | 2022–Current
CONCEPT ART & DRAFTING
Concept Design Academy
Pasadena, CA, USA | 2016–2018
BA: FILM & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CSU, Los Angeles | Cum Laude
Los Angeles, CA, USA I 2015
EXHIBITIONS
2024
JOINT CUSTODY | Group show, Julian Gallery, Normal, IL, USA.
University Galleries Student Annual 2024 | Group show, University Galleries, Normal, IL, USA.
(UU)ater | Group show and zine, Brenda Tuxford Gallery, Eureka, CA, USA.
2023
a cut ting, inci sion | Two-person exhibition with Madelyn Turner, Julian Gallery, Normal, IL, USA.
Tit for Tat | Group show, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, USA.
University Galleries Student Annual 2023 | Group show, University Galleries, Normal, IL, USA.
2019
Female Gaze | Group show, ArtShare, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
PERFORMANCE
2023
Thawbird | Group show, Julian Gallery, Normal, IL, USA.
DESIGN
2021
Illustration for Sex Beyond Binaries / Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC.
2017
like a mouth | Cover art for Davey Davis's debut novel the earthquake room, published by TigerBee Press.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2024
Class lecture/Q&A | Over Zoom for the Bachelor of Fine Arts Seminar Class at College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA.
Class lecture/Q&A | Bachelor of Fine Arts Seminar Class, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA.
AWARDS
2024
Irving S. and Joan Tick Award in Drawing | For touching and touching, Illinois State University and University Galleries, Normal, IL, USA.
The Karen Deske Scholarship in Art | Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA.
2023
Irving S. and Joan Tick Award in Drawing | For Why do you always want to argue?, Illinois State University and University Galleries, Normal, IL, USA.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Disability theory | Siebers, Bailey & Mobley, Przybylo, Sontag
Power | Foucault
Difficulty/Perversion | Hyde, Doyle, Cruz
Queer theory | Lemmey, Butler, Snorton
Black studies | Strings, Snorton
Mass media theory and film | McLuhan, Deleuze, Gerbner