EDUCATION
MFA, Sculpture
Savannah College of Art and Design
Atlanta, GA, 2010-2013
Fine Arts Endowed Scholarship, Recipient
Multicultural Scholarship, Recipient
Academic Honors Scholarship, Recipient
BA, Journalism, magazines
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, 2004-2009
Dean’s List
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Cum Laude
Hope Scholarship, Recipient
TEACHING INTERESTS
Art as social action, community-based arts, social justice art, special topics in sculpture-body as medium, contemporary art, visual culture, art appreciation, conceptual art, writing and communication within the arts, gender focus, performance art and nontraditional medium focus, introduction to visual arts, introduction to art history
TEACHING
2022 Arts and Social Justice Fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2021 Curriculum Consultant, Powerhouse Arts, New York, NY
2018-2019 Instructor, Creative Arts, Residential GED Program, University District Youth Center, Seattle, WA
(instructed Radical Art Now course and professional arts development internship
program)
2018 Facilitator, Peer Counselor Leadership Training, YouthCare, Seattle, WA
2015-2017 Instructor, Creative Workshop Series, Transitional Living Program, Friends of Youth, Bothell,
WA
2015 Instructor, ASUW Experimental College, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
(Instructed Performance Art: Body art, Happenings, and Social Practice, Fall)
2012-13 Studio Assistant, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
(assisted in sculpture demos, mentor for high school students)
2010-13 Peer Tutor, Writing, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
EXHIBITIONS
2021 Solo Exhibition, SLOW HUNTING, The Bakery, Atlanta, GA
Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival VI Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Semblance, MINT Gallery’s 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, MET Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2019 The Future is Ordinary Exhibition, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China.
Underbelly Exhibition, Studio Current, Seattle, WA
2018 The Harvest Exhibition, Bridge Productions, The Factory, Seattle, WA
Yellowfish Durational Performance Art Festival, LoveCityLove, Seattle, WA
2017 5th Online Performance Art Festival, streamed live from Substation Studios, Seattle, WA
2014 Pop Up Kino International Video Art Festival, PPC Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
WIDE F.I.V.E. International Videoart Experience, online exhibition.
2013 Solo Exhibition, Becoming-other, MFA thesis exhibition, ACA Sculpture Gallery, Atlanta, GA
BIPAF Marathon, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
Damn Fine!, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Qi2 Exhibition, Cherrylion Studios, Atlanta, GA
Qi Exhibition, Sycamore Place Gallery, Decatur, GA
2012 Raghurajpur International Art and Craft Exchange (RIACE) Exhibition, Puri, Orissa, India.
2011 Action Mapping, Whitespec at Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
PERFORMANCES
2021 SLOW HUNTING: The Retreat, live performance and installation, Brooklyn, NY
2020 The Inexhaustibility of Memory, (original performance canceled due to Covid), Atlanta, GA
2018 An Everyday that is Invisible, live performance, Seattle, WA
Haptic Delay (reperform), collaboration with Myani Guetta, live performance and installation,
Seattle, WA
2017 Haptic Delay (make it work), collaboration with Myani Guetta, live performance, Seattle, WA
Her Belly Full of Ice, in studio performance in Seattle, WA
2016 One drop (threading piece), in studio performance in Seattle, WA
2014 No Queer Bodies--a public scrubbing, performance in Fes, Morocco.
The Other Side, video performance in Marrakech, Morocco.
2013 Reallocate, live performance in Brooklyn, NY.
Dirty Talk, street intervention in West Africa.
Embedded, performance in West Africa.
Is it the same?, performance in West Africa.
There is a hole, performance in West Africa.
2012 Performing Gender Trans India (PGTI), cross-country performance through central India.
Biting Piece, performance in Atlanta, GA
Mighty Cleanse, performance in Mississippi River, New Orleans, LA
Female Inhibitions, performance in Midtown Atlanta, GA
Limina, performance in Chattahoochee River, Atlanta, GA
Lunar Pull, performance in Atlantic Ocean, Saint Augustine, FL
Trickster, performance in remote area in Chattahoochee River, Atlanta, GA
2011 I Am a Poor Man, performance in Savannah, GA
Divided Actions, collaboration with Hailey Lowe, downtown Atlanta and Chattahoochee National
Forest, GA
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
2015 Workshop, Performance Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 28.
2013 45-hour Review Presentation, ACA Sculpture Gallery, Atlanta, GA, February 16.
Graduate Critiques, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, March 12.
2012 Lecture/Presentation, Durational Performance Art and Experimental Journalism, Raghurajpur International Art and Craft Exchange, India, November 6.
2011 Graduate Reading, Ivy Hall of Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
Guest Speaker, Quilt Stories, The AIDS Memorial Quilt and Design Conversation, Museum
Of Design Atlanta (MODA), Atlanta, GA, October 25.
RESIDENCIES
2020-21 Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Residency, virtual collaboration, (February 10-17)
2013 Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF), Brooklyn, New York, (July 4- 28)
-Four-week documentation for individual artists participating in a range of events for the festival.
-Participation also included a short duration performance at BIPAF’s 10-minute Marathon.
2012 Raghurajpur International Art and Craft Exchange (RIACE), Puri, Orissa, India, (October 13- November 19)
-Five-week workshop including traditional practices in tantric sexuality, gender studies, palm-leaf carving, and large-scale mask making.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Action, Intervention and Daily Deployment (AIDD Collective), Goldsmiths, University of London
Contemporary Performance Network
Savannah College of Art and Design Alumni Association, Savannah, GA
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
2018-2019 Participant, Faculty Diversity Internship Program, training/workshops for Peralta Community Colleges, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2019 “Makers of Death: Reflections on The Veil and The Harvest,” Part II, Sequoia Day O’Connell,
Bridge Productions Arts Journal, 2019.
https://www.bridge.productions/makers-of-death-1.html
2017 Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson, Contemporary Performance Almanac 2017, (Contemporary
Performance Network, 2017) p.13.
2015 Yelena Gluzman and Sophia Cleary, Emergency Index, Vol. 4, (New York; Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), p. 342-343.
2014 “Dirty Talk,” Action, Intervention, and Daily Deployment (AIDD) Collective, Goldsmiths, University of London,, 2014. http://aestheticsofprotest.org/dirty-talk-becoming-other-series/
2012 “The Entanglement of Art and Life,” RIACE, exhibition catalogue, Issue 1, Vol. 1, (November 2012): p. 15.
PROFESSIONAL WRITING EXPERIENCE
2013 Intern, contributing multi-media documenter, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Contributing editor, Raghurajpur International Art and Culture Exchange (RIACE) Catalog, Puri, Orissa, India
2011 Freelance writer, Atlanta INtown Paper, Atlanta, GA
Multi-media writer, The Names Project Foundation (The AIDS Memorial Quilt), Atlanta, GA
2009-2013 Freelance writer, Alternative-lifestyle Examiner, Examiner.com, Atlanta, GA
2009 Multi-media photojournalist, Practicum, The Red and Black Newspaper, Athens, GA
2008 Staff writer, Infusion Magazine, Athens, GA
Staff writer, Gradyjournal.com, Athens, GA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
2013 “Espionage before 2013,” Examiner.com, January 2013, http://www.examiner.com/review/espionage-before-2013
2012 “Review: Georgia Meth Project’s ‘Not Even Once’,” Examiner.com, November 2012, http://www.examiner.com/review/review-the-georgia-meth-project-s-not-even-once
2011 “Quilt Stories: Ken Brown,” The AIDS Memorial Quilt, http://quiltstories.org/
"Weed Warrior: Matti Dwyer advocates for sustainable, edible plants," Atlanta INtown Paper, July
2011,
http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/2011/07/weed-warrior-matti-dwyer-advocates-for-sustainable
-edible-plants/
2009 “Soundslide: Eladio Abreu—Boxer, Phd. Student,” The Red and Black Newspaper, May 2009, http://www.redandblack.com/variety/soundslide-eladio-abreu---boxer-phd-student/article_96bf3aec-ee9e-5afb-8552-08ea864e6e71.html