CV

b.1988 Edmonton, AB

EDUCATION

2020-2023 MFA Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA, USA
2020-2022 Ideas for Creative Exploration, Graduate assistantship in interdisciplinary arts research, Athens, GA, USA.
2015 BFA Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC Canada
2013 Fine Art Diploma Langara College, Vancouver, BC Canada

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2022 Recipient, Tom Hollingsworth Scholarship
Recipient, Service-Learning Support Grant
2021 Recipient, Tom Hollingsworth Scholarship
Co- Recipient, Edmonton Arts Council Large Project Grant
2020 Recipient, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts Grant
2018-2019 Co-Recipient, Edmonton Arts Council Large Project Grant
2018 Co-Recipient, Granville Activation Grant

SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming (2025) Upholstery as Way of Seeing a Future from Here, with Sebastian Garcia-Huidobro, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA, USA.
2022 Absurd Architecture, Collab w/ with Ethan Snow, Lupin Gallery, Athens, GA, USA.
2021 Flexible Architecture: We’re not trying to be heavy; we’re trying to be light, Suite Gallery, Athens, GA, USA.
2016 Portable Frontier, Curated by Lauren Zbarsky, Untitled Art Space, Vancouver, BC.
2015 We Should Take Below: The Gambling Splinter, Curated by Jamie Ward, UNIT/PITT Projects, Vancouver, BC.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 re: (de) construction, Athenaeum, Athens, GA, USA
2022 One Night Only, co-organizer, temporary public art event, Athens, GA, USA.
MFA Invitational, curated by Jason Rafferty, Atlanta, GA, USA.
2021 Social Dissonance, Curated by Audrey Martinich and Francesca Felicella, Suite Gallery, Athens, GA, USA.
2018 #TEARITDOWN2018, Facilitated by UNIT/PITT Projects, Vancouver. BC.
Yukon Sova Alumni Show, Yukon Arts Center Gallery, Whitehorse, YT.
Open Season, Curated by Pongsakorn Yananissorn & Denise Holland, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
2016 The Garden Show, curated by Lauren Zbarsky, Quietly, Vancouver, BC.
2015 In Passing, curated by Caitlin Chaisson, Ground Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
The Show, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver BC.
Considering Heterotopias, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver BC.
2014 Social Circles, UNIT/PITT Projects, Vancouver, BC.
The Visitor Vegetable, Skylight Gallery, Curated by Kristel Saan, Vancouver, BC.
Break the Legs off what I want to Happen, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Last Call, Piss Factory Vancouver, BC.
Silent Night, ISBE Cultural Center, Edmonton, AB.

PUBLIC ART

2021 Athens UGarden Mural Project, collab w/ with Zahria Cook and AJ Aremu, Athens, GA, USA.
2020 The Athens Affordability Garden, collab w/ Lisa Novak, Niki Gajjar and Amber Orozco. Athens, GA
2019 Mutate to Belong, Temporary Sculpture, Andres Lõo, KIWA, Ryland Forties, & Stacey Cann. Edmonton, AB.
2018 Aural Typologies: Parking Lot Platform, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC.
The Good Little Bad Boys of Autonomy, Open Season, Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC.
2017 Pink and Blue: It May Need to Get Violent, Sculptural Intervention, Edmonton, AB.
2016 Sliver of Freedom, Permanent Sculpture, Commissioned for Revitalization Project, Prince George, BC.
Short-Listed AM Pri Public Art Competition, Richmond BC.
2015 This Is Not a Public Space, Emily Carr Art in Public Spaces, 555 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC.

CURATORIAL

2022 Autonomy is Light, collab w/ Mickey Boyd, Temporary Public Art Exhibition, Athens, GA, USA.
2021 Visibility in the City, Coral Plaza Arts Society collaborative curatorial public art project, Edmonton, AB.
Am I Home, Film by Charlton Diaz and Sarah Seburn, Glass Gallery, Athens, GA, USA.
2019-2020 Curatorial research travel, Parking Lot Platform, Moscow to Canada edition, Moscow, Russia.
2018 Mutate to Belong: Estonia >> Edmonton Artist Residency Exchange, Edmonton, AB.
Coral Plaza Art Show, assistant curator for Jai Tanninen, queer pop art group exhibition, Edmonton, AB.
2015 Considering Heterotopias, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
2013 Arts Benefit for DTES Women’s Center, The Gates, Vancouver, BC.

RESIDENCIES

2022 Short-Listed, Land Rights, 1927 Art Space, Interdisciplinary programing, 2022-2023, Athens, Greece.
2016 Helikopter Residency, An Open Creative Space, Tallin, Estonia.
Neighborhood Time Exchange, Artist Residency established by Justin Langlois, Prince George, BC.

ORGANIZING AND COMMUNITY WORK

2019-Ongoing Co-Founder of Coral Plaza Arts Society, curator, facilitator, grant writer, Edmonton, AB.
2018-2019 Coral Plaza Arts Venue Co-founder. Curator, Facilitator, Preparator, Lead Designer, Builder, Edmonton, AB.
2013-2014 Piss Factory, Co-Founder and Director, Studio, Gallery and Venue, Vancouver, BC.

REVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS

2021 UGA students turn military containers into useful art, by Shannah Montgomery, Albany Herald.
2020 Tear it Down Responses to a Once-Ephemeral Poster Kiosk Project, 2018-2020: Poster reprint, designed by Ricky Castanedo-Laredo and riso-printed by Erica at Mokier Press, Limited Edition.
2019 Kiwa and Andres Lõo in Edmonton, Estonian contemporary Art Development Center.
2018 Ten Different Things, ten local artists that provoke, prototype and test new visions of art and civic life in Vancouver, edited by Kate Armstrong, Perfect-Bound Paperback.
2017 Modes of Exchange: Long Form Placemaking in Prince George, publication for Neighborhood Time Exchange Residency, curated by Justin Langlois and Caitlin Chaisson, Publication design Laura Kozak.
Discorder Magazine: Architectural Demolition, March Edition.
2016 Relief Colouring book Series, No. 1. Compiled by Emma Metcalfe Hurst & Scott Kemp.
2015 We Should Take Below: The Gambling Splinter, Darcy Blake, Bartleby Review, Issue 41.
Art This Week: Wild Electronics, the art of trespassing and revisiting the 70’s. Vancouver Sun.
Colour of Right, Ground Gallery’s Debut Exhibition, In Passing, Ex Situ. Brit Bachmann, Vandocument.
2014 Spacious Ladder: found Scaffold/Architectural Sculpture/ Curios Construction/ Perfect Blue, Katharina Schulz, Satellite Gallery.