b. 1979

lives and works in Oakland, California

Education

2009 M. F. A. New Genres/Mixed Media, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

2008 Fellowship, Electronic Arts/Film, The Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME

2007 B.A. Printmaking and Drawing, Portland State University, Portland, OR

Select Exhibitions/Projects

 2011

Create: the artists are present: member of documentary filmmaking team commissioned by UC Berkeley. Premiere, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California

The Golden Snail Artist's Residency: an artist's residency/social experiment in a rustic WPA forest service cabin on the Winchuck River in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Oregon

2010

Solo Exhibition: BEAUTY FORMS, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA

Memory Mine, curated by Rose Khor, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Heliography, Invisible City Audio Tours, Landmark 10: Koffee Pot, 2532 Telegraph Avenue

Lending Library, curated by BAM Matrix curator Dena Beard, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA

Night and Day with John Greer, Martina><Johnston Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2009

What We Can Live With, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

The Secret of the Ninth Planet, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

Four Channel Video Installations with the Hello Lovers Orchestra, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY

2008

Audition: video installation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

Something That Brings Us Together -Worth Ryder Gallery- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

2007

Exit 07, Littman Gallery-The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Juried by Kristen Kennedy Portland, OR

Exchange, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Worm Food, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR

2006

Solo Exhibition, Glass Mountain, Center Space Gallery, Portland, OR

Print Zero-Basil Hallworth Gallery, Portland, OR

Overlapping Lines, Juried Group Show, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea

And Then You Were Born, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR

Handmade Books, Owatonna Arts Center, Owatonna, Minnesota

2005

The Drawing Club, MK Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR

2003

Solo Exhibition: Novelties! Fun!, The Beehive, Portland, OR

The Cosmetic Factor, Cameron Gallery, Portland, OR

2001/02

New Orleans Small Press Book Fair, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Oval Lavo/Beatrice Lenore, Higgins Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Select Screenings

 2011

New Work: Video Installation, The Golden Snail Artist’s Residency Program

2010

A Self Made House, Temescal Street Cinema Film Festival, Oakland, CA

Velvet Light Trap: Storytelling at the Library with Lydia Greer, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA

Guest Artist, Film Studies Department, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

2009

A Self Made House, 20 min, 2009, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

American Magician, The Gaspacho Sisters, A Self-Made House, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

2008

Sleeper in the Valley and American Magician, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2006

The New Fluvial World,“Take it EZ” video and animation festival, HollywoodTheatre, Portland, OR

Select Performances

2011

Opera, Artistic Director (animation and puppetry), San Francisco, CA

2010

Good For Nothing Lover, Production Manager, Light Puppeteer & Consultant, SF Arts Fest, ShadowLight Productions, Cowell Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

2009

Ghosts of the River by Octavio Solis directed by Larry Reed, Ensemble Member, Voice Actor, Light Operator, ShadowLight Productions, San Francisco, CA

2008

The Fisherman and the Bear, Artistic Director-The Tin Can Carousel Project, live shadow theatre/new media performance in collaboration with Artist Greg Niemeyer, the Hearst Mining Building, commissioned for CITRIS/Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Kindershmootezen, Visual Director with Choreographer Marc Boucai, Lab Run: Experimental Theatre, Zellerbach Hall,  U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Ghosts of the River Workshop Production Assistant/ Voice Actress/Puppeteer-ShadowLight Productions- directed by Larry Reed and written by Octavio Solis at the Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

2007/08

Puppetry Consultant for UC Berkeley Engineering Professor Maneesh Agrawala, Berkeley, CA

2007

Sleeper in the Valley, Director, live shadow theatre performance at Rake Gallery, Portland, OR

Sleeper in the Valley, live shadow puppet performance, Autzen Gallery, PSU, Portland, OR

2006

The Glass Mountain, live shadow theatre, Portland State University, Portland, OR

Do I Need to Draw You a Map, The Glass Mountain, The Euphoria of Mr. OK and the Huff Boys, The “Lets Dance” Shadow Theatre Showcase and amateur magician night, Valentines, Portland, OR

The Glass Mountain, The Sixth Annual Puppetganza, Nocturnal, Portland, OR

2005

The Euphoria of Mr. Ok and the Huff Boys, Portland Independent Puppet Night, Acme, Portland, OR

The Euphoria of Mr. OK and the Huff Boys, Mega-Fest, with Vladimir and Miss Pussycat, Dunes, Portland, OR

2004

The Euphoria of Mr. Ok and the Huff Boys (version 1), Orlo Dirty Rotten Puppet Festival, Orlo Exhibition Space, Portland, OR

Untitled Original Shadow Theatre/ Projections for the musician Momus, Holocene, Portland, OR

The Bible Salesman: Original Shadow Puppet Theatre and Film Projection with the band Schicky Gnarowitz, Holocene, Portland, OR

2003

The Famine, original live shadow puppet performance, Little Texas Artist’s Collective, Portland, OR

Cornucopia Parade and Performance, Cameron Gallery, Portland, OR

2001-2002

Sunshine Bread Girl, Performed with Haley Lou Yah Puppet Company, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Cave Ponies, Original Full Length Play, The Staree Rose, Portland, OR

Puppetry Performances with The Circus of Tiny Invisibility, New Orleans, LA

Select Awards

2010-Oustanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Dept. of Art Practice, U C Berkeley

2010-Nominated for a Headland’s Center for the Arts Invitational Residency & Pro Arts Annual Solo Exhibition

2009-Nominated for the Di Rosa Foundation Award

2009-Henry Ford Lord Award in Art Practice, University of California-Berkeley

2009-Eisner Prize in Film and Video-Honorable Mention for A Self Made House

2008-Fellowship-Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture-Skowhegan, ME

2008 Eisner Award for Creative Achievement-University of California-Berkeley

2007-2009-Graduate Fellowship-- Department of Art Practice, University of California-Berkeley

2007-Juried Show by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Exit 07, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR

2007-Juried exchange show, PSU/PNCA, Portland, OR

2006-Juried traveling show to University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea

2000-2001-Robert T. Lee Printmaking Scholarship-Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Teaching/Commissions

2010/2011

Visual Arts Faculty, teaching Film History and Video Production and Contemporary Media & Art, Lick Wilmerding High School, San Francisco, CA

Lecturer-ART 171-Beginning Video Production with a Special Topics Section: Animation, Puppetry and Performing Objects in Theory and Practice. Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA

2009

Lecturer-ART 171-Beginning Video Production with a Special Topics Section: Animation, Puppetry and Performing Objects in Theory and Practice. Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA

Instructor-Art 8-Introduction to Visual Thinking-Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA

2007/08

GSI/Reader/Screening Assistant for Film 108-Animation for Professor Russell Merritt, Film Studies Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Lead Instructor, Shadow Theatre/Visual Storytelling and Printmaking, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts-Portland, OR

2006/07

Workshops and Lecturer, Portland State University- for The Drawing Club, Portland, OR

2005-2007- Instructor Pacific Northwest College of Art, the OutReach Program for Portland Public Schools, Portland, OR

2004-2006- Art Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art-SmArt Works Summer Art Program, Portland, OR

2003-2005- Studio Instructor, Curriculum Designer, Exhibit, Design/Build and Facilitation in the Art and Education Departments with Reggio Emilio pedagogical training, The Portland Children’s Museum, Portland, OR

Publications

2010-Lending Library Catalogue by Dena Beard, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA

2009-Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive ART/FILM NOTES

2008-Artists Spotlight, Cal Literature & Arts Magazine, Fall 2008, Volume XIV.I

2006-Three Mile Radius-newspaper and website in community collaboration with Harrell Fletcher, Portland, OR

2006-Overlapping Lines: A Faculty and Student Exhibition of the College of Fine Arts at The University of Ulsan and the Department of Art at Portland State University, University of Ulsan Press, 2006

2004-The Zinesters Guide to Portland, illustration, Portland, Oregon

2001-The Daily Texan, Comics published regularly, Austin, TX