What is my work about?
Fill the hearts of those who would judge with doubt and empower those who won’t.
Artist Statement
What are the consequences of accepting that at the end of your previous life in addition to choosing the identity of your future parents you hand picked every instance of pain you would experience when next bound to a physical form whether that be illness, betrayal, divorce, death of child, amputation, amentia, incarceration or rape.
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EDUCATION
2009, BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
CURATORIAL
2013-present Curator/founder, Bed-Stuy Love Affair, New York
2008-2009 Curator/founder, New York City Gallery, Chicago
EXHIBITIONS
2014
honey that isn’t real, Bed-Stuy Love Affair, New York
Now Feel Bad, Interstate, New York
From whose ground heaven and hell compare, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
BLOOMINGTON: MALL OF AMERICA, NORTH SIDE FOOD COURT, ACROSS FROM BURGER KING & THE BANK OF PAYPHONES THAT DON’T TAKE INCOMING CALLS, Bortolami, New York
The Grand Opening, STL, New York
Roseview, Young Art, Los Angeles
2013
Turnkey of Forever After, Bed-Stuy Love Affair, New York
Sallie Gardner, Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles
Smilers Delicatessen, Times Square, New York
Dare 2 Love Yourself:Momentum 7 , Momentum kunstall, Moss Norway
Metal Fatigue Music , Audio Visual Arts
Neoteny, 247365, New York
2012
Sculpture Garden, Poor Farm, Little Wolf Wisconsin
Pinot Noir, Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, Tidens Krav, Oslo
Ten Ten, Jason Alexander, New York
2011
I don’t know if it makes any sense – I feel quite dizzy and a little drunk due to the blow. I will return with more info shortly…, Imo Projects, Copenhagen
Radical Forgiveness, with Bradley Kronz, 47 Essex, New York
Drawings, Drawings, Photographs , Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
2010
179 Canal / Anyways , White Columns, New York
WHAT IS A HAMMER? , ADDS DONNA, Chicago
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014
NO ENTITY CAN EVER FULLY COMPREHEND ANOTHER ENTITY, Mousse
2010
not so autonomous maybe, IDIOM, Zak Kitnick