Education
2021 - 2023
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MA, US
Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology
2014 - 2017
THE COOPER UNION, NY, US
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Awards/Grants
2023
LEXUS DESIGN AWARD SHORTLIST, WORLDWIDE
LEXUS
2023
THE BOLDEST DESIGN FOR XEV, WORLDWIDE
Y.O.Design Lab Awards
2021-2023
THE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AT MIT MIT (CAMIT) GRANT, US
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021-2022
ACT PILOT GRANT, US
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021-2023
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP, US
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2014 - 2017
FULL-TUITION SCHOLARSHIP, US
The Cooper Union
Exhibitions
2024
Public Installation: Bacterial Consent, the Scalable HCI Research Symposium, Shenzhen, China
2023-2024
Group Virtual Show: Alt-Alterity, UAAD X New Art City, Internationally
2023
Public Performance: the 6th Annual Shanghai Live Art Festival, Sowerart, Shanghai, China
2023
Group Virtual Show: After the End, NADA Curated by Catherine Taft, New Art Dealers, Internationally
2023
Film Screening: Anesthesiologist, MIT Museum, MA, US
2023
Group Show & Performance: Counteractions, Distillery Gallery, MA, US
2023
Solo Show & 1 on 1 Performances: Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble, ACT Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US
2023
Group Virtual Show: Memory Card, New Art City Festival 2023, Internationally
2023
Group Virtual Show: Ties That Cannot Be Unbound, UAAD X New Art City, Internationally
2022-2023
Public Installation: Searching for Consciousness, Nano Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US
2022
Public Installation: Bio Feedback Experiential Tattoo, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US
2021 - 2022
Group Show: pppppress Exhibition, Wiesner Gallery, MA, US
2021
Dear Other, MIT LIST Visual Arts Center, MA, US
2021
Group Show: Desktop: A Material History of MIT Architecture During a Year Apart, Keller Gallery, MA, US
2017 - 2019
Public Painting Performances with Art of Everyone, Nationally, US
2019
Group Show: Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2018
Self Tattooing Performance, Public Works Department, Governors Island, NY, US
2017
Thesis Show with Anneliese Holmes: Sensory Processes, 41 Cooper Gallery, NY, US
2017
Film Screening: Talking with the Void, Cooper Union Film Festival, NY, US
2016
Group Show: End of the Year Show, Cooper Union, NY, US
2016
Public Performance: On Time, East Village, NY, US
2016
Public Installation: Head Space, Cooper Union, NY, US
2014 - 2016
Represented by Studio 905 on Juniper, Atlanta, GA, US
2015
Performance Collaboration with Gearoid Dolan: Define Me, The Activist Front Gallery, NY, US
2015
Residency Workshop: Galapagos Now, Arts Letters and Numbers, Albany, NY, US
2015
Public Performance: Being Binary, Cooper Union, NY, US
2015
Public Installation: On Space, Cooper Union, NY, US
2014
Group Show: Aqueous Open International, Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, PA, US
2013
Group Show: Sixth Annual Artist Guild of NW Georgia, GA, US
2013
Group Show: Come Europa, Atlanta, GA, US
2012
Solo Show: Enlightenment, Atlanta, GA, US
2012
Auction: iDream Fundraiser, Atlanta, GA, US
2011
Group Show: Art and Design Show, Kennesaw, GA, US
2011
Group Show: AHSAE, Dogwood Festival, SCAD, Atlanta, GA, US
2011
Group Show: Roswell Fine Arts Alliance, Roswell, GA, US
Talks
2023
Representative Lecturer Speech: PLAYSHOP Closing Ceremony, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2023
Panelist Discussion: Counteractions Film Screening, MIT Museum, MA, US
2023
Panelist Discussion: Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble, ACT Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US
2022-2023
Public Speaker: zero.zerozerozerozerozerozerozerozeroone, Nano Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US
2022
Podcast Guest Speaker: MIT Talks, MIT Club of Boston, MA, US
2022
Guest Speaker: Dancing in the Liminal Space, Design Thinking Zeal, NY, US
2022
Guest Speaker: Artistic Experimentation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US
2021
Alumni Spotlight Speaker: In the Tattoo Studio with Ishraki Kazi A’17, Cooper Together, NY, US
Experiences
2023
CHINA ACADEMY OF ART, HANGZHOU, CHINA
Guest Lecturer for PLAYSHOP - Innovation Design Practice International Collaborative Curriculum
2021-2023
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MA, US
Communications Assistant for Marissa Friedman
ACT Program
Teaching Assistant for Azra Akšamija
4.s32: Future Heritage Workshop: Toxic Textiles / Fashion Fables
Teaching Assistant for Azra Akšamija
ACT Colloquium
Teaching Assistant for Marisa Morán Jahn
4.301 : Introduction to Artistic Experimentation: Bootlegs & Bastards
Teaching Assistant for Nida Sinnokrot
4.314 / 4.315 : Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research — Common Ground: Art, Science, Agriculture
2022 - 2023
THE BOSTON TATTOO COMPANY, MA, US
Tattoo Artist
2022
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MA, US
Art, Culture & Technology (ACT) Public Programming Committee Member
2020 - 2021
MONKIWARRIOR PRIVATE TATTOO STUDIO, NY, US
Tattoo Artist
2018 - 2020
FIG HOUSE STUDIOS, NY, US
Project Consultant and Fabricator
2017 - 2019
ART OF EVERYONE, LLC, NATIONALLY, US
Artist Conductor
2019
COLLECTIVE AID, BELGRADE, SERBIA
Volunteer Abroad
2019
CHINTAPU MEDICINAL AND AGRICULTURAL FARM, ILAM, NEPAL
Volunteer Abroad
2018
GAMES FOR CHANGE, NY, US
Volunteer
2017 - 2018
REIS STUDIOS, NY, US
Archivist and Assistant to Art Collector
2017 - 2018
PROJECTART, NY, US
Teaching Artist
2017
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, NY, US
Governors Island Artist Residency
2016 - 2017
FIRST CLASS TATTOOS, NY, US
Tattoo Artist
2016
VISIONS AT SELIS MANOR, NY, US
Volunteer Teacher
2015
ARTS LETTERS & NUMBERS, NY, US
Artist in Residence
2013 - 2014
WHITE RABBIT TATTOOS, NY, US
Apprentice
2013
JAMES GORTNER STUDIO, NJ, US
Artist’s Assistant
2011
ALL OR NOTHING TATTOOS, GA, US
Apprentice