EDUCATION
MFA Fine Art, 2018
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
BFA Studio Art, 2004
CSU East Bay, Hayward, California
BFA Graphic Arts, 2004
CSU East Bay, Hayward, California
EXHIBITIONS
2023 NOMAD Art Fair Los Angeles
2023 QIPO Art Fair Mexico City
2022 Die Kunstkammer at Discover Torrance
2021 Night Moves at the Bendix Building, Los Angeles
2020 Die Kunstammer at Adams Square Mini Park, Glendale Libraries, Arts, and Culture, Glendale, CA
2020 Head-On Collision, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, California (4 artist show)
2020 This Thin Utopia, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, California (with Ernest Rosenthal)
2019 Window Dressing, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2018 Cambiaformas, Fundación Sebastian, Mexico City, Mexico
2018 Ghost Prints II, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2017 Ghost Prints, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, California
2016 Excesstential Style, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, California (with Jonathan Johnson)
• Halloween ‘16, San Diego Art Institutue
2015 Blue Moon, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, California (with Nora Keyes)
2012 Psycho-Specific Unearthings, NWC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Tragedy and Automatism, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, Washington
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2023 Loto Ball, How to Destroy the Universe Festival, Oakland, California
2022 Loto Ball, La Zurda, Complejo Cultural Los Pinos, Mexico City
2017Holes, Cerritos College, Cerritos, California
2016 Mariana, Highways, Santa Monica, California
2016 Mariana, Electric Lodge, Venice, California
2016 Saturnine, Church of Fun, Los Angeles, California
2011 Loto Ball, MidPoint Music Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio
2010 Loto Ball, Drop Dead Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Stupid Dans (1,10,5), i^3 Hypermedia, Chicago, Illinois
2005 Loto Ball, Drop Dead Festival, New York, New York
1997 Communication, Spaceland, Los Angeles, California
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, AND PUBLIC ART
February 2026 Residency, Jentel, Wyoming
Winter 2023 / 2024 Residency, California Creative Learning Academy, Los Angeles
2018 Residency, Sebastian Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Public Art, Interactive Mural, Cerritos College, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Study Grant, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado
2011 Grant, VSA Grant for Kennedy Center Installation (with Arts of Life)
2011 Public Art, Mural, Chase Park, Chicago (with Arts of Life)
2011 Grant, CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
2009 Grant, CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
2007 Public Art, Mural, Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago (with Arts of Life)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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