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Chicago, IL
STATEMENT
My practice grapples with the violence exerted by 24/7 media culture on the individual psyche. I have been exploring human-dog hybrids as avatars uniquely suited to our ever-fracturing reality. Bred and molded for permanent innocence and dependency, dogs function both as extensions of their owners’ identities and as trophies used to signify status and wealth. As the mandates of capitalism continue to reshape human behavior, we inevitably begin to grow more like our fetish objects: caught in endless cycles of projection and codependency, never seen as ends in ourselves.
EDUCATION
2019 Master of fine Arts in Painting & Drawing, School of the Art.Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016 Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting & Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 Academic Figure painting & Portrait Painting Workshops, Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City, NJ
2014 BA in Spanish Literature, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 They have yet to be named by their dogs, YGLY Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Tacky Palazzo, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Homesick Remedy, Jaw Gallery, Kuga-gun, Yamaguchi, Japan
KIOSK, Scott Reeder booth at Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL
Pane in the Ass, Jaw Gallery, Chicago, IL
Clotheshorse, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
The Turf, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, IL
DIY Biennial, Z1 Gallery, Chicago, IL
With a Capital P curated by Jose Lerma, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
SAIC MFA show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
GIFC, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Without Batten, Without Skin, Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pick Me Up, 062 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Some Compendium of Media, MacLean Center, Chicago, IL
Amuse Bouche, Congruent Space, Chicago, IL
What was Painting? curated by Laura Owens, Club Nutz, Chicago, IL
2017 Rise from the Rubble, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Strong Women, AMFM, Chicago, IL
2016 Behind Closed Doors, Soho House, Chicago, IL
5x5 Gallery Review, Fulton Market Kitchen, Chicago, IL
Post-Baccalaureate 2016 Salon, Maclean Center, Chicago, IL
You’re so pretty, Y:OU Salon, Chicago, IL
2015 Indelicate, Locallective, Chicago, IL
Slanted Canvas Project, Genesis Art Supply, Chicago, IL
“What’s a Man’s Paris?”, General Public Collective, Indianapolis, IN
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Saatchi Rising Stars Report: Class of 2019
Artist of the Week, LVL3 Gallery
2018 Interview with Caroline Jacobson, This Moment Here Podcast
2016 Featured Artist, The IN Magazine Issue #3
RESIDENCIES
2016 Gallery Residency, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
5x5 Artist Residency, Fulton Market Kitchen, Chicago, IL
TEACHING
2017 Teachers Assistant, Painting Practices with Noah Rorem, SAIC
2018 Teachers Assistant, Painting Materials & Techniques with Josh Dihle, SAIC
Teachers Assistant, Core Practices with Claire Ashley, SAIC