I attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Followed by an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and recently I completed a year-long artistic research residency in Brussels, Belgium at a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies.) I currently live and work in Berlin as an artist and academic. My artistic practice primarily consists of conceptual performance art, fibers making (felt, weaving, and embroidery,) and ceramics. Most of my artistic practice and academic writings investigate the unacknowledged and often unpaid labor of queer and femme people’s bodies particularly when it comes to the production of children and forms of child-rearing. What can we reorient when we consider the physical, emotional, and ideological realities of people's bodies when they are seen as sites of production of conception and procreation in the same theoretical space and Fordist manufacturing economics? I exist in a cis/fem body, yet I have no desire to make the thing that my body can (currently) easily make; babies. I am not interested in art practice as a replacement or surrogate for the procreation of children; but as a whole other avenue of making and production within capitalist systems. I examine bodies in relationship to procreation as a production space of future laborers and bodies concerning spaces or places of production.
Artists CV
Performances/Exhibitions
The Green Corridor- Brussels, BEL Vessels duo exhibition with Anna Lugmeier 2023
a.pass Brussels, BE performative presentations of artistic research 2021-2022
CPR Brooklyn- Matter and Residue solo performance in a group showcase 2020
Art/Life Institute Kingston, NY- Untitled solo performance 2019
Pratt Institute Brooklyn- Winter Salon solo performance in a group show 2019
Queen Chicago, IL- solo performance 2019
Movement Research NYC- Studies Project: Memory Moves group show 2019
Pratt Institute Brooklyn- Winter Salon solo performance in a group show 2018
Suibo Kosuishiki Park Tokamachi, JAP- Untitled group exhibition 2017
Mana Contemporary Chicago, IL- Materials group exhibition 2017
SAIC Chicago, IL- Thesis Show group exhibition 2016
Abteilung für Alles Andere Berlin, Germany Vorwärts Beween group show 2016
Mana Contemporary Chicago, IL- Confronting the Abject solo performance 2015
Residences/Internships & Grants
Artist residency at Arts, Letters & Number Averill Park, NY 2020
GSEF grant- NYC, NY 2020
Artist residency with ILLI Tokamachi, JAP 2017
SALT grant- Chicago, IL 2015
Studio assistant for Carol Jackson 2014
Teaching
Co-taught somatic movement workshop- Art/Life Institute- Kingston, NY, USA 2020
Department Assistant for the Performance & Performance Studies Program-
Pratt Institute- Brooklyn, USA 2019-2020
Instructor for contact improv workshop at Movement Research-Brooklyn, USA 2019
Education
Post Masters Artistic Research Program- a pass Brussels, BEL 2021-2023
MFA in Performance & Performance Studies- Pratt Institute- Brooklyn, NY 2018-2020
BFA in Performance- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago- Chicago, IL 2013-2016
Publication
Vessels- Artist book co-created with Anna Lugmeier 2023