Selected Exhibitionn
2020: Ongoing - Uprise Art, New York, NY
Black + White, The Orange Garden, Online
PostmastersROMA supports Spallanzani Hospital: Benefit Sale, Postmasters Gallery, Rome, Italy
Nightmode, Uprise Art, New York, NY
2019: LILHA Group Show, San Pancho, Nayarit, Mexico
2018: San Pancho>Guadalajara>CDMX, CDMX, Mexico
2015: A.b.s.t.r.a.c.t., ArtStar
ways to lighten up, Splinters & Logs, New York NY
Make Things (Happen), Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014: I Paint You. You Paint Me, Bric Arts, New York, NY
I Paint You. You Paint Me, Ed. Varie, New York, NY
I Paint You. You Paint Me, Bartertown, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Make Things (Happen), NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
2013: This is the Sound of Someone Losing the Plot, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MyNerva, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
The West Coast, Uprise Art Pop-up, New York, NY
Uprise Art, Online
Artstar, Online
2012: PensalArte,Il Bosco delle Soluzioni, Milan, Italy
People’s Ping Pong Party, Present Company, New York, NY
Featured Artist, Little Paper Planes, Online
I Paint You. You Paint Me, Art In Odd Places, New York, NY
I Paint You. You Paint Me, Bartertown (Trading Post X), Dumbo Arts Festival, New York, NY
2011: The Eagle, Bull, and Bear, Little Paper Planes, Online
Son of a Pip, Pips Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
The Magic Mountain, with Gareth Spor, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Celebrating Fulbright in Nepal, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
Festival of New Ideas, Laundromat Project at the New Museum, New York, NY
2010: Ci Metto una Croce Sopra, with Alessandro Gorla, RGB46, Rome, Italy
Procurato Allarme, Stamperia del Tevere and Love & Dissent, Rome, Italy
Geometries, Solo Exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
2009: Flatlandia, RGB46, Rome, Italy
Retractions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2008: Dream On!, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
The Hypnotic Show, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Distributed Exhibition, ICA, San Jose, CA
Intellectual Property, Meat Market Gallery, Washington, DC
Wall/Paper, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
2007: Shapes and Sizes, Area 405, Baltimore, MD
Connective Situations, University of Delaware, Willmington, DE
Street Scenes, WPA, Washington, DC
Exchange, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA and Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD.
2006: E3-Painters, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
2005: Indistinct in the Twilight, Panhwa Art Studio, Washington, DC
Where is the Peace, The Warehouse, Washington, DC
2003: In Progress, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
2001: Citiescape, Universita' del Politecnico, Milan, Italy.
Traversias Contextuales, ICAIC, La Habana, Cuba.
Education
2009: MFA, California College of the Arts, concentration in Social Practice, San Francisco, CA
2001: BFA, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
Fellowships, Residencies and Awards
2018: Resident at LILHA, San Francisco, Nayarit, Mexico
2014-2017 Board Member of The New York Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Organization
2014: Un-Residency, Ed Varie, New York
2013: Flux Factory, New York, NY
2012: Summer Decompression Camp, Corniolo Art Platform, Corniolo, Italy
2011: Create Change Fellowship, Laundromat Project, New York, NY
2009-10: Fulbright Fellowship, Kathmandu, Nepal
2009: Finalist Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, San Francisco, CA
Semifinalist Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, at Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2007-2008: Artist in Education at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2006: E3 Painters, Residency at Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
2002: Best Young Artist Award, ICA, Washington DC
2000: Martha Von Hirsch Memorial Scholarship for Sculpture, Washington DC
Workshops, Panels and Teaching
2020: Visiting Artist at the Habitat Design 1 Course taught by Alessandro Gorla and Studio Algoritmo at Quasar Institute for Advanced Design
2019: Fermento Colturale workshop, Corniolo Art Platform, Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy
2018: Fermento Fomento, IPYYPM, Beat Outside the box workshops a LILHA in San Pancho and CDMX, Mexico
2018: Fermento Colturale workshop, Corniolo Art Platform, Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy
2014: Presentation on MyNerva, Open Engagement Conference, Queens Museum, New York, NY
2012-Current: Clinical Information Systems Training Analyst, Allscripts and NSLIJ, New Hide Park, NY
2013: Open Engagement Conference, Queens Museum, New York, NY
2010-2012: Adobe CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5 Instructor at New Horizons Computer Learning Center, New York, NY
2010: A Collaborative Model, with Ashmina Ranjit, Jyamirkot, Nepal
On Thangka Painting, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu, Nepal
2009: TA for Life Drawing, CCA, Oakland, CA
2008-2009: Mentor for “First Year Honors” program at CCA. Oakland, CA.
Film-making instructor at College Track. Oakland, CA
2007-2009: Mindscapes, painting project with seniors at CEYA, San Francisco, CA
2008: Social Practice West, panel at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2007: Workshop co-leader with Breck Brunson and Nilay Lawson at Art Lab at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Selected Press and Publications
2014: Featured artist on Landfill, Issue 4, online and in print
2014: On Laboring for Love, Art Practical
2013: Interview on the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Blog
2012: Interview on Little Paper Planes Blog
2011: Magic Mountain, by Aimee Le Duc, Celebrating Fulbright in Nepal, Fulbright Commission, Nepal
The Cultural Geometry of Piero Passacantando, by Simon Hogdson (www.cca.edu)
2010: Shapes and Circles, Kathmandu post, Nepal
Thangka: Art or Craft?, Republica, Nepal
Beyond the Lines and Shapes, Himalayan Times, Nepal
Interview on Image FM 97.9 with Chirag Bangdel
Thangka Through the Centuries, Kathmandu Post, Nepal
2009: I’m a Park and You’re a Deer, (Publisher: Practice and Practice)
Golden Gate Park (Publisher: Blurb.com)
MISSION 17: 2004-2009, Mission 17, (Publisher: Mission 17)
2008: Dream On! by Mathew Rana, The Shotgun Review
There is No Two Without Three (Publisher: Lulu.com)
2006: Exchange published by WPA, Washington DC
2003: In Progress published by the Corcoran Museum of Art