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Biopolitics
Commission
"Baroque Bodies (Sway)" in "Future Tense" at Beall Center for Art+Technology
commission for "Future Tense: Art, Complexity, & Uncertainty" at Beall Center for Art+Technology for Getty's PST: Art + Science Collide Initiative
2024
Group Exhibition
Early Zines & Collaborations in "Copy Machine Manifestos" at Brooklyn Museum
"Beehive" (1993–1996) collaboration with Allyson Shaw included in exhibition documenting zines’ relationship to subcultures and avant-garde practices, from punk to conceptual, queer, and feminist art
2023
Writing
Syndemic Sublime: Rematerializing the Expanded Biotechnological Apparatus in the Age of Remote Intimacy and Immediate Precarity
essay and artist talk written for "Possibles", the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
2023
Solo Exhibition
Sticky Settings Preview at UTS
private preview of immersive installation presenting animation and sound work in progress from "Sticky Settings" collaboration
2022
Group Exhibition
Doilies in "Life Eternal: The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs"
lace virus series in exhibition exploring notions of eternity through art, science, medicine, and technology
2022
Group Exhibition
Syndemic Sublime in "Currents" at Center For Contemporary Arts
data-driven molecular animations using COVID data featured in new media art exhibition
2022
Commission
Syndemic Sublime in "La irrupció" at Santa Mònica for ISEA
data-driven molecular animation commissioned for International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) at Santa Mònica Arts Centre
2022
Writing
Host: Reflections on Disease, Domesticity, and Decorum
short story about long silences in the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
2022
Group Exhibition
Syndemic Sublime in "Second Sundays" at Pioneer Works
installation with animations & networked sculpture exploring interconnected systems in the biotechnological landscape
2021
Group Exhibition
Unraveling in "NORMAL" for Art in Odd Places
molecular animations projected onto the Museum of Illusions for street festival
2021
Artwork
Syndemic Sublime
generative 3D animations using COVID death data to disrupt amino acid residues on intertwined human and non-human proteins
2021
Solo Exhibition
Entangled Entities at The New Gallery
installation with sensory experiences exploring interspecies entanglement through networked devices and tactile sculpture
2021
Group Exhibition
Unraveling Together in "Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving" on New Art City
video with AI transcription of remote textiles collaboration included in virtual exhibition reexamining cyberfeminism
2021
Artwork
Unraveling II
synchronous molecular animation triptych created with coronavirus, llama nanobody protein models
2021
Group Exhibition
Pandemic Panorama in "The Archive to Come" at Telematic Media Arts
animations included in exhibition reimagining the digital archive in the face of a global pandemic & social justice movement
2020
Artwork
This is Killing Us
fundraiser series of coronavirus masks responding to the politicization of care during the COVID pandemic
2020
Solo Exhibition
Unraveling at BioBAT Art Space
BioBAT, immersive installation exploring remote intimacy & hidden materialities during the pandemic
2020
Artwork
Unraveling Together
participatory textiles collaboration with recorded Zoom performances and hand-made weavings
2020
Artwork
Unraveling and Renatured
animations and prints created with molecular models of the coronavirus spike protein
2020
Artwork
Remote Entanglements
fan networked to wind data at vivarium that houses animals who produce biological products for human drugs
2019
Artwork
Contested Territories
networked laboratory mixers containing llama feces activated by Twitter activity relating to the contested status of science
2019
Artwork
Lumen and Chaperone
participatory haptic sound and textiles sculpture with rug made from hand-spun laboratory animal fiber
2019
Artwork
Needle in a Haystack Book
artist book with photographs from a biotech lab documenting mundane artifacts and poetic encounters in biotech laboratory
2019
Artwork
Needle in a Haystack
photographs from a biotech lab documenting mundane artifacts and poetic interfaces in biotech lab
2019
Artwork
Suspended
infinite video loop of cell suspension technique in biotech laboratory
2019
Solo Exhibition
Conformations at Esther Klein Gallery
multimedia installation exploring hidden systems and invisible labor in the expanded biotechnological landscape
2019
Artwork
Transformation Timer
motorized wind chime sound sculpture with laboratory animal fiber and orphaned keys
2019
Artwork
Sit Around and Wait
neon sign exploring uncertainty and anticipation with quote from scientist waiting for laboratory experiment
2019
Artwork
Boundary
entryway with hand-spun laboratory llama fiber and text excerpt using immigration metaphor to explain biology
2019
Writing
Manifest: The Role of Science in the Studio
essay on research-based studio practice at the intersections of art and science for "Art Practical: Art, Science & Wonder"
2015
Group Exhibition
Negligee (Serotonin) in "TechNoBody" at Pelham Art Center
group exhibition exploring the mediated world's impact on and relationship to the physical body in our increasingly virtual realm
2015
Artwork
autologousReflection
participatory sculpture with computer generated animation and text
2015
Commission
Host in "Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS" at Van/Every Smith Gallery
multimedia installation with sculptures and works on paper commissioned for exhibition about representations of HIV/AIDS
2014
Artwork
Meta Static I
magazine collages using pseudo-scientific and pseudo-spiritual ads and hand-built ceramics with titles taken from adspeak
2013
Group Exhibition
Braided Stethoscope in "Gone Viral: Medical Science and Contemporary Textile Art" at Marion Art Gallery
braided stethoscope and other speculative medical device artworks in "Gone Viral: Medical Science and Contemporary Textile Art"
2013
Artwork
Serendipitous Destiny
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
2012
Artwork
Qualitative Analysis
videos that remix the scifi film “The Wasp Woman“ to explore notions of the mad scientist and unnatural transformation
2012
Artwork
Entropy
graphite drawing on watercolor paper
2011
Artwork
Distillations
hand-cut collages made from pseudoscientific magazine ads with hand-built ceramics depicting ad imagery
2010
Artwork
Reformulations
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles from adspeak
2010
Artwork
Spontaneous Narratives
graphite drawings and computer generated soundscape created from spam email subject headings
2010
Artwork
Subcutaneous
hand embroidery of text on remnant cosmetic facial skin peel
2009
Artwork
Negligee (Serotonin)
computerized embroidery on sculpture made from remnant cosmetic facial peel
2009
Commission
Doilies and Trousseau in "Re/Formations" at Van Every/Smith Galleries
installation of tactile lace viruses and facial peel sculptures commissioned for exhibition about disability and female identity
2009
Artwork
Tongue Depressors & Cotton Swabs
hand-crafted speculative sculptures with accompanying performance video
2002
Artwork
Stethoscope
participatory sound sculpture with 25-foot long stethoscope
2002
Artwork
Blood Scarf
photographs of speculative medical apparatus hand-knit into intravenous scarf from clear vinyl tubing
2002
Artwork
Exam Gown
hand-knit textiles sculpture with large-scale photographic portraits that reimagines the institutional hospital gown
2002
Artwork
Vigilant
latch hook soft sculptures depicting microbes
2002
Artwork
Catheter Bag Cozy
installation including photographs and a hand-knit vinyl tubing sculpture that is continuously pumped with blue liquid
2001
Artwork
Upside Down, Inside Out
silicon rubber sculptures cast from test tubes
2000
Artwork
Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft
hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills
2000