Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
“A Difficult Treasure” 41 West, storefront installation at studio of Susi Cora, Hancock, MD
2021
“The Iridescent Yonder” Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA, Brooke Marcy and Meg Weston, Curators
“This Iridescent Era” VisArts, Rockville, MD, Susan Main, Curator
2020
“Buoyant Force” Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA, Lily Siegel, Curator
2019
“Ship Splitter” Visual Art Center, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, Daniel Dean, Curator
2017
"Well Past the Echo" Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, (formerly Greater Reston Art Center) Reston, VA, Lily Siegel, Curator
2015
"The Eventual Outcome of an Instant" The Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, NY
2011
"Steel" Photographic Archives and Special Collections, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
2010
“Propagation of Uncertainty” Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD, Kay Hwang, Curator
2007
"Impala Diaries Part 1” Nabit Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, Pradip Malde, Curator
2004
“Diana Travels Well” Berlitz Language Institute, Rockefeller Center, NYC, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
“The DMV Collects the DMV” Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, Laura Roulet, Curator
“Climate for Change” with Atlantika Collective, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, María Alejandra Sáenz, Curator
2023
“Rauschenberg Residency: Explorations & Experimentations” Captiva Civic Center, Captiva, FL, Ann Brady, Curator
“Bodies We Inhabit” NARS Foundation, New York City, NY, Jessica Duby, Curator
“Cultivate: Without Title” Cultivate Studios, Kensington, MD
2022
“Continuum: Artists Teaching Artists” McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, Jennifer Lillis, Curator
“Approaching Event Horizons: Projects on Climate Change” with Atlantika Collective, Mason Exhibitions, Arlington, VA
“Prescient Surfaces” with Atlantika Collective, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana, María Alejandra Sáenz, Curator
“Hospitality - counterbalance venom” Cade Center for Fine Arts, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD, Cheryl Edwards, Curator
2021
“Homeward Bound 2019-2020” Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, Nandini Makrandi, Curator
“Measuring the Drapes” Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Marta Staudinger and Helen Criales, Curators
2020
“Women in the Arts” Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Marta Staudinger and Helen Criales, Curators
“Turning Blue” Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Marta Staudinger and Helen Criales, Curators
“Covid-19 Group Show” Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, FR
“Rauschenberg Residency: Explorations & Experimentations” Captiva Civic Center, Captiva, FL, Ann Brady, Curator (canceled due to Covid-19)
2019
“New works / Nouveaux travaux” Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, FR
“Turtle Bienvenue” Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Cite des Arts, Paris, FR
“Gathering” American Poetry Museum, Washington, DC, Sami Miranda, Curator
“Spiritual Wanderlust” Latela Gallery, Washington, DC, Helen Criales, Curator
2017
"The Transitional Object" Lululemon Loft in Georgetown, Washington, DC, Amy Hughes Braden and Sarah Bui, curators
2016
"Passage" Site commission for permanent sculptural installation, w/ Mary Carothers for 801 Iona at ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
"Like Fine Wine" la Bodega Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Margo Elsayd, curator
2015
"reference" Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, Erin Devine, curator
Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC, Zofie Lang, curator
2014
"Continue the Temporary and It Becomes Forever" Zizek Studies Conference, University of Cincinnati DAAP, Cincinnati, OH
"Global Activism," "Protesting On Demand," w/ Floating Lab Collective, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
WPA Hickok Cole Art Night 2014, Hickok-Cole Architects, Washington, DC
WPA at (e)merge, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Washington, DC
2013
"Fruits of Captiva" Rauschenberg Project Space, Group show, NYC, NY
"This Is Not a Museum" w/ Floating Lab Collective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Transformer Art Auction, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2012
"Mapping Why" w/ Floating Lab Collective, Art Museum of the Americas as part of Ripple Effect, Currents of Socially Engaged Art, Washington DC, Raquel DeAnda, Curator
SELECT: Washington Project for the Arts 2012 Art Auction, Washington, DC, Molly Donovan, Curator
The Floating Museum w/ Floating Lab Collective, 5×5, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC, Laura Roulet, Curator
2011-12
“Turtle Salon” (Traveling) Curated by Michael Shamberg for the following venues:
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
Grey Area E. Sussex, United Kingdom
Hardy Tree Gallery, London United Kingdom
Meter Room, 58-64 Corporation Street, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
2011
SELECT: Washington Project for the Arts 2011 Art Auction Washington, DC, Helen Frederick, Curator
"Ten Years After 9/11" Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC
“Mark and Master” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2010
“Silence as Presence” w/ FloatingLab Collective, Theatre of Peace, NGBK Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Dietrich Heißenbüttel, curator
2009
“Res Publica des Usonia: Space As Essay,” w/ FloatingLab Collective, Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD
“Close Encounters: Acts of Social Imagination,” w/ Floating Lab Collective, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York City, NY, Donald Russell and Niels Van Tomme, curators
2008
“The Frozen Car Project,” w/ Mary Carothers, Public Art Installation, Winter Carnival, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
“Close Encounters: Facing the Future,” Group Show w/ Floating Lab Collective, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, Donald Russell and Niels Van Tomme, curators
2006
“Artists and Makers” CREAR, Loghilphead, Argyll, Scotland, Kate Lithgow, curator
2005
“Fictional Landscapes,” Schaeffer Gallery, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN
2003
“Fresh Meat”CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, curator
“What are They Building in There?” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY, Mary Carothers, curator
2001
“TireFires and Talking Cars” Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, “TireFire Reincarnated” Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
“Serious Play” Adambomb Gallerie, Milwaukee, WI, Christopher Frederick, curator
2000
“TireFire” Unlimited Partnerships: Collaboration in Contemporary Art, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Lawrence Brose, curator
“TireFire,” D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival Open Studios, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Organization, Brooklyn, NY, Joy Glidden & Hedi Sorger, curators
“MILLENYA” C.A.S.E. Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ
Selected Video Screenings
2015
“Satellite Shorts” featuring o0OhhOhiO0o at HEMPHILL Presents SATELLITE: Workingman Collective, w/ Colby Caldwell, Marc Ganzglass, and Sean Watkins, Washington DC
2009
On Belonging, six short films that question our whereabouts” Montgomery College co-curator with Michael H Shamberg, screening the films of Jem Cohen (NYC Weights and Measures,) Sue Wrbican (The Dog Poem,) Nelly Sarkissian (Bab Touma, Gate of Thomas Damascus,) Robert Frank (Flamingo,) Martina Radwan (Aliens Among Us )and Michael Shamberg (p.s. Beirut)
2005
“Exchange Routes,” Teater Utan Kayu, Jakarta, Indonesia, Heliotrope Productions, Poriaman Sitangaang, Amy Guggenheim and Robert Kalka, curators
2000
“Black Box Videos (&)” The College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ Judy Masterson, Gallery Director, Curator
1999
“Reel New York” WNET 13, New York City, NY Garrison Botts, Program Director & Michelle Materre
“The Pixeled Narrative” Avignon Film Festival, New York City, NY L. Halsey Brown, curator
“Popcorn”Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, Gallery 821, Los Angeles, CA, Bob Pece, curator
“Third Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival” Tempe AZ, John Spiak, curator
1997
“World Wide Video Festival”, Stedelijk Museum, The Melkweg, Amsterdam, Nederland
“LACPS Annual Exhibition” VideoArts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA, Kate Horsfield, Executive Director of Video Data Bank, curator
“NO-TV '97” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, Robert Doyle, curator
Awards
2021-2022
GLB Memorial Fund
2011
Research Grant, Research & Economic Development, GMU
2009
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency Fellowship Atlantic Center for the Arts
2008
Mathy Fellowship, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2007
Research Grant, Research & Economic Development, GMU
2005
The Johnson Fund, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
2000
Artist as Catalyst 2000 Grant MidAtlantic Arts Foundation
1997
Second Prize for Experimental VideoNAP Video Festival, Kutztown, PA, Curated by Beryl Korot, Tony Oursler and Ann-Sargent Wooster
Visiting Artist/Lecturer/Residency
At present and since 2013
ArtsWalk at Monroe Street Market, Artist in Residence, Studio, Washington, DC
2022
Western Carolina University, Visiting Artist, Cullowhee, NC
La Baldi, Residency, Cultivate Projects, Montegiovi, Italy
2019
Marshall University, Visual Arts Department, Visiting Artist, Huntington, WV
2018
Hendrix College Art Department, Visiting Lecturer and Exhibit: Selects from 2011-2017, Conway, AR
2016
STUD Residency, Catlett, VA
2015
The Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, NY
2013
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Pilot Residency, Captiva, FL
2014
Zizek Studies Conference, University of Cincinnati DAAP, Cincinnati, OH
The College of New Jersey, Social Art Practice: Collaborating With Communities, Ewing, NJ
Society for Photographic Education, Panel discussion, Floating Lab Collective, Baltimore, MD
Summer AIR, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2010-11
Load Of Fun, Artist in Residence, Studio, Baltimore, MD
2011
Lecture “Unfinished Inquiries” Photography, The Document Conference University of Louisville, Center for Arts & Culture, Peter Morin, Moderator
2009
Residency Atlantic Center for the Arts, in association w/ Rineke Dijkstra, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2005
Photographer in Residence at CREAR, Logilphead, Argyll, Scotland
2000
Visiting Critic for Irina Nakhova Princeton University, Atelier Program, Princeton, NJ
1997
Artist in Residence Experimental Television Center, Newark Valley, NY
Selected Publications and Reviews
2022
Washington Post review : Recognizing our environmental emergencies
2021
Washington Post review of This Iridescent Era
2015
“Continue the Temporary and it Becomes Forever” International Journal of Zizek Studies, ISSN 1751-8229 Volume Nine, Number One
“Scream at the Economy” w/Floating Lab Collective, Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century, Peter Weibel, editor, MIT Press, pp 578-581
2011
Washington City Paper, “Mark and Master at Studio Gallery” Louis Jacobson 11/04/11
2008
Carl’s Cars Magazine, Interview w/ Marianne Hultman, Director, Oslo Kunstforening,
2004
n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, Volume 13, Domestic Politics issue “Cracking the Domestic: Collaborations among Women Artists,” by Judith Batalion, 11/04
Teaching
2021-present
Professor of Photography, George Mason University, School of Art, Fairfax, VA
2011-2021
Associate Professor of Photography, George Mason University, School of Art, Fairfax, VA
2005-2011
Assistant Professor of Photography, George Mason University, School of Art, Fairfax, VA
2005
Adjunct Professor Photography, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA
1999-00
Adjunct Professor Digital Media, Fordham University, Theatre and Fine Arts Department, NYC, NY
1998-99
Visiting Faculty Photography Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1998
Visiting Instructor Photography Pratt Institute, Media Arts Department, Brooklyn, NY
1996
Instructor of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI,
Education
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, MFA Photography
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, BA English Writing/Poetry