EDUCATION
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the Summer Studio Program,
Virginia Commonwealth University (2013); Full Merit Scholarship
BFA Magna Cum Laude from Virginia Commonwealth University,
Painting and Printmaking Major / Dance and Choreography Minor;
(2009-2013); Outstanding Senior Book Award (2013); Dean’s Honor List (2009 - 2013);
Theresa Pollak Scholarship Award (2012); Academic Achievement Award (2010-2012)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 TBD, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, Texas (forthcoming November)
2020 TBD, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, New York (forthcoming April)
2019 My Shell Makes Itself, 5-50 Gallery, Queens, New York (November)
palms, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, California (March)
2018 in•ti•mate, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse University Visiting Artist and Lecture Series, Syracuse, New York (December)
Partial Shade III: Alligator, Austin, Texas (October)
URNS, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (September)
Issue Two: Devotional, The Church, Troy, NY (August)
Partial Shade II: Finer Feelings, Austin, Texas (May)
Order My Steps, Brooklyn Studio for Dance, Brooklyn, New York (May)
Are We In Sync, Pfizer Building (curated by SVA MA Curatorial Practice Fellows '19), New York, New York (April)
xenomorphs, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, New York (Forthcoming, March)
xoxo, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, Texas ( January)
2017 HELLO GIRLS!, No Vacancy 3 (curated by ALT ESC) , Brooklyn, New York (November)
Summer Vids 3.0, Sadie Halie Projects, Minneapolis, Minnesota (August)
NO NEW FORMS, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, New York (June-September)
MATERIAL WORLD, SPRING/BREAK BKLYN IMMERSIVE, Brooklyn, New York (May)
MUTUAL ORBIT, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, New York (March)
2016 Rules of Attraction, 395 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, New York (July)
2015 Début, ERA VI VII VI, Queens, New York (March)
2013 Body Dirt, The Refrigerator, Richmond, Virginia (June)
FATA MORGANA, VCU Fine Arts Building, Richmond, Virginia (July)
Almost Famous, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (June - July)
Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (April)
Cabinet of Curiosities, Gallery Two Three, Richmond, Virginia (March)
CURATORIAL/COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
Co-Founder | New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Austin, Texas; ETC. | 01/2017 - Present
Co-Founder | Queens, New York | 03/2014 - 01/2016
RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
100W | Corsicana, Texas
LMCC Workspace Residency 2019 Finalist | New York, New York
Queens Art Fund New Work Grant 2019 | Queens, New York
Wassaic Guest Artist Residency | April 2019 | Wassaic, New York
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship | August 2018 | Johnson, Vermont
ASMBLY | Session #1 April/May 2017 | Brooklyn, New York
Wassaic Artist Residency | January 2017 | Wassaic, New York
LECTURE SERIES
MATERIAL GIRLS at Kenyon College, Visiting Artist Lecture Series (forthcoming April 7, 2020)
MATERIAL GIRLS at Syracuse University School of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series, December 6, 2018
COLLECTIONS
Try-me Contemporary Art Collection | Richmond, Virginia
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
Alternative Art Spaces Take On East Texas
(Glasstire, October 12, 2018)
Explain Me: The Spring Break Art Show Part One and Two With Pictures!
(ARTFCITY, March 17, 2018)
(DE:FORMAL, MARCH 14, 2018)
The Best of Spring/Break, the Outré Art Fair in an abandoned Times Square Office Building
(Bedford & Bowery, March 7, 2018)
The Material Girls’ Exhibition xoxo at the Museum of Human Achievement
(Aeqai, February 19, 2018)
(Conflict of Interest, February 8, 2018)
MATERIAL GIRLS: THE COLLECTIVE EXPLORING INTIMACY WITH POWER TOOLS
(PAPER MAGAZINE, January 19, 2018)
An Art Health Spa Opening In New York This Summer
(Galerie Magazine, August 3, 2017)
Exploring a Huge, Glowing, Immersive Warehouse Experience at Frieze Week
(VICE, May 17 2017)
SPRING/BREAK Art Show Trades Labryinthine Rooms for Immersive Installations
(HYPERALLERGIC, May 9, 2017)
SPRING BREAK PRESENTS BKLYN IMMERSIVE
(EYES TOWARDS The DOVE, May 9, 2017)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at Armory Week 2017
(W Magazine, March 3 2017)
A Tour of the 2017 SPRING/BREAK Art Show
(ARTNEWS, March 3 2017)
Scenes of Madness from High Above Times Square at SPRING/BREAK Art Show
(W Magazine, March 1, 2017)
Inside SPRING/BREAK, The Best Armory Week Arts Fair Inside A Times Square Office Building
(gothamist, March 1 2017)
Interview with Linda Rucina and Hilliary Gabryel on their exhibition space ERA VI VII VI in New York
(MyTemplArt, January 15 2015)