EDUCATION:
2006 BFA Sculpture with Distinction, California College of the Arts
2001-2004 City College of San Francisco, metal arts and sculpture
1993-1995 Academy of Art College, Illustration
GRANTS/AWARDS:
2008 Collective Grant from Provisions Library to work with the Beehive Design Collective on a large-scale poster telling the story of coal
2004-2006 Faculty Honors Award, California College of the Arts
2005 All-College Honors, Undergraduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts
2005 “Artistic Justice”: group grant awarded by the Center for Art and Public Life to lead art workshops with the School of Art and Open Studio of Perquin, El Salvador
2004 “Work of Distinction,” New Student Exhibition, California College of the Arts
PUBLIC PROJECTS/EVENTS:
2006 Mission District Scavenger Hunt, San Francisco, CA (organizer)
2005-2006 MUNI Royale, improving the bus-riding experience, San Francisco, CA
2004-2005 Team Craft-Off!, First and Second Annual, San Francisco, CA (organizer)
2004 Corporate Octopus, Republican National Convention, New York City, NY
2004 Consent Bunny, unauthorized performance, Homo-A-Gogo Festival, Olympia, WA
2002-2004 Collaborative street redecorations, advertising corrections, and traffic redirections using spraypaint, wheatpaste, bedsheets, food dye, ladders, and/or large appliances, San Francisco, CA
2002 Auntie Apocalypse’s Valentine’s Day Antidote and Underground Screening, 16th Street Caltrain tunnel, San Francisco, CA (co-organizer)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006 Twitch, North Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2006 Union, A21 Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009
Oh Kaos, Flood Gallery, Asheville, NC
2006
Post-Postcard, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Instant Art Show, vacant city lot, San Francisco, CA
Baccalaureate Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Chain Reaction, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2005
All-College Honors Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Rebeldes Unidos Presents..., El Balazo 18 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Black Market Art Auction, Hayes Valley Market, San Francisco, CA
Best of Junior Review, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Critical Wet Ware, Media Arts Department, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Carefully Analyzed Crackpotism, campus-wide exhibition, California College of the Arts
2004
Art and Activism, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
New Student Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Bad Attitude, Black and Blue Tattoo, San Francisco, CA
2003
Art Propaganda War, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Anti-Capitalist Fashion Show, abandoned warehouse, San Francisco, CA
Waiting to Happen, The Lexington Club, San Francisco, CA
Making Home, Black and Blue Tattoo, San Francisco, CA
ART-RELATED EXPERIENCE:
2007-present Collaborator, Beehive Design Collective. Various locations
2006-2008 Co-Art Director for Maggots and Men, an experimental film. San Francisco, CA
1998-present Custom Tattoo Artist. Various locations
1995-2004 Illustrator for eight feminist sex education books (various publishers)
2003 Puppeteer & sound tech, A Little Puppet Show with Music, Oakland Noodle Factory, Oakland
2003 Volunteer and sound tech, PuppetLove! Festival, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2000 Lighting tech and gopher for the feature film By Hook or By Crook, San Francisco, CA
1997 Program book and promotions designer, MIX: The Experimental Gay and Lesbian Film
Festival, New York City, NY
