Education
1994 Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, University of California, Santa Barbara
1991 Bachelor of Arts with Honors, University of California, Santa Barbara
Exhibitions, Installations, Performances & Collaborative Works
2018
from here to there, from then to now, Experimental/hybrid film, performance, installation and dérive, in collaboration with Joan Giroux.
2017
kaleidoscope of influences, Site-specific installation, in collaboration with Joan Giroux & Whitney Huber, Terrain Biennial, Chicago, Illinois.
caring shifts/shifting cares, Site-specific performance in collaboration with Joan Giroux, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2015-16
Tidings of Light, Fresh Winds International Art Biennale, Iceland.
Tidings of Site/Sight, Fresh Winds International Art Biennale, Iceland.
2014
Home Show, Telios, Santa Barbara, California.
2013
Eye See, Gallery 27 at Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, California.
2012
Just one more thing…, Site-specific performance, for one sandpile within hearing distance, at Terrain, Chicago, Illinois.
One Night Stand, Gallery 27 at Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.
2011
Navigating Ways, Site-specific installation, in collaboration with Joan Giroux, The Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
BattleCoat, International collaborative project with Joni Cornell for Felt United, Traveling exhibition, Australia, Israel, USA.
2010
why, self-portrait in neon, Artist’s Response: Portraits and Self-Portraits, San Francisco, CA.
2009-10
Dis/Believer: Intersections of Science and Religion in Contemporary Art, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2009
Three Women, Individual and collaborative works including: site-specific installation, interactive sculpture, video and discrete objects. Exhibition curated in collaboration with Joan Giroux & Whitney Huber, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, New York.
2007
Jasmine in Winter, Site-specific installation and performance series, in collaboration with Joan Giroux, for Vogelfrei7, Darmstadt, Germany.
A Winter Night’s Dream, 2nd Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, Chicago, Illinois.
The Dragonfly’s Eye, Site-specific installation and international performance series, for NaturKunst Forum, Licherode, Germany.
Erleuchtung, Site-specific installation, for KunstHalt, Compassionate Action Enterprises (CAE) collaborative project with artist Joan Giroux, Bebra, Germany.
Inclined to Suppose, Site-specific installation in collaboration with Joan Giroux and Whitney Huber Lazar, A+D Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2006
Voices, Echoes, Reflections, Site-specific installation for Forest, Art, Path, Laboratory, in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Kaftori and Joan Giroux, Darmstadt, Germany.
i am for/we are for…, Compassionate Action Enterprises (CAE) collaborative project with artist Joan Giroux and students from the New York City Vocational Educational Center, Brooklyn, New York.
2005
Visions About Nature, Compassionate Action Enterprises (CAE) collaborative project with artist Joan Giroux, Chungcheonnamdo Nature Art Museum, traveling to Pusan and Suwon, South Korea.
Ubuntu Offering, CAE collaborative action with Joan Giroux, New York, New York.
2004
Pourquoi, Site-specific performance, 13001 Frioul, Marseille, France.
When You Listen Very Carefully, CAE collaborative action with Joan Giroux, Marseille, France.
Observance, Interactive performance/installation (multimedia), Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, South Korea.
2003
Secrets that We Keep, Interactive installation (multimedia), Shemesh Gallery, Israel.
Verborgen (Hidden), Site-specific installation, The Foyer, Neuenkirchen, Germany.
2002
Conversations with Stones, Performance series, Jezreel Valley, Israel.
Some Stones that Won’t Be Thrown, Performance/Compassionate Action, Tivon, Israel.
2001
“San Nomo San Itta,”(“Over the Mountains, More Mountains”) CAE collaborative site-specific performance/compassionate action in collaboration with Joan Giroux, for: Nature, The Environment, and Humanity through Art – International Art Symposium, Gongju, South Korea.
Desde el azul, lo sagrado,(From the blue, the sacred)Site-specific installation at El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, Republic of Chile.
Aún Pequeños, (Still Small) Site-specific installation. El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile.
2000 Mitos de Los Tiempos Modernos, Imagen y Realidad, 3 Site-specific installations and 2 performances at the Ex Cárcel Publica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
Traces in the Woods, Site-specific installation/performance, Yokohama International Open Air Art Exhibition, Dobutsu-no-Mori Park, Yokohama, Japan.
Gingko Leaves Falling, CAE collaborative performance with Joan Giroux, Yokohama, Japan.
Spinning on Uncertain Ground, Site-specific installation in collaboration with artist Sophia Isajiw, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, California.
Swaddling, Performative interaction, Nurture and Surrender Series. Performed internationally (ongoing).
1999
Trace, Site-specific installation, Lake Naguri International Open Air Art Exhibition, Saitama-Ken, Japan.
Offering, Site-specific installation, Abiko Open Air Exhibition ’99, Abiko, Japan.
Some Stones that Won’t Be Thrown, a compassionate action. National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, Phoenix, Arizona.
Reflections, In the Valley of Silence, Performance and site-specific installation, Reflections International Sculpture Symposium, Nida, Lithuania.
Eve’s Tattoo, Multimedia installation, in collaboration with artists Dena Hawes and Francisco Felipe. Pavilion of Fine Arts Gallery, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland.
1998
Eve, A True Story, Multimedia installation, in collaboration with artists Dena Hawes and Francisco Felipe, Gallery of Art and Design, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
Pa Fasil and Tiptoe, 2 Site-specific installations for: Escale á La Maison Creole, An Exhibition by International Artists, in Residence at the Batterie de I’Harmonie, Republic of Mauritius.
1997
Glimpse, Photographic installation, Touched by Time Exhibition, Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, California.
1997-03
The Surrender Walk, An international collaborative project, beginning on Earth Day 1997 (ongoing). To date walks have taken place in Canada, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Spain, and the United States. Presented at the Mythos Symposium in Nida, Lithuania.
1995
Secrets that We Keep, Interactive installation, Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
Liminal, A Memorial for Two Women, Santa Barbara Coastal Project Public Art Event, Santa Barbara, California.
The Tale of the Kite, Santa Barbara Coastal Project Public Art Event, in collaboration with students from Monroe Elementary School and the Goleta Boys and Girls Club.
1994
In the Presence of Absence, Installation in collaboration with artist María Velasco, Ridley-Tree Education Center Exhibition; cosponsored by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the UCSB Art Affiliates, Ridley-Tree Education Center of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art at McCormick House, Santa Barbara, California.
RSVP, Fluxus Mail Art Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Transplanting, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara Installation in collaboration with artist Kathryn McWilliams.
1993
Awake, Personal Histories: Aids in the Tri-Counties, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California.
The Coastal Project 1988-1993, A Retrospective, College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Time in a Bottle, The Coastal Project, Santa Barbara. Interactive collaboration with artist Kathryn McWilliams.
The Cradle and Other Beginnings, from the Nurture and Surrender Series, Master of Fine Arts First Year Exhibition, Gallery 1434 and University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1992
Defined, Performance/installation, in collaboration with artist Maria Velasco, The Mezzanine, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.
The Quilt, Window on Aids Project, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California.
Articles, Books, and Reviews
2005 Visions About Nature, Doris Cordes-Vollert, exhibition catalog, illustrations p.35.
2005 T.R.O.U. No. 30, Special Edition: 13001 Frioul, illustration p.28.
2004 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2004, Hildegard Kurt, Ph.D., exhibition catalog, illustrations p.98-99.
2003 Childhood: Remembering Things Past, Sylvina Zander, catalog, illustration p.40.
2003 Sprüche Paradenhandtüchern stellen Fragen, Norddeutsche Rundschaunald, October 24, 2003.
2000 Asia no mori kara, Katsuaki Kimura and Takeshi Kanazawa, exhibition catalog.
2000 From the Buds of Small Grass, exhibition catalog, illustrations.
2000 “Spinning on Uncertain Ground,” George MacDonald, Turlock Journal, September 23, 2000.
1998 “Artistes en liberté,” Shenaz Patel, Weekend, 11 janvier, 1998, illustrations p.33.
1998 “Escale:I’art en harmonie,” Nazim Esoof, Le Mauricien, 10 janvier, 1998.
1997 “Surrender Walk,” event set to draw attention to Earth Day,” Nikki Patrick, The Morning Sun, Pittsburg, Kansas, April 19, 1997.
1997 FLASH Collective, “The Surrender Walk, An Ongoing International Event,” COPRED Peace Chronicle (Chronicle of the Consortium for Peace, Research and Educational Development, Washington, DC, November, 1997, illustrations p.7.
1995. “Time Capsule, A Concise Encyclopedia” by Women Artists, Robin Kahn, Creative Time, Inc. – in cooperation with SOS Int’l. illustration p.570.
1994 “Of longing, devotion, frustration, sadness and even romance.” Joan Crowder, Santa Barbara News Press, October 18, 1994, illustration.
1994 “The Graduate.” Michael Darling, Santa Barbara News Press, April 29, 1994: Scene
1994 “Masters.” Judith Calander, The Santa Barbara Independent, May 19-26, 1994.
1993 “Coastal Project Animates Beach.” Dena Hawes, The Santa Barbara Independent, September 23-30,1993.
Honors
2004 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2004 International Artist Production Grant
2004 Israeli Foreign Ministry, Department of Culture and Science, Artist Grant
2001. YATOO (Korean Nature Artists Association) International Artist Production Grant
2000. Yokohama International Open Air Art Exhibition Artist Production Grant
1999. Abiko Open Air Exhibition Artist Production Grant
1999 NCPCR Scholarship
1994 Abrams Prize
1994 University of California Graduate Student Award Exhibition
1993 William Dole Memorial Graduate Fellowship
1992 William Dole Memorial Graduate Fellowship
1991 Bachelor of Arts, with Honors. University of California, Santa Barbara