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Education

MFA, Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001
Post-Baccalaureate, Art & Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999
BA with Honors, University of Washington, Art History, 1992, cum laude
BA with Honors, University of Washington, German Area Studies, 1992, cum laude

Employment

Senior Project Manager, Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst, Museum Ludwig, 2018–
Docent, Hochschule für Künste, Bremen, Digital Media, 2016–2020
Docent, Fresenius Hochschule, Köln, Animation, 2019–2020
Docent, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Studium Generale, 2016, 2017
Guest Professor, Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall, Digital Media, 09.2004–06.2008
Docent, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Film and Art & Technology, 09.2001–08.2002
Docent, Columbia College, Chicago, Digital Media, 1.2000–08.2002
Docent, Continuing Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Web & Animation, 01.2001–08.2001
Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Film and Art & Technology, 09.1999–06.2001

Film Screenings

Moonlight Short Film Festival / Indy Film Library, Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam / Kurz Filmfestival Oberhausen / Independent Days 21, International Film Festival, Karlsruhe / G Underground Film Festival / Ce l’ho Corto Film Festival (Winner: Best Animation) / Video Art Miden / AXW Festival / Geelong International Film Festival (Winner: Best Animation) / Bilderbeben Filmfestival (Winner: 2 Place) / Yoni Festival / Human Resources, Los Angeles / Llawn Festival / AnimaSyros Animation Festival / 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival / Loop Festival, Barcelona / Trampoline Urban Screens: BBC Screens; Glastonbury Festival; Melbourne City Center; Nottingham; Tokyo / University of Chicago / 20th Instants Video Festival, Aix-en- Provence, France / Némo: International Biennial of Digital Arts, Paris / Iota Center, UCLA, Los Angeles / Director‘s Lounge, Berlin / University of Chicago, Film Studies Center / Watch This Space, Baltimore / Versionfest 07, LiveBox Gallery, Chicago / Women‘s Film Festival, San Diego- Installation / Directors Lounge, Forming Motion II, IF Museum, Poznan, Poland / Darklight Festival, Dublin / Trampoline, Dislocate Exhibition, Tokyo / Camera Obscura, Darlington, Australia / Summer Edition, Independent Exposure, San Francisco / Directors Lounge, Forming Motion: Animation, Berlin / Independent Exposure, San Francisco and Houston / Trampoline, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, England / Underwater Films, Film Museum, Potsdam, Germany / SHowcase Film Festival, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany / Island Art Film Festival, London / Animation Festival, Pacific Switchboard, Portland, Oregon / Anti-spacesuit, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago / Animation Collection, Texas Gallery, Chicago / Experimental Chicago Cinema, Arsensal Film Center, Berlin / H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland / Bill Cosford Cinema, University of Miami / Artspace, Billings, Montana / Sparwasser, Berlin / Kuehleraume, kuehle raume, Torstrasse 111, Berlin / Animation Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago / Madurai Collective, Madurai, India / Combustive Art Center, Brooklyn, NY / In and Out of Control,Manchester Metropolitan University, England / THAW Film & Video Festival, Iowa / Multimedia Microcinema, Skopie, Macedonia / World Microcinema, Out North Contemporary Art House, Alaska / Athens International Film Festival, Athens, Ohio / Chicago - Moscow Film Exchange, Moscow, Russia / Independent Exposure, Henegelo, Netherlands / Ladyfest Midwest, Chicago / Sizzling Summer Festival, Seattle / All Experimental/ All Animation, Ann Arbor, Michigan / Heaven Gallery, Chicago / Project 101, Paris, France / Barcelona Independent Film and Video Festival / Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, Netherlands / Utazu Town, Utazu, Japan / Spareroom, Chicago / Independent Exposure, Seattle

Solo or Duo Exhibitions

2024 Seattle Art Fair lecture and exhibition with Sara Moriyasu at the Grocery Studios
2024 Film Installation at Club Eigelstein for the exhibition Komplimente by Thyra Schmidt, curated by Anne Schülke
2021 Carried Landscapes- curated conceptual exhibition at the Quartier am Hafen with over 60 artists
2020 Solo Film Presentation, Directors Lounge, Berlin
2019 Spaces real or imagined, Q18 Galerie, Cologne
2017 Lines divided…, with Lars Kreyßig, Q18 Galerie, Cologne
2017 Solo Film Presentation, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
2016 Conquering Place with Jennifer Hope Davy, Q18 Galerie, Cologne

Group Exhibitions

Human Resources, Los Angeles / Art Piq Showroom, Susanne Neuberg Gallery Duesseldorf / Wasser, Bethlehem Kirche, Meerbusch / Schaufenster, Berlin / KUNSTHALLE, Weißensee, Berlin / Mentoring Program Exhibition, Universität der Künste, Berlin / Köln um halb acht, Temporary Gallery, Köln / Kreuzberg Pavilion, Berlin / Bronx Art Space, New York / Surface Tension: the Museum, Kitchener, Canada; World Science Festival, Eyebeam, New York; Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin / Newton Art Center, Massachusetts / Museum of New Art, Detroit / Tracing Mobility, Haus der Kultur der Welt, Berlin / Temporary Space, Houston / Gallery 801, New York / Boot’s Contemporary Arts Space, St. Louis / Post-Cinema, RMIT University, Melbourne / Arizona Museum for Youth, Tucson / Platform Animation Festival, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts, Portland / Miami Art Fair, LiveBox Gallery /Nova Art Fair, LiveBox Gallery, Chicago / Figures of Motion, Schloss Plüschow, Berlin / Unstrung, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Australia / Points of View, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia / University of Applied Arts, seque/überläppen, Schwäbisch Hall / Environmental Excursions, Artware, curator Jennifer Davy, San Antonio, Texas / European Environmental Excursions, Subspace Gallery, Berlin / Utopia- U Build It, Rocketshop Gallery, Berlin / Deutsche-Amerikanische Freundschaft, Subspace Gallery, Berlin / Project Room, White Columns, New York / Bricolage, Ruldolf Projects, Houston / Hobby Lobby, Gallery 312, Chicago / Blue Collar- Blue Blooded, Heaven Gallery, Chicago / transpoly blu, Elliot Smith Gallery, curator Sabina Ott, St. Louis / Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute, Chicago / MFA Exhibition, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute, Chicago / Multiples, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago / Bliss-Collaborations, Inside Art, Chicago / New Artists Exhibition, Refuse Salon, San Francisco / Nirvana: Capitalism and the Consumed Image, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle

Curated Screenings

Wild at Heart, Animated Film Screening, Directors Lounge, Berlin, 2014
Liminal Loopholes, Experimental Film Screening, Directors Lounge, Berlin, 2011
Monumental, Experimental Film Screening, Directors Lounge, Berlin, 2008
Animate Locate, Animated Film Screening, Directors Lounge, Berlin, 2007
Forming Motion, Animated Film Screening, Directors Lounge, Berlin, 2006
Environmental Excursion, exhibition with Jennifer Davy, Subspace, Berlin, 2004
Dusk, exhibition with De Kwok, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, 1999
Zinefest II- with Jeremy Eaton, Seattle Center, Arts Edge Festival, 1998
Deep Space Electronica- night of sound with Roland Barker, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, 1998
Zinefest I- with Jeremy Eaton, Seattle Center, Arts Edge Festival, 1998- Self-publishing and Fantagraphics Comic artists

Awards and Honors

2023 Medien- und Filmstiftung NRW, Low Budget Förderung (20.000 Euro)
2020–25 Städtische Atelier / City Studio, Kulturamt, Köln
2020 Mikrostipendium, Frauenkulturbüro NRW
2019 Best Animation, Geelong Intl' Film Festival, Australia
2019 Second Place, Bilderbeben Film Festival, Bielefeld, Germany
2016 Städtische Atelier / City Studio, Kulturamt, Köln
2016 Kultur und Schule, Film und Neue Medien, NRW
2015 Mentoringprogramm, Universität der Künste, Berlin
2012 Artists with Children, 5000 Euro Grant, Frauenkultur Büro & Ministry of Culture, NRW, Germany
2007 1. Preise, Flik International Festival of Moving Images
2005 Nominee, Rockefeller Film & Video Grant
2001 Albert Murray Fellowship
1998 Post-Baccalaureate Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1992 Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society

Publications

2021 Positioned in Space, artist book
2020 GRUND, A collection of fundamental exercises and approaches in art education, curated by Prof. Susanne Lorenz, UdK Berlin
2019 Wasser, exhibition catalogue
2013 Almost There, artist book
2013 Back to Paradise, exhibition catalogue
2005 Unstrung, exhibition catalogue, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Australia
2004 Three Acres on the Lake, by A. Laurie Palmer, Half Letter Press
2001, MFA exhibition catalogue, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2000 Bliss, exhibition catalogue

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