Born in 1984 in Miami, Florida; lives and works in Miami, Florida.
EDUCATION
2007
BFA, Florida International University, Miami, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Precipice Post Modem, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2012
EraseyPage, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
2011
Love Trips, World Class Boxing, Miami, FL
Family Matters, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
This and That: Unconventional Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
UNPACKED (S)ML SUITECASE, curated by Inez Suen, Shanghai; Beijing, China
Aesthetics & Values, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Rockland Shorts: An International Short Film Series, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
2011
Cintas Finalists Exhibition, Freedom Tower, Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL
Optic Nerve XIII, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
Intimate Civic and Everyday Explorers, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Amid Street Noise: Short Films on the Peck Terrace, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
Sum of the Parts, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Fighting, Kissing, Dancing, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
All-Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
All-Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
VOXELVISION 1.0. Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Fighting, Kissing, Dancing, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
Youtube Play Creative Video Biennial, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
INDUSTRIAL 59, National Center for Contemporary Art, Russia
Optic Nerve XXI, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
DCG Open, David Castillo Gallery
Beuys Birthday, t.a.t.e. modern München, Munich, Germany
Open Art Festival Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Mrs. Ms, The Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts, Miami, FL
2009
J-Lep, Roy & Edna Disney/Red Cat, Los Angeles, CA
New Works, 20/20 Gallery, Miami, FL
Digital Analog 2, Miami Beach Library, FL
Take Out Show, Brevard Art Museum, FL
Cutter 2, SFcameraworks, San Francisco, CA
Confections, OHWOW, Miami, FL
2008
Cutter, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Camposition,The Field, Jose Marti Building, Miami, FL
Femi-Nazi, La Cueva Projects/Black Mangrove Collective, Miami, FL
2007
FIU BFA ART Show, Frost Museum, Miami, FL
Visual Aids, Savacou Gallery, New York. NY
No Need to Touch, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Young at Art Children's Museum, Davie, Florida
Dennis & Debra Scholl, Miami, Florida
Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES
2013
Elsewhere as a NEA Southern Constellation Fellowship
Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship, Berne, Switzerland
#PostModem, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
2011-2012
Legal Art Artist Residency, Miami, FL
2011
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
2009
Here & Now Festival Experimental Theatre Commission, Miami Light Project, FL
2007
Betty Laird Perry Museum Purchase Award, The Patricia & Philip Frost Museum, Miami, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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"Having a Moment: Short and Sweet," W Magazine, January 2011
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