Some experiences and info might belong here--especially the stuff about being an artist? I'm still working on that. So, some things might be out of place. But here are a few roles, responsibilities, and things I’ve done.
EDUCATION (the formal kind)
2018 -19
Postgraduate Fellow. Duke University. Durham, NC.
2015
Master of Fine Arts. Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI.
[a concentrated period of unmaking, making, talking about making, reading about making, and a lot of writing about making. I even wrote a textbook, sort of.]
(briefly)
Harvard.
[Took some business courses. Motivated me to get better at art instead.]
1999
Bachelor of Arts. Brown University, Providence, RI.
[Studied history and other things too. Was constantly asked, what are your doing here. I still managed to graduate. I think my degree is in my sister's garage in a box. That would be the 2nd or 3rd garage it's been stored in.]
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(this is not everything. this is just the visible past, arranged as best as I can remember. some of it was solo, most of it was shared.)
2025
A Penny in Your Pocket, Arrowmont Gallery. Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Knoxville, TN
Removable Lives, Artist Studio Building, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Transition of Power, 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA
Multiple Formats, Contemporary Art Book Fair. Boston University, Brookline, MA
2024
Everything Leaves A Mark, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Queerphoria, Vol. 4: Connection (virtual), Urban Glass Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Hold Me Harder, Project Room, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Grey Areas, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
As Luck Would Have It, 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA
2022
Artists in the Archives: Community, History & Collage, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
Re-imagining Relations, Time & Place Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Captured Image, Chateau Gallery, Louisville, KY
2021
Some Assembly Required, Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
The Future is Queer, University of Tennessee: Remote Contact Symposium, Knoxville, TN
2019
Floating Legacy, This Human World, Vienna, AT
Reach for the Earth to Touch the Sky, Brashnar Creative Project, Skopje, MK
2018
Very Good Looking, Fredric Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC (solo)
2015
Introduction to Queer Algorithms, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI (solo)
Note: I left out a few years. I didn’t make much work after my grandmother passed away in my final semester of grad school. Everyone says “life keeps going” while you study—but mine sort of paused. I had to put art down to pick myself up. That story doesn’t show up in a line item, but it’s part of the work.
SELECTED PROJECTS & PERFORMANCES
(works in progress, works in conversation, works with other people. many of these are still unfolding. some have no final form, just questions that keep changing.)
2025
Storytime: Removable Lives
A collaboration with Magda Leon, this performance centers anonymous personal narratives around immigration and border crossings. Told through masks, costumes, stage, and personal stories. Includes artifacts, documentation, and an artist book. (on-going)
When You See Unusual Missed Fortune
A research-led inquiry into the hidden value of discarded money. Combines accumulations, photography, installation, and print-based interventions. Also known as “the penny project.” (on-going)
2024
Pink Period
Collaborative project with Naijah Garrett. Investigating queer representation through performance, gossip, and printed matter. Features a ‘zine-in-progress and performances in informal settings. (on-going)
2021
Group Crit
A structured virtual space for BBIPOC artists to receive feedback, exchange ideas, and explore professional questions without institutional surveillance. Hosted online, with a focus on care, transparency, and the practice of showing up. (hosted through BBIPOC Artists in Collective Liberation)
SELECTED LECTURES & PERFORMANCES AS AUTHOR
(words spoken, performed, or printed)
2025
Transition of Power: Conversation with the Artists
Panel discussion on appearance, authority, and narrative gaps. 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA. (panel)
2024
Artist at Work
Public performance within open studio context. Artist Studio Building, Boston Center for the Arts. (performance)
2023
Cashing Out
Performance exploring value, abstraction, and financial precarity. 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA. (performance)
Time Capsule: Adult
Artist publication in The Mobile Library, vol. 3 issue 3. Aerogramme Center for Arts and Culture, Brooklyn, NY. (publication)
Officially Yours
Artist talk for MFA Major Studio. Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA. (talk)
2020
One Day I Will Forget You: Looking at Porn
Essay on memory, erasure, and desire. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Duke University Press. (publication)
2019
Take Your Medicine
Published essay on aestheticized medical narratives and Latinx identity. Cultural Dynamics, SAGE Publications. (publication)
SELECTED RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
(Residencies [temporary relocations] have offered ways to unstick the gears, to think beside others, or to reset. I lived in Eastern Europe for a bit, in an arthouse and working on a farm. Sometimes that’s what you need to do to change--sometimes it’s about undoing pace. I’ve leaned on them to test forms of engagement, return to practice, or simply hold a different kind of time and thought.)
2022–2025
Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency Program — Boston, MA
Multi-year studio residency supporting ongoing projects in performance, installation, and pedagogical practice. Work developed during this time includes Storytime: Removable Lives, Missed Fortune, and further development of the 14th Floor. I started making jewelry again too.
2024
Node Center for Curatorial Studies — Berlin, DE [online]
A string of workshops over two years, each one sharpening a different curatorial tool: virtual exhibitions, learning how to make social media less of a chore (and more like an artist building something with intention), writing about art without freezing up. There was one on queer curating that reminded me how much I prefer the side-door entry into systems.
2023–2024
Center of Study & Investigation for Decolonial Dialogues — Barcelona, ES
Participated in Decolonizing Knowledge & Power and Postcolonial Studies: Decolonial Horizons intensive seminars, engaging with global scholars on postcolonial frameworks in theory and maintain academic rigor and currency in my practice.
2021
Assets for Artists – MASS MoCA — North Adams, MA
Selected for the Applying Collective Liberation for BIPOC Artists program, focused on professional development through a social justice lens.
2019
School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe — Berlin, DE
Residency, Evidence: Citizens Taking Action, introduce to investigative research, mapping, and social design to respond to urgent political conditions through artistic tools. [it was my Homeland moment—the season in Berlin]
2018–2019
Duke University, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South — Durham, NC
Residency exploring Latinx identity, cultural production, visual research, and pedagogical frameworks. I explored “reading” as a studio material.
PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE [aka critique, supervising, & teaching]
(I’ve advised upto 13 MFA theses per year, in programs where the artists span 2D, 3D, photography, and film/video. I bring intellectual rigor and practical acumen, but I also lean into the weird logic of studio thinking. Teaching, for me, has never been safe or secondary. It’s high stakes because it’s about a student’s future. To that end, I configure the classroom as a collaborative space for experimentation, trial and error, and for embodying of the artist that the learner wants to be. Instruction, encouragement, critique and evaluation are all in service of that, of productively pushing and safely holding space.)
2025
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art & Design — Boston, MA [NTT]
Graduate Seminar II (Professional Practices & Thesis Preparation)
— Advised 13 MFA students in their final year; focused on scaffolding each student’s arc of thought, writing, and making.
Guest Critic, Spring Graduate Walkthroughs — Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Visiting Critic, The Flower Shop Art Studio — Brownsville, TX
2024
Instructor, Wentworth Institute of Technology — Boston, MA
Contemporary Art and Theory
Guest Critic, Boston University, College of Fine Arts — Brookline, MA
Guest Critic, Spring Graduate Walkthroughs — Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2023–2024
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art & Design — Boston, MA [NTT]
Graduate Seminar II & MFA Major Studio (2D, 3D, Photography, Film/Video)
— Advised 13 MFA students in their final year; focused on scaffolding each student’s arc of thought, writing, and making..
2023
Internship Supervisor, Art Education — Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Guest Critic, Massachusetts College of Art & Design — Boston, MA
Guest Critic, Boston University, College of Fine Arts — Brookline, MA
2018–2019
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University — Durham, NC
At Arm’s Length: The Selfie and Self-Representation (First-year seminar)
Making the Future (Capstone seminar)
— Courses cross-listed with Latino/a Studies, Literature, and Visual Studies; focused on visual culture, identity, and futurity as sites of critical inquiry.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
[kinda relevant non-studio work, in random order, but does it matter]
McGraw-Hill (editorial interned; fact-checking, footnotes, and cold calling to book reviewers)
NASA (reorganizing maps, cataloging maps, responding to requests for maps for; probably saved a satellite)
Liberty Mutual (competitive intelligence & strategies manager; yes, that was the actual title; yes, it was as odd as it sounds but the money and benefits were good)
Northeastern University (project coordinator; reports, writing, and more reports; once briefed a Navy admiral)
Temp (all kinds of things for all kinds of places. it’s humbling work. it’s office work. and i’ve made it some of my creative work.)
I used to think this page had to prove something.
Now I think it might just tell you where I’ve been—and maybe show you how I got there.
EDUCATION (the formal kind)
2018 -19
Postgraduate Fellow. Duke University. Durham, NC.
2015
Master of Fine Arts. Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI.
[a concentrated period of unmaking, making, talking about making, reading about making, and a lot of writing about making. I even wrote a textbook, sort of.]
(briefly)
Harvard.
[Took some business courses. Motivated me to get better at art instead.]
1999
Bachelor of Arts. Brown University, Providence, RI.
[Studied history and other things too. Was constantly asked, what are your doing here. I still managed to graduate. I think my degree is in my sister's garage in a box. That would be the 2nd or 3rd garage it's been stored in.]
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(this is not everything. this is just the visible past, arranged as best as I can remember. some of it was solo, most of it was shared.)
2025
A Penny in Your Pocket, Arrowmont Gallery. Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Knoxville, TN
Removable Lives, Artist Studio Building, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Transition of Power, 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA
Multiple Formats, Contemporary Art Book Fair. Boston University, Brookline, MA
2024
Everything Leaves A Mark, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Queerphoria, Vol. 4: Connection (virtual), Urban Glass Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Hold Me Harder, Project Room, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Grey Areas, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
As Luck Would Have It, 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA
2022
Artists in the Archives: Community, History & Collage, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
Re-imagining Relations, Time & Place Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Captured Image, Chateau Gallery, Louisville, KY
2021
Some Assembly Required, Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
The Future is Queer, University of Tennessee: Remote Contact Symposium, Knoxville, TN
2019
Floating Legacy, This Human World, Vienna, AT
Reach for the Earth to Touch the Sky, Brashnar Creative Project, Skopje, MK
2018
Very Good Looking, Fredric Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC (solo)
2015
Introduction to Queer Algorithms, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI (solo)
Note: I left out a few years. I didn’t make much work after my grandmother passed away in my final semester of grad school. Everyone says “life keeps going” while you study—but mine sort of paused. I had to put art down to pick myself up. That story doesn’t show up in a line item, but it’s part of the work.
SELECTED PROJECTS & PERFORMANCES
(works in progress, works in conversation, works with other people. many of these are still unfolding. some have no final form, just questions that keep changing.)
2025
Storytime: Removable Lives
A collaboration with Magda Leon, this performance centers anonymous personal narratives around immigration and border crossings. Told through masks, costumes, stage, and personal stories. Includes artifacts, documentation, and an artist book. (on-going)
When You See Unusual Missed Fortune
A research-led inquiry into the hidden value of discarded money. Combines accumulations, photography, installation, and print-based interventions. Also known as “the penny project.” (on-going)
2024
Pink Period
Collaborative project with Naijah Garrett. Investigating queer representation through performance, gossip, and printed matter. Features a ‘zine-in-progress and performances in informal settings. (on-going)
2021
Group Crit
A structured virtual space for BBIPOC artists to receive feedback, exchange ideas, and explore professional questions without institutional surveillance. Hosted online, with a focus on care, transparency, and the practice of showing up. (hosted through BBIPOC Artists in Collective Liberation)
SELECTED LECTURES & PERFORMANCES AS AUTHOR
(words spoken, performed, or printed)
2025
Transition of Power: Conversation with the Artists
Panel discussion on appearance, authority, and narrative gaps. 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA. (panel)
2024
Artist at Work
Public performance within open studio context. Artist Studio Building, Boston Center for the Arts. (performance)
2023
Cashing Out
Performance exploring value, abstraction, and financial precarity. 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA. (performance)
Time Capsule: Adult
Artist publication in The Mobile Library, vol. 3 issue 3. Aerogramme Center for Arts and Culture, Brooklyn, NY. (publication)
Officially Yours
Artist talk for MFA Major Studio. Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA. (talk)
2020
One Day I Will Forget You: Looking at Porn
Essay on memory, erasure, and desire. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Duke University Press. (publication)
2019
Take Your Medicine
Published essay on aestheticized medical narratives and Latinx identity. Cultural Dynamics, SAGE Publications. (publication)
SELECTED RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
(Residencies [temporary relocations] have offered ways to unstick the gears, to think beside others, or to reset. I lived in Eastern Europe for a bit, in an arthouse and working on a farm. Sometimes that’s what you need to do to change--sometimes it’s about undoing pace. I’ve leaned on them to test forms of engagement, return to practice, or simply hold a different kind of time and thought.)
2022–2025
Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency Program — Boston, MA
Multi-year studio residency supporting ongoing projects in performance, installation, and pedagogical practice. Work developed during this time includes Storytime: Removable Lives, Missed Fortune, and further development of the 14th Floor. I started making jewelry again too.
2024
Node Center for Curatorial Studies — Berlin, DE [online]
A string of workshops over two years, each one sharpening a different curatorial tool: virtual exhibitions, learning how to make social media less of a chore (and more like an artist building something with intention), writing about art without freezing up. There was one on queer curating that reminded me how much I prefer the side-door entry into systems.
2023–2024
Center of Study & Investigation for Decolonial Dialogues — Barcelona, ES
Participated in Decolonizing Knowledge & Power and Postcolonial Studies: Decolonial Horizons intensive seminars, engaging with global scholars on postcolonial frameworks in theory and maintain academic rigor and currency in my practice.
2021
Assets for Artists – MASS MoCA — North Adams, MA
Selected for the Applying Collective Liberation for BIPOC Artists program, focused on professional development through a social justice lens.
2019
School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe — Berlin, DE
Residency, Evidence: Citizens Taking Action, introduce to investigative research, mapping, and social design to respond to urgent political conditions through artistic tools. [it was my Homeland moment—the season in Berlin]
2018–2019
Duke University, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South — Durham, NC
Residency exploring Latinx identity, cultural production, visual research, and pedagogical frameworks. I explored “reading” as a studio material.
PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE [aka critique, supervising, & teaching]
(I’ve advised upto 13 MFA theses per year, in programs where the artists span 2D, 3D, photography, and film/video. I bring intellectual rigor and practical acumen, but I also lean into the weird logic of studio thinking. Teaching, for me, has never been safe or secondary. It’s high stakes because it’s about a student’s future. To that end, I configure the classroom as a collaborative space for experimentation, trial and error, and for embodying of the artist that the learner wants to be. Instruction, encouragement, critique and evaluation are all in service of that, of productively pushing and safely holding space.)
2025
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art & Design — Boston, MA [NTT]
Graduate Seminar II (Professional Practices & Thesis Preparation)
— Advised 13 MFA students in their final year; focused on scaffolding each student’s arc of thought, writing, and making.
Guest Critic, Spring Graduate Walkthroughs — Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Visiting Critic, The Flower Shop Art Studio — Brownsville, TX
2024
Instructor, Wentworth Institute of Technology — Boston, MA
Contemporary Art and Theory
Guest Critic, Boston University, College of Fine Arts — Brookline, MA
Guest Critic, Spring Graduate Walkthroughs — Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2023–2024
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art & Design — Boston, MA [NTT]
Graduate Seminar II & MFA Major Studio (2D, 3D, Photography, Film/Video)
— Advised 13 MFA students in their final year; focused on scaffolding each student’s arc of thought, writing, and making..
2023
Internship Supervisor, Art Education — Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Guest Critic, Massachusetts College of Art & Design — Boston, MA
Guest Critic, Boston University, College of Fine Arts — Brookline, MA
2018–2019
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University — Durham, NC
At Arm’s Length: The Selfie and Self-Representation (First-year seminar)
Making the Future (Capstone seminar)
— Courses cross-listed with Latino/a Studies, Literature, and Visual Studies; focused on visual culture, identity, and futurity as sites of critical inquiry.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
[kinda relevant non-studio work, in random order, but does it matter]
McGraw-Hill (editorial interned; fact-checking, footnotes, and cold calling to book reviewers)
NASA (reorganizing maps, cataloging maps, responding to requests for maps for; probably saved a satellite)
Liberty Mutual (competitive intelligence & strategies manager; yes, that was the actual title; yes, it was as odd as it sounds but the money and benefits were good)
Northeastern University (project coordinator; reports, writing, and more reports; once briefed a Navy admiral)
Temp (all kinds of things for all kinds of places. it’s humbling work. it’s office work. and i’ve made it some of my creative work.)
I used to think this page had to prove something.
Now I think it might just tell you where I’ve been—and maybe show you how I got there.
