EDUCATION
| 2008 | MFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2006 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| 2005 | BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 2004 | Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall – University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS / SCREENINGS
| 2017 | Virtual Landscapes: aTravel Through, aCinema, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2016 | 2016 Queens International, Queens Museum, New York, NY Myco-Ramblings, AC Institute, New York, NY |
| 2015 | You Had To Be There, Todd Art Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, TN Basic Operation Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| 2014 | 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA The Last Billboard, Pittsburgh, PA Memoria abierta: La Galería de Comercio, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico Mapping Spaces, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany Centerfold Artist Exhibition, Project 4, Washington, DC ACTUALIZE, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Queens, NY |
| 2013 | Janks Archive: Belfast, FIX live art biennale, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland Janks Archive: Helsinki, Kallio Kunsthalle Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland Janks Archive: Mexico City, La Galeria de Comercio, Mexico City, Mexico The CATopian Dream, Acid Rain Production (March Episode) Quick Response, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2012 | Harry Smith Was So Skinny… A Janks Archive, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Welcome To The Neighborhood, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Co. Limerick, Ireland Drawings Related to Performance Works, 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY From The Mezzanine, Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College of New Jersey 8501 to 11400 (On Moving), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH |
| 2011 | Make CATopia Real, SPACES, Cleveland, OH Lokal Global Plan, Copenhagen, Denmark Alrededor Es Imposible (Around Is Impossible), La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain The Spot, La Galeria de Comercio, Mexico City, Mexico Artprojx Cinema, in association with The Armory Show & VOLTA NY, SVA Theatre, New York, NY Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Bureau for Open Culture, CCAD, Columbus, OH |
| 2010 | Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Detour, SPACES, Cleveland, OH Map Marking, Pace University Digital Gallery, New York, NY 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter: Festival for Expanded Media, Online/Offline Exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2009 | Frenemies, Front Room Gallery, Cleveland, OH Manipulating Reality, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy Street With A View @ Agency for Small Claims, Bureau for Open Culture, CCAD, Columbus, OH The Thirteenth Day, Skaftfell Art Center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland PUBLIC/PRIVATE, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA |
| 2008 | Sonic Youth, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland A Moratorium on Make-Believe, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Illustrations of Catastrophe and Remote Times, Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA For You, For Me, From Me, Flux Space, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2007 | 9th Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Brewhouse, Pittsburgh, PA TRANSIT, Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design, Japan Media Flow Part 5, Fluctuating Images Contemporary Media Art, Stuttgart, Germany The Singer Sucks, But The Band… (curated by Erick Michaud), Sunday L.E.S. New York, NY trooz (curated by Art Office), Show Cave, Los Angeles, CA Vision Request, A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA Everything Must Go!, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2006 | In_Tension, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA Radio SKC, Studentski Kulturni Centar, Belgrade, Serbia HOMO LUDENS: Yip Yap Yelp & Holler, Brewhouse Theater, Pittsburgh, PA NEMO Film Festival, Paris, France |
| 2005 | NEO Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Ingenuity: A Festival of Art & Technology, Cleveland, OH 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI |
AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES
| 2015 | Platform Residency Program, Vaasa, Finland |
| 2013 | The Luminary Center for the Arts Residency Program, St. Louis, MO Mellon Research Grant, American University College of Arts and Sciences |
| 2012 | Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Co. Limerick, Ireland |
| 2011 | SPACES World Artists Program (SWAP), Cleveland, OH CPH AIR, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2010 | Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE 2010 Hot Pick, Smack Mellon Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 | Skaftfell Artist Residency, Seyðisfirði, Iceland Runner-Up Prize, Cleveland Public Art See Also Commission Nes Artist Stipend, Cultural Committee of Northwestern Iceland |
| 2008 | Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland SÍM Artist Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland Seed Award, Sprout Fund GuSH Grant, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2006 | Brown Foundation Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| 2005 | Dominion Prize: Best of Show, NEO Show, Cleveland Museum of Art First Agnes Gund Award for International Travel, Cleveland Institute of Art |
LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST / TEACHING
| 2016 | “On Political Correctness,” La Table Rounde, Critical Practices Inc. New York, NY |
| 2015 | Artist Talk, Sculpture and Extended Media, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH “Studio Visits” Artist Talk, Alfred University, NY SIVA Currents: Artist Lecture, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO Visiting Artist Fellow, Summer Institute for Visual Arts, Drury University, Springfield, MO Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Tasmeem Doha 2015: 3ajeeb!, Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar |
| 2014 | Janks Archive, Unruly Engagements conference, Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio Vail Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Denison University, Granville, OH Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art (Studio), Denison University, Granville, OH |
| 2012-13 | Professorial Lecturer in Media/New Practices, Department of Art, American University, Washington DC |
| 2012 | Apartment Talks, satellite project of 2013 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA Artist Talk, American University, Department of Art, Washington DC Artist Talk, Slippery Rock University, PA Artist Talk, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO Artist Talk, Ramapo College of New Jersey |
| 2010-12 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Juror, SIE 65: Student Independent Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 2010 | Visiting Artist in the course Take It Outside: Art in Public Space, Bennington College, Bennington, VT Artist Talk, TEST_LAB: Tools for Propaganda, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ArtTalk Lecture Series, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE |
| 2009 | Artist Talk, Office of Collective Play, Bureau For Open Culture, CCAD, Columbus, Ohio Artist Talk, Lost & Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag Society, Amsterdam, NL |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
| The Cleveland Museum of Art |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2016 | Driver, Susan, Kara Stone and Melanie Patenaude, eds. Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings: Social, Political and Artistic Practices, 68-69. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. “Your Mama … Might Be Offended By This Insult Archive.” Hansi Lo Wang. Weekend Edition. NPR News. 24 July. Surprisingly Awesome Episode #13: Insults. Gimlet Media. 17 May. Interview. Yale University Radio. 7 March. “Att förolämpa med stil”. Kulturmagasinet. YLE Radio Vega. 10 Feb. |
| 2015 | Sundberg, Ari. “Förolämpningar blir konst”. Vasabladet. 19 Dec. |
| 2014 | Shaw, Kurt. ‘Pittsburgh Biennial 2014’ at Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery. TribLIVE. 1 Oct. Salsbury, Britany. Critics’ Picks New York: “Actualize”. artforum.com. 22 Jan. |
| 2013 | Carnegie International 2013 Catalogue (The Apartment Talks). Christine Jun. “The dA-Zed Guide to Surveillance.” Dazed Digital. 25 Aug. “Mr. January, Ben Kinsley.” Centerfold Artist Series with Annette Isham and Zac Willis. Trop. 25 Jan. |
| 2012 | Douglas Max Utter. “Before MOCA Cleveland’s Move, Last Exhibit Looks Ahead and Back.” Cleveland Plain Dealer. 13 Feb. Kuehnle, Jimmy. “Street Preachers @ MOCA”. arthopper.org. 24 Jan. |
| 2011 | Modrak, Rebekah with Bill Anthes Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice, 197. London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. “New Art/Science Affinities.” Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University + CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. “Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven” Exhibition Publication. Bureau for Open Culture. Pete Brook. “Google’s Mapping Tools Spawn New Breed of Art Projects.” Wired.com. 15 Aug. “One Year One Book” MMX Open Art Venue. |
| 2010 | “Community Performance in Google Street View”. We Make Money Not Art. 9 Jan. “Street With A View O Cuando El Observado Es Google.” Yorokobu. (pp. 24-25) Feb. |
| 2009 | “Manipulating Reality” Exhibition Catalogue. The Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina. Sept. Lavanya Ramanathan. “Giving Google Maps a Heck of a View.” Washington Post. 5 Feb. “Highlights from 2008.” Rhizome.org. 16 Jan. |
| 2008 | Dan Nephin. “Artists Stage Street Scenes to Lurk in Google Maps.” Associated Press. 12 Nov. Patricia Lowry. “Google Makes World Stage for Sampsonia Way.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 12 Nov. Wesley Miller. “There Goes the Neighborhood.” Art21 Blog. 7 Nov. Ceci Moss. “Street With A View.” Rhizome.org. 7 Nov. Karlijn De Jongh. “Sonic Youth.” CIRCA Issue 125 (Autumn). Therese McKenna. “Reel Good Show.” The Metro (Dublin). 14 July. “The Pretenders.” Pittsburgh City Paper. 16-23 April. Roberta Fallon. “Come Play With Me.” Philadelphia Weekly. 23-29 Jan. “Mattress Factory’s Gestures Gain Energy With A Few Firsts.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 20 Jan. |
| 2007 | Colleen Asper. “Vision Request.” Beautiful/Decay. August. |
