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

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

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

2015	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

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	“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.