CURRENT POSITION ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Assistant Professor Art, University of South Florida, Tampa

EDUCATION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……….......
MFA, University of Florida, May 2000
BFA, University of Colorado, 1996, Magna Cum Laude

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Video, Installation, Photography, Public Art, Performance

VISITING ARTIST……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………
2009 Anderson Ranch Workshops, Snowmass Colorado
2007 Maryland Institute College of Art
Western Michigan University
2006 Anderson Ranch Workshops, Snowmass, Colorado
2004 University of Kentucky, Lexington Kentucky
2002 Willamette University, Salem, Oregon

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2008/9 Tampa International Airport—Juried Project, $225,000 for installation Completion date: April 2009
2006 Lights on Tampa Biennial Program—Juried Project, $30,000. Tampa, Florida

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………
2008 Politics in Art, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
Secrets, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
2007 Being Open, 30 years, 30 artists, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Sultanas Dream, Exit Art, New York, New York
Way Out, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Miami, Florida
Secrets, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado
Secrets, The Paltel Virtual Gallery at Birzeit University, Palestine
Data Poesis, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Colorado
2006 Secrets, Al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Secrets, Sakakini Center, Ramallah, Palestine
Turning our Tongues, Exhibition at the Middle Eastern Studies Association National Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Arts Alive, Flight 19 Gallery, Tampa, Florida
Cryptozoology, Flight 19 Gallery, Tampa, Florida
Secrets, Al-Kahf Gallery, International Center of Bethlehem, Palestine
Bed, Nash Hotel, Collins Ave. Miami, Florida
Sensory Overload, Cuban Club, Ybor City, Florida
Florida Room Documentary Film Festival, Miami Florida
2005 Post Industrial Carnival, Flight 19 Exhibition Space, Tampa, Florida
Common Places–
AK-47–Budapest, Hungary
Dinamo–Budapest, Hungary
Vector Gallery–Iasi, Romania
Tranzit Foundation–Cluj, Romania
2004 SLAPDOWN! Performance—Edge Zones Exhibition, World Arts Building, Miami,Florida
Common Wounds, The Sakakini Center, Ramallah, Palestine
Faculty Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
SLAPDOWN! (installation), Covivant Gallery, Tampa, Florida
Common Wounds, The International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine
Undercurrents/Overview, The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
The Spiritual in Art, Bordas Casa de Cultura, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Tasco.Mexico
Industrial Carnival Show: SLAPDOWN! Wrestling Performance, Bustillo Cigar Factory,Tampa
Faculty Drawing Exhibition, Oliver Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Gymnasium Labs, Objex Artspace, Miami, Florida
2003 After the Fall, Casa de La Cultura, Oaxaca, Mexico
Death & Other Exits: Images from the United States, Govenors Palace, Tlaxacala, Mexico
TO BE OR NOT TO BE, Bordas Casa de Cultura, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas,Tasco, Mexico
Boarderlands, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
2002 SINAPSIS, Galeria Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru, sponsored by the United States Embassy
in Lima and the Escuela de ArteCorriente Alterna
Two person exhibition, Gallery II, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Death Without Borders / Muerte Sin Fronteras, The Given Institute, Aspen, Colorado
Sit x3, The Workspace Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado
Sit x3, Galeria de Arte Fotografico Meliton Rodriguez, Instituto de Artes de Medellin, Medellin, Columbia
2001 New Acquisitions, Park Trades Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Days of the Dead, (Invitational group exhibition) Merida, Mexico
Sight, Site, Insight (group exhibition of portfolio project), Sonneschein Gallery, Lake Forrest College, Lake Forrest, Illinois
Borderlands, Khabarovsk, Russia
Photoamericas 2001, Portland, Oregon (exhibition/auction)
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Western Michigan University Dalton Center; Kalamazoo, Michigan
2000 MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Galleries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

PERFORMANCES ………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………………….………
2008 Walking Bethlehem, 6+ Contemporary Collectives Do Outrageous Work!
A day of collaborative Performance, The Bronx Museum, New York
2007 SLAPDOWN! Wrestling Performance, Transomodern Age Festival, Baltimore, Maryland
2004 SLAPDOWN! Wrestling Performance, Edgezones Exhibition Space, World Arts Building, Miami, Florida
SLAPDOWN! Wrestling Performance, Coviant Gallery, Tampa, Florida
SLAPDOWN! Wrestling Performance, The Atlantic, Gainesville, Florida
2002 Cloudseeding Circus of the Performative Object: Chachama Theater, 42nd St. New York, New York
Cloudseeding Circus of the Performative Object: The Kitchen, Chelsea, New York
Kalamazoo Precinct of Women Wrestlers (K.P.O.W.W. ): Village Voice Siren Music Festival, Coney Island

SINGLE PERSON EXHIBITIONS ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…
2002 "Spe-ta-cle", Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“I am, I am her other self answered”; (invitational exhibition Sonneschein Gallery, Lake Forrest College, Lake Forest, Illinois
2001 Space Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalmazoo, Michigan

AWARDS ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2007 CVPA Research Grant, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Individual Artist Grant, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Tampa, Florida
2006 CVPA Teaching Grant, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
CVPA Research Grant, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
2005 CVPA Teaching Grant, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
CVPA Research Grant, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
2004 CVPA Teaching Grant, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
CVPA Faculty Research Grant, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
2003 CVPA Faculty Research Grant, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
2001 Research and Development Award, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1999 Graduate Student of the Year Award, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Penland Partners Program Scholarship, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
1997 Named Presidential Fellowship, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
1996 Art Students League Scholarship, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Noerdlinger Scholarship, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1993-96 Deans Scholarship, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

PRESENTATIONS ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2008 Making it Together Bronx Museum, New York, New York. Panel member on behalf of 6+
Collective to discuss our work and the work of other contemporary feminist collectives.
2007 Americans For the Arts National Conference, “Risk and Reward” Las Vegas, Nevada.
Imaging Place, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Presenter, Imaging the West Bank.
College Art Association National Conference, New York, New York. Panel member,
“From Today Photography is Dead: The Paradox of Photography’s Life and Death”.
Society of Photographic Education National Conference, Miami, FLorida. Presented
as Imagemaker the image lecture: “Surveying the Springs” with Andrea Wallace.
2003 Intimate Relations: the Micro Sphere of Public Spaces – Symposium, the University
of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Invitation to give a presentation on personal performance
work, and to discuss its relationship to the mircroperformance work of visiting artists’
Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead.
College Art Association National Conference, Panel Member: Transoptics: Webcam
Network /Artwork Vision.
2002 Digital Art Symposium, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
Presentation on personal artwork at the conference in the form of a slide lecture.
2001 Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, Carbondale, Illinois.
Presentation on personal artwork at the conference in the form of a slide lecture.
2000 Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Presentation on personal artwork to the conference in the form of a slide lecture.
1999 Fourteenth Annual Graduate Student Feminist Conference, University of Texas,
Austin, Texas. Presentation of two videos and gave a lecture on personal artwork.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2003 Assistant Professor Photography and related media, University of South Florida
2003/05 Instructor in USF Paris Program–Walking in Place Class
2000-03 Assistant Professor Photography and Intermedia, Western Michigan University
2001 Instructor, Brewster Academy Summer Session, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Digital Video Editing
1997-00 Teaching Assistant, Photography and Intermedia, Department of Fine Arts, University of Florida
1996 Instructor’s Assistant, University of Colorado, Student Academic Services Center, for lower and upper division writing courses
1995 Instructor’s Assistant, University of Colorado (volunteer), Student Academic Services
Center lower division writing course

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Society for Photographic Education since 1998
College Art Association since 1999
Americans for the Arts, since 2005

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Patrick and Pamela Beverly-Quigley, Park City, Utah
Tace Hedrick, Gainesville, Florida
Nancy Van Gundy, Sun Valley, Utah
George Ferrandi, New York, New York
Ken Iwamasa, Boulder, Colorado
Roddy MacInnes, Boulder Colorado
Will and Mary Pappenheimer, Gainesville, Florida
Mia Semingson, Louisville, Colorado
Carol Riggs, Boulder Colorado
Garrison Roots, Boulder, Colorado
Andrea Wallace, Salem, Oregon
Tony Lorentz, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Fred Royce, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Richard Keaveny, Kalamazoo, Michigan

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Instituto de Artes de Medellin, Medellin, Columbia, South America
Photo Americas, Portland, Oregon
Lake Forrest College, Lake Forrest, Illinois
University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder, Colorado
Western Michigan University Permanent Collection, Kalamazoo, Michigan