Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

“A Difficult Treasure” 41 West, storefront installation at studio of Susi Cora, Hancock, MD

2021

“The Iridescent Yonder” Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA, Brooke Marcy and Meg Weston, Curators

“This Iridescent Era” VisArts, Rockville, MD, Susan Main, Curator

2020

“Buoyant Force” Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA, Lily Siegel, Curator

2019

“Ship Splitter” Visual Art Center, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, Daniel Dean, Curator

2017

"Well Past the Echo" Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, (formerly Greater Reston Art Center) Reston, VA, Lily Siegel, Curator

2015

"The Eventual Outcome of an Instant" The Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, NY

2011

"Steel" Photographic Archives and Special Collections, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

2010

“Propagation of Uncertainty” Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD, Kay Hwang, Curator

2007

"Impala Diaries Part 1” Nabit Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, Pradip Malde, Curator

2004

“Diana Travels Well” Berlitz Language Institute, Rockefeller Center, NYC, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

“Climate for Change” with Atlantika Collective, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, María Alejandra Sáenz, Curator

2023

“Rauschenberg Residency: Explorations & Experimentations” Captiva Civic Center, Captiva, FL, Ann Brady, Curator

“Bodies We Inhabit” NARS Foundation, New York City, NY, Jessica Duby, Curator

“Cultivate: Without Title” Cultivate Studios, Kensington, MD

2022

“Continuum: Artists Teaching Artists” McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, Jennifer Lillis, Curator 

“Approaching Event Horizons: Projects on Climate Change” with Atlantika Collective, Mason Exhibitions, Arlington, VA

“Prescient Surfaces” with Atlantika Collective, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana, María Alejandra Sáenz, Curator

“Hospitality - counterbalance venom” Cade Center for Fine Arts, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD, Cheryl Edwards, Curator

2021

“Homeward Bound 2019-2020” Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, Nandini Makrandi, Curator 

“Measuring the Drapes” Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Marta Staudinger and Helen Criales, Curators

2020

“Women in the Arts” Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Marta Staudinger and Helen Criales, Curators

“Turning Blue” Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Marta Staudinger and Helen Criales, Curators

“Covid-19 Group Show” Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, FR

“Rauschenberg Residency: Explorations & Experimentations” Captiva Civic Center, Captiva, FL, Ann Brady, Curator (canceled due to Covid-19)

2019

“New works / Nouveaux travaux” Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, FR

“Turtle Bienvenue” Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Cite des Arts, Paris, FR

“Gathering” American Poetry Museum, Washington, DC, Sami Miranda, Curator

“Spiritual Wanderlust” Latela Gallery, Washington, DC, Helen Criales, Curator

2017

"The Transitional Object" Lululemon Loft in Georgetown, Washington, DC, Amy Hughes Braden and Sarah Bui, curators 

2016

"Passage" Site commission for permanent sculptural installation, w/ Mary Carothers for 801 Iona at ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI

"Like Fine Wine" la Bodega Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Margo Elsayd, curator

2015

"reference" Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, Erin Devine, curator

Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC, Zofie Lang, curator

2014

"Continue the Temporary and It Becomes Forever" Zizek Studies Conference, University of Cincinnati DAAP, Cincinnati, OH

"Global Activism," "Protesting On Demand," w/ Floating Lab Collective, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

WPA Hickok Cole Art Night 2014, Hickok-Cole Architects, Washington, DC

WPA at (e)merge, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Washington, DC

2013

"Fruits of Captiva" Rauschenberg Project Space, Group show, NYC, NY

"This Is Not a Museum" w/ Floating Lab Collective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Transformer Art Auction, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

2012

"Mapping Why" w/ Floating Lab Collective, Art Museum of the Americas as part of Ripple Effect, Currents of Socially Engaged Art, Washington DC, Raquel DeAnda, Curator

SELECT: Washington Project for the Arts 2012 Art Auction, Washington, DC, Molly Donovan, Curator

The Floating Museum w/ Floating Lab Collective, 5×5, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC, Laura Roulet, Curator

2011-12

“Turtle Salon” (Traveling) Curated by Michael Shamberg for the following venues:

Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France

Grey Area E. Sussex, United Kingdom

Hardy Tree Gallery, London United Kingdom

Meter Room, 58-64 Corporation Street, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom

2011

SELECT: Washington Project for the Arts 2011 Art Auction Washington, DC, Helen Frederick, Curator

"Ten Years After 9/11" Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC

“Mark and Master” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC

2010

“Silence as Presence” w/ FloatingLab Collective, Theatre of Peace, NGBK Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Dietrich Heißenbüttel, curator

2009

“Res Publica des Usonia: Space As Essay,” w/ FloatingLab Collective, Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD

“Close Encounters: Acts of Social Imagination,” w/ Floating Lab Collective, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York City, NY, Donald Russell and Niels Van Tomme, curators

2008

“The Frozen Car Project,” w/ Mary Carothers, Public Art Installation, Winter Carnival, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

“Close Encounters: Facing the Future,” Group Show w/ Floating Lab Collective, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, Donald Russell and Niels Van Tomme, curators

2006

“Artists and Makers” CREAR, Loghilphead, Argyll, Scotland, Kate Lithgow, curator

2005

“Fictional Landscapes,” Schaeffer Gallery, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN

2003

“Fresh Meat”CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, curator

“What are They Building in There?” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY, Mary Carothers, curator

2001

“TireFires and Talking Cars” Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, “TireFire Reincarnated” Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA

“Serious Play” Adambomb Gallerie, Milwaukee, WI, Christopher Frederick, curator

2000

“TireFire” Unlimited Partnerships: Collaboration in Contemporary Art, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Lawrence Brose, curator

“TireFire,” D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival Open Studios, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Organization, Brooklyn, NY, Joy Glidden & Hedi Sorger, curators

“MILLENYA” C.A.S.E. Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ

Selected Video Screenings

2015

“Satellite Shorts” featuring o0OhhOhiO0o at HEMPHILL Presents SATELLITE: Workingman Collective, w/ Colby Caldwell, Marc Ganzglass, and Sean Watkins, Washington DC

2009

On Belonging, six short films that question our whereabouts” Montgomery College co-curator with Michael H Shamberg, screening the films of Jem Cohen (NYC Weights and Measures,) Sue Wrbican (The Dog Poem,) Nelly Sarkissian (Bab Touma, Gate of Thomas Damascus,) Robert Frank (Flamingo,) Martina Radwan (Aliens Among Us )and Michael Shamberg (p.s. Beirut)

2005

“Exchange Routes,” Teater Utan Kayu, Jakarta, Indonesia, Heliotrope Productions, Poriaman Sitangaang, Amy Guggenheim and Robert Kalka, curators

2000

“Black Box Videos (&)” The College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ Judy Masterson, Gallery Director, Curator

1999

“Reel New York” WNET 13, New York City, NY Garrison Botts, Program Director & Michelle Materre

“The Pixeled Narrative” Avignon Film Festival, New York City, NY L. Halsey Brown, curator

“Popcorn”Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, Gallery 821, Los Angeles, CA, Bob Pece, curator

“Third Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival” Tempe AZ, John Spiak, curator

1997

“World Wide Video Festival”, Stedelijk Museum, The Melkweg, Amsterdam, Nederland

“LACPS Annual Exhibition” VideoArts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA, Kate Horsfield, Executive Director of Video Data Bank, curator

“NO-TV '97” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, Robert Doyle, curator

Awards

2021-2022

GLB Memorial Fund

2011

Research Grant, Research & Economic Development, GMU

2009

The Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency Fellowship Atlantic Center for the Arts

2008

Mathy Fellowship, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2007

Research Grant, Research & Economic Development, GMU

2005

The Johnson Fund, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN

2000

Artist as Catalyst 2000 Grant MidAtlantic Arts Foundation

1997

Second Prize for Experimental VideoNAP Video Festival, Kutztown, PA, Curated by Beryl Korot, Tony Oursler and Ann-Sargent Wooster

Visiting Artist/Lecturer/Residency

At present and since 2013

ArtsWalk at Monroe Street Market, Artist in Residence, Studio, Washington, DC

2022

Western Carolina University, Visiting Artist, Cullowhee, NC

La Baldi, Residency, Cultivate Projects, Montegiovi, Italy

2019

Marshall University, Visual Arts Department, Visiting Artist, Huntington, WV

2018

Hendrix College Art Department, Visiting Lecturer and Exhibit: Selects from 2011-2017, Conway, AR

2016

STUD Residency, Catlett, VA

2015

The Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, NY

2013

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Pilot Residency, Captiva, FL

2014

Zizek Studies Conference, University of Cincinnati DAAP, Cincinnati, OH

The College of New Jersey, Social Art Practice: Collaborating With Communities, Ewing, NJ

Society for Photographic Education, Panel discussion, Floating Lab Collective, Baltimore, MD

Summer AIR, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2010-11

Load Of Fun, Artist in Residence, Studio, Baltimore, MD

2011

Lecture “Unfinished Inquiries” Photography, The Document Conference University of Louisville, Center for Arts & Culture, Peter Morin, Moderator

2009

Residency Atlantic Center for the Arts, in association w/ Rineke Dijkstra, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2005

Photographer in Residence at CREAR, Logilphead, Argyll, Scotland

2000

Visiting Critic for Irina Nakhova Princeton University, Atelier Program, Princeton, NJ

1997

Artist in Residence Experimental Television Center, Newark Valley, NY

Selected Publications and Reviews

2022

Washington Post review : Recognizing our environmental emergencies

2021

Washington Post review of This Iridescent Era

2015

“Continue the Temporary and it Becomes Forever” International Journal of Zizek Studies, ISSN 1751-8229 Volume Nine, Number One

“Scream at the Economy” w/Floating Lab Collective, Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century, Peter Weibel, editor, MIT Press, pp 578-581

2011

Washington City Paper, “Mark and Master at Studio Gallery” Louis Jacobson 11/04/11

2008

Carl’s Cars Magazine, Interview w/ Marianne Hultman, Director, Oslo Kunstforening,

2004

n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, Volume 13, Domestic Politics issue “Cracking the Domestic: Collaborations among Women Artists,” by Judith Batalion, 11/04

Teaching

2021-present

Professor of Photography, George Mason University, School of Art, Fairfax, VA

2011-2021

Associate Professor of Photography, George Mason University, School of Art, Fairfax, VA

2005-2011

Assistant Professor of Photography, George Mason University, School of Art, Fairfax, VA

2005

Adjunct Professor Photography, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA

1999-00

Adjunct Professor Digital Media, Fordham University, Theatre and Fine Arts Department, NYC, NY

1998-99

Visiting Faculty Photography Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1998

Visiting Instructor Photography Pratt Institute, Media Arts Department, Brooklyn, NY

1996

Instructor of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI,

Education

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, MFA Photography

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, BA English Writing/Poetry