EXPERIENCE
current
2022 [Fair Director & Curator] Satellite Art Show, (Miami, FL, SXSW, NYC).
2016 [Board Member] Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 [Founder/Editorial Director] Performance Is Alive, performanceisalive.com.
prior
2023 [Curator] Performance is Alive, Month of Video (MOV) Festival, Understudy Gallery, Denver, CO.
[Juror] Hold for Discussion, Gallery 321, Tallahassee, FL.
[Curator] This is My Body Screening, Collective Misnomer, Denver, CO.
2022 [Juror] Franconia Performance Art Residency Program, Franconia Sculpture Center, Shafer, MN.
2021 [Benefit Committee Chair] Give2Grace Fall Fundraiser, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, NY.
2020 [Guest Critic] “Performance Now” undergraduate course taught by Patricia Voulgaris, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
[Lecturer] College Art Association (CAA), Chicago, IL — After School: Creating and Maintaining Community and Critical Discourse Outside of Academia.
2019 [Featured Curator] International Performance Art Festival (FIAP), Martinique, Fort-de-France.
2016-2022 [Performance Art Curator] Satellite Art Show, (Miami, FL, SXSW, NYC).
2016 [Curator] Performance Art Programming at Taste for Sight, Foundation Fighting Blindness, New York, NY.
2015 -2017 [Project Manager] The Sphinx Returns and 21st Suffragettes, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2015 [Co-Curator] Repose, 184 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY.
[Guest Speaker] Performance Art Now panel discussion with Esther Neff and Jill McDermid, Moderated by Ventiko, Gallery Sensei, New York, NY.
2014 [TA for Instructor, Alan Scarritt] Performance Art course, School of VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY.
2013 [Performer] on set with Matthew Barney "Ancient Evenings," Brooklyn, NY.
2012-2013 [Benefit Committee Coordinator] Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2013-15 [Curator] dB Visual Artist Series, Dungeon Beach, Brooklyn, NY.
2012 [Guest Speaker] Panel Discussion in Performance Art, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2012-2015 [Webmaster] Panepinto Galleries, Jersey City, NJ.
2012-2021 [Associate Director of Admissions] School of VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY.
2010 [Juror] Bravo’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” Season Two Casting Call. Brooklyn, NY.
MayDay Workshop with International Performance Artists, Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2008-2012 [Admissions Counselor] School of VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY.
2008 [Fabrication Assistant] Keith Tyson Exhibition at Pace Wildenstein, New Project, Brooklyn, NY.
2007 [Guest Lecturer] Performance of the 20th Century, Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN.
[Guest Speaker] Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Nashville, TN.
[Guest Speaker] Artist Student Association, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN.
2004-2009 [Curator, Coordinator and Co-Founder] Off The Wall Artist Group, Nashville, TN.
EDUCATION
2015 MFA Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
2003-2007 BFA Fine Art, Cum Laude, Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN.
PERFORMANCES
2021
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2022
2006
current
2022 [Fair Director & Curator] Satellite Art Show, (Miami, FL, SXSW, NYC).
2016 [Board Member] Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 [Founder/Editorial Director] Performance Is Alive, performanceisalive.com.
prior
2023 [Curator] Performance is Alive, Month of Video (MOV) Festival, Understudy Gallery, Denver, CO.
[Juror] Hold for Discussion, Gallery 321, Tallahassee, FL.
[Curator] This is My Body Screening, Collective Misnomer, Denver, CO.
2022 [Juror] Franconia Performance Art Residency Program, Franconia Sculpture Center, Shafer, MN.
2021 [Benefit Committee Chair] Give2Grace Fall Fundraiser, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, NY.
2020 [Guest Critic] “Performance Now” undergraduate course taught by Patricia Voulgaris, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
[Lecturer] College Art Association (CAA), Chicago, IL — After School: Creating and Maintaining Community and Critical Discourse Outside of Academia.
2019 [Featured Curator] International Performance Art Festival (FIAP), Martinique, Fort-de-France.
2016-2022 [Performance Art Curator] Satellite Art Show, (Miami, FL, SXSW, NYC).
2016 [Curator] Performance Art Programming at Taste for Sight, Foundation Fighting Blindness, New York, NY.
2015 -2017 [Project Manager] The Sphinx Returns and 21st Suffragettes, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2015 [Co-Curator] Repose, 184 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY.
[Guest Speaker] Performance Art Now panel discussion with Esther Neff and Jill McDermid, Moderated by Ventiko, Gallery Sensei, New York, NY.
2014 [TA for Instructor, Alan Scarritt] Performance Art course, School of VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY.
2013 [Performer] on set with Matthew Barney "Ancient Evenings," Brooklyn, NY.
2012-2013 [Benefit Committee Coordinator] Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2013-15 [Curator] dB Visual Artist Series, Dungeon Beach, Brooklyn, NY.
2012 [Guest Speaker] Panel Discussion in Performance Art, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2012-2015 [Webmaster] Panepinto Galleries, Jersey City, NJ.
2012-2021 [Associate Director of Admissions] School of VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY.
2010 [Juror] Bravo’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” Season Two Casting Call. Brooklyn, NY.
MayDay Workshop with International Performance Artists, Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2008-2012 [Admissions Counselor] School of VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY.
2008 [Fabrication Assistant] Keith Tyson Exhibition at Pace Wildenstein, New Project, Brooklyn, NY.
2007 [Guest Lecturer] Performance of the 20th Century, Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN.
[Guest Speaker] Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Nashville, TN.
[Guest Speaker] Artist Student Association, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN.
2004-2009 [Curator, Coordinator and Co-Founder] Off The Wall Artist Group, Nashville, TN.
EDUCATION
2015 MFA Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
2003-2007 BFA Fine Art, Cum Laude, Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN.
PERFORMANCES
2021
- Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN.
- Sensing Brooklyn, Grace Exhibition Space with support by Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel (LMCC), New York, NY.
- Sensing Fall, Seoul, South Korea.
- [performer] In performance with Butch Merigoni, Performance Mix Festival, New Dance Alliance, New York, NY.
- Broad Sense, Revolve Gallery, Marshall, NC curated by Vela Oma and Alice Vogler.
- User Error: A Night of Performance Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA ) Tucson, Tucson, AZ.
- Here and Now, Le Petit Versaille, New York, NY.
- [performer] All of It by Butch Merigoni, Leimay's SOAK Festival, Brooklyn, NY.
- As The Sediments Find Their Way, Performancy Forum, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY.
- [performer] All of It by Butch Merigoni, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY.
- Feminist Art Group Performance Art Festival: Knights of the Round Table, Curated by IV Castellanos, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- [performer] All of It (work in progress) by Butch Merigoni, CreativeChaos, Brooklyn, NY.
- Sensing Flesh, karnal kriminalz* FUJEETiV FLESH, The Woods Cooperative, Ridgewood, NY.
- [performer] All of It (work in progress) by Butch Merigoni, The Woods Cooperative, Ridgewood, NY.
- Sensing Want, 6°, 184 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- CENTIPEDE, JACK, Brooklyn, NY.
- TALKaCTIVE Performance Art Conversation Series: Performance and Consumption, Queens Museum, NY.
- Residency: Feminist Art Group, IV Soldiers Gallery at Rosekill, NY.
- Performance Art Showcase, Gallery Sensei, New York, NY.
- Thinking With Our Hands, Rabbithole Projects, Brooklyn, NY
- Pass the Want, The Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY.
- PF: QUINQ, Performancy Forum Quinquennial, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- Sensing (Connectivity): The Local Harvest, Parasol Projects, 2 Rivington, New York, NY.
- The Material of Release: Thread, Parasol Projects, 2 Rivington, New York, NY.
- Measured: Water, Parasol Projects, 2 Rivington, New York, NY.
- Sensing: Clay, Parasol Projects, 2 Rivington, New York, NY.
- Procession: Salt, Parasol Proects, 2 Rivington, New York, NY.
- For Charleston, chashama 461 Gallery, Harlem, NY.
- Hot Wood Art Center, Brooklyn, NY.
- Performance Anxiety at Gallery Sensei, New York, NY.
- Flex it!, Cultural Celebrations and Performances presented by San Diego Art Institute, CA.
- [performer] When All Things Evaporate, We'll Talk About Minerals with JaeWook Lee & Simone Couto, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY.
- Falsed, Hot Wood Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY.
- [performer] Mr. Milk with Rob Andrews, Rush Arts, New York, NY.
- Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Brooklyn, NY.
- Jiaxing’s Carcasses, Grace Exhibition Space, Brookyln, NY.
- Reflections for Guanabara Bay, 24 hour performance, Glasshouse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
- iCAN, IV Soldiers, Brooklyn, NY.
- 6 Cents of Rice, Hot Wood Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY.
- Oral Deforestation pt. II, in conjunction with Nature Festish, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- [performer] Pioneer Song with Rob Andrews, Exit Art, New York, NY.
- Reflections for Para, 1200 Strikes, Fountain Art Fair, New York Armory, New York, NY.
- Occupy, Performancy Forum, Panoply Performance Lab at Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY.
- Reflections for Para, The OK Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA.
- [performer] Ant-Bird 2 with Rob Andrews, English Kills Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
- Untitled, Lex LAK Lou, Swanson Contemporary Art Gallery, Louisville, KY.
- [performer] Clean Union Square with Rob Andrews, New York, NY.
- Reflections for Para, Living Walls Festival, Marketplace Gallery, Albany, NY.
- Reflections for Para in conjunction with Time, Body, Space, Object at Proof Gallery, Boston, MA.
- For Obede Loyla Souza, 2011, LUMEN Video and Performance Art Festival, Staten Island, NY.
- Melting Patterns, Splattered Columns Gallery, New York, NY.
- Re_tration, Bushwick Open Studios, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- Our Between, Hot Wood, Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY.
- Relinquish, extinguish, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- Oral Deforestation, Fountain Art Fair, New York Armory, New York, NY.
- Body as Vehicle Series: Sucralose, The OK Hotel, Seattle, WA.
- Sepiidae, Fountain Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL.
- Blind as We Sit, Devouring Ourselves, Grace Exhibition Space at Pier 66, New York, NY.
- An Argument Between Stereocilia, LUMEN Video and Performance Art Festival, Staten Island, NY.
- [performer] JOLT! Myk Henry Retrospective, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- Din of Culture II, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- The Secrets Spoke, The Last Supper, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY.
- The Secrets Spoke, The Wassaic Project Summer Festival, Wassaic, NY.
- The Din of Culture, Twist Art Gallery, Nashville, TN.
- Chance in Parallels, BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition- Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Gallery, Nashville, TN.
- My Hopes for Her (and I), Dangenart Gallery, Nashville, TN.
- Eros and Thanatos: Between, collaboration with Heather Spriggs Thompson, Twist Art Gallery, Nashville, TN.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015
- Solo Exhibition, Mapping Ritual, Parasol Projects, 2 Rivington, New York, NY.
- Pantheon, chashama 461 Gallery, New York, NY.
- Guilt By Association Video Screening, Dungeon Beach, Brooklyn, NY.
- SVA Open Studios, 335 W 16th Street, New York, NY.
- Already Broken, The Personal That Is Not Ours curated by Thyrza Goodeve and Jacquie Stryker, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY.
- Off the Wall, Twist 38, Nashville, TN.
- Off The Wall, Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN.
- Echo Park, Riverside Village, Nashville, TN.
- Seamless Momentum, Dangenart Gallery, Nashville, TN.
- Curious Interplay, Dangenart Gallery, Nashville, TN.
- The Starving Femme Fatales,The Factory, Franklin, TN.
- Portal Skin, Off The Wall, Marathon Village, Nashville, TN.
- Weapon of Choice, Off The Wall, Marathon Village, Nashville, TN.
- Reverse Stitch, Off The Wall, 310 Chestnut, Nashville, TN.
- Collective Intellect, Off The Wall, The Frothy Monkey, Nashville, TN.
- Shared Body, Off The Wall, Cannery Row Building, Nashville, TN.
- How to Start a Revolution, Untitled Art Group, Marathon Village, Nashville, TN.
- Keep the Night Train Rolling, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, TN.
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2022
- A Summer Solstice Celebration. Jennie Klein. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Volume 44, Number 1, January 2022. (PAJ 130), pp. 60-65.
- A Nashville Art School Will Purge All Non-Christian Faculty Now That It Has Been Taken Over by a Religious University by Zachary Small, ArtNetNews, January 31, 2020.
- Sensory Potential - Interview with Quinn Dukes by Jana Astanov, CREATRIX, October 2019.
- Art Dirt: The Good, Bad, & Ugly of Performance Art by Glasstire May 25, 2019
- (Interview) On Location at the Satellite Art Show: Day 1, by Glasstire, March 2019.
- [Mention] “Katya Grokhovsky’s Bad Bad Woman Takes Charge at Satellite Art Show, Miami Art Week 2017”
- by Audra Lambert, Huffington Post. November 2017.
- [Mention] “JESSICA YATROFSKY’S “PINK PRIVACY” CAPTURES THE HUMOR, SADNESS & RAGE OF RELATIONSHIPS” by ALEXANDRA PAULY, Untitled Magazine. November 2017.
- “Your Concise Guide to Miami Art Week 2017” by Monica Uszerowicz, HYPERALLERGIC. December 2017.
- “Satellite Art Show on Unstoppable Trajectory for Miami Art Week 2017” by Audra Lambert, ARTEFUSE. December 2017.
- “The art fair that’s #NotBasel” by Natalie Sarracino, South Florida News Service. December 2017.
- Satellite Art Show: The Anti-Art Fair by Jesse Firestone. www.drailedmag.com
- Performing For The Foundation Fighting Blindness by D. LaGaccia. www.incidentmag.com
- Thinker in Residence: Art in Odd Places: RECALL. www.artinoddplaces.org
- Mapping Ritual included in Art Nerd New York’s Top Event Picks for the Week, July 2015.
- Reflections for Guanabara Bay, Emergency Index Vol. 3 published by Ugly DucklingPresse, Brooklyn, NY.
- "Five Shows That Are Bound to Get You Out of Your Winter Slump," Bushwick Daily, March 2013.
- “Fountain Art Fair 2012,” Whitewall Magazine, March 2012.
- "FOUNTAIN: Movin' on Up" by Lori Zimmer, ArtSlant NY, March 2012
- “Fountain, Independent, Volta,” New American Painting Blog, March 2012.
- RISING TIDE OF ARTIST-LED ART FAIRS by Christopher Hart Chambers, Flash Art Magazine.
- Artist Feature: Cutting the Cord, NY Arts Magazine, Spring Edition 2011.
- [Review] Total Styrene Benefit at Participant Inc. August 2011. Blog: Art in New York City, www.artinnewyorkcity.com.
- [Review] Bushwick Open Studios, Film Festival. July 2011. Blog: Art in Brooklyn, www.artinbrooklyn.com
- Top 5 Contemporary Performance Artists to Watch. April 2011. Blog: ArtistsLists. www.artistslists.com.
- Interview: Eric Swangstu at FX Fowle Gallery. April 2011. Blog: Art in New York City, www.artinnewyorkcity.com.
- Report from the 2010 Miami Art Fairs: Visual Arts Briefs, December 2011. www.blog.sva.edu.
- Observer (published image), Wassaic, NY. September 2010.
- Wake Up & Live! Live interview with Dawn Kirk on Radio Free Nashville, August, 2008.
- “Performance Art helps Dukes reconcile contradictions of urban living”, The Tennessean, Jonathan Marx, Nashville, TN, June 29, 2008.
- “The Bird-Woman of New York”, The Nashville Scene, David Maddox, Nashville, TN, June 26, 2008.
- Critic’s Pick, Nashville Scene, Matthew Christy, Nashville, TN, June 2008.
- Crawl Till You Fall, The Contributor, Ray Ponce De Leon, Nashville, TN, February 2008.
- “Off The Wall Presents Collaboration” (published image), The Tennessean, Jonathan Marx, Nashville, TN, December 30, 2007.
- Nashville Visual Arts Events Blog, David Maddox.
- "Dangenart Gallery and Nashville Art Colonization" (published image), NY Arts Magazine,
2006
- "Artist Group Confronts Death and Loss" (published image),The Tennessean, Jonathan Marx, Nashville, TN. July 16, 2006.