Curriculum Vitae
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WORK IN TEACHING
  • Adjunct Professor at Montserrat College of Art (2020-present)
    • ​"Business Practices in Art and Design"
      • ​This course covers the fundamentals of how to treat your art or design practice as a small business, how to operate as an independent contractor/artist entrepreneur, and how to start a small for profit and nonprofit business in the arts. Content covered will include business plan development, taxes-accounting-budgeting basics, copyright and trademark considerations, content marketing and branding, and guest lectures by artist and entrepreneurial professionals.
    • "Navigating the Creative Economy"
      • ​Combining an overview of fundamental economic shifts and specific case studies, this course provides students with tools to analyze the structure and function of the cultural marketplace. Specific examples will range from startups and small businesses to established corporations. Broader topics will include how the emphasis on an experience economy alters the interplay between producing goods and providing services; ongoing developments in digital technologies; and ways that the creative economy can contribute to community vitality. By examining how certain businesses respond to, and in some cases transform, the contemporary cultural and economic landscape, students will learn how to recognize and respond to potential opportunities.
    • "Science & Technology in Contemporary Art"
      • ​Contemporary art continually evolves alongside and in response to cultural shifts. Since the 1960s, striking and world-changing advances in science and technology have swept our culture and become part of our everyday lives. In response, artists have increasingly turned their creative gaze towards these disciplines as sources of conceptual inspiration, novel materials, and new methods of making. Artists are painting with bacteria, creating 3D-printed sculptures from their own medical data, collaborating with unicellular organisms, crocheting coral reefs, implanting seismic sensors in their own bodies, programming artificial intelligences, and more. This course will explore how contemporary artists in a variety of media are engaging with the fields of science and technology in this avant-garde movement known as SciArt.
    • "Biology of Perception"
      • ​What biological mechanisms underlie visual perception? How do our five senses give rise to aesthetic experiences? This course will overview the biological underpinnings of the brain's perceptual systems within the context of making and experiencing art. From the fundamentals of cellular biology, to the complexities of neuroaesthetics, students will become familiar with the history of neuroscience, gain an understanding of neurobiology, and apply that knowledge to art-making. Drawing from a variety of neuroscience texts and online materials, course work will include readings, writings, and content-related art projects. 
  • Adjunct Professor at Merrimack College (2020-2021)
    • ​"Postmodern Art and Beyond"
      • ​Contemporary art is always evolving. Many cultural and political shifts took hold in the 1960s—Civil Rights Movement, Feminist Movement, Anti-War Movement, Digital Revolution, Environmentalism, LGBTQ Movement, and others. How did these cultural and political changes have an impact on art and its processes? How did they influence artists of the era, as well as the comprehension of art itself? This course will provide an understanding of those cultural shifts, and how they became the context for art-making. Through readings, lectures, discussions and experiential field trips, the class will explore what contemporary art is, how it can reflect political events and cultural movements, and why it is important to the human condition.
    • "Arts Management"
      • How do the arts intersect with the world of business? This course will introduce students to the challenging and exciting sector of arts management within the context of their own artistic practice, as well as their prospective careers. Students will explore the management of a variety of disciplines including music, theatre, visual arts, design, and the interdisciplinarity of the arts. Content covered will include an overview of arts management in the United States, the fundamentals of how to treat your arts or design practice as a business, how to operate as an independent contractor/artist entrepreneur, how to start a small business in the arts, and survey the variety of careers and opportunities available within arts management.​
    • "Art and Culture I: Prehistory to Renaissance"
      • ​An examination of selected works of art and architecture and the historical and cultural contexts appropriate to them, from the birth of image-making to the high culture of the late Middle Ages.
  • Adjunct Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2021)
    • "Science & Technology Art"
      • This practicum explores how science and technology can push an arts practice of any medium in new exciting directions. From painting with bacteria to sculpting climate change data, performing with artificial intelligences, and more, the world of science and technology is open to the arts in a variety of conceptual and material ways. Students will create projects based on research and data in key scientific areas such as biology, ecology, and astrophysics, and experiment with utilizing novel technologies such as 3D printing and biophysical data sensors. 
  • Adjunct "Innovator-in-Residence" Professor at Rutgers University Douglass/Honors College (2016-2019)

WORK IN ARTS NONPROFITS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
  • "Under the Surface" at Dose Projects, Brooklyn NY
  • "Windows Into the Mind" year-long installation at Lafayette College, Easton PA
  • "Synapsed" at Spektrum, New York NY
  • "Cortical Canopy" and "Motor Neuron" installation at BioBase, New York NY
  • "Raw Feels," thesis exhibition, The School of Visual Arts, New York NY
  • Neurocognition of Language Lab at Columbia Teacher's College, New York NY
  • "This is Your Brain on Art", Main Gallery, Evolution Arts Collective, Madison WI
  • "NeuroSculpture", Main Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021
  • "Next Now" Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA
2020
  • "Vespertine" Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin FL
  • "Seeing Within: Art Inspired by Science" Cornell University, New York NY 
  • "BREADTH: Referencing Photography" Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead MA
2019
  • ComSciConCAN Conference, University of Hamilton, Ontario Canada
  • "Interludes" Art in the Parks, Worcester's Elm Park Biennial, Worcester MA
  • "Interpreting Brain and Spinal Disorders Through Art" at Brown University, Providence RI
  • "Small Works" Alumni exhibition, Walnut Hill School, Natick MA 
  • "The Neurology of the Soul" A.R.T./New York's Gural Theater, New York NY
2018
  • The Long Conversation, Smithsonian Institute, Arts & Industries, Washington D.C.
  • "Colour: What do you mean by that?" Propeller Gallery, Toronto Canada 
  • "Our Cosmic Brain" NYU Langone Art Program & Collection gallery, New York NY
2017
  • "Symbiartic" Biomedical Congress, Sofia Bulgaria
  • "Digital Transplants: Mediated SciArt" Lightroom, Decatur GA
  • 2017 International Conference on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity, Barcelona Spain
  • "Wave/Particle" Alter Ego Art Projects, Knokke Belgium
  • "Synapsis"  Nomad Tribe, Miami FL
  • CDT Festival of Science's "Science | Art: Exploring Creativity" exhibition, Imperial College, London UK 
  • "EmBodied" SciArt Center exhibition at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY 
2016
  •  "Visual Inquiries" Peter Fingesten Gallery at Pace University, New York NY 
  •  "STEAM series: Art of Discovery" West Windsor Arts Center, Princeton NJ
  • "EmBodied" SciArt Center virtual exhibit, New York NY
  • "Creativity in Science" for the 2016 Pint of Science Festival, Industry City Distillery, Brooklyn NY
  • "Future Artifacts" Dose Projects, Brooklyn NY
  • "Spectrum" Peter's Projects Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2015
  • "Compendium" Islip Art Museum, Islip, Long Island NY
  • "The New Unconscious" SciArt Center at Creations Gallery, New York NY
  • "+One" Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
  • "The New Unconscious" virtual exhibit, SciArt Center of New York, New York NY
  • "Alptraum" Visual Voice Gallery, Ontario Canada
2014
  • "Occam's Razor: Art, Science, and Aesthetics" Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts and !dea Gallery at the Ontario Science Center, Ontario Canada
  • "Homefront" second-year SVA MFA show, New York NY
2013
  • "smallWORKS", Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY
  • "Subjective Resonance Imaging", Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle WA
  • "Culture, Mind and Body", Main Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst MA
2011
  • "The Seam" Fox 3 Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
  • "Little Decisions, Big Outcomes" Gallery 500, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
2010
  • Hampshire College Alumni Weekend, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College, Amherst MA
2009
  • “Exploring Narrative” Centrum Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst MA
  • The Neural Correlate of Concrete outdoor installation (2009-2014), Hampshire College, Amherst MA

COLLECTIONS:
  • New York University, New York NY
  • John's Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
  • Private collections (international)     

SCIENCE-ART CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
  • "Citizen Artist" The College of New Jersey, Ewing NJ & Northeastern University, Boston MA
  • "Hypothetically" Lafayette College, Easton PA
  • "The New Mimesis" SciArt exhibition at Nurture Nature Center, Easton PA
  • "What Lies Beneath" SciArt inaugural exhibition at Central Booking Gallery, New York NY

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, PANELS, GUEST WRITINGS, RESIDENCIES, ETC.:
2021
  • Speaker at the University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland
2020
  • Speaker at Columbia University, Neuroscience Society's "Panel on Neuroaesthetics"
  • Speaker at Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin FL
  • Speaker at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
  • Participant in Broto: Art, Science, and Collaboration conference, Provincetown MA 
  • Speaker at ArtSpace Maynard
2019
  • Judge for Biodesign Challenge, New York NY
  • Contributor to Nature Nanotechnology, "Brain wonders," May 2019 issue
  • Speaker & moderator at Broto: Art, Science, and Collaboration conference, Provincetown MA
  • Keynote for Cell Art Collaborative Showcase, High Point University, High Point NC
  • Keynote for Brain Awareness Week & visiting artist, Hope College, Holland MI 
2018
  • Speaker for Catalyst Conversations "Science and Art Embodied," Cambridge MA
  • Speaker for "Listening to Catalyst" Catalyst Conversations podcast series
  • Judge for Biodesign Challenge, New York NY
  • Moderator ​at Broto: Art, Science, and Collaboration conference, Provincetown MA 
  • Curator's talk for "Hypothetically" at Lafayette College, Easton PA
  • STEMxART Rutgers Career Panel
  • Keynote at "Plasmodium Symposium" Hampshire College, Amherst MA
2017
  • Organizer of "Art & Science: The Two Cultures Converging" SciArt Center & Helix Center conference, New York NY
  • Visiting artist & presenter at Arts & Design Research Incubator, Penn State University College of Arts & Architecture, PA
  • Presenter at Cultural Programs at the National Academy of Sciences DASER meeting, Washington DC
  • Participant in Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity conference, Valencia Spain
  • Contributor to #Nodes project publication
  • Presenter at Women in Bio, New York NY
  • Visiting artist at All City Leadership Secondary School, Brooklyn NY
  • Presenter at “The Spaces in Between” at New School conference, New York NY
  • Teaching artist at Lafayette College (Spring 2017)
  • Guest lecturer at NYU Cognitive Neuroscience of Music class 
2016
  • Presenter at ArtSci Cafe, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
  • Presenter at SciVizNYC conference, New York NY
  • Visiting artist at Pace University, New York NY 
  • Presenter at Rutgers' STEAM student group at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
  • Presenter at Aesthetics and the Life Sciences symposium at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
  • Presenter at YHouse on Art, Science, and Ways of Knowing at Rubin Museum, New York NY
  • Visiting artist at Rhode Island School of Design 2016-2017 academic year, Providence RI
  • Presenter in Transborder Art: Conversation with Artists Art & Science episode
  • Presenter at  the Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity conference, Cancun Mexico 
  • Presenter at Columbia University's Knowledge, Technology, and Social Systems Seminar, New York NY
  • Contributor to Forecast Public Art for High Art: Public Art on the High Line                 
  • Guest juror for Apex Art, New York NY
  • Visiting artist at Lafayette College, Easton PA 
2015  2014
  • Presenter at Leonardo/ISAST New York LASER, New York NY
  • Workshop and lecture presenter at Hampshire College, Amherst MA
  • Presenter at the Association for Medical Illustrators Annual Conference at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
  • Presenter at Satellite Magazine "Cities+ Speaker Series," New York NY
  • Artist-in-Residence at Imagine Science Films  (June 2014 - December 2014), New York NY
  • Presenter at Dorkbot: People doing strange things with electricity hosted at Columbia University, New York NY
  • Visiting artist at Lafayette College, Easton PA
  • Moderator for CUriosity3 Talks: Sound in Art and Science, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York NY

PRESS: ​
EDUCATION:     
School of Visual Arts (2012-2014)
  • Master of Fine Arts, Studio Arts
Maryland Institute College of Art (2010-2011)
  • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Sculpture
Hampshire College (2006-2010); Double major in Neuroscience and Sculpture
  • Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts & Neuroscience, Five College Cognitive Neuroscience Certificate