Artist cv

PROFILE

I make work to deepen my relationships to people, plants and the built environment. 

EDUCATION

•  Miami Dade College, 2000- 2003 Associate in Arts of English

  • University of Massachusetts 2008-2010 Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies/Movement as a Form of Healing

  • Pratt University, 2014-2017, Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy


AWARDS

  • Suma Cum Laude, 2017 Pratt University

  • Ellies Award 2018- Oolite Arts

  • Ellies Award 2020- Oolite Arts

  • Grass Stains Residency- Pioneer Winter 2020

  • Miami Beach Open House Residency and Grant Program- 2021

  • Oolite Arts and Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Program- 2021

  • Grass Stains Residency- Pioneer Winter- 2022

  • Here and Now Grant- Miami Light Project - 2022



SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • Manifest Destiny - 2002- Curated by: Anat Ebgi with Janaina Vida Panconesi 

  • “The Tourist” - Front and Center - The Box - 2003 - Solo performance piece                                                                                                                                       

  • “Red and Blue” - The Blue Show - 2003 - The Dorsch Gallery  - Solo performance piece                                                                                                                     

  •  “Ten Years” - 2004- Art show curated by Jenna Balfe - Commemorating Kurt Cobain                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

  • “Objects Found Living and Dying” - 2005- Bas Fisher Invitational - first solo art exhibition featuring sculpture made with found objects, work on paper and sound art. Throughout the month there were performances held in the space 2- 3 times a week.                                                                                                            

  • “Of Sound and Vision”- 2008- Honor Roll Music - Curated by: Aja Luna Albertson - Video art in collaboration with Mauricio Abascal

  • “100 Breaths”- 2009 -  Hampshire College - Dance Piece I choreographed - with Lily Gold, Mary Read, Sarah Blackwell and Mauricio Abascal

  • “A Place to make new Friends” 2011- 3825 - Curated by Bhakti Baxter- Sculptural Collaboration with Misael Soto, we built a two-story fort with a tunnel that led to it made of garbage. We hosted social interaction on the second floor for a week.

  • “One Size Fits All, The Nightclub - May, 2012 -  A group exhibition curated by Bhakti Baxter for the nomadic art platform “The Nightclub” I contributed “butt prints”

  • “Body Movement Project” January 2012-current- I currently am teaching this creative movement class at Mana Contemorary- Miami

  • “BodyMovement Workshop” at the Art Live fair September 27, 2012.- A series of workshops I held during this multi-disciplinary fair.

  • “The Possesion” A performance piece in collaboration with musician Otto Von Schirach. September 9, 2012

  • “Eat The Rest But Leave Me The Taste” December 6, 2012 - A clandestine performance piece performed during Art Basel featuring Natasha Velez and Jean Wilemanceau

  • “Being”, Fundraiser for The Miami Performance Festival, April 24, 2013 - A Performace piece with Misael Soto, Dylan Romer, Jacqueline Falcone, Daliahah Koller and Olivia Ramos Herrera.

  • “Death” The Jacqueline Falcone Bed and Breakfast, June 14, 2013 - A performance piece/conversation in collaboration with Bhakti Baxter

  • “Dance-Non-Fiction”, June 30, 2013- The Miami Performance Festival- A dance about relationships with: Mauricio Abascal, Natasha Lopez DeVictoria, Oliva Ramos Herrera, Cassie Mills, Daliahah Koller, Jean Crystal and Natasha Velez

  • “I Feel Sexy” July 14, 2013, Bed&Breakfeast at Cannonball Artist Residence, Miami- Jacqueline Falcone and Guru Rugu’s Bed in and Breakfast a solo performance on the bed as gallery space.

  • “Spinal Tap” August 30, 2013- The Collabo Show, curated by Bhakti Baxter, Miami-  A movement and multimedia collaborative performance with Magnus Sodamin, Katy Cora Stirman and David Alexander Bennet

  • “Rainbow Butt Relay Race” September 12, 2013, A performance event that occured at the after-party for the Tm Sisters solo show at the David Castillo Gallery.

  • "Pattern Formation in Nature- Lecture Series" October, 2013, Gallery Diet, Miami- Movement Performance with Pebble Yaffe and Monica Userisowitcz 

  • "Reflexion/Live" I- “2013” NDEX Performance Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic. A solo performance with work on vide projected.

  • “People Tree’s Here” July, 2014, A site-specific dance performance, Miami, FL,  Directed by Jenna Balfe, with dancers: Katie Stirman and Ewa Jefferson. Musicians: Dennis Fuller, Doug Weber, David Bennet

  • “The Body is a Feeling” February, 2016, Movement Research, NY,NY, Choreographed by Jenna Balfe, Dancers: Jenna Balfe and Cassie Mills. Musicians: Dennis Fuller and Josh Millrod

  • “View” July, 2016, The Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY, A collaborative dance with Misael Soto. Music by Dennis Fuller.

  • “Transcendence” October 2016, Common Field Miami, Commissioned by The Miami Music Club, A original choreography collaborating with musician LXV.

  • “⊖” at BFI, 2016, Miami, FL A series of ambient residency programs framed by ⊖ and hosted by various institutions including ACRE, WI; Waterfront, NY; and MCA, Chicago. I was aware a residence in this programming. 

  • “Humanimal” February 2017, Original choreography created for a site-specific sculpture by artist Naomi Fisher. Dancers: Jenna Balfe and Nikki Salcedo. Music: Dennis Fuller and Doug Weber

  • “Flood Relief” November 2017, Original choreography made for Misael Soto’s piece Flood Relief commissioned by Art in Public Spaces MDC, shown at PAMM.

  • “Transnaturism” 1 and 1.2, February 2018, Performed at Blackbird Ordinary and at the International Noise Conference. Ongoing Narrative.

  • “Institutional Bodies” May 2018, SAIC, Chicago. A collaborative site adaptive performance with Misael Soto as a part of his MFA   Thesis work: “Side Show”

  • “Object of Touch”, September 2018, Video Piece and Performance- with Natasha Velez, for the show Emergency Contacts an exhibition curated by Placeholder Gallery  and Jamieson Webster. Based on "Figure Out", a semi-fictional epistolary novel by Jamieson Webster and Marcus Coelen, published by Heinzfeller Nileisist. Video- 8 minutes long

  • “Transnaturism 2.6” Nada Art fair, December 2018. This iteration of the performance was made especially upon the request by Nada Art Fair. Dancers: Nikki Salcedo, Baker Stephanie, Dan Edenburg, Misael Soto, Pebble Yaffe. Musicians- Dennis Fuller, Myles Hancock and David Bennet

  • “Object of Touch” video 2019, Featured in “Decentralized” a group show at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey

  • “Land Ownership is so Sketchy” Faena Forum, Miami, February 2019. Video and Performance for event curated by Charo Oquet.

  • “Shore” April 2019, Soho Beach House Miami, Curated and Presented by Placeholder Gallery. A performance art piece in collaboration with Monica Lopez De Victoria of The TM Sisters and Donzii. An evening of performance art and music.

  • “Emotional/Physical” May 2019, Mana Contemporary, Miami FL, Performance piece, Video installation, Piano Organ choreography and sound art. In collaboration with Dennis Fuller.

  • “Metromovement- A Transnaturism Experience” September 2019, A multi site-specific work created in Downtown Miami using the public transportation and walking to individual sites. Presented by BFI Gallery, The DDA funded by Oolite Arts through the Ellies Award.

  • “Pamm, Local Artist Forum: Balancing” A presentation of the many facets of my work as an artist and empath.

  • “Donzii Opening for New Order Residency”, January 2020

  • “Creative Lobbying- November 2019, Art Basel 2019, February 2020, Department of Reflection, a parafictional department embedded into the Miami Beach Government by Misael Soto. Creative Lobbying was a series of workshops where participants translated political lobbying into physical narratives.

  • “The Length of Eachother Despite Difference” February 2020, PERFORMIA 2020, Edge Zones Gallery Miami, Choreography with objects and live sound score, exploring the lines we create to divide each other.

  • “Ellies Connect” A online art conversation with Morel Doucet. May, 2020, A conversation moderated by Angelica Arbalez hosted by Oolite Arts connecting and discussing where Morel’s work and my own intersect and differ. This series was developed in an effort to keep artists active during the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic.

  • “Artist Views” Perez Art Museum Miami, August 2020. This was a virtual version of their program called Artist Views. I presented about my work using slide show and also gave a sample of my Bodymovement class and a musical outro to the viewing with my partner Dennis Fuller.

  • “Pop Collage Death” Performia- Edge Zones Miami- at Faena Art Forum Miami Beach, August 2020. A performance art piece for video featuring an assemblage of pop riffs that we recorded. We generated political/emotional gestural responses to the sonic bits to create a short choreography.

  • “2020 The Musical” - The Historic Virginia Beach Park, A musical comedy experiment in four parts- in collaboration with Dennis Fuller

  • “Organesis” April 2021- A movement and musical narrative told in two parts, taking viewers into a post-human fantasy. Made possible through a grant won for the “Open House” residency through The City of Miami Beach Arts and Culture.

  • “Organesis Continued” December 2021 at Edgezones, Miami. Curated by Kunst and Agua Dulce. Exploring a combination of post human joy and mourning and comedic technological susbsuming.

  • “Organesis Continued” June 2, 3, 4 at Miami Light Project for their Here and Now Program.