Education and Academic Research
2022-2024 :: Columbia University School of the Arts : MFA
2015-2019 :: Rhode Island School of Design : Undergraduate BFA
2017 :: Cross Registration at Brown University: Generative Sound Systems
2013 :: Columbia University Summer Courses: Drawing
2012 :: Barnard Summer Session : Music and Cultural Anthropology
2002-2015 :: Poughkeepsie Day School
Artist statement
The word peel suggests a removal - an intermediary, protective sheet, or covering that is able to contain or reveal what lies beneath. A layer, skin, or mask, to be discarded, though essential to the processes of both growth and repair.
I use performance to combine familial mythologies with the complicated cultural and geo-political material histories of my sculptures, in order to speak to the multiplicity and hybridity of being a mixed race, queer person in America. Coming from a multi-generational family of dentists, I collect discarded dental equipment that I use as surrogates to narrate passed down oral history tales of migratory resilience, resourcefulness and play. I often use humor in my work, and consider the ways in which joy can operate as a tactic of political resistance. Through this process of telling and re-telling, I engage with an iterative practice which treats permutation and sampling as an act of preservation and regeneration.
As I combine mediums and processes to create my work, my practice remains still-moving. Between the spaces of objects, and the gums of my teeth, I carry intention, hopefulness, and possibility within the boundlessness of creation - that everything ever made was once imaginary, and made into belief.
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Tu Give, Tu Take
Gallery TuTu, Brooklyn NY
In Medias Res
theBlanc Gallery, New York NY
Columbia MFA First Year's Show
The Wallach Gallery, New York NY
2021 Boundless Loops
SFA Projects, New York NY
LOVE
Summer Street Collective, Providence RI
2019 EXIT
Exit Galleries, Boston MA
SE ACULILLÓ? | PRIMXS/ES | MAG-PINSAN | COUSINS
The Center For Reconciliation, Providence RI
Bye Bye
41 Meeting Street, Providence RI
Welcome to My Show
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI
2018 In the Mood for Love
Gelman Gallery at RISD Museum, Providence RI
Paris Plus Friends
233 Westminster St, Providence RI
Vista Panoramica
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh NY
RISD Sculpture Triennale
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI
2017 + Friends Pop Up Shop
The Wurks, Providence RI
the Jam (Exhibition and Commission)
Providence RI
Lost & Exhibition
Gelman Gallery at RISD Museum, Providence RI
NEWBURGH OPEN STUDIOS - 2017
Newburgh, NY
PVD Field Day
Providence RI
PVD Fest
Providence RI
The Wurks Art Expo
Providence RI
Teran Studio: Black and White Gala
Newburgh, NY
2016 RISD ARTIST BOOK COMPETITION
Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library, Providence, RI
2015 ART ABOUT WATER
Newburgh NY
2014 Heal Haiti Benefit Events
Poughkeepsie, NY
2013 Beacon Artist Union National Exhibition: Apocalypse
Beacon, NY
2012 Garrison Art Center's National Exhibition: PHOTOcentric
Garrison, NY