EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Master of Fine Arts in New Genres, May 2001
Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart , Stuttgart, Germany
State Exam in Verbreiterungsfach Kunst, a three-semester program of installation art,
performance and video, 1998
State Exam in Fine Arts, 1997 (studied with Joan Jonas and Henk Visch)
AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Fellowship for workshop “Where the Action is: designing interactive installations”, Sept. 2006
CSG Fellowship, Elizabeth Ireland Graves Foundation, 2004
Dale Djerassi Fellowship, 2003
McMillan Award for Best of MFA-graduation show, San Francisco Art Institute, 2001
Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, 1999 and 2000
Scholarship for International Students, San Francisco Art Institute, 1999 and 2000
Exchange Scholarship “Kuenstlerwege”, Surikov Institute of Art, Moscow, 1993
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Museum of the Town of Sturovo, Slovakia, “Bridging” installation project as a result of a community project with local elementary- and high school students, Oct./Nov. 05
At-home Gallery, Samorin, Slovakia, “A Castle for Samorin”, installation, Sept. 05
Galerie Inkijk, Amsterdam, Holland, “Against All Odds”, video-installation, Sept. 05
Galerie 22, Stuttgart, Germany, installations with video, photography and narrative, Sept./Oct. 04
Atelier veskerehosocharstvi VSUP, Prag, Czech Republic, “In and Out of Synch”, video, Sept. 04
Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, Germany, Territory as Memory, 2-person show with
Patricia Diart, video installations, May/June 04 (catalogue)
Gedok-Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany, "Schritt fuer Schritt", interactive installation piece with video projection and sound/voice, Nov./Dec. 02
Forefront Gallery, Ipswich, GB, "scanned", site-specific installation with video performance, April 02
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition at Fort Mason Center, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, "31 MUNI-Rides", interactive installation with sounds, May 01
Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, "Work in Progress", installation with mural prints, Sept. 00
Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, "LOST?", installation piece with sewn garments and video, Oct. 99
Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart, examination show, Germany, April 97
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
Don´t call it work - sit down and make decisions, Joan Jonas, Joan Jonas’s Stuttgart class 1995-1999: “The first Song was Sung by a Creek”, 3-channel video installation, Dec. 04
Art Farm, Marquette, NE, “long shadows” 5 installations with videos and narratives, Sept. 03
New Fangle , technology-based Art Exhibition by GenArt San Francisco: "Dream Dome", interactive installation with video projection and voices, Oct./Nov. 01
Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, "215 MUNI-rides in San Francisco", installation, Feb. 01
fuzzylogic at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, "MARKINGS", video piece, Nov./Dec. 00
Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, "MARKINGS", installation piece, Aug. 00
TRANSLACJE art symposium, Piotrkow Trybunalski, installation piece, Poland, Sept. 99
TRANSLACJE art symposium, Piotrkow Trybunalski, video installation, Poland, Sept. 98
GEDOK gallery Stuttgart, Germany, Nov./Dec. 97
ARSENAL gallery, Poznan, Poland, installation, Sept. 97
ON gallery, Poznan, Poland, Aug. 96
Center for Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland, Feb. 96
Academy of Fine Art, Duesseldorf, Germany, student exchange show, Nov. 94
ZUGKUNST , installation in a train compartment as part of a traveling art project, Germany, Nov. 93
Surikov Institute of Art, Moscow, July 93
PERFORMANCES / SCREENINGS / FESTIVALS
Screening of “DreamBox” at Annual International Small Film Festival, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Sept. 06
Screening of “Bridging” at art festival New Riddles and Constellations 3, Retort Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland, Nov. 05
“Long Shadows”, performance at 10 th Anniversary Celebration, Art Farm, Marquette, NE, Sept. 03
Video broadcast of several short films at Terminal – The Program for Contemporay Arts,
Slovenian National TV, Slovenia, May 02
Video performance, Forefront Gallery, Ipswich, England, April 02
LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS / WORKSHOPS
Public lecture at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, July 06
Site-specific art workshops with elementary- and high school students in Sturovo, Slovakia, Oct. 05
Participation in Made in Rotterdam, an art event organized by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen: presentation of “DreamBox”, 2-channel video installation, Duende Studios, Rotterdam, July 05
Presentation of “Against All Odds”, an installation, Kanaal 10, Amsterdam, March 05
Public lecture at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, Sept. 03
Lecture at Suffolk College, Department for Art and Design, Ipswich, England, April 02
CURATORIAL PROJECTS / JURIES
Curator for Gold Rush – Artist as prospector: mining and transforming the everyday , exhibition featuring San Francisco artists at gallery OP-Nord, Stuttgart, Germany, Nov./Dec. 06
Juror for Bemis Underground curatorial residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, July 06
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico, Sept./Oct. 06
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, June-Aug. 06
Anderson Ranch Arts Center , Colorado , Jan.-April 06
Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming, Nov./Dec.05
Bridge Guard Artist Residency, Sturovo, Slovakia, July-Oct. 05
DUENDE Studios Artist Residency, Rotterdam, Holland, April-June 05
Kanaal 10 Artist Residency, Amsterdam, Holland, Feb./March 05
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia, Oct./Nov. 04
Art Symposium Isolation, Postsovkhoz 4, Mooste, Estonia, August 04
Mayrau Miner’s Museum Artist Residency, Kladno, Czech Republic, Aug./Sept. 04
Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, Germany, April/May 04
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, residency with Master Artist Carolee Schneemann, March 04
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, Aug.-Oct. 03
Art Farm Residency, anniversary project, Marquette, Nebraska, July/Sept. 03
Djerassi Artist Residency, Woodside, California, April/May 03
Weir Farm Trust Residency in Wilton, Connecticut, Oct. 02
Art Farm Residency in Marquette, Nebraska, Sept./Oct. 01
TRANSLACJE international artists residency in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, Aug. 99 and 98
Residency for Sculptors in Rechberghausen, Germany, July 97
Summer Academy for Arts, Poznan, Poland, Aug. 97, 96 and 95
Center for Sculpture in Oronsko, Poland, Feb. 96