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BIRTH

May 1, 1976 / Honolulu, Hawaii / USA

EDUCATION

BA Literature & Film Studies / University of Southern California, 1994 – 1998

MA Res Humanities / The London Consortium, 2000 -2001


PROJECTS FOR NEW ORLEANS AIRLIFT

Liberation Vibration / Co-Leading Artist /New Orleans Airlift + Amistad Research Center + Third Eye Interdisciplinary Theatre + Papa Titos Sompas / New Orleans, 2022

Music Box Outpost: Prattsville / Installation + performance / curator + creative director + contributing artist / Prattsville Art Center, NY / 2021

From New Water Music / Exhibition /Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, 2019

The Transnational / co-lead artist / Sharjah Biennial 14 /United Arab Emirates, 2019

Porch Life / Traveling installation + performance platform / contributing artist + creative director / Kennedy Center, DC; Coney Island, NY; African Bead Museum, Detroit, Eaux Claires Festival, WI; Jazz Fest, New Orleans, 2018

Music Box Outpost: North Adams / Installation + performance / Creative Director + co creating artist with Taylor Lee Shepherd, Klaas Huber and Andrew Schrock / MassMOCA + Tourists, Massachusetts/ July 2016

New Water Music / Installation + Performance / Co-creator with Yotam Haber + Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, New Orleans, LA, 2016

The Music Box Village / Establishment of this permanent site for installation + performance / Creative Director /2016

The Music Box: Tampa Bay / Installation +Performance / Creative Director/ Curator Sarah Howard / Contemporary Art Museum University of South Florida / Tampa / March 2016

The Music Box Roving Village: City Park / Installation + Performance / Creative Director + contributing artist / New Orleans / 2015

Space Rites / Installation + Performances /Creative Director of performances / New Orleans Airlift / Prospect 3 / Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, LA 2014 – 2015

Rally Under the Bridge / Processional performance / Lead Artist + Curator /New Orleans / May 2014

Public Practice / Performance / Co-created with Claire Tancons /New Orleans Airlift / MONA / Prospect 3 /New Orleans /October 2014

The Music Box: Calanthean Canyon / Installation + Performance / Contributing artist + Creative Director /Shreveport / April 2014

The Music Box: Outpost Kiev / Installation + Performance / Creative Director + Contributing artist /Art Arsenale Museum/ Sponsored by the US State Department /Kiev, Ukraine/ 2012

The Music Box: a Shantytown Sound Laboratory / Installation + Performance /Creative Director + Contributing artist / New Orleans / 2011 – 2012

Tableau Viviant: A Wandering Retrospective / Creative Director + contributing artist / Collaboration with curator Rosie Cooper of Barbican Museum/ Prospect 1.5 + New Orleans Airlift / New Orleans /2010

Legend of Zradab / Installation with performance / Creative Director + contributing artist /Barrister’s Gallery / New Orleans / 2009

New Orleans Now / Tank Magazine Vol. 5, Issue 6 / Contributing photographer / 2009

SOLO EXHBITIONS

Siren Song / Barrister’s Gallery/ New Orleans, 2017

Tableau Vivant – The Trust / Parse Gallery / New Orleans / May 2012

Memorandum of Agreement / Fordham Gallery / London November 2005 *

Alptrum / St. Augustine’s Tower /London/ 2003

Trinity Falls / M+R Gallery / London / November 2003 *

Mum and Dad in the Good Ol’ Days / Shop window / Liverpool St, London / Goldsmiths College/ June 2003*

Hand Made Patterns / Seven Seven Gallery /London /May 2002 *

*Projects in collaboration with art partner Luke Brennan

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

Dacha / Tableaux Vivant Performance / Light up Livernois / Detroit / 2013

Things Fall Apart / Collaboration with Arielle De Pinto for Fashion Week / Project No 8 / New York / 2010

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Museum of Curiosity / Pertwee Anderson & Gold / Black Rat Projects / London / 2013

Volitalia/ Barrister’s Gallery/ New Orleans/ 2012

Antibecedarians / Barrister’s Gallery / New Orleans / 2009

Assembly / Fieldgate Gallery / London / 2008 *

Father was a Tailor / FA Projects / London / 2004 *

*Projects in collaboration with art partner Luke Vandenberg

OTHER WORK

New Orleans Airlift / Co-Founder & Creative Executive Director / Multi-disciplinary artist-driven non profit creating collaborative public art projects locally and internationally / 2009 – 2022

The Music Box Village: Co-founding artist & Creative Director / Ever evolving sonic installation and performance platform in New Orleans, Louisiana with international outposts / 2011 -2022

New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant / Founder & Creative Director / Presentations of tableaux vivants + research, panels / 2010 – Present

SPEAKING

SXSW, Austin, TX, Featured Speaker, March 2017

Instint, New Orleans, Featured Speaker, 2016

Sculpture Society, University of Florida, Gainseville / Guest Lecturer / March 2015

24th International Sculpture Conference: Sculpture, Culture, and Community / Featured Speaker / New Orleans / Oct 2014

Monument /Anti-monument Conference, Sculpture City St. Louis / Featured Panelist / St. Louis, Mo / April 2014

Artspeak, Center for Contemporary Art / Guest Panelist / New Orleans / Oct 2013

Hand in Glove Conference / Ways of Being Panel / Featured Panelist / October 2013

SELECTED PRESS

The Guardian, The New York Times, Artnet, Art News, Frieze, Art Forum,BBC World Service, NPR’s All Things Considered, Smithsonian Magazine, Art Papers, Voice of America, Sculpture Magazine, Form Magazine, Time Out London, The Face, Flux, Spin Magazine

RESIDENCIES

West Kortright Centre / New York / 2022 + 2023

Institute for Research in the Arts, University of South Florida /Tampa, Fl / February 2016

Shreveport Unscene! Residency / Shreveport, LA/ April 2014

Georgia Tech University Artist-in-Residence / Spring Semester 2014

US Embassy Artist-in-Residence / Kiev, Ukraine / Sept 2012

SELCTED FUNDERS

NEA, 2019, 2020, 2021

New Music USA 2017, 2020, 2022

Map Fund, 2016, 2020

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2020

Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking 2016

Burning Man Arts 2016

Greater New Orleans Foundation: 2014

Education Foundation of America: 2012, 2014

Jazz and Heritage Foundation: 2011 - 2020

Arts Council New Orleans: 2010 -2020

Black Rock Arts Foundation: 2009, 2015

Louisiana Division of the Arts: 2010 - 2020

Louisiana Economic Development Foundation: 2008

Arts Council England: 2002, 2004

Overseas Research Award 2000