Born in 1970
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York


Education:

1994      MFA, Painting and Sculpture, School of Visual Arts,               New York, NY
1992      BA cum laude, Literature and Art History, Barnard             
              College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions:

2011      Vertical Neck, Simon Preston, New York, NY

2009      The Violent Bear It Away, Simon Preston, New York, NY

2008
      LAX><ART, The Year We Made Contact, Los               Angeles, CA

2005      Gallery Paule Anglim, Wenk Row, San Francisco, CA

2001      Deitch Projects, Adventures in the Skin Trade, New               York, NY
              Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Adventures in the Skin               Trade, Milan, Italy              

1999      Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), The               Untitled Thumb and Drape Project, Los Angeles,               CA              

1998      Deitch Projects, Leather, New York, NY

1996      Feature, Inc., Michelle Lopez, New York, NY
              407, New York, NY


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011      The Influentials, SVA Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY
              Lost,
Invisible Exports, NY, NY
              SC13, SFAD(Interventions), San Francisco, CA
              (curated by Chris Fitzpatrick  and Post Brothers)

2010      Not Cooperative, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008      Fat Head Balloon Self-Portrait, Exercising for                  
              Exorcising (Mein Doppelganger), My Lights                
              (Kokopelli), C3PO, Simon Preston Gallery, NY
              Coup de Grace, Simon Preston Gallery, NY,
              Nina in Position, Artist Space, curated by Jeffrey Uslip,               NY, NY

 
2006
      I'm Not Here, Grimm/Rosenfeld, NY, NY
              Not.Lear, Envoy, NY, NY

2005      Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,               San Francisco, CA
              Kicking Rocks, Champion Fine Arts, curated by Anna               Sew Hoy, LA, CA

2004      OCMA, California Biennial, Orange County, CA

2000      Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center,               Long Island City, NY              
              Halcyon Days, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center,               Brooklyn, NY
               


             
              Deitch/Steinberg Editions
, Deitch Projects, NY, NY
              Philosophy in the Bedroom, Or Gallery, Vancouver,               Canada

1999      Foul Play, Threadwaxing Space, curated by Cheryl               Kaplan, NY, NY

1998      Drawers, Feature, Inc., NY, NY
              Opens M du B, F, H & g, Montreal, Quebec

1997      Current/Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
              The Art Exchange 407, NY, NY

Curatorial Projects:

2007      Exit Music (for a Film), Grimm/Rosenfeld, NY, NY and               Munich, Germany

Awards & Honors:

2002-5   UC Berkeley, Junior Faculty Research Grants, "The               Death Star" and "Rapid-prototyping of sculptures,"               Berkeley, CA

2002      Art in America: Best Public Art, August 2002

2002      New York Foundation for the Arts Award, NY, NY




Teaching:

              School of Visual Arts, Graduate Program of Painting               and Sculpture, Resident Faculty, New York, New               York, Fall 2005 - Present
              University of California, Berkeley, Department of Art               Practice, Assistant Professor, Fall 2002-2005
              New York University, Department of Art, Adjunct               Assistant Professor, Fall 2000-2002
              Columbia University, School of the Arts, Adjunct               Assistant Professor: Fall 2000-Spring 2001, Graduate               Fine Arts Program, Undergraduate Fine Arts Program