Education
MFA, Fine Art, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2006
BA, Anthropology/Gender Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1998
Exhibitions
2025 (forthcoming)
The Lillian Orlowski and William Freed Award Exhibition, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Title TBD, Celeste LeWitt gallery at UConn Health, Farmington, CT
2024
A Suitcase, Picture Theory, New York, NY
Zero Art Fair, Elizaville, NY
2023
Double Take: Familiar Objects in Unexpected Materials, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
In Medias Res, URSA Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
Winter Exhibition, ART06870, Greenwich, CT
Fusion, Wábi Gallery, curated by Omola Studio, New Haven, CT
The Past Pushes Forward, Omola Studio, New Haven, CT
Circadian Rhythms, Colorblends/URSA Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
2022
Avidya, URSA Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
2020
989 Paces, 989 Paces, New Haven, CT2019
Perverse Furniture, Artspace, New Haven, CTnear orbit: in state, on paper, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, CT
2018
Death Masks, Artspace, New Haven, CT (solo exhibition)Science For a Better Life, CWOS Alternative Space, New Haven, CT (solo commissioned project)
Sour Milk, curated by Ben Quesnel and Christine Stiver, Greenwich, CT
Folded: New Acquisitions to the Artspace Flatfile, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Monsters among/within, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery at Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
2016
Lost & Found, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CTIn Politics We Trust, BOFFO, New York, NY
2015
In Conversation, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT2014
UI, Independent Project, curated by Paul Theriault, New Haven, CTEllipses Project, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (collaborative project with artist Cat Balco and University of Hartford students)
2013
The Furthest Distance Between Two Points, Wharton + Espinosa, Los Angeles, CAYour Content Will Return Shortly, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
2012
Local Builders: An Anthology of Connecticut Sculptors, West Cove Studios,New Haven, CT
2011
Body Asylum, Soi Fischer, Vancouver, BC, Canada2010
Charnel House Scraps, Greene Park Gallery, Los Angeles, CAJerry-Rigged, Curated by Jan Tumlir, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Bourgeois Problems, Curated by Catherine Taft, François Ghebaly Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Betwixt and Between, Curated by Liza Statton, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Sameness, Difference, Variance, Curated by Eric Litke, West Cove Studios, New Haven, CT
Mythical State of Jefferson, Curated by Michael Crane, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2009
Marine Salon No. 1, Marine, Los Angeles, CA2008
Intersection 2008, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA2007
Performance/Film/Video, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CAMedical/Arts, NewTown @ the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
The Collective Body, Galerie Califia, Horazdovice, Czech Republic
2006
Greater LA MFA, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CAPharmakondriac, M.F.A. Thesis Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Grants and Awards
2024
Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Artist Grant, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
2023
Connecticut Artist Fellowship, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Hartford, CT
The Bitsie Clark Fund for Artists Grant, New Haven, CT
2021
Artist To Watch – Ortega y Gasset Projects Open Call, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Artist’s Resource Trust Fund for Individuals, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Sheffield, MA
Video Screenings/Events
2022
“Your Brain on Avidya”, URSA Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
2019
“Video Snack 7: Video Object”, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA2018
“Video Snack 6: Video as a Second Language”, Fikra Graphic Design Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates2017
“Video Snack 6: Video as a Second Language”, El Museo de Los Sures, Brooklyn, NY2007
“Legally!”, Hyperion Tavern, Los Angeles, CA2006
“Video Nightmare”, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CACuratorial
2019
Tilia Projects, New Haven, CT
2018
False Flag: The Space Between Paranoia and Reason, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
2013
Head, Institute Library, New Haven, CTTalks
“No Dimension: Drugs, Dots, and Spaces of Molecular Embodiment,” Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University, Spring 2023
“The Pharma-Chroma-Ceutical Complex”, Artist Talk, University of Oregon, Spring 2023
Publications and Writing
“No Dimension: Drugs, Dots, and Spaces of Molecular Embodiment,” Ultra Space Volume One, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University, April 2024
“Some tranquilizers overtranquilize, but on Stelazine she’s calm and alert,” The Perch, Volume 6: Substance, 2024
“Down in the Uncanny Valley: The Landscapes of Ruth Lantz,” Independent Essay, February 2024
“Tristes Nootropiques,” Utopian Megapraxis, (UU)ater, Issue 1, February 2024
Bibliography
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