Research Overview

Research Interests

• Photography and Video Installation
• Representation of Space
• Site-Specificity
• Frame Theory
• Trompe l'oeil
• Book Making
• Maps and Floor Plans
• Notion(s) of time
• Fictions and Documents

Courses Offered (subject to change)

•  Introduction to Photography
•  Expanded Photography: Books & Boxes
•  Expanded Photography: Lens based Media in Space
•  Dance on Camera / Camera on Dance
•  Experimental Archives
•  Senior Studio & Seminar I
•  Senior Studio & Seminar II

Selected Publications

• There are mountains that move, Hyperkulturemia Gallery, 2020
• The only thing I can see is the sky, Monroe Theater, Rochester, NY, 2019
• Les attentes, VU, Quebec City, Canada, 2018
• Free Translation, MAA-tila, Helsinki, Finland, 2018
• Delayed, Big Orbit, a CEPA Gallery Project Space, Buffalo, NY, 2018
• Dislocations, Collar Works, Troy, NY, 2018
• Les attentes, CAMAC, Marnay-sur-seine, France, 2017
• Entrances, Gleason Library Gallery, University of Rochester, 2016–2017
• LAND FORM, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2016
• Les attentes—The Waiting, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, 2016
• Compartmented, (Co-curated with Missy Pfohl Smith) Site-specific installations and performances, Rochester, NY, 2015
• Tactiques de Camouflage, Le Magasin General, Semi-permanent public installation, Sainte-Madeleine, Canada, 2015
• Amid/In WNY Part 3, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 2015 
• New Perpectives | New Technologies, Ernestine M. Raclin Art Gallery, South Bend, IN, 2015
• Letter to the World III, Site-specific video installation and performance, World Stage Design, Cardiff, UK, 2013
• Les murmures des murs coulent dans les craques du plancher et les plafonds tombent, Espace F Artist-run Center, Matane, Canada, 2012
• The City is Asleep and Dreaming, Site-specific happenings and installations, various locations, Rochester, NY, 2012
• Traveling East, Werkstadt Graz Gallery, Graz, Austria, 2012
• Green Room, Semi-permanent public installation, Quai des Arts, Carleton-sur-mer, Canada, 2011
• In the Aquariums, Behind the Doors, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery and site-specific installations, Alfred, NY, 2011
• Dongxi-things, Kunstverein Baden Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2010
• Wet Markets, Catalyst artists Run Center / Chinese Welfare Association, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 2009
• Voisinages, Vaste et Vague artists Run Center, Carleton-sur-mer, Canada, 2008

Awards

• Provost’s University Research Awards, (Group project) How Is Rochester a Prison Town?, University of Rochester, NY, 2018-2019
• Humanities Center Fellowship, University of Rochester, NY, 2017
• Project Grant to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts, 2017
• Santa Fe CENTER Juried Review (Invited as an artist/photographer), Santa Fe, NM, 2016
• Research and Mobility Travel Grant, University of Rochester, 2016
• Artist residency, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, 2016
• Artist residency, La cité internationale des arts, Paris, France, 2016
• Artist residency, Lastation, Gagliano del Capo, Italy, 2016
• Artist residency, Magasin General: Studio international en creation multidisciplinaire, Sainte-Madeleine, Canada, 2015
• Travel Grant Canada Council for the Arts, 2015
• Project Grant to Visual Artists Canada Council for the Arts, 2015
• Artist residency, Project Space, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2014
• Artist residency, Signal Culture, Owego, NY, 2014
• Artist residency, Digital Arts Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 2008
• Artist residency, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China, 2008

Current Projects

• There are mountains that move: a multimedia project examining our relationship to waiting rooms and landscapes in suspension
• The only thing I can see is the sky: multimedia project in collaboration with writers affected by incarceration
• Letter to the World (I–V): a collection of site-specific video installation, live performance and printed pieces, produced in collaboration with American choreographer Chase D. Angier and Czech scenographer Marketa Fantovà.