About

CV

EDUCATION

2020 - 2022 B.F.A. Interdisciplinary Visual Arts — University of Washington
2016 - 2018 A.A. — Seattle Central Community College

EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENINGS/ PROJECTS

2024
-Trans|ations Film Festival - Disfigured Flames - Ark Lodge Cinema, Seattle, WA
2023
-South Sound Experimental Film Festival — Disfigured Flames — Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
-Pleasure Garden — Disfigured Flames — Le Voyeur, Olympia, WA
-Enby Party: Lifecycles — Disfigured Flames — Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
-City of the Future — Disfigured Flames & Cruise Paradise— The Teal Building, Seattle, WA
-Somatica — Cruise Paradise —Seattle, WA
-Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2023: Cameraless Animation Loop — Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
2022
-Vivid Vulnerability — Decadent Self-Abnegation of Intimacy & Night of the Voyeur — Sand Point Gallery, Seattle, WA
-Future Expressions — Decadent Self-Abnegation of Intimacy — The Room, Seattle, WA
-Four Vows — What is Art? — 16mm Pre-Show at The Crocodile’s Here-After Cinema, Seattle, WA
-The Last Show Before the End of Time — What is Art? — University of Washington, Seattle, WA
-Advanced Animation 16mm — Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA 
2020
-Cormorant — M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery Seattle, WA
2016
-Awaken Inner Art — Founder & Organizer, open to the public, dozens of participants participated in spray painting the multiple 12-foot by 12-foot canvas murals. The collaborative community murals were donated to the Queen Anne Community Center and displayed in 2018. — Seattle, WA

GRANTS/ AWARDS/ RECOGNITION

2023
-NPR/KUOW Mike's Adventures in Art: City of the Future, June 16th
-King 5 Evening Magazine ‘Seattle: City of the Future,’ June 13th
-The Stranger “Stranger Suggests Seattle: City of the Future,” June 8th
-Seattle Gay Scene “Seattle City of the Future Exhibit Takes Over R Place Building For June”
-EverOut/Seattle “Seattle City of the Future”
-Capitol Hill Seattle ‘Seattle: City of the Future’
-Awarded a $300 Grant from Third Place Technologies and Public Display Art
-Study Abroad with the University of Washington’s Art London: Art Scenes Past and Present
-Printmaking Association Member at the University of Washington
2016 - 18
-Interviewed on 1150 AM KKNW, Alternative Talk Radio four times.
-US-China Strong Foundation Student Ambassador
2012
-Anthology, 2 graphite illustrations published alongside a collection of essays in by BWYA, Beijing, China.
2011
-Won 1st Place Youth Artist at the Magnolia Art Festival, Seattle, WA.
2010
-Won People’s Choice Award at the Magnolia Art Festival, Seattle, WA.

JOURNALISM/WRITING

2023
-ART SAVES ME: T4T in Public Display Art: Volume 2, Issue 3.
-Drag me to Death in Public Display Art: Volume 2, Issue 2.
2018
- ‘Inside Apparel Design: Making a Bomber Jacket’ The Seattle Collegian
- ‘Walk with SCC in the Seattle Pride Parade’ The Seattle Collegian
- ‘Tartuffe Off Broadway’ The Seattle Collegian
- ‘Teen Arts + Opportunity Fair’ The Seattle Collegian
- ‘Ellen Forney on How to ‘Rock Steady’ The Seattle Collegian
- ‘Bemis ARTS Spring 2018 Art Show’ The Seattle Collegian
- ‘Basquiat at the SAM’ The Seattle Collegian
- ‘Photo essay: Patriot Prayer Rally at UW’ The Seattle Collegian
- ‘Coffee Run’ The Seattle Collegian 
2017
-Writing, modeling, and fashion in Issue’s #1 & #2 of Papermoon Magazine.