An installation as adaptive model that references and critiques the minimalist sculptures of Carl Andre and Donald Judd, as well as the architecture of NYC public housing. It appropriates and transforms these aesthetic forms into relational objects that can serve various communities, expanding ideologies to create a new integrative site as a citation through a collection of resources and via collapsible sculptures that transform to function as a living archive and mobile institution.
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Three-person exhibition with Mira Dayal and Micah Schippa.“The exhibition comes together in resonance... The works ensembled are shaped into a series of sentences without words, a congregation of signs yearning to speak.” —Apparatus Projects.
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A multisensory installation, performance, and participatory practice that uses the story of a young “wayward” Indigenous girl’s attempt to escape an institution (specifically a convent) as a branching off point to engage similar narratives in the present, bringing awareness to the contemporary epidemic of missing and murdered BIPOC women, girls, trans, 2S, and GNC folks, as well as various forms of intersectional oppression and systemic violence.
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Catalog produced for the group exhibition blossom soup, blossom salad at the Block Museum. The book features commissioned texts by artists and critics, in addition to the research of an emard, Whitney Johnson, Scott Kemp, Travis Morehead, jess mai walker, and myself.
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Multisensory installation that engages with and challenges the educational methods, didactics, and displays of natural history museums, reframing our relationship to poisonous plants (such as those from the Anacardiaceae family) and pressing environmental issues (including overconsumption, water scarcity, and climate change), inspiring actions for transformative change.
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A multisensory installation and participatory work that explores migration, ecological devastation, intergenerational trauma, and historical trauma from an anti-colonial perspective. It uses the Anishinaabeg Seven Fires Prophecy, the Statue of Liberty (New York), and the Birth of the New World (Puerto Rico) monuments as metaphors, weaving together charged materials like gunpowder, archival images, and an audio essay/sound installation to prompt reflection on individual and collective responsibility.
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Group exhibition with Ashley Gillanders, Rosemary Holliday Hall, SaraNoa Mark, and Galen-Odell Smedley. “Surface Tension is an invitation to experience an archive of internal landscapes at a time when access to our external world is in refrain... to embrace a future that can transcend our bodily relation to the world around us.” —Pia Singh for Heaven Gallery.
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Acknowledgments 2019 was the first installation that works with the story of a young “wayward” Indigenous girl’s attempt to escape an institution (1892 NYT article “She Tired of Convent Life”). This initial iteration seeks to address the violence of borders and notions of private property, connecting stories of capture and cultural erasure through poetry, iconoclastic gestures, and orienting the body to scent, patterns, and time.
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Two-person exhibition with Wyne Veen at LVL3 that explored shifts in perspective and meaning related to context. Using personalized methods and unique approaches—such as allegory, changes in scale, and gesture—the works reevaluate platforms for processing and distilling information.
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Solo exhibition at New Capital Projects rooted in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s No Death, No Fear. The exhibition included a multisensory installation, a performance, and a group ritual responding to grief, loss, notions of identity, and the concept of impermanence.
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Being free together ruminates on the state of polarization across the US and on a lecture by Ram Dass that shares the same name. The multisensory installation translates these feelings and teachings into works of ritual, transmutation, and symbolic resonance.
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A performance and participatory work aimed at confronting and healing oppressed parts of the self through intimacy and reconnection to flora—offering a rose remedy, a recipe, and space for complex conversations and emotions to be held.
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