Lives and Works Greater New York Metro Area
Education
2001 MFA, Studio Art from Maine College of Art, Portland ME (Focus: Interactive Installation)
1988 BS, Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY (Major: Biomedical Imaging; Minor: Fine Art Photography)
Solo Exhibitions
2024 El Barrio ArtSpace, New York, NY
2024 The Hostetter Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ
2017 The Hostetter Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ
2002 Sensory Memory, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2001 Glass & Lint Creates a Home, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
Group Exhibitions
2024 Layers of Identity, curated by Connie Lee, New York City, NY
2024 Women Celebrate Women Inviational, New York City, NY
2023 SEED, 12 West 12th Street, New York City, NY
2023 Small is Beautiful, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2023 October invitational to expand the exhibit - Memory Cloth, Studio Orta Les Moulins, Moulin Sainte-Marie, curated by Lucy Orta, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
2023 Art of the Book & Paper, Anthony Mascioli Gallery, Rochester, NY
2023 June Opening - Memory Cloth, Studio Orta Les Moulins, Moulin Sainte-Marie, curated by Lucy Orta, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
2023 Making Space, New York Artists Circle, curated by Sarah Haviland and Eileen Hoffman, New York, NY
2023 Women Celebrate Women, curated by Yvonne Lamar and Rolinda Ramos, El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, New York, NY
2022 ArtBox.com Miami!, Miami Beach FL
2022 Shifting Balance, curated by Fran Beallor, Equity Gallery, New York NY
2022 Spliced Connections, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York NY
2022 Miniature, Haus-a-rest, Virtual Exhibition
2022 Lost and Found, curated by The New York Artists Circle, Carter Burden Gallery, New York NY
2021 Lost and Found, curated by The New York Artists Circle, Virtual Exhibition
2019 The Exquisite Corpse, Grace Howell Gallery, Sarasota FL
2019 The Exquisite Corpse Games, The Chihuly Museum, St. Petersburgh FL
2015 5 X 5, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL
2015 Electronics Alive VI, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2014 5 x 5, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL
2014 Shattered, The Library Cafe & Gallery
2013 5 x 5 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL
2011 Electronics Alive VI, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2009 Electronics Alive V, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2009 SPAM Threads, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2007 La Bienal del fin del Mundo - Ushuaia, Argentina.
2005 Lights on Tampa, The City of Tampa / The University of Tampa
2005 Electronics Alive III, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2003 Alumni / Faculty Show, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2003 Etchings, Pingry Center for the Arts, Martinsville, NJ
2003 Electronics Alive III, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2002 Invitational Faculty Art Exhibition, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2002 Playground - Yuki Ono's Assignment number 3, Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA, Portland, ME
2002 turn it and turn it, underCURRENT / overview, Annual Invitational Tampa Museum of Fine Art, Tampa FL
2002 Plugged In Festival, Maine Coast Artist - Center for Main Contemporary Art, Rockport ME
2002 turn it and turn it, MFA Thesis Show Maine College of Art, Portland ME
2001 Etched, Free Street Gallery, Portland ME
2001 Faculty Exhibit, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, Tampa FL
2000 Annual National Exhibition of Photography, Gallery 214, Montclair NJ
2000 Annual National Show, Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ
2000 Faculty Exhibition, International Academy of Design, Tampa FL
2000 Paper and Silk, Windsor Invitational Installation, Vero Beach, FL
2000 Hyde Park Fine Art Annual Review, Tampa FL
2000 Art Walk City Wide Invitational, St Petersburg FL
Awards/Residencies
2024 Residency, Westcove Estate, Kerry, Ireland
2023 Residency, Atelier Aire Artist in Residence, Chateau de Bouthonvilliers, Dangeau, France
2016 Residency, Willow Brook Farm & Art Center, Barnstead NH
2003 Residency, Harrison Center for the Arts, Polk County Museum and Harrison Center for the Arts
2003 Delo Research Grant. Grantor, The University of Tampa, Tampa FL
2002 Dana Grant. Grantor, The University of Tampa, Tampa FL
Lectures / Workshops
2023 Invited Speaker: Spliced Connectors Duel presentation with Cheryl Aden, NYC, NY
2023 Invited Speaker & Master Class: A Primer for the Art Market, Harrison School for the Arts, Lakeland Florida
2023 Invited Speaker: A Primer for the Art Market, Parson’s School of Design, New York City, NY
2023 Master Class in Use of Found Object: Shoes are for More Than Walking, The Garden School, Jackson Heights Queens
2023 Invited Speaker: Careers in the Arts from the Perspective of a Maker, The Pingry School, Basking Ridge New Jersey
2022 Invited Speaker and Workshop: A Primer for the Art Market and Scavenger Hunt, Harrison School for the Arts, Lakeland Florida
2022 Invited Speaker and Workshop: Fine Art Sculptural Bookmaking with Alernative Binding Techniques, Harrison School for the Arts, Lakeland Florida
2022 Invited Speaker and Workshop: It’s The Tiny Things - Shoes, Temple Beth El, La Jolla, CA Sponsored by the Sisterhood Arts of San Diego
2022 How Did You Get the Idea to Do That?, The Wellness and Wellbeing Summit, Invited Speaker at University of South Florida
2019 The Exquisite Cookbook, Temple Beth El, La Jolla, CA. Bookmaking workshop and lecture sponsored by the Sisterhood Arts of San Diego
2018 Completed Cookbook Project and introduced it in workshop form in San Diego, La Jolla, Los Angeles, San Jose, and San Francisco with 20 program participants throughout California.
2017 You are What You Eat (or, You Are How You Remembered You Ate), Lecture at NYU Tisch ITP Graduate Program, NYC, NY.
2017 The Cookbook Project, The Pingry School, Lecturer
2017 Bookmaking with gifted high school art students, Harrison School for the Arts, Polk County Museum, Lakeland, Florida
2017 The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Post-installation workshop on the high school and middle school levels.
2016 Center for The Book, San Francisco CA
2006 Ephemeral Art - Lasting Impression, College Art Association National Conference, Boston, MA
2006 La Laiterie - Coulommiers, France. Coordinated interactive workshops with university-level students from Columbia. Results were the basis for an installation at the Tate Gallery, London England
2004 Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Media Instruction, College Art Association Professional Organization - National Conference Seattle WA.
Performance and Installations
2018 The Cell Theater, NYC - Presenting the Cookbook Project a Reading
2003 In My Backyard III, Bickford Farm, Yarmouth, ME. Remote interactive installation performance bridging Florida to Maine - virtually
2002 Object ME, Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL - Live nude models in four-hour time-based installation with animated projection
2001 In My Backyard I, Bickford Farm, Yarmouth, ME. TS Eliot Live Performance, personal reading, and storytelling
Theatrical Sets
2019 Property and Set for the original play “The Love Parts” by Derek Murphy
2019 Property and Set for the original play “Inside Danny’s Box” by Derek Murphy as part of The Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival
2018 Property and Set for the original play “Dyin’ for It” by Derek Murphy as part of The Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival
2017 Projection Design and Implementation for the original play "Mine" by Maria Deasy presented by The Broadway Bound Theater Festival, NY NY
Selected Bibliography
2023 In Depth Interview, Arts to Hearts Project Women of Influence in the Arts
2023 Featured Artist, Create! Magazine
2023 Featured Artist, Morris County Arts, Morristown, New Jersey
2023 Featured Artist, Arts to Hearts Project #3 Women of Influence in the Arts
2006 "A Conversation with Jorge Orta," Tampa Review 31 (University of Tampa Press: Tampa, FL): Cover Article.
2004 Steinhardt, Joanne, "Book Review of 'Pause and Effect'," Rhizome Publication, May -