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EDUCATION

2023
MFA in Art -- California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
2017
BA in Visual Art & Anthropology -- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 



SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2026 
Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth, DAZIBAO, Montreal, Canada

2024 
Black Hole Family, AUTOMATA, Los Angeles, USA (with Jungsub Eom) 

2023
She Wished to Remain, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, Valencia, USA 

2017 
My Bed Your Bed, MILE ZERO DANCE, Edmonton, Canada



GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2025 
Luggage, JUNE STREET, Los Angeles, USA 

2023 
Mutual Gravity, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, Valencia, USA 

2021 
Reflex, RIVULET 8, USA
Remote Possibility, WHIPPERSNAPPER, Toronto, Canada

2016
Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility, UK PAROBROAD, Belgrade, Serbia



SCREENINGS

2025
Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth
BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, USA

Hello, Whale
Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogue Series, Oakland, USA

NO MOON TONIGHT
aCinema, Milwaukee, USA

2024 
NO MOON TONIGHT
Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, Canada
Gimme Some Truth Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada

Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth
Baxter St Camera Club of New York & NYC Film Diary, NYC, USA

Hello, Whale 
BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
NYC Film Diary III, NYC, USA
NYC Film Diary III Worldwide, Winnipeg, Canada

2023 
Hello, Whale
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Post Pxrn Film Festival Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

2022 
Hello, Whale
Gimme Some Truth Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
Porn Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany (“Best of PFFBerlin: Experimental Shorts”)  

Confessions of a Fish 
BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada

2021
Confessions of a Fish
Porn Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany



FILM DISTRIBUTION

2022 — present 
Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
VUCAVU, Winnipeg, Canada  



PERFORMANCES 

2025
Cul de Sac, Cindy Baker’s Big Thing, LATITUDE 53 & MILE ZERO DANCE
Edmonton, Canada 

2024
IN YOUR EYES I SAW LOVE AND TERROR, Black Hole Family, AUTOMATA (featuring Barbara T. Smith)  
Los Angeles, USA 

2021
Les Petites Morts (Performance for video), Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology, ABOUT LIGHT
Edmonton, Canada

2019
Performance for Cello, Zero Gravity International Performance Art Summit, MILE ZERO DANCE & dc3 Art Projects
Edmonton, Canada

2017
Dwelling, Undisclosed Location (with Brooke Leifso)  
Edmonton, Canada



LECTURES/READINGS

2024
Reading, Anatomy of a Young Girl as a Black Hole, “Speculative Fiction”, EHRLICH STEINBERG
Los Angeles, USA

Artist Talk for video, “Automat”, ANTIMATTER MEDIA ART
Victoria, Canada

2022
Artist Talk, Armchair Anthropology, University of Berkeley (with Robyn Taylor-Neu and Caylee Hong)
Berkeley, USA 

2021
Guest Lecture, University of Athabasca, History of Performance Art 220
Athabasca, Canada



CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2022 
Charlotte Zhang, Paradise Holds Itself Shut, GOES TO OCEAN
Los Angeles, USA



PRESS

2022 
ART PAPERS, “Binge Watch—On Performances of Excessive Eating” by Lydia Horne
 


RESIDENCIES/AWARDS

2024 
Automata, Artist in Residence with Jungsub Eom, Los Angeles, USA

2023 
Research and Practice Fellowship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA

2021
Major Project Grant, Edmonton Arts Council, Edmonton, Canada

2020 
Round Table Residency, Toronto, Canada

2018 
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada


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