selected exhibitions & screenings
solo shows
2023 Unity Island, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
2019 myoptic, Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 myoptic, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2008 Nightlight, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
group shows
2020 The Body and Architecture, Studio Waveland, Waveland, MS
2015 La Vidéoshop, Paris, France, gallery exhibition
2014 PhDAMF, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2013 Vascular Modes, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2013 Tempus Fugit, group show, Hi-Temp Fabrication, Buffalo, NY
2012 TONY 2012, Syracuse, NY, regional Biennial “The Other New York”
2011 Time Mutations, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany
2010 Beyond/In Western NY 2010, Burchfield Penney Art Center, installation in Project Room
art fairs
2020 Last House, Art Vilnius ‘20, Vilnius, Lithuania, representing Undercurrent Gallery
screenings & broadcasts
2024 Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
2021 Micromania Festival, Buffalo, NY (Santa, winner best experimental)
2020 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Notes Toward an Infinite Film, Program 1: The Promise of Props, Buffalo NY
2016 Locust Street Art, Buffalo, NY
2013 Front Yard, Burchfield Penney Art Center, 3-screen installation
2012 BYOB Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2012 Big Night, Just Buffalo Literary Center
2011 Pecha Kucha Buffalo, Volume 11
2011 Free Speech TV, satellite-cast
2010 Environs/Environment Screening @ Burchfield Penney Art Center
2009 Urban Renewal Traveling Film Festival, multiple US locations
2008 Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources
2006 PDX Film Festival, Portland, OR
2006 Solo screening Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
press
Review of Unity Island installation in the University at Buffalo Spectrum newspaper (website) | (pdf)
Review of myoptic at Undercurrent Gallery (website) | (pdf) by Laura McGough, Sculpture Magazine Vol, 39, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2020
Exhibition Essay for myoptic (website) | (brochure pdf) by John Massier, Curator, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 01/2019
Review of Beyond/In Western NY (Last House) by Steven Stern, Frieze, 03/2011
Review of Beyond/In Western NY (Last House) by Faye Hirsch, Art in America, 12/2010
awards & grants
2023 NYSCA Support for Artists Grant through Buffalo Arts Studio
2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts
2017 NYSCA Finishing Fund Award
2008 Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo/Squeaky Wheel Channels grant
2007 Tonawandas’ Council on the Arts / Carnegie Arts Center grant
2005 Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund, Experimental Television Center
2003 Experimental Television Center Residency, Newark Valley, NY
2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Media Arts – Film
1999 Temple University Completion Fellowship (Film and Media Arts)
1997 Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association Subsidy Grant
1996 Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association Subsidy Grant
collections
“Oology,” co-directed w/Dorothea Braemer, 2013, 3-channel video, Burchfield Penney Art Center
publications
2013 “Excavations: Last House,” Chapter in Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo, ed. Miriam Paeslak, Ashgate Publishing
affiliations
2017-present Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Arts Center, Board of Directors, Vice President (2017-2021), President (2021-Present)
curatorial
2014-15 Emulsified, 16mm film screening series, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
2012 Global Urban Imaginaries, Urban Image Workshop screening series with Center for Documentary Media, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo SUNY
2007-08 Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center freelance programmer
1999 WYBE Through the Lens 13-episode short film series programmer
panels & presentations
2019 Artist Talk, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
2019 Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency Panelist
2014 Book launch & presentation Ineffably Urban (chapter author), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
2012 Squeaky Wheel Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier selection committee panelist
2010 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for Media Arts, Panelist
2009 Union for Democratic Communications, Grassroots Documentary, Buffalo, NY, Panelist
2009 Burchfield Penney Art Center, ENVIRONs/ENVIRONment, Buffalo, NY
2009 Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources International Artist Residency, Panelist
2008 Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources Local Artist Access Residency, Panelist
selected works
Telescope House 1 and 2, 2019, video sculpture installation, looping video, camera, monitors, wood, glass
Home Movies, 2019, video sculpture installation, 6:10 looping video, monitor, speakers, media player, wood, binoculars, tripod
Still Lifes, 2019, video sculture installation, 3:30 looping video, monitor, speakers, media player, wood, binoculars
Vision Test, 2019, video sculpture installation, 22:35 looping video, monitor, speakers, media player, wood
Oology, 2013, 3-screen video installation, 4:30
Last House, 2010, 3-channel video installation, 16:30 loop
Nightlight, 2007, 8-channel video installation, 20:00 loop
Santa, 2016, single channel video, 3:15
Searching for Paradise, (dir. Dorothea Braemer) 2015, 28:00, cinematography and post-production; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
10 Views, 2013, single channel video, 10 min.
Snow, Buffalo/Berlin, 2013, single channel video, 3 min.
Buffalo ReUse: Building Community, 2008, video, 20:00
Tone World: William Parker Buffalo Orchestra, 2007, video, 20:00
Fire Escape, 2005, video, 4:30
Titans and Pigeons, 2003, video, 7 min.
US Air, 2001, video, 5 min.
The Schuylkill, 1998, video 2 min.
The Other El, 1997, video, 2 min.
Spaceman v. Cowboys, 1997, video, 4 min
Secret Museum, 1996, 16mm, color, 6 min
Astroland, 1995, 16mm, color, 5 min
with TERMITE TV COLLECTIVE (co-director/producer)
Brinksmanship!, multimedia live theater production, 60 min, 2001
Chaos Theory, live video performance with Sonic Liberation Front, an Afro-Cuban-Jazz ensemble
Living Documentaries Series 1–5 (28 min. each, 1999) a video series produced during a 5-month, cross-country, millennial road trip across the USA producing and screening along the way:
Money (Living Documentary #1)
Life Stories from Sitka, Alaska (Living Documentary #2)
Violent (Living Documentary #3)
Life Stories from the Borderlands (Living Documentary #4)
Rollover (Living Documentary #5)
2001 Closely Watched Films, Doylestown County Theater, Doylestown, PA; 2000 Berks Filmmakers, Reading, PA; 2000 Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia, PA; 1999 Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN; 1999 Sitka Community Center, Sitka, AK; 1999 911 Media, Seattle, WA; 1999 University of Tucson, Tucson, AZ; 1999 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; 1999 University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; 1999 Webster University, St. Louis, MO; 1999 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ; 2000 Free Speech TV, Cable and Satellite Television
The Schuylkill River (This is Only a Test #33), video, 27 min., 1999
1999 Museum of Modern Art, "New Documentaries" Series, New York, NY; 1998 Art Alliance “Through the Heart of the City” gallery exhibit, Philadelphia, PA; 1999 Free Speech TV, Cable and Satellite Television
Crime & Punishment, Pt. 2 (This is Only a Test #32), video, 28 min., 1998
Crime & Punishment, Pt. 1 (This is Only a Test #31), video, 28 min., 1998
Urban Living, (This is Only a Test #28), video, 27 min., 1997