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Artist Statement
Every act of memory carries with it a dimension of forgetting, and thus a betrayal of the original events. This failure to remember completely is built into the process of memory, and it is at the core to my practice. I am a caretaker of monuments. I am a collector of memories. I try to create spaces in which these absences (of space, of memory, of history) engage the viewer; but my memory is faulty and I cannot do it alone. My frequent collaborations with the public allows for the personal to intertwine with the public re-creation, re-reading and re-production of memory.
Every act of memory carries with it a dimension of forgetting, and thus a betrayal of the original events. This failure to remember completely is built into the process of memory, and it is at the core to my practice. I am a caretaker of monuments. I am a collector of memories. I try to create spaces in which these absences (of space, of memory, of history) engage the viewer; but my memory is faulty and I cannot do it alone. My frequent collaborations with the public allows for the personal to intertwine with the public re-creation, re-reading and re-production of memory.
CV
EDUCATION:
2010 Master of Fine Arts, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
2002 Bachelor of Arts, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
EXHIBITIONS and PUBLIC PROJECTS:
2010
• MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
• sto te nema? (Stockholm), Normalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden
• Memory Game - The Supper Club, LaViolaBank Gallery, New York, NY
• MA’s select MFA’s, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2008
• sto te nema? (The Hague), Het Plein, Den Haag, The Netherlands
• Altered States, The Francis Lewis Gallery, St. George's Church - Flushing, New York, NY
2006
• sto te nema? (Tuzla), Trg Zrtava Srebrenice, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2005
• sto te nema? (New York), South Gallery, The United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY
2004
• sto te nema? (Sarajevo), Bascarsija Square, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
RESIDENCIES:
2006 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
GRANTS and AWARDS:
2008 Graf Travel Grant
2007-2010 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
2006 Santa Fe Art Institute Full Fellowship
ArtsLink Award
2005 Vermont Studio Center Partial Fellowship
Vermont Arts Council Opportunity-Development Grant
2002 Jennifer Goldstein Art Award
EDUCATION:
2010 Master of Fine Arts, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
2002 Bachelor of Arts, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
EXHIBITIONS and PUBLIC PROJECTS:
2010
• MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
• sto te nema? (Stockholm), Normalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden
• Memory Game - The Supper Club, LaViolaBank Gallery, New York, NY
• MA’s select MFA’s, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2008
• sto te nema? (The Hague), Het Plein, Den Haag, The Netherlands
• Altered States, The Francis Lewis Gallery, St. George's Church - Flushing, New York, NY
2006
• sto te nema? (Tuzla), Trg Zrtava Srebrenice, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2005
• sto te nema? (New York), South Gallery, The United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY
2004
• sto te nema? (Sarajevo), Bascarsija Square, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
RESIDENCIES:
2006 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
GRANTS and AWARDS:
2008 Graf Travel Grant
2007-2010 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
2006 Santa Fe Art Institute Full Fellowship
ArtsLink Award
2005 Vermont Studio Center Partial Fellowship
Vermont Arts Council Opportunity-Development Grant
2002 Jennifer Goldstein Art Award
I Carry You in My Heart (the room), 2010Site-specific sound installation
Carpet, directional speakers, sound
23’ x 15’
I Carry You in My Heart (the room), 2010Site-specific sound installation
Carpet, directional speakers, sound
23’ x 15’
I Carry You in My Heart (the room), 2010Site-specific sound installation
Carpet, directional speakers, sound
23’ x 15’
I Carry You in My Heart (the room), 2010Site-specific sound installation
Carpet, directional speakers, sound
23’ x 15’
I Carry You in My Heart (the room), 2010Site-specific sound installation
Carpet, directional speakers, sound
23’ x 15’
I Carry You in My Heart (the room), 2010Site-specific sound installation
Carpet, directional speakers, sound
23’ x 15’
I Carry You in My Heart (the intercom), 2010Site-specific sculpture
Intercom system, paper
18” x 14”
I Carry You in My Heart (the intercom), 2010Site-specific sculpture
Intercom system, paper
18” x 14”
sto te nema?, 2009 Public monument
Collected porcelain coffee cups, coffee
Dimensions variable
sto te nema?, 2009 Public monument
Collected porcelain coffee cups, coffee
Dimensions variable
sto te nema?, 2009 Public monument
Collected porcelain coffee cups, coffee
Dimensions variable
sto te nema?, 2009 Public monument
Collected porcelain coffee cups, coffee
Dimensions variable
sto te nema?, 2009 Public monument
Collected porcelain coffee cups, coffee
Dimensions variable
sto te nema?, 2009 Public monument
Collected porcelain coffee cups, coffee
Dimensions variable
sto te nema?, 2009 Public monument
Collected porcelain coffee cups, coffee
Dimensions variable
sto te nema?, 2009 Public monument
Collected porcelain coffee cups, coffee
Dimensions variable