b. 1970 in Oakland, USA
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
She studied Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.
fellowships and awards
2023
Residency TOKAS Artist, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Work scholarship, StiftungKunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
Residency TOKAS Artist, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Residency Roman J. Witt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2020
Foundwork Art Prize, New York, USA
Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
2018 - 2019
Residency Swatch Artist, Shanghai, China
2018
Residency Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans, USA
2017 - 2018
Residency Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2017
Residency Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany
Fellowhsip Institute for the Humanities Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2015
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Award, New York, USA
2014
Center for Cultural Innovation, Artistic Innovation Grant, Los Angeles, USA
ArtPrize, Seed Grant for “The Stranger” film, Grand Rapids, USA
2010
Residency Himalayas Museum, Zhujiajiao, China
2008 - 2009
Residency Urs Meile Gallery, Beijing, China
2007
Fellowship, KALA Berkeley, USA
Selected solo exhibitions and screenings
2024
Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2022
How to Build a Disaster Proof House, Roman J. Witt Residency, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Tokas, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Mäusebunker, Bark Berlin, Berlin, Germany
A Poem is a City, Paris, France
Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
2020
BIG FUCK, Open Windows, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
It Wasn’t a Dream, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, USA
I can’t forget you, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Architect, pop-up, H27, Berlin, Germany
2019
RE:Search:Gallery, with the Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands
Clusterfuck 9, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA
58. Venice Biennale, Shanghai/Chongqing Hot Pot/Mixtape, Venice, Italy
Metropolis, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
2018
Asphalt Jungle, Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, USA
First We Take Manhattan, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2017
Film screening, Ausland, Berlin, Germany
Here and There, University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, USA
2016
One Thousand Shacks, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, USA
SFAC Kiosk Poster Series, temporary public project, San Francisco, USA
The Naked City, Krupic Kersting Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Clusterfuck 3, New Image Art, Los Angeles, USA
2015
The Stranger--screening, Architecture Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2014
Krupic Kersting Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2013
Nothing short film, AC Institute, New York, USA
Everything is Everything, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Nothing short film, Circuito Off,Teatrino Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA
2012
Nothing short film, TinT Gallery, in conjunction with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
Woman on the Run, Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, USA
Another Day in Paradise, Nothing short film, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
Woman on the Run, SECCA, Winston Salem, USA
2011
Woman on the Run, Frist Museum, Nashville, USA
Raging Lotus, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA
2010
Ten-Year Survey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Woman on the Run, 21C Museum, Louisville, USA
Shanghai Zendai MOMA, Zhujiajiao, China
Bordertown, New Frontier on Main, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, USA
2009
Woman on the Run, Smack Mellon, New York, USA
Greta Garbo Slept Here, Tache-Levy, Brussels, Belgium
Dirty Pretty Things, Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Netherlands
Where Mr. Wong Sent Me, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2008
Another Town, Wedel, London, UK
Woman on the Run, Selfridges, London, UK
2007
Another Shocking Psychological Thriller, Center for Photography, Houston, USA
Monsters, Tache-Levy, Martin Margiela Building, Brussels, Belgium
Dulces, Wedel, London, UK
2006
Dark Detour, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, USA
2005
The Comfort, the Beauty, the Shame, Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
Convenient, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
2004
Last Picture Show, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Selected Group exhibitions
2023
Tokyo Arts and Space, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Smaller Worlds: Diorama in Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Once Guarded, Ever Emerging Mag, KHB Studios, Berlin, Germany
2021
Thinking out loud, PULPO GALLERY, Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany
Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany
Come What May, Awroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Mäusebunker & Hygieneinstitut: Versuchsanordnung BERLIN, Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Intimacy and spectacle in the age of social media, Vitrine Installation, Sofia Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
Light Year 70, Manhattan Bridge Projection, New York, USA
2020
Light Year 69: Evoke, Manhattan Bridge Projection, New York, USA
Wiedererwachen, Station Berlin, Berlin, Germany
La Musée, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
2019
Self-immersed, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, USA
13. Biennale Havana, Matanzas, Cuba
Eros, Fox Jensen, Sydney, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand
30 Years of Dutch Courage, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands
à la prochaine, Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2018
Zombies: Pay Attention! Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
No Place Like Home, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Exhibition 5, Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt, Austria
Is It a Game? collaborative installation, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Il Terzo Giorno, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma, Italy
bitch MATERial, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2017
She-Devil 9: Today, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
Collection Jacques & Miny Defauves, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Typically Frankfurt!, 10 year installation, Historisches Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Artist as Maggid: Jewish Tales and Creatures, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA
OFF-SPRING: New Generations, 21c Museum, Oklahoma City, USA
Lil SWIM, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio and Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, USA
2016
2050: A Brief History of the Future, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Forever, Bubox Art Space, Kortrijk, Belgium
2015
2050: A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels, Belgium
Dark Ages, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Imagining Home, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Krachtwerken, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands
Triennale Brugge 2015, Brussels, Belgium
The Art in Literature and Literature in Art, Artium, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
The Auction, Terrance Higgins Trust, Christie's, London, UK
Feel Big, Live Small, Apex Art, New York, USA
2014
Art in Motion, Jules Maeght Gallery, curated by Natasha Boas, San Francisco, USA
The Remarkable Lightness of Being, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
L’expo dans le chapeau, La Vitrine am, curated by Raphael Cuir, Paris, France
ArtPrize, GRCC Collins Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, USA
On Dry Land, Negev Museum, curated by Ravit Harari, Be-er Sheva, Israel
Brussels Cologne Contemporaries, Cologne, Germany
Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, USA
2013
drinnen binnen buiten draussen, Galerie Roy, Zülpich, Germany and Kers Gallery,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Storytellers, El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Rupublica, Bogota, Colombia
Once More, Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
Parallax Views, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA
As Tears Go By* (who cries with me?), Cokki Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Theatrical Gestures, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Raw China Art Expo, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2012
Not Another End of the World Exhibition, AeroplasticsContemporary, Brussels,
Belgium
Nervous Women, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
Otherworldly: Artist Dioramas and Small Spectacles, Lille 3000, Lille, France
Signature , Schriftuur, Bruges Cultural Centre, De Bond, Bruges, Belgium
The Storytellers, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
The End of Everything/A New Beginning, LARMgalleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
Streetopia, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2011
Otherworldly: Artist Dioramas and Small Spectacles, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
Anonyme Skulpturen, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
2010
Accrochage, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The House in My Head, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Pop-Up Magazine, Herbst Theater, San Francisco, USA
2009
Narratives, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, USA
That's All Folks!, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium
Achtung Baby, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands
2009 Low Blow,Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
2007
XXS-Size Does Matter, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Paulo Post Futurum, Lokaal 01, Museum of Breda, Breda, Netherlands
Emergency Room, P.S.1 MOMA, Long Island City, USA
Regeneration, Kentler International Drawing Space; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, USA
2006
Searchers, White Box, New York, USA
New Code, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
Looking Through Walls, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA
Photosynkyria, Tint Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Headlands Institute, Marin Headlands, USA
2005
Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, USA
Regeneration, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Blueprints, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2004
Epic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
Public collections
Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany
Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands
Marguiles Collection, Miami, USA
Facebook, Menlo Park, USA
The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, USA
Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
Selfridges, London, UK
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA
West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania, USA
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, USA
Angel Collection of Contemporary Art, Israel
Collection Lampe and Plompen, Den Haag, Netherlands
Collection Jacques & Miny Defauves, Netherlands
Alain Servais Collection, Brussels, Belgium
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA