CV
Selected Exhibitions
2024
I’ve Been Wrong Before, Waterfall Arts, Belfast, ME
Glass International, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
Art of Craftsmanship, Peters Valley Gallery, Layton, NJ
Converge, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA,
Drawing Beyond the Surface,The Factory, Long Island City, NY
Everything and Anything Red, Bullet Space, New York, NY
2023
Ancestral Nourishment, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
Superchill, Cloud of Bats, Brooklyn, NY
Degrees of Commitment, Sandra Blain Galleries at Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN
Lineage, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Being Double, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Social Memory: Sites of Remembrance, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY, NY
Materials Hard + Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
Passage of Time, A.D. Gallery, Pembroke, NC
2022
Juried Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
10x10, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Lilt, Noyes Museum, Hammerton, NJ
Mixture, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2021
Winter Show, Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA (virtual)
Patterns in Nature, WoArt (virtual)
HATAK, North Willow, Montclair, NJ (virtual)
(Un)natural Boundaries and Borders, Silverwood Art Gallery, St. Anthony MN
Coping: Transcending Through Creation, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
Atmospheres, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Unartisanal, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Encounters, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
An Ahistorical Daydream, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Jasmine Wahi)
From the Inside, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2020
Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2020 with Aicon Gallery (virtual)
Four Rooms 3, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (curated by Justin Horne)
The Wheel of Time, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
All In A Day’s Work, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY (virtual)
Art & Design Show, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
2019
Tether, North Willow, Montclair, NJ (solo)
The Nature of Disappearance, Silverwood Art Gallery, St. Anthony, MN
Artists at Work, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
The End of Nature, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
Bridges and Walls, AC Institute, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Near And Far, Silverwood Art Gallery, St. Anthony, MN
Empathy, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC (curated by Ling Wen Tsai)
Toys, The Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ
Anonymous Brooklyn, Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY
The Art of Meditation, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Hyperreal, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
Casework, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2017
The Emotional States of America, Artibition, Miami, FL
Small Works Show, Roy G. Biv, Columbus, OH
Roots and Wings, Silverwood Art Gallery, St. Anthony, MN
Text(s), Maloney Art Gallery, Morristown, NJ
3-D Art With Metal, Sculptors Alliance, Governor’s Island, NY
Ornate Activate, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2016
Flowers For Frank, Factory Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Dare to be Heard, Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH (curated by Stephanie Rond)
Artists Co-op III, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
Everyone In Their Own Way, Arts Guild of New Jersey, Rahway, NJ
2015
Approaching −273.15° C, academic, Long Island City, NY (curated by Michael Sarff)
Bus From Guadalajara, Fina Gallery, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC
Ornate Activate, Shirin Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Alexander Campos)
2014
Collective Perspectives: Architectural Observations of Self, Persian Community Center, NY, NY
Are We Already Gone? Artists on the Art of Leaving, FlickerLab, New York, NY
El Árbol de la Garceta, El Centro Cultural de Ajijic, Ajijic, JA, Mexico
Bon Bon Roche, El Centro Cultural de Ajijic, Ajijic, JA, Mexico
Through the Looking Glass, Project for an Empty Space, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ
Between the Walls, S.Dot Gallery, Columbus, OH (solo)
Wind-up Wonderland, Gateway Center, Newark, NJ
Four From Aferro, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ (solo)
2013
A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
And That is Why I Hate Love Letters, Gaia Studios, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Etiquette 4 Lucid Dreaming, Project for an Empty Space, Newark, NJ
Far Rockaway Harmattan Performance, Far Rockaway, NY (with Harmattan Theater)
The Edge of Pause, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ (solo)
Her Stories, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA (curated by Jaishri Abichandani)
Be/longing, Smith Center, Washington DC
Salaam Bombay: Beauty and Chaos in the Urban Environment, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Gutai: Splendid Playground, contributing participant in Gutai Card Box, Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY
2012
Windows, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Her Stories, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY (curated by Jaishri Abichandani)
Contentious Conundrums, Macy Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
Toothsome, Bulletspace, ABC No Rio, New York, NY (curated by Vandana Jain)
Spring Pictures of the Floating World, Peculiar Works Projects, La Mama, New York, NY
Through You Into Action, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
Filmideo, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ (as part of afternoon girls)
Small Stories, Urban Alchemist Design Collective, Brooklyn, NY
Right Here Over There, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2011
Relexification, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
More is More, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Distance, Grady Alexis Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Radius 12)
2010
left, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Christopher Lew)
Without a Safety Net, AC Institute, New York, NY (solo)
Residencies and Awards
2024 Converge, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, 3rd prize winner, Philadelphia, PA
2023 FST Studio Projects Grant
2023 Urban Glass Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Constellation Studios, Paper Making Residency, Lincoln, NE
2023 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency, Nebraska City, NE
2023 Best in Glass, Materials Hard + Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
2022 Best of Show, Lilt, Noyes Museum, Hammerton, NJ
2022 Open Studios Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
2021 Ron Desmett Memorial Award Residency, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 FARM Studios Residency, Andore, Rajasthan, India
2019 Baie Ste Marie Artist Residency, New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia
2019 Bus From Guadalajara Residency, Ajijic, JA, Mexico
2018 Urban Glass Bead Project, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship, Montauk, NY
2016 Playa Artist Residency, Summer Lake, OR
2015 Queens Art Fund, Individual Artist Grantee
2014-2015 Artist Peer Circle, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2014 Artists Summer Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council/Creative Capital, NYNY 2014 Bus From Guadalajara Residency, Ajijic, JA, Mexico
2011-2012 Gallery Aferro Studio Residency, Newark, NJ
2010 CAMAC Residency, with subvention from the Fondation Ténot, Marnay sur Seine, France
2010 Vermont Studio Center, with partial fellowship award, Johnson, VT
Lectures/Panels
2021 Epicenter Newsletter Featured Artist, Jackson Heights, NY
2021 Instagram Live talk with From The Inside, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Interview with Tether, North Willow, Montclair, NJ
2020 Instagram Live talk with All in a Day’s Work, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Artist talk with The End of Nature, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Reading/performance for Ornate Activate, Shirin Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Artist panel discussion with Four From Aferro, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2014 Artist talk with A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
2013 Slide Slam, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, New York, NY
2012 Artist talk with Her Stories, Unisphere Gallery at Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
2011 Visiting artist talk, College of Creative Studies, Landscape of Narrative, Detroit, MI
Education
MFA, Studio Arts; Maine College of Art; Portland, ME, 2008
BFA, Painting and Drawing; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2005