EDUCATION
PhD Creative Practice, received May 2019
Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership/AHRC Funded
Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Doctoral Thesis, Putting Wicked Problems in Their Place: Interrogating the Global through Participatory Art and Infrastructuring
http://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/handle/10443/4613
Master of Fine Arts
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in partnership with Tufts University
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bachelor of Arts, French and Medieval Studies
State University of New York, College at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York, Dean’s List
DALF (Diplôme Approfondi de la Langue Française), Montpellier, France,
RESEARCH
My PhD research focuses on the potential of participatory art and design practices to interrogate local-global discourse and the sustainability of place. Current projects explore how the global issue of climate change is experienced within the local context. This includes investigating how notions of ‘infrastructuring’ might be applied to create an environment for ongoing, creative and experimental responses to wicked problems.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2019
Northern Bridge Postdoctoral Research Placement in collaboration with CuanTec, Glasgow, UK
A to Z Unit micro_food library, collaborator with Sneha Solanki at Great North Museum, European Science Researchers Night, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2018
A Circular Household, ArtHouses, Whitley Bay, UK
2017
A to Z Unit micro_micro at Artsadmin 2 Degrees Festival, London
A to Z Unit micro_micro at Feed, Queens Hall, Hexham, UK
Collaboration with Fab City (Fab Lab Barcelona) and Project Gastronomia (Basque Culinary Center), Project Gastronomy introductory event (2017)
2016
BWK-BCN: A participatory art project exploring local responses to the global issue of climate change (ongoing)
2014-2015
The 404th Wall at The NewBridge Project (UK), collaboration with Dominic Smith and Anthony Schrag (2014-2015)
DIY-Wania in collaboration with Anthony Schrag, ISEA2014, Dubai
Working Culture Residency at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Up the Creek/Under the Cloud, with Victoria Bradbury, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
2013
SHOW, Neon Arts, Hexham, UK
Mellor Management, Project Pontypool, Pontypool Indoor Market, Pontypool, South Wales, UK
2012
Unicorn Union, representing HotelMaria Kapel at KunstVlaai Art Fair, Amterdam
SweatSHOP, AND Festival, part of the Cultural Olympiad, Manchester, UK
neo:artprize 2012, neo:art gallery 22, Bolton, UK
A SOCIAL, HotelMaria Kapel, Hoorn, Netherlands
Unicorn Union, A-Team Project, Fengersfors, Sweden
Terminal, Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN USA
2011
MIND THE GAP, part of ISEA2011 Istanbul, upcoming
Woman as Photographer: Picturing Life as a Woman, Mpls Photo Center, Minneapoplis, MN
curated by Christina Chang, Asst Curator Weisman Art Museum
Mash-ups, Lake Forest College, Illinois
Alexia Mellor: From Here to There, the taos gallery, Taos, NM
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Land Arts of the American West 2010, SCA Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
VideoPerformance Showroom, Evora, Portugal
d2d.5=direct to documentation, 7a*11d 8th International Festival of Performance Art, FADO Performance Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
Perpetually Waiting (Shanghai), collaboration with People In Space at the Shanghai World Expo and Mobius, Boston USA
LACDA 2010 Digital Art.LA International Juried Exhibit, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, selected by Peter Frank, Critic, Curator; Riverside Art Museum
Lokönenie, Stick My World #4, Rome, Italy
Professors Exposed, Robert Morris University Gallery. Pittsburgh, PA
Perpetually Waiting, Pixilerations [v.7], Providence, RI
SoyaHaus,HousEART, Providence, RI
Virion 2010 Screen Based Exhibition, Kelvin Grove Urban Screen Network, Brisbane, Australia
Lokönenie, ArtRages, Mobius Performance Space, Boston, MA
The Pattern Project, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
Apocalypse Food, Sluggos, Pensacola, FL
Apocalypse Food 2030 Time Capsule buried at University of West Florida Art Department
The STORE Show: 55 Soya, WRMC Collaborative, MEME Gallery, Cambridge, MA
8bitsperPixel, Perpetually Waiting,WRMC Collaborative, MEME Gallery, Cambridge, MA
A Million Little Pictures, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Embassy in Venezuela, Ambassador Patrick Duddy
Riders on the Train, Axiom Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Jamaica Plain Open Studios, Urbano Project, Jamaica Plain, MA
Bag It! GASP Gallery, Brookline, MA
The GASP Engine, GASP Gallery, Brookline, MA
TRANS: Crossing and Connecting video screening, GASP Gallery, Brookline, MA
New England Photography Biennial, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
EFFECTUS III Performance Event, TT Baum Studios, Boston, MA
7th Annual UIWANG International Placard Art, Uiwang City, Korea
Quick Shots, The Archive, New York, NY
This is Not Happening,Thesis Exhibition at Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
Quick Shots Video Screening, Thank You Art Day, Hong Kong curated by Nana Seo & Leung Chi Wo
Any Second Now, William Morris Hunt Library, MFA, Boston, MA
2008
Performance of Stewing as part of Black Womanhood Symposium, Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA October 2008, curated by Magdalena Campos-Pons
6th Annual UIWANG International Placard Art, Uiwang City, Korea
Sprung! Performance Event, Mobius, Boston, MA
Mash-Up, Doran Gallery, MassArt, Boston
Calming Itch Relief, co-curated and performed with Sean M. Johnson, SMFA, Boston
2007
5th Annual UIWANG International Placard Art, Uiwang City, Korea
‘Art School Feminism’, SMFA Mission Hill Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
‘Mediating the Mediated Gaze’, Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006
Wanderlust, William Morris Hunt Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
‘Pretty MFA’, Roxbury Open Studios, Mission Hill Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
‘Making Sculpture’, BAG Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Annual MFA Juried Show, Anderson Auditorium, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
‘Proof of Purchase’, Rhys Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts,
‘Present Tense’ Drawing Show at artSPACE@16, Malden, Massachusetts Juried by Heidi Marston
Medal Award Dinner Juried Auction, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Conversation Starters, Sparr’s Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2005
Solo Exhibition, San Geronimo Lodge, Taos, New Mexico
Group Show, University of New Mexico-Taos, Stables Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
ALL KINDS OF EXPERIENCES
Teaching, Mentorship and Consulting
Northern Bridge funded placement with Making Sense project at Fab Lab Barcelona (September 2016-June 2017). A Horizon 2020 funded project aimed at exploring how open source software, open source hardware, digital maker practices and open design can be effectively used by local communities to fabricate their own sensing tools, make sense of their environments and address pressing environmental problems in air, water, soil and sound pollution. (making-sense.eu)
Engineering Experience: collaborative module between Architecture, Fine Art and Engineering, Newcastle University (2016)
Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, Discovery Museum Conversation Space (2015-2016)
Practising Participation: social practice, Life Work Art strand at Newcastle University (2016)
The Art ‘Market’: Negotiation, Exchange and Value in Participatory Arts, Life Work Art strand at Newcastle University (2015)
Practising Participation: Life Work Art strand at Newcastle University (2014)
Workshops for Arts Business and Creativity, MA students, Newcastle University (2013-2014)
Artist Mentor and Co-Developer of ArtScience Program on Synthetic Biology at King Center for World Heritage, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (2013)
Post Graduate Teaching Fellow, Performance Area, SMFA, Boston, MA (2009-2010)
Performance Art Instructor, Urbano Project, Jamaica Plain, MA (2009-2010)
Performance Art Instructor, Cloud Foundation, Boston, MA (2008-2010)
Teaching Assistant in Performance and Painting Departments, SMFA, Boston, MA (2007-2009)
Artist Mentor, MIT Sloan School of Business: 21st Century Visual Arts Workshop for Business Leaders, Boston, MA (2007-2008)
Directing and Curating
The 404th Wall at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle (2014) with Dominic Smith
Participatory Programmes Director, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle (2013-2015)
Creative Director and Curator, MIND THE GAP, Istanbul, Turkey (2011)
Co-Curator, The Travellers Box Project (2010-2011)
Graduate Colloquium student coordinator, Performativity: Four Perspectives with Amelia Jones, AA Bronson, Matthew Nash, Helge Meyer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2009)
Organising and Assisting
Research Assistant for REF HE Assessment, Newcastle University (2013)
Family Day Coordinator, Performance Area, SMFA, Boston (2009)
Graduate Steering Committee, Student Representative, SMFA Boston (2008-2009)
Open Studios Coordinator, Performance Area, SMFA, Boston (2008)
Graduate Interview Day Reviewer, SMFA Boston (2007)
PRESENTATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
BWK-BCN at Newcastle Institute for Sustainability, Newcastle University, Newcastle UK (2017)
BWK-BCN, Renewable Futures Conference, Baltan Labs, Eindhoven, NL (2017)
BWK-BCN at Heritage Town Forum annual conference, Berwick-upon-Tweed (2016)
BWK-BCN: Participatory art and the wicked problem of climate change, Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London (2016)
The Artist as Problemetiser, co-authored with Anthony Schrag, Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London (2016)
Interrogating Local-Global Discourse through Participatory Art Practice, Insights Public Lectures: New Voices on Social Renewal, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne (2015)
From the Field to the Funding Body: Participatory Practices and Instrumentalisation, co-presented with Anthony Schrag; The Arts in Society Conference, Imperial College, London (2015)
The Participatory Paradox, 10 days, 100 conversations, 1000 people – As part of Paul Hamlyn ArtWorks Conversations, National Glass Centre, Sunderland (2015)
Locating the Artist with Anthony Schrag, European League of Institutes of the Arts Biennial, Glasgow (2014)
Locating the Artist with Anthony Schrag, ISEA2014 Dubai, Zayed University (2014)
ArtWorks North East: Pilots to Practice, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2014)
Artist presentation at Digital Cultures Group, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (2014)
Biology Neuroscience Computer Science (BNC), Research Away Day, Newcastle University (2014)
Transformation: Content, exhibition panel with Louise Mackenzie, The Holy Biscuit, Newcastle upon Tyne (2014)
Up the Creek/Under the Cloud, with Victoria Bradbury, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK (2014)
Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, UK as part of Newcastle University InBetween Project (2013)
University of Wales, Newport, UK (2012)
InBetween Symposium, in collaboration with Newcastle University, Addo Creative and Torfaen County Borough Council, Pontypool Wales (2012)
Artist Talk, The A-Team Artist Residency at Not Quite, Fengersfors, Sweden (2012)
MIND THE GAP, Panel Chair and Presenter, ISEA2011 Istanbul, Sabanci University (2011)
Guest Artist Critique, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA for Prof. Andrew Ames (2011)
Digital Isolation,2010 Biennial at Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO, curated by Miguel Tarango
Post-Baccalaureate Seminar Guest Artist Speaker, SMFA, Boston (2009)
SMFA Contemporary Art Practices Seminar, Guest Artist for Patte Loper (2009)
Studio Visits for Emerson College (2008)
Representative of Performance Area, New Student Orientation, SMFA Boston (2008)
Student Representative at New Student Orientation, SMFA, Boston, MA (2007)
Presenter at “Student Voices” program for Medici Society Visitor Committee, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (2006)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Diving In: Artist Uses Performance Art to Examine Dreams and Expectations, The Taos News, July 21, 2011
Murals Adorn Recession’s Canvas, The Providence Journal, November 12, 2010
Decorating Providence home exteriors with the help of the neighborhood, Providence Business Journal, August 16, 2010
2009 Nomination: Best Performance Art, and Standout work by a local artist in a group show, New England Art Awards, The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
Six Art Students to See, The Boston Globe, April 17, 2009
The Weekly Dig, April 16, 2009
Stuff Magazine Boston, April 3, 2009
The Taos News, April 30, 2009
artSPACE@16 press release, June-July 2006
The Boston Globe, May 14, 2006
SMFA Viewbook, 2006 – featured student
The Taos News, June 6, 2005, Tempo
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship for PhD, Newcastle University, Newcastle UK, 2014-2017
Nominee for Newcastle University’s Environment Awards, Student Sustainability Champion Category, 2017 (BWK-BCN)
Northern Bridge DTP Placement with Making Sense EU at Fab Lab Barcelona, September 2016-January 2017
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts for A to Z Unit with Sneha Solanki, 2015
Newcastle University Institute for Social Renewal grant in support of BWK-BCN project
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts for DIYwania, 2014-2015
Artist-in-Residence, Pontyoool Wales (2012-2013): Hosted by Torfaen County Borough Council’s Strategic Regeneration Team and jointly funded by the Arts Council of Wales and Torfaen County Borough Council, in collaboration with Addo Creative and Newcastle University
Cornerhouse/AND Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, part of the Cultural Olympiad (2012)
A-Team Project, Not Quite, Fengersfors, Sweden (2012)
A SOCIAL, HotelMaria Kapel, Hoorn, Netherlands (2012)
Terminal Award Winner, SoyaBall, Austin Peay State University (2011)
Land Arts of the American West Artist Program Residency, University of New Mexico (2010)
Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship for Beginning Performance and I-Dentity: Performing the Self, SMFA Boston (2009-2010)
Montague Award for International Travel – Turkey (2009)
Montague Award for International Travel – Sweden (2008)
Tufts University Travel Grant (2008)
Dean’s Discretionary Fund Grant (2008)
Tufts University Travel Grant (2007)
Grant for Master of Fine Arts program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2007)
Grant, Dean’s Discretionary Fund, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2006)
Grant for Master of Fine Arts program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2006)
Grant for Post-Baccalaureate study, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2005)
PUBLICATIONS
Doctoral Thesis, Putting Wicked Problems in Their Place: Interrogating the Global Through Participatory Art and Infrastructuring (2019)
Locating the Artist, co-authored with Anthony Schrag, engage issue 37, Time and Place: Hosting and commissioning artists, 2016
Professional Parody: An Examination of Artist Practices Parodying and Disrupting Business Models to New Ends, Organizational Aesthetics, Vol. 4, 2016, pp 92-107
A {Digital} Stitch in Time, Media-N Journal: Found, Sampled, Stolen: Strategies of Appropriat
Playing in Place Nowhere: Creating an Open Source Country, WRMC Collaborative, ISEA2011 Istanbul
Rules of Engagement: Creating a Feminine Aesthetic of Humor and Play, LivingGallery.info project
COLLABORATIONS
A to Z Unit with Sneha Solanki
WRMC Collaborative/ProjectSoya
CONT.cept International Artist Collective with Sezin Aksoy
COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Unicorn Union, workshop at Studioweave, Romford, UK (2012)
Mellor Management Sweat:SHOP, AND Micro Commission, Manchester UK (2012)
Stewing Graduate Student Orientation, SMFA, Boston, Mission Hill Gallery (2008)
Stewing Performance for Four Practices Artist Presentation, SMFA, Boston, Mission Hill Gallery (2008)
Bildwechsel Archive, Hamburg, Germany (2010-Present)