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EDUCATION

2001 MFA – Film, Video, Performance | California College of the Arts, SF CA

1998/99 - Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies | San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA

1994 BA - International/Japanese Regional Studies | University of the Pacific, Stockton CA

SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY solo shows in bold

2008-2010

ATA FIlm and Video Festival 2009, SF CA | “Stories We Tell Ourselves” | screening

Manresa Gallery, University of San Francisco, CA | “The Icon & The Iconic” curated by James Blaettler & Lynn Kirby | video installation

Climate Theater, SF CA | “TAPE NUMBER ONE” - Night Visions Series curated by Kaliisa Conlon, and Brendan Leonard | solo performance screening

HALLWALLS Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY | “TAPE NUMBER ONE” | solo installation / performance screening

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery | “Poems to be Read With Small Stones” part of the series, “A Grass Mound” curated by Anthony Marcellini | instructional poetry reading

Electric Works Gallery, SF CA | Stop & Go Film Festival, traveling festival curated by Sarah Klein

2006-2007

Patricia Sweetow Gallery, SF, CA | “Inchoate”, a multifaceted show celebrating the California College of the Arts Centennial | installation

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA | Film and Video at California College of the Arts: Performative, Gestural, Collaborative Work -

celebrating the CCA Centennial | performance screening

Artists’ Television Access Second Annual Film & Video Festival, SF CA | screening

De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands | screening

The Portland Documentary & Experimental Film Festival | screening

Freewaves’ 10th Biennial Film, Video & New Media Art Festival, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles | “Too Much Freedom?” | installation

Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX | Media Archeology Festival: Software Cinema | performance screening

Best of Aurora Picture Show, Volume 3, touring show U.S. | screening

Artists’ Television Access First Annual Film & Video Festival, SF CA | screening

TART, San Francisco CA | “The Lords, Notes on Vision” | installation & performance

Ninth Annual Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada | screening

Ampersand International Arts, SF, CA | “Interior Life” | installation

2004-2005

Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SF CA | “Bay Area Now 4” | installation

Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA | Artist in Residence

Art in General, New York, NY | “Audio in the Elevator” | installation

PlaySpace Gallery, SF CA | “Evidence Is Everywhere”, curated by Tanya Zimbardo, | installation

Invisible Venue | “You Don’t Know San Francisco”, curated by Christian L. Frock | on-line video

Oliver Art Center, Oakland CA | “Advance To Go” selected works from recent CCA alumni | installation

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF CA | “DEFUNCT” curated by SF Media Arts Council | installation

White Columns Gallery, NY NY | “Score: Action Drawing” curated by Marisa Olson | installation

San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA | The 11th SFAI Film & Video Festival | screening

2001-2003

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF CA | “Adventures in Video” curated by Total Mobile Home | solo screening/performance

Catherine Clark Gallery, SF CA | “Introductions 2003” | installation

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA | Recent Revelations, “New Social Modeling” | screening

Video 825, Los Angeles, CA | “Video Shorts by Tommy Becker” | solo screening

Southern Exposure, SF CA | Temporary Services “Audio Relay” | recorded spoken/music

Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, UW Seattle WA | “Signal 2 Noise” | screening

It Can Change, www.itcanchange.com | “Free Record Label”/“Clothing Project” | recorded spoken/music

Ampersand International Arts, SF CA | “Daily Docudrama” | solo installation

SF Camerawork, SF CA | “Same/Difference” | installation

WORKS, San Jose CA | “What Is Now” - Performance Art Festival | installation

SF Cinematheque @ Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley CA | “The Short & Shorter of It” | screening

Boston Underground Film Festival | “A Celebration of Alternative Visions” | screening

Film Fest New Haven | “7th Annual Film Fest New Haven” | screening

ATA @ Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA | “2002 Best of Open Screening” | screening

San Francisco Independent Film Festival | “Digital Underground” | screening

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA | “Alternative Requirements” | screening

WORKS, San Jose CA | “Viva la Video” a showcase of emerging Bay Area video artists | installation

Refusalon, SF CA | “Introductions 2001” | installation

GenArtSF, Herbst Int’l Exhibition Hall, SF CA | “New Fangle 2001” | installation & performance

Pond, SF CA | “Face II Face To Face”, curated by It Can Change | installation

ART RELATED SERVICE | AWARD & HONORS

San Francisco Cinematheque | Board of Directors (2002-2005)

Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA | Artist in Residence | 2005

“All College Honor Award” | California College of the Arts | Graduate Program Scholarship

Jurors’ Citation | The 11th San Francisco Art Institute Film & Video Festival

2001 MFA Commencement Speaker | California College of the Arts

GUEST ARTIST | TEACHING

Gateway High School, San Francisco, CA | visual arts instructor (2004-continuing)

JFK University, Berkeley, CA | Introduction to Video Art - MFA Studio Arts | adjunct professor (2006-continuing)

Beginning Video Production Class, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Lydia Greer | visiting artist (2009)

Senior Seminar, California College of the Arts, SF CA | visiting artist (2007)

Intro to Video, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Desiree Holman | visiting artist

Headlands Center For the Arts | “Inquisitive Machines & Melodramatic Scenes” | lecture (2005)

Reading and Writing About Visual Experience, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Marisa Olson | visiting artist (2005)

Writing For the Moving Image, California College of the Arts, SF CA | visiting artist (2005)

Media Arts, California College of the Arts, SF CA | visiting artist (2005)

New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA - Jon Rubin | visiting artist (2005)

Momentary Academy, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts curated by Ted Purves | visiting artist (2005)

Intro to Film/Video/Performance, California College of the Arts, SF CA - Jeanne Finely | visiting artist (2004)

San Francisco Media Arts Council, SF CA | visiting artist (2003)

Graduate Seminar, California College of the Arts, SF CA | visiting artist (2003)

Intro to Film/Video/Performance, California College of the Arts, SF CA - Jeanne Finely | visiting artist (2003)

Color Theory, California College of the Arts, SF CA - Lynn Kirby | visiting artist (2003)

REVIEWS | ARTICLES

Artvoice | “Artshorts Mixed Colors” by Lucy Yau - 2008

NY ARTS | ArtLA by Fette - 2006

Artweek | “Bay Area Now 4” by Marisa Olson - 2005

Rhizome, Net Art News | “Lovin’ an Elevator” by Marisa Olson - 2005

LA Weekly | Pick of the Week “Signal to Noise” by Holly Willis - 2003

Stretcher.org | “Introductions 2003” by Olaniyan Adams - 2003

SF Gate | Epicks – “Shocking Social Graces” by Alison Bing - 2003

Artweek | “Off Site” by Alison Bing - 2002

Bay Area Guardian | "Critic's Choice" by Lindsey Westbrook - 2002

Digital City | “Same/Difference Art Without Reservation” by Julie Ross - 2002

San Francisco Art Magazine.com | “Register This” by DeWitt Cheng - 2002

SF Station.com | Art Reviews by Sarah Lidgus - 2001

The Golden Gate [X] Press On-Line | "Less Is More Even With Films" by Sonia Weiland - 2001