Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

2021 MFA Critical Performance Theory and Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL

2003 BFA, Painting and Drawing University of Washington, Seattle WA

Relevant Professional Experience

2019-Present 

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Core Studio Practice  I & II with Kitty Huffman  Joseph Surjan, Delano Dunn, Benjamin Pearson, Tom Burtonwood, Burton Isenstein, Off-Set Printing Thomas Denlinger, Parasitic Practices Maire Witt O’Neill, Becoming Imperceptable Lin Hixson, Chicago, IL

  • Guest Lecturer, University of Washington, Painting and Drawing Department Helen O’Toole, Interdisciplinary Arts Department Timea Tihanyi, Seattle WA

  • Graduate Student Representative, Performance Department, Student Government Liason, 2020-21

  • Make-Ready Advisory Board Liason, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020-21, Chicago, IL

2021 

  • Guest Presenter, Tsinghua University,  International Conference on Art and Design Beijing, China

2020 

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion online Virtual Assistant and Facilitator, MyKimisms LLC. Seattle WA

2017 

  • Guest Presenter, Velocity Dance Center, Speakeasy: Marking the Body, Seattle, WA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019

  • Circle Drawings, Auburn City Hall , Auburn, WA

  • Storefronts, Shunpike Arts Organization, Seattle, WA

2018

  • DYBBUK (video), 4Culture Gallery at King County Arts Commission, Seattle WA  

2017

  • JUICY presents Halos, Bones, and Artifacts, Studio Current, Seattle WA

2015

  • Yellowfish Epic Durational Performance, with Cherdonna Sinatra, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle WA

2014

  • Hypnogogic Jerk, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle WA

  • Sigil, Installation at Fort Warden State Park with accompanying performance

  • Entanglement Theories, site specific performance and photo series, Chimacum WA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 

  • Proximity, High Concept Labs at MANA Contemporary, curated by Maria Plotnikova and Sofia Gabriel, Chicago IL

  • For the Love of Math, Suzanne Zahr Gallery, curated by Timea Tihanyi, Mercer Island, WA

  • Preventative Maintainance, Patient Info Gallery, curated by Brian Jucas, Chicago Illinois

  • Old ways New Tools, Online Performance Festival, curated by SAIC Performance Department, Chicago IL

  • Codex Project, WP Gallery, Curated by Mo Darwish and Kaitlyn Basta, Philadelphia, PA

  • SAIC Shows 2021, MFA Graduate Exhibitions, Chicago IL

2020

  • Ghost Chair, collaboration with Corey Smith and Paige Naylor, Site Gallleries, SAIC, Chicago IL

2019

  • Labor in a Single Shot:  Symposium On Re:Working Labor, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago IL

  • Current Obsessions: Water and Memory, Koch Gallery at Vashon Art Center, Vashon WA

  • Current Obsessions: Water and Memory  Lynwood City Hall, Lynwood WA

  • Fracture, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA

2018

  • 12 Minutes Max, selected participant, Base Experimental Arts, Seattle WA

  • Open Studio, selected participant, On the Boards, Seattle WA

  • Visual Impressions, Ryan James Fine Art, Bellevue, WA

  • 206Q, Fred Wildlife Refuge, Seattle, WA

  • e4c New Media Gallery, King County Arts Commission, Seattle WA

2017

  • Velocity Fall Kick-Off, Selected Performer, Seattle WA

  • Disruption ,Velocity Dance Center, Next Fest NW Seattle WA

  • Next Dance Cinema, Seattle Film Forum, Seattle WA

2016

  • Lusio, Movement installation by Pistil curated by Gil Bar-Sela

2015

  • The Architecture of Being by Coleman Pester for Velocity Dance Center's Bridge Project

  • Velocity Fall Kick-Off, Selected Performer, Seattle WA

2013

  • Untitled by Chris McCallister for Velocity Dance Center's Bridge Project

  • Wood:Mortar & Pestle, Northwest New Works, On the Boards

2012

  • Kabuya, Sand Point Site Specific Installation, Seattle WA

  • Velocity Fall Kick-Off, Selected Performer, Seattle WA

2005

  • Wired Forest, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland WA

  • Annual Art Auction, Henry Arts Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA

  • Outside In, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Fidalgo Room, Seattle Center, Seattle WA

  • Dorkbot II, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle WA

2004

  • Hindsight, Frozen Moments, Consolidated Works, Seattle WA

  • SID INC, installation, Sea-Tac international Airport, Seattle WA

  • Soil Art Auction, Seattle WA

2003

  • Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Outdoor Gallery, Seattle Center, Seattle WA

  • Dorkbot, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle WA

  • Speak and Spell, Pound Gallery, Seattle WA

  • Group Exhibition, Soil Gallery, Seattle WA

  • New Works, Bluebottle Gallery, Seattle WA

  • Coupling/Strangers, CMA Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA

  • BFA Thesis, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA

Honors, Awards, Residencies

  • Elaine Paterakis Fellowship, SAIC (2020)

  • Oxbow, selected participant, Sagatauk, IL  (Jan 2020)

  • Storefronts Grant recipient, Shunpike Arts Organization, Seattle, WA (2019)

  • e4c King County Arts Commission grant recipient Seattle WA (2018)

  • Vermont Studio Center, selected participant and fellowship recipient  Johnson, VT ( Nov. 2018)

  • Visual Impressions, National Juried Exhibition at Ryan James Fine Arts, Finalist (May 2018)

  • smART Ventures award recipient for Glass House Project, Mayors Office Of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Seattle WA (2010)

Selected Publications

  • LandEscape Contemporary Art Review, Anniversary Edition (Jun 2021) 

  • Studio Visit Magazine, issue 39, (Feb 2018)

  • Through the Lens of Dance, Melody Datz Hansen, City Arts Magazine (Aug 2017)

  • Brave New Work, Staff Reporting, Seattle Magazine online, (Dec 2017)

  • Velocity presents Next Fest NW: DISRUPTION, by BWW News Desk, Broadway World (Nov 2017)

  • Currently Hanging: Rachel Green, Seth Sexton, and the Violence of Falling Asleep, By Jen Graves the Stranger (May 2014)

  • New Media Gallery Artists Rachel Green and Seth Sexton produced by Jenny Cecil Moore, Jack Straw Productions (Jun 2014)  

  • Northwest New Works 2013: Week Two, Main Stage by T.S Flock, Seattle Art News (Aug 2013)

  • Velocity Kicks off Season in Style, By Mariko Nagashima, Seattle Dances (Sept 2012)

  • Change Agent: Seth Sexton, By Corey Kahler (Jul 2009)

  • Fairs please: the affordable art bus is always on time, By Anthony Haden-Guest, Financial Times (Jan. 2007)

  • Foresight at play when "Frozen Moments" evolve Hindsight, Seattle Times and Post Intelligencer (2004)

  • Dorkbot: People Doing Strange Things with Electricity, NPR Broadcasting (Nov. 2003)

  • Museum Project Gives Voice to Children of Muslim Refugees, The Seattle Times (2001)

*Represented by

Sarah Hurt at Seattle Art Source
5531 Airport Way S. Seattle WA 98108

 

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