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Education 

Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Photography and Printmaking, New York University/ ICP, NY, Masters in Photography

Teaching

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Adjunct Instructor, Fine Arts Dept, SVA, New York City, Instructor, Photo Department

Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, Instructor in the Fine Arts,  Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Visiting Instructor in the Photo Department,  AAVI, D.F. Mexico City, Mexico, Visiting Instructor in Photography School,  LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY, Instructor in the Photo Dept., Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Visiting Instructor in Photography

Exhibitions/Screenings

2026 Brand 54, Works on Paper, Tracy Bartley, curator, Glendale, CA; Big Eddy Film Festival, Narrowsburg, NY; AltFF Film Festival, Toronto, CA Jeff Foto Fest, month-long screening 24/7; ReStore, Jeffersonville, NY; Fantastical Films; Callicoon ART Walk, Callicoon Theater, NY; Harvest Festival; LES short films curated by Laurie Olinder; Sh*t Show; group show in Narrowsburg, NY

2025 Jeff Foto Fest, Jeffersonville, NY; Big Eddy Film Festival, panelist for Short Films, Narrowsburg West Kortright Film Festival

2025 TSTS Festival, New Memories, Parksville, NY Harvest Festival, LES, short film program with Laurie Olinder, Upstate Art Weekend Open Studios

2024 Bruge Film Festival, selection for short film, Tartovski grant recipient, Fantastical Films, Callicoon Theater, curated by Elizabeth Ennis Delaware County Art Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY, Art in Sixes New Memories, Film Festival, Parksville, NY, Spring Series Harvest Lung Festival, Panchos Garden, LES, New York

2023 Concord Art Museum, “This Earth”, Montello Foundation residents Fantastical Films, Livingston Manor, Callicoon Theater Big Eddy Film Festival, Narrowsburg, NY short film program and panel, Lulea Film Festival, Sweden, finalist Best One Minute Film

2022 AlTFF Indie Film Festival, Vancouver, finalist Ultra Shorts category Musee Magazine, Painted Photographs, March issue portfolio online, Tune in to Green, short film series diaramaroom.com

2021 South Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT, "This Earth" Astoria Film Festival, at Heart of Gold, debut three animations Michael Foley Gallery, NYC group show

2020 Queens Council on the Arts, New Works grant, Artists Talk, Dec. 17th Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa Program, Rochdale Village, Art A online auction, and exhibit

2019 Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa Program, Newtown Center, Jackson Heights Art Talks, E77, Artists Talk David Max Rothenberg

2018 Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa Program, Queensbridge Houses, School of Visual Art, group show Photo Dept faculty

2017 Wave Hill House, Wave Hill Gardens, Bronx, NY solo show Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa show of Cambria Heights seniors

2016 Open Source Gallery, group show, Brooklyn NY Montello Foundation, Montello, Nevada, artist residency

2015 Callicoon Trading, Silhouettes, Callicoon, NY Queens Museum Artists Market, Flushing Meadows, NY

Wave Hill House, Bronx, NY Winter artist residency, exhibition

2014 Arts Commons, traveling public art exhibitions, Queens, NY

2013 School of Visual Arts, group show, Photo Dept faculty

2012 Catskill Art Society, “Ghosts of the Catskills”, Livingston Manor, NY Adelphi University, Harley Gallery, Group Exhibition, Garden City

2010 SPE Educators, Group Show, University of Arts, Phila, PA

2009 Adelphi University, Klapper Center, Garden City, NY, group show

2008 Flux Factory, Queens, NY group show World’s Fair Panorama theme Outsider Studio, Livingston Manor, NY “A Soft Place to Land”,

2007 AAVI, online exhibition with the school portal, Mexico City, Mexico Outsider Studio, "Through An Optic Nerve", Livingston Manor, NY

2006 Queens Museum, Queens International, Queens, NY Outsider Studio, Winter Show, Livingston Manor, 2005 Dry Goods Arts Gallery, Livingston Manor, Welcome to My Home

2003 Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY, group show Towards A Low-End Theory, Minnesota Center for Photography, MN

2002 Everything All at Once, Queens Museum, NYC Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, GA, group show “House

2001 Open City, literary journal, portfolio from “Directions to My House”, NYFA, catalog grant, “Directions to My House”, self published

2000 Ricco/Maresca Gallery, "Seeds, Squares and Houses” group show VonLintel & Nusser, NY Unconscious Documentaries Paul Ha curator White Columns, The Meat Market, Chelsea, New York

1999 Silverstein Gallery, New York, group show White Columns, NY, “Visitor”, curated by Lauren Ross Brooklyn Brewery, “Mothers Work”group show

1998 Richard Anderson Fine Arts, project space, New York Williamsburg Arts & Cultural Center "Williamsburg Bridges Tibet", Baird Center, South Orange, NJ, "Image after Image", group show Gallery 292, New York, group show NYU/ICP alum

Awards

Residencies at Yaddo, NY, the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, NY, Wave HIll Winter Residency, Bronx, NY, Montello Foundation, Montello, Nevada

Grants from NYFA Catalogue Project Grant, Queens Council on the Arts New Works, SuCasa Grants from the NYC

Dept of Art, Queens Council in Cambria Heights, Queensbridge, Richmond Hill, and Elmhurst with Seniors

with Ford Foundation Honors

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