EDUCATION

2025 | MFA, Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2005 | BA’s, Art History and American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

SOLO + DUO EXHIBITIONS

2025 | Magnifera, 465 Collective Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022 | small journey, slow life, Applied Contemporary Craft Gallery, Oakland, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 | We Built This: Making Through Migration, OH Art Foundation, Chicago, IL

2025 | American Tapestry Alliance Biennial, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL  

2025 | MFA Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2025 | Friends of Dorothy’s, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL 

2024 | Piel con Piel, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

2024 | Experimental Portraiture, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2024 | Bio Constellation, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2024 | and other objects, Instit für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany 

2024 | Connectivity, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 

2024 | Pattern Recognition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

2024 | Interplay, Surface Design Association at Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH

2024 | Every Fiber of Our Being, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2023 | Small Stuff, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2023 | Dopamining, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2023 | Now and Then Print Show, June Steingart Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

2023 | Seen and Imagined, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA

2022 | Spiritual Realms, June Steingart Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

PERFORMANCE

2026 | Magnifera: A Lesbian Mango Feasting Ritual, Performance for “Plant Lives: Sacred Interdependencies in the Arts of the Americas” Conference, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT (forthcoming)

2025 | Compost Ritual: Queer Futures and Fisting Soil, 465 Collective, San Francisco, CA

2025 | Home Gym, Performance score by Rex Delafkaran, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2024 | The Waxing Gibbous Mango Suck Ritual, Claire’s Garden, Oakland, CA

2024 | The Park As Lover, an Ecosexual Walking Ritual with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, props, costumes, and performance, Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany

2024 | Cosmology of Bones, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

LECTURES

2025 | Artist Talk, How is Migration Woven into America? presented by Stanford Institute of Advancing Just Societies and Zócalo Public Square, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL

2025 | Guest Lecture in Identities, taught by Deanna Ledezma, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2025 | Guest Lecture in Metal Works, taught by Dan Price, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2024 | On the new moon the adders converge to make tongue stones and the lesbians assemble to suck mangos, Artist Talk, Fiber and Material Studies Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2024 | Group Critique, group artist talk and discussion, Porsche Showroom, Chicago, IL

2024 | Feral Intelligence, Artist Talk, Fiber and Material Studies Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 | Queer Art and Culture Wars: The 80’s and 90’s, Lecture in conjunction with the Cary Liebowitz exhibition “Museum Show”, Jewish Contemporary Museum, San Francisco, CA

TEACHING + RESEARCH

2025 | Experimental Weaving on Unconventional Looms, 465 Collective, San Francisco, CA

2023-24 | Teaching Assistant for Permeable Membranes, Advanced Woven Structures and Tapestry, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2020-22 | Teacher in Art Studies, California College Preparatory Academy, Richmond, CA

2017-18 | Research Assistant, North Coast Arts Integration Project, $500,000 arts education grant to integrate arts into core curriculum in Eureka and Trinity school districts, Humboldt State University Arcata, CA                           

2017 | Curriculum Development and Workshop Facilitation in conjunction with Cary Liebowitz  exhibition “Museum Show”, Jewish Contemporary Museum, San Francisco, CA

2009-15 | Teacher in Art History and Aesthetics, Oakland School of the Arts Oakland, CA

FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2026 | New Jewish Culture Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY

2024-25 | Pritzker Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2024 | Study Trip Scholarship, Zeitgeist: Germany, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

RESIDENCIES

2026 | Alchemy Art Center, Friday Harbor, WA (forthcoming)

AFFILIATIONS

2025 | Artist Collective Member, Jewish Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2025-27 | Board Member, Director of Exhibitions, American Tapestry Alliance

PRESS

2025 | Autostraddle, “Seeking Connection Through the Weirdo Queer Art of San Francisco” By Madison Young