Born in Tacoma, USA
Lives and works in New York | Washington
EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco, USA: MFA: New Genres
University of Washington, Seattle, USA: BA: Interdisciplinary Visual Arts; Philosophy
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2012
Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, USA: Building on Binaries
Franklin Furnace, New York, USA: Dopplegänger Effect
Cornwall Autonomous Zone/Exchange Gallery, Penzance, England: Square Eyes
Konnektor, Hannover, Germany: Sommerfest
institut für alles mögliche, Berlin, Germany: Direct Action 2011/Month of Performance Art--Berlin
Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece: Animacall
Apexart, New York, USA: Commercial
Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, USA: Manifesto
Centotto, Brooklyn, USA: Show of Hands
21 Grand, Oakland, USA: The Birth of Uncool
Fort Mason Center-Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, USA: San Francisco Art Institute Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Centotto, Brooklyn, USA: Collaborative Forgeries, or Forged Collaborations
Diego
Rivera Gallery, San
Francisco, USA: Rebel!
Swell Gallery, San Francisco USA: Performology and Actionization
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA: Cathode Memory
2009
Swell Gallery, San Francisco, USA: Ánvasion!
Artist Television Access,San Francisco, USA: Return and Report (Free Form Film Festival)
Diego
Rivera Gallery, San
Francisco, USA: Continuing MFA Exhibition
Swell Gallery, San Francisco, USA: New Genres Collaboration
Centotto, Brooklyn, USA: Missive Humor, or Contours of Place
University of Maine, Orono, USA: Conjunction Without Borders (collaboration with Matthew Leavitt)
San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Center,
San Francisco, USA: Soft Transgressions
Swell Gallery, San Francisco, USA: Reorientation
2008
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA: Art of Participation
Burien Arts Association, Burien, USA: 20/20 Visions
Atelier Deux Mondes,
Metz, France: Two Worlds
Ouch My Eye Gallery, Seattle, USA: Apocalypse Now
El
Taller Boricua, New York, USA: En Foco's New
Works #11
Ouch My Eye Gallery, Seattle, USA: Ship It
Koltsovo International Airport, Yekaterinburg, Russia: Illuminators
2007
Angle Gallery, Seattle, USA: Seven Deadly Sins
Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, USA: Kenu/Canoa
Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, USA: Cull: Invasive Ethics
Form/Space
Atelier, Seattle, USA: Countdown/Build 2 Destroy
Golden Art Gallery, Goldendale, USA: Taking Taken Photos of Taking
2005
Parnassus Gallery, Seattle, USA: Art Exposed
University
of Washington, Seattle, USA: Canoa/Kenu
2004
88 Men's Rooms,
Seattle, USA: Public Privacy
University
of Washington, Seattle, USA: Tires
PERFORMANCES
2011
Manhattan, New York, USA: Dopplegänger Effect
2010
Madison Square Park, New York, USA: Nimbus or Halo
Tenderloin, San Francisco, USA: Forever Young
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, USA: Coin Toss
2009
Fort Mason Center-Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, USA:Vernissage Critique (with Jesse Eric Schmidt)
2008
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, USA: Hawking/Pigeoning
2007
Seattle, USA: Kenu/Canoa to Canoe
2006
Pont d'Aragó, València, Spain: FIXED
2004
NikeTown, Seattle, USA: Sweatshop
FILMOGRAPHY
2010
LOST, 1:23:10, HDV, New
York, USA
Cry Baby Killer Reduxed, 6:45 HDV, San Francisco, USA
2012, 9:50, HDV, San Francisco,
USA
Bearing Uncool, 2:31, Oakland, USA
Nimbus or Halo, 2:34, HDV, New York, USA
Bruce Cries Wolf, 9:00, HDV, San Francisco, USA
Cold Readings, 4:17, 16mm BW, San Francisco, USA
2009
Cooking with Freerange Chef Carlos Castro (in
collaboration with Scott Polach and Carlos Castro), 6:35,
digital video, San Francisco, USA
Aristocrat, 8:07, digital video, San
Francisco, USA
Flying (Rat) Trap, 6:07, digital video, San
Francisco, USA
Gender, Inc., 1:46, digital video, San
Francisco, USA
2008
(Flying) Rat Trap, 1:04, digital video, San Francisco, USA
2007
Kenu/Canoa to
Canoe, 3:21 digital video, Seattle,
USA
SELECTED WEB DEVELOPMENT/ NET_ART
2011-Present
Lugubrious New York is an advertising agency whose unconventional approach to attracting
market space rivals performance, viral video, and supraliminal messaging. A growing client list
includes only the most exclusive and elite companies, agencies, and institution who are
selected by Lugubrious New York based on merit, collaborative potential and
recommendations from our board, which is comprised of internationally renowned individuals.
http://www.lugubriousnewyork.com
2009-Present
Gender, Inc. is a company that promises more “gender evident” results for clients who find their self too ambiguous. Services offered included behavioral, biological, and sociological augmentation through tutoring, prescription pills, surgery and psychological reconditioning. This project is collaboration with Matt Leavitt for University of Maine, Orono.
2008-Present
Web Nexuscompares
the visual aesthetics of websites and UI via an archive of all Internet
profiles of Donald Daedalus, http://donalddaedalus.com/web_nexus.html
Soft Transgressions: a one-night group show themed around pornography. Multimedia and set in a
non-gallery/alternative context. The show critiqued historical dismissals of
pornography as well as the visitation of an exhibition centered on the opening
evening.
Participating Artists:
Luca Antonucci,
Pamela Belknap, Tyler Borenstein, Carissa Carlson,
Colby Claycomb, Ian Coyle, Donald Daedalus, Tyrone
Davies, Alicia de Brincat, Stephanie Dodes, Cathy Fairbanks, Kevin Parks Hauser, Ruth Hodgins, Chris Hood, Matt Lippe, Romy Mariano, John Melvin, Amy Morgenstern, Karl Nelson,
Jennifer Odell, Massimo Pacchione, Adam Prince, Chris Ritson, Stephen Shearer, Marta Spurgeon, Mary
Jackstraw Strebinger, Hui-Ying
Tsai, Jevijoe Vitug.
New Genres Collaboration: a group collaboration show paring incoming graduate
students of the New Genres Department with the continuing graduates of the same
program. Collaborations included: Kim Cook + Maria de Los Angeles; Ian Coyle +
Jeffrey Songco; Donald Daedalus + Fiamma Montezemolo; Stephanie Dodes + Renee Rhodes; Karl Nelson + Cristina Victor; Stephen Shearer + Tim Maguder; Jesse Schmidt + Kathryn Williamson; Paulina Velázquez + David Peña
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Designer/Researcher - Reversible Destiny Foundation (Arakawa + Gins)
2009/10
Graduate Assistant to Renee Green, Dean of the San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Studies Lecture Series - Spheres of Interest
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Asian American Artist Alliance
San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Association
PRESS
Routes
Magazine "Mi-Lieus: Il Gioco della Profanazione (Mi-Lieus: The Game of Profanation)," Review of collaborative project with Fiamma Montezemolo
2009
ArtBusiness "San Francisco California Art Gallery Openings," Alan
Bamberger, 3/25/09
2008
Nueva Luz Magazine "New Works #11," Harris, Melissa. (En
Foco, Bronx, New York), vol. 12 no. 3 (2008): p. 40
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
Franklin Furnace Fund, New York, NY: Franklin Furnace Fund Grant
San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco, CA: 140 Design Award
2008/9
San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco, CA: Graduate Grant
2007
En Foco,
New York, NY: New Works #11 Photography
Award
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