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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


2011

 

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

 

2010

                 

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.

http://www.gender-inc.com

       

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

 

 

CURATORIAL WORK

 

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


2011


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

2010

 

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

2011


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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