EDUCATION

2005-2006          Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, NY

1999-2002          Master of Fine Arts: Painting; Master of Science: History of Art

                              Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1986-1990          Bachelor of Arts, Classics, Colby College, Waterville, Maine

2011  Even a Mirror Casts a Shadow, Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art,Dublin

2005  Obras Laranjas (Orange Works) collaboration with Sancho Silva, Project Room

         Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon

2003  plane air, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

EXHIBITIONS (group)

2011                                                 

Gifting Abstraction, Soho 20 Chelsea, NY.                                                    

The Days of This Society Are Numbered, Abrons Art Center, New York.

Between Document and Fiction, Maus Hábitos and Passos Manuel, Oporto

2010                                                 

Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus,                                                    

Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, NY                                       

Big Show 5, Silas Marder, Bridgehampton, NY.

2009                                                 

Actions for Urban Spaces, Art in General, New York                                         

1 Century, 10 Pencils, 100 Drawings,  Museum of the Presidency of the Republic,                   Lisbon.                                             

Spatial Relations, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.

2008

Democracy in America—Convergence Center,  Creative Time, Park Avenue Armory, NY.

2007                                                 

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Artist’s Space, NY.

Land Grab, Apex Art, New York.

Urban Interface Oslo, Atelier Nord, Oslo                                                 

Monoprints, Pace Editions, New York.

2006

Steam Shop (or the Painter’s Studio) Fábrica da Pólvora, Barcarena,                                Portugal.                                          

Seeing the Invisible, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan.

Mind the Gap, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn.

2005

Wonderful Fund, Le Musée de Marrakech, Morocco; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK.

Report from NYC, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Resonance, Hun Gallery, New York.                                        

Mystery History, Broadway Gallery, New York.  

2004

Detonation, Anthology Film Archives, New York.

Ray of Light,  Saatchi and Saatchi New York Headquarters.

D'Artistes Americains, La Miroterie, Paris.

2002

Beyond the Gates, Art in General, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn.

PRESENTATIONS

2011                                               

Arte Util, Q-LAB, Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, NY.

Mapping Spectral Traces,  National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Dublin.

Artist in Residency Program (ARP),  Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

Stoop Series, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia.

2010

Activist Interiors, The New School, New York, NY.

Participation-ism and the Limits of Collaboration,

Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York.

Open Call, PS. 1 and Creative Time, Queens, NY.

Urban Public Art, The New School, New York, NY.

2009

Stealth Public Art, session at College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles.

Actions for Urban Spaces Roundtable, Art in General, New York, NY.

2008                                                 

Museum as Hub, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

2007

Strategies of Occupation: Grabbing Land and the Political Agency of the Artist, Vera

List Center, The New School, New York, NY.

The Porous City, (conference), Oslo, Norway.

2002

Organizer/Lecturer: Robert Smithson: Grounding Art, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

PUBLICATIONS                                 

2011   

“Authorized Disruption: John Hawke and Orange Works, 2005–10,”

Radical History Review, Duke University Press (volume 109), Winter.

2009   

1 Century, 10 Pencils, 100 Drawings,

Viarco Express, Museum of the Presidency of the Republic, Lisbon. (exhibition catalog).

2008               

Democracy in America, Creative Time Books, NY. (exhibition catalog).

 “With Politics in the Air, a Freedom Free-for-All Comes to Town,” Holland Cotter,

New York Times, Sept. 23.

2007   

“Art in Review,” Roberta Smith, New York Times, December 7.

“Build a Fort,” David Michael Perez, rhizome.org.

“Land Grab,” Shane McAdams, Brooklyn Rail, Dec.

“Seeing the Invisible,” Samuel Menin, Flash Art, Feb

Steam Shop (or the Painter’s Studio), Gulbenkien Foundation, (exhibition catalog).

“Filling the Void,” Olympia Kazi, Architect’s Newspaper, May.

2006   

Mind the Gap, Eva Diaz and Beth Stryker. (exhibition catalog).

2005   

“Quatro Modos de Entender o Espaço e os Seus Limites” [Four Modes of Understanding Space and their Limits], Diario de Noticias, Dec.

 "Quatro Visões Sobre o Espaço" [Four Visions inside a Space] Publico, Dec.

The Wonderful Fund Collection, (exhibition catalog).

  “Report from NYC” The Patriot News, October.

2003   

InStyle magazine, Fall/Winter.

2001   

New American Paintings: the MFA Annual, Open Studios Press.

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artist in Residence, Dublin, Ireland.

Kress Foundation Fellowship, Department of European Paintings and Sculpture, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.                                  

MFA, MS degrees with Highest Distinction, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

Pratt Circle Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

COLLECTIONS

Alliance Bernstein, New York, NY.

Capital Group, New York, NY.

Martin Brest, Hollywood, CA.

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA.

Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY.

Wonderful Fund, London, UK.

REPRESENTATION

2002-present:       Michael Kohn Gallery Los Angeles, CA.

2007-present:       Pace Editions, New York, NY.