Education
2005-2006
Masters degree in Fine Arts: sculpture and video, Distinction.
Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, England
2001-2005
Bachelors in Fine Art, GPA 3.828, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), San Francisco, California, USA
exhibitions and projects
Respiro en la Tierra, four films documenting
Gitte Dæhlin's sculpture installation of the same name, screened on a loop at
Oaxaca Contemporary Art Museum (MACO), Oaxaca City, Mexico, May 2011
Primaveras group exhibition, EDELO, Centre for Experimental Art and International Residencies,
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, April 2011
Documentary film Paladio,
projected at the opening of Sacred
Landscapes Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario,
Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Canada, February - March 2011
Documentary film Mar Inclinada presented at the
Puerto Rico Contemporary Art Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2010
Documentary film Incantations projected as part of the Mexican Bicentennial Celebrations
at the
Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA, October 2010
It's All About Paradise 2
curator, project manager, fund-raiser and co-exhibitor, Blank Gallery, Brighton, England, October 2009
Everything is Always Quite Different, Brighton PhotoFringe,
University of Sussex Library,
Falmer, England, October - November 2008
Documentary film Ebb and Flow screened on a loop as part of Rebecca Hind's exhibition Moonscope,
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, England. Ebb and Flow is also displayed on the museum's
website
Papelito de la Suerte screened at Visual Roots Film Night, Radio BBC Brighton, England, June 2007
Webs installation exhibited as part of the Cannizaro Sculpture Festival,
Cannizaro Park, London, England
Monstricciatoli
solo show, Diego Rivera Gallery,
SFAI, CA, USA, January 2004
Patterns, film screening, McBean Theatre,
Exploratorium, the Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception;
CA, USA, February 2004
SCAR, Youth Media Project, digital billboard, commissioned by Galeria de la Raza in cooperation with
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA, USA, 2004
Monstricciatoli, Pienza Cultural Centre, Pienza, Tuscany, Italy, June 2003
Prizes, grants and publications
2010
Shortlisted for the Sainsbury Scholarship in painting and sculpture at the
British School at Rome
2009
Arts Council England Grant for the Arts
for It's All About Paradise 2
2009
It's All About Paradise 2, catalogue pp. 5-6; 26-27
2009
Joanne Lee, 'It's All About Paradise 2', review,
A-N, December 2009-January 2010, p. 12. Click here to read
2007-09
Founder and editor of volunteer-led magazine The Response, Fabrica Gallery, vols. 1-4, 2007-2009
2001-2005
'Cal grant,' California State scholarship
2001-2005
Merit Grant for the Fine Arts, SFAI, CA, USA
cultural exchanges
2008
Representative of Fabrica Gallery and the UK at EU-funded youth cultural exchange themed around globalization, Krakow, Poland. Participating countries were Poland, Cyprus, France, Italy and the UK.
2007
Exchange and educational residency organized by Fabrica Gallery and Ceméa, Avignon Festival, France.
2004
Student exchange between SFAI and the
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art,
University of Oxford, England.
work
2006-
Freelance film-maker and editor for clients including:
Artist Rebecca Hind, England.
Editorial Cinco Puntos Press, USA.
Artist's cooperative and independent press Taller Leñateros, Mexico.
Pighog Press, England.
Photographer José Ángel Rodíguez, Mexico.
Poet John Davies (a.k.a. Shedman), England.
Poet Ámbar Past, Mexico.
Artist Gitte Dæhlin, Norway / Mexico.
Artist and poet John Burstein, USA / Mexico.
2007-2010
Exhibition Space Manager, Volunteer and Education Co-odinator,
Fabrica Gallery,
Brighton, England.
2004-2005
Emerging Educator as part of the Youth Media Project, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and
SFAI, CA, USA.