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Exhibitions Manager and Associate Curator, List Gallery, Swarthmore College


Independent curatorial and creative consultant


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AUTOMAT Collective member, Philadelphia, PA


Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Swarthmore College


Curatorial Consultant, Woodmere Art Museum — for Barbara Bullock's solo exhibition


education

Swarthmore College, BA High Honors [art, anthropology, art history]

PAFA, MFA

solo exhibitions

2024

two in a lake, Galerie Molitor, Berlin, Germany


2023

dirty snow, D.D.D.D., New York, NY


2022 

a great dent, New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA


2020

touch with your eyes, AUTOMAT, Philadelphia, PA



select exhibitions / projects

2024–2025

AZURE, INDIGO, ULTRAMARINE, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 


2024

CHANGING LIGHT (PROXIMITY TINT), Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 


2023

idle hands as part of Invited: Take Care of the Square Footage, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA


2022

Verso: A Virtual Sehnsucht Exhibition, Field Projects, New York, NY

Eco/Systems, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA 

[SOME] Small Paintings and Works on Paper, Larry Becker Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA


2021

Street View, Gallery 3E, New York, NY 

Delaware County Higher Education Teaching Artists, Duke Gallery, Wallingford, PA


2020

New Moon, Full Moon, Old Moon; New Moon..., Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 

B.A.S.E., Anna Zorina, New York, NY
all at once / little by little, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA (two-person)
Jump into The Fire, Atelier FAS, Philadelphia, PA 


2019
Form & Reflection, 1526 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (two-person) 


curatorial projects

lead curator

2025 [forthcoming]   Donald E. Camp: Faces, List Gallery, Swarthmore College

2024   Workshop of the World: Works by Tabitha Arnold, List Gallery, Swarthmore College

2023   Conflicting Truths: Works by Melissa Joseph, List Gallery, Swarthmore College

2022   a thing shared, AUTOMAT Collective


co-curator or curatorial assistant to head curator [selection]

Karyn Olivier: Seep, List Gallery

EDITH: An Architectural History — An installation by Nora Wendl, List Gallery

SIDE ANGLE TIDE : Eleanor Conover, List Gallery

Ubiquitous Presence: Selected Works by Barbara Bullock, List Gallery

Paul S. Briggs: Material Shapes in Clay, List Gallery

Hear Her: Works by Dyani White Hawk, List Gallery

residencies

2022   Fogo Island Residency, Newfoundland, Canada
2017   Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY
2015   Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland [student residency] 

artist's books / printed matter

2022

Seed Pocket Project / Print in collaboration with FORTUNE / Many Folds Press, Philadelphia, PA (collaborative risograph project, cultural heritage and seed distribution) 


The Diasporic Chinese Lunar Calendar, by FORTUNE / Many Folds Press guide to the Water Tiger. Collaborative project and printed calendar 


2020

corona poems: 1—27 co-written with poet and educator Victoria Stitt design: Tess Wei


touch with your eyes writing + design: Tess Wei, self-published

Embody Zine, hosted by Young Space and Olympia Project. Digital zine, Volumes I, II, and III


Tastes zine/artist book for exhibition Jump into The Fire at Atelier FAS, Philadelphia 

text: Tess Wei, design: Claudia Valenti, self-published 



publications [design + writing]

2024

Workshop of the World: Works by Tabitha Arnold

essay + catalog design


2023

Conflicting Truths: Works by Melissa Joseph

essay + catalog design


Edith: An Architectural History — An Installation by Nora Wendl 


2022

SIDE ANGLE TIDE: Recent work by Eleanor Conover


Ubiquitous Presence: Selected Works by Barbara Bullock 


Paul S. Briggs: Material Shapes in Clay 


2021

Hear Her: Works by Dyani White Hawk


Bell The Cat 

essay and catalog design for Morgan Hobbs’s solo show at VSOP Projects 


Asian Americans Reflect on Seeing Themselves, Race, and the Pandemic 

photo story by Haruka Sakaguchi, writing by Anna Purna Kambhampaty, TIME magazine 


see cv doc for more.


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