| Education: | |
| 2003 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine |
| 2000 | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Master of Fine Arts, emphasis in Photography |
| 1997-98 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Photography Department |
| 1997 | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Bachelors of Fine Arts, Photography |
| Awards: | |
| 2003 | Skowhegan Fellowship |
| 2002 | Photo-Eye Awards “Best Figure Study and Nude Book” for monograph Poo-Chi |
| 2001 | Artists Fellowship Grant, Illinois Art Council |
| 2000 | Bruce Goodman Memorial Fellowship |
| 1999 | Honorable Mention, Professional Development Fellowship for Artists and Art Historians, College Art Association |
| 1998 | T.C. Colley Award, Rhode Island School of Design |
| 1996 | Nippon Steel U.S.A. Presidential Award |
Exhibition : |
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| 2007 | Thinking the Multiple, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA |
PHOTOARTE, Brescia Italy |
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Free Rein/Full Play – New Chicago Photographer, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, MO |
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Bangkok International Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand |
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| 2006 | A Travel on the Contemporary Photography, Galleria PaciArte, Brescia, Italy |
| Photo New York, New York, New York | |
| A Distant Mirror , M.Y. Art Prospects, New York, New York | |
| 500,000 Tons of Pure Energy, Three Seasons Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | |
| My Idol, M.Y.Art Prospects, New York, New York (Solo show) | |
| Festival of Love:Video Series, Asia Society, New York, New York | |
2005 |
Gallery Collection Summer 2005, M.Y.Art Prospects, New York, New York |
| "Poo-Chi", Galerie Cornelius Pleser, Munich, Germany (solo show) | |
| Good in Bed: Sex, Eroticism and Pornography, James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada | |
| “Poo-Chi ", M.Y.Art Prospects, New York, New York (solo show) | |
| “DIrector's lounge", Berlin, Germany (Video screening) | |
| “Gimme Some of That!" , Gallery 1926, Chicago, Illinois | |
| 2004 | She-Snap”, Schof Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| FOTOAMERICA 2004, Santiago, Chile | |
| "Occurrences : the Performance Space of Video " traveling show, Gallerie Soleil, Lexington, Kansas | |
| “Re:Source”, Art In General, New York , New York | |
| “Relating to Photography”, Fotograpie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 17th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston Illinois | |
| “Stuffed Memories”, a site specific installation, L.C. Bates Museum, Fairfield, Maine (2003-2004) | |
| 2003 | "Occurrences : the Performance Space of Video " , Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Traveling) |
| “Tanqueray No. ten Night Life Chicago” Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois (Catalog) | |
| 2002 | “No Live Girls”, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, New York |
“Peep Show 28/No Live Girls” , The Lusty Lady, Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California |
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| ”Interrogating Diversity” The Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | |
| 2001 | “Media Impossible”, Ssamzie Space, Soul, Korea (Catalog) |
| “Hidden”, Center for Asian Arts and Media, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois | |
| “Plutonium”, Gallery O, Tokyo, Japan (solo show) | |
| “homecoming”, Gallery O, Tokyo, Japan (solo show) | |
| 2000 | “In a Plain Brown Wrapper: Pornography, Art and Video”, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois |
| “Group Show”, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois | |
| “Land-Out”, Gallery O, Tokyo, Japan | |
| “Uncut Special Edition”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England | |
“Exchange Video Screenings”, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, England and School of Multimedia Art, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore |
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| Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois | |
| 1999 | “Degree of Influence”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| “Group Show”, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois | |
| “Yellow/Face”, Pilson East Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Catalog) | |
| 1998 | "Scope 3", Artists Space, New York, New York |
“Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation”, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| 1997 | “New Talent 2”, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois |
Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| Collection : | |
| Midwest Photography Program, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois | |
| Randolfo Rocha Collection, Belo Horizonte, M.G. Brazil | |
| Tanqueray Collection, New York, New York | |
| Monograph : | |
| Poo-Chi, hardcover, Nazraeli Press 2002 | |
| Selected Publications : | |
| 2006 | Photo New York by Walter Robinson, Artnet Magazine |
| Best in Show, exhibition review by R.C.Baker, the Village Voice, June 7-13 | |
| "Sex in the First Person", the Village Voice, 2/9/06 issue (photo illustration) | |
| 2005 | Libi_doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art, Katrien Jacobs, Maska, interview |
| Art Asia Pacific, Fall issue, exhibition review by Reiko Tomii | |
| Contemporary Magazine, issue 75, exhibition review by Jessica Kraft | |
| Shinano Mainichi Shinbun , interview by Reiko Tomii | |
| 2004 | “Occurrences” Exhibition catalog |
| 2003 | “Poo-Chi” , European Photography, issue 73/74, 2003, with an essay by Joanna Frueh |
| “Unfolding– a Group Essay” , NY Arts issue, January 2003 | |
| 2002 | “The Pink of Revolution”, Joanna Frueh, n. paradoxa, volume 10, 2002, KT Press |
“To See an Illusion”, Lamaretta Simmons, F Newsmagazine, SAIC, November 2002 |
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| 2001 | “Media Impossible”, Sezamie Gallery(Soul, Korea), Exhibition catalog |
| 1999 | “Yellow Face Show” Exhibition catalog |