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 :

2007 Thinking the Multiple, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
 

PHOTOARTE, Brescia Italy

 

Free Rein/Full Play – New Chicago Photographer, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, MO

 

Bangkok International Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand

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

  ”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

  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

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

2001 “Media Impossible”, Sezamie Gallery(Soul, Korea), Exhibition catalog
1999 “Yellow Face Show” Exhibition catalog