EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Set Design, 2001
University of Denver, CO, 1990-1994
BA Art History, Minors Religious Studies and Business Administration
Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude
Marchutz School of Art, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1992

ARTIST

Seoul International Short Film Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, October 10, 2024

Beyond the Screen Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, February 28, 2024

Black Owl Film Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, April 24, 2024 

Mannheim Arts and Film Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, September 8, 2023

Shanghai International Short Week
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, May 5, 2023

Golden Harvest Film Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, honorable mention, August, 22, 2022

Indie Movies Spark Film Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, awarded Best Experimental/ Art Film, July 4, 2022

International Fine Arts Film Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, July 1, 2022

Golden Cali Film and Art Awards
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, January 14, 2022

New Haven International Film Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, Honorable Mention, November 17th, 2021

180 Degree Berlin Film Fest
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, November 1, 2021

The Strange Days Horror Fest
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, July 21, 2021

We Make Movies International Film Festival
Yakushima Mon Amour, selected, April 30, 2021

Splice Film Fest
Pagayo winner, Best Video Art, June 18, 2020

Lisbon Film Rendezvous
Pagayo finalist, May 15, 2020

FINDECOIN- Independent International Short Film Festival
Pagayo winner, Best Video Art February 24, 2020

Motion For Pictures, Cary, NC
Don’t Worry, Be Happy semi-finalist, February 6, 2019

Short to the Point International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Don’t Worry, Be Happy selected, October 2018

Indie Best Films Festival
Konnichiwa Kuma-San! semi-finalist, July-August-September 2018

Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Odditites
Don’t Worry, Be Happy selected, September 21-22, 2018

Splice Film Fest
Don’t Worry, Be Happy selected, May 31, 2018

Largo Film Awards 2018
Don’t Worry, Be Happy selected, February edition

London Experimental
Konnichiwa Kuma-San! selected, December 3, 2017

AFC Global Fest
The Far East selected, November 3, 2017

Texas Ultimate Shorts
Konnichiwa Kuma San, Finalist, May 20, 2017

Hope Film Awards
Konnichiwa Kuma-San! selected, February 1, 2017

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival
The Far East selected, December 22, 2016

Hollywood Screenings Film Festival
The Far East, Finalist, December 20, 2016

Martinique Film Festival
Konnichiwa Kuma-San! selected, June, 2016

Bad Film Fest
The Far East selected, April 4, 2016

Down East Flick Fest
The Far East selected, March, 2016

Texas Ultimate Shorts
The Far East, Finalist, December, 2015

9180 Shortfest
The Far East selected, December, 2015

Wendy’s Shorts Awards
The Far East selected, December, 2015

Pune Short Film Festival
The Far East selected, December, 2015

12 Months Film Festival
The Far East selected, August 31, 2015

Catalyst Communities Film Festival
Sun Alley selected, July 4-5, 2015

Filmfest Dresden Film Market
Sun Alley selected, April 14-19, 2015

365 Artists 365 Days
Frank Juarez Gallery and Greymatter Gallery collaboration, 2014

Stigmart10, 6th edition, 2013
Entschuldigung selected

Strange Glue: Collage at 100
Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA, 2012

BRURAL: Art/&/of/?/vs./or/Design
Curator Agata Lordan
Project 59, Inc., Brooklyn NY, 2012

Gentrified
Brooklyn Artist’s Gym, Brooklyn NY, 2010

Basekamp @ Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2007
Plausible Art Worlds

SET DESIGNER (selected)

Kerry Tribe The Loste Note
Set Design for film exhibited at 356 Mission, April 2015

Petite Feet
Director Olivia Newman
New York, NY 2010

Good Thing
Director Keshni Kashyap
Los Angeles, CA, 2004

Seed
Director Mo Perkins
Los Angeles, CA, 2003

Walter
Director Tamara Maloney
Los Angeles, CA 2003

The Velvet Rut
Director Erik Sniedze
Flea Theater, New York, NY, 2002

Boro Tales: Brooklyn
Blue Heron Arts Center, New York, NY 2002

Reading Hebron
Director David Milch
Access Theatre, New York, NY, 2002

Cloud Nine
Director Mina Hartoung
Jose Quintero Theatre, New York, NY, 2002

Swan Song
New York, NY, 2002

Man with Bags
Director Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
Looking Glass Theatre, New York, NY, 2001

Paradox Lust
Double Helix Production
Jose Quintero Theatre, New York, NY, 2001

The Beginning of the And
Director Sam Roberts
The Chelsea Playhouse, New York, NY, 2001

The Lady from Dubuque
Director David Schweizer
The Little Theater, Los Angeles, CA

Miss UCLA Y2K
Artist Micol Hebron
Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 2000

The American Clock
Director Gary Gardner
The Little Theater, Los Angeles, CA 2000

Travel Wear
Director Amy Ferraris
Los Angeles, CA, 2000

Nero the Amorous Privateer
Director Amy Ferraris
Los Angeles, CA, 2000

The Trial of One Short Sighted Black Woman vs Mammie Louise and Safreeta Mae
Director Beverly Robinson
UCLA Freud Playhouse, 1999, Los Angeles, CA

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

Brush Creek Arts Foundation Residency in Saratoga, Wyoming, Fall 2012
UCLA Graduate Fellowship recipient, 1999-2001
Who’s Who of the West Coast, 1994
Honors in Art, Department of Art and Art History, University of Denver 1994
Who’s Who of American Women, 1993
Golden Key Scholar 1990-1994
University of Denver Dean’s List, 1990-1994

CURATOR/GUEST LECTURER

Guest Lecturer- Set Design II
USC School of Theater, Film and Television, Los Angeles, CA
Brush Creek Presents
Platte Valley Community Center, Saratoga, WY, 2012
Indispensable
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
The Importance of Being Earnest
Sustainable Living, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
Sixteen Points of View
Galgano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1997
Some Wicked People do Prosper
Galgano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1996