Born in Fort Wayne, IN, 1975
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION:
MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2003
BFA, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2000
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Untitled, (with Ethan Ayer), Light & Wire Gallery, Los Angeles, 2009
The Verdant Trance Lay Far and Wide, Another Year In LA, Los Angeles, 2006
SELECTED GROUP:
Intellectual Abstraction, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, 2009
Monster Drawing Rally, The Outpost for Contemporary Art, 2008
Ethan Ayer – Jacob Melchi – Brian Sharp, MASON, Los Angeles, 2008
E-flux Video Rental, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão – Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2008
Material Launch Exhibition, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, 2008
LA, a select survey of contemporary art, Center For Contemporary Art, Sacramento, 2008
Reading at MOCA PDC for the Nothing Moments Book Release, 2007
Draw and Line and Follow It, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2006
I See Fluxus Wherever I Go (Performance), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,
2006
Telling, Torrance Art Museum, curated by Kristina Newhouse, 2006
Delusionarium 3, Cal State Fullerton, Grand Central Arts Center, curated by Jesse
Benson, 2006
Imaginary Is Potential, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2005
Everything In Particular, ACME gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Kevin Hanley and
Michael Krebber, 2005
Having Differences, I-20 gallery, New York, NY, curated by Kevin Hanley, Steve
Hanson, Paul Judelson, 2005
Constructed Worlds, fa projects gallery, London, 2005
Idiolects, Angels Gate Cultural Center, curated by Annetta Kapon and Roy Dowell, San
Pedro, CA, 2005
De Een Minuten (the one minutes), Sandberg Instituut & Nederlands Institut voor
mediakunst Montevideo, also airs on Dutch television, 2004
Fly By Night, Mandarin gallery, Los Angeles, 2004
Delusionarium 1, curated by Jesse Benson, Santa Ana, CA, 2004
Terpicooniteen (Please give until gone), 16:1 gallery, Santa Monica, 2004
Graduate Exchange Show, University of California, Irvine, Curated by Daniel J.
Martinez and Andrea Bowers, 2003
Stories For Projection, Marios Furniture, Los Angeles, 2003
Experimental Animation Show I & II, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, 2003
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los
Angeles, 2003
7th Annual Short Film and Video Festival, Arizona State University Art Museum, Santa
Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, curated by John Spiak, 2003
Making, LacmaLab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002
Nooks and Crannies, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, 2002
ACEDEMIC:
Visiting Faculty, UCLA, New Genres 2006
Visiting Faculty, Otis College of Art and Design, Painting, 2006-07
Visiting Faculty, Otis College of Art and Design, Graduate Studies, 2005
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Benson, Jesse, Delusionarium Catalog, 2006
Nys-Dembroot, Shana, “The Verdant Trance Lay Far and Wide”, Flavorpill website, 2006
Johnson, “Having Differences”, The New York Times Critics picks, 2005
Holland, Charles, “Constructed Worlds” Modern Painters Magazine, 2005