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Education
2007 MFA, Visual Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2001 BA, The Integration of Arts in Education, Oberlin College
Awards
2019 Artist Initiative Grantee, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
Franconia Sculpture Park Residency, Jerome Fellowship, Shafer, MN
2018 Forecast Public Art Research and Development Grant, Minneapolis, MN
Tofte Lake Residency, Jerome Fellowship, Ely, MN
2016 Jerome Book Arts Mentorship, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Next Step Fund Awardee, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, St. Paul, MN
2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2012 Art for Social Change Grant, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Honorable Mention, Made @ MCAD Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
2005 MFA Opportunity Grant, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Laying in Wait, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
2017 Emmett Ramstad, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Touching Each Other, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
After You, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (catalogue)
2014 Knowing You Unknown, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2013 Watching You Watching Me, Eye Lounge Project Room, Phoenix, AZ
Intimately Preserved, John J. Wilcox Jr. Archive Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Becoming, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Drains, Jon Sims Center for Performing Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 HAIRandNAILS, 9 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY
Queer Forms, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2018 Untitled 14, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (juried by Nicole Soukup)
Co-Lab, The Show Gallery Lowertown, St Paul, MN
Living Together, Waiting Room, Edina, MN
Yeah Maybe 25, Yeah Maybe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2017 Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship Series, MCBA, Minneapolis, MN
Co-Lab, The Show Gallery Lowertown, St Paul, MN
Borders, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN
Parts of a Whole, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Making Room, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
He, She, They, Ze, Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects, ONE Archives, Los Angeles, CA
Culture Wars Then and Now, Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
thinking, making, living, The Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Lost & Found: Transgender Image Making, IHLIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ephemeral Sprawl, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Zeitgeist, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Demography of Us, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Consumerism, Glendale Gallery, Glendale, AZ
Wayfinder: Forging Identity, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Second State, Second Edition, Second State Press Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Doing Your Dirty Work, The Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
Collage, The Latvian Society, Philadelphia, PA
Casting, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA
Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Mix Factory, New York, NY
5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Beast, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Private Parts, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
2009 Polemics of Love, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Threaded, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Threads, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Defying Gravities, Fresh Meat in the Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Queer Craft, Advocate & Gochis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Makul (Reasonable), Hafriyat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Cynosure, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition, SooVac Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Deviant Bodies 2.0, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Vice and Virtue, Concourse Gallery, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
Gender/Identity, ALL Gallery, New Haven, CT
Engendered Species, CSU and The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collaborative Residencies
2012 Walker Art Center, BodyCartography Project, Minneapolis, MN
2010 MANCC, BodyCartography Project, Tallahassee, FL
Les Subsistance, BodyCartography Project, Lyon, France
2009 Walker Art Center, Morgan Thorson Dance, Minneapolis, MN
MANCC, Morgan Thorson Dance, Tallahassee, FL
K3, BodyCartography Project, Hamburg, Germany
Costume, Set Design and Performance
2019 Lost Things, WE Series, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Relay Relay, Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2016 I Don’t Normally Do This, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Symptom, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA
2012 Super Nature, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Abrons Art Center, New York; Store Front Theater, Chicago
Pleasure Rebel, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Symptom, PS122, New York (with The BodyCartography Project)
Mammal, Les Subsistances, Lyon, France (with BodyCartography Project)
Sister Spit, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN (with Sinan Goknur)
2009 Heaven, Diverse Works, Houston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; PS 122, New York, On the Boards, Seattle
(with Morgan Thorson)
½ Life, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis; PS 122, New York (with BodyCartography Project)
Curatorial Projects
2013 HOTDOG! Second State Press Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Trans|Post, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday Smillie: Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves, WWCC, Philadelphia, PA
2011 5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Chicken, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
Size Never Mattered/ Size Always Matters, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-curated with Ace Lehner, Crow Cianciola, Torreya Cummings, Micah Bazant, James Giotta and Dallas Kavanagh)
2004 Parts, New College Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-curated with Shana Agid)
Public Collections and Commissions
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Experience
2016-Present Lecturer, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
2014-2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
2013-2014 Faculty Associate, The School for Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Faculty Associate, Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ
2013 Faculty Associate, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts, ASU, Tempe, AZ
Education
2007 MFA, Visual Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2001 BA, The Integration of Arts in Education, Oberlin College
Awards
2019 Artist Initiative Grantee, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
Franconia Sculpture Park Residency, Jerome Fellowship, Shafer, MN
2018 Forecast Public Art Research and Development Grant, Minneapolis, MN
Tofte Lake Residency, Jerome Fellowship, Ely, MN
2016 Jerome Book Arts Mentorship, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Next Step Fund Awardee, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, St. Paul, MN
2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2012 Art for Social Change Grant, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Honorable Mention, Made @ MCAD Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
2005 MFA Opportunity Grant, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Laying in Wait, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
2017 Emmett Ramstad, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Touching Each Other, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
After You, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (catalogue)
2014 Knowing You Unknown, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2013 Watching You Watching Me, Eye Lounge Project Room, Phoenix, AZ
Intimately Preserved, John J. Wilcox Jr. Archive Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Becoming, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Drains, Jon Sims Center for Performing Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 HAIRandNAILS, 9 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY
Queer Forms, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2018 Untitled 14, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (juried by Nicole Soukup)
Co-Lab, The Show Gallery Lowertown, St Paul, MN
Living Together, Waiting Room, Edina, MN
Yeah Maybe 25, Yeah Maybe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2017 Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship Series, MCBA, Minneapolis, MN
Co-Lab, The Show Gallery Lowertown, St Paul, MN
Borders, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN
Parts of a Whole, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Making Room, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
He, She, They, Ze, Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects, ONE Archives, Los Angeles, CA
Culture Wars Then and Now, Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
thinking, making, living, The Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Lost & Found: Transgender Image Making, IHLIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ephemeral Sprawl, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Zeitgeist, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Demography of Us, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Consumerism, Glendale Gallery, Glendale, AZ
Wayfinder: Forging Identity, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Second State, Second Edition, Second State Press Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Doing Your Dirty Work, The Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
Collage, The Latvian Society, Philadelphia, PA
Casting, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA
Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Mix Factory, New York, NY
5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Beast, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Private Parts, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
2009 Polemics of Love, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Threaded, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Threads, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Defying Gravities, Fresh Meat in the Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Queer Craft, Advocate & Gochis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Makul (Reasonable), Hafriyat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Cynosure, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition, SooVac Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Deviant Bodies 2.0, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Vice and Virtue, Concourse Gallery, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
Gender/Identity, ALL Gallery, New Haven, CT
Engendered Species, CSU and The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collaborative Residencies
2012 Walker Art Center, BodyCartography Project, Minneapolis, MN
2010 MANCC, BodyCartography Project, Tallahassee, FL
Les Subsistance, BodyCartography Project, Lyon, France
2009 Walker Art Center, Morgan Thorson Dance, Minneapolis, MN
MANCC, Morgan Thorson Dance, Tallahassee, FL
K3, BodyCartography Project, Hamburg, Germany
Costume, Set Design and Performance
2019 Lost Things, WE Series, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Relay Relay, Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2016 I Don’t Normally Do This, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Symptom, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA
2012 Super Nature, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Abrons Art Center, New York; Store Front Theater, Chicago
Pleasure Rebel, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Symptom, PS122, New York (with The BodyCartography Project)
Mammal, Les Subsistances, Lyon, France (with BodyCartography Project)
Sister Spit, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN (with Sinan Goknur)
2009 Heaven, Diverse Works, Houston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; PS 122, New York, On the Boards, Seattle
(with Morgan Thorson)
½ Life, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis; PS 122, New York (with BodyCartography Project)
Curatorial Projects
2013 HOTDOG! Second State Press Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Trans|Post, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday Smillie: Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves, WWCC, Philadelphia, PA
2011 5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Chicken, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
Size Never Mattered/ Size Always Matters, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-curated with Ace Lehner, Crow Cianciola, Torreya Cummings, Micah Bazant, James Giotta and Dallas Kavanagh)
2004 Parts, New College Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-curated with Shana Agid)
Public Collections and Commissions
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Experience
2016-Present Lecturer, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
2014-2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
2013-2014 Faculty Associate, The School for Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Faculty Associate, Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ
2013 Faculty Associate, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts, ASU, Tempe, AZ