STMT
My work uses photography as a way to examine how personal experience intersects with larger social realities. Working across photography, animation, and filmmaking, I am interested in how images—both still and moving—can hold emotional complexity while creating opportunities for dialogue and reflection. These mediums allow me to slow down, observe closely, and engage with the people, objects, and environments that shape everyday life.
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Much of my practice grows out of long-term observation and sustained attention to lived experience. I am drawn to moments that reveal vulnerability, resilience, and the quiet tensions that exist within ordinary situations. Rather than separating the personal from the social, I approach them as deeply intertwined, allowing individual stories to open conversations about broader issues such as care, identity, community, and belonging.
Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds,
Nan Goldin gallery, MOCA Los Angeles, 2025.
Photo courtesy of Trisha Quintero
Expanding my practice into stop-motion animation and filmmaking has allowed me to explore narrative, time, and transformation in new ways. Through movement, sequencing, and sound, I am able to extend the documentary impulse of photography into forms that evoke memory, emotion, and psychological space.
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My projects often begin within my immediate surroundings and develop through relationships built over time. Through this process, image-making becomes both a form of witnessing and a means of understanding—an attempt to make visible experiences that are frequently overlooked or difficult to articulate.
Ultimately, my work is motivated by a desire to create images that foster empathy and connection. By engaging with complex emotional and social landscapes, I hope to open space for viewers to reflect on their own experiences and the shared conditions that shape our lives.
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Education
2023 - 2025
BFA Art & Design, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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2005 - 2009 / 2021 - 2023
Studio Arts, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
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​​Honors​
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2025​
- Commonwealth Honors College Creative Activity Grant, $900
- UMass Honorarium, the "Wall @ SAB," $200
- "La Petite Mort," Twenty-First ArtsWorcester Biennial, Honorable Mention
- Annaliese Bischoff Honors Scholarship, $1,000
- HFA Dean's Undergraduate Scholarship & Research Fund, $1,000
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2024
- "Choice," Robert & Nancy Gordon Scholarship in Fine Arts, $4,000
- Henry & Jean Hall HFA Scholarship, $1,400
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​Commissions​​
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2025
- "Sea to Sky," Regenerating the Commons, IASC Conference, $1,000
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​Curatorial​​​​​
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2025
- Illusions of Certainty, Student Union Gallery, Amherst, MA
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​Film Festivals​​
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2026
- "SPACE CRIME," Five College Film Festival, Amherst, MA
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2025
- "Weeds," UMass Animated Film Festival, Amherst, MA
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2024​​
- "Road Kill," UMass Animated Film Festival, Amherst, MA
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​Solo Exhibitions​​
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2025
- All Ages, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
- "Material Surrealism #1," UMass Wall @ SAB, Amherst, MA
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Group Exhibitions​​​​​
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​2025
- "Replica #5.4.86," Staying with the Trouble, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, MA
- "Rebel Yell(ow)," Small Works, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA
- "La Petite Mort," UMass Senior Awards & Exhibition, Amherst, MA
- "La Petite Mort," Twenty-First ArtsWorcester Biennial, Worcester, MA
- "La Petite Mort," OPTIC, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA
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2024
- "Choice," Stay, Awaken, and Make Whole, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA
- "Choice," UMass Senior Art Awards & Exhibition, Amherst, MA
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2022
- "Monochromatic," College Art Exhibition, Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
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Performances
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2025
- The Juniper Tree, UMass Department of Art, Amherst, MA
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Volunteer
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2025
- Talent Scout, Hampshire Mall Project, Hadley, MA
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2024
- Trail Guide, Northeast Dungeon Siege, Worcester, MA
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2023
- Guest Artist, Bangs Community Center, Amherst, MA
- Artist Liaison, Northeast Dungeon Siege, Worcester, MA
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2019
- Fundraiser Organizer, 40 Prado Homeless Shelter, San Luis Obispo, CA