Artist Professional Biography


Born 1981, Mountain View, CA.
September 1999	begins study at De Anza College, Cupertino, CA [Animation, Creative Arts]
August 2001	joins the Palo Alto Model's Guild as a part time figure model
December 2001	forms music group Corpus Callosum with Avery Burke, Wei Hwu
September 2002	transfers to California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA [Painting and Drawing]
May 2004	recieves BFA in Painting and Drawing, CCAC, graduate with distinction
June 2004	becomes a licensed street portrait artist at the Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
August 2004	joins the Bay Area Model's Guild as a full time figure model
May 2005	4th self-release by Corpus Callosum, "Machine Under Its Own Spell," which receives national and international review and airplay
September 2005	hired to Ex'pression College for Digital Art, Emeryville, CA as a Lab Instructor
January 2006	promoted to Course Director, Ex'pression College [teaching Drawing Bootcamp, Design Basics, and Fine Art Labs]
September 2006	moves to Chicago; begins graduate study at Columbia College Chicago [Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA]
June 2007	begins as Musical Director/Performer with CORE Project dance company
July 2007	transfers from Columbia College Chicago to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago [Performance Art MFA]
August 2007	builds puppets for the Redmoon Theater production, The Princess Club
August 2007	begins internship with Blair Thomas & Co. puppet theater [building for The Snow Queen, The Selfish Giant, Don Gato, Buster Keaton's Stroll; building/performing Reflections on the Nature of Water at the Chicago Cultural Center]
January 2008	becomes a company member and Apprentice at Blair Thomas & Co. puppet theater [building/performing The Rabbit's Tale for the Pritzker Pavillion in Millenium Park, Cabaret of Desire at the 2008 Puppet Gumbo Festival (Savannah, GA), Don Gato, in Millenium Park]
August 2008	becomes Shop Foreman at Blair Thomas & Co. puppet theater, in addition to being a company member [building for The Ox-Herder's Tale; building/performing Cabaret of Desire at the Storefront Theater]