Education
Ph.D. (cand.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
M.F.A. in Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art & Design, Chicago, IL, USA
B.F.A in Studio Arts, University of New Mexico, College of Fine Arts, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Cert. in Professional Photographic Practice, London College of Communication, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Strich um Strich. Zeichnen 2, GalerieEtage, Museum Reinickendorf-Berlin, DE
2022 Neue Kunstwerke der Graphothek Berlin, Berlin, DE
2022 Die Neuen 2021, Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin, DE
2021 Schwarzweiß – Weißschwarz, BEGE Galerien, Ulm, DE
2021 Fressen, Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin, DE
2020 Begegnungen, Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf, Berlin, DE
2018 Reminiscence, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, CA
2017 Flatfiles, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2017 Crystal Carpet, Armani Hotel, Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE
2017 The Conditions of Production, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, GR
2017 Hangar Artistic Research Center, Climbing Vines on a Random Wall, Lisbon, PT
2016 The Particular Poetics of Things, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2016 Institutional Garbage, Sector 2337. Chicago, IL, USA
2016 Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale, Finalist Sculpture. Venice, IT
2016 New Materiality, The Project Space, The Banff Centre. Banff, CA
2015 Aqua Art Miami, ArtSlant Prize 2015, 2nd Prize. Miami, FL, USA
2015 Front & Center, Hyde Park Art Center. Chicago, IL, USA
2015 ACERBUNUNDRUM, Ballroom Projects. Chicago, IL, USA
2015 Ground Floor, Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery (HPAC). Chicago, IL, USA
2014 DOUBLE CHERRY, Threewalls. Chicago, IL, USA
2014 How To Disappear, Paul Watkins Gallery. Winona, MN, USA
2013 12 Theses, Mana Contemporary. Chicago, USA
2013 Erasure, University of Wisconsin. La Crosse, WI, USA
2013 Leftovers, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
2013 A strange house in my voice, Gallery 400. Chicago,IL, USA
2010 Shadows, SCA Contemporary Art & Artlab. Albuquerque, NM, USA
2007 Musen—Modelle—Malerlegenden— von Renoir bis Warhol. Rechberghausen, DE
2006 Ménage à deux, Elvira Bach und Tina Tahir, Kunstkabinett. Regensburg, DE
2004 Floral, Galerie Viaux. Hamburg, DE
2004 Europäische Kunst in der SüdWest Kurve, Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe, DE
Solo exhibitions
2017 Editions – Selected Works, Galerie am Dom, Wetzlar, DE
2016 Botany of Desire, Gallery 2, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA
2014 Tapestries, BEGE Galerien. Ulm, DE
2012 Galerie Domberger, Editionen Tina Tahir. Stuttgart, DE
2010 Entfernung- Distance/Erasure, John Sommers Gallery. Albuquerque, NM, USA
2005 Drawn to Photography,BEGE Galerien Ulm, DE
2003 Fotografie-Illustration, BEGE Galerien Ulm, DE
Artist books & publications
2019 Floral, SNOW lit rev 7, spring 2019, London, UK, pp. 98-102
2016 On Hold. Never Completed. Visions, Field Trip/Field Notes/Field Guide
2015 The Poetics of Destruction—A Visual Compendium of Ruins and Trümmerfloren (ruin flowers)
2015 39 Future Memories
2014 Footnotes on a Conscious Act of Erasure
2014 Missed Connections, Canon, “felix,” issue no. 7, P 26-31
Talks & Lectures
2017
Artist Talk, “research and production”, Hangar Artistic Research Center, Lisbon, PT
2015
Paper Presentation, “Does Not Seem Likely: The Poetics of Destruction—A Visual Compendium of
Ruins and Trümmerfloren.” Master of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies George H. Roeder Symposium,
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013
Artist Talk, “Erasure.” University of Wisconsin, La-Crosse
Gallery Talk, “Beauty represents an artificial, imaginary conquering of death that allows life to continue.”
Gallery 400, Chicago
Artist Talk, “Interactive, Virtual Wallpapers, and Other Responsive Surfaces,” Mutual Interpretation:
A Theoretical Discussion Forum, University of Illinois at Chicago
Fellowships & Grants
2015
Field Trip/Field Notes/Field Guide, Intercollegiate,Transdisciplinary Consortium (U of C, UIC, SAIC)
George H. Roeder Fellowship, Visual and Critical Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
City of Chicago’s DCASE, Individual Artists Program (IAP) Creative Projects Grant Award, Chicago
Hyde Park Art Center Program, Chicago
2014
Foundation for Contemporary Arts New York, emergency grant, New York
The Islamic Geometric Pattern Design Conference Istanbul Design Center, Konya and Istanbul, TR
Residencies
2018
Arquetopia, Puebla, MX
2017
Hangar Artistic Research Center, Lisbon, PT
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
2016
Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin, DE
BAiR, The Banff Centre, Banff, CA