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Education
MFA - Tyler School Of Art Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Tyler School of Art Rome, Rome, Italy
Certificate - Center for Electronic Art. Sand Francisco, CA
BFA - Concordia University, Montreal, PQ
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 GardenBot. Memorial Union Gallery, North Dakota State University. Fargo, ND*
2018 Vέα Oικολογία (New Ecology). Lakkos Art Center, Heraklion, Greece*
PlantBot 2.0. McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC*
Fresh Off The Farm. Field and Fork Farm Pop-Up. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL*
2017 Cross Pollinate, Virginia Wesleyan University, Virginia Beach, VA*
Adaptation, Martha Gault Gallery, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA*
Mothluck, First City Art Center, Pensacola, FL*
2016 The Moth Project, Augustana Teaching Museum, Rock Island, IL*
PlantBot. Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN*
Moth, Entomica, Sault Ste Marie, ONT, Canada*
2015 Mothology, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI*
Arrt…Japan, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
PlantBot ArtLab, Seed Space, Nashville, TN*
floraBotanica, SpringHill College, Mobile, AL*
2014 Foodture. Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State, University, Detroit, MI*
The Moth Project, De Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, Netherlands*
Artist Respond, Oulu Museum Of Art (Taidemuseo), Oulu, Finland*
PlantBot Genetics. 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL*
"Critical Content", Series. Montgomery College. Silver Spring, MD*
2013 PlantBot Genetics: "Monsantra". Studios At Key West, Key West, FL*
Plantronics, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2012 Monsantra. The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada*
PlantBot Genetics, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX*
2011 WYSIWYG Houston, Non-Profit Art League of Houston, TX
WYSIWYG Connects, Corpus Christi. K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
The Green Shadow. McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC*
2009 WYSIWYG Carolina, Installation, Coker College, Hartsville, SC
2008 WYSIWYG, Installation, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN
Generation Drawings”, Drawings and Installation, Montevallo University, AL
WYSIWYG, Installation, Minnesota State University, MN
2007 Inheritance, Mixed Media, University of Montana, MT
2006 WYSIWYG The Rebirth, Installation, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
WYSIWYG The Rebirth, Installation, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL
WYSIWYG’s Universe, Photography, Henry Street Settlement, NY, NY
2005 Inheritance, Mixed Media, Lockhaven University, PA
WYSIWYG The Rebirth, Installation, Laredo Center For The Arts, Laredo, TX
Dog, Mixed Media, Armory Art Center, West Palm, FL
Selected Two-Person Exhibitions
2014 Ecology Revisioned. Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse. Prescott, AZ*
2003 NOW, Two-Person Show, Painting Installation, Temple University Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 When The Winters Were Still Really Cold (The Rhine). Useable Space. Milwaukee, WI*
GardenBot. ArtFields, Lake City, SC*
A Northward Migration. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA*
Hambidge Art Gala. Design District, Atlanta, GA*
2017 Pollinate. HUBweek, City Hall Plaza. Sponsored by Harvard, MIT, Boston, Globe. Boston, MA*
Crossing Boundaries: Art and the Future of Energy. Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL*
STEAM 2017, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL*
2016 Insecta. Haber Space at Central Booking, New York, NY
Manchester: RVA Street Art Festival. Southern States Silos, Richmond, VA*
Methodology, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA*
Impending Future. Lycoming College Art Gallery. Williamsport, PA.*
Digital Culture, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Re-Botica - ArtPrize 8, Fed Galleries, Kendell College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI*
2015 Weight of the World, Traveling Exhibition: Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability,
(GloS), Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State, Tempe, Arizona*
Balance-Unbalance 2015: An International Conference on Water, Climate, and Place - ASU Galleries. Tempe, AZ*
Sustainability Solutions Festival, City of Phoenix. Phoenix, AZ*
ESPACIO ENTER: International Festival of Creativity, Innovation, and Digital Culture. TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las
Artes. Tenerife, Canary Island*
Embodied Place: Observations and Notations. Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada*
Maize Y Mas, Legion Art Center, Cedar Rapids, IA*
2014 The Institutionalists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Marfa Dialogues/St Louis. The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, PXSTL. St. Louis, MO*
Art in Odd Places (AiOP): The Artifacts. Colonel's Row, Governors Island, New York, NY*
Entomological. Roy C. Moore Art Gallery. University of North Georgia at Gainesville, Gainesville, GA*
The Chuck’A’Luck. Opening Exhibition Event in Arnhem, Netherlands*
Hunter/Gatherer, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO*
Sustainability, Tiffin University, Tiffin, OH*
SECAC Members Exhibition, Sarasota, FL*
Mediated Realities, Albright College, Reading, PA*
2013 Art in Odd Places 2013: NUMBER, Greensboro, NC*
Shine On, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun, GA*
Westobou Art Festival, Augusta, GA*
Mel Chin Opening, with PlantBot Intervention, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC*
2012 Whale Oil to Whole Foods. Greene County Council on the Arts Gallery & Greene County
Cornell Cooperative Extension, Catskills, NY*
Whale Oil to Whole Foods Part 2. Cornell Cooperative Extension, Agroforestry Resource Center, Acra, NY*
Plein Air. Airplane Gallery New York, NY*
2011 E.V.A. (Experimental Video Art) BachModern Autumn Screening, Salzburg, Austria
Cerebral Departure: Investigations in Contemporary Issues. SpaceCamp Gallery,
Indianapolis, IN*
There’s No Place Like.... The Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN*
Digital Checkpoints Exhibition, (FLEFF) Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca
College, Ithaca, NY*
Edge of Life: Forest Pathology Invitational. Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches, TX *
PlantBot Genetics. Billboard Art Project, San Bernardino, CA*
2010 “A Brief History of…”, Two-Minute Film Festival collaboration, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA*
4th Cairo Video Festival, Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt*
dis.place.ment, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (UICA), Grand Rapids, MI*
Article 19, Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, International Center for Art and Design, Albuquerque, NM
InLight Richmond, International Installation Exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond,VA
Canadian Landscape, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden Ontario, Canada
STRASSENKUNST, International Juried Exhibition, Artspace, Richmond, VA
The Lens Based Image, Desotorow Gallery, Inc. Savannah, GA*
2009 Sanlun Yishu Collaborative Project, Sanlun Galleries, Wang Jing, Beijing, China
The Austerity Cookbook, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
American Portfolio, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR
UDA, Jules Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL
V for Victory, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Invented Memories, Anton Art Center, Mount Clemens, MI
No Seriously: Humor and Happiness in Contemporary Art”, Space 301, Mobile, AL
Linear Thinking, North Florida Community College of Art, Madison, Fl
Painting Invitational, Berry College, GA
34.5 SW, Columbus State Gallery, Columbus, GA
Drawings, Two Person Show, Chapel Hill Library Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2008 Think Tank, Murray State University, Murray, KY
Atlanta Artists Center National Juried Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
Cutie Pie, Curated by University of Tennessee, TN
2007 Far From Home, National Juried Show, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
99 cents, National Juried Show, Jersey City Museum, NJ
Industrial Identity, National Juried Show, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
Texas National, National Juried Show, Austen State University, TX
Explore This, National Juried Group Show CPS, Washington, DC
Something From Nothing, International Juried Show, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
31st Bradley International, International Juried Show, Heuser Art Center, Peoria, IL
2006 Think Warm, Group Drawing Show, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo,Japan
Whimsical Muse, International Juried Show, Manifest Gallery Cincinnati, OH
05-06 Showtel, Annual Juried Installation Show, Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, FL
2004 Valsalva Maneuver, Group Installation, Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Residencies / Fellowships
2018 Lakkos Artist Residency, Greece
2017 Hambidge Center for Art and Science, Rapun Gap, GA
2016 Hambidge Center for Art and Science, Rapun Gap, GA
Entomica, Sault Ste Marie, Canada
Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
2015 The Studios Of Key West International Artist Program, Key West, FL
Greening the Bay, St Norbert College Pere, WI
2014 Kauppilantie KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre Residency, Kauppilantie, Finland
Landscape Laboratory at Buitenwerkplaats, Artist in Residency, Amsterdam
2013 McColl Center Environmental Artists in Residence, Charlotte, NC
Kimmel Nelson Harding Artist Residency, Nebraska City, NE
2012 Hafnarborg International Artist Residency, Iceland
2011 Atlantic Center For The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
I-Park, East Haddam, CT
The School of Making and Thinking, Delancey, NY
2010 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, Rome, Italy 2009 I-Park, East Haddam, CT
2008 Elsewhere Artist Residency, Greensboro, NC
2007 New York Mills Cultural Center, New York Mills, MN
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
04 -06 Ora Lerman Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, Laceyville, PA
Awards
2018 SECAC Award for Excellence in Teaching
CLA Outreach Award, Auburn, AL
2017 Student Fees Sustainability Grant, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA*
2016 Goodwill Art Grant, Goodwill Industries
2015 SEED Grant Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA*
NEA ArtsWork Grant through St. Norberts College: Support for The Moth Project, Exhibition and Residency in Green Bay, WI
(written by St Norbert's, Professor Katie Ries)
2014 Marfa Dialogues/St. Louis Program Grant. The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts*
Student Fees Sustainability Grant, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA*
2012 Canada Council of The Arts, Travel Grant
2010 State Art Fellowship, Alabama
2007 Jerome Fellowship, New York Mills Cultural Foundation, MN
Canada Council of The Arts, Travel Grant
Lectures, Panels, Community Events, Workshops, Etc..
2018 University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl
CAA Conference, Los Angeles, CA
SECAC Conference, Birmingham, AL
PlantBot Building Workshop and Lecture. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC
Tiny Mural, GSU Biology Building, Workshop, Statesboro, GA
Ronald E McNair Life History Museum, Lake City, SC
Lakkos Art Center, Heraklion, Greece
2017 Pulse Art + Technology Festival, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Virginia Wesleyan University, Virginia Beach, VA
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
Foley High School PlantBot Drawing Workshop at UWF, Pensacola, Florida
Green Energy Fest, Pensacola, FL
SECAC Conference, Columbus, OH
2016 The Figge Museum, Davenport, IA
Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
SECAC Conference, Roanoke, VA
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Moth Workshop, Longfellow Elementary School, Davenport, IA
Moore Elementary School, Clarksville, TN
Pebble Hill, Auburn, AL
The Fed Galleries at KCAD, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 Towards a Better Future. Service to Artist Committee Invitation, College Art Association, NY
Ideas in Sight Lecture, Savannah College of Art And Design, Savannah, GA
SECAC Conference, Panelist, Pittsburg, PA
California University, California, PA
Slippery Rock, Slippery Rock, PA
Springhill College, Mobile, AL
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI
St. Norbert College Art Department, De Pere, WI
YMCA Summer Camp, Green Bay, WI
Mulva Library, De Pere, WI
Boys and Girls Club, Green Bay, WI
Green Bay Botanical Garden, Green Bay, WI
Tsyunhehkwa, Oneida Nation Tribal Farm, Oneida, WI
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary, Green Bay, WI
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
The Art Garage, Green Bay, WI
2014 Long Island University, Long Island, NY
Ignite #38 Interactive Lecture, Mediamatic Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Interactive Lecture at Landscape Laboratory at Buitenwerkplaats, Netherlands
Environmental Art Biennial of Finland Workshop, Ii, Finland
Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
SECAC Conference, Panelist, Sarasota, FL
St. Edwards University, Austen TX
Great Minds Lecture Series, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Entomological Art Series Workshop and Lecture, University of North Georgia, Gainesville, GA
2013 "We Could Be Heroes", Panel and Lecture. Bringham Young University Museum, UT
PlantBot Agricultural Lecture Rotary Club, Nebraska City, NE
Moths Meet Artist: Interactive Community ArtLab Event and Lecture, Reedy Creek Nature
Preserve, Meckleburg County, NC
EcoBot Art Intervention, Workshop and Lecture, Georgia Southern, Statesboro, GA
Interactive Lecture and Workshop, Episcopal Day School, Augusta, GA
SECAC Conference Panelist, Greensboro, NC
Interactive Lecture with ArtLab, Arts and Science Council Summer Camp, Charlotte NC
Interactive Community Event, Sense and Science Garden Project at First Ward, Charlotte, NC
Interactive Community Event, Annual Northwest Community Day, Charlotte, NC
Interactive ArtLab Community Event, Discovery Place, Charlotte, NC
Interactive ArtLab Community Event, FoodTruck Friday, Common Market, Charlotte, NC
Lecture and Workshop, Shalom Park Freedom School, Charlotte, NC
2012 PlantBot Genetics Lecture, The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada
PlantBot Genetics Workshop & Lecture. Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
PlantBot Genetics Workshop & Lecture. Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
Panelist, Disrupt This Session, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA
PlantBot Genetics Event, OxBow Meadows Environmental Learning Center, Columbus, GA
2011 Green Shadow Community Art-Making Event, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC
Indiana University, Indiana University, PA
2008 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
South Eastern College of Art Conference, LA
Minnesota State, St Paul, MN
Montevallo University, Montevallo, AL
2007 Columbus State University Columbus, GA
Blue Sky Project Crystal Lake, IL
Critorama, Grand Valley University, Grand Rapids, MI
2006 Mercer Elementary School, Northern, KY
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
University of Maine, Augustus, ME
AUM University, Montgomery, AL
Kansas State University, Lawrence, KS
Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
2005 Lockhaven University, Lockhaven, PA
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Laredo Center For the Arts, Laredo, TX
2004 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
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Indicates working with artist Jeff Schmuki collaboratively under the name of DesChmuki or PlantBot Genetics.
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2018 Shields, Kathryn M and Sunny Spillane. Creative Collaboration in Art Practice, Pedagogy, and Research.
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Leonard, Joseph. “PlantBot 2.0 art exhibit displayed at McMaster Gallery”. The Daily Gamecock. September 13. Print/Web. Dahlgren, Annika. “Plant robots mix art and ecology”. University of South Carolina. August 17. Web.
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2014 Buchanan, Christopher. “Georgia Southern Project Highlights Pollinator Decline, Alternatives.” WJCL News,
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