EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Ceramics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
B.F.A. in Studio Arts, Queens College, City University of New York, NY
B.A. in Film Studies, Queens College, City University of New York, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023- present Assistant Professor of Art, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA
2022-2023 Instructor, Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO
Adjunct Faculty, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
2022 Adjunct Faculty, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
2018-2021 Instructor of Record/Graduate Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2019 Co-Instructor for a 3D Ceramic Printing Summer Course, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China
2017-2018 Technician and Assisting Teachers, Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, Wheatley Heights, NY
2015-2016 Art Instructor, Children Handbuilding Class, Island Pottery and Studio, Mineola, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021-2022. Exhibition Technician, Cultural Arts and Science Division, Park and Recreation, City of Ocala, Ocala, FL
2019-2020 President of H.O.T. Clay Club, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2016-2018 Technician, Oliloli Arts and Craft Studio, Forest Hills, NY
2015-2017 Studio Assistant, BrickHouse Ceramic Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2015-2016 Assistant, Phyllis Sullivan's Penelope Project, NY
2015 Studio Assistant, Summer Studio Assistantship Program, Peters Valley School of Craft, NJ
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2023 Chinese Cult Film Series, Stray Cat Film Center, Kansas City, MO
2021 Sensual Clay, Rosa B. Williams Center, Gainesville, FL (Co-curated with Director Dessarae Bassil at Moisturizer Gallery)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 To Go, Gallery 456, New York City, NY
2022 Goods of Desire, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL (Chief Curator Anna Wall)
2021 A Borrowed Place on Borrowed Time, Still Life With Fruit Gallery, DeLand, FL (Curator Katie Baczeski and Chad Serhal)
On the Road, Gillespie Museum, DeLand, FL (Curator and Director Dr. Karen Cole)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 (Forthcoming) Faculty Exhibition, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA (Curator Alma Juarez)
(Forthcoming) Interrelationship: Peers, Mentors & Friends, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT (Curator Chotsani Elanie Dean)
(Forthcoming) Fahrenheit 2024, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA (Juror Kathy King)
2023 Hot Breath, The REEF, Los Angeles, CA (Curator Jordan Wong)
Adapted/ Adopted, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN (Curator Karlota Contreras-Koterbay)
New Faculty Exhibition, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA (Curator Alma Juarez)
Ceramic and Glass Show, Grand Central Art Center, California State University (Fullerton), Santa Ana, CA (Curator Savannah Lee)
Milestones, Belger Crane Yard Gallery, Kansas City, MO (Curator Katie Hogan)
Electric Sheep?, The Annex Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (Curator Carolyn Watkins & Katie Baczeski)
We Gather Each Other Up, ADC Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH (Curator Chanakarn Semachai)
Can I Take a Message?, Plug Gallery, Kansas City, MO (Curator Megan Ganey)
The Lunar Project, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD (Curator Adam Chau)
2022 Adapted/ Adopted, KCKCC Gallery, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS (Curator Karlota Contreras-Koterbay)
Lamplighters, Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City, MO (Curator Adams Puryear)
Make One Good Wish and Go To Spirit World, PulpArts, Gainesville, FL (Curator Dessarae Bassil)
Belonging, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (Curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy)
2021 Sensual Clay, Rosa B. Williams Center, Gainesville, FL (Curators Dessarae Bassil and Cindy Leung)
Emergence, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL (Jurors Stacey Holloway, Darius Hill, and Wayne Sides)
Reflecting on Change: How Does This Feel?, Coco Hunday Gallery, Tampa, FL (Curators Aimee Jones and Krystle Lemonias)
Fresh Squeezed Retrospect, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL (Curator Amanda Cooper)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Curator Gean Moreno)
2020 UnWedged, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA (Juror Liz Quackenbush)
54th NCECA Juried Student Exhibition, art space, Richmond, VA (Jurors Salvador Jiménez-Flores and Virginia Scotchie )
Fresh Squeezed 4: Emerging Artists in Florida, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL (Curator Amanda Cooper)
Sculpture National, Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA (Juror Molly Morning-glory)
FACC Juried Arts Exhibition, University Gallery, Gainesville, FL (Juror Lorenzo Triburgo)
Clay Soiree, 4Most Gallery, Gainesville, FL (Organizer Jacques Adams)
2019 The Great Divide, Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL (Juror Bruce Dehnert)
Emerge, Station House, St. Petersburg, FL (Curator Diana Bryson)
Tile Exchange, Libby Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Organizer Professor Anna Calluori Holcombe)
3D Printing in Clay, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China (Organizer Professor Mingchun Zhang)
FACC Juried Arts Exhibition, University Gallery, Gainesville, FL (Juror Gia Hamilton)
Lonely Hearts Club, 4Most Gallery, Gainesville, FL (Curator Sue Montoya)
2018 TED x UF: Smart Art, First Magnitude, Gainesville, FL
Graduate Invitational, 4Most Gallery, Gainesville, FL (Curator Sue Montoya)
LIC Arts Open, Long Island City, NY (Curator Tessa Kennedy)
Me, Myself and I, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY (Juror Kathy King)
2017 Fire & Clay, The Factory, Long Island City, NY (Juror Peter Goldwater)
Making Connections, Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY (Juror Elizabeth Hoy)
Usdan Faculty Exhibition, Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, Wheatley Heights, NY
Pandemonium, LIC Arts Open, Long Island City, NY
2016 Brickhouse Underground, Brickhouse Ceramic Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
2015 Metempsychosis, Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College, NY (Curator Sin-ying Ho)
House of Craft, Studio 301, Brooklyn, NY
Making Matters: Fresh Perspectives in Fine Craft from Visiting Artists and Summer Artistic Staff, Peters Valley School of Craft, NJ (Gallery director Brienne Rosner)
Metempsychosis, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY (Curator Sin-ying Ho)
Thomas Hunter Projects: Recent Ceramics from Queens College, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
RESIDENCY
2022-2023 Foundation Residency, Year-long, Belger Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2021 Visiting Artist Residency, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
PRESENTATIONS| DEMONSTRATIONS:
2023 “Ceramics in the Expanded Field”, 57th NCECA, Cincinnati, OH
2022 Exhibition Opening Speech, KCKCC Gallery, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, Dr. Charles White Speaker Series, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
“The International State of 3D Ceramic Printing“, 55th NCECA, Cincinnati, OH
2017 “Visiting Artist Lecture”, St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue, NY
GRANTS| AWARDS| FELLOWSHIPS| SCHOLARSHIPS:
2023 Equipment Grant (Co-author), Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, Kansas City, KS
Emergency Grant, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
Professional Development Funds, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
Annual Poetry Contest Award Recipient, thismuch.org
2022 The Color Network Fellowship, The Color Network
Mildred Thompson Scholarship, Gainesville Fine Arts Association, Gainesville, FL
2021 Windgate University Fellowship, Arrowmont School of Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
2020 KBH Merit Award, 54th NCECA, Richmond, VA
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Office of Research, University of Florida, FL
2019 Graduate Student Research Travel Award, Office of the Dean, College of the Arts, University of Florida, FL
Research Travel Grant, School of Arts and Art History, College of the Arts, University of Florida, FL
Dennis and Collette Campay Studio Art Scholarship, College of the Arts, University of Florida, FL
2018-2021 Full Graduate Assistantship, University of Florida, FL
2015 Elias Friedensohn Memorial Award, Queens College, City University of New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS & APPEARANCES
2023 “Belger Art Center’s Resident Artist Exhibition”, The Pitch Magazine (print)
“Cindy Leung’s Solo Exhibition at Gallery 456”, Sing Dao Daily (print)
“Ceramics in the Expanded Field”, 57th Conference Journal, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (print)
Ceramic Arts Yearbook, Ceramics Monthly, Artist-in-Residence Profile (print)
“The Meander”, Winning Submissions, Annual Poetry Contest, This Much (digital)
2022 ““Adapted/Adopted: Journey of Asianx Women Artists” opens at KCKCC Art Gallery”, The Pitch Magazine (print)
Adapted/Adopted: Journeys of Asianx Women Artists, Exhibition Catalog, Kansas City Kansas Community College Gallery (print)
Ceramics Now, Contemporary Ceramics Magazine, Artist Research Profile (digital)
NCECA Exhibitions 2022, Exhibition Catalog, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (print)
Art of Poetry, Art and Cake Magazine (digital)
2021 “The International State of 3D Ceramic Printing”, 55th Conference Journal, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (print)
2020 NCECA Juried Student Exhibition, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (print)
AFFILIATIONS:
2022-present Ceramic Now, Artist Research Profile, Curated online artist database of ceramic artists
ArtAxis, Member, Curated online artist database of ceramic artists
2022-2023 Gainesville Fine Arts Association, Member
2021-Present The Color Network, Online artist database of ceramic artists of color