Photo by Dulce Avila Romero
Education
2022 Transiting the Queer (Un)Commons: Queer Summer Institute In Research-Creation | York University
2021–– Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities (Studio Art, Queer Studies, Media Studies) | Concordia University
2013–2015 MFA in Interdisciplinary Art | Montclair State University
2006–2011 BFA in Sculpture | University of Manitoba, School of Art
Selected Exhibition + Performance History
2023 Manifestations | Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts | University of Sussex | Brighton, UK
2023 Digital Intimacies | 4th Space | Concordia University | Montreal, QC
2022 Villain Edit | Club Cumming | Manhattan, NY
2022 Metaternity | Practice Gallery | Philadelphia, PA
2022 Mythos | The Diving Bell | Montreal, QC
2022 Confluence: Tradition in Contemporary Art | Sichuan Arts Institute | Chongqing, China
2022 Pink Lines: Enacting the Translocal | Queer Summer Institute | York University | Digital Cabaret
2021 Live from The Brick Stage | The Brick Theater | NYC, NY
2021 Life is Drag | The Cell Theater | NYC, NY
2021 Exponential Festival | The Brick Theater | Brooklyn, NY
2021 In 7 Experimental Video Residency and screening | Gardenship Art Center | Kearny, NJ
2020 Memories of the year 2030 | Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MS
2020 Out of an Abundance of Caution | Digital Microfestival
2019 Halloween Horrorvaganza | House of Yes | Brooklyn, NY
2019 Lupercalia | Talon Bar | Brooklyn, NY
2019 AVADA Kedavra Abracadabra | Freddy’s Bar and Backroom | Brooklyn, NY
2019 A Performance Salon! | Crystal Lake | Brooklyn, NY
2019 ?!Interrobang: New Works Festival | The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Jump Shark | Bizarre Bushwick | Brooklyn, NY
2019 SalON! | Vital Joint | Brooklyn, NY
2019 AWFUL Wrestling | PhilaMOCA | Philadelphia, PA
2019 Gay Hell | Dream Baby Bar | Manhattan, NY
2018 Faculty Show | Weill Art Gallery at 92nd St. Y | Manhattan, NY
2018 Liminal Salon | Coco 66 | Brooklyn, NY
2018 Field Art Fair | The James Ward Mansion | Westfield, NJ
2018 MSU Faculty Exhibition | Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts | Long Beach, NY
2018 AWFUL Wrestling Sanctuary Slam | Fleisher Art Memorial | Philadelphia, PA
2017 Crossing the Line | Eastern Mennonite University | Harrisonburg, VA
2016 Who From Below video installation | Catharine Clark Gallery | San Francisco, CA
2016 Woolgatherers | Five Myles Gallery | Brooklyn, NY
2016 Ecohack 2016: The Temple of Taste and Remembrance | presented aboard SWALE:
floating edible food forest | Brooklyn, NY
2016 Os Sacrum | DC Fringe Festival | Washington, DC
2015 Out of the Ash | Glasshouse LifeArtLab | Brooklyn, NY
2015 Oh, Canada | Westbeth Gallery | Manhattan, NY
2015 Worlds Without End | Brian Morris Studio Gallery | Manhattan, NY
2014 Corpus Vile | Brooklyn Fireproof East | Brooklyn, NY
2014 Nuit Blanche 2014:Reheading | La Petite Mort Gallery | Ottawa, ON
2013 Mennofolk 2013 | Negative Space | Winnipeg, MB
2013 My Winnipeg | Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art | Winnipeg, MB
Conferences / Presentations of Research-Creation
2023 Presenter | Collaborative World Building: Co-creation and Social Engagement in Art and Art
Education | Angewandte University of Applied Arts | Vienna, Austria
2023 Presenter | Inhabiting the planet: Challenges for media, communication, and beyond, organized by
the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) | Lyon, France | Presentation: Virtual Queerality: Building Speculative Futures Through Virtual Reality
2023 Presenter | Art Forum lecture series | Montclair State University | Montclair, NJ | Presentation:
Welcome to VRChat
2023 Presenter | The Coop: A HEN Hangout, organized by Hemispheric Encounters | Montreal, QC | Presentation:
Virtual Queerality
2022 Presenter | Scenographies of Site-Writing & Critical Spatial Practices Across the Americas, organized by
Hemispheric Encounters | Concordia University | Montreal, QC | “Queer Digital Practices” Panel Presentation:
Building Speculative Futures Through Virtual Reality
2022 Presenter | 9th Emerging Ethical Scholars Symposium, organized by The Centre for Oral History and Digital
Storytelling | Concordia University | Montreal, QC | “Subversive Practices” Panel Presentation: Virtual
Queerality: Conducting Field Work in Queer Social VR
2021 Co-Presenter | The New School for Social Research’s Anthropology & Design Conference | The New School |
NYC, NY | Presentation: dermis: An Interactive VR Archive of Skin Stories
2021 Presenter | De/Reconstructing Gender Through Visual Art, Public Lecture | Mentoring
Artists for Women’s Art | Winnipeg, MB
2021 Presenter | Brighton Digital Festival: Subverting Archives and Digital Spaces
| University of Sussex | Brighton, England | Presentation: Embracing the Glitch in Queer Virtual Embodiment
2021 Presenter | Institute of Visual Communication Digital Conference: Artists at the Digital Border | Institute of
Visual Communication | Beirut, Lebanon | Presentation: Virtual Queerality: Liminal Digital Queerness
2018 Presenter | Peter Funk: Drag as Protest | Bennington College | Bennington, Vermont
2016 Presenter | Cosmologies Shaped By Trauma | Eyebeam Art/Tech Center | NYC, NY | Presentation: The Blacks
and Browns of Our Own Ground
Publications + Press
2023 (upcoming) Protopian Glitching in Social VR | Cronos Journal | Queer/cuir Constellations and transmedia circulations in the Americas: Aesthetic Practises and Performative Dimension
2021 Virtual Queerality | Take Shape Magazine | Cyberspace Issue | January 2021.
2019 Ridgewood-Based Canadian takes on American Politics through Drag
Performance | Bushwick Daily | October 25, 2019.
2019 Kate Zibluk in conversation with Egregious Philbin | CultureBot | November 2, 2019.
2017 Teresa Braun - Catherine Clark Gallery | Artillery Magazine | January 10, 2017.
Professional Experience
2022 – Hemispheric Encounters | Oralities Cluster | York University | Toronto, ON
2021 – Research Assistant to Dr. Kim Sawchuk | Department of Communications Studies, Concordia University |
Montreal, QC
2016 – 2021 Teaching Artist | 92Y Art Center | 92nd St. Y | Manhattan, NYC
2015 – 2021 Adjunct Professor | Department of Art and Design | Montclair State University | Montclair, NJ
Art Collectives + Curatorial Work
2022 – Co-curator for The Coop: A HEN Hangout | Hemispheric Encounters
2019 – 2021 Drag/Genderf*ck Curator at The Brick Theater
2017 – 2021 Member of AWFUL Wrestling performance collective
2015 – 2020 Founding member of Asylos performance art collective
2015 – Co-founder of sacra performance duo (with Ayodamola Okunseinde)