EDUCATION
current
2017-2021
Postgraduate Studies (Meisterschüler), Kunsthochschule Mainz
Master of Education, Johannes Gutenberg University and Kunsthochschule Mainz, Germany
2018-2019
2017
Graduate Studies in Fine Arts, California State University Chico, California, USA
Bachelor of Education, Johannes Gutenberg University and Kunsthochschule Mainz, Germany

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(c) catalog
2021             
Neustart, Kunsthochschule Mainz (Master’s culmination Exhibition) (c)
2019
Fraigaist, Master of Fine Arts Gallery, CSU Chico, California (solo exhibition) (c)  
Longing, 1078 Gallery, Chico (3 person show)
64th Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Jacki Headley University Art Gallery, CSU Chico (c)
24th Turner Juried Student Print Exhibition, Turner Print Museum, CSU Chico (c)
Lats Activation, live performance as part of 8 Servings: An Evening of Performance Art, MFA Gallery, CSU Chico
Too many cooks?, BSO Space, CSU Chico
Everything is still on the table, live performance with Hope Blackwell, CSU Chico
Gyöngy Laky and Meech Miyagi, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, in collaboration with Gyöngy Laky
Mini Print Exchange, BSO Space, CSU Chico
2018
Stamina, Blue Velvet Window Gallery, CSU Chico 
Wanderlust
, MFA Gallery, CSU Chico
Slowly I turn, basis e. V., Frankfurt am Main
2017
Space Invaders, project space Schmiedestraße, Düsseldorf
triPod
, Kunsthochschule Mainz (Bachelor’s Culmination Exhibition)
Digital Naives, Galerie 52, Essen

AWARDS AND GRANTS
2019
Juror Prize, 64th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Jacki Headley University Art Gallery, CSU Chico
2018
PROMOS Travel Scholarship, USA West (DAAD stipend granted through Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

PUBLICATIONS
2019
“A Transforming Collaboration”, Article for Emergent Art Space, co-written with Sheri Simons
Exhibition catalog “fraigaist”, published through the Jacki Headley University Art Gallery, CSU Chico
2018
“kopfüber.karlsruhe”. Catalog for Public Art Education Project between students from Mainz and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2016
“literally obsessed”, contribution for student curated magazine zineSkriptural, Kunsthochschule Mainz

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2019


2018-2019

2018
2016
2012

Artist Talk “Study Abroad at CSU Chico”, Kunsthochschule Mainz
Internship as Gallery Assistant, Jacki Headley University Art Gallery, CSU Chico
Hopper Visiting Artist Committee, CSU Chico,
Collaboration with San Francisco based artist Gyöngy Laky 
kopfüber.karlsruhe, Public Art Education Project between students from Mainz and Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, in context of HE and She, exhibition by polish artist duo KwieKulik
Assistant of Prof. Dieter Kiessling, Class for Media Arts, Kunsthochschule Mainz
Teaching assistant at Gymnasium am Römerkastell, Bad Kreuznach (FSJ Ganztagsschule, Kulturbüro Rheinland-Pfalz)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019

2018
Review of “fraigaist,” The Orion, Wednesday, April 29th, 2019. 
Review of “Gyöngy Laky + Meech Miyagi @ b. sakata garo,” Squarecylinder.com, 22 January 2018.
Review of MFA group show “Wanderlust,” The Orion, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018.







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