Short CV
EDUCATION
2004 - MFA San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco - CA
1998 - BFA Massachusetts College of Art Boston - MA
COLLABORATIONS
Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden - Smithisonian Institute - Washington DC
Rirkrit Tiravanija: "Who’s Afraid Of Red, Yellow, And Green" - Drawing collaboration - 2019
Art Museum Of The Americas - Washinton DC - Carolina Mayorga's Pink Ranchos 2019
Experimental Performance Art exhibition Curator of SOLO LAB 5- 2019 - present
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery - DC
Artidote Collaboration with Carolina Mayorga. “Champ It“ performance - 2021
“Light & The State Of A Homeless Mind” Interactive Performance Art -
New York Photo Festival Collaboration with DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) – Brooklyn, Dumbo
BackPack Gallery collaboration with Project Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica - 2012
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
Museum Specialist - Hirshhorn Museum - Washington DC - 2014 to present
Curator - Betty Mae Kramer Gallery - Silver Spring, MD - 2020 to present
Preparator/ Special Project Curator - Visarts - Rockville, MD - 2020 to present
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“DysFUNctional Beauty Imersion” - Visarts Next Gen Studio - June 2023 - Rockville - 2023
Artspace Gallery “Dysfunctional Beauty” - Richmound - VA - March 2023
Art Truck Project - Arlington Arts Council - Spring 2023 - “Count Your Joys” - 2023 - 8 Solo Activations
”Tools for the Mind” - Solo Exhibiton - Black Rock Arts Foundation - January 2020
Portals: Governors Island - “Dysfunctional Porch” - September 2019 - NYC
Common Gallery at Visarts - "INTERACTIVE VARIABLE" - January 2019 - Rockville, MA
Otis Street Art Gallery "Integration" - March 2019 - Mount Rainer, MA
“Comfort” interactive performance - DCAC gallery at Woodrow Wilson House - Washington DC - May 2018
Art On The Edge - “Suffocate With Your...” interactive performance art - May 2018
Honorarium Sculpture - “One Star Double Wishes” interactive sculpture - Torpedo Art Factory - Alexandria- VA - April to September 2018
Bresler Gallery - Dysfunctional Composition - May 2018
“Let’s Do A Workout” performance art at Arlington Art Center May 2018
Bresler Artist Residency “In Progress Opening” - Visarts, Rockville - MD - February 2018
NOVA College in Manassas, VA - “MEASURE” Solo Exhibition at Colgan Art Gallery - February 2018
King Street Atrium Gallery - Montgomery College - Solo Collaboration with Student Body and BackPack Gallery - October, 2017 - Silver pring, MD
Governors Island Art Fair - Joy Count performance - 2017
Joy Count performance - Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival - 2017
Rated ART 2017 - BackPack Gallery Performance - Blind Drawing & Joy Count - Arlington - VA - 2017
“Points Of Drawing” - 50/50 Interactive Drawing Project at Capitol Plaza I - Washington - DC - February 2017
“You Are In Control” - Solo Performance and exhibition - January 2017 - NOVA College Contemporary Art -
Woodbridge , VA
Hillyer Art Space - Solo Exhibition - “Interactive Lines” - April - 2016 - Washington DC
Solo Exhibition at Industry Lab Gallery “Form Phobia To Drawing” - Cambridge - MA - 2016
“Offobia Shrine” performance- Bennett Park Art Atrium - Rosslyn, VA - 2016
“Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16” recipient - “EVERYONE IS A VIP ” performance Interactive Performance - Alexandria, VA
Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC - performance with BackPack Gallery project - Fall 2015 - Washington DC
City of Alexandria Arts Commission “Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16” recipient - “EVERYONE IS A VIP ” Interactive Performance - Alexandria, VA at Torpedo Factory Art Center
Industry Lab - BackPack Gallery Project - Summer 2015 - Cambridge, MA
Rated ART -” Everyone is A VIP” Performance - Arlington Art Center - VA - May 2015
Solo Fall 2014 - Arlington Art Center - Arlington- VA
City of Alexandria “Special Opportunity Grant 2014” for Summer Exhibition Exhibitions for Fall 2014-
Governor Island Art Fair and Dumbo Arts Festival - NYC King Art Fair honorarium stipend to perform with BackPack Gallery
Governor Island Art Fair - New York City - NY - September, 2013
Dumbo Arts Festival - Brooklyn - NY - September, 2013
New York Photo Festival Collaboration with DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) – Brooklyn, Dumbo - 2012
Uppsala Art Museum - Kulternatten 2009 - Uppsala Museum - Video projection of 9 short vidoes - Uppsala , Sweden - 2009
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Lights Out 2023 - Brentwood Arts Exchange - Mount Rainer,
George Mason University Exhibitions Gallery - Arlington - VA - 2022 - Solo LED Videos in the courtyard - Cast\ Recast Exhibiton - October, 2022 Nueva Vida - Mexican Cultural Center - Washington DC, - October 2022
“Perspectivas Latinas” / “Latin Perspectives”, Martino and Chaney Gallery - Annapolis, MD - September 2022
DADA Exhibition - Rhizome DC - 2021
Washington Sculptor Group - McLean Project for the Arts - 2020
Art Museum of The Americas - “Joy Count” performance - Washington, DC - 2019 DADA Exhibition - Rizhone Gallery - Washington, DC - 2019
H Space Gallery - By The People - Washington, DC- 2019
Mexican Cultural Institute - Latinas4lLatinas - Washington - DC - 2017 ThinkSmall9 - Artspace - Richmound, VA - 2017
Home + Discordance = US - NYU Washington DC - 2017
Talk Show - Olly Olly - Fairfax, VA - 2017
Alchemical Vessels exhibition - Joan Hisaoka Gallery - Washington DC - March & April 2017 “Ipseity” Exhibition - Target Gallery at Torpedo Factory - Alexandria - February 2017
Bennett Park Art Atrium “In One Night” performance - Rosslyn, VA - November 2016 Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery - Life Soundtrack - October 2016
Hillyer Art Space - Flesh and Bone Drawing Exhibition - Washington DC - October 2015
Phillips Collection & Hillyer Art Space performance at FTF event - 2014
Cuisine des Artistes 2014/DCArts center at Meridian House - Performance “You Are Live Art” SOMArts Main Gallery - “Everyone Is A VIP” performance - San Francisco, CA - 2014
PUBLICATIONS
Harvard University Archive - Scientific Photograph in “Single molecule studies of enzymatic dynamic uctuations” , Hollis Number 010999526 – 2007 Wall street journal - http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/17/new-york-photo-festival-2012-brings-curators-into-focus/
Resource Magazine - http://resourcemagonline.com/new-york-photo-festival-2012-2/
Marin Pang Journal - http://marionpang.com/category/art/
New Yorker magazine - http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/above-and-beyond/dumbo-arts-festival
Prince William Living Magazine - http://princewilliamliving.com/2017/01/artist-heloisa-escudero-interactive-works-on-display-at-nova-woodbridge/
New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/arts/design/an-art-fair-for-the-99-percent.html
Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/in-the-galleries-interact--integrate-requires-audience-participation/2018/05/03/3093634a-4cb2-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.96ce89d22191
RECENT GRANTS - HONORARIUM STIPENDS - ARTIST RESIDENCIES & LECTURE
City Of Alexandria Art in Odd Places - Honorarium Stipend for Sculpture - April 2018 Visarts Bresler Artist Residency - Visarts, Rockville - MD
Artist in Residency at Montgomery College - Fall 2017
“Rated ART” 2017 - Commissions from Arlington Art Center - VA
NoMA BID - Lobby Gallery - Artist Commission - 2017
Artist Lecture Exhibition Stipend - Nova College Woodbridge - January 2017
Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16 from the City of Alexandria Arts Commission, VA Special Opportunity Grant 2014 from the City of Alexandria Arts Commission, VA
“Rated ART” 2016 - Commissions from Arlington Art Center - VA
Kings Arts Fair honorarium stipend to perform with BackPack Gallery 2014
Honorarium Stipend from Dumbo Arts Festival from 2011 - 2014
SOMarts Gallery stipend to perform at “100 Performances” - 2014
Bachelor in Fine Arts - Major in Photography with heavy concentration in Sculpture