SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2024
The sky above you at solar noon on the longest day of the year or underneath your feet at night, The Ovid Gallery, Pine Hill, NY
2020
This is when the ice sheet ended, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2018
Stop carrying out your intentions and watch for my signals, Baxter St at CCNY, New York, NY
2017
Cloud Drift, Public project along the Gowanus Canal, presented by New York City Department of Transportation’s art program in partnership with Gowanus Souvenir Shop, Brooklyn, NY
Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2016
Cloud Shadows and Drifting Vapors, Gowanus Souvenir Shop, Brooklyn, NY
An earthwork can reveal an invisible landscape and also form an exit ramp,
Songs for Presidents, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
2014
Wanderings and Wonderings: Storm King by the Stars, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
2013
Visitor Center for Erratic Monuments, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Mountains in the area have formed over some time, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
A summit is a local point of elevation, Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY
TWO PERSON & COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2025
Taking in the Trash: Katarina Jerinic & Karen Mainenti, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
The Work Office (TWO), Times Square Alliance, New York, NY (with Naomi Miller)
2010
The Work Office (TWO), Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY (with Naomi Miller)
The Work Office (TWO), LMCC Swing Space at 156 William Street, New York, NY (with Naomi Miller)
2009
The Work Office (TWO), chashama 112 Times Square Art Space, New York, NY (with Naomi Miller)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
The Hall of Gowanus, Arts Gowanus at 240 Third Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2024
Fallow Frames Biennial 2024, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
Install/De-install, 601 Artspace, New York
Fallow Frames, PS122 Gallery, New York
2022
Yes, And: A survey exhibition of art and artists connected to Staten Island, Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
2021
Essential Work, Putnam Place, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
2020
Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2019
Terrain Biennial, Newburgh, NY
Install/De-install, 601 Artspace, New York, NY
Silent Partner, three-person exhibition with William Dilworth, Katarina Jerinic and Emmy Mikelson;
curated by Fran Holstrom of NEESH, Aquarius, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
2018
Endless Editions Biennial: Optimism, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
For Which It Stands, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Cartophilia Gowanus, Gowanus Souvenir Shop, Brooklyn, NY
Reconceived Notions, STAND4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Self Storage (Archiving Gowanus), Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
En Masse: Books Orchestrated, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
NEESH Spring Fling, Aquarius Studios, Queens, NY
2016
Strange Landscapes, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
Threaded Archetypes, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Then and Now: Ten Years of Artist Residencies, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; travels to
Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY.
Notes on a Working Space (organized by Laura F. Gibellini) El Museo de Los Sures, Brooklyn, NY
Moynihan Station Jobs and Opportunities, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
Mapping Brooklyn, BRIC House and Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Featured Artist Project: SP Weather Reports (2008-2013), Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2013
Housewarming: Notions of Home From the Center of the Universe, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
(Project Room collaboration with Chad Stayrook) (catalog)
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, presented by the Dedalus Foundation, the Brooklyn Rail, and the Jamestown Charitable Foundation; Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
Hall of the Gowanus, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Lost and Found II, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Battle Ground, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
100 NYC Artists, PopUp Art Shop, Barranquilla, Colombia
sal.lies, 7 Dunham, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Stardust, 1591 Gallery, Rahway, NJ
Anywhere But Here, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
Mutual Friends, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
Shifting Communities: The Work Office (TWO), Publicworks Office (PwO) and Work Progress Collective (WPC),
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY (with Naomi Miller)
2011
CInc Art: The Convention on Incorporated Art, CentralTrak Gallery, University of Texas, Dallas, TX
(with The Work Office (TWO)/Naomi Miller).
30: A Brooklyn Salon, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
Bahia Cupino: Nadando Alrededor, Estacion Ferrocarril de Bolivar, Puerto Colombia, Colombia
Distance, Grady Alexis Gallery, New York, NY
Artist-in-Residence Workspace Program, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2010
Absence, Queens Museum of Art, Queens NY
Conflux Festival, New York, NY
X-treme Studio, A + D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL (with The Work Office
(TWO)/Naomi Miller).
Reanimation Library occupies Gridspace, Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY
New Prints 2010/Winter, IPCNY, New York, NY
2009
Natural Histories, Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY
ConfluxCity, Conflux Festival, New York, NY
SP Weather Station – Weather Reports, AHN/VHS, Philadelphia, PA
Interface: Nature, Nurtureart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Queens International 4, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (with SP Weather Station)
2008
Creative Cartographies, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Wrinkle in Time, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
Theory and Practice, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ (catalog)
2007
In the Country of Last Refuge, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ (catalog)
Faculty Exhibition, Westchester Art Workshop, White Plains, NY
Points of Departure: Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Art, Fox Art Gallery,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
2006
Mutilated/Cultivated Environments, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, (catalog)
Art of the Word, Haven Arts, Bronx, NY
AIM 26, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2005
DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Limit Edge Boundary Asymptote: The Fine Lines of Human Space, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ (catalog)
2002
Media[less] Medium: Short Works in Video, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the
Arts, Boston, MA
Impromptu, California Museum of Photography, University of California,
Riverside, CA
Plain, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2024
Winter Workspace Residency, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2022
Artist Residency, Lost and Found Lab, Cos Cob, CT
Governors Island Art Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2021
TYPA, Tartu, Estonia
2020
SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2017
BAXTER ST at Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
2016
OUTPOST Artist Resources, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
2013
Tokamak, Helsinki International Artist Program, Helsinki, Finland
2011
Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH
2010
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Local Inbound Residency, Apexart, New York, NY
Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2008
MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
2005
Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2003
Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY
GRANTS & COMMISSIONS
2017
Project Grant, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
New York City Department of Transportation Art Program, New York, NY
2015
iLANDing Laboratory grant, iLAND, New York, NY (with Zena Bibler and Juliette Spertus).
2011
Project Commission, Times Square Alliance, New York, NY
2010
Community Arts Regrant, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Project Grant, Black Rock Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA,
Space Grant, chashama, New York, NY
2001
Aaron Siskind Foundation Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
Barton, Carol and Alexander Campos, Mutilated/Cultivated Environments. New York: The Center For Book Arts, 2006.
Battenfield, Jackie and Elizabeth Ferrer, 30: A Brooklyn Salon. Brooklyn: BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 2011.
Beckwith, Naomi and Liliana Milkova, Points of Departure: Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Art (On Memory, Sites, Migrations, and Maps). Philadelphia, PA: Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Davis, Evonne M., Theory and Practice. Newark, NJ: Gallery Aferro, 2008.
Kahn, Baseera and Johanna Taylor, A Wrinkle in Time. Brooklyn: BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 2008.
Wilcox, Emma, In the Country of Last Refuge. Newark, NJ: Gallery Aferro, 2007.
Yee, Lydia and Erin Salazar, AIM 26. Bronx, NY: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2006.
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
“Making-do in New York,” Cahiers intempestifs, no. 27, 2013.
“Critic’s Pick: The Work Office,” New York Magazine, 7/22/2009.
Bellatoni, Ralph J., “Star Light, Star Bright: Rahway Exhibit Revels in Heavenly Sights,” Asbury
Park Press, 10/18/2012.
Bischoff, Dan, “Connecting Art and the Everyday,” The Star Ledger, 8/01/2004.
Blumenthal, Carl, “Proteus Gowanus, Old Stone House Join for Battle of Brooklyn Exhibits,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 5/13/13, p 2.
Clements, Alexis, “Excavating Layers Under the Landscape,” Hyperallergic, 9/16/2016
Covert, Bryce, “How Do We Value Art? Two projects summon the spirit of the WPA,” New Deal 2.0, 7/13/2010.
De Meglio, Michele, “Taking It to the Streets of DUMBO,” 24/7, 10/10/2005.
Devine, Erin, “Landscape Art is Pushed to New Limits in Arlington Arts Center’s ‘Strange Landscapes,’” Washington City Paper, 7/22/2016
Duncan, Charles, ArtDispatch Podcast Program 3, 2/22/2006, www.artdispatch.com.
Finnegan, Molly, “Open for Business at ‘The Work Office,’” Art Beat, The Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 7/24/2009.
Gaurín, Martha, “Confabulación en Puerto para hacer nuevo arte,” El Heraldo, Barranquilla, Colombia, 9/16/2011.
Gill, Lauren, “False Flags: Flying Fabric Shows Gowanus As Clear Blue Sky,” Brooklyn Paper 9/15/2017.
Gomez, Enrico, “Housewarming,” Wagmag, 11/1/13.
Hammes, Lynda, “A New Deal for Artists? Get Paid This Friday Night by The Work Office,” Dossier Journal, 7/23/2009.
Harmon, Katharine, You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2016
Iacavone, Mike, “Wild World,” BmoreArt, 9/30/2016
Jenkins, Mark, “In the galleries: ‘Strange Landscapes’ explores gardens of unearthly delights,” The Washington Post, 9/15/2016
Meier, Allison, “Navigating Brooklyn from the 17th to the 21st Centuries,” Hyperallergic, April 8, 2015.
Malone, Beth, “The Work Office,” NYFA Current, 5/26/2010.
Newhall, Edith, “Give Temple a Whirl,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/11/2011.
Potter, Melissa. “X-Treme Studio”, Art Papers, January-February, 2011, Vol. 35. Atlanta. P.44
Quigley, Ryan, “Hitting the Mark,” New York Arts Magazine, July / August 2006.
Spivack, Caroline, “Workshop Uses Vintage Print Process to Cast Gowanus in New Light,” DNAinfo, 8/3/2017.
Steinhauer, Jillian, “ArtRx NYC: Beautifying a Leftover Piece of Land,” Hyperallergic, May 10, 2016.
Valentin, Rhina. “OPEN.” BronxNet.org, 13 January 2012.
Wong, Pamela, “Cloud Drift: Public Art Project Flies Banners Over the Gowanus Canal,” BKLYNER, 6/21/2017.
TOURS, TALKS, TEACHING
2020
Collaborative walk workshop, This is when the ice sheet ended, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2017
Artist Tour, Cloud Drift—by Canoe!, Gowanus Dredgers, Brooklyn, NY
Teaching Artist, Gowanus Cyanotypes, Gowanus Canal Conservancy ArtLab, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Panelist, Map as Metaphor, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2015
Guest Lecturer, Activating Urban Spaces, The New School, New York, NY
Collaborator in artist workshop, Use Values: Re/Imagining Urban Waste, iLANDING Laboratory with Zena Bibler and Juliette Spertus, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Tour, Visit to Erratic Monuments, presented by BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Study of Visual Experience, Hunter College, New York, NY
Visiting Lecturer, Sidewalk Topographics, University Forum Lecture Series, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2012
Artist talk, Pretty Conceptual, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
Artist talk, Anywhere But Here, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2011
Guest Lecturer, Image and Text, School at International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Artist talk, Artist-in-Residence Workspace Program, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2010
Artist talk, Fracture, A-Lab Forum, Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, NY
Guest Lecturer, Sophmore Seminar in Photography, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
Artist Talk, Conversations Program of Talks, Panel Discussions and Roundtables, Verge Art Fair, New York, NY (with The Work Office (TWO)/Naomi Miller)
Guest Lecturer, Anytown/Crashlab, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
2009
Artist talk, Artist Forum: Enacting Change: The Artist’s Role in Social and Political Transformation, Art in General, New York, NY (with The Work Office (TWO)/Naomi Miller)
Guest Lecturer, Concentrating on the Visual: Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Artist talk, President Street Forum, Brooklyn, NY (with The Work Office (TWO)/Naomi Miller)
2007
Instructor, Digital Photography, Center for the Arts, Westchester Community College, White Plains, NY
2006
Adjunct Lecturer, History of Photography, American University, Washington, DC
2006-2004
Adjunct Lecturer, Principles of Photography, American University, Washington, DC
EDUCATION
MFA, Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BA, History, American University, Washington, DC