b. 1987

– MFA in Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014

– BA in Fine Arts and Foreign Language, Towson University, 2011

– US State Department Gilman Scholar in Wells College Study Program, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 2009


Selected publications

– Salty Journal, 2021

– Salt Hill Journal, 2020

– stadtsprachen magazin, 2020

– DIALOGIST Journal, 2020

– ESP/USA, 2020

– The Wild Word, 2019

– Hobart, 2018

– Lauren Sudbrink: Escape Orchestra, notes, commentary, etc., 2018

– United States Escape Party: Egresswasm Vol 3, 2018

– United States Escape Party: Egresswasm Vol 2, 2017

– PoetsArtists Magazine, 2017

– SELFISH Magazine, 2016

– Angulos: ISLAND(s), RAIZVANGUARDA Associação Cultural, 2016

– Hand Job Zine, 2015

– The Present Tense, 2014

– JERKPOET Poetry Digest, 2014

– Be About It Zine, 2014

– The Jogging, 2013

– Open Doors, Institute for International Education, 2011



Selected live performances

– Read the Room: writing & comedy, Oeno Vino, Los Angeles, 2023

– Smut Slam: Huren Hören, Hydra eV, Berlin et al., 2020

– Who’s allowed to make money: Workers in Solidarity, Black Sex Workers Collective and Hydra eV, Berlin et al., 2020

– Baby Wine, The Annoyance Theater, Chicago, 2018

– Jillian Hansen-Lewis: Just Desserts, Hume Gallery, Chicago, 2017

– Blanket Statements, The Overlook Place, Chicago, 2017

– Book Club, Wicker Park Lutheran, Chicago, 2017

– LYP SINC show 7, defibrillator gallery, Chicago, 2017

– TIPS 4 Tingles: a live ASMR experience, Comfort Station, Chicago, 2017

– RITES, Open House Contemporary, Chicago, 2017

– MCA Prime Time: ⌘R, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2016

– Dominion of Chuckles Comedy Series, Sharky’s Den, Chicago, 2015

– Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, 2014

– Espand The Pairing, Seed Space, Nashville, 2014

– Exhibit #1: Espand The Pairing, FLATspace, Chicago Urban Arts Society, Chicago, 2014

– Antibody Corporation: The First Five Years, Links Hall, Chicago, 2014

– Mergers & Acquisitions, defibrillator gallery, Chicago, 2014

– LYP SINC show 4, defibrillator gallery, Chicago, 2014

– Walk all over me, Pinky Swear, Chicago, 2014

– College Art Association Annual Conference: Room With A View, Hilton Hotel, Chicago, 2014

– organized by elspeth walker, sophiajacob, Baltimore, 2013

– Garbage World 7, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, 2013

– Garbage World 6, Big Forever, Chicago, 2013



Selected exhibitions | screenings

– ESP/USA, Flatland, Chicago, 2020

– United States Escape Party: Egresswasm 3, Chase Public, Cincinnati, 2018

– The Madeleine Stowe Show, Pique, Covington, Kentucky, 2018

– Chicago Zine Fest, Plumbers Union Hall, Chicago, 2018

– between shadow and soul, Lease Agreement, Huntsville, Texas, 2018

– This Is Not Art, The Overlook, Chicago, 2018

– The United States Escape Party: Egresswasm 2, Chase Public, Cincinnati, 2017

– RITUAL: 2nd Floor Rear DIY Festival, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, 2017

– Expectations: A Benefit for Chicago Women’s Health Center, Lillstreet Loft, Chicago, 2017

– AlL wOrK aNd No PlAy, The Overlook, Chicago, 2017

– Open 2.0, Slate Arts, Chicago, 2017

– Strangers Lovers Gods, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, 2017

– Nasty Women Benefit, chizuko, Pensacola FL, 2017

– entzaubert Queer Film Festival: Open Archive, wagenplatz kanal, Berlin Germany, 2016

– Zine Fest Pt!, Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, Porto Portugal, 2016

– 11th WNDX Festival of Moving Image, WNDX Inc., Winnipeg, Canada, 2016

– IN/HABIT: Sex Habits, Archer Ballroom, Chicago, 2016

– Comfort Film: Her Environment #2 Homonyms, Comfort Station, Chicago, 2016

– Video! Video! Video Festival, Comfort Station, Chicago, 2016

– Comfort Film: Millennial Movie Night, Comfort Station, Chicago, 2016

– 25 Jahre Künstlerhaus am Acker, Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, 2015

– ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS: International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz, Tenerife Spain, 2015

– Art of the Networked Practice: An International Online Symposium, School of Art, Design & Media Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2015

– Feminism (n.): Plural, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, 2015

– Neon Dreams, Threewalls, Chicago, 2015

– entzaubert Queer Film Festival: Hope in the Glitch, schwarzerkanal, Berlin, 2014

– Transmediale Vorspiel: USB-SHUFFLE-SHOW (TWO), Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, 2014

– 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2014

– Fallow Time Movement Research Festival: Prepared Field, ISSUE Project Room, New York, 2014

– Southside Manifesto, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, 2014

– Extinct Entities Performance Art Festival: REVERSE SHOT, Links Hall, Chicago, 2014

– 0P3NR3P0.net glitch share fest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2013

– Identity Void: Ladiez Live Art and Video Fest, Chicago, 2013

– Drawing School, Q Gallery, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, 2012

– Launch Pad, Skylofts Gallery, Baltimore, 2011

– Emerging Visions, YorkArts, York, Pennsylvania, 2011

– Monumental Micros, Center For The Arts Gallery, Towson University, Maryland, 2010



Curations

– Readings by non-artists, The Overlook Place, Chicago, 2018

– TIPS 4 Tingles: a live ASMR experience, Comfort Station, Chicago, 2017

– A tragic duality, far as the curse is found, RAIZVANGUARDA – Associação Cultural, Góis, Portugal, 2016

– Chicagq: A selection of recent radical voices from Chicago, MIX NYC 28th Queer Experimental Film Festival, MIX Factory, New York, 2015

– Sweety’s & Chicagq present Specialties of the House, Urbano Project, Boston, 2015

– You/we do plural: an evening of performance, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, 2015

– Specialties of the House: an exchange of recent radical voices from Bqstqn and Chicagq, Comfort Station, Chicago, 2015

– Chicagq à Mqntréal, Festival Perverscité, RATS 9, Montreal, 2014

– La Centrale welcomes Videq Chicagq, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, 2014


Panels | workshops

– Mr, Ms, Mx From He to Ze: Explore Your Identity With Bea Cordelia, Noir Lin, and Jack Larmer, ChiTeen Lit Fest, Columbia College, Chicago, 2018

– Visiting Artist Talk, Contemporary Practices: Personal Narratives and Verbal History, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2017

– Zine Workshop, Escola-Estúdio Bordeiro, Góis, Portugal, 2016

– Feminist Crafting with Tracers Book Club, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2015

– MCA Studios Feminist Parking Lot, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2015

– Gallery talk with Feminism (n.): Plural artists, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, 2015

– Personal Mythologies, Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival, Society For The Arts, Chicago, 2014