GROUP EXHIBITION, Roots & Culture Gallery, Chicago IL
January 20 - February 19 2012, Opening Reception: Friday, January 20, 6-9pm




Kickstarter Funding Successful
A big thank you to everyone who donated to my kickstarter. You can read more about the project here, as well as follow my fellowship happenings.

2011 - 2012 ASF Fellow, Reykjavik, Iceland
I was awarded a Fellowship from The American-Scandinavian Foundation. The fellowship will take me to Reykjavik, Iceland where I will be working on a body of photographs and a 16mm film merging my conceptual interest in landscape theory with a study of the relationship between landscape, culture and identity. I will be collaborating with cultural geographers in the Life and Environmental Sciences department at the University of Iceland.

Midway Fair, Chicago IL, April 23&24 2011
Look for my work at Alderman Exhibitions Booth #203 & UIC MFA Booth #224.

MFA THESIS EXHIBITION, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
April 12-16, 2011, Opening Reception: Friday, April 15 5-8pm





UIC MFA Thesis Group Exhibition: Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image and New Media Arts. Featuring the work of Jesus Duran, Raquel Ladensack, Paul Nelson, Min Song and Latham Zearfoss.

Jesus Duran creates while meditating on the effects technology has on social constructs, behaviours, physical actions and the sense of self. Raquel Ladensack creates photographs and 16mm films that explore absence, shifting perspectives, and temporal frequencies. Paul Nelson makes a lot of certain things. Min Song makes two- and three-dimensional work that deal with space and surface. Latham Zearfoss's work often centers on reclaiming historical and mythological texts, and revising them to incorporate radical notions of love and sex, possibility and probability.


SOLO EXHIBITION, Alderman Exhibitions, Chicago IL
January 15 - March 28, 2011, Opening Reception: Saturday, January 15

LITERARY ENGAGEMENTS @ Alderman Exhibitions, Chicago IL
Readings curated by Sara Know Hunter in relation to my art practice

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 6:30PM - Henry David Thoreau, "Walking", Walker Percy, "The Loss of the Creature," from the book, The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is and What One has to Do with the Other
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 6:30PM - JA Baker, The Peregrine
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 6:30PM - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

REVIEW, ArtSlant, Notes from the Grandsire by Robyn Farrell Roulo

REVIEW, Chicago Art Review, Raquel Ladensack @ Alderman Exhibitions by Steve Ruiz