Solo Exhibitions
2019 Genuine Expression, Solo Exhibition, Utua Brand Store, Aleksanterinkatu 36, Helsinki, Finland
The first was in June 2019 at Utua Brand Shop (Aleksanterinkatu 36) for Pride month called Genuine Expression where I exhibited 17 pieces. I also made a more personal piece inspired by the Utua Brand shop using pieces of sampler leather to create a collage called "Strength in Community". Later, I was interviewed for a Demi article in the October 2019 edition.
Selected Group Exhibitions
Here are some of the group exhibitions I’ve been a part of!
Harmony at Group Art Exhibition at Skanssi Shopping Center
10.10.2020 - 1.11.2020
For this exhibition I prepared for three months. I exhibited three bee hive installation sculptures, one small city exhibition, six smaller environment sculptures, one polymer clay piece, two watercolor paintings, and eight faces. So 21 pieces in total. I was featured in the Shopping Center media.
Harmony Hives at Group Art Exhibition ARS108 in Nokia, Finland
July 2nd - August 29th 2021
I exhibited two of the Harmony Hives I’ve created for this festival. I was also featured in two local newspapers.
Coalescence 2021
Group Exhibition at Cafe Kehräsaari, Tampere, Finland
4.11.21 - 30.11.21
Coalescence is the merging of elements to become one, as all the pieces have been created since entering the 2020s, this exhibition serves as a coalescence of the topics on our minds within this time. The topics within our pieces range from a variety of themes, including environmentalism; feminism; childhood nostalgia; dreams; folklore, international backgrounds, and generally living in the 21st century. We submerge ourselves into the cultures or versions of us in the past, our dreams and thoughts over consciousness, and a re-imagined political reality concerning women’s rights and climate change.
iWeek 2021 Unity
Virtual Exhibition
UNITY virtual exhibition brings together a wide range of works created by TAMK Media, Music and Art students during the academic year 2020-2021, while re-examining what ‘art’ means and its interrelationship with life.
TAMK Fine Art 2021 Check Out
Virtual Exhibition
“This piece attempts to represent this with the vines or roots surrounding and latching onto the person while they’re awake and confronting the dream head on, but being drawn out of their sleeping state.”
Kulttuuri - Toimitus
Virtual Exhibition
29.6.2020
”As I am half American I thought it was important to address some pressing issues that some Americans are facing during the pandemic. For instance, I wanted to address how Black Americans are three times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white Americans as a result of various factors like redlining, poverty, and racism that my country was founded on. I also wanted to address some of the cases of brutality against Black Americans like in the instances of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. These, especially the latter, are important to realize because, despite crime rates going down, incarceration rates going down, and arrest rates going down, the rate of murders committed by police are not going down and remain the same even in a global pandemic. So while we are all going through a global pandemic, we must recognize that we are not all affected the same way.”
Stay Creative & Stay Alive
Virtual Exhibition
7.8.2020 - 30.9.2020
I submitted four works to an online exhibition earlier this summer and it is now exhibiting online. The pieces were inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and current intersecting issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement as well as indigenous rights as not only are these communities under attack from COVID-19 but they are also facing human right violations from their government or colonial institutions that are still in place.
Generation Broken in DigitalBigScreen 2021 Video Festival, Slovenia
“An unnamed individual goes through the process of consuming different modes of media as they slowly become addicted and lose their sense of self. This video attempts to visualize theories around nostalgia, cultural theory, and how we can see that in everyday forms of media consumption.”
Find me online
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