EDUCATION
2020 MFA in Photography, Yale School of Art
2009 BA in Television, Film, and Media Studies, summa cum laude
California State University, Los Angeles
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis, Asia Society, Houston, TX
2024 Artist-run, Artist-organized, Fotofest, Houston, TX
2024 Seeding Soil, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2024 Straight Like That, ICOSA, Austin, TX
2024 Ground Cover, Throughline, Houston, TX
2024 [O sweet spontaneous] earth, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Climate Migrations, Houston Climate Justice Museum
2024 Run, Throughline, Houston, TX
2024 Practices of Attention, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2023 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2022 Waiting Room, Triangle Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 what is the also?, Archive/Project Space, Pittsfield, MA
2021 Hindsight 2020, New Haven, CT
AWARDS
2020 Art and Social Justice Grant, Yale School of Art, 2020
2019 Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship, Yale School of Art, 2019
TALKS AND ENGAGEMENTS
2024 Artist talk, MFA Seminar, Stamps School of Art & Design
Artist talk, St. Olaf College
Conversation with Martha Tuttle, Rice University
2023 Artist talk, University of Houston
The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Art Center
Your Attention, Please, guest lecture/workshop, Stanford University
Your Attention, Please, guest lecture/workshop, Shepherd School of Music
2022 Artist talk in support of Texas YounG Artist Resource, Basket Books & Art
Artist talk, Picturing Us, Yale School of Art
Artist talk, Junior Seminar, Yale School of Art
2021 Artist talk, Glendale Community College
PUBLISHED WORK
2023 “A Beech Walk on the Brink,” Arnoldia Magazine
“Chen Sisters Looking at Things,” Syllabus Project
2022 Wreck after Wreck, Yale School of Art Publications
2021 “What Can Help,” Body of Work, Yale School of Art Publications
“Garden of Healing,” Urban Issues 32, no. 1 (Spring 2021)
2020 Hindsight 2020, Yale School of Art Publications
PRESS
2024 Sofia Westerman, “Unlikely Artist Duos Get the Centerstage Treatment at Houston’s Throughline Collective — When Creative Teamwork Rules,” Paper City
2021 Charlotte Hughes, “Artists Welcome Back the World,” Arts Paper
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024–Present Assistant Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
2022–2024 Photography Lecturer, Rice University
Practices of Attention (Spring 2024)
Senior Studio (Spring 2024)
Introduction to Photography (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
Introduction to Digital Photography (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
Meaning/Making: Photography Methods and Practice (Fall 2023)
Creativity Up Close (Spring 2023)
Photo Bookmaking (Spring 2023)
Photography II (Fall 2022)
2021–22 Adjunct Professor of Photography, New York University
Introduction to Digital Photography for Non-Majors (Fall 2021)
Introduction to Photography for Majors (Spring 2022)
2021 Adjunct Professor, University of New Haven
Introduction to Digital Photography for Non-Majors (two sections; Fall 2021)
2020 Teaching Assistant to Ted Partin, Yale School of Art
Seeing Color (Spring 2020)
2019 Teaching Assistant to Marta Kuzma, Yale School of Art
Diving Into the Wreck: Rethinking Critical Practice (Fall 2019)
2009–15 Assistant Director, Futurelink School