Education

Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut
Painting and Printmaking, Masters of Fine Arts
2006-2008

UCLA | Los Angeles, California
Fine Art, Philosophy (minor), Bachelors Degree
2000-2004

Awards & Residencies

Forthcoming: CCA Andratx Artist-in-Residence program, Mallorca, Spain.

Project Grant from US Embassy in Germany, Berlin for "Brittle Thicket", 2010

Pilot Projekt Gropiusstadt, Berlin, Germany, 2009

Schoelkopf Travel Grant Prize (with travel to Uzbekistan and Russia), 2007

Lillian Levinson Award, 2004

Resident Artist at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2004

Hoyt Scholarship, 2003

 

Selected Exhibitions

2012

April 25- May 16 / Shelf Life Group show curated by Nicole Cohen, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany.

2011

Transregional Aesthetics curated by Alan Ruiz, Castle Inn Gallery in Delaware Water Gap, PA.
Navigating Darkness curated by Mira O'Brien & Helen Homan Wu (Opalnest), Tape Modern, Berlin, Germany.
Follow the Broken Stefan Demming, Gianni Moretti, Mira O'Brien, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany.
XYZ: about understanding group show curated by Marc Bijl, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

2010

GP Site Exploration 4 person collaborative show at Golden Parachutes, Berlin, Germany.
Brittle Thicket solo show at Vierter Stock, Berlin, Germany.
Love Letters To A Surrogate presented by Warren Neidich, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Dump Art curated by Franziska Jordan and Alexis Knowlton, Freudenreich Bar and Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

2009

When Breaking a Current solo performance and installation in conjunction with: "Spurlose Bahnen: Theorie, Kunst, Party," Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany.
Outside In group show curated by Mary Dailey Pattee, La Viola Bank Gallery, NY, NY
In Real Time organized by ASDF, Capricious Gallery, NY, NY

2008

Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2007

A Summer Introduction Group Exhibition: Casson Demmon, Isabel Maria Manalo, Katherine Love, Mira O’Brien, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Is That All There is to Fire? group show curated by David Horvitz, High Energy Construct, Los Angeles, CA
The Greek Play group show curated by Katie Vida, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2006

Paintings solo show, Tartine, San Francisco, CA
Fevered Days Like Waters Cool Anna Fidler, Mimi Lauter, Mira O’Brien, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Anyhere But Where? group show curated by Michael Bauer, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Landfall solo show, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Publications and Press

"Wo Kunst Entsteht: Besuch in drei Berliner Atelier"/ "Where art arises: Visit to Berlin's three studio", article in the magazine Mitteschön, 2011. page 20

"Studio Visit" with Berlin Art Link published online, 2011.

"Transregional Aesthetics", exhibition catalog, 2011.

"GP Site Exploration", exhibition catalog and guide book, 2010.

"Dump Art: ART IS NOT TRASH!/KUNST IST KEIN MÜLL!," exhibition catalog, 2010.

"2009 Jahrebuch," Pilot Projeck Gropiusstadt, Berlin, 2009.

"The Author Dreams of Glass," by J. Mae Barizo pulished in At Large Magazine, 2009

“Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition,” catalog essay by Susanna Newbury, 2008

“Is That All There is to Fire?” catalog with essays curated by David Horvitz, 2007