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

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

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

Lillian Levinson Award, 2004

Hoyt Scholarship, 2003

Selected Exhibitions

2010

upcoming: "Site Exploration" 4 person show at Golden Parachutes, Berlin, Germany.

"Brittle Thicket" solo show at Vierter Stock, 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" 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, 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

Publications

2009 Jahrebuch Pilot Projeck Gropiusstadt, Berlin
"The Author Dreams of Glass," poem 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

Residencies

Pilot Projekt Gropiusstadt, Berlin, Germany, January 2009
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, July-August 2004