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EDUCATION

2025

School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Theory, & Criticism | Chicago, Illinois

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CURATION

Director of the 30th Anniversary SAIC Department of Exhibitions’ SITE Galleries

2025—2024

Director of Installation SAIC Department of Exhibitions’ SITE Galleries

2024—2023

Assistant of Installation  SAIC Department of Exhibitions’ SITE Galleries

2023—2021

McMullan Family Foundation Summer Intensive Intern Art Institute of Chicago

2022

SOLO EXHIBITION

Matthew Cortez: I Love You. I Love You? I Love You!

2023

Northwestern University’s Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Co-Curator | A Space Remains

SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL

in passing

2025—2024

SAIC Office of the President and Provost Special Exhibition, Chicago, IL

Curated by Gemma Kim & Hailey Tomanicek

On Systems & Dialectics of Art

2024

Madron Gallery of American Art, Chicago, IL

Curated by Rachel Wakeman 

Full & Fragmented Affections

Yes Project Space, Chicago, IL

Curated by Dennissa Young

Northwestern University’s Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston, IL

2023

When Homeward You Turn

Curated by Ellie Lyons

Grand Rising: On Feeling & Interbeing

SAIC Wellness Center, Chicago, IL

Curated by Sidney Mori Garret

New Works

2022

SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

Curated by Amanda Miranda & Christine Magill

Wordless Creatures

Northwestern University’s Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Chicago, IL

Curated by Ellie Lyons

Visible/Invisible

Noyes Art Center, Evanston, IL

Curated by Indira Johnson, Fran Joy, and Lisa Degliantoni

And Boldly We Go

The Martin, Chicago, IL

Curated by Whitney LaMora

Annual Regional Exhibition

South Suburban College, South Holland, IL

2020

South Shore Arts Annual Regional Exhibition

South Shore Arts, Munster, IN

Lead Curator | Archive as Action, Archive as Discourse

2025

SAIC’s SITE Galleries and Northwestern University’s Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Chicago and Evanston, IL

Organizer | Chicago Artist-Run Spaces Fair

2025/2024

SITE Galleries & SAIC Career & Professional Experience (CAPX), SAIC MacLean Ballroom, Chicago, IL

Co-Curator | Claims of Harm

2024

SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL

Co-Curator | Ghastly Elegance

Probe Chicago, Chicago, IL

Lead Curator | Allure of the Abject

2022

SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL

Guest Curator | Goldie: Body Proxy

SAIC INCUBATOR, Chicago, IL

PUBLICATIONS

Author | Joseph Josué Mora’s Interventions into Minimalism and Authority, Sixty Inches From Center, 2026.

2026

Editor and Section Author | SITE Galleries: 30 Years of Student-Led Art, Exhibitions, & Archives, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.

2025

ISBN-13: 979-8-218-46346-5

Author | Amanda Williams’, Bethany Collins’, and Jennie C. Jones’ Formal Interventions into Modernist and Minimalist Discourses, Undergraduate Thesis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.

Author | “The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s SITE Galleries, Retaliative Bureaucracy, and Institutional Critique,” Guide To {...}, FWD: Museums Journal, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2025.

Artist | Between Us in “Crush,” Journal of Art Criticism #10, Barnard College, 2025.

Author | Various Articles for saic.edu/news and SAIC Magazine. 

2024