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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