Current Position

Associate Professor, Robert Busch School of Design, Michael Graves College, Kean University

Education

MFA — University of Michigan

Post-baccalaureate Certificate — Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)

M.Ed., B.A. — University of Notre Dame

Selected Exhibitions & Screenings

2026 - CVPR 2026 Art Gallery, The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026, Denver, CO. Work selected by Luba Elliott, Art Curator, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

2025 - Lucid Voxelations, VISER, NTLC, Kean University, Solo Exhibition, Union, NJ.

2025 - Color 2025, CICA Museum, Selected Group Exhibition, South Korea.

2025 - CVPR 2025 Art Gallery, The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025, Nashville, TN.

2025 - LACDA 2025 International Juried Competition & Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA. Work selected by Joel Ferree, Program Director at LACMA Art + Technology Lab,

2024 - Generative Art Conference, Selected Presentation and Screening, Hosted by UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice, Italy.

2024 - CVPR 2024 Art Gallery, The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024, Seattle, WA.

2024 - D-ART - International Symposium Digital Art and Gallery, IV2024, International Conference Information Visualisation, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

2023 - MODE 2023 Summit, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA. 

2022 - Cine y digital, XXI International Image Festival, Rogelio Salmona Cultural Center, Manizales, Columbia. 

2017 - Codes & Modes: ReFraming Reality, Virtuality and Nonfiction Media Symposium, Hunter College, New York, NY. 

2014 - TEDxNAVESINK Salon, Stephen Crane House, Asbury Park, NJ. 

2013 - iDEAS_2013, Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA.

2012-13 - The Lumen Prize Exhibition, Lumen Prize 50 Shortlist, Exhibited at International Locations:

• FQ Projects, Shanghai, China.

• Gallery 27, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom.

• Robert’s Books, Riga, Latvia.

• The Space, Hong Kong.

• Treberfydd House, Llangasty, Wales, United Kingdom.

2012 - Environments: Natural-Constructed, ACM SIGGRAPH. Juried by DAC Board Members, Online. 

2010 - DigitalArt.LA 2010, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA. 

2010 - FAÇADE 2010, East Shard at Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia.

2010 - The Matter of Time, Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination, New York, NY. 

2010 - Interpretations of Time, Marlboro Gallery, Largo, MD.

2009 - Urban Revolutions, Video Arts Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece. 

2009 - ArcheTime, The Tank Space for Performing & Visual Arts, New York, NY.

2009 - Best of Artomatic, Fraser Gallery. Bethesda, MD.

2009 - Technology Configured, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI. 

2008 - Krasl Art Center Sculpture Biennial, St. Joseph, MI. 

2008 - Placemark, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI. 

2008 - MFA Thesis Exhibition, The James and Anne Duderstadt Center Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI. 

2007 - Substance: Diverse Practices from the Periphery, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO. 

2007 - PLAY Gallery, Michigan Channel, 10/5/2007.  

2006 - In Circulation, Cothenius Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

2006 - Endless Forms: Engaging Evolution, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI.  

2006 - Big Ten Graduate Art Exhibition, Big Ten Conference Gallery, Park Ridge, IL.

2006 - Summer Faculty Exhibition, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, D.C. 

2006 - Besucherkunst, Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI. 

Selected Awards, Grants & Honors

2025 - Winning Selected Artist List - 2025 LACDA International Juried Competition & Exhibit

• One of ten winning artists selected from an international call for the 2025 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art's International Juried Competition and Exhibition. Curating Juror: Joel Ferree, Program Director at LACMA Art + Technology Lab

2022 - Fast Company Innovation by Design Award Finalist, Learning Category. Fast Company, New York, NY. Jury Members Included: 

• Bob Weis, Global Imagineering Ambassador, Walt Disney Imagineering; 

• Nathan Allen, Head of Global Sustainability Programs, Google; 

• Emem Offong, UX Design Lead, J.P.Morgan Chase; 

• Whitney Rutter, CEO, Local Projects; 

• Yuri Suzuki, partner, Pentagram

2020 - New York Emmy Nominee, Nostalgia Program Category. The 63rd New York Emmy Award Nominations, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, New York Chapter, New York, NY. 

2020 - Viddy Platinum Award Winner, Video Production, Digital Creation, 64. Virtual Reality. AMCP, Dallas, TX. 

2020 - Faculty Research Mentor of the Year Award. Kean University, Union, NJ. 

2019 - MarCom Platinum Award Winner, Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality Category. AMCP, Dallas, TX. 

2018 - Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Creative Work. Kean University, Union, NJ. 

2018 – MakeHISTORY@Kean: William Livingston’s World. National Endowment for the Humanities HSI Grant, Role: Project Staff.

2015 – 2016 - Invited Institute Scholar Participant. NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites, UCLA (2016); UMass Amherst (2015), Los Angeles, CA and Amherst, MA. 

2014 - TEDx Invited Speaker. TEDxNAVESINK, Red Bank, NJ. 

2013 - Editor’s Choice Award. World Maker Faire NYC, New York, NY. 

2011 - Grant-in-Aid for Creativity. Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ. 

2010 - Trailblazer Grant. PGCC, Largo, MD. 

2009 - YAP Grant and Supplemental Grant. D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, partly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Washington, D.C. 

2008 - Research Grant. Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 

2008 - Honorarium. Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI. 

2007 - Honorarium. Big Ten Conference, Park Ridge, IL.  

2007 - Harold and Vivian Shapiro/John Malik Award. Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2005 – 2008 - Jean Paul Slusser Fellowships. The Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design (awarded three times), Ann Arbor, MI. 

Full CV Available Upon Request