Resume
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2025
Our Energy Future Grant
MASS MoCA Alumni AiR
Salem, Marblehead, and Swampscot LCC Grants
MCC Festivals Grant
2024
SMFA Traveling Fellow Grant
Salem Public Artist In Residence
BCA AiR
2021
Somerville Arts Council Visual Arts Fellow
2020/2021
Umbrella Art Center Artcubator AiR
2018
Mass MoCA AiR
2016
Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists, administered by the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Boston, MA.
2010
President’s Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2009
MFA Merit Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2023
Tufts University Art Galleries Andy Warhol Foundation Collective Futures Fund Grant
Newton, Randolph, Somerville LCC
Somerville Cultural Ambassador Grant
Boston Center for the Arts AiR
2022
Somerville Arts Council Project Grant Recipient
Somerville Museum Community Curator
MassCreative CTV Fellowship
Boston Center for the Arts AiR
Sculpture Space NY, Winter AiR.
COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC ART
2024
Salem PAiR Public Art Commission, Salem, MA
2023
Be the Change Award, JArts Public Art Commission, Fenway, Boston, MA.
Newton City Hall - FURHTUR Flags - funded by the Newton LCC project grant.
2022
Boston City Hall Atrium, FURTHUR Flags, Boston, MA.
Fort Point Open Studios, FURTHUR Flags, Seaport, Boston MA.
Stonybrook Neighborhood Association, Jamaica Plain, MA, Public Mural Commission.
2021
Somerville Arts Council and the Somerville Homeless Coalition. Public wheatpasting mural commission.
2020
Emerson College, Boston MA. Visiting Artist, Mural Commission for the Piano Row Campus
2019
Downtown BID, Winter Pl, Boston MA. Commission of public mural, created in partnership with the Boston Literary District.
2014
Emerson College, mural commission for the Walker Building entrance, Boston, MA.
2005
A Gentil Carioca Gallery, public mural commission, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Inauguration of the Gentil Parede project, supported by the Paulo A.W. Vieira collection.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Social Fabric, Salem Old Town Hall, Salem MA.
Denholm Building window Display, Worcester, MA
2024
Vanitas FPAC Art Space, Boston, MA.
Straight from the Heart - The Rant series, Behind VA Shadows Gallery, Storefront Window at 2 Linden St, Harvard Square
Denholm Building window Display, Worcester, MA
2023
This is Where My Heart is., Beacon Gallery - Boston, MA.
Speaking Truth to Power. Randolph Intergenerational Community Center
2022
FURTHUR & Speaking Truth to Power at Mayor’s Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston MA.
Speaking Truth to Power, Montserrat College of Art Founders Gallery, Beverly, MA.
2019
Embracers pop-up show A R E A Gallery, Boston, MA.
2016
Straight from the Heart - The Rant series, Walter Feldman Fellowship exhibition. Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2015
YOU/ME MUV Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
A Coney Island of the Mind (Um Parque de Diversões para a Cabeça).Galeria Oscar Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil.
2010
Velvet Screw (Parafuso de Veludo). Galeria TAC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Collections
Tufts University Art Galleries Permanent Collection
Emerson College, Boston, MA.
Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston.
Private Collections in the United States and abroad.
Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection
Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Speaking Engagements,
events, and educational activities
2025
Casa de Abuela, Punto Urban Museum - North Shore CDC, Voices of Belonging, Salem MA
Peabody Essex Museum, Create Night Artist Lead, Salem MA
State House Creative Sector Day - MassCreative, Boston, MA
2024
Danforth Museum, Community Conversations Presentation, Framingham, MA
2023
Keynote Speaker at International Art and Design Conference GDIP University Guagnzhou, China
Conversation with Mark Hetfield from Hias
New TV Interview with JAy Sugarman
2022
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Practice and Material Panel
Museum Open House, Speak Up
2020
Somerville Arts Council Home Alone Series
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Fire in the Basement
2023
Tufts Art Galleries Portrait as Place,
Slater Concourse GalleryMedford, MA
Heroes Among Us PEG Center, Newburyport, MA
Midway Studios, State of the Earth, Boston, MA.
Nearby Gallery, This is America, Newton, MA
Through These Eyes, PEG Center Newburyport, MA.
2022
RED Cambridge Arts Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge MA
Fort Point Arts Community Members Show, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
2021
Beacon Gallery, Boston MA, Coded
Umbrella Art Center, Concord, MA, Dazzleship
2020
Beacon Gallery Totems, Boston, MA
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly Faculty Biannual.
2019
Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA Please Touch the Art
Nick Cave Joy Parade, Boston, MA.
Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, Avatars//Ghosts.
A R E A Gallery, Boston, MA, Collage.
Emerson Urban Arts, Boston, MA, Memorial to Joseph Ketner II.
2017
Concord Art, Concord MA, Inhabiting Words.
2016
Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA, The Uncanny Home of Our Imagination.
Gallery 263, Somerville, MA (juried by Ruth Erickson, ICA Curator), On the Body.
2014
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, One Language is Never Enough: Latino Artists in Southern New England.
GRIN Gallery, Providence, RI., Nonspace.
Khaki Gallery, Boston, MA Satellite, (School of the Museum of Fine Arts International Student and Alumni Group Exhibition)
2013
Laconia Lofts Gallery, Aftermath: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Boston, MA
MUV Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
17 Cox Gallery, Beverly, MA, Vestments.
2011
Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nova Escultura Brasileira (Panorama of Brazilian Sculpture)
Galleria TAC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vênus Terra.
Emerson College Gallery, Boston, MA Generation Next 4
2010
Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal (Causos Casos Ou) Quase Casais,
Oscar Cruz Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, Com Afeto Rio
2009
Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil, Nova Arte Nova,
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Idyll.
Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil, Poética Têxtil.
A Gentil Carioca Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Educação.
2008
Galerie Mansart, Centre Culturel Brésil-France, Paris, France 2007
Gallery 32, London, UK, Bandeiras do Brasil, Brazilian Flags.
Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2006, New Acquisitions of the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection (Novas Aquisições da Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand)
Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil, 13o Salão da Bahia.
Marcantônio Vilaça Gallery/Casa do Brazil, (Brazilian Embassy), Brussels, Belgium
Traveling exhibition originating at Pinacoteca de São Paulo, SP, Brazil; to Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil; Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Um Século de Arte Brasileira: Uma Retrospective da Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand (100 Years of Brazilian Art: A Retrospective of the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection),
2005
Abre Alas, A Gentil Carioca Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2004
Fundação Eva Klabin (Eva Klabin Foundation), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Projeto Respiração (guest artist at Ernesto Neto exhibition).
