SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Future Is Broken. Invited. Marsh Gallery. Herron School of Art + Design, Basile Gallery,
Indianapolis, IN
2017 The Human Face. Invited. 21st Century Great Conversations in Neuroscience, Art and Related
Therapeutics Symposium. Hine Hall Auditorium, Indianapolis, IN
2015 CODEX. Invited. Artcafé, Kükes, ALBANIA
2015 CODEX. Invited. Tulla Culture Center, Tirana, ALBANIA
2015 The Genetic Portrait Project, An Interactive Public Art Initiative. Individualizing Medicine Conference,
Rochester Convention Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
2015 The Genetic Portrait Project, An Interactive Public Art Initiative. Frontline Genomics Inaugural Festival
of Genomics Conference, Convention Center, Boston, MA
2014 The Genetic Portrait Project, An Interactive Public Art Initiative. American Society of Human Genetics
Annual Conference, Convention Center, San Diego, CA
2014 Approach. Indianapolis International Airport, main terminal panoramic video wall, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Portfolio Showcase: Word And Image. Juried. Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
2013 It Came from Within. Juried. Rosemary P. Miller Gallery, Ivy Tech Waldron Arts Center,
Bloomington, IN
2012 Me Pix: Picturing Ourselves in Video and Photography. Juried. Curated by Bleu Rochester
Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2011 Gene Therapy. Juried. Photography Gallery, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN
2011 Geneotropes. Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Beyond/In Western New York Biennial: Alternating Currents. CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2010 In Situ. Curated by Katherine Page. Davidson Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY
2006 Formulations. MFA thesis exhibition. SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2005 Spanoscopic Visions. Community Darkroom Gallery, Genesee Center for the Arts, Rochester, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 This Might Have Happened. Filter Photo Festival’s Juried Exhibition Curated by Gordon Stettinius,
Founder of Candela Books + Gallery. David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 PhotoSpiva 2014 National Photographic Competition. Juried. Curated By Dornith Doherty,
Spiva Center For the Arts, Joplin, MO
2013 Mapping: Borders, Bodies, Memories. Filter Photo Festival’s Juried Exhibition Curated by Paula
Tognarelli, Dir. Griffin Museum Of Photography. David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Ohio +5 Biennial. Juried. The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
2013 Building On Sand. Curated By Joshua Frankel. Presented By Wassaic Proect At artMRKT
Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
2013 15th Annual Photography Exhibition. Curated By Stephen Dybas. In-sight Photography Project
Gallery, Hamptons, Brattleboro, VT
2013 Photolucida Portfolio Walk 2013. Castaway Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 Projections. Juried Exhibition, Curated by Jason Franz as part of the FOTOFOCUS Biennial, Manifest
Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2012 Member’s Show: Mid-West Society of Photographic Education Regional Conference. Juried by
Catherine Evans, Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art. The Carnegie Visual
and Performing Arts Center, Covington, KY
2012 Faculty Biennial. Herron School of Art + Design, Eleanor Prest Reese and Robert B. Berkshire Gallery,
Indianapolis, IN
2012 Video Exhibition. Juried. Curated by Flounder Lee. Truly Moving Pictures Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Abstract Expressions. Juried by Carl Chiarenza. Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2012 11th Biennial Auction. CEPA Gallery. Buffalo, NY
2012 Ohio Boarder Biennial. Juried. The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
2011 ThinkArt. Juried. Commonwealth Art Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2011 13th Annual Photography Exhibition. Curated by Stephen Dybas. In-sight Photography Project
Gallery, Brattleboro, VT
2011 Videoholica 2011. Juried International Video Festival. Varna, BULGARIA
2011 Alphabet City Festival: AIR. Juried. Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
2011 Slide Slam ‘11. Juried. Real Art Ways Gallery, Hartford, CT
2010 Faculty Exhibition. Herron School of Art + Design, Eleanor Prest Reese and Robert B. Berkshire
Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2010 So The Day. Juried Exhibition, Curated by Hyla Skopitz and Theresa Christensen, Brooklyn Fire Proof
East, Brooklyn, New York
2010 BURB. Juried Exhibition, Curated by Tim Parsley, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2010 RIT Faculty Show. Rochester School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of
Technology, SPAS Gallery, Rochester, NY
2010 Windows and Mirrors. Juried Exhibition, Curated by Hyla Skopitz and Theresa Christensen, 25CPW
Gallery, New York
2009 Indecisive Moment: Photographer’s Using Video. Hendershot Gallery, New York
2009 Indecisive Moment: Photographer’s Using Video. Bridget, New York
2009 Circuit Gallery Launch Exhibition. Curated by Claire Sykes and Susana Reisman. The Department,
Toronto, CANADA
2009 11th Annual Photography Exhibition. Curated by Stephen Dybas. In-sight Photography Project
Gallery, Brattleboro, VT
2009 (Un)natural Worlds. Curated by John Äasp. Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX
2009 Cellutations. Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, New Haven, CT
2009 RIT Faculty Show. Rochester School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of
Technology, SPAS Gallery, Rochester, NY
2008 Re:Member. Rochester Contemporary Art Center. Rochester, NY
2008 Snap to Grid. Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Toronto Urban Film Festival. Toronto’s mass transit video art festival, Spring selected by curator
Brenda Longfellow, Toronto, CANADA
2008 RIT Faculty Show. Video Projection, Rochester Institute of Technology, SPAS Gallery, Rochester, NY
2008 Slide Slam ‘08. Juried one-night exhibition. Real Art Ways Gallery, Hartford, CT
2007 Naturally: Looking at Looking at Nature. Juried four-person exhibition. Hartnett Gallery, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY
2007 Contact Portfolio Reviews Exhibition. Juried exhibition. HP CONTACT Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
2007 PingYao International Photo Festival. Represented Rochester Institute of Technology.
Ping-Yao, CHINA
2007 Toronto Urban Film Festival. Streaks of Gravity video exhibited. Toronto, CANADA
2007 Off the Wall:14. Juried. Arts Council Gallery, New Haven, CT
2007 30 Years of Eye Work. Genesee Center for the Arts, Rochester, NY
2007 RIT Faculty Show. Rochester Institute of Technology, SPAS Gallery, Rochester, NY
2006 RIT Student Honors Show. Juried exhibition. Artwork purchased by Rochester Institute of Technology
Collection. SPAS Gallery, Rochester, NY
2006 Door7 Spring Exhibition. Juried exhibition. Clinton Avenue Gallery, Rochester, NY
2006 conVerge. Regional invitational graduate exhibition. SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY
2006 Trans fix. Fawick Art Gallery, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio
2005 Grad 123. A selection of current graduate student work from the MFA in Imaging Arts Program, SPAS
Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2005 Long Beach Island Foundation Annual Photography Show. Juried by Darsie Alexander, chief curator
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis. Loveladies, NJ
2005 RIT Student Honors Show. Juried by faculty of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, SPAS
Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2005 Work In Progress: VSW & RIT. SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2005 Breaking The Ice. Juried (travelling). Hartell Gallery, Cornell University; Visual Studies Workshop,
Rochester, NY; Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
2004 City Wide Open Studios. Art Space Gallery, New Haven, CT
2004 The Edge Fringe Festival. International Festival of Art and Ideas. Small Space Gallery, New Haven, CT
2004 Spectra. Photo Arts Collective Annual Members Show, North Haven, CT
2003 Photos on the Edge. Juried exhibition. Green Hill Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
PUBLICATIONS
2015 International Photography Annual 3 (INPHA3), Manifest Gallery. Print.
2014 Creative Quarterly, Issue #35, Runner-up: Professional Photography,Web.
2012 Photographer’s Forum 2012 Best of Photography. Print.
2012 Projections. Manifest Gallery. Exhibition Catalog, vol. 66. Print.
2012 Something I’d Never Imagined Seeing Before. Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Online.
2012 Abstract Expressions, Photo Place Gallery. Exhibition Catalogue. Print.
2011 Visual Overture Magazine. Spotlight on Science. Print.
2010 Beyond/In Western New York Biennial: Alternating Currents. Exhibition Catalogue. Print.
2010 BURB. Manifest Gallery. Exhibition Catalogue. Print.
2009 Water. “Fossils,” Ed. John Knechtel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press & Alphabet City Media, p.72-81, Print.
2007 Naturally. Exhibition catalogue. University of Rochester, Forward by Clarence Sheffield, Jr., Print.
2006 Formulations. Master of Fine Arts Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Print.
2006 Draft Magazine. Issue 3, Print.
2005 Knowledge, Visual Culture and the New Archive. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, NY, Print.
1999 Effects of Temperature on Neuromuscular Junctions of the Stomatogastric System in Two Crab
Species: Cancer borealis and Cancer irroratus. Honors Thesis, Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, ME, Print.
1999 No Cats, No Steeples. Bowdoin College Art Department, Brunswick, ME, Print.
1998 No Cats, No Steeples. Bowdoin College Art Department, Brunswick, ME, Print.
PRESS / REVIEWS
2010 The Show that Ate Buffalo. Review by Lance Esplund. Wall Street Journal. Print. Dec 17, 2010
2010 Beyond/In Western New York. Review by Jack Foran. Artvoice. Print. Sept 23, 2010
2010 Meet Artist Stefan Petranek. Beyond/In Western New York Biennial review. Review by Ben Siegel.
The Buffalo News, Print. Nov. 26, 2010
2009 Circuit Brings the Online Gallery to Toronto (and Beyond). BlogTO. Web. Nov 21
2009 Expanding Art’s Scope. Review by Elizabeth Reese. Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Print. Sept 26
2009 Fall Preview. Review by Rainey Knudson, Glasstire, Web. September
2009 Artist Spotlight. Sunday Living Section Democrat and Chronicle, Print. Jan 4
SELECTED AWARDS | GRANTS | COMMISSIONS
2014 Indianapolis International Airport, Electronic Art Commission for panoramic screen, Indianapolis, IN
2014 Individual Artist Program Grant ($2,000), Indiana Arts Commission, Indianapolis, IN
2014 IUPUI Arts And Humanities Initiative Grant. Category B Award ($5,000), IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2013 Research Support Funds Grant, IUPUI Internal Grant. Category D Award ($19,600), IUPUI,
Indianapolis, IN
2012 New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Grant. $22,000. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2012 IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute Grant. Category A Award ($12,000), IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Study Abroad Development Grant. Co-written with Prof. Anila Agha for Spain 2013 course. Office of
the Vice President for International Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2011 New Frontiers Exploratory Travel Grant. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2011 IUPUI Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant. Category B Award, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2011 Research Support Funds Grant, IUPUI Internal Grant. IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2011 Commissioned Work for Glick Eye Institute, Indiana University Medical School, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Strategic Opportunity Stipend Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts and Cultural Council for
Greater Rochester NY
2010 Commissioned Work for Dean of Graduate Studies New Offices, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY
2010 Nominee for the Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, RIT
2005 Graduate Student Scholarship, Society of Photographic Educators Mid-Atlantic Region
2005 Graduate Scholarship Award, Rochester Institute of Technology
2005 Janie Moore Greene Grant. North American Nature Photography Association Infinity Foundation
2004 Graduate Scholarship Award, Rochester Institute of Technology
2004 The Guy Charles Howard and the O’Brien Graduate Scholarships. Bowdoin College
LECTURES
2014 Lecture. The Genetic Portrait Project. Juried. Postmodern Documentary Photography Symposium.
Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
2012 Lecture. The Genetic Portrait Project, Mid-West Society of Photographic Education Regional
Conference, Cincinnati, OH
2012 Gallery Talk. Me Pix: Picturing Ourselves in Video and Photography Exhibition, Rochester
Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2011 Lecture. Genes: The Memory Map of Life, THINK ART Conference, Boston University, Boston, MA
2011 Gallery Talk. Geneotropes Exhibition, Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2011 The Genetic Portrait Project. Lecture, Seminars in Medical Humanities and Health Studies lecture
series, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Gallery Talk. In Situ Exhibition, Davidson Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY
2010 Visiting Artist. Lecture, Murray State University, Murray, KY
2010 Visiting Artist. Lecture, School of Art & Design, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2010 Visiting Artist. Lecture, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN
2009 Visiting Artist. Lecture, University of Rochester, Sage Art Center, Rochester, NY
2008 Lecture. Tweaking the Periodic Table: Reflections on Science in Contemporary Art, Society of
Photographic Education, National Conference, Denver, CO
2008 Visiting Artist. Lecture and student critiques, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2008 Visiting Artist. Lecture and student critiques, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
2007 Gallery Talk. Naturally exhibition, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2006 Gallery Talk. Formulations exhibition, SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2005 Graduate Student Presentation. SPE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, George Madison
University, Fairfax, VA
EDUCATION
2006 MFA in Imaging Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2000 Fulbright Full Grant, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
1999 BA Biology, minor in Chemistry, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
1998 Study abroad coursework in Chile, State University of New York, Plattsburg, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010-present Herron School of Art & Design, Indiana University, Assistant Professor of Photography and
Intermedia Indianapolis, IN
2008-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2007 Adjunct Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
2006-2008 Adjunct Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2006-2007 Adjunct Professor, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2004-2006 Instructor of record, Graduate Assistant, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY