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CV & chronology

A consolidated record of exhibitions, collaborative work, performances, publishing, sound, and artist-organized activity.

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Education

2013
MFA, Pratt InstituteBrooklyn, New York
2007
Wayne State UniversityDetroit, Michigan

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Solo exhibitions

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Two-person exhibitions

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Group exhibitions

2024
EDITION All Materials, A Holiday CelebrationMatéria Gallery, Detroit, Michigan · November 15–December 21
2020
Chernobyl PapersNew Scenario · Pripyat, Ukraine and online
2020
Spring Online Group ExhibitionMatéria Gallery · online
2019
Dark ModeASHES/ASHES, New York, New York
2018
Paintings I’d Die ForWild Embeddings / Wild Torus, Brooklyn, New York · curated by Alex Bienstock
2017
40 Pest StreetAlyssa Davis Gallery, New York, New York · curated by Dillon Petito and Malte Zander
2017
In 3D the basil never wilts REMIXCastor Gallery, New York, New York · curated by Michael Pybus
2017
Hard CryLubov, New York, New York · organized by Gabriel H. Sanchez · January 22–February 26
2017
Chew Toy Attractors67, New York, New York · curated by Alex Bienstock
2016
Ignorance is Rich67, New York, New York · curated by Alex Bienstock
2015
DychtopiaNew Scenario · online · also published in Mould Map 4
2015
hubcaP sMiley guest starring F ·R ·I ·E ·N ·D ·S ✓FriendsEvelyn Yard, London, United Kingdom · June 25–August 21
2015
To Feel What I AmHap Gallery, Portland, Oregon · curated by Eileen Isagon Skyers and Iris Williamson · March 5–28
2015
Business As UsualTurf Projects, United Kingdom · July 10–30
2014
Special MadnessDavid Shelton Gallery, Houston, Texas · curated by Keith J. Varadi · October 10–November 8
2014
Progressive RegressionRelaax.in · online
2013
Graduate Fine Arts ExhibitPratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, New York · May 9–21
2012
Re:Collect 2012Re:View Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan · November 10–December 22
2012
Peekskill Project VHudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York · included Mystic Pilgrims with Johnny Stanish
2011
The Spaces in BetweenLost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, California
2011
Magic and MysticismAnton Art Center, Mt. Clemens, Michigan
2011
AutomobilesPublic Pool, Hamtramck, Michigan
2010
Swim Lane2739 Edwin, Hamtramck, Michigan
2010
I don’t believe in art, I believe in artistsWhitdel Arts, Detroit, Michigan
2010
Version 2010Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, Illinois
2009
Re:CollectRe:View Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan
2009
ReplacementsMuseum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan
2007
Detroit NextDetroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan

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Music & audio

Selected releases, sound works, radio, and artist-organized audio activity. Musical groups and aliases are kept distinct from the later Sex Objects curatorial platform.

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Projects & organizational work

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Published interviews & exhibition reviews

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Activity timeline

unknow better, with Paul Lee, David Shelton Gallery, Houston.

Standards, Matéria Core City, Detroit.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die!, Plague Space, Krasnodar.

Sunsetting, Catbox Contemporary, Ridgewood, New York.

a listless witness, ASHES/ASHES, New York.

B Sides and Marginalia, with Alex Bienstock, MX Gallery, New York.

More than ever, wholesome pleasure, As It Stands, Los Angeles.

Black Market Inhaler, Window on Broad / Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia.

my tree stays tree, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn.

cynics milk, David Shelton Gallery, Houston.

our shallow psychic death, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit.

The Hunger, with Amalia Vekri, Hot Wheels Projects, Athens; presented with Catbox Contemporary.

feels like feels, ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles.

Raft, final completed ego drift work with Wendy Ross; associated LA/DW~PS presentation.

Vital Shift in Central Observer, with Tao Kulczycki, BOSI Contemporary, New York.

a native fear…a featureless protagonist, DFS Contemporary, New York.

Sex Objects / objetosexual and ego drift activity continued through 2015.

Trade in Trade Up, Brought to You by Club-Mate, Sex Objects, Silent Barn, Brooklyn.

EDENunlimited, collaborative Sex Objects material with Andrew Birk and Jaakko Pallasvuo, presented by NO SPACE, Mexico City.

ego drift collaborative works with Wendy Ross presented at Re:View Contemporary during Noel Night, Detroit.

or or and, with Ivana Bašić, Free Paarking, St. Louis.

Swanson/Samuels collaboration at The Java Project, Brooklyn, organized by objetosexual.info, c. 2014–15.

/recent works, Re:View Contemporary, Detroit.

Mystic Pilgrims, with Johnny Stanish, Peekskill Project V / HVCCA, Peekskill.

Hotel Art / hotelart.us founded with Loney Abrams and Jonathan Stanish.

ANX.ARS, curatorial radio program on Pratt Radio.

Terminal Girls, Era Shift; Flat Black Animal, Strictly Nocturnal; and the split cassette Side Effects.

BRB/Total Id Pigs, one-night site-specific participatory performance at Re:View Contemporary, Detroit.

741hz, Ian Swanson and Christopher Samuels, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan.

total fitness, Team Detroit, Dearborn.

The Spaces in Between, Magic and Mysticism, and Automobiles.

Terminal Girls, Weird Lights and Lost Hearts; Sex Objex, Major Magick.

all visible objects, Starkweather Arts Center, Romeo, Michigan.

Get Left, Mosaic Productions Gallery, Detroit.

Swim Lane, I don’t believe in art, I believe in artists, and Version 2010.

Alpine Meadow, Daniel Turner and Colin Snapp; final ORG Contemporary exhibition, May.

Flat Black Animal digital recordings begin; Terminal Girls formed by Ian Swanson and Mike Prezzato.

Lacquer, inaugural ORG Contemporary exhibition, Detroit.

Re:Collect, Re:View Contemporary; Replacements, Museum of New Art.

ORG Contemporary program: David Flaugher, Marketing; Vagner M. Whitehead, Gold Code; CONSTRUCTS, curated by Brian Barr; Kevin Beasley, Found Asleep Underwater; Lauren Rice, Vestiges; and the group exhibition Tread.

Occupied, Debt Collective, Cass Cafe, Detroit.

Collected, Debt Collective, Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemens.

Detroit Next, Detroit Artists Market, 2007.

Debt Collective founded with Christopher Samuels in Detroit.

First public Debt Collective presentation at the inaugural People’s Art Festival, Russell Industrial Center.

Rigged and Detroit Loves Company, Debt Collective-organized group exhibitions in Detroit.

Record policy. This page consolidates artist-confirmed information and published records. Solo, two-person, group, music, collaborative, and organizational histories are presented according to their original form; Debt Collective-organized exhibitions remain within the collective’s chronology.