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Education
MFA in Moving Image - University of Illinois Chicago - 2010
Prior Degree Program - School of the Art Institute of Chicago - 2007
BA in Radio, Television, and Film - University of North Texas - 2006
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Solo Screenings and Performances
A Chorus of Black Voids Sings In Rays of Unseeable Light - Microscope Gallery; Brooklyn, NY - 2017
Hybrid Cinema Tour:
Echo Park Film Center - Los Angeles, CA - 2017
Sight Unseen - Baltimore, MD - 2017
Hallwalls + Squeaky Wheel Media Center - Buffalo, NY - 2016
Church In The Cliff - Dallas, TX - 2016
Visual Studies Workshop - Rochester, NY - 2015
Connectivity Through Cinema at Center for Performance Research - Brooklyn, NY - 2015
Microlights Cinema - Milwaukee, WI - 2015
Experimental Response Cinema - Austin, TX - 2015
Headroom - Iowa City, IA - 2015
How To Build A Fire: Films and Videos by Michael A. Morris - Experimental Response Cinema at New Media Art and Sound Summit, Salvage Vanguard Theatre - Austin, TX
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Solo Gallery Exhibitions
ARK - Hawn Gallery; Dallas, TX - 2018
Black Boxes and Dark Rooms - Beefhaus; Dallas, TX - 2016
It’s Just Meant To Be - Oliver Francis Gallery; Dallas, TX - 2012
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Two Person Exhibitions
Working Groups (with Carolyn Sortor) - The MAC; Dallas, TX - 2019
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Awards
Kodak Stock Award, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival - A Chorus of Black Voids Sings in Rays of Unseeable Light - 2019
Audience Award, Southern Colorado Film Festival - Blue Movie - 2017
First Prize, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival - Blue Movie - 2017
Jurors’ Recognition, Athens International Film and Video Festival - Blue Movie - 2017
Dallas Observer Mastermind Award - 2015
Vimeo Award, Crossroads Film Festival - Third Hermeneutic - 2015
Best in Expanded Cinema, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Second Hermeneutic - 2014
3rd Prize “Showmanship Award”, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival - Fires - 2013
Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Confessors - 2011
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Grants and Residencies
Visual Studies Workshop Artist in Residence Program - Rochester, NY - 2018
Signal Culture Artist in Residence Program - Owego, NY - 2016
Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Microgrant - Dallas, TX - 2015
Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions - Steuben, Wisconsin / Chicago, IL - 2011
Centraltrak Artist in Residence Program - Dallas, TX - 2010
Harold Arts Artist in Residence Program - Chesterhill, OH - 2009
Vermont Studio Center Writer in Residence Program - Johnson, VT - 2007
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Selected Screenings and Performances
- ARK
Moviate Underground Film Festival - Harrisburg, PA - 2020
Aesthetic of the Ruins online program - Istanbul Experimental - Istanbul, Turkey - 2020
Archive Fever - Other Cinema at Artists Television Access - San Francisco, CA - 2019
Chicago Underground Film Festival - Chicago, IL - 2019
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Milwaukee, WI - 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival - Athens, OH - 2019
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM - 2019
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- A Chorus of Black Voids Sings in Rays of Unseeable Light
That One Film Festival Online Edition - Muncie, IN - 2020
Crossroads - San Francisco, CA - 2019
San Diego Underground Film Festival - San Diego, CA - 2019
Dallas Medianale - Dallas, TX - 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival - Athens, OH - 2019
Chicago Underground Film Festival - Chicago, IL - 2019
Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival - Tampa, FL - 2019
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival - Boston, MA - 2019
Mono No Aware - Brooklyn, NY - 2018
Microscope Gallery - Brooklyn, NY - 2017
- The Night in the Last Branches
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival - Istanbul, Turkey - 2018
Austin Film Festival - Austin, TX - 2018
Plaza Classic Film Festival - El Paso, TX - 2018
San Diego Underground Film Festival - San Diego, CA - 2018
Dallas International Film Festival - Dallas, TX - 2018
That One Film Festival - Muncie, IN - 2018
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM - 2018
Deep in the Heart Film Festival - Waco, TX - 2018
Frame of Mind on KERA Public Television - Dallas, TX - 2017
- Blue Movie
New Year, New Works 2020 at Filmmaker’s Coop - New York, NY - 2020
High Coast International Film Festival - Lunde, Sweden - 2019
Visual Chorus at The Horse Hospital - London, UK - 2018
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Film Festival - Hawick, Scotland - 2018
Ann Arbor Film Festival - Ann Arbor, MI - 2018
Avant To Live: New Experimental Works - Artists Television Access - San Francisco, CA - 2017
Southern Colorado Film Festival - Alamosa, CO - 2017
San Diego Underground Film Festival - San Diego, CA - 2017
Eye Myth Film Festival - Toronto, ON - 2017
Moviate Underground Film Festival - Harrisburg, PA - 2017
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival - Haverhill, MA - 2017
Crossroads - San Francisco, CA - 2017
Chicago Underground Film Festival - Chicago, IL - 2017
Athens International Film and Video Festival - Athens, OH - 2017
Ultraseeing at Nasher Sculpture Center - Dallas, TX - 2017
Antimatter [Media Art] - Victoria, BC - 2016
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival - Winnipeg, MB - 2016
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Milwaukee, WI - 2016
Oak Cliff Film Festival - Dallas, TX - 2015
- Third Hermeneutic
El Nicho en Festival Aural - Mexico D.F., Mexico - 2017
San Diego Underground Film Festival - San Diego, CA - 2017
Perpetual Motion by SF Cinematheque - Gray Area - San Francisco, CA - 2016
Chicago Underground Film Festival - Chicago, IL - 2015
International Symposium of Electronic Art - Vancouver, BC - 2015
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art - Boulder, CO - 2015
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM - 2015
Crossroads - San Francisco, CA - 2015
Mono No Aware - Brooklyn, NY - 2014
Dallas Contemporary - Dallas, TX - 2013
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- Second Hermeneutic
El Nicho Festival en Aural - Mexico D.F., Mexico - 2017
Ultraseeing at Nasher Sculpture Center - Dallas, TX - 2016
Perpetual Motion by SF Cinematheque - Gray Area - San Francisco, CA - 2016
International Symposium of Electronic Art - Vancouver, BC - 2015
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM - 2015
Crossroads - San Francisco, CA - 2015
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival - Winnipeg, MB - 2015
Experimental Film Festival Portland - Portland, OR - 2014
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Milwaukee, WI - 2014
Mono No Aware - Brooklyn, NY - 2013
Dallas Contemporary - Dallas, TX - 2013
Oliver Francis Gallery - Dallas, TX - 2013
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Selected Group Exhibitions
CounterVolt Version.001 - North Door, Austin TX - 2018
Circuit Breaker - Texas Women's University - Denton, TX - 2016
Acoustic Nerves - Dead White Zombies Icehouse - Dallas, Texas - 2016
Drawing Quote Unquote - University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX - 2016
Lost Worlds - McKinney Avenue Contemporary - Dallas, TX - 2015
Call.io.pe at The Wrong New Digital Art Biennial - International Online Exhibition - 2015
Second Hand Emotions at Aurora - Dallas, TX - 2015
Irrational.City - Bath House Cultural Center - Dallas, TX - 2015
The Voice’s Folds w/Morehshin Allahyari and Jenny Vogel - Sunview Luncheonette - Brooklyn, NY - 2014
WACH - Chicago Hilton - Chicago, IL - 2014
Objective Strategies - El Centro College - Dallas, TX - 2014
Every Person is a Special Kind of Artist, with Baggage (as part of The Dallas Collective) - Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX - 2013
Collective Bargaining - University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX - 2013
DallasSITES: Available Space - Dallas Museum of Art - Dallas, TX - 2013
The Texas Biennial - San Antonio, TX - 2013
Monstrous Couplings - University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX - 2012
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Distribution and Collections
Blue Movie - 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival DVD Volume 11
Self Published Split Cassette Tape with Lily Taylor
Confessors - Journal of Short Film vol. 23
Kyrie - Journal of Short Film vol. 19