b. 1985, Detroit, USA
Education
University of Pennsylvania, MFA, 2021
University of Pennsylvania, Emerging Design and Research Certificate, 2021
The Cooper Union, BFA, 2008
Two Person Exhibitions
Fire Season, Narendra Haynes and Ye Qin Zhu, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Curated by Kristina Murray and Ilya Blender, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2024-2025
Selected Exhibitions
We Are All Compost, Big Ramp, Curated by Will Schwaller, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2025
Eco/Systems: Gather, Asian Arts Initiative, Curated by David Kyu, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022-2023
The Poetry Project > ROT TALKS 3: DIRT (A FEAST) with Alexandra Tatarsky, St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, Curated by Alexandra Tatarsky, New York, New York, 2021
Double Feature Part II: Our House, Icebox Project Space, Curated by Yuri Stone, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021
From Now to Now: Shifting Life Forms, Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2019
Inclusionary Memory, Culture Factory Polymer, Tallinn, Estonia, 2012
Open Gulag, Delta Center of Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands, 2011
Now That We Are Even, Delta Center of Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands, 2010
Brucennial, Curated by the Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, New York, 2010
Fountain Art Fair, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2008
Callejeros, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2008
Awards
Joseph Roberts Foundation Artist Grant, 2024
Artist-in-Residence, Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022
Halpern-Rogath Travel Ward, 2021
Graduate Lecturer, Institute of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2020
The Stuart Egnal Scholarship Award, 2020
Artist-in-Residence, Culture Factory Polymer, Tallinn, Estonia, 2012
Artist-in-Residence, Delta Center of Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands, 2011
Talks & Workshops
Artist Talk, Fire Season, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2024
Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, MATTERS: Connecting Art + Design to Materials, Materials to Labor + Land, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2023
Workshop, Waste Tsunamis: What the F*#k Can We Do?, RAIR, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022
Workshop, Natural Relations: Plant Portraiture in the Meadow, RAIR, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022
Lecturer, Coffee & Conversation: Absent Bodies – Presence and Emptiness in Our Primary Focus is to be Successful, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021
Lecturer, Coffee & Conversation: Art Work – Labor and Ecology, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021
Lecturer, Coffee & Conversation: Milford’s Garden, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021
Lecturer, Coffee & Conversation: What’s In a Heartbeat? Scientific Thinking, Embodied Knowledge, and Art Historical Process in Milford Grave’s A Mind Body Deal, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2020
Panel Member, Why Do Young Artists Still Paint? Symposium, Ptarmigan Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2012