STATEMENT
EDUCATION
2008-2012 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in affiliation with Tufts University, Medford, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Yellow Terror”, Night Lights Denver, Denver, CO
2022 “HERO5979” public mural, Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO
2021 “The Yellow Balloon” (performance), The People’s Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2020 “The Other Art Fair Brooklyn”, Saatchi, Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY
2019 – Present | Virtual Solo Launches (every 3-5 months), TAPPAN, Los Angeles, CA
2019 “H.O.T House of Trauma” Solo art show at Understudy Gallery, Denver Convention Center, CO
2019 “My Mother, My God” curated by Jessica Kooiman Parker, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
2019 “UndocuAmerica Performance & Media Project”, collaboration with Motus Theatre (art paired with 10 live monologue readings), University of Denver, Lindsay Auditorium, Denver, CO
2018 The Thin Man Bar, Denver, CO
2018 Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 “Wrong Women, Myths From Sky”, Leon Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 “After The Rain, Story Of Enigma Drinking Under The Moon And Basking With The Sun”, City O’ City, Denver, CO
2013 The Lost Year, City O’ City, Denver, CO
2011 “Migration” (collaborative exhibition with Tsogo Mijid), Pirate Contemporary Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2011 “White Tiger, Golden Rabbit”, Yes.Oui.Si Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 “Running Through Thunder”, Pirate Contemporary Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 "The Two", Pirate Contemporary Art Gallery, Denver, CO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Guadalupe Maravilla: Purring Monsters with Mirrors on Theirs Backs, Trupa Chica mural collaboration, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO
2022 EPIC Whittier ECE-8 group exhibition, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2022 The Language of Trees, BRDG Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 ETH Denver: Culture Jam NFT Art Exhibition, The Art Hotel, Denver, CO
2021 “Tears of the Sky” animation film, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2021 “In Skin”, Pink Progression, Philip J. Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, CO
2021 “Sole Patchwork of Life” project exhibition, McNicholas Building, Denver, CO
2021 “Another Angle: Asian American Art” curated by Jane Burke, University of Denver Anthropology Museum, Denver, CO
2021 “Interplay” group exhibition and live performance curated by Leah Podzimek, Brett Matarazzo, Micheal Dowling, BRDG Gallery, Denver, CO
2021 “BBQ and the Yellow Balloon” social performance, Parade of the People, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cuernavaca Park, Denver, CO
2021 “BBQ: Pandemic Edition” digital video, Bodies in Motion, Supernova [Re-Generation] Digital Animation Festival, Denver Digerati, Denver, CO
2021 Community Almanac Volume 3: Food & Branches (featured animation video), Warm Cookies of the Revolution, CO
2020 “No Place To Go”, 40 West Arts District & Wheatridge, CO
2020 “Foreign Born”, The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO
2020 “Dearly Disillusioned: My Mother, My God”, Pink Progression, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO
2019 “Tears of the Sky” animation film, Colorado Dragon Film Festival, Sloan’s Lake Alamo Drafthouse, Denver, CO
2019 “Mi Pinta”, I Stand With Immigrants Artist Retreat and Exhibition, FWD.US, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
2019 “Archives As Muse” in collaborative with Clyfford Still Museum, body performance with Jennifer Tsogo, ArtHyve, McNicols Civic Building, Denver, CO
2019 Specto Art Space Portfolio Prize, Art featured at Superfine! DC 2019, Washington, DC
2019 “Contemporary Mongolian Art Biennial: Innovating Tradition”, The World Bank Group Art Program in partnership with The World Bank Group East Asia Pacific Vice Presidency Unit and Country Office Mongolia, The World Bank Group Main Complex Atrium, Washington DC
2019 Selected “Tears of the Sky” animation short film, Dragon Film Festival, Alamo Drafthouse, Denver, CO
2018 “Tedious” body performance, Women of Many Colors: A Glorious Collaboration, Understudy Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 “Saving Lions By Killing Them” two-person collaborative show with Sammy Lee curated by Odessa, SML | k Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 I-Park International Artist Residency, East Haddam, CT
2017 “Hive Tarot 8”, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “Evicted”, Dateline Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 “Flee For Your Life”, Leon Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 Saatchi Art “Annual Holiday Sale”, Saatchi Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 “The Secret Art of Animators 3”, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 “Sun Milk & Red Meat”, Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2009, 2012 “Annual Drawing Show”, The Weems Atrium, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2011 "Tension", Pinion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 “Whistling Past the Freedom Trail” (featured art in catalog), William Morris Hunt Memorial Library affiliated with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ART RESIDENCIES
2023 Platteforum Artist Residency, Denver, CO
2022 Currier Museum Artist-in-Residence, Manchester, NH
2022 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2022 Pocoapoco Artist Residency, Oaxaca, Mexico
2021 International Yurt Art residency Program, Red Feather Lakes, CO
2020 Children’s Museum of Denver, Artist in Residence, Denver, CO
2019 Understudy Social Art Incubator Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency, Burlington, VT
2018 I-Park International Artist Residency, East Haddam, CT
2017 Tending Spaces Artist Fellowship, Shambhala Mountain Center, Red Feather Lakes, CO
2015 Eastside International (ESXLA) Artist Residency, Los Angeles, CA
CURATORIAL / SOCIAL PRACTICE PROJECTS
2022-2023 “Green Mask Project” social practice exhibition featuring recycled identity masks made by community and The Currier Totem sculptures, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
2022 AURA” group exhibition in collaboration with Hiitehead LLC / Denver Film / Union Hall, Union Hall Gallery, Denver
2022 “Green Mask, America’s Voice” visiting artist field trip and workshop for AAPI Heritage Month, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2021 “Threads: Migration Connects Us All”, Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program group exhibition, Platteforum and New York Foundation for the Arts, BRDG Gallery, Denver, CO
2021 Social Media Artist Takeover (September 2021), Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO
2020 “A Letter To My Mother” Silent Writing Workshop for Dearly Disillusioned / Pink Progression (March) and MakeShift Monday / Redline Contemporary Art Center (May), Denver. CO
2020 “Border” Solo Art Exhibition by Tsogo Mijid, Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado and International Yurt Art Residency Program: Spring 2020 Colorado Session in partnership with Denver Art & Venues, Cultural Partner Program, McNichols Civic Building, Denver, CO
2020 “Asian American Artist Showcase” (group art exhibition featuring Homare Ikeda, Tsogo Mijid, Mamiko Ikeda, Yuki Horikawa), 6th Annual Dragon Film Festival in collaboration with Denver Film Society, SIE Film Center, Denver, CO
2020 “Sole Patchwork of Life: Colorado Tour” civic engagement nomadic art workshop, Touring 8 Denver Council Districts, Denver, CO
2020 “Dream Yurt, A Socially Engaged Art Project”, Womxn’s March Denver, IMPACT EXPO, McNichols Civic Building, Denver, CO
2019 – 2020 “Community Workshop: Building Community Resilience through Courageous Conversation and Healing” presented by Womxn's March Denver, Trauma & Disaster Recovery Clinic (TDRC), Caring for You and Baby (CUB). Workshop Partners: Understudy Gallery (2019), Asian Pacific Development Center (2019), Park Hill UCC (2020), McNichols Civic Building IMPACT EXPO (2020).
2019 “The Future is Feminine” juried group show in collaboration with Redline Contemporary Art Center, Arts Student League of Denver, Denver, CO
2019 “Tsogo Mijid: 20 Year Retrospective” with artist catalog book, Pirate Contemporary Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 “Bridging Cultures: Where Has Your Shoe Been” nomadic community art workshop in collaboration with Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, International Rescue Committee, and American Friends Service Committee. Workshop stops: TEDxMileHigh RESET Adventure “Immigration in America” at Museo De Las Americas (2018), “United Leaders in Higher Education Diversity Conference” at Metropolitan State University of Denver (2018), “Internalization Summit” at University of Denver (2019), “Stories of Courage: Beyond the Lens, Artists Sharing Stories" by Japanese Arts Network at History Colorado Center (2020).
2018 “International Yurt Art Residency” program in collaboration with Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado, Program Founder and Director, Denver, CO
2018 “Dream Yurt, A Socially Engaged Art Project”, 48 Hour Summit, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2016 Worked as International Arts Liaison between Art Council of Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado (Denver, CO), Mongolian Community Association of Colorado (Denver, CO) and Denver Film Society to help bring feature length documentary film “The Eagle Huntress” by director Otto Bell to the 39th Denver Film Festival.
2013 TIE International Experimental Film Exposition Festival, Group Art Exhibition, Colorado College Expo Center, Colorado Springs, CO
2013 "Sun Milk & Red Meat" (group art exhibition featuring Joseph Coniff, Stephan Herrera, Dmitri Obergfell, Eriko Tsogo, Nick Peelor, Ryan Riss and Matt Scobey), Pirate Contemporary Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 - 2011 ArtYouth student art mentorship program in collaboration with School of the Museum of Fine Arts Career Services Center, Program Founder and Workshop Moderator. Workshop stops: Yawkey Boys and Girls Club (Boston, MA), Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club (Dorchestor, MA).
PERMANENT / PUBLIC PROJECTS
2023 “HERO5979” public mural, Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO
2022 “The Harmonious Friends of Colorado” at Hampden Public Library, Urban Arts Fund, Public Art Program, Denver Arts & Venues, Denver, CO
2029 - 2021 “Mongovoo” interactive art sculpture installation, Meow Wolf Museum, Denver, CO
2019 4D Theatre (interior design and murals), Denver Zoo, CO
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
2022—2023, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, Film Review Committee, Virtual, USA
2021—Present, SCFD Denver Cultural Council, Denver, CO
2009—Present, Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, Virtual, USA
2021— 2022, The Dots Between Cohort, Virtual
2021—Present, Denver Country Cultural Council, Denver, CO
2020, Saatchi, Brooklyn, NY
2018, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2019—2021, Denver Commission of Cultural Affairs, Denver, CO
2018—2020, Denver Womxn’s March Committee, Community Engagement Arts Programming Liaison, CO
2004—2022, Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado, Creative Director, CO
AWARDS & HONORS
2021 New York Foundation of the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship Program for the International Yurt Art Residency Program in collaboration with Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado and Shambhala Mountain Center
2021 CCI Covid Arts Relief Grant, Colorado Creative Industries, Denver, CO
2020 Artist Relief Grant, Chicago, IL
2020 FCA Covid Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2019 Specto Art Space Grand Portfolio Prize winner, Featured artworks at Superfine! DC 2019 fine art fair in Washington, DC
2019 Denver Arts & Venues Office of Cultural Affairs, Office of Diversity and Equity grant for “Sole Patchwork of Life: Colorado Tour” civic engagement nomadic art workshop, Touring 8 Denver Council Districts, Denver, CO
2019 Mayor’s Office and Arts & Venues, Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs
2019, 2020 Denver Office of Immigrant & Refugee Affairs, Immigrant Integration Mini-Grant for “Dream Yurt Workshop”, Denver, CO
2019 Selected “Tears of the Sky” animation short film, Dragon Film Festival, Alamo Drafthouse, Sloans Lake, CO
2019 Denver Artists To Watch In 2019, 303 Magazine, Denver, CO
2018 TEDxMileHigh RESET Adventure “Immigration In America”, selected speaker, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO
2018 Jan-Pro Family First Scholarship, Jan-Pro of Colorado & Scholarship America, Lakewood, CO
2018 Colorado Creative, Westword, Denver, CO
2018 “Immigrants: We Are Them, They Are Us” short story finalist, Asian American Filmmakers Lab, New York, NY
2018 “Bridging Cultures” civic engagement grant in collaboration with Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, International Rescue Committee, and American Friends Service Committee.
2018 “Dream Yurt, A Socially Engaged Art Project”, selected project, 48 Hour Summit, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2018 Alliance for Artist Communities in affiliation with The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Emergency Artist Grant Award, Providence, RI
AWARDS & HONORS
2022 Artist-in-Residence Introductory & Final Talk, “The Eagle Huntress” Film Screening Talk, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
2022 Undocumented Filmmakers Collective Artist Spotlight: A Conversation with Nicole Solis Sison, Instagram Live (Virtual Talk)
2022 “AURA” group exhibition, Curatorial Talk, Union Hall, Denver, CO
2021 “Another Angle: Asian American Art” curated by Jane Burke, Artist Talk and Panel Discussion, University of Denver Anthropology Museum, Tilt West, Denver, CO
2021 March for Citizenship, Keynote Speaker, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, Viking Park, Auraria Campus, Denver, CO
2021 DACA Stories, I Stand With Immigrants, FWD.us, Washington, DC
2021 Fine Arts Department, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Regis Jesuit High School, Aurora, CO
2021 APIDA Heritage Month, Keynote Speaker, Virtual Visiting Artist, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2020 Fine Art Department, Visiting Artist, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO
2020 inStill, Visiting Artist, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO
2019 Fine Art Department, Visiting Artist, Understudy Gallery Visit, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO
2018 Wrong Women: Myths From Sky exhibition, Artist Talk, Leon Gallery, Denver, CO
