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Education

MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London, UK


BA Photography, University College Falmouth, Falmouth, UK



Solo Shows

2021, 1646, The Hague, NL


UPCOMING::::: 2022, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK



Selected Group Exhibitions

2021, Anima Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, TWN.


2021, Dead Social, GODÒ Galerija, Vilnius, LT.


2019, Open Studios, ARCUS Projects, Moriya, Japan.


2019, Frequency of Magic, 아웃사이트 out_sight, Seoul, South Korea.


2019, Push Your Luck, Island, Brussels, Belgium.


2019, All About You, Koppel Project Hive, London, UK.


2018, White Shadows, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, South Korea.


2018, Learn Where The Meat Comes From, 아웃사이트 out_sight, Seoul, South Korea.


2018, Open Call (part of the Annual Ipswich Biennial), Atlas House, Ipswich, UK.


2018, The Flâneuses, Art Night, London, UK.


2018, 6. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia.


2017, Seep, Peer Gallery, London, UK.


2017, Divers, The Old Waterworks, Southend-on-Sea, UK.


2017, A Physical Thing, Studio Naim, Tel Aviv, Isreal.


2017, ON & OFF, Proyectos Medellín, Mexico City, Mexico.


2017, Cacotopia, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK.


2016, SHAM Romance 2, Chalton Gallery, London, UK.


2016, Solopreneur, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK.


2016, Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London, UK.


2016, East Anglia Records - Rhythm and Disappointment, Chalton Gallery, London, UK.


2016, SHAMcollective, Chalton Gallery, London, UK.


2016, On Top ARI, Archive Gallery, London, UK.


2016, It's A SHAM Romance, SHAMcollective, Goldsmiths, London, UK



Screenings, Talks and Online

2020, Swallow Up, IMPAKT Channel, Online Screening.


2020, Emotion Over Raisin, Kingsgate Projects, Online Screening.


2020, OD Arts Festival, Online Screening.


2019, Artist talk with Christopher Beauregard and Takuya Watanabe (Moderated by Keisuke Ozawa), Tokyo University of the Arts, JAPAN.


2019, Cutlog, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.


2018, BF Artist Film Festival VIII, SET Dalston & Serf Leeds, Leeds & London, UK.


2018, Threads Salon, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK.


2018, Bomb Factory Film Festival, Exeter Art Week, AWEsome Art Space, Exeter, UK.


2018, Bomb Factory Film Festival VI, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK.


2017, OH GOD THE SHAME! w/ The White Pube, Panel Discussion, Peer Gallery, London, UK.


2017, Bomb Factory Film Festival V, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK.


2017, Food For Being Looked At, Instagram Take-over, The Photographers Gallery (online).


2017, You Are Your Only Limit, Online Exhibit, Cosmos Carl (online).


2017, Like Caramel That Has Melted and is Soft and Stretchy, Performance and screening, Lux @ Pump House Gallery, London, UK.


2017, Crisis and Care Workshop, Screening with Q+A, Goldsmiths University.


2016, Self Growth w/ Jonathan P. Watts & Katrina Black, Screening + Talk, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK.



Residencies and Awards

2020, Recipient of The Elephant Trust Grant.


2020, Kingsgate Workshops Residency.


2019, ARCUS Project Residency, Ibaraki, Japan.


2016, Recipient of the Goldsmiths MFA Studio Award, a partnership funded by Acme Studios, Jane Hamlyn, and the Artisa Foundation.


2016, Moscow/Vishny Volochok with the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art, Russia


2016, Goldsmiths MFA Junior Fellowship.


2016, Recipient of the Alumni & Friends Fund.


2015, Joya: atre + ecologia, Los Gazquez, Spain.



Writing & Reviews

Dispatches: London by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Frieze.com, 2018

Moving Image Arts London, Olivia Hernaïz and Ruth Waters: takedown of the caring corporates, 2019

Moving Image Arts London, REDSKY66 Review, 2017

Moving Image Arts London, J.A Generalized Anxiety Relaxation Review, 2016

Re-ignite the Future Cunt, Hysteria, 2015


Interview with Frederique Pisuisse, curator of GOLDSMITHSGALLERY, 2015