CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

1996 Master of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Awards/Commissions/Residencies

2006-Present Teaching Artist in Residence at The Noble Maritime Collection
2006 Council for the Arts and Humanites of Staten Island Original Work Grant
2005 Richmond County Savings Foundation "Dolphin Sightings" commission at the College of Staten Island
2000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1999 Collaborator on Red Dive's Bessie Award winning Inhabited 98 (installation and new media)
1996 New Haven, DE Delaware Teacher of the Year Award Sculpture Commission
1994 Liquitex Excellence in Art Award
1993 Maryland Institute Recognition of Acheivement Scholarship

Exhibitions

2006-7 The Staten Island Children's Museum "DB's Fantastic Machines" Solo Exhibition of interactive and kinetic sculpture
2005 Union County College, Cranford, NJ "Collective Intelligence" Flight Machine #1 sculpture installation
2003 Tattfoo Gallery, Staten Island NY "Ripe" Solo Exhibition of installation, video and performance
2002 ABC No Rio, New York, NY "The Ides of March" Blue sculptural installation
2000 Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY "Projects 2000" Body:Antibody #2 (Lust) kinetic installation
1999 Realform Girdle Building, Brooklyn, NY Body:Antibody sculpture installation
1999 Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, New York, NY Skins installation in main lobby
1998 Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY Red Dive's "Inhabited 98: Afterlives"
1997 A.R.C. Gallery (Rawspace), Chicago, IL Guts a fiber & light installation
1997 Reggio Gallery, New York, NY Group Show
1997 25 West 37th Street, New York, NY Multiplication Problem sweatshop bathroom stall project
1996 AIA Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination Sponsored by Artists Talk on Art, New York
1996 Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY Thesis Exhibition
1994 Michigan State University The Best of the East
1994 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD "Beyond Boundaries" Initiation installation

Videography/Screenings & Festivals

Home 2002 Digital Video 3 min 6 sec
2006 TVext.tv Broadband Television Network Independent Film Showcase
2005 Tiscali.co.uk Tiscali Short Film Showcase
2004 Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy N(ever)land Percorsi al Digital
2003 Lansky Lounge, NYC New York Filmmakers Series
2003 Monument- National, Montreal, Quebec Prends ca Court! World Short Film Screening Series
2003 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY The Brooklyn International Film Festival
2002 Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY Ocularis
2002 M3 Projects/Mastel + Mastel Gallery, New York, NY Digital Dumbo Festival

Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Movement #1) 2003 Digital Video 1 min (loop)
2003 St Johns University, Staten Island, NY in conjunction with the Richmond County Orchestra

Performance

2006 Day de Dada Festival, Staten Island, NY Strapped
2003 Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston NY Ripe (Curated by Judy Pfaff)

Bibliography

Dec 14, 2006 Fressola, Mike The Staten Island Advance, "Fantastic Machines"
Jan 22, 2006 Fressola, Mike The Staten Island Advance, "The Honor Roll"
Sept 21, 2005 Karznak, Mike The New Jersey Star Ledger, "Art Flying High at County College"
Aug 20, 2003 Goodman, Christy The North Shore Reporter, "New Tattfoo Gallery Show is Ripe for the Picking"
Aug 1, 2003 Fressola, Michael The Staten Island Advance, Exhibits
July 31, 2003 The Staten Island Source, "Art That Moves and Disappears, How Cool is This?"
Sept 10, 2000 Harrison, Helen The New York Times, Art Reviews

Curatorial

2006 Juror Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island,NY "Arts in Education Wish List Grants"
2006 Juror Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island, NY "Junefest Exhibiting Artist Awards"
2001 Juror Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY "Projects 2001"