b. 1983, Palatka, Florida
I’m a Southerner, who left the dusty clay roads of rural Melrose, Florida in 2001 at age 18 for college in “the North” and the freedom to come out as gay. I completed my B.A. in Studio Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH in painting, sculpture, performance and poetry. I completed a semester of the MFA in Print/Media at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI and was the department’s Daimler Scholar award winner, before moving to Austin, TX for love. In Austin, I completed the Summer Architecture Intensive at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture and design school in Social Entrepreneurship and Interaction Design. This led to a nourishing 15-year career in design with clients all over the world and roles that moved me to Palo Alto, San Francisco and finally Santa Monica for Headspace, the meditation app. In November 2025, I left Headspace after six years there, four as the VP of Design. I dove back into my art practice deeply like a parched traveler in a desert finding an oasis.
I completed a 3 week residency in March 2026 at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont and have a forthcoming residency at Studio Kura in Fukuoka, Japan in March 2027.
