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Born in the Dominican Republic. Lives and works in Maryland.

solo exhibitions

2016 Studio IX, Charlottesville, VA, into a single open darkness

2014 BBLA Gallery, The Bohemian Hall, New York City,

I first saw the world through a mosquito net…

2013 The Music Center at Strathmore, Maryland, installation of monoprints for the

concert performance of the opera Lost Childhood to mark the 75th anniversary

of Kristallnacht. (Night of Broken Glass)

2010 Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, DC,

Memory of a time I did not know, Curator, Steven Cushner

2003 Metro Stage, Alexandria, VA, Narratives…

group exhibitions

2018 DC Arts Center (DCAC), Washington, DC, It’s About that Time: Prints from Lily Press

2017 Betty Mae Kramer Gallery, Silver Spring, Maryland
Post Memory: Photographs of a Certain Time and Place

2016 Hickok Cole Architects, Washington DC, Art Night

2015 The Art House/Arts on Elston, Chicago, Illinois,

Art by America: A Review of 2-Dimensional Contemporary Art

2014 Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD, The World is Going to Hell... and I am Printing Yellow

2013 Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Minneapolis, MN,

Dream Weavings: Interpretations through Collaborations

2009 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York City, Juror, Daniel Ferris,

Stephen Haller Gallery, NY, 32nd small works exhibition

2009 Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, Virginia Poetic Art

2008 Canal House Gallery, Washington, DC, Recent Work

2008 Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, DC Home Plates

2007 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York City,

Juror, Jim Kempner, Jim Kempner Fine Art, NY, 30th small works exhibition

2004-2005 Selected works displayed in the official residence of the

Ambassador of the United States of America to Israel as part of

Ambassador and Mrs. Kurtzer’s Art in Embassy collection

fellowships/awards/commissions

2015 Visual Arts RoundUp Award,  Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County

2015, 2013, 2008, 2006, 2005 Fellowships in Visual Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2013, Cover art for Generation After, Inc. brochure

2010 Individual Artist Grant, Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County

2009 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Award in the Visual Arts,

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2007 Commission to create images for score cover and posters for

composer Janice Hamer’s opera Lost Childhood

2001, 2002 Fellowships in Poetry, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

panels/collaborations/other

2017  Steering Committee member for ART WATCH, a collective of concerned artists www.artwatchdc.com

2017  Steering Committee member for One House Project

2015 Panel member, To Remember and Reflect: artistic responses to war-related suffering,

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC

2014 Artist Talk, I First Saw the World Through a Mosquito Net, BBLA Gallery, New York City

2014 Artist Talk, The World is Going to Hell and I’m Printing Yellow

2013 Work created specifically for exhibit at Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Minneapolis,

as part of a collaborative project that combined the works of visual

artists with artists of other disciplines

2011 Selection Committee member, Moment Magazine Emerging Writer Awards

2010 Panel member, Examining Postmemory and its Transformation into Art

in conjunction with her exhibit Memory of a time I did not know… – Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery

2010 Guest speaker after screening of My Life with Carlos by Germán Berger-Hertz

2009 Collaboration with DC poet Sarah Browning to benefit Yellow Ribbon Fund

2009 Panel member, Transforming the Legacy of Loss: Artists and Daughters of Survivors

Discuss Creativity and the Holocaust, Washington DC Generation After, Washington, DC

2002-2011 Led workshops on the Creative Process, Washington, DC

publications

Cover image for Into the Cyclorama, collection of poems by Annie Kim, winner of the

Michael Waters Poetry Prize, publication Fall 2016. www.anniekim.net

Cover art for Conductor’s score for the opera Lost Childhood 2013

Cover art for Generation After, Inc. brochure, 2013

Images published in Hotel Amerika, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring, 2009)

Poems and essays have appeared in Gargoyle, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review,

Sojourner: The Women’s Forum; GW Forum; Northeast, Moment Magazine,

Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture, The Bitter Oleander,

Poet Lore and the anthologies The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices From the Robert Frost

Place, Volume 2 (CavanKerry Press, Ltd., 2004); Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s

Cabin, 1984-2001 (The Word Works, 2003); From Daughters and Sons: What I’ve Never

Said (Story Line Press, 2001) and Daughters of Absence (Capital Books, 2000).

selected collections

Private collections in the U.S., Israel, the U. K., Germany and the Netherlands

readings

The Knitting Factory

The Jewish Museum, NY

Smithsonian Institution

The Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies, Chicago

Politics & Prose, Washington, DC

Cable TV’s The Coffee House

Invited participant/reader with Czeslaw Milosz, Gerald Stern, Marge Piercy in the

day-long poetry program Speech and Silence: Poetry and the Holocaust at the

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

press

July 1, 2014, New York: The Jewish Week, Exhibition Review

June 2014, Exhibition featured in Artcards New York Weekly Update
(June 10 – 16) Editor’s Picks – June 12

November, 2010 Washington Diplomat, Feature Story

October 3, 2010 The Jewish Press, Exhibition Review

October 2010 WPFW, Washington, DC, interview

September 14, 2010 The Arty Semite, Forward Blog, Exhibition review

September 10, 2010 Baltimore Jewish Times, Feature Story

education

Fundación CIEC, Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea, Betanzos,

La Coruña, Spain; New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture;

Corcoran College of Art & Design; The George Washington University