Supermrin
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Education
2017 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
2010 GDPD, Exhibition & Spatial Design, National Institute of Design, India.
2008 Spatial Design, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqué, Paris, France.
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2026 Upcoming “FIELD”, solo exhibition curated by Michael Goodson, Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
2024 “Rodin Response: FIELD family secrets”, artist response to sculptor Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) co-curated by Peter J. Bell, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH.
2024 “Aliens: Colonial Narratives Through Plant Migration and Bio-Art”, two-person exhibition curated by Isabella Indolfi, Performance Space PS122 Gallery, NYC, NY.
2024 “FIELD [shade]”, solo exhibition curated by Solar Noon, Cincinnati, OH.
2023 “FIELD [dans l’ordre des choses]”, solo exhibition at the Chateau de Vaudijon, Colombier, Switzerland.
2022 “FIELD: Dwelling Landscape” solo exhibition at Lower Cavity, MA.
2022 “Braiding FIELD - NYC”, NYC City Hall Park, organized by Franklin Furnace fund, NYC, NY.
2019 “Field, Site-in-process”, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Group Exhibitions
2027 Upcoming “Future Forward: Art for the Planet” national traveling exhibition, curated by Amy Dehan, Cincinnati Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and others.
2025 Upcoming “Ohio Now: State of Nature”, traveling exhibition co-curated by Theresa Bembnister and DJ Hellerman, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.
2024 “I Split the Dream”, curated by Jenn Cacciola for Neptune in June, Studio 9D NYC, NY.
2024 “Regional Connections” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
2023 “Unveiling Boundaries: The Evocative Power of Place”, curated by Minoosh Zomorodinia, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, SF.
2023 “A Complexity of Joys”, curated by Patricia Miranda, MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY.
2023 “Tenuous Threads”, curated by Patricia Miranda, Atlantic Gallery, New York City, NY.
2022 “Braiding FIELD”, Cardiff performance, Tactile Bosch, Wales.
2022 “Braiding FIELD”, Boiçucanga, Dois pra lá dois pra cá, exchange program between Brazil and Wales, funded by the British Council.
2022 “MINE, What is ours in the wake of extraction?”, curated by Patsy Craig,
Midway Gallery, SF.
2021 “FIELD, How to Grow a FIELD?” billboard screening at Untitled Art Fair, Miami.
2021 “FIELD”, Inventgenuity Festival, Governors Island, NY.
2021 “Communicating Climate Science through the Arts”, Governors Island, NY.
2021 “Climate Provocations Pavilion”, Nolan Park, Governors Island, NY.
2021 “How to Grow a FIELD”, curated by Ariana Harrison, Cityx Venice, Italian Virtual Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2021, Venice, Italy.
2021 “Invincible Being”, curated by Zahra Banyamerian, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY.
2020 “FIELD” Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, ProArts Gallery and COMMONS, Oakland, CA.
2019 “Lapse (Willing)”, First Presbyterian Church of New York, New York, NY.
2019 “Multiversant”, Chashama, New York, NY.
2018 “As Though it Rained from Stars”, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
2018 “Distance”, Black Serum Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2017 “Willing”, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
2017 “Distance”, San Francisco Mint, San Francisco, CA.
2017 “Encounters at the End of the World”, art bar curated by Tom Loughlin, San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
2016 “Roommates”, curated by Emily Alexander, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016 “Things in Color, Shaking”, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016 “Willing”, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Residencies
2023 Sculpture Space Residency, Utica, NY.
2023 Invitational, Chateau de Vaudijon, Colombier, Switzerland.
2022 Lower_Cavity Residency, Holyoke, MA.
2021 Governors Island Residency, Inclusive Ecologies Lab, New York, NY.
2021 Artists Residency, Consortium for Research and Robotics, Brooklyn, NY.
2019 ProArts Gallery, Summer Residency, Oakland, CA.
2018 Graduate Residency Award, Headlands Centre for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
Awards and Fellowships
2025 Individual Excellence Award for Sculpture, Ohio Arts Council for the Arts, OH.
2024 Commission for “Rodin Response”, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH.
2024 Emergency Art Grant for “Aliens” exhibition, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY.
2023 Patricia Renick Travel Research Award, University of Cincinnati, OH.
2023 Site-specific commission by Abalance and William Lozano, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2023 The Crib Lab Fellowship Award, New York, NY.
2021 New York Foundation for the Arts City Artists Corps Grant for Public Engagement, NY.
2021 Franklin Furnace Fund, Award for Performance Art, NY.
2021 “On Our Radar”, 2021 Creative Capital Award.
2020 DAAP FDC Grant Award 2020/2021.
2019 San Francisco Arts Commission, Public Art Shortlist, San Francisco, CA.
2019 New York Foundation for the Arts, Immigrant Artist Fellowship, New York, NY.
2018 Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design Fellowship, NY.
2019 Pratt SEED Grant Award 2019/2020.
2019 Public Art Commission, ProArts Gallery & COMMONS, San Francisco, CA.
2017 Emerging Arts Professionals Fellowship, Bay Area, San Francisco, CA.
2017 Commission for the “The Original Disruptors”, SFAI Fundraising Gala, CA.
2017 Graduate Fellowship Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2012 Travel Grant, Abaxial Architects, New Delhi, India.
2008 Merit Scholarship, Embassy of France, Paris, France.
Professional History
2020-cur Founder, Streetlight Studio LLC, Brooklyn NY.
2020-cur Assistant Professor of Fine Art, School of Art, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
Area Head, Interdisciplinary Practices
2022 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, DAAP, UC.
2020-22 Visiting Artist and Scholar, Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Program,
Pratt Institute, NY.
2020-22 Member, Inclusive Ecologies Research Lab, Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Program, Pratt Institute, NY.
2018-20 Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) Post Graduate Teaching Fellow, School of Art, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2017-18 Academic Partnerships Project Manager for Architecture & Design Divisions,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2016-17 Co-director, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016 Teaching Assistant, BFA New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
2015 Teaching Assistant, BFA Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
2015 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.
2015 Thesis Advisor, Exhibition & Spatial Design, National Institute of Design, India.
2012-15 Head of Research and Innovation, Abaxial Architects, New Delhi, India.
Mixed Use, Institutional, Commercial, Residential projects including World Trade Centers (Gurgaon, Noida, Manesar) Ashoka University, Salaam Baalak Trust, Dastkari Haat Samiti. Exhibition Design for Akshara, featured at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, September 2013.
2008-12 Senior Architectural Designer, Abaxial Architects, New Delhi, India.
2007 Intern for the Sarai Reader, Raqs Media Collective, New Delhi, India.
Select Lectures & Visiting Artist Engagements
2025 Panelist, “Art and Climate in Dialogue”, Organized by Embodied Earth and Impulse Magazine, Patagonia, Brooklyn, NY.
2024 Panelist, “Engaging the Arts: How can young artists build creative careers?”, The Know Theater of Cincinnati, Artworks, Cincinnati ,OH.
2024 Panelist,“Eco-Critical Practices in Art and Design”, American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter, NY, facilitated by Dr. Lydia Kalitopoli.
2024 “FIELD”, Artist Talk for students in MS in Urban Design Program, Pratt Institute, NY.
2023 “FIELD”, Public Lecture, Chateau de Vaudijon, Colombier, Switzerland.
2023 Panelist, “Alloy Series: Art and Sensing”, 21 C Hotel, Cincinnati, OH.
2023 Speaker, “Light and life: From basic science on how light has shaped life, to human wellbeing, art and architecture” Institute of Research and Sensing, Cincinnati, OH.
2023 Future Oriented Archives, GALE Memorial Lecture Series, University of New Mexico, NM.
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Miami University, Oxbow, OH.
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, School of Art, Pratt Institute, NY.
2022 Speaker, “Art Education in Mentorship”, Art Ed Salon, University Council for Art Education (UCAE), PS122 Gallery, NY.
2022 Artist Talk, “How to Grow a Field”, Wavepool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
2021 Artist Talk, “How to Grow a Field”, Barnard Design Center, Columbia University, NY.
2021 Artist Talk, “FIELD”, Nolan Park, Governors Island, NY.
2021 Artist Talk, “The Invincible Being”, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY.
2020 Artist Talk, “Rethinking Grasslands”, Pratt Parallels, GAUD, Governors Island, NY.
2020 Artist Talk, Fine Arts Gallery, Pratt Institute, NY.
2020 Speaker, ‘Schools of Thought’ Pedagogy in Architecture Conference,
University of Oklahoma, OK.
2020 Speaker, Pratt Research Open House, 2020, Pratt Institute, NY.
2020 Panel Discussion, City Hall, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA.
2019 Guest Speaker, Bicoastal Carpool, Radio Show, New York, NY.
2019 Artist Talk, Dekalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, NY.
2019 Guest Speaker, Panel Discussion, Climate Collective, 3x3 Design, NY.
2019 Artist Talk, Design for India, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2019 Lightening Talks, Fall Forum, Center for Teaching and Learning, NY.
2019 Artist Talk, ChaShaMa Gallery, New York, NY.
2019 Speaker, AICAD Conference, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2019 Invited Critic, MFA Integrated Practices, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2019 Invited critic, B.Arch, Design Studio, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2019 Invited critic, BFA Sculpture, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Public Lecture, Fine Arts Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Invited critic, MFA Integrated Practices, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Invited critic, MFA Sculpture, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Invited critic, BFA Site-Specific Installation, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Invited critic, BFA Drawing, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Invited critic, BFA Sculpture, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Invited critic, Senior Surveys, BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Invited critic, B.Arch. Design Studio, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 As Though it Rained from Stars, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA.
2017 As Though it Rained from Stars, Headlands Center for the Arts, CA.
2017 Artist Talk, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
2016 Workshop facilitator, “Audible Landscapes of Mehrauli”, with Greha & 3x3 Design, India.
2015 Public Lecture on Architecture, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.
2012 Workshop Facilitator on Design Thinking, Abaxial Architects, New Delhi, India.
Workshops
2025 “FIELD: Art, Science and Critical Practices”, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.
2025 “FIELD: Biophilosophy of the Global South”, Brooklyn, NY.
2023 “FIELD: Introduction to Bioplastics”, Wavepool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
2021 “FIELD: Introduction to Bioplastics”, Barnard Design Center, Columbia University, NY.
2021 “FIELD: Collective Artworks, Communicating Climate Science through the Arts”, Beam Center, Governors Island, NY.
Publications
2024 “Rodin sculptures, contemporary responses part of new exhibit” Movers and Makers, June 7, 2024
2024 “FIELD”, chapter contribution “Towards Another Architecture: New Visions for the 21st Century” text by Xenia Adjoubei, edited by Owen Hopkins, Lund Humphries Publishers.
2023 “Artists are Launching Cutting-Edged Residencies Outside New York City”, by Maddie Klett, ArtNews, May 30, 2023
2023 “Going Circular in the City”, Columbia University Press, March 31, 2023.
2023 “FIELD, How to Grow a Field”, publication in “New Farmers Almanac, Adjustments & Accommodations”, published by Greenhorns Press.
Memberships
International Sculpture Center, member and juror
Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, institutional member and conference lead
Genspace, Biomaterials Community Group Member and Fellow
University Service
cur. Chair, Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series Committee, School of Art, DAAP, University of Cincinnati.
cur. Co-Director, Tabula Rasa Gallery, School of Art, DAAP, University of Cincinnati.
cur. Faculty Advisor, Student Sculpture Club, School of Art, DAAP, University of Cincinnati.
cur. Faculty Advisor, Artist x Community Student Club led by Kesley Linder.
cur. Coordinator of 2D Studios, School of Art, DAAP, University of Cincinnati.
cur. Fine Arts COOP Manager, School of Art, DAAP, University of Cincinnati.
cur. DAAP Cares Awards Committee.
cur. DAAP Academic Advisory Committee.
cur. Graduate MFA Program Support.
cur. Graduate Thesis Advisor.
2023 Chair, Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series Committee, School of Art.
2023 DAAP Faculty & Staff Awards Committee, College Level, University of Cincinnati.
2023 Sculpture Curriculum Development Committee, School of Art, University of Cincinnati.
2022 Sculpture Curriculum Development Committee, School of Art, University of Cincinnati.
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Committee, School of Art.
2022 Tabula Rasa Gallery Director, School of Art, University of Cincinnati.
2021 Sculpture Curriculum Development Committee, School of Art, University of Cincinnati.
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Committee, School of Art, University of Cincinnati, OH
2021 Sculpture Conference Committee, School of Art, University of Cincinnati, OH.
2021 Field Exchange, Sculpture Pre-conference Interdisciplinary Workshops, School of Art, University of Cincinnati, OH.
2020 Curatorial Committee, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY.
2020 Pratt Fine Arts Public Programs Committee, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2019 Inclusive Pedagogy, Faculty Learning Community, Center for Teaching and Learning,
Pratt Institute, NY.
2019 Field Exchange, Dekalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2018 Long Table on Safe Space, Dekalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, NY.
2018 Long Table on Safe Space, Fine Arts Gallery, Pratt Institute, NY.
Community Service
cur. Faculty Mentor, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), national.
cur. Juror, 2024 Innovation Awards for the International Sculpture Magazine, NY.
2023 Arts Advisor, Civic Garden Center of Cincinnati, OH.
2022 Mentor, Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY.
2022 Workshop Organizer, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, CCAD.
2021 National Arts Juror, Scholastic Awards, American Visions Panel, national.
2021 Workshop Organizer, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, virtual.
2019 National Arts Juror, Visual Arts Panel, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA.