Bio

I was born in 1977 and grew up in Eastern Iowa. From the Midwest I moved West for five years, living in Oregon and Arizona, and that time had a great impact on my perceptions of history, nature, location, experience and representation. My work investigates social relationships with the natural world through the intersection of photography, sculpture, performance and collaboration.

I earned an MFA from the University of Oregon in 2003 and a BFA from the University of Iowa in 1999. In 2008 I received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Councll for Interdisciplinary/Performance Art. Most recently, I am a 2011-2012 recepient of a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photography from the McKnight Foundation. My work is in the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Currently, I serve as Assistant Professor of Art in Integrated Media at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota.