Education
2012 MFA Studio Art, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
2003 BFA Theater & Original Works (magna cum laude), Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Selected Performances & Screenings
WORMS, 2024, Concrete Cabaret, Collective Arts, Toronto ON
Fall Fashion with Buoj, 2024, What the Festival, Small World Music, Toronto ON
Red Sock, Café Concret, Espace Transmission, Montréal (July 2024), OBJECTO Festival, Tranzac Club, Toronto ON (Oct. 2023)
40 Year Old ZIT, What the Festival, Sweet Action Theatre, Toronto ON (June 2024), Detroit Puppet Slam, Planet Ant Theater, Detroit MI (Oct. 2022)
PE Alien, 2024, Kids Revolution, Concrete Cabaret, Owl’s Club, Toronto ON
Die, Tomato, Die!!!, LEGS Toronto II, OCAD, Toronto ON (Dec. 2023), Contemporary Art Institute Detroit, Detroit MI (2011)
-pause-, 2023, Art & Resistance semester, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Internal Escapade, 2020, What Remains, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago IL
The Ugly Placenta, 2019, SECAC Chattanooga, University of Chattanooga TN
A Tiny Tadpole, 2019, Ambiguous Spookies, TODAY Clothing, Ann Arbor MI
I’m So Sorry, 2019, Emergency INDEX, Jam Handy, Detroit MI
Forced Labor, 2017, BAD & NASTY, Light Box, Detroit MI
Cats Utopia, 2017, Emergency Index LIVE, CMAP, Detroit MI
The OOO & The AAA, 2016, Bennett Elementary School, Detroit MI
Boat to Nowhere, 2015, Porous Borders Festival, Detroit MI
The Stages of Newborn Poop, 2014, MOCAD, Detroit MI
Buoj iz Jeb, 2013, Dixon Place, NYC, Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, Chicago IL, REwork Exhibition, Minneapolis MN, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn
The Beguine, 2013, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI
Red Blob Massacre, 2012, Cavern Club, Ann Arbor MI
Golden Opera, 2011, Dreamland Theater, Ypsilanti MI
Beneath the Concrete, 2010, Contemporary Art Institute Detroit, Detroit MI
Isabel Jukes’ Karaoke Extravaganza, 2010, Dreamland Theater, Ypsilanti MI
Variations on Bouffons, Boulder Circus Center, Boulder, CO
Potret Manehna, 2009, Syang Gallery, Central Java, Indonesia
Batu, 2009, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mari(e)-Mari(e), 2009, Lembaga Indonesia Perancis, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sabana Grande, 2009, Gallery Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kemana pun, 2008, Lembaga Indonesia Perancis, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Pink, 2007, Galeri Nasional Jakarta, Indonesia
Fundamental, 2006, Kinoki Film Forum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
The Monkey King, 2005, Dream Community, Shijr City, Taiwan
Cirnique de Bonheur, 2003, International Children’s Festival, Seattle, WA
Zanni Tutti Commedia Dell’arte, 2003, Collaborator Studios, Seattle WA
The Secret Life of Isabel Jukes, 2003, Collaborator Studios, Seattle, WA
Selected Exhibitions
Lemons, 2025, OXH Gallery, Tampa, Florida (forthcoming)
Worm Walk, 2024, Special Projects Gallery, York University, Toronto ON (Sept. 2024)
Parent Skins, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, Ohio 2024, Massey Klein Gallery, NYC 2024, Visual Arts Center, Richmond Virginia 2023, A2AC 2022, Ann Arbor MI, Collar Works, NY 2022, Trust Art Gallery, Ann Arbor MI 2018
Lemons, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, Ohio 2024, Massey Klein Gallery, NYC 2024, Visual Arts Center, Richmond Virginia 2023
Stitched Chasm, 2019, Pivots & Pitfalls, Riverside Art Center, Ypsilanti MI
Parent Skins, 2018, Something Growing Inside, TrustArt Gallery, Ann Arbor MI
Face Off, 2011, Work: Ann Arbor Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Cucian Kami, 2011, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Transmogrification, 2009, video art, Work: Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI
Curatorial
2017 Bad & Nasty, co-curator, Light Box Detroit, Detroit MI
2011-15 The Performance Laboratory, co-curator, Contemporary Art Institute Detroit, MI
2013 Taring Padi: Art & Activism in Indonesia, Space 2435, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2011 The Drama Interest Group (DIG), University of Michigan
Fellowships/Residencies/Visiting Artist
2024 Summer Lab, DirectorsLab North, Toronto, ON
2020 Mentor, Artist/Mother Network Community, online
2016 Michelle Schara Artist Residency, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
2016 Hill House Artist Residency, Institute for Sustainable Living, Mancelona, MI
2014 Creative Community Fellow, National Arts Strategies
2013 Summer Lab, DirectorsLab Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012 Mentor, Many Voices Project, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
2011 Scenofest, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space, Czech Republic
2009 Artist in Residence, Red District Project, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2007 McKay Grant, Fremont Arts Council, Seattle, WA
2005-7 Darmasiswa Scholarship, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (twice)
2005-6 Artist in Residence, Dream Community, Shijr City, Taiwan
Conferences
2024 Exploring Foundational Pedagogy Models in Interdisciplinary Programs, Next Now, FATE Conference, Washington D.C. (forthcoming)
2024 But…. WHAT ABOUT THE WEIRDNESS??!, UAAC/AAUC, London Ontario, Canada
2024 The F-Word: Fun, Agency, and Creativity as a Life Ethic, 2024 CADN Graduate Student Conference, OCAD University, Toronto
2023 Room for Everyone: Opening the Doors to Artist-Parents and Their Families, UAAC/AAUC, Banff Canada
2022 Transforming the Body Through Performance, Dismantling the Body: Possibilities and Limitations in Art Making Symposium, School of Art + Art History + Design, University of Washington, Seattle
2019 The Ugly Placenta, Art and Parenting: Engagement with the Familial and Domestic, SECAC 2019, University of Chattanooga, TN
2010 Taring Padi: Creating Change Through Local Action, Open Engagement Conference, Portland State University, OR
Publications
2022 The Ugly Placenta drawings in Intima: A Journal on Narrative Medicine
2019 Heavy Load photograph in Maternal Journal Issue #2, 110 page riso print art book, edited by Amy Hughes Braden and Leslie Holt, produced by Project for Empty Space
2011 Omah Buku Taring Padi and Other Educational Activities, essay in Taring Padi: Art Smashing Tyranny, edited by Ronny Agustinus, 207-219. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Lumbung Press.
Academic Teaching/Mentoring
2023-present Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Integrative Arts, York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
2015 - 2023 Lecturer II, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, Interarts Performance