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
Original solo performances
2024 Fall Fashion with Buoj, Don’t Drag Me Down, What the Festival, Toronto
2024 Red Sock, Café Concret, Espace Transmission, Montréal QC
2024 40 Year Old ZIT, What The Festival, Sweet Action Theatre, Toronto ON
2024 PE Alien, Kids Revolution, Concrete Cabaret, Owl’s Club, Toronto ON
2023 Die, Tomato, Die!!!, LEGS Toronto II, OCAD, Toronto ON
2023 Red Sock, OBJECTO Festival, Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON
2022 40 Year Old ZIT, Detroit Puppet Slam, Planet Ant Theater, Detroit MI
2019 A Tiny Tadpole, Ambiguous Spookies, TODAY Clothing, Ann Arbor MI
2019 I’m So Sorry, Emergency INDEX, Jam Handy, Detroit MI
2015 City Mouse/Country Mouse, Sidewalk Festival, Detroit MI
2014 The Stages of Newborn Poop, MOCAD, Detroit, MI
2013 Buoj iz Jeb Summer Swimsuit 2013, Dixon Place, New York City, NY
2013 Buoj iz Jeb Figure Model, REwork Exhibition, Minneapolis
2013 Buoj iz Jeb Figure Model, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn
2012 Buoj iz Jeb Summer Swimsuit 2012, Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, IL
2011 Die, Tomato, Die!!!, Contemporary Art Institute Detroit, Detroit, MI
2011 Golden Opera, Dreamland Theater, Ypsilanti, MI
2010 Isabel Jukes’ Karaoke Extravaganza, Dreamland Theater, Ypsilanti, MI
2009 God Save My Child, Lembaga Indonesia Perancis, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2004 Eat., solo performance, Drunk Puppet Nite, Re-Bar, Seattle, WA
Original collaborative performances
2023 -pause-, collaborative performance, Art & Resistance semester, University of Michigan
2017 Forced Labor, BAD & NASTY, Light Box Detroit, MI
2017 Cats Utopia, Emergency Index LIVE, CMAP Detroit, MI
2012 Boss Battle, Video Games Exhibition, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
2010 Variations on Bouffons, Boulder Circus Center, Boulder, CO
2009 Potret Manehna, Syang Gallery, Central Java, Indonesia
2009 Batu, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2009 Mari(e)-Mari(e), Lembaga Indonesia Perancis, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2009 Sabana Grande, Gallery Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008 Kemana pun, Lembaga Indonesia Perancis, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2006 Fundamental, Kinoki Film Forum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2005 The Monkey King, Dream Community, Shijr City, Taiwan
2003 Cirnique de Bonheur, International Children’s Festival, Seattle, WA
2003 Zanni Tutti Commedia Dell’arte, Collaborator Studios, Seattle
2003 The Secret Life of Isabel Jukes, Collaborator Studios, Seattle, WA
Directing/Playwriting/Screenwriting
2016 The OOO & The AAA, screenwriter/director/actor, Bennett Elementary School, Detroit, MI
2015 The Little Devils, playwright/director, The Performance Laboratory, Detroit, MI
2015 Boat to Nowhere, playwright/director, Porous Borders Festival, Detroit, MI
2013 The Beguine, screenwriter/director/actor, UMMA, Ann Arbor, MI
2013 Well of Horniness, director, University of Michigan & Dixon Place NYC
2012 Red Blob Massacre, screenwriter/director, The Cavern Club, Ann Arbor, MI
2010 Beneath the Concrete, playwright/director, Contemporary Art Institute Detroit, MI
2003 The Abduction of Blue Bethany-Ann, playwright, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Exhibitions
2024 Worm Walk, Special Projects Gallery, York University, Toronto ON
2024 Parent Skins & Lemons, Self Adjacent, Kenney Museum of Art, Athens, OH
2024 Parent Skins & Lemons, Self Adjacent, Massey Klein Gallery, NYC
2023 Parent Skins & Lemons, Self Adjacent, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, Virginia
2023 Parent Skins, Maternal Interior, A2AC, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Parent Skins, The Art of Motherhood, Sojourn Arts, Louisville KY
2020 Internal Escapade, What Remains, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Stitched Chasm, Pivots & Pitfalls, Riverside Art Center, Ypsilanti MI
2018 Parent Skins, Something Growing Inside, TrustArt Gallery, Ann Arbor MI
2011 Face Off, video installation, Work: Ann Arbor Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2011 Cucian Kami, video art, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2009 Transmogrification, 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
2017 North Adams Project, MASS MoCA, North Adams MA
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 (forthcoming)
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