I am an artist and writer working in various media, including sculpture, printmaking, photography, text, sound and video.
Trained as a landscape architect and city planner, my artwork often examines natural and human-made systems. I believe visual art and sound are powerful languages that can resonate with human emotions, and influence perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.
Please contact me with any questions about my work or an interest in collaboration.
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Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (2020), MFA candidate, courses online (2020-2021) | Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland 2017 – 2021
Master of City Planning, Environmental Policy and Planning | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 2011
Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Magna Cum Laude | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 2005
Guest student, Academy of Architecture Master’s Program, Amsterdam, Netherlands Fall 2004
Exhibited Work
2024 Árbol de Vida, cartonería tree sculpture installation, MADE Creatives Residency, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2020 Together Alone, Contributor in collaborative film by Yassine Khaled, funded by Finnish Institute of London. Shown online and exterior of Musiikkitalo, Helsinki Music Center, Helsinki, Finland
2020 Language of Belonging, Curated group show focused on inclusion for all humans and non-humans. 14 artists, Opening performance, Sámi artist guest speaker, Student Panel Discussion on diversity and inclusion at Uniarts, Public Open Mic Night.
Exhibited work: Collection of Dreams, tree sculpture of wire and cut saplings.
Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Human Tree Project, Collaboration with Sibelius Academy Global Music student; mechanical percussion log sculpture instruments played in Master student’s degree performance,
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki Music Center, Finland
2019 Three Voices/Kolme Ääntä, three mechanical percussive log sculpture instruments, two-channel film and sound installation.
BFA degree exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2019 In a State of Flux, group show, exhibited Jää/Maa (Ice/Land) cyanotype prints; wrote group show narrative and script for group’s short film for
Graphica Creativa 15th International Print Triennial, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2019 Sculpture Laboratory, group show, Tasku Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Through the Leaves, riso-printed book, in group show Publishing As Artistic Practice, Academy of Fine Arts Library, Helsinki, Finland
2014 India, Istanbul and Hainan Island, photography exhibit, Joy St. Open Artist Studios,
Somerville, MA, USA
2014 Impermanence, photography exhibit group show, O2 Yoga Studio, Cambridge, MA, USA
2011 Street Scenes of Istanbul, photography exhibit, MIT Rotch Library, Cambridge, MA, USA
2010 Discrete Supply: From Source to Spigot, In-Between-Arada-Tra exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 From Source to Spigot, public installation; series of collectable informational art cards on Boston’s drinking supply were installed at drinking fountains along the Charles River Parkway, Boston, MA, USA
2005 Solar Powered House and Functional Landscape, Cornell University Team, Solar Decathlon Competition U.S. Dept of Energy, Washington, D.C.
2004 Landscape & Urban Design Proposal for Everson Museum of Art, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, USA
Recognitions
2020 Grant Recipient: Language of Belonging Exhibition, University of the Arts, Finland
2018 Second-Round Finalist: Public Art competition for Jorvi Hospital, Espoo, Finland
2014 Best Presentation and Most Implementable Short Term Plan: Landscape/Urban Design Proposal for Boston Greenways Charette.
Liveable Streets and Boston Society of Architects, Boston, USA
2011 Grant recipient: MIT Council for the Arts: Street Scenes of Istanbul, Photography exhibit
2009 Grant recipient: MIT Council for the Arts: Source to Spigot, Public Art Installation, Boston, MA, USA
2009 Speaker: MIT Graduate Student Arts Forum, “Disturbance Ecologies” on working with environmental artists Helen and Newton Harrison on carbon-negative settlements and climate change in the UK
2006 Student Honor Award National American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA): “Functional Landscape for Solar Powered House,” recognition of greywater system and treatment gardens for Cornell University’s Solar House, Solar Decathlon Competition U.S. Dept. of Energy
2005 Student Honor Award for Undergraduate Study, American Society of Landscape Architects, NY State Chapter
Press
2014 Press: professional tree inventory work featured in The Boston Globe, “A Tree Map of Cambridge”
2013 Publication: “The Yamuna River Basin: An Alternative Action Plan,” Journal of Development Management, Institute of Development Management, Jaipur, India. May-June 2013. Volume 1, No. 2.
2013 Press: Hindustan Times, India: “Fresh study calls for new vision to save Yamuna”
2012-2013 Publication and photography: “Lockdown” and “River Life on the Narmada,” contributor and curator of weekly Fresh Eye Friday photography series on MIT CoLab Radio, colabradio.mit.edu
2011 Master’s Thesis: From Waterfront to Watershed: Mapping a Big Idea in the Greater Toronto Region, examined how the story of Toronto’s waterfront served as a vehicle for regional environmental planning
2010 Publication: “Discrete Supply,” In-Between Arada-Tra exhibition catalog, Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture
2010 Press: “From Source to Spigot: Using Art to Illuminate Two Cities Historic Water Supplies,” Treehugger.com feature by Jennifer Hattam
2005 Publication: Maps of Dutch landscape change in book Polders! by West 8 Landscape Architects, shown at Venice Biennale
Residencies
2024 MADE Creatives, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2019 Utö Island, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Foundation, Utö, Finland