Curriculum Vitae
Education
2012
Masters in Fine Arts in Performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009
Bachelors of Art in Humanities, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
Awards and Grants
2020
3Arts Artist Relief Fund
2019
Illinois Arts Council Agency Artist Fellowship Award for Performance Based-Arts
2018
Emergency Fund Grant, Artist in Residence at UIUC’s Latino/a Studies Department.
Latino/a Studies Department at UIUC Honorarium, Artist in Residence
2013
New Music New College Honorarium, Visiting Artist at New College of Florida. Sarasota, FL.
2012
Studio for Creative Inquiry Honorarium, VIA Fest Performance and Artist Lecture. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Roofless Records Grant, Florida Oasis Mini Festival, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
2009
New College Alumni Association Study and Research Award, Senior Thesis Project Reward
Council of Academic Affairs Grant, Senior Thesis Project Reward
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Limbs, Ligaments, and Parts: My Body is There. A solo exhibition of past work using stills, video, and interactive installations. La Estación Gallery at the Latino/a Studies Department at University of Illinois Champaign Urbana, IL
LIMBS, live performance art/experimental music composition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2013
Wall of Skin, sound and light interactive performance, Black Box Theater, New Music New College Program, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
2009
WAVES: An Exploration of Sound and Light, Caples Isserman Gallery, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
Group Exhibitions
2021
DISSEVER. Re:Vive Virtual Matters Performance Show. The Hive Art Community. NYC.
2020
Live Music. Back to School Ain’t Cool. Brown Theater Collective. Online
Covid-19. Quarantine Concert Series. Experimental Sound Studio. Chicago, IL
2020
DISSEVER . OSCILLATIONS Series. Experimental Sound Studio. Chicago, IL
2019
DISSEVER . Performance Test Kitchen Hosted by Mark Jeffery. MANA Contemporary Gallery. Chicago, IL
Wall of Skin. Video of performance. Revolución: a Latinx Pop Up Art show. Fulton Street Collective. Chicago
2017
Full Frontal Biopsy. Monster Love group show. UIUC English and Gender Studies Dept. Champaign,IL
Tropical Frankenstein. Performance art collaboration with Mikey Mcparlane. Digital Arts Demo Space. Chicago, IL
Tropical Frankenstein. Performance art collaboration with Mikey Mcparlane. Rapid Pulse Festival at Defibrillator Gallery. Chicago, IL
2016
Tropical Frankenstein. Performance art collaboration with Mikey Mcparlane. Flesh Crisis Show. Kansas City,
Missouri.
Wall of Skin. Being Brown, Being Down: Performances of Spic & Span. University of illinois Urbana
Champaign.
2014
Nested Core, Live durational performance, Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival. Defibrillator
Gallery/Hub Space. Chicago, IL
2013
Nested Core, Live durational performance, MCA First Fridays: Summoning a New Queer Reality. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL
Circuit Witch, Live Sound Performance, Earthly Delights, Open Circuit Gallery, Chicago, IL
Red Drum, Musical project on Drums, Knobcon, Open Circuit Gallery, Chicago, IL
Female Distortion, Live Sound Performance, Gynaeceum Show, Double Door, Chicago, IL
Full Frontal Biopsy, Live Surgical Sound Performance, So Very Alive: Performing Feminist and Queer
Utopias, Futures and Dreams, Rumble Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2012
Full Frontal Biopsy, Live Surgical Sound Performance, VIA Music New Media Festival, 6119 Space,
Pittsburgh, PA
Hair Composition, Live Sound performance, Territorial Testimonial, Grace Space, Brooklyn, NY
Wall of Skin, sound and light interactive performance, IMPACT SAIC Performance Festival, Chicago, IL
Mystreater, noise duo rock band, Lottery League Drawing Show, Treasure Town, Chicago, IL
Mystreater, noise duo rock band, noise show, The Burlington Bar, Chicago, IL
Full Frontal Biopsy, In collaboration with Katie Torn, live multi-sensory surgical sound performance with video
projections, Florida Oasis festival, Chicago, IL
Hair Composition, Live sound performance, Queer Community: A Performance Process, DePaulUniversity,
Chicago, IL
2011
Hairbrush on Hairy Drums, Experimental Sound Performance, Shapeshifters: The Musical, Defibrillator
Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mystreater, noise duo rock band, Waveforms SAIC Sound Art Performance Festival, Silver Space
Mystreater, noise duo rock band, NITROTTER FEST, Dust Bowl Venue, Chicago, IL
Full Frontal Biopsy, Collaboration with Katie Torn, live multi-sensory surgical sound performance with video
projections, New Blood Performance Festival V, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Monster Birth, Monstrous Immersion of a Multi-Media performance, Group Collaboration with Katie Torn,
Lindsay Denniberg, Cassandra Jackson, and Monica Panzarino. Mischief Night Art Festival, Hyde Park
Art Center, Chicago, IL
Baby Doll Surgery, Noise art performance, Birth Fest, The Hive, Chicago, IL
Mind Rust, noise interactive performance, Touch then Push and Pull then Maybe Nothing performance art
exhibition, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
Self Surgery, sound interactive performance with live musical composition, Practical Magic Show, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
BOOGA BOOOGA, surgery noise duo band, Miami Art Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL
2010
The Found Performer, street performer vs. performance artist, New Blood Performance Festival IV, School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Monster Wedding, theatrical performance, Mischief Night, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2009
BOOGA, solo drums and noise electronic performance, Theater Factory, Malmo, Sweden
BOOGA, The New Royal Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark
BOOGA, The White Rabbit Gallery, Berlin, Germany
BOOGA, Helioglobal, Barcelona, Spain
Tyger Beat, art rock duo, International Noise Conference, Churchill’s Pub, Miami, FL,
Crossroads Project, collaboration with West Coast Symphony and Tyger Beat, New Music New College, New
College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
2008
Tyger Beat, noise art duo, Cinema Sounds Fest, Burns Court Theater, Sarasota, FL,
Skeleton Warrior, psychedelic noise rock band, International Noise Conference, Churchill’s Pub, Miami, FL
Mistake Music, experimental music composition, Sound Art Exhibition, New College of FL, Sarasota, FL
Publications
2021
Interviewed for ‘Formless Formations Vignettes for the End of This World’ written by performance theorists, Prof Sandra Ruiz @ruisansan and Hypatia Vourloumis @hypatia.v. The publisher is Minor Compositions. My work is in the Vibrations section.
2019
“BEYOND MEASURE, A PERFORMANCE ART SURVEY” The Fall Issue #8 of Barbed Magazine
2018
Limbs, Ligaments, Parts: A queer Latinx performance” by Chloe Nagle. Smile Politely culture magazine
2017
“Organismal Futurisms in Brown Sound and Queer Luminosity: Getting Into Gressman's Cyborgian Skin”
written by Dr. Sandra Ruiz. Performance Matters online journal. Full PDF article
2014
“Local female performing artist auditions for Blue Man Group” by Gina Scarpino. The Chronicle. Full article
2013
“A tug-of-war between technology and the human body” By Carrie Seidman, Herald-Tribune Full article
2012
Emergency Index Vol. 2. Featured Artist in the 2012 Publication of the collection of Performance Artists.
Visiting Artist Presentations
2021
Visiting Artist Lecturer. New Media Art course. University of Illinois Chicago
2020
Visiting Artist Talk. New Media Art course. University of Illinois Chicago
2019
Sculpting Queer Sound and Latinx Futurisms. Artist Talk at Northwestern University hosted by Dr. Joshua Chambers-Letson.
Master Class for Dr. Sandra Ruiz’s seminar “Curating Performance with Race, Gender, & Sexuality”
Queer & Latinx Futurisms: A Sound Making Workshop. Estación Gallery, University of Illinois UC
2018
ART UNDER TRUMPISM: A QUEER LATINX JOURNEY. A CONVERSATION WITH ERICA GRESSMAN. La Estacion Gallery. Dept. of Latino/a Studies at UIUC Champaign, IL
Q and A for LIMBS. Krannert Art Museum. Champaign, IL
2017
Q and A for Full Frontal Biopsy. Monster Love group show. English and Gender Studies Department UIUC, Champaign, IL
2016
Q and A for Wall of Skin. Being Brown and Down: Performances of Spic and Span Symposium. Latino/a Studies Department at UIUC, Champagne, IL
2013
Conversation: Artistic Life Beyond New College. Sarasota, FL
2012
TransQ TV Interview, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist Lecture, Grace Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Visiting Sound Artist, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010
Visiting Sound Artist, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
Curatorial Experience
2016
Killer Makeover, art director, producer. Horror Romantic Comedy film, Directed by Lindsay Denniberg.
2012
Florida Oasis, Immersive Performance and Video mini festival, with Katie Torn and Roofless Records, Comfort Station in Logan Square, Chicago, IL
2011
Birth Fest, music and performance art festival, The Hive Art Space, Chicago, IL
Featured Performances
2017-present
FETISHIST , drummer. heavy, punky experimental band. Chicago based
2018
St. Francis Hears a Noise, Actor. Feature film by Jimmy Schaus
2016
Killer Makeover, actor, art director, producer. Horror Romantic Comedy film, Directed by Lindsay Denniberg.
2013
Adaptation (in to you), Performer for Vincent Tiley’s MFA thesis. Sullivan Gallery. Chicago, IL
2011
Video Diary of A Lost Girl, Actress for Lindsay Denniberg’s feature horror film. Gene Siskle. Chicago, IL
Pony Video, performer for Michael McParlane’s video piece for the band Austra. VIA: Music and New Media Festival. Pittsburgh, PA
2010
ROOTED, performer for Kitty Huffman’s performance work. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student Union Gallery
Her Herd Heard/Buffalo Gals, performer for Hope Esser’s live performance. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Gallery. Chicago, IL
2008
Skeleton Warrior, Drummer for Electro Noise Pop Band. International Noise Conference. Churchill’s. Miami, FL