AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & PUBLIC TALKS
2024
Featured in New American Paintings, Issue #170, Northeast, 2024 (guest juror: Amy Sherald)
2023
Jury Member, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, NYC
Visiting Critic at LIA (Leipzig International Art Programme), Leipzig, Germany
2022
Jury Member, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, NYC
Project Grant in the category “Film” (Projektförderung in der Sparte “Film”), The Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen), Dresden, Germany
Visiting Critic at LIA (Leipzig International Art Programme), Leipzig, Germany
Artist Talk at Third Room Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Conversation with journalist and political analyst Radek Korzycki about my exhibition at Stroboskop, Kawiarnia Karrot, Warsaw, Poland
2021
2021 Artist of the Year, The Artists Forum, NYC, New York
Conversation with Wojciech Drąg from the University of Wroclaw and Irene Kacandes from Dartmouth College about: Poland and its relation to the Holocaust, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Artist Talk with Heide Fasnacht about the film After the Beforetimes, Creative Center, NYC
2020
Denkzeit-Stipend awarded by the State of Saxony, Dresden, Germany
Artist Talk with Laura Bierau, Lindenow TV as part of Lindenow, Leipzig, Germany
Visiting Critic, LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
AVIFF Incognito Prize for The Twins (Rise & Fall), AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival, Cannes, France
2019
Artist Residency at LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Artist Talk at Parsons The New School, NYC
MFA Student Critiques at the New York Academy of Art, NYC
2018
Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, 100 Contemporary Artists 2018, York, UK
Artist Residency at Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany
2017
Honorable Mention - The Aleppo Room, LA Underground Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Best Experimental Film Award for Refuge, Polish International Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Finest International Documentary Award for Refuge, The Mespies, Minneapolis, MN
Faculty Fellowship, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, NH
Artist Residency at Studio MM, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
2016
Artist Residency at Die Kolonie, Worpswede, Germany
2013
Best in Show, 1st Annual Juried National Exhibition, Flood Gallery, Asheville, NC
2011
Dave Bown Projects, 3rd Semiannual Competition, New York, NY
2008-10
Full Scholarship Award, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
2008-10
Teaching Assistantship Fellowship, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
2009
Mason Gross Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
2006
“High Honors” certificate of distinction from TU Braunschweig and the Hochschule für
Bildende Künste Braunschweig
2003-04
University of Michigan/Rackham Graduate School Fellowship
2003-04
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Full Travel Grant