Bio

My work is rooted in a lifelong engagement with the intersection of the built environment and memory. Beginning in the physical world of architecture and urban design, my early practice focused on historic preservation and spaces of memory through a social lens. This foundational training defined how I view and frame the landscape, tuning my eye to the quiet, layered, and often contested histories held within a place.

My formal academic research, culminating in a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, deepened this inquiry, shifting my focus toward the politics of public memory and the power of artistic intervention in urban spaces. My doctoral dissertation, Rewriting Public Memory: Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Representation in Urban Public Spaces, established the intellectual framework for my current artworks: examining how place is constructed, remembered, and ultimately, reclaimed.

While my research interrogated the physical, my professional career led me into the digital. For over two decades, I served as a design leader at Microsoft, Amazon, IMDb, and others, where I ultimately specialized in virtual and mixed-reality environments. Holding ten patents for software design innovation, I spent these years applying principles of spatial logic to intangible systems, learning how to build narrative arcs within the digital void.

Today, these threads of architecture, digital design, and research converge in my photographic and print-making practices. My work has been exhibited at institutions including the Missoula Art Museum and the Holter Museum of Art, featured in the Apple Keynote, and covered in media ranging from Nato Thompson’s Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century and Journal of Aesthetics & Protest to Time Magazine.

I balance my studio practice with board leadership at Vital Impacts, a non-profit dedicated to the power of photography in environmental storytelling. I live and work in Missoula, Montana, where my current artwork focuses on the intersection of the everyday and the mythology of the American West.