Education
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Photography Concentration, University of Notre Dame, College of Arts and Letters, Department of Art, Art History and Design, Notre Dame, IN
Bachelor of Science in Photography, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Selected Exhibitions
Hosted by Renowned Magazine, Austin, TX, Venusian Visions, group exhibition, Feb. 14, 2024
Ubique Gallery, 23 Artists In 2023, virtual group exhibition, Feb. 12 – March 3, 2023
The Martin, Chicago, IL, Different Names (For the Same Thing), group exhibition, Jan. 20 – Feb. 10, 2023
Gallery Gray, Self Portraits as a Luminous Void, virtual solo exhibition, Feb. 4 – March 4, 2022
Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, OH, Future Resonance, group exhibition, Dec. 4 – Feb. 6, 2022
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA, Almost Endless, international group exhibition, July 30 – September 25, 2021
Millepiani, Rome, Italy, Contrasts, international group exhibition, July 13 – August 10, 2021
Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN, MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 10 – May 22, 2021
The Unknowable Present, online exhibition, 2020
University of Notre Dame’s Graduate School, IN, Convergences, juried exhibition, March 3 – Feb. 20, 2020-21
University of Notre Dame’s Art, Art History & Design Gallery, IN, In the Wake Of, MFA program exhibition, Jan. 23 – Feb. 21, 2020
News Journal Center, Daytona Beach, FL, Capture, Dec. 13 – Feb. 13, 2019
University of Notre Dame’s Art, Art History & Design Gallery, IN, New Faces, MFA program exhibition, Nov. 28 – Jan. 21, 2019
Orlando Public Library, Orlando, FL, Celebrating the Genius of Women, Finalist and Recipient of People’s Choice Award, Curated by Amy Galpin, Chief Curator of Frost Museum at International University in Miami, Florida; Azela Santana, Vice Chair of the Public Art Advisory Board in Orlando,
Florida; Yulia Tikhonova, Director, Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery in New York, March 10 – April 27, 2018
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, Thesis: 2018, May 2 – June 2, 2018
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, Power of Three, Oct 27 – Feb. 1, 2017
Orlando Science Center, Fusion Gallery, Orlando, FL, Identity Turned Inside Out, June 3 – Sept. 4, 2017
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, Departures, May – Aug., 2016
Collections
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Commissions
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 5-Panel Mural for Digital Print Studio, Sept. 2020 – Sept. 2021
Grants, Funding & Fellowships
Research Fellowship, Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN, 2020
Materials Funding, The Graduate School, University of Notre Dame, IN, 2020
Master of Fine Arts Full Tuition Waiver & Graduate Teaching Stipend, The Graduate School, University of Notre Dame, IN, 2018-21
Awards
Eugene M. Riley Prize in Photography, University of Notre Dame, College of Arts and Letters, Department of Art, Art History and Design, Notre Dame, IN, 2021
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2021
Graduate Student Research Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, IN, 2020
Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, France, Honorable Mention, 2016
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, Museum Choice Award, 2016
Published Writings
On The New Futures of Photography Created by the Non-Fungible Token, Kahlo’s Newsletter, Oct. 2021
Luminous Visions: Expanding Awareness through the Undisclosed Lenticular Photograph, Master’s Thesis for the degree of Master of Fine Arts,
Department of Art, Art History and Design, University of Notre Dame, May 2021
In Search of Eternal Light, Fiction, Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, Jan. 2021
Lectures, Presentations and Interviews
Interview, Office Space Gallery, April 14, 2022
Panel Discussion, Future Resonance, Kaiser Gallery, Jan. 30, 2022
Artist talk, Summer Scholar Program, University of Notre Dame, July 2021
Reviews
Arno Minkkinen on Elegy to Form (self-portrait) 2018
Selected Publications
Renowned Magazine, Mercury Edition, pp. 57, 99 (print and digital), Jan. 2024
The Scop: Literary and Fine Arts Magazine for King's College, May 2023
Cosmic Daffodil Journal, May 2023
Helix, Issue 06, Istanbul, July 2022
See-Zeen, Issue 02, Nov. 2021
‘Simple, Dark, and Deep: Photographic Theorizations of As-Yet Schools’, Academic Journal of Postdigital Science and Education, July 2021
‘MFA Students Present Final Thesis Projects in Snite Museum’, NDSMC The Observer, April 2021
Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, 2020
Photographer’s Forum, Finalist, 2018
Halation Magazine, summer 2015
Halation Magazine, spring 2015
Video
The Long Way Home, 3-minute documentary short-film, directed by Anna Thorne, 2015
Screening
Enzian Theater Brouhaha Film Festival, Orlando, FL, Nov. 21 – 22, 2015
Curatorial Projects
So it Goes, Exhibition Director, Canal St., New Smyrna Beach, FL, April 28, 2018
Power of Three, Co-curated, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, Artists included Arno Minkkinen, Nov., 2017
Teaching Experience
2020–21 Instructor of Record, ARST 20401: Photography I (2 semesters), Department of Art, Art History & Design, University of Notre Dame, IN
2019–20 Instructor of Record, ARST 20401: Photography I (2 semesters), Department of Art, Art History & Design, University of Notre Dame, IN
2019 High School Instructor, Photogram Workshop, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN
2018–19 Teaching Assistant, ARST 20401: Photography I (2 semesters), Department of Art, Art History & Design, University of Notre Dame, IN
Professional Experience
Jan. 2019 – May 2021 Digital Archivist Associate, Visual Resources Center, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, IN
Feb. 2018 – April 2018, Gallery Intern, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL
May 2017– August 2018 Photo Lab Assistant, School of Photography, Daytona State College, FL
May 2017–August 2018 Student Services Assistant, Student Services Office, University of Central Florida, Daytona Beach, FL