Exhibitions

2024

  • As The Lake Fades, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2023

  • People and The Planet, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  • The New Geologic Epoch, ecoartspace, curated by Mary Mattingly, online
  • Member Group Show, STRATA GALLERY, Santa Fe, NM
  • In the Time of Climate Change, University of Hawaii, The Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI
  • Points of Return, A la Luz, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA
  • Extinction 2023, Gallerium Art Exhibitions, online
  • “On the rise - Art, Action and Artistic Production”, Culturally Arts Collective, online

2022

  • 8TH INTERNATIONAL MARIANNE BRANDT AWARD, Connectedness — Experiments on a new relationship with nature, Chemnitz, Germany
  • “Time to Sea”, Voice of the Oceans, Consulate General of Brazil, Boston, MA
  • Art that Matters to the Planet, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY
  • Art Through Action: Restoration and Regeneration, Bioneers conference, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA organized by WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog)
  • Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Sue Spaid

2021

  • ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH, Itsliquid Group and YMX Arts, as part of LONDON CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, at THE LINE Contemporary Art Space
  • BODY/ROCK, “Tune in to Green” Video Series, Diorama Room
  • Arte Laguna Exhibition, the Arsenale, Venice, Italy

2020

  • ART SAFIENTAL. ANALOG – DIGITAL, July 18 – November 1, Safiental, Switzerland
  • BODY/ROCK, Guemgang Nature Art Biennale, Republic of Korea
  • ecoartspace Online + Billboard Exhibition, curated by Eleanor Heartney

2019

  • Composed to Decompose, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY
  • What Climate?!, HOTE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Rite of Passage, Art Escape, Sonoma, CA

2016

  • Musikfest, 3 Sound Meditation Cube, Bethlehem, PA

2015

  • MC3 (Meditation Cube 3), Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA
  • Potential Fields, Clermont State Historic Site, Clermont, NY

2014

  • Prickly, Tender and Steamy: Artists in the Hothouse, Wave Hill Cultural Center, New York, NY
  • RESx: The Real Estate Show Extended, ABC NoRio, New York, NY

2013

  • In The Green, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Eastern Standard: Indirect Lines to The Hudson River School, Catskill, NY

2012

  • Sustainability, Arthur M. Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, NY

2011

  • G.R.E.E.N.H.O.U.S.E III, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA
  • Urban Purification Ritual, Art in Odd Places, New York, NY
  • Funeral Procession for a Dead Lake, Hydromemories Archive
  • G.R.E.E.N.H.O.U.S.E. II, Streetfest, New Museum, New York, NY

2010

  • Crazy Horse, H215 Gallery, New York, NY
  • Interviews with Succulents, Wave Hill Cultural Center, New York, NY
  • Nothingness Projects/Journey to Green Horizons, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
  • S.P.I.L.L./S.T.I.L.L., Gentle Actions, Oslo, Norway

2009

  • Green Light, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC
  • Carbon Relief Center, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA

2008

  • DEMO ECO M.O., curated by Linda Weintraub, Nurture Art, New York, NY
  • E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Action), Exit Art, New York, NY
  • Sublime Climate, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA

2007

  • Nature Scopes/Nature in Mind, National Museum, Gonju, South Korea
  • Traveling to Incheon — Gallery Space Beam and the Island of Cheju, Gallery Art Space C
  • G.R.E.E.N.H.O.U.S.E., Habitat, Abingdon Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
  • Green Horizons, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

2006

  • Deserts, Drylands and Desertification, United Nations Environment day, exhibition in partnership with U.N. Environment Program, Algiers, Algeria

2005

  • Ephemeral, Nurture Art, Curated by Veronica Mijelson, Brooklyn, NY
  • EARTH WORKS NOW, Hi Desert Museum, Yucca Valley, CA
  • WATER, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2004

  • The Luggage Project, Curated by Max Yawney, Denver Airport, CO
  • Art as Life, Vlepo Gallery, Curated by Milenka Berengolc, New York, NY
  • Rainforest Exhibition, Solomom/Barthelemy Gallery, New York, NY
  • Bateson Exhibit, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

2003

  • My Green Home, Winter Palace, Staten Island, NY
  • Drift, River Run Farm, Bedford, NJ

2002

  • Healing/Transforming, Berengolc Studio, New York, NY
  • ARTFRONT/WATERFRONT, Site-ations International Project, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
  • Spring Sculpture Show, Conemara Nature Conservancy, Dallas, TX

2001

  • Chopsticks for “The Artist Within”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
  • Fresh Kills: Artists Respond, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

2000

  • Inaugural Exhibition, M3/Studio, Miami, FL

1999

  • Visible/Invisible, Frederiecke Taylor/TzArt, New York, NY
  • NETHERLANDS/NY, Frederiecke Taylor/Tz Art, New York, NY

Bibliography and Documentaries

  • Milena Cordioli, Performance artistica e coscienza ecológica, Librería Universitaria, Padua, 2023
  • Cristela Guerra and Robin Lubbock, “With 'Death by Plastic,' an artist eulogizes our planet to call attention to pollution”, wbur.org, July 21, 2022
  • “Activists hold ‘Death By Plastic’ funeral procession in Manhattan”, Yeni Şafak, July 29, 2021
  • “‘Death By Plastic’ Funeral Procession in Manhattan”, featured on freedomnews.tv (video by Alex Kent), July 28, 2021
  • “TIME TO WAKE UP! Save Our Environment Now”,  International Gallerie Vol. 24, No. 1, 2021
  • Francesco Martinelli, “Raccontare la plastica,” RADAR Magazine, October, 2020
  • “Death by Plastic, Venice” featured in Circle Quarterly Art Review, No. 5, summer 2020
  • Eugenio Pendolini, “Sepolta dalla plastica, eccolo l’opera nei canali di Venezia,” La Nuova Venezia, 2019
  • Bianca Nardon, “Venezia- funerale in gondola con plastica e acqua alta,” La Stampa, 2019
  • Doug McMurdo, “Death by Plastic: Artist raises awareness of growing waste stream,” Times Independent, 2019
  • Editor, “Death by Plastic: Live Exhibit Makes a Statement,” Moab Sun, 2019
  • Chronogram Staff, “10 Hudson Valley Exhibits to Check Out in August,” 2019
  • Linda Weintraub, “Demonstrations of Ecological Modes of Operation for Art”, CSPA Quarterly, 2010
  • slowMag, Berlin, Germany, 2009
  • Nature Scopes, Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale Exhibition Catalogue, Korea, fall 2007
  • Nature in Mind, Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale Exhibition Catalogue, Korea, fall 2007
  • “Itinerary”, Sculpture Magazine, October 2007
  • Bruce Littlefield, Airstream Living, Harper Collins, London, 2007
  • Bill Fortier, “Biker going from NYC to Maine in 13 pounds CO2”, Telegram & Gazette, May 29, 2007
  • Green Horizons Exhibition Catalogue, 2007
  • Luciana Caglio, “Ambientalisti puri? Pochi, ma ci sono”, Lugano, Switzerland, 2007
  • Emily Lodish, NY Arts, January 2004
  • “Outdoor Sculpture”, New York Times, August 15, 2002
  • “Rain or Shine, residing outdoors: Public Sculpture”, New York Times, August 9, 2002
  • Michael Dougherty, “Island Ad-vantages”, August 5, 2004
  • Michael Fressola, “Staten Island Advance”, August 2002
  • “Artists explore the Staten Island North Shore”, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, June 14, 2002
  • Ken Johnson, “A Landfill in the eyes of Artists who beheld it”, New York Times, February 1, 2002
  • “Fresh Kills: Artists Respond The Closing of The Staten Island Landfill”, 2001, Exhibition Catalogue
  • “Fresh Kills”, NY Arts, September 2001
  • Kalima Asano, “Artist’s Portrait”, Artscape 2000, spring 2000
  • “‘Our’ famous Artists”, Driftwood Shores News, winter 1999
  • “New Yorks Dächer”, ARD German Television Documentary, June 1999

Publishing

  • LAND (www.landviews.org), Founder and Publisher
  • Landscape & Art, U.K., Guest Editor for the fall 2003 Issue
  • “Parts Reflecting the Whole”, in Landscape & Art, Fall 2003
  • “The Bioneers Conference”, in Landscape & Art, Winter 2003

Corporate Collections

  • Kolmar Laboratories, Port Jervis, NY
  • Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Law Offices, New York, NY

Residencies

2023

  • Montemero Art Residency, Almeria, Spain

2019

  • Labverde Art Immersion Program, Amazon, Brazil

2010

  • Wave Hill, New York, NY

2002

  • Conemara Foundation, Dallas, TX

Education

2006–2008

  • 2-year Geomancy training with Marko Pogačnik

2005

  • Intensive Shamanic Workshop, Foundation For Shamanic Studies

2002–2004

  • Graduate studies, The Gallatin School, New York University, New York, NY

2003

  • “Advanced Wilderness Survival”, Tom Brown’s Tracker School, Manahawkin, NJ

2000

  • “Ecopsychology”, Schumacher College, Devon, England
  • “Wilderness Survival”, Tom Brown’s Tracker School, Manahawkin, NJ

1997

  • “Carl Gustav Jung” Seminars with A. Wanner, Jung Institute, New York, NY

1991–1995

  • BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, studies with Jackie Brookner and Jean Gardner

1989–1991

  • Environmental Design, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, studies with Allan Wexler

1988–1989

  • Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, Foundation Studies