EDUCATION
CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART . Bloomfield Hills, MI . 2016 // MFA . Sculpture
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN . New York, NY . 2009 // BFA . Fine Arts . Honors and Department Honors
CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN . London, England . January - March 2008 // Exchange Program
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 (Forthcoming) CUCHIFRITOS GALLERY + PROJECT SPACE . New York, NY
2023 Jabroni Smackdown: A Toxic Lovestory (1979-2023) . FJORD . Philadelphia, PA
2022 How To Hide and Empire . GAA GALLERY . Cologne, Germany
I Have Seen the Future: The American Home . SHIRLEY FITERMAN ART CENTER . New York, NY
Power Lunch . SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW . New York, NY
Banana Republics . SMALLBANY . Albany, NY
I Have Seen the Future . FIELD PROJECTS . New York, NY
2021 Above The Fruited Plain (America! America!) . GEARY CONTEMPORARY for NADA House . New York, NY
2020 Domestic Terrorism: War Rugs from America . ELIJAH WHEAT SHOWROOM . Newburgh, NY
Johannah Herr - New Works . GEARY CONTEMPORARY for UNTITLED ART FAIR . San Francisco, CA
2019 Redaction Order . GEARY CONTEMPORARY . New York, NY
2018 Your Comfort is Attended by Permanent Violence, BRIC ART FP . Brooklyn, NY
Patenting Distraction . ELIJAH WHEAT SHOWROOM . Brooklyn, NY
Kayfabe: The American Dream . THE NEW GALLERY . Brooklyn, NY
2017 Your Pain Means Nothing . THE MUTED HORN . Cleveland, OH
2014 Eat With Both Mouths . GALERI METROPOL . Tallinn, Estonia
Harlem/Haarlem . CHASHAMA WINDOWSPACE PROGRAM . New York, NY
2012 Homeland(s) . RED GER GALLERY . Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2010 Thank You Have a Nice Day! . CHASHAMA 266 . New York, NY
2009 Pujas . ENVOY ENTERPRISES . New York, NY
PUBLIC ART COMISSIONS
2024 Let Compassion Be The Thread That Binds Us . PUBLIC ART FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS at PS169Q . Queens, New York
2021 Taking Stock . BROOKFIELD PROJECTS - 1 Liberty Plaza . New York, NY
2019 Currency . BROOKFIELD PROJECTS - 1 New York Plaza . New York, NY
Currency II . BROOKFIELD PROJECTS - 1 MetroTech . Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP and TWO PERSON* EXHIBITIONS
2026 (Forthcoming) RugLife . PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY . New York, NY
2025 (Forthcoming) RugLife . WEATHERSPOON MUSEUM OF ART . Greensboro, NC
(Forthcoming) RugLife . WEISMAN MUSEUM OF ART . Minneapolis, MN
2024 (Forthcoming) RugLife . MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND DESIGN . San Francisco, CA
Conjuring Cruelty* . VOX POPULI . Philadelphia, PA
the sun still rises in spite of everything . VAN EVERY SMITH GALLERIES at Davidson College . Davidson, NC
2023 Secret Show . SPRING/BREAK ART FAIR . New York, NY
2022 Beyond the Nuclear Family . EFA Project Space . New York, NY
2021 Town Crier: Queer Storytelling, curated by Autumn Wallace . GAA GALLERY . Cologne, Germany
BANANAS . FORTMAKERS . New York, NY
2020 Flat Files OyG: 2020 . ORTEGA Y GASSET . Brooklyn, NY
2019 Summer Exhibition . WASSAIC PROJECT . Wassaic, NY
2018 Creative Time Summit in Miami- Curated by Stroboskop + The Muted Horn, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART . Warsaw, Poland
System Processing . SAP, GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY . Allendale, MI
Oh What a World . VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY . Summit, NJ
2017 Suspended States . TESSELATE . Pontiac, MI
Moll Madnoss* . ELIJAH WHEAT SHOWROOM . Brooklyn, NY
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: . RE:ARTSHOW . Brooklyn, NY
Collider 8 . EMILY DAVIS GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON . Akron, OH
2016 Water Tower Arts Festival . NUANCE GALLERY . Sofia, Bulgaria
Tower of Babel . SCHEMA PROJECTS . Brooklyn, NY
Tower of Babel . GIVATAYIM CITY GALLERY . Tel Aviv, Israel
Tower of Babel . CENTRO PER L’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA . Trebisonda, Italy
The Real Real Spectacle . ‘CAVE . Detroit, MI
2015 Flux, Sculpture X Symposium . FORUM GALLERY . Bloomfield Hills, MI
Innbakaður Fiskur . SIM GALLERY . Reykjavik, Iceland
/ \ . FORUM GALLERY . Bloomfield Hills, MI
2014 The Battery Project . PATAREI PRISON . Tallinn, Estonia
Temporary-Protected Spaces . WATER TOWER ART FESTIVAL . Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 Beasts and Bodies . SCHEMA PROJECTS . Brooklyn, NY
Parsons Alumni Exhibition . SHEILA JOHNSON GALLERY . New York, NY
The Collective Show . NETER . Mexico City, Mexico
Temporary-Protected Spaces .WATER TOWER ART FESTIVAL . Sofia, Bulgaria
Drafted . SCHEMA PROJECTS . Brooklyn, NY
2011 Art on the Farm . COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS ON SAUNDERS FARM . Garrison, NY
Post . AFFORDABLE ART FAIR- Booth A11 . New York, NY
2010 A Liminal State . ART IN BUSHWICK'S BETA SPACES- 56 Bogart . Brooklyn, NY
Bittersweet: The Chocolate Show . PAUL ROBESON GALLERY Rutgers Univ. . Newark, NJ
Magicality . PLATFORM GALLERY . Seattle, WA
Figment Art Festival . Governors Island, NY
Works on Paper . BIG&SMALL / CASUAL GALLERY . Long Island City, NY
Heed the Machine . ILLUSTRIOUS, ST. CECELIA CONVENT . Brooklyn, NY
Youth Cult . DADAPOST . Berlin, Germany
Artists For: Haiti . ENVOY ENTERPRISES . New York, NY
2009 Beautus Abjectus . SPACE WOMB . Long Island City, NY
Hannah Herr and Sam Vernon New Works* . SMITHY PIONEER GALLERY . Cooperstown, NY
Gruntwork . 31 EBERTYSTRASSE . Berlin, Germany
Windows Brooklyn . RAPISARDA . Brooklyn, NY
I Love Everything . ENVOY ENTERPRISES . New York, NY
AWARDS
2023 PART-TIME FACULTY DEVELOPMENT FUND . Parsons School of Design
2019 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER FULL FELLOWSHIP . Vermont Studio Center
2016 CRANBROOK / OXBOW FELLOWSHIP . Oxbow School of Art
2015 LARSON TRAVEL GRANT . Iceland
CRANBROOK MERIT SCHOLARSHIP . Sculpture Department
DISTINGUISHED FELLOWSHIP . Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences
2012 FULBRIGHT RESEARCH SCHOLAR . Mongolia
RESIDENCIES
2025 (Forthcoming) ARTIST ALLIANCE . LES Studio Program . New York, NY
(Forthcoming) DIEU DONNE . Workspace Residency . Brooklyn, NY
2024 VOX POPULI . Philadelphia, PA
2022 THE ARCTIC CIRCLE RESIDENCY . Svalbard, International Territory
2021 BRIC . BRIClab Contemporary Art Residency . Brooklyn, NY
2019 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER - Fellow . Johnson, VT
2018 INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC ARTS, ALFRED UNIVERSITY . Experimental Projects Residency - Artist in Residence . Alfred, NY
WASSAIC ARTIST RESIDENCY - Resident . Wassaic, NY
2017 MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN - Artist in Residence . New York, NY
2016 OXBOW SCHOOL OF ART - Summer Fellow . Saugatuk, MI
2015 SIM REYKJAVIK - Resident . Reykjavik, Iceland
HAMBIDGE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS AND SCIENCES - Distinguished Fellow . Rabun Gap, Georgia
INVITED ARTIST TALKS / LECTURES
2023 Anti-Nihilist Feminism . BELL HOOKS CENTER SYMPOSIUM, BEREA COLLEGE . Berea, KY
2022 Blueprints of New York 1644-1964 . SHIRLEY FITERMAN FINE ARTS CENTER . New York, NY
I Have Seen the Future: A Conversation with writer Cara Marsh Sheffler and Queens Museum Archivist Lynn Maliszewski . FIELD PROJECTS . New York, New York
2020 UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO . Greeley, Colorado
2018 Coffee and Conversation . BRIC . Brooklyn, NY
MAD Talks . MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN . New York, New York
2017 Pecha Kucha . PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN . New York, New York
2014 Kompass . TOTALDOBZE . Riga, Latvia
At Risk: Human Trafficking in Thailand . UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI . Warrensburg, MO
2013 The Shape of Kazakh . KAZAKH CULTURAL CONFERENCE . Bayan-Ulgii, Mongolia
2012 Homeland(s) . AMERICAN CENTER FOR MONGOLIAN STUDIES . Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2010 Bittersweet . Paul Robeson Gallery, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY . Newark, New Jersey
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 QNS, “Mayor Adams unveils new buildings at six Queens schools for 2024-25 academic year” by Shane O’Brien.
The Architect’s Newspaper, “New York City School Construction Authority Unveils 21 New Artworks for Public Schools Across the City” by Soleil Protos.
2023 The Syllabus Project, “FutureRama-Drama.”
Libération, "In Libé's Eye: The Banana Makes Recipes and Debates" by Alessandro Zuffi.
Cultured, "LA Art Book Fair Participants Get Candid About the State of the Medium," by Amelia Stone.
BMore Art, “Cigarettes, Ceramics, and Curatorial Chaos: We Went To SPRING/BREAK’s “Secret Show” by Michael Anthony Farley And Whitney Kimball.
The Art Newspaper, “Ceramics Take Centre Stage at Spring Break’s “secret” New York Pop-Up” by Torey Akers
2022 New York Times, “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now,” by Jillian Steinhauer
Arcade Project, “Tradition and Transgression at SPRING/BREAK 2022,” by William Corwin.
Artnet News, “See Inside Spring/Break, the Indie Fair That Took Over Ralph Lauren’s Offices with Edgy, Outrageous, and Surprisingly Affordable Art,” by Sarah Cascone.
2021 Curbed, “Exploring The Design Appeal of Bananas” by Osman Can Yerebakan
New York Times, “The Banana As Muse” by Flo Fabricant
New York Times, “On Governor’s Island, Art Interventions Are Everywhere” by Roberta Smith
2020 “Socially Distanced Studio Visits” by Caroline Kipp
2018 Maake Magazine, Issue 8
“System Processing,” published by GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
2017 VICE, “Snuggies for the Revolution” are the Coziest Way to Fight the Power, by Imran Hafiz
2016 Folio 16, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2013 Posture Magazine, May 31, by POSTURE MEDIA
2010 Bittersweet: The Chocolate Show, published by PAUL ROBESON GALLERY
PUBLICATIONS AS CO-AUTHOR
¡AGITPOP! Press is as artist-book collaboration with Cara Marsh Sheffler. Our publications are for sale at a variety of bookstores and galleries, including Printed Matter, Karma, Mast, Perrotin, Skylight and The Hole. Below are publication dates and the original venue in which each book was featured.
2024 “Collateral Magic,” VOX POPULI, by ¡AGITPOP! Press
2023 “FUCKED!”, PARIS-ASS BOOK FAIR, by ¡AGITPOP! Press
2022 “White Flight!”, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, by ¡AGITPOP! Press
“I Have Seen The Future: Official Guide”, Field Projects, by ¡AGITPOP! Press
2021 “Banana Republican Recipe Book”, Geary Contemporary / NADA, by ¡AGITPOP! Press
2020 “Domestic Terrorism”, Elijah Wheat Showroom, by ¡AGITPOP! Press
COLLECTIONS
Institute of Electronic Arts, Alfred University
Davidson College . Davidson, North Carolina
ACADEMIC
2020-Present PRATT INSTITUTE . Brooklyn, New York | Adjunct Professor in the Foundations Department
2018-Present NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, STEINHARDT . New York, New York | Adjunct Professor in the First Year Department
2016-Present PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN . New York, New York | Adjunct Professor in the First Year and Fine Arts Departments
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2011 - PRESENT
Co-Founder / Associate Director . DAUGHTERS RISING . Mae Wang, Thailand
Daughters Rising is an anti-human trafficking women's empowerment initiative. Work to prevent trafficking though educational, vocational, and advocacy initiatives within indigenous communities in rural Northern Thailand
2009 Volunteer Designer . GHAR SITA MUTU . Kathmandu, Nepal
Collaborated with women's non-profit empowerment/ vocational training program to create line of hand-made felt products
2008 Student . DREAM WEAVERS . San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala
Studied traditional indigenous embroidery techniques with women’s weaving cooperative
2006 Volunteer Art Teacher . ANGELES QUE AGUARDAN . Cusco, Peru
Developed and implemented after school art program for low-income at-risk Andean youth