Biography

[1940] paternal grandmother escapes Poland with a train ticket and a suitcase. [1943] paternal great-grandmother dies in the Warsaw Ghetto.  [1950] maternal great-grandfather opens jewelry store in Detroit with his two sons. [1967] Detroit riots. [1968] father begins medical school at Wayne State University to avoid the draft to Vietnam.  [1969] mother and father meet. [1971] maternal grandmother dies after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis. [1972] Womanhouse exhibition. [September 23, 1972] I was born in New York. [1981] Picasso’s Guernica is returned to Spain.  [1982] AIDS is named. [September 8, 1985] Ana Mendieta dies. [1988] first trip to the Prado Museum to see Goya paintings. [1988] first trip to Warsaw with my Grandmother, she takes me to Auschwitz. [1988] Al-Qaeda founded. [1989] first trip to Cape Breton.  [1990] graduate Saint Ann’s School Brooklyn. [1990] intern with Walter Robinson at Art in America. [October 3, 1990] [1991-1994] study with Douglas Crimp, Mira Schor and Susanna Heller. [ November 4, 1995] Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated. [January 9, 1996] Felix Gonzales-Torres dies.  [1994-1998] work with Richard Avedon, Doon Arbus, Amy Arbus. [June 9, 2001] [1999-2001] study at NSCAD. [September 11, 2001] [2005] receive MFA from NCAD Dublin, Ireland. [2003] first trip to Belfast. [December 30, 2003] father dies suddenly. [2005] Dance in the Sao Paulo Carnival.  [July 4, 2006] first child is born. [September 2006] begin teaching. [February 13, 2009] second child is born. [December 29, 2010] paternal grandmother dies in New York City. [March 10, 2011] third child is born. [March 15, 2011] War begins in Syria. [June 27, 2014] I became a Canadian citizen.  [2014] solo exhibition at the AGNS alongside Marion Wagschal. [November 8, 2014] [March 7, 2015] Maternal grandfather dies in Detroit. [2017-2018] participate in VANS mentorship program. [November 2019] 2482 Maynard Project starts. [February 2021] The Blue Building gallery opens.