Selected Exhibitions & Projects

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2025 – It’s All Connected, Vernissage, Zurich (100+ visitors on opening day).

2024 – Established new studio practice in Zurich, Switzerland.

2023 – Worked as a landscape architect in Zurich, integrating spatial design with ecological awareness.

2021 – Earth in Motion – Dialogue, exhibited at Wall Against Wall, Zurich.

2017 - 2020  – Founded and developed social impact projects Alchemia and Jumpers for Education in Togo and Benin, West               Africa, focusing on education, creativity, and community engagement.

2016 – Wild Extinction, solo vernissage at The Hub, Geneva, Switzerland (450+ visitors on opening day).

2015 – Wild Extinction: Formosan Bear, exhibited at Taiwan Designers’ Week, Taiwan.

2014 – Present – Wild Extinction: long-term project combining drawing, publishing, design, and sculpture to raise awareness            of endangered species. Expanded into:

• Educational children’s magazine (A4 booklet distributed via Amazon and used internationally in classrooms)

• Hand-printed textile and wall adhesive works

• Animal illustrations developed into stained-glass proposals for hospitals, schools, and zoos

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2012 – Ongoing – Who I Used to Be, Who I Was, Who I Thought I Was, Who I Wasn’t (sculpture series). A reflection on.            

             identity, memory, and transformation over time, exploring how self-perception shifts through lived experience.

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Sculpture & Material Research

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2014–Present – Development of a sculptural practice informed by cycles of disappearance and transformation.

• Land Art works created with natural, ephemeral materials, designed to dissolve back into the environment.

• Glacier-like sculptures using experimental combinations of glass, salt, coal, crystals, wire, plaster, and wax, reflecting on melting ice, mineral extraction, and climate change.

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Residencies, Research & Social Practice

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2018–2020 – Based in Benin & Togo, West Africa.

• Lived near Lomé port, observing the flows of global overconsumption and shipping.

• Founded Alchémia: a soap initiative developed with women near cacao farms, transforming traditional black soap-making into a sustainable practice that converts waste into ecological products, generating additional income for local communities.

• Expanded Jumpers for Education (est. 2018): children’s clothing project using Beninese cotton and overstock fabric, hand-dyed in unique patterns. Each garment funds one child’s schooling for a year.

2015 – Designed sustainable bags with Southeast Asian artisans using natural leaves. Focused on impermeability, texture,                      and contemporary form. Exported internationally.

2008–2013 – Research travels in South America and Asia, investigating lithium mining, salt economies, and the effects of.                         overconsumption.

2006 – Studied traditional Chinese scroll painting at the Nanjing Art Institute & Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing).                               Opportunity to travel across China to learn directly from master artists.

 

Education

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2010 – West Virginia University, BS in Landscape Architecture, Magna Cum Laude

2010 – West Virginia University, BFA in Painting, Magna Cum Laude

2010 – West Virginia University, Supplementary studies in Art History

2006 – Nanjing Art Institute & Central Academy of Fine Arts (China), Chinese Scroll Painting

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