“I’m all for creativity and imagination, but when someone lives in a fantasy world and expects other people to go along with it, I have a problem with that.”

-Lisa Hansen, Michigan mother addressing a school board on the topic of alleged “furry identifying” students demanding to have a litter box as a bathroom; a claim determined to be false. 2022

I’m an artist living in NYC, born on Long Island. My father is a deacon in the Catholic church, and for much of my life my mother worked at a corporation that made and distributed Halloween costumes. My art practice is an outlet for a certain strangeness that inhabits my soul and seemingly many other souls. This mostly comes out in painting, but I pay deference to other mediums like sculpture, textile, costume-making, and house music. My body, like all others, often leaves me reminders of my own mortality. I often wish for a queer future that feels like it’s growing farther away every day. You obsess over smell, over meat, over how a blanket feels in your mouth. Being a dog is complicated!

I graduated from SUNY Purchase with my BFA in 2015, and have been fortunate enough to show my work across the US and abroad. I’ve had solo shows with Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles, Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh, and the James Black Gallery in Vancouver. I’ve shown work with Hashimoto Contemporary, C24 Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 1969 Gallery, Moosey Art London, Field Projects, and Eve Lieb Gallery. I’ve done residencies with the Vermont Studio Center and the Liquitex Corporation, and have been a guest artist on the ArtMatters Podcast and the ArtProf livestream.