SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2027 Beyond the Seas Blue, curated by Jesse Colin Jackson, Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine CA (forthcoming)
2025 SUPER FLEX: Powered by Alter Egos and Shadow Selves, 4th Annual Contemporary Art Festival, commissioned by Edge on the Square, curated by Candace Huey and Taraneh Hemami, Chinatown, San Francisco
2025 Carbonivore, C-Change Creative R&D Lab Showcase, Missing Objects Library project, collaboration with artist Jill Miller, curated by Wade Wallerstein, Gray Area and the Goethe Institut, San Francisco
2024 Ecologías Solidadrias, performance with Anabel Vazques and Kathy Toukhy, Danforth Hall, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence RI
2024 Ecologías Solidarias, two-person exhibition with Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, Aborn Gallery, AS220, Providence, Rhode Island
2023 Carbonivore, collaboration with artist Jill Miller for Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations, curated by Alex Saum-Pascual, Arts Research Center and Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
2022 Presencia Pasada, two-person exhibition with Al An deSouza, Museum of Ecija, Spain. Curated by Ramon Blanco-Barrera
2022 Beyond the Seas Blue, Vitrine Galerie, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
2021 After Jahangir, virtual exhibit showcasing photographic works made with students at Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
2021 Urban Forest, a large-scale (permanent installation) outdoor sculpture for the Oh Bay Art Project at Coastal Culture Park, Shenzhen, China (commission)
2020 Dissonant Matter, with Guillermo Galindo, curated by Mayumi Hamanaka, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA (commission)
2019 Building Paradise, with Al An deSouza, curated by Ramon Blanco-Barrera, Facultad De Bellas Artes, University of Seville, Spain
2019 The City Inside Us, Distillery Gallery, Boston
2018 Hiding in Plain Sight, Commons Gallery, Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaii
2017 Cranes and Cube, Department of Social Science and Liberal Art, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan
2017 Cranes and Cube, Faraar Gallery at The Second Floor, Karachi, Pakistan
2016 Playing Gender, PLUG Projects, Kansas City
2015 Ordinary People, curated by Jana Harper, Coop Gallery, Nashville
2014 Ordinary People, curated by Anuradha Vikram, Atrium Gallery, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Burqa Girls: Shangri-la Remix, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) as part of an event for the LA/Islam Arts Initiative and East of Borneo
2014 Radical Disappearances, Performative Lecture and workshop, CalArts, in collaboration with Anuradha Vikram
2012 Between Word and Image, curated by Kelly Shindler, Great River Biennial Exhibit, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis
2012 Playing Gender, curated by Terry Suhre, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St Louis
2010 Playing Gender and Other Works, curated by Saul Levine, Massachusetts College of Art, Film Society, Boston
2010 Exposures, curated by Terry Suhre, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St Louis
2009 Kashkol (begging bowls), Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2009 Relation-Chute II: Meditations on My Slaughter, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO
2008 Relation-Chute, curated by Anthony Elms and Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400, University of Illinois in Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS, PERFORMANCES, & SCREENINGS
2025-26 Museum of the Future, curated by Sophie Grossman, commission for the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland
2025 Civilization Blues, 3-person exhibit curated by Kathy Zurur, Skyline College Art Gallery, San Francisco
2025 Teaching Practice, curated by Joshua Moreno, 120710 Gallery, Berkeley CA
2024 C/Change Prototyping Just Technological Futures, curated by Tamara Leowenstein, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco
2024 More than Meets AI, collaboration with artist Jill Miller, curated by Jill Miller, Eamon O'Kane, and Scott Rettberg, Center for Digital Narrative, the University of Bergen, Norway
2023 Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead Exhibition, 3 artist exhibit curated by Rene Cepeda, Header Footer Gallery, New Media Caucus, Affiliate of College Art Association
2023 More than Meets AI, collaboration with artist Jill Miller, curated by Jill Miller, Eamon O'Kane, and Scott Rettberg, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
2023 Fragments, curated by Nikki Georgiou & HER x shesaidso.athens, Selina, Athens, Greece
2023 Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead Microgrant Exhibition, curated by Rene Cepeda, Header Footer Gallery, New Media Caucus, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2023 More than Meets AI, collaboration with artist Jill Miller, UC Berkeley and the University of Bergen, Norway, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley
2023 The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity, REDCAT, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
2021 Suspended Matter, four-person exhibit curated by Patricia Carino Valdez, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA
2021 Diasporic Rhizome, South Asia Institute, Chicago IL
2020 The Sea of Time, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
2019 Rolling Green in China, curated by Yang Yong, The Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China
2019 side by side in the world, curated by Jacqueline Frances and Kathy Zarur, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco (commission)
2018 Building Utopia, curated by Lauren Kalman, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit
2018 Deep-Time construction, curated by Contemptorary, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco
2018 New Next Games, biannual exhibit curated by Patricia Carino Valdez, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2016 Not Alone: Exploring Bonds Between and With Members of the Armed Forces, organized by Aaron Hughes and Jeanne Dunning, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco
2015 EDC: A History of a Boston Art Collective, curated by Anabel Vazquez, Mobius Gallery, Boston
2015 That Used to be Us, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City
2013 Her Stories, curated by Jaishri Abichandani, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2012 Battle Ground States, curated by Aaron Moulton, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
2012 Her Stories, curated by Jaishri Abichandani, Queens Museum of Art, NY
2012 Mujeres: Modern Perceptions, curated by Anabel Vazquez, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Boston
2011 Narrow Margins: The 2011 Faculty Exhibition, H&R Block Space, Kansas City Art Institute
2011 Imaginative Reinvention of Education, curated by Julia Cole, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City
2009 Domestic Policy, curated by Jaishri Abichandani, Guild Gallery, NYC
2009 Bad Moon Rising 4, Curated by Aaron Moulton, Galerie Sans Titre, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Limbo, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004 Locus/Focus: Experimental Films by Women in New England, Women in Film & Video/New England, Boston Public Library
SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS
2025 The UC Climate Action Arts Network (CAAN), the University of California’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, collaboration between faculty across the UCs
2025 Townsend Center for Humanities Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2024 Andrew Mellon Grant, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
2024 Berkeley Center for New Media Class Fund for the Internet Infrastructure Tour
2023 C/Change Creative R&D Lab, Goethe Institut and Gray Area, San Francisco
2023 Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead Microgrant, New Media Caucus, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2023 Berkeley Center for New Media Seed Grant, UC Berkeley
2020 Svane Family Foundation Grant (by nomination)
2019 Hellman Fellows Fund, UC Berkeley
2018 Arts Research Fellowship, Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley
2017 Al-Falah Grant, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
2015 Faculty Research Grant, California Institute of the Arts
2014 Fulbright Research Award, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) to India
2014 ICAP/Diversity Grant, California Institute of the Arts
2013 Faculty Research Grant, California Institute of the Arts
2011 Great River Biennial Award, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis
2011 Rocket Grant, Charlotte Street Foundation and KU Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas City
2007 At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago Award, Gallery 400, University of Illinois in Chicago
RESIDENCIES
2026 Artist in Residence, Black Box Residency, Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine (forthcoming)
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Contemporary ArtReach Program, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis
EDUCATION
2007 M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture
2002 B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, Sculpture & Film/Video