EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS
2021 Marshall Fredericks Museum, Saginaw, MI, “Notes From the Quarentimes” - group show.
2020 David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Mi - “Best Times”, group show.
2019 David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI - “Salon” group show.
2017 David Klein Gallery, Detroit MI - “Organizational Strategies for the After Life”,
Solo Collaboration with Gina Reichert
2016 David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI - Inaugural downtown gallery exhibition
2015 David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI - Inaugural downtown gallery exhibition
2014 Popps Packing, Detroit, MI - Garbage Totem Photographs
2013 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA – residency & installation Detroit: Artists in Residence,
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, ArtX, Kresge Art in Detroit at the – “Corner Store”
Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Exchange, – “Clearing a Path to the Future: Garbage Totem No.1”
2012 Sullivan Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Material, Site, Narrative, – “Sculptural Security Systems”
SiTE:LAB @ 54 Jefferson, Old Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI – “Displacement”
13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, U.S. Pavilion – “The Power House” Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good
Arsenale, Venice Architecture Biennale – Grounds for Detroit, select video works from “Total Benefit Solutions”
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID – Urban Lifecycles, “Total Benefit Solutions”
Team Detroit, Dearborn, MI – corporate office space redesign & renovations for global advertising firm
2011 Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH , Material Witness, – “Total Benefit Solutions”
City of Hamtramck Neighborhood Stabilization (NSP 2) – single-family home rehabilitation w/ Hughes & Lynn
2010 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Hopey Changey Things, – “Neighborhood Machine sketches”
MOCAD, Detroit, MI Too Much of a Good Thing, – installation introducing The Neighborhood Machine
Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna, Austria – Detroit, “Alley Weeds”
Detroit Institute of Art The Neighborhood Project, – installation
2009 Smart Museum, Chicago, IL, Heartland, – “Heartland Machine” installation
Community + Public Arts: DETROIT, Skillman grant recipient – “Talking Fence” public sculpture
Detroit Artists Market, DAM Design Show – “Power Chair”
2008 Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands Heartland,, – “Homegrown Design”, Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany Shrinking Cities Project- Analysis, Interventions, Prognosis,
Isamu Noguchi Musuem, Long Island City, New York - Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop Commission
2007 Cranbrook Museum of Art & MOCAD Shrinking Cities,, Detroit, MI – local Curator
2006 Kunsthalle, Dresden, Germany - Schweizer Krankheit, Drawings
2005 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI - Summer Pack 2 - Drawings
World Workers Museum, Steyr, Austria - Detroit Tree of Heaven woodshop
Joint Turkmen-American Exhibition, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan - Multi-Cultural Landscapes
Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI – “M.O.R.E. Manufacturers of Real Excellence” art & marketing campaign
2004 Berlin Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany - Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop
Subspace Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany - Anti-Idyll -
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Shrinking Cities, – Local Curator and drawings
2003 Detroit Artists Market - 5 shows 5 days
The Stray Show, Chicago, Il
2002 Center Galleries, Detroit, MI - Tony Hepburn Collaborations
2001 Detroit Contemporary - Heavy Metal Girls
2000 Detroit Contemporary - Wood Pieces
1999 Washington State University Museum, Pullman, WA- thesis exhibition
1996 Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI - Movable Feast
1995 Center Galleries, Detroit, MI - Highways and Roads
Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI - Carbonari
Detroit Artists Market - Romantic Allegory
Cement Space, Detroit, MI - Raw experience
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000-07 College For Creative Studies Adjunct Professor - Courses Taught: Basic Painting, Figure Painting, Advanced Drawing, Experimental Media.
1997-99 Washington State University - Drawing
LECTURES, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2015 United States Artists, Artists Assembly, Chicago, IL – Creative Conversations with Mark Bradford
Montana State University – Visiting Artist Lecturer & guest critic
2014 Overlook Field School, through the University of Oregon – Visiting Artist-in-Residence
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL – Panel discussion, Out There: Contemporary Practice, Art, and Civility
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture – Visiting Lecturer
2013 Creative Capital grantee presenter
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI – Lecture for the course Creating for Resilience & Function
2012 ArtPrize Juried Grand Prize, Grand Rapids, MI –
Frieze Art Fair, New York City – Panelist, Land Occupation
Creative Capital Initiative – Select artist, On Our Radar
University of Windsor, Humanities Research Group – Visiting Lecturer
Kendall College, Grand Rapids, MI – Visiting Artist Lecturer & guest critic
2011 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM – Visiting Artist Lecturer & guest critic
Art X Detroit – Panel Discussion, Art of the Commons
Kresge Artist Fellowship, The Kresge Foundation, Detroit, MI
AIA Detroit Urban Priorities – Panelist, Detroit By Design Urban Centers Symposium
2010 University of Kansas School of Architecture – Lecture, Too Much of a Good Thing
Venice Biennale, Dutch Pavillion – Lecture, neighborhoods
MOCAD – Lecture, Too Much of a Good Thing in Context
United States Artists (USA) Fellowship – Nominee
Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis, MO – Art and Sustainability Panel Discussion
2009 Cranbrook Academy of Art – Humanities lecture series presentation
Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, The Netherlands – Visiting Artist Lecturer
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Visiting Artist Lecturer
Hamilton Anderson Rogue HAA Lecture Series, Detroit, MI – Presentation of our work
MOCAD – New Urban Models Panel Discussion
2008 Creative Capital Grant – Finalists
Structures for Inclusion 08, Harvard University – Workshop on neighborhood housing strategies w. Pamela Dorr of HERO Resource Center, Hale County, Alabama
2007 Univ of Michigan Art Departmen, Moderatort, Ann Arbor – Making Art Public
2006 Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden – Public Art Workshop and Visiting Lecturer
2005 Photo Espana, Madrid Spain, Visiting Lecturer
U.S. Embassy Cultural Envoy to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
PUBLICATIONS
2013 Juxtapoz Magazine, online publication – Contributor
2011 Vitamin Green, published by Phaidon – Contributor
2009 Under the Influence magazine – Contributor
2008 A People’s Guide to Detroit, self-published – Concept and content development, collaboration with Nina Bianchi
2007 Detroit: Imaginary Cities – Contributor; Published by MOCADetroit
2006 Detroit i.e. INFRASTRUCTURE – Working Group member and contributors; Co-Editor;
Published by Detroit i.e. & MOCADetroit
PRESS
“How public art builds safer, stronger neighborhoods,” Christian Science Monitor, Anna Clark, October 28, 2014
“Not just a fancy art project: Artists create long-term community vision for Detroit/Hamtramck border,” Model D, Walter Wasacz, August 19, 2014
“Detroit: Artists in Residence @ the Mattress Factory,” Art Hopper, Robert Raczka, May 7, 2014
“Design 99 Artists Mix Sun, Wind and Heat at the Mattress Factory,” Allegheny Front, September 20, 2013
“Abstracting the Fleet: Dazzle Camouflage’s Influence on Contemporary Art and Design,” Jonathan Magdaleno, The Creators Project, June 3, 2013
“Artists as Developers,” Nathalie Janson, Domus, October 2012
“Material Witness,” Alan Pocaro, Art Papers, March/April 2012
“Envisioning Real Utopias in Detroit,” Vince Carducci, Motown Review of Art, February 1, 2012; (reprinted on Deliberately Considered, February 6, 2012; reprinted on Huffington Post, February 8, 2012)
“Cerebral Material,” Maria Seda-Reeder, ÆQAI e-journal, November 15, 2011
“Aesthetic Community in Detroit,” Vince Carducci, Motown Review of Art, December 15, 2011; (reprinted on Deliberately Considered, December 20, 2011; reprinted on Huffington Post, December 22, 2011
“Affordable Housing That Doesn’t Scream ‘Affordable’,” Allison Arieff, The Atlantic Cities, October 21, 2011
“One House at a Time”, Karrie Jacobs, Metropolis, October 18, 2011
“The Best in Urban Global Design,” Wendy Goodman, New York Magazine, October 17, 2011
“Hometown Heroes,” Amanda DeMatto, Popular Mechanics, July 2011
“Mitch and Gina of Power House Productions and the Story Behind Juxtapoz in Detroit,” Jason Jaworski, Juxtapoz, January 19, 2011
“Art’s New Dawn in Detroit,” Murray Whyte, The Toronto Star, January 1, 2011
“Power Meets the Arts in Detroit,” Joann Plockova, Next City, June 24, 2011
“Young Guns: Activist Designers,” Miyoko Ohtake, Dwell, December 21, 2010
“Juxtapoz's Detroit Experiment,” Patricia Montemurri, Detroit Free Press, December 27, 2010
“Artists in Residence,” Linda Yablonsky, New York Times, September 22, 2010
“MOCAD Meditations,” Vince Carducci, Motown Review of Art, July 16, 2010
“Art as Security System,” Rob Walker, New York Times, July 5, 2010
“Joyfully uninviting,” Ingrid Fetell, Aesthetics of Joy, June 3, 2010
“Design 99's Neighborhood Machine,” Lisa Smith, Core 77, June 1, 2010
“Bringing a Dead House Back to Life,” Karyn Dybis, Time.com, April 26, 2010
“Putting Yourself Out There,” William Bostwick, Architectural Record, March 2010
“40 transformative Design Projects,” David Sokol, I.D. Magazine, January/February 2010
“Exhibition Presents New and Innovative Work by Artists,” Artdaily.org, October 1, 2009
“Four Corners of Detroit: A City Remakes Itself One Person at a Time,” Rebecca Mazzei, Art Voices, Sept 1, 2009
“Taking a Chance on a $100 House", 20/20 ABC News, March 20, 2009
“What would you do with a $100 house?” Ismael Estrada, Anderson Cooper 360º CNN, March 19, 2009
“Renewing Detroit,” Here & Now, WBUR Boston NPR, March 18, 2009
“In Detroit, Artists Look For Renewal In Foreclosures,” Jennifer Guerra, All Things Considered,
NPR, March 18, 2009
“Detroit House: $100. Bold New Ideas for the City: Priceless.” Walter Wasacz, Model D, March 17, 2009
“Detroit's hard edge - and dirt-cheap real estate - attract artists from around the world,” Michael Hodges, Detroit News, March 13, 2009
“The Upside Of Foreclosures,” Jennifer Guerra, Michigan Radio NPR, March 11, 2009
“For Sale: The $100 House”, Toby Barlow, New York Times, March 7, 2009
“A storefront for creativity,” Fabrizio Gallanti, Abitare, February 2, 2009
“The Power House Project,” Sweet Juniper Inspiration Blog, January 26, 2009
“Detroit and Support,” Charles Esche, Kitchenblog, January 25, 2009
“Hamtramck Insider's Guide,” Terry Parris, Jr., MetroMode, January 13, 2009
“Design shop finds that smaller is better,” The Hamtramck Citizen, December 18, 2008
“Sustainability in the post-capitalist city. A short impression.” Abitare & Volume, October 12, 2008
“Art of Life: A proposal for a ‘power house.’” Metro Times, September 17, 2008
“Design 99 publishes Detroit guidebook that will grow,” Kelli B. Kavanaugh, Model D, May 13, 2008
“A Tree That Survived A Sculptors Chisel is Chopped Down”, Glenn Collins, The New York Times March, 27, 2008
“Model D-troiters: Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope” , Terry Parris Jr., Model D, February 25, 2008
“Urban Retreat” , Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post, February 17, 2007
“Enter here for design: Between store space and art place,” Constance Bodurow, Metro Times, September 19, 2007
EDUCATION
1999 MFA painting – Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1995 BFA painting – College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI