CONTACT
raraspeaks@gmail.com
BIO
Born 1983 in Livingston, NJ
Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2011 University of Southern California (MFA)
2005 Brown University (BA, Comparative Literature)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 A RAY ARRAY, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Live Sprawl, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (as Lucky Dragons)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 The Art of Cooking, Royal T, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Microtonal Array, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, ON
2012 Not a Particle or a Place but an Action, James Cohan Gallery, NY
2011 New Original Works, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Extended Play, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (as Lucky Dragons)
2010 DIGIFESTA, Gwangju Biennial Hall, Gwangju, South Korea
2010 FAX, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (as Sumi Ink Club)
2009 Calling Out of Context, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
2009 Spatial Expansion, the Oneness and the Suchness, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles (as Lucky Dragons)
2009 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (as Lucky Dragons)
2009 Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (as Lucky Dragons)
2009 University of Trash, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (as Lucky
Dragons)
2009 All Time Greatest, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (as Sumi
Ink Club)
2009 Image Search, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY (as Lucky Dragons)
2009 Resonant Forms, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2009 In Real Time, Capricious, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Smockshop / Andrea Zittel, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (as Sumi
Ink Club)
2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (as
Lucky Dragons)
2008 Starting With Blade, Triplebase Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 The Cinema Effect, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,
DC (as Lucky Dragons)
2006 Infamous Carousel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (as Lucky Dragons)
PERFORMANCES
2011 Arpeggios For Breakfast, Actual Size Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Power Mallet, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2011 Exploratorium, Artist in Residence
2011 Cal Arts, Artist in Residence (Fall / Intermedia)
2009 Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles