Curriculum Vitae 2025
EDUCATION
1996 BFA, Painting, UNCG. Greensboro, NC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2024 Others at NYC Parks Department Boardwalk Concessions, Rockaway Beach, NYC, Biogenetic Blooms x Others
2024 BioBat Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, Curator: Elena Soterakis, Robotic Painting Performance by Karen Ingram & OpenTrons
2022 Thought For Food: Generation Fest, New York, NY, Curators: Christine Gould & Olivia English, Biogenetic Blooms
2022 NYU Langone, New York, NY, Inspire Science Symposium, 2022
2021 BioBuilder Learning Lab, Boston's Seaport District, Boston, MA, Monk Parakeets with Mourning Doves and Red Wings
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2025 London Design Week, London, England, Curators: Suzanne Lee & Amy Congdon, BioFabricate: Bio Fab Fair
2025 Times Square, NY, NY, Broadway Billboard Series, New York, NY, Curator: Artistic Tribe
2024 Plexus Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Curator: Laura Splan, GUI/GOOEY (Group Exhibition)
2024 Rockaway Film Festival, Rockaway Beach, NYC, Arverne Cinema, Biogenetic Bloom (Commission)
2023–24 BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY Curators: Elena Soterakis & Eve Baro, Embodied Futures and the Ecology of Care
2023 Rockaway Surf Club, Rockaway Beach, NYC, Curator: Davina Grincevicius, 10th Annual Women’s Surf Film Festival Art Show
2022 Rockaway Surf Club, Rockaway Beach, NYC, Curator: Davina Grincevicius, 9th Annual Women’s Surf Film Festival Single Fin Group Art Show
2021 Rockaway Surf Club, Rockaway Beach, NYC, Curator: Davina Grincevicius, 8th Annual Women’s Surf Film Festival Single Fin Group Art Show
2016 Ginkgo Bioworks, World Perfumery Congress, Curator: Christina Agapakis, Scents and Sustainability
2013 SXSW Austin, Texas Unicorn MosaicLead artist on participatory artwork created by 200 SXSW attendees
2012 Colab Projectspace Anonymous Gallery, Airstream Popup, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Fourth Annual ART FOR TIBET, Students for a Free Tibet group show, Tibet House, New York, NY, Also featuring Shepard Fairey, JK5, Christian Mendoza, Ryan McGinness, ROSTARR, Cody Hudson
2011 55 Liberty, Street, New York, NY, Alliance for Downtown New York's Re:Construct “Monk Parakeets with Mourning Doves and Red Wings” (Commission)
2010 Gallery Hanahou, New York, NY Curator: Koko Nakano, 20/10 Vision Also featuring JK5, Christian Mendoza, Kenji Hirata, Mike Ming
2004 Curvy, Sydney Australia, Curator: Beth Yelland
2002 Rhizome Artbase, New York, NY, online
Kill the Messenger
Flytrap
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Plexus Projects. Remote Artist Residency
2024 BioBAT Art Space. Brooklyn, NY, Studio Resident
2024 New York Foundation for the Arts NYFA Queens New Work Grant
2020–2024 Stanford d.school Emerging Tech Fellow
2018 Simons Foundation Science Sandbox/New Lab Fellow, Cohort IV
2017 SynbioLeap Catalyst Grant Fellow
2015 Synberc, Synbicite, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the NSF Synbio Leap Fellow
COLLECTIONS
BioBuilder Learning Lab, Boston's Seaport District, Boston, MA
Private collections
SPEAKING
*recorded events
2025 London Design Week, BioFab Fair, Big Penny Social, London, England, Designing Designers (Panelist)*
2025 UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC School of Medicine, Helen Lazear Lab, Chapel Hill, NC Art, Marketing, and Microbes Merging Art and Science as a “Professional Creative” (Artist Lecture, lab tour)
2025 Biodesign Challenge, Online, Biogenetic Blooms: Translating Art and Science with Known Talents (Webinar Speaker)*
2025 BioBAT Art Space, New York, NY, Currents of Change: A Water Stories Symposium - Art at the Edge of Nature (Panelist)
2025 Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA) SculBiofabrication Studio: “Grow the Future” course (Guest Critic)
2025 Pratt Institute, Industrial Design Department, New York, NY, Guest Lecture (Guest Lecturer)
2025 SUNY Purchase. Purchase, NY, Dark Ecology Course (Invited Speaker & Workshop Facilitator)
2024 New Lab Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, Genspace Fund Raiser
2024 SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Student Art Alliance, Art Lecture Series, Collaboration in BioArt Practice (Artist Presentation, Studio Visits & Critiques)*
2024 Science in Theater Festival, New York, NY, Xenobots and Anthrobots: First Robots Made From Living Cells (Panel Moderator)*
2024 CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, How to Apply Your Synbio Skills to Biotech (Panel curated by Genspace Community Biotech Lab)
2024 Biodesign Challenge Symposium, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, How Do We Grow a Biodesigner: Biogenetic Blooms and Beyond (Presenter)
2024 SVA BioArt Residency, New York, NY (Artist Lecture: Collaboration in BioArt Practice)
2024 Rising Tide Effect
2024 NYU Langone, Dark Matter Project EDGE, New York, NY (Invited Speaker)
2024 BioBAT Art Space, New York, NY, Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care (Panelist)
2023 NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY, Integrated Design and Media, Fabrication Critique
2023 SXSW, Austin, TX, Do Creatives and Scientists Think Alike? (Co-Presenter)*
2022 NYU Langone, New York, NY, Inspire Science Symposium, Artist Journey in the Sciences (Speaker)
2022 Teachers College, Columbia University, Gottesman Libraries, New York, NY, Biodesign: Learning and Growing at the Intersection of Art and Science (Panelist)
2021 Liberty House, Jersey City, NJ, Builds Bio+, The Cove Launch Event - Social Equity: Diversity, Workforce Development and Affordability (Panelist)
2021 NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY, Integrated Design and Media, Special Topics in Digital Media (Critique)
2021 Hardware Hack Night- May, Austin, TX, via Zoom
2020 Catalyst Biosecurity Summit, San Francisco, CA, How Can We Steer Towards a Good Future for Biotechnology? (Panelist)
2020 Stanford d.school, Stanford, CA
Fallacy Bingo (Lunch and Learn workshop)
Design for Digital Agency - Future Plants (Design & Facilitator)
Design-a-Cow Synthetic Biology Tool (Demo)
2018 SXSW, Austin, TX, Science, Society, and Ethics in a Post-Truth World (Panelist)*
2017 me convention (SXSW + Mercedes Benz), Frankfurt, Germany, Synthetic Biology: Blurring Boundaries to Create New Realities (Panelist)
2017 SciArt Center Conference, New York, NY, Art and Science: Two Cultures Converging - Science-Art Collaboration Roundtable #2 (Panelist)*
2017 Synthetic Biology 7.0 Conference, Singapore, Synbio LEAP Program (Book Launch)
2017 SVA (School of Visual Arts), New York, NY, Urban Fictions Interaction Design Course (Guest Critic)
2017 SXSW, Austin, TX, Biohacker Meetup (Host)
2016 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Science of Light Course, Mark Rosin (Guest Critic)
2015 BioCurious, Sunnyvale, CA, "BioBuilder, Synthetic Biology in the Lab" Book Celebration, with co-author Rachel Bernstein
2016 University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, PA, Dept. of Fine Arts, College of Arts & Sciences, Dept. of Biology, Integrative Design Studio: Biological Design (Guest Speaker)
2016 World Maker Faire, New York, NY, Making & the DIY Bio Frontier (Panelist)
2016 SXSW, Austin, TX,
Collaborative Biohacking (Panelist)
Biohacker Meetup (Host)
“Biobuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab” Book Signing (Participant)
2015 University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, PA, Dept. of Fine Arts, College of Arts & Sciences, Dept. of Biology, Integrative Design Studio: Biological Design (Guest Speaker)
2015 Synbiobeta, Imperial College, London, England, Designing Biology (Panelist)
2015 MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Synberc Fall Retreat, Boston, MA, LEAP (Leaders in Synthetic Biology) Update and Fellows Report (Speaker)
2015 NY Genome Center, New York, NY, Engineering Biology for Science & Industry - Education: Engaging Citizen Scientists & The Next Generation (Panelist)
2015 Biofabricate, New York, NY, Culturing Innovation (Panelist)
2015 SXSW, Austin, TX,
Bioart: Melding Biotech and Art (Panelist)
Biohacker Meetup (Host)
VISITING ARTIST, CRITIC AND JUDGE
2025 Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA) SculBiofabrication Studio: “Grow the Future” course (Guest Critic)
2024 SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Student Art Alliance, Art Lecture Series (Studio Visits & Critiques)
2024 Genspace “Break into Bio” Cohort 1 (Judge)
2024 Genspace Inaugural Artist in Residency (AIR) Program (Judge)
2023 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Biodesign Challenge Summit (Visiting Critic/Panel Judge)
2021 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Biodesign Challenge Summit (Visiting Critic/Panel Judge)
2017 SVA (School of Visual Arts), New York, NY, Urban Fictions Interaction Design Course (Guest Critic)
2019 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Biodesign Challenge Summit (Visiting Critic/Panel Judge)
2018 IGEM Competition, Boston, MA (Judge)
2016 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Science of Light Course, Mark Rosin (Guest Critic)
2015 IGEM Competition, Boston, MA, Art and Design Track (Judge)
2020–2000 SXSW Planning Committee, Austin, Texas, (Web awards judging and content programming)
PUBLISHED WRITING
2025, ongoing Substack Biogenetic Blooms
2024 Cambridge University Press. How do we grow a Biodesigner? “How do we grow a Biodesigner: Biogenetic Blooms and beyond.” September 3, 2024, Biodesign Challenge and Cambridge University Press community paper
2021 EdSurge: “The Moral Imperative of Teaching Every Student Tech Ethics” By Karen Ingram and Megan Stariha. Aug 24, 2021 (Commissioned)
2020 Stanford d.school 2019- 2020 Teaching and Learning Yearbook. “Yes, You Can Design a Cow” By Karen Ingram
2020 Stanford d.school blog: “Yes, You Can Design a Cow” By Karen Ingram
2019 Stony Brook University, From Ideation to Actuality How STEM and Creative professionals develop, implement and communicate ideas, with Dr. Christine O’Connell. Originally published in SciArt in America, October 2019
2017 CoLab Futures: Collaboration to Open up the Future of Biotechnology Insight paper that resulted in a Catalyst Grant award for the SynbioLEAP Program, Wieke Betten, co-author
2016 BioCoder September 2016 issue "A Biotech Wave at SXSW" Summer 2016 (Commissioned)
2015 BioCoder October 2015 issue “Marketing Synthetic Biology” Fall 2015 (Commissioned)
2015 Synbio LEAP “Technology Doesn’t Sound Like the Problem” White paper based on insights from LEAP "Landscaping Session", part of the 2015 Synbio LEAP Fellowship with Sanjana Ravi, Nicola Patron, Ted Fjällman (Commissioned)
2013 Genspace & CUT/PASTE/GROW Blog Bacterial Photography: Creating Photosynthetic Images Using Living Microorganisms by Karen Ingram. October 1, 2013
2004 Empty Design Magazine, “Cover Profile: Nago Richardis”, Issue 01, April (Commissioned interview and writing)
PUBLICATIONS, CATALOGS, BOOKS, JOURNALS
2024 Rep: Gene Editing, Stanford d.school (Lead Issue Learning Designer)
2024 FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology 2024. Editors: Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato
2024 Embodied Futures and the Ecology of Care, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY Curators: Elena Soterakis & Eve Baro, BioBAT Art Space
2022 World Economic Forum: Bio Stories: Re-envisioning relationships with nature, Report 2022, WEF Collaboration with Faber Futures, INTRODUCTORY DIALOGUES #3, from Natalie Kuldell
2022 Rep: Build a Bot, Stanford d.school (Content Team)
2018 BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab, Russian, O’Reilly Media (Co-author)
2018 Arte Transgenica. La vita è il medium. Mario Savini, Pisa University Press
2018 BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab, Japanese, O’Reilly Media (Co-author)
2015 BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab, O’Reilly Media (Co-author)
2018 Convergent Visions, Faesthetic #15 & SXSW Art Program (Co-Editor, Artwork, By Commission)
2013 Reconstruction: A Portrait of Progress in Lower Manhattan, Alliance for Downtown New York
2006 Business Cards 2: More Ways of Saying Hello, By Liz Farrelly and Michael Dorain, Laurence King Publishing
2005 Illusive: Contemporary Illustration and its Context, Edited by Robert Klanten and Henrik Hellige, Die Gestalten Verlag
2004 Curvy: bringing together 100 female artists from 18 different countries, By Beth Yelland, Amber Carvan, Yen Media International
2004 Masters of Photoshop, Vol.2 By Corné van Dooren, Mauro Gatti, Per Gustafson, Jim Hsieh, Seung Ho Henrik Holmberg, Karen Ingram, Friends of Ed (O’Reilly Media)
2004 Rethink Redesign Reconstruct: How Top Designers Create Bold New Work by Reinterpreting Original Designs by Mark Wasserman, HOW Design Books
2002 4x4 Photoshop and Flash: Time/Stasis By Jeremy Tai Abbett, Arron Bleasdale, Karen Ingram, Francine Spiegel, Friends of Ed (O’Reilly Media)
COMMISSIONED ART WORKS FOR PUBLICATIONS
2025 Undercover: Album Art History, Vol. 1, Matt Fritch, editor, The Pixies: Surfer Rosa
2021 Ginkgo Bioworks, Grow by Ginkgo, Friedmann, Jessica “Mothers of Invention: These two scientists could transform how we feed our babies.”
2020 Ginkgo Bioworks, Grow by Ginkgo, Evans, Clare, “Beyond Smart Rocks: It’s time to reimagine what a computer could be.”
2019 Ginkgo Bioworks, Grow by Ginkgo, Campos, Luis, “Genetic Sputniks: How Space Age visionaries primed us for synthetic biology”
2009 American Short Fiction, Vol. 12, Issue 46, Winter (cover)
2004 Arkitip Supreme – Issue No. 0024, “Making Friends: Joanna Bean & Karen Ingram”
2003 Faesthetic Issue #3 “Jemma”
2003 Elemental Magazine, “Mountain Brothers” Issue 46
2002 Arkitip Geoff McFetridge – Issue No. 0012, “Bending Boundaries,”credited as “Design is Kinky”
BRAND COLLABORATIONS
2016 Ginkgo Bioworks
2008 Graniph Japan
2006 Cote Bordeaux
2007 MTV logo treatment
2005 Graniph Japan
2005 Nook Art Australia
2025 MTV/Motorolla
2004 Flavorpill/Absolut Vodka
WORKSHOPS
2025 Biobuilder Club Boston, MA Fallacy Bingo, Online Workshop (Workshop Design, Facilitation)
2024 Doris Duke Foundation, Poptech Innovation Fellows Communication Workshop (Facilitation)
2024 Others, NYC Parks Department, 97 Street Boardwalk Concessions, Rockaway Beach, NYC “Biogenetic Blooms x Others” Workshop
2024 Indie Bio, San Francisco, CA, Life Science Cares Workshop with Sabriya Stukes (Workshop Co-design, Facilitation)
2024 Genspace, Brooklyn NY, Break into Biotech, cohort 1, supported by the NYC Economic Development Corporation (Design, Facilitation)
2024 Genspace, Brooklyn NY, Synbio for Creatives: Painting with Bacterial Proteins, 2-part Workshop (Designed with Beth Tuck)
2024 BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn NY, SUNY Downstate Exploring Health Careers (EHC) Hackathon (Facilitation Assistant)
2023 The Pingry School, Bernards Townships, NJ, “Biochemistry Literacy for Kids” summer program, Bacterial Painting
2023 Genspace, Brooklyn NY, Synbio for Creatives: Paint with Gene-edited Yeast, 2-part Workshop (with Beth Tuck)
2022 BioArt Bungalow, Rockaway Beach, NYC, Bacterial painting workshop
2022 SXSW, Austin, TX, Designing with Emerging Implications (Workshop Facilitator)
2022 GoogleX Online and Palo Alto, CA, Google X’s Arrow project group, Design a Cow (Online Workshop)
2022 Berggruen InstituteTofTH (Transformations of the Human) Berkeley, CA, Bacterial Painting Workshop
2022 Genspace, Brooklyn NY, Synbio for Creatives: Banana Smelling Device, 2-part Workshop (with Beth Tuck)
2022 Genspace, Brooklyn NY, Synbio for Creatives: Paint with Gene-edited Yeast, 2-part Workshop (with Beth Tuck)
2021 Genspace online, Brooklyn NY, Synbio for Creatives, Remote microbial painting 3-part workshop
2019 MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA, #SpreadingFacts Conference, Fallacy Bingo (Poster Session & Facilitation)
2019 Caveat Event Space, New York, NY “Pregame your Brain: Bad Ass Women of STEM” Game Station
2018 Open Plant Forum, Norwich, United Kingdom, Post-Natural Botany, (Invited Participant & Workshop Designer/Facilitator)
2018 NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY, NYC Media Lab Fake News Horror Show, Fallacy Bingo (Workshop)
2018 BioBuilder Learning Lab at Lab Central, Boston, MA, Knight Science Journalism Fellowship @ MIT, Fallacy Bingo (Workshop)
2018 Caveat Event Space, New York, NY Fallacy Bingo Public Premiere
2018 Rutgers University, New York, NY, The Art and Design of Science Communication, Post-Natural Bestiary (Workshop Presenter)
2018 Genspace, Brooklyn, NY Fallacy Bingo (beta workshop)
2017 Open Plant Forum, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Speaker & Workshop Designer/Facilitator)
2018–Present Fallacy Bingo game design, performed and facilitated by teachers and professors in classrooms around the US and beyond, including schools in Baltimore, Austin, Napa Valley and colleges and universities in NY (NYU, FIT, Pratt), UK (Darby), Kansas, CA (Stanford), Paris, France
2011 BCAM (Brooklyn Community Arts and Media School), New York, NY, PopTech's Own Your Future - Creative Economy Preparation (Instructor)
2000 World Scholar Athlete Games: Middle East/Mediterranean Scholar-Athlete Games (MEMSAG), Tel Aviv, Israel, Administered by the Institute for International Sport in conjunction with Tel Aviv University, Art instructor
ACADEMIC TEACHING
* High School
2025 RISE Rockaway (Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity), Rockaway Beach, NYC
Shore Corps service learning program, “Environmental Conservation” *
Shore Corps service learning program, “Civic Engagement” *
2024 SVA (School of Visual Arts) Interaction Design MFA Program, Spring,Thesis II Presentation
2024 & 23 Downey School District, Los Angeles, CA, Downey@Work: Design for Emerging Bio *
2023 & 2022 SVA (School of Visual Arts) Interaction Design MFA Program, Spring Course, Foundations in Responsible Design
2024–21 SVA (School of Visual Arts) Interaction Design MFA Program, Fall Course, Future (Im)perfect - Exploring the hidden ethics of emerging technologies with Daniel Goddemeyer
2018–2014 NYU SHERP (Science, Health, Environmental Reporting), New York, NY, Spring Course, Entrepreneurial Journalism with Christie Nicholson
PRESS AND MEDIA
2025 Magnet Magazine, Area Man Wastes Time, Money Publishing “Zine” satire by Matt Fritch, October 31, 2025
2025 “Grow Everything” Podcast, Brooklyn, NY Art Meets Agar: Karen Ingram Reimagines Biodesign. August 29, 2025
2025 Rockaway Times, Rockway Beach, NYC. “Shore Corps Interns Explore Gene-Editing Applications Through Living Art.” By Lea Kramberg. April 17, 2025
2024 University of Cambridge. “The lab making food healthier and medicine cheaper Dr Nicola Patron's quest for the perfect lettuce.” By Liam Morgan. December 16, 2024
2024 Nature Biotechnology. “Biogenetic Blooms: it’s microbial, and it’s art.” By Daniel Grushkin, September 13, 2024
2024 Women’s Surf Film Festival. Rockaway Beach, NYC. “Meet the Artist, Karen Ingram.” August 21, 2024
2024 Art Spiel, “Embodied Futures and the Ecology of Care at BioBAT Art Space.” February 16, 2024
2023 Amino Labs. Lethbridge, Canada. “What is Bioart (agar art)?”
2022 Wartsila Energy’s insight blog “Teaching ethics to the innovators of tomorrow” by Maria Stamble. November 2, 2022
2022 UNC-Greensboro, College of Visual and Performing Arts. Alumni Magazine“A Growing Art Form: Painting with Bacteria.” By Terri Relos. April 4, 2022
2022 BioBuilder Podcast: “Meet Karen Ingram.” February 7, 2022
2021 iGEM #Synbio Podcast. “Ready, Set, Design | Karen Ingram.” May 14, 2021
2020 Gotham Gazette “Rebuilding A Stronger, Healthier New York Through Science” by Kristin Anderson, Arthee Jahangir & Nancy Holt. October 2, 2020
2020 gbd architecture magazine, “Ask the Expert” column: “Karen Ingram on How Collaboration Could Save the . Building Industry” by Jessica Mordacq. July 1, 2020
2020 IXDA (The Interaction Design Association). “Finding a sweet spot at the intersection of art and science.” By Linda McNair. Feb 11, 2020
2019 Grist: “The head and the heart: Why science and art should work together” By Kate Yoder. December 9, 2019
2018 Nautilus “How You Can Be a Less Politically Polarizing Person” By Brian Gallagher. May 7, 2018
2016 AAAS Science "Full Steam Ahead" By Adam Ruben. October 26, 2016
2016 Forbes "Karen Ingram: From Painting to Synthetic Biology, The Un-Career Path Personified" By Jessica Shortall. June 8, 2016
2016 Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (Synberc) “!0 Years of Synberc” commemorative video. March 23, 2016
2016 SciArt Center Profile: Karen Ingram, By Emma Snodgrass
2014 The New York Times “Science Events: Minimalist Music and a Spotlight on Sex” By Jascha Hoffman. Nov. 24, 2014
2014 FiveThirtyEight, “Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Spreadsheet” By Chadwick Matlin. Sep. 9, 2014
2014 Pop Matters “SXSW Science? The Interactive Conference Puts on a Lab Coat” By Anita Schillhorn. March 17, 2014
2014 De Correspondent, Netherlands “Mini documentary: Minimum Viable Product: DIYBio.” Jongsma & O’Neil. March 5, 2014
2013 The New York Times “Science Events: Geeky Films and Deep Explanations.” By Jascha Hoffman. Jan. 21, 2013
2011 Downtown Alliance “Downtown Alliance’s Re:Construction Art Project Gives Liberty Street Sidewalk an Imaginative Makeover” July 25, 2011
2004 Yen Magazine, Australia, Issue 9: February/March “In the Flesh” By Beth Yelland
2003 Vice Magazine: The Happiness Issue, Volume 10, Issue 01, Spotlighted in “By Design” By Dave Girard, aka 3EIGE
2003 CAP & Design, “Vi Mötsi Williamsburg (We Meet Williamsburg)" Issue 8, November, cover story
RESEARCHER/ADVISOR/CONSULTANT
2025 RESHAPE Biotech, Copenhagen, Denmark, Smart Incubator testing
2025 Triton Bio, Rochester, NY, Mira Imaging System testing, multiple generations
2025-2021 Amino Labs, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
2025-2016 BioBuilder Foundation, Boston, MA
2019-2023 Philadelphia Water Department, Philadelphia, PA Design, Strategy, and Operations
2024 Sunflower Therapeutics, Boston, MA, Branding
2024 Downey Unified School District, Los Angeles, CA. Design for Emerging Bio Immersive in NYC. Workshops, lab visits, and conversations with investors, startups, and educators, Planning & Facilitation August 2 - 11 2024
2021 Bio.Polis (Bio Policy & Leadership Initiatives at Stanford) Bio.Polis at Stanford University Affiliate.
2024–2021 Surfrider, NYC Chapter, Blue Water Task Force, Volunteer
2021 Water Safety Coalition, Rockaway Beach, NY, Charter Member, Branding and messaging
2020 Mayor’s Office of Resiliency, Sci4NY New York, NY, City of New York. 2021. State of Climate Knowledge 2021 Report, “Science Policy Topics in NYC” map, UX and design
2022–2021 Rockaway Beach Civic Association, member
2018 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, From Ideation to Actuality How STEM and Creative professionals develop, implement and communicate ideas, with Dr. Christine O’Connell. IRB-approved research
2017–2016 Vu University, Amsterdam, CoLab Futures: Collaboration to Open up the Future of Biotechnology Dr. Wieke Betten, collaborator
2017 MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA, global community bio summit (Branding)
2016 Opentrons Labworks, Brooklyn, NY Branding and Design, OT-2 robot testing
CURATORIAL
2020–2000 SXSW Planning Committee, Austin, Texas, (Judging and content programming)
2018 “Fallacy Bingo” at the Ace Hotel, with Gizmodo, New York, NY (Curated, hosted and produced)
2019–2012 Empiricist League, Brooklyn NY, Multiple Events in Brooklyn at Union Hall, Over the Eight, Public Assembly, and Lolita (NY, NY) and one in San Francisco; Presenters included Christian Rudder, Maria Konnikova, Scott Barry Kaufman, Kelly Bourdet, Sarah Richardson, and Paul Bloom
2018 Faesthetic #15 Convergent Visions, SXSW Art Program (Commission)
2016 BioHack the Planet (BioHTP), Oakland, CA (Co-curator and organizer)
2013 Cut/Paste/Grow: Bioart in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, Bioart show (Assisted)
2003 Reservocation, “New Releases" design product writer and curator, featuring Deanne Cheuk
2002–2011 K10K Design Portal, San Francisco, CA
2001–2004 Design is Kinky Design Portal, Sydney, Australia
PUBLIC ART
2024 NYC Parks Department, 97 Street Boardwalk Concessions, Rockaway Beach, NYC Biogenetic Blooms x Others workshop + collaborative art installation
2024 Rockaway Film Festival “Biogenetic Blooms: Bioart in Rockaway” workshop and public art
2021 & 2022 NY Audubon & NYC Parks Department #ShareTheShore initiative, boardwalk chalk drawings
2016 Ace Hotel, New York, NY “Fallacy Bingo” game show with Gizmodo technology magazine
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
2025 Cambridge University, Department of Plant Sciences, Dr. Nicola Patron Lab, Cambridge, England
2025 UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC School of Medicine, Dr. Helen Lazear Lab, Chapel Hill, NC
2024, 2023, & 2021 Ferment: Ginkgo Bioworks, SoWa Powerhouse, Boston, MA
2018 Rockefeller University, New York, NY, SciOut18 - Models, Measures and Methods
2015 DARPA Biology is Technology, Convene Midtown East, New York, NY
2015 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Synthetic Biology Standards Consortium (SBSC) (Participant)
2017 MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA, global community bio summit
2016 MacMillan/Scientific American STEM Summit, New York, NY (by Invitation)
2016 O’Reily Ed Foo (Education Foo) Googleplex, Mountain View, CA,(by Invitation)
2015 The Wilson Center, Washington, DC, Innovation Ecosystems in Biology and Genomics (by Invitation)
2014 MacMillan/Scientific American STEM Summit, New York, NY (by Invitation)
2013 Mutant worms (c. elegens), Dr. eMalik Njie, Genspace, Brooklyn NY
2013 Slime Mold, Heather Barnett, Genspace, Brooklyn NY
2012 Biohacker Bootcamp, Dr. Ellen Jorgenson, Genspace, Brooklyn NY