Where I am: 2017

On October 6th, "I'll Go On" opens at Watkins College of Art in Nashville, TN.

On September 30th, "Everything At Once" opens in Boulder, Colorado with Boulder Public Art and Boulder Creative Collective.
What are the connections between military action and material extraction in the U.S.? How do we understand a bigger system that was written for us, before us, and by proxy perpetuated by us? The ever presence of objects with violent histories undeniably draws out the connections and contradictions we live with everyday in the U.S. With an expanding military economy and slow erosion of public services, the sculpture titled “Everything At Once” engages not in silence or silos but instead turns outward to reimagine public life together. Charred wood from a U.S. public school, a military trailer used in Afghanistan, public water, agricultural tank, plants, and light make a bridge for communication and a platform for contemplation. “Everything At Once” asks: Can we process complex histories through the transformation of objects in order to collectively imagine other ways of being in the world?

On September 7th, WANDERLUST: ACTIONS, TRACES, JOURNEYS 1967-2017 opens at University of Buffalo's UB Art Gallery. The exhibition will be on view at the UB Art Galleries from September 7-December 31, 2017 and travel to the Des Moines Art Center in February 2018. The catalogue, published by MIT Press, includes essays by Jane McFadden, Lori Waxman and Rachel Adams. Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, and Journeys 1967-2017 is organized by the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York and curated by Rachel Adams, UB Art Galleries Senior Curator.

In June I'll be artist in residence at Monet's Garden in Giverny, France.

April 28th Swale relaunches for the season at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6! Join us for a ribbon cutting with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation on May 18th! RSVP on Eventbrite HERE

April 27, Swale is part of a national campaign "Nature Remix" in a partnership with Strongbow Ciders. Through this partnership, we were able to add 200 new plant varieties to Swale including 8 apple trees, terraform more growing space, and, most importantly, continue Swale's mission of providing free food for anyone to pick from. This partnership also expands our public-facing initiatives of building stewardship throughout New York CIty.

This year, Swale, along with many community groups, has also made policy-facing strides.The New York City Department of Parks will break ground on its first public food forest on land, creating a precedent that parts ways with a 100-year old law stating that picking food from public land in NYC is considered destruction of property.

April 15, I'm thrilled to be speaking at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the Ecotopian Toolkit Conference, organized by Bethany Wiggin and Environmental Humanities fellow Patricia Kim, among other inspiring people. Headlining this conference are Rebecca Solnit and Laura Raicovich, to name a few!

2016

On November 3rd I'll be completing a residency at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities. Objects Unveiled: Boxing, Rolling, Stretching, and Cutting opens November 9th. I'll also be lecturing as part of the Penny Stamps Lecture Series on November 9th.

n September 10th, Wearable Portable Architecture will be at the Appleton Museum of Art, through November 13th

On August 26th I'll be at the University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum for a panel discussion and the opening of "Extracted" curated by Megan Voeller, in Tampa, FL

On June 1, Swale will officially become part of the New York City Urban Field Station. The USDA Forest Service and NYC Department of Parks and Recreation engaged in a planning process to bring artists and writers into the fold of the New York City Urban Field Station (UFS). The UFS is both a physical place to conduct research (the research facility at Fort Totten) and a network of scientists, practitioners, university partners, and facilities that focus on urban ecology. Since its founding in 2006, the UFS has engaged over 30 non-profit, academic, and government partners creating “research in action” programs to support urban ecosystem management and sustainability initiatives in New York City.

On May 6th, Radical Seafaring Opens at the Parrish Museum! East End Beacon | The Wall Street Journal | East Hampton Star | Domus | Newsday | The Art Newspaper | The New York Times - T Magazine

On May 5th, View From Up Here opens at the Anchorage Museum! KTOO Public Media | Alaska Dispatch News | KNBA

On April 21, I'll be speaking at the University of Vermont's Department of Art at 5pm. Report

April 15, Make Art Not War opens at MoMA Education! Report

March 23rd, I'll be in Albany, NY for a lecture titled "Co-creative Encounters: Ecosystems, Place, and the Political" Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

March 9th, I'll be lecturing at William Paterson University at 2pm, at the Center for New Art.

March 2-7, I'll be in Anchorage working on phase 1 of our Arctic Food Forest at the Anchorage Museum.

In February I'll be working @ MoMA Education offering: Make Art Not War - Transforming Military Materials into Social Spaces: Through design workshops and collaborative projects, participants will reinvent a disused military-grade trailer, turning an object of war into an all-encompassing artistic and social environment. What new space can this object become? Participants are in charge of every step of the process, from budgeting to designing to assembling and more.

February 24, I'll be at Purchase College speaking about my work and meeting with graduate students.

February 18-19th, I'll present my work at the University of Oxford as part of "Urban Governance and Its Discontents," hosted by the Centre on Policy, Migration and Society.

February 5, I'll be presenting at CAA for a panel moderated by Carissa Carman and Natalie Campbell, "MetaMentors: Creative Outsourcing/Partnerships: Making Big Projects Come True"

January 26th, I'll be at Light Work in Syracuse NY for the opening of Mass and Obstruction, lecturing at 7pm and speaking with Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler's class earlier in the day.

Light Work | L'oeil de la photographie

January 13th, the Tangible Utopias panel will take place at the 8th Floor. I'll moderate a conversation between Lex Brown, Dylan Gauthier, and Sasha Chavchavadze; organized by Joelle Te Paske.

This semester I'll be teaching a course at Rutgers designed by Elizabeth Demaray, Art and Urban Sustainability.

January 4-6, I'll be in Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks Alaska for ADF's Future Tense lecture series.

2015

On November 19th at 6pm, I'll be at Pratt Institute to host a conversation about speculative futures.

On November 5th at noon, I'll present my work at Rutgers Camden.

On November 4th at 7pm, I'll present my work at Parsons School of Design, open to the public.

On October 27th, I'll be part of a roundtable discussion at the University of Pennsylvania for PPEH's "Performance, Politics and Climate Change Symposium" with Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Sarah Sanford, Sarah Ann Standing, Professor Marcia Ferguson, and Quinn Bauriedel.

In Late September I'll be in Toronto launching Torus as part of Nuit Blanche curated by Christine Shaw "The Work of the Wind". Join us for a workshop that asks: In an era of schizophrenia, can art still bring us closer towards embodying the world we want? Extractive production and excessive consumption have become as violent as military activity. In this workshop we will extract consumption, gift in excess, and discuss ways that art, performance, and ritual can make spaces for mourning environmental loss. Through dialogue, diagramming, making and sharing rituals, we will task ourselves with re-mapping systems of the post-industrial/higher education/military complex, and draft steps towards forming the spaces we want to inhabit. We will spend time assembling a meditative space for a performance on the water that will take place during Nuit Blanche. During our time together we will continually question the following: Can we create more mindful rituals that point towards change? Could we spend more time discussing change with the choir? In an era of schizophrenia, can art still bring us closer towards embodying the world we want?

This fall I'll be an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Pratt Institute's MFA program.

August 18th, I'll be at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia for a public discussion about the Schuylkill River.

July 28th, "Access to Tools" with Triple Canopy goes live HERE. I'll be in the studio but working online.

In July and August I'll be in New York working towards Swale.

From July 14 - 20th I'll be in Rushville, NE participating in the Sandhills Institute led by Mel Ziegler.

In Late May/Early June I will be in Des Moines creating "Wading Bridge". Des Moines Register.

Wading Bridge, Raccoon River, Des Moines | Pull, Havana

This May I will participate in an initiative with the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana as part of the 12th annual Havana Biennial with a collaborative sculpture called "Pull". New York Times | NPR | Artnet | China Post | LA Times - Download the PDF for Pull - Here.

Wading Bridge, Des Moines, IA: Hyperallergic

On April 18th I'll participate in a panel at AIPAD organized by Wesley Miller. On April 17th, I will speak with Brainard Carey at "Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX" April 15th the Philadelphia Sculptors Guild is hosting a panel I'll participate in with Carrie Brown, Lucy Begg, and Nicole Kistler. On April 14th I'll participate in a panel on Art for Social Change through the Democracy Alliance alongside Brett Cook, Favianna Rodriguez, and Tracy Van Slyke. On April 13th I'll speak at Rutgers University with Elizabeth Demaray.

This year, along Sol Aramendi, Laura Chipley, Steve Ciampaglia & Kerry Richardson, Suzanne Lacy, Nigel Poor, Dread Scott, and Adaku Utah, I will be a fellow at "A Blade of Grass" undertaking a project called Swale.

In mid March: I'm in Havana building an ecosystem for Pull.

On February 21st I'll participate in Creative Chemistries: Radical Practices for Art and Education with Art21, organized by Jess Hamlin, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

"WetLand: Inhabiting the Edge" opens at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education on Wednesday, January 28th. Alongside Bethany Wiggin, Mary Salvante, and Maya van Rossum, I'll talk about the project for the SCEE's On the Edge: Environmental Art for a Changing Planet: The Fourth Annual Richard L. James Lecture.

On January 27th, "Consumed" opens. University Art Museum at the University of California Long Beach.

On January 22 Collective Actions opens at SECCA in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Collective Actions is curated by Cora Fisher. On January 30th I'll begin a five day workshop as part of Collective Actions. NY1

This semester I'll teach at Cooper Union, with a class titled: Place and Identity: Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics.

In mid-January I will be an artist-in-residence at Cannonball (formerly LegalArt). On January 21st Stan Cox, lead scientist at the Land Institute will talk with me in an open forum at Cannonball.

2014

In November Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies will be released. This book is edited by Heather Davis & Etienne Turpin.

November 9 - I'll be in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia for Artisterium curated by Magda Guruli and Lydia Matthews.

November 1 - 29th, I will be at Lightwork to participate as an Artist-in-Residence and complete a book.

From October 6 -12th I'll be in Alaska attending "Week of the Arctic" a conference that is the basis of a longer-term collaboration with the Anchorage Museum.

On October 5th, I'll have new work in Mediations at the San Diego Art Institute, curated by Ginger Shulick Porcella and Denise Carvalho.

On October 3rd, my work will be in "Crossing Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Museum curated by Eugenie Tsai and Rujeko Hockley.

On September 15th, my work will be in FALSEWORK at Blackwood Gallery curated by Christine Shaw with artists Adrian Blackwell, Abbas Akhavan, Cedric Bomford, Cyprien Gaillard, Dylan Miner, Postcommodity, Laurel Ptak, Charles Stankievech and Allora & Calzadilla.

August - September, WetLand launches in Philadelphia with FringeArts, the Knight Foundation, the Seaport Museum, DRWC, PWD, Skidmutro, the city of Philadelphia and others. The New York Times | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Philadelphia Weekly | Philly Mag | Philly.com | Philadelphia City Paper | Art in America.

July 31 - I'll be speaking at Harvard University with Jess Hamlin and Art21 for Harvard Graduate School of Education's Future of Learning conference.

On July 11th I'll be speaking with the Art21 Summer Education Institute

On June 29th I'll be on a panel with Nick Ravich, Jacolby Satterwhite, Melissa Levin, and Bryan Zanisnik about Art21's New York Close Up series with LMCC and the River to River Festival.

June 24th I'll be at New York Arts Practicum.

June 11 & 12 - I'm hosting a workshop "From Useful to Useless: Transforming Stuff" organized with the Curatorial Studies program of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, the Education Department of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Hudson Guild for Common Spaces.

May 31 - June 29th CAFKA Biennial Toronto/Kitchener with June 14, an all-day participatory performance.

May 23 - Common Spaces opens at The Kitchen with the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. NY Times

May 7 - With Brian Zegeer and Katayoun Vizari for their radio show I Ran into Iran - Episode 9 Divorcing the Ruin

May 4 - In Omaha inventing Omaha-based Flock Houses with Bemis and curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley.

April 23 - At 6pm in a conversation with Buro Happold, we will talk about the overlap and differences in our processes. Through LMCC, at 100 Broadway, 23rd Floor, .

April 18 - I'll be at RISD speaking with Brian House's students.

April 4 - 6 - I'm in Buffalo, NY speaking at Performing Economies, a colloquium led by Stephanie Rothenberg and Paige Sarlin with Sarah Bey-Cheng. Other speakers include philosopher Silvia Federici and artist Renee Ridgway. In the news: Artvoice | Buffalo News 1 | Buffalo News 2

March 27 - 31st, I'll be visiting Cannonball (formerly Legal Art) in Miami to explore sites for a future project.

March 24 - I'll be in North Caroline giving a lecture at UNC-Pembroke with Greg Lindquist and UNC-Greensboro.

March 21 - Greg Lindquist and I will be in Raleigh, NC opening "On Land" at Flanders Gallery. Huffington Post

March 13 - I'll be in Omaha, NE opening a solo exhibition at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts | The Reader | NPR | KIOSfm | Flock House Omaha

This March I'm participating in Thirst with Proteus Gowanus and Lydia Matthews. Download a PDF of Food and Water Networks HERE

January 26 - 31st, I'll be the resident artist at the University of Illinois Allen Hall

January 24, 6-8pm: Opening of Distant Images Local Positions at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts with Haseeb Ahmed and Daniel Baird, Hasan Elahi, Annie Laurie Erickson, Regina Mamou, Trevor Paglen, Travis LeRoy Southworth, and Scott Patrick Wiener. | New York Art Beat | Afterimage

January 2014 - December 2014 I'll start a research fellowship at viralnet.net, a project led by the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts

2013

December 17, 6pm: Lonny Grafman's Engineering 215 class. They have completed their projects for WetLand. Look at Appropedia for open source project plans

December 6 @ 1pm on Bad At Sports from Pulse Miami

December 5, 4pm: Panel with Brolab moderated by Terence Riley at Untitled Art Fair, Miami: Pooneh Maghazehe, Meyken Barreto, and Ghost of a Dream

November 11, 6-8pm: Artist Lecture at Emerging Practices, University of Buffalo

October 16, 6pm, Opening of All Our Tomorrows and Yesterdays at Proof Gallery, Boston MA. | Big Red and Shiny

October 5, 1:30pm: Panel with David Brooks and Claire Weisz for Marfa Dialogues and Brooks's Gap Ecology at Socrates Sculpture Park.

October 1, 6pm: Panel at A Blade of Grass, The Active Partnership: Artists, Communities, Funders & Institutions, with Sergio Bessa, Marie Canela, and Bill Adair

September 6, 6pm: House and Universe opens at Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY. See it in the news: Artforum | ArtNews | Art in America 1 - 2 - 3 | New York Times | New Yorker | Interview Magazine | Hyperallergic | Artslant | Artsy | Art-Rated | Brooklyn Rail |

September 5: Artist Lecture at St. John's University, Long Island, NY

August 20, 5-7pm: Hacking MoMA Teens Opening @ MoMA Education

July 20, Art21 New York Close Up launched: Mary Mattingly Owns Up

July 20 @ Pier 42: Triple Island launches with Community Day

June 21, 2pm: Artist Lecture @ New York Arts Practicum, Brooklyn, NY

June 1: Artist Lecture @ MoMA PS1 with Speculations - Triple Canopy, Queens, NY

June 1 - February 2014: I'm working out of a LMCC Process Space on Wall Street.

May 29, 6pm: @ Philadelphia Museum of Art for The James L. Knight Foundation Grant award ceremony

May 5, 2pm: Workshop culmination and lecture @ Queens Museum of Art with Art Utile, Queens, NY

Artist Lecture with Xaviera Simmons @ supporters of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY

On View from March 29 – April 27, opening March 29 @ 6pm: Process and Progress: Mary Mattingly and Michael Cataldi at the Bronx River Art Center, 305 E. 140th Street, #1A, Bronx, NY 10454

January 30, 5-7pm: Opening @ Rowan University, "Common Interests" curated by Sara Reisman

January 24th, 6pm: Opening @ Boston University, "System ECOnomies" curated by Lynne Cooney and Dana Clancy - Through April 20

2012
November 14, 7pm: Muse Fuse Artist Lecture @ Nurture Art, Brooklyn

November 9, 5pm: Opening of Broken Desert: Land and Sea and panel discussion with Greg Lindquist and Chris McGinnis, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

October 20, 6pm: Homecoming Artist Lecture @ Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

September 29, 3pm: Artist Lecture @ 98B, Manila, The Philippines, Manila, The Philippines

September 20, 3pm: Artist Lecture @ University of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines

September 15 - October 31: smARTpower Artist Ambassador to the Philippines with the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the US Department of State, Workshop: Wearable Portable Archtiecture

August 10, 6-8pm: Artist Lecture @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts, with Glendalys Medina

July 3, 2pm: Artist Lecture @ The Queens Museum of Art, with Christopher Robbins

April 20, 7-8pm: Resilience and Resistance: Few Possible Futures for Living with Water, Artist Lecture @ Bennington College, with Taeyoon Choi, Bennington, VT

March 1, 6-8pm: Panel @ Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology with Geoff Manaugh, New York, NY

October 26, 6:30-8:30: Panel with Amy Balkin, Adriane Colbur and Lydia Matthews @ The New School, UNFOLD, A Cultural Response to Climate Change, New York, NY

2011
October 6, 12pm: Artist Lecture @ Columbia College, Chicago, IL

September 20, 6pm: Artist Lecture @ CalArts, CA

September 6, 12pm, 6pm: Artist Lecture and workshop @ deCordova Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

August 2, 11am: Keynote speaker @ WINTEC, SPARK, International Festival of Media, Arts, and Design, Hamilton, New Zealand

July 29, 6pm: Artist Lecture @ Yale University School of Art, Norfolk, CT

June 1, 6:30-8:30: Artist Lecture with George Trakas @ NYC Department of Environmental Conservation, Brooklyn, NY

May 16: Artist Lecture @ Brandeis University, Boston, MA

March 30, 6pm: Keynote speaker @ Big Ideas in Art & Culture Lecture Series, with Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, CANADA, Workshop on Asset Mapping and Informal Economies, Workshop on Wearable Portable Architecture

2010
September 10, 6pm: Artist Lecture @ DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL

May 10, 2pm: Artist Lecture @ M.I.T. Senseable Cities Lab, Cambridge, MA

March 5, 1:30pm: Artist Lecture @ University of North Texas, Fluid Frontier Symposium

February 11, 5pm: Artist Lecture @ New School University, New York, NY

2009
October 10, 1pm: Artist Lecture @ Museum of Modern Art Education, New York, NY

September 29, 6pm: Artist Lecture @ Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

May 14, 5pm: Artist Lecture @ New York University, New York, NY

November 10, 6pm: Artist Lecture @ Vancouver CAC, Vancouver, Canada

October 5, 12 noon: Artist Lecture @ Cornell University, New York, NY

August 15, 4pm: Artist Lecture @ Terreform, Brooklyn, NY

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