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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience and Learning,
School of Education & Information Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
10/2025 – Present
Professional development:
Seminar Attendance, “Brains, Bodies, and Buildings: Neuro-Architecture and the Spaces That Shape Us” Stanford University School of Medicine, Jan 26 to Mar 9, 2026.
Conference Presentation, “Guarding the Past: Memory Securitization and Museum Collections,” Museums and Memory Working Group, Memory Studies Association, University of Southern California Los Angeles, January 24 - 25, 2025.
Conference Attendance, “Violence and Repair” at the 2024 Mnemonic Summer School, University of California Los Angeles, July 9 - 11, 2024.
Conference Attendance, “Form, Production and Transknowledge in Soviet Modernity” at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien, September 25 - 26, 2024.
Conference Attendance, “Westsplaining in Art History” at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Tallinn, June 28, 2024.
Conference Attendance, “Cultural Heterologies and Democracy: Transitions and Transformations in Post-Socialist Cultures in the 1980s and 1990s” at the Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn, June 26 - 28, 2024.
Conference Attendance, “Bridge-Building through Art Exhibitions: the Cold War Divide, the Fall of the Wall, and Beyond” at Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden, March 21 - 22, 2024.
Past appointments:
Visiting researcher
Wende Museum of the Cold War
Culver City, California
08/2024 – 02/2025
Initiated a comparative research project examining collection management strategies for Soviet heritage artifacts across former Soviet Union countries. I analyzed preservation methodologies, cataloging systems, and exhibition approaches, while investigating how political transitions influenced curatorial decisions in post-Soviet states. Through collaboration with an international network of heritage specialists, I documented best practices and developed a taxonomy of challenges unique to Soviet heritage preservation. My findings were presented at the 2025 Museums and Memory Working Group Conference.
Visiting researcher
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Russian and Slavic Studies
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
09/2022 – 05/2023
Organized an interdisciplinary working group on "Memory Studies in Post-Socialist Contexts” and collaborated with department members on a digital archive of Soviet-era visual materials for teaching and research. Conducted primary research on cultural memory in Soviet and post-Soviet visual culture and mentored undergraduate students working on related research topics.
Since 2022, I’ve produced and hosted a monthly radio program interviewing public intellectuals and contemporary artists across diverse mediums and disciplines. I worked out of the CKUT Radio Station at McGill University from 2022-2023, before moving the program to Radio Vilnius in 2023.
Featured Interviews:
In the Weeds w/ Lumir Hladik (July 2025)
In the Weeds w/ Nabil Azab (Dec 2024)
In the Weeds w/ Donald Weber (Aug 2024)
Publications:
Poetics of Transgression (2019) Successful Press, Motto Books Berlin. Paperback.
Event Curator, “Another Year, Wishes” featuring Evaldas Jansas, at Joys, Toronto, on view January 1, 2024.
One of the earliest Lithuanian video works was Evaldas Jansas’ “Linkejimai/Wishes,” which was filmed in 1998 on the days leading up to New Year’s Eve. In ‘Linkejimai’ Jansas asks passersby in various locales, on the street; in bars; and at the contemporary art centre, what they wish for themselves and for others. Jansas invites strangers to articulate their values, fantasies, anxieties and epistemologies. Since 2018, I’ve organized annual screenings of this work on New Years Eve and New Years Day in partnership with various contemporary art institutions.
Exhibition Curator, “Planet of Weeds” featuring Garrett Lockhart, Nikki Woolsey, and Suzanna Zak, at Crutch Contemporary, Toronto, on view July 12—August 11, 2019.
Event Curator, “2020” featuring Anton Vidokle, Zeesy Powers, Angus Tarnawsky, at Crutch Contemporary, Toronto, July 7, 2019.
Exhibition Curator, “First A Radical, and Second, an Optimist” featuring Grayson Alabiso-Cahill and Tony Cokes, at Crutch Contemporary, Toronto, on view February 08—March 24, 2019.
Exhibition Curator, “Iron Smirk: Action Art 1976-81” featuring Lumír Hladík, at Bunker 2 Contemporary, Toronto, on view Mar 15—Apr 01, 2018.
Education and Public Progamming Fellowship
Art Gallery of Ontario
09/2016 - 05/2018
Developed public programming initiatives aimed at youth engagement with the permanent collection, including pop-up exhibitions, artist talks and workshops. Supported the museum's contemporary art curator in researching the collection.
Curatorial Research Assistant
Gallery TPW
05/2017 - 10/2017
Led research on the ‘educational turn’ in contemporary art programming, producing a comprehensive report on global museum trends that informed the gallery's public outreach and engagement strategy. Conducted comprehensive research on museum education trends across 50+ international institutions.
Founding Director
Bunker 2 Contemporary
Bunker 2 Contemporary was a project space based out of a repurposed shipping container, providing much-needed exhibition opportunities for emerging, experimental artists in Toronto. The space was active November 2016 to September 2021.
Bunker 2 Contemporary
Bunker 2 Contemporary was a project space based out of a repurposed shipping container, providing much-needed exhibition opportunities for emerging, experimental artists in Toronto. The space was active November 2016 to September 2021.
1/2 Exhibition Curator, “Conservatory” featuring Ronan Stewart, on view May 11 —June 4, 2017.
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1/3 Exhibition Curator, “long pause” featuring Robert Anthony O’Halloran, on view September 17—October 8, 2017.
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