Biography

Education

 

B.A., General Studies, Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 2002

M. ID, Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 2008

 

Affiliate Member, International Association of Lighting Designers


 

Exhibitions

 

2017

Illuminant Surfaces Owen James Gallery

 

Inside The Kaleidoscope, Portland Winter Light Festival, Portland OR

 

2012

Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, WA , as part of the

exhibit: George Nakashima: A Master’s Furniture and Philosophy

 

Beth Takekawa, Affordable Art Fair, Seattle, WA,

 

2011

ArtXchange, Seattle, WA


 

Commissions

 

Remains Clock, Long Island City, NY. Remains Studio (Matthew Barney)

 

Turtle Creek Campus, Dallas TX. Architect: Mithun (Ken Boyd), Seattle, WA

 

L&C Tower, Nashville, TN. Architect: Gensler (Abram Goodrich), Washington, D.C.

 

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New York, NY. Architect: ARO (Jane Lea), New York, NY

 

Couch Penthouse, Boston, MA. Architect: Hacin +Associates Inc. (Rebecca Rivers)

 

Green Light New York. Architect: Richard Yancy

 

Museum of the City of New York. Design Team: Joseph Studios, NY (Chris Cooper), NY, NY

 

Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. Architect: Tod Williams Billie Tsien, NY (Felix

Ade)


 

Awards and Publications

 

Lumen Award, Citation for light installation. IES New York, 2015

 

Merit Award, 31st International Lighting Design Awards, International

Association of Lighting Designers, 2014

 

“A+Light People's Choice Award," A+Light, Architizer, 2014

 

Jurors’ Choice, CoD+A Awards (Collaboration of Design + Art), 2013

 

Merit Award, CoD+A Awards, 2013

 

SARA National Design Award, 2013

 

Aaron Seward, “In Focus: Starlight at the Museum of the City of New York,”

Architectural Lighting Magazine, September-October, 2014

 

COD|A Magazine, March 2014.

 

Ward, Logan, Star Power, Architect Magazine, September 2013, pp.52, 54

 

McWhirter, Georgina, “We Go Together,” Interior Design Magazine,

August 2013, Volume 84 Number 10, p.191.52-54