EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA, Bachelors of Art, Art (Minor: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Societies and Culture) — Completed May 2024

North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, USA, Certification, American Sign Language (ASL) — Completed May 2025

(Note: This was a year long, accelerated program. I am not fluent in ASL. But, I aim to further my studies to attain fluency.)

Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, (Study in Kansai: Intensive Japanese Language), Exchange Program, — Spring Semester, March-August 2024

RESIDENCIES

Web Archiving School (WARC), Archiving The Black Web — In Progress

The Web Archiving School is Archiving The Black Web’s training program that aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience online.

Community Kai Cohort, Japanese American Citizens League, Twin Cities — In Progress

Community Kai is a program that aims to cultivate community connections that are rooted in relationship-based organizing, continuous improvement, collective liberation, and care.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Collections Manager, Memorialize The Movement, September 2024 - Present

Fine Arts Auction Intern, Revere Auctions, June 2024 - August 2024

Preparator Intern, Katherine E. Nash Gallery (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), August 2023- May 2024

Artist Liaison, Memorialize The Movement, January 2022 - August 2023

EXHIBITIONS

Night & Day: Murals, Movement, and Memory, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Paul, MN USA — September 2025

Cultivated through a year of planning and culminating in a partnership with St. Catherine University. The first partnership and exhibition of its kind.

Justice for George: Commemorate. Cultivate. Celebrate., Phelps Field Park, Minneapolis, MN, USA—May 2025

The final Justice for George Exhibition to date in which I curated alongside Memorialize The Movement founder and executive director, Leesa Kelly, for the largest exhibition of 2025. Once again, hosted just a block away from George Floyd Square in Phelps Field Park, the theme of this exhibition and event was radical joy.

Art and Artifact: Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, USA — September, 2024

Mosaic of Memoirs, Regis Center for Art West Gallery, Minneapolis, USA — May 2024

This was my undergraduate exhibition at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. I took on a curatorial role for my class and produced a catalog to highlight everyone’s work.

Minnesota Art Explosion, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN, USA — October, 2022

Protest Murals, Weitz Center for Creativity, Northfield, MN, USA —October, 2022

Festival for Change, Roseville Lutheran Church, Roseville, MN, USA —September, 2022

Justice for George: Our Strength, Our Story, Phelps Field Park, Minneapolis, USA —May, 2022

My first curatorial project where I curated alongside Memorialize the Movement founder and executive director, Leesa Kelly, for the largest exhibition of 2022. The annual outdoor exhibition is hosted to commemorate the death of George Floyd just a block away from George Floyd Square on 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis, MN.

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Leesa Kelly and Howard Oransky, Art in Action, Art and Artifact: Murals of the Minneapolis Uprising — 2024

My first published work that was released alongside the opening of my debut exhibition by the same name. I was a contributor on the catalog in which I wrote an essay titled “Art In Action”.

Jake Yuzna, Critics’ Pick, ArtForum —2024

Alexzia Shobe, Healing the wound at its source: Memorializing George Floyd, Spokesman Recorder — 2024

Hrag Vartanian, Lakshmi Rivera Amin and Hakim Bishara, 8 Art Books to Cozy Up With This October, HyperAllergic — 2024

Russ White, Art Alum Amira McLendon Curates Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising, University of Minnesota Department of Art — 2024

Brooks Turner, On Art and Artifact: Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising, TEMP MPLS — 2024

Sheila Regan, Art plays a critical role in how we remember George Floyd, MINNPOST — 2024

Sommer Wagen, “Art and Artifact” — collective memory, collective action, The Minnesota Daily — 2024