exhibitions

P U B L I C A R T

2012 MegaGlam On-the-Fence Lawn Sign Series
Wynwood Art District, Art Basel Miami Beach | Miami, FL

2012 MegaGlam Character Dresses
Art Basel Miami Beach | Miami, FL
Alien Camo dress acquired by Solange Guez Contemporary Art, Buenes Aires at Aqua12, Art Basel Miami Beach

2012 The Weather sKwirl Street Art Project
Wynwood Art District, Art Basel Miami Beach | Miami, FL

2011 MegaGlam Character Dresses
Art Basel Miami Beach | Miami, FL

2012–present SoNo Spaces | Bridgeport, CT
This is MegaGlam | rotating window installation showcasing kHyal’s street fashion + public art

2010 Main State Ventures Public Art Competition | Bridgeport, CT
Adventures of the Weather sKwirl: Part I | Glitterized Mural
Curated by Margaret Bodell, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY

2009 Indoor/Outdoor
Sweetport Festival | Bridgeport, CT
Blipworld Pop-up Store
Curated by Margaret Bodell, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY

1991 Art Not News
Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
Project led by artist Mark Dion | Curated by Anne Pasternak

1985 Ankrum Gallery | Beverly Hills, CA
Dumpster Painting Commissioned by Joan Ankrum

1985 Newspace Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Dumpster Painting Commissioned by Newspace Gallery

E V E N T S

2013 Affordable Art Fair | New York, NY
Represented by Solange Guez Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires

2012 A Better World by Design Expo | Providence, RI

2012 SoNo MART, MegaGlam Pop-up Store | South Norwalk, CT

2012 Icon 7, Rhode Show Bazaar | Providence, RI

2011 Pictoplasma Berlin
Character Walk exhibition at Pavillon der Volksbühne | Berlin, Germany

2010 12-11-10 Countdown | SoHo20 Gallery
Ellen Hoffman Fellowship Fund Benefit | New York, NY

2010 We Want Your Trash | A Better World by Design Gala
The Steelyard, Providence, RI

2010 GIF/t JAM | International GIF Animation Festival

2010 The Weather sKwirl
Elm City Handmade Etsy Street Team
Project Storefronts, New Haven, CT

2010 DesignerGrill Pop-up Store featuring The Weather sKwirl
Artspace City Wide Open Studios
Project Storefronts, New Haven, CT

2010 4heads Governors Island Art Fair
Represented by Umbrella Arts, New York, NY

2010 The Weather sKwirl Pop-up Store
during the SoNo Arts Celebration, South Norwalk, CT

2010 The Weather sKwirl™ Pop-up Store
Bridgeport 1st Annual Arts Festival, Bridgeport, CT

1998 Collect-o-Rama’ 98
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL

1998 Outsider Art Fair | NYC
Represented by Henry Boxer Gallery, London, UK

1997 Outsider Art Fair | NYC
Represented by Henry Boxer Gallery, London, UK

1997 The 10th Annual Folk Art Society Conference
Represented by The Chris Butler Group, Chicago, IL

M U S E U M . E X H I B I T I O N S

2010 Pictoplasma Paris Post Digital Monsters | la Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France

2008 Why Not?! | Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Curated by Helen Klisser During

2008 Benefit | New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2006 ARTview | City Museum, Washington, D.C.

1998 Error + Eros | American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Curated by John Maizels Editor/Publisher, Raw Vision Magazine, London

E X H I B I T I O N S

2013 ORANGE, American Society of Media Photographers + AIGA CT invitational, Spring Street Gallery | Chester, CT
2013 Imagined Worlds, Schelfhaudt Gallery, Arnold Bernhard Center, University of Bridgeport | Bridgeport, CT
2012 Artspace, City Wide Open Studios Alternative Space | New Haven CT
2012 EarthSpace, Postcard Project, Read’s Artspace/WAN | Bridgeport, CT
2012 Green, Read’s Ground Floor Gallery | Bridgeport, CT
2012 CADC GR8x2, Hygenic | New London, CT
2012 Empower, Read’s Ground Floor Gallery | Bridgeport, CT
2012 Character Development, BACC | Bridgeport, CT
2011 Facebook Fans, Umbrella Arts | New York, NY
2011 The Weather sKwirl Factory Open Studios, 305 Knowlton | Bridgeport, CT
2010 Comix, Gallery 305K | Bridgeport, CT
2010 95 Artists, Umbrella Arts | New York, NY
2009 Party in the Park | South Norwalk, CT
2009 BlipWorld™ at Indoor/Outdoor, Sweetport Festival | Bridgeport, CT
2009 Gala Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art | New Britain, CT
2009 Laurel House Experience, UCONN | Stamford, CT
2008 Indie Fashion Week, World Fashion Council | SoNo, CT
2008 8×8+1: Bending Pixels, Group88 | Simsbury, CT
2008 City Lights Gallery Members Show | Bridgeport, CT
2008 Lost + Found, City Lights Gallery | Bridgeport, CT
2008 Westport Arts Center | Westport, CT
2008 Spectacular, Artspace | New Haven, CT
2008 1st Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, UCONN Art Gallery | Stamford, CT
2007 Artspace City Wide Open Studios | New Haven, CT
2007 World Fashion Council at Lord & Taylor | Stamford, CT
2007 101 Dresses, Artspace | New Haven, CT
2007 INDWELLING, Cooper Union | New York, NY
2007 CADC onebyoneshow | New Haven, CT
2007 Benefit Show, Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
2007 The Buttonwood Tree | Middletown, CT
2006 Passion, Umbrella Arts | New York, NY
2006 Dia De Los Muertos, Rocking Horse Cafe | New York, NY
2006 New Haven City Wide Open Studios | New Haven, CT
2006 ARTview, City Museum | Washington, D.C.
2006 Spring Works, E3 Gallery | New York, NY
2006 Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
2006 Hygienic | New London, CT
2005 ARTview, City Museum | Washington, D.C.
2005 Dia De Los Muertos, E3 Gallery | New York, NY
1998 Clarion University | Clarion, PA
1997 Thundergulch, 55 Broad Street | New York, NY
1997 AUDART | New York, NY
1997 The Chris Butler Group | Branford, CT
1997 Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
1996 Bridges + Bodell | New York, NY
1996 Sacred + Profane, Common Boundaries | New York, NY
1996 DIESEL | New Haven, CT
1995 CODE, Ricco/Maresca Gallery | New York, NY
1995 Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
1992 Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
1992 Tang, Bridges + Bodell | New York, NY
1991 Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
1991 CADC One x One Show, John Slade Ely House | New Haven, CT
1987 Prehysteric Forms, Art In Heaven Gallery | New Haven, CT
1987 Holiday Rush, Artspace | New Haven, CT
1987 Small Space Gallery | New Haven, CT
1987 Ninth Square | New Haven, CT
1987 New Zone Gallery | Eugene, OR
1986 Ankrum Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
1985 Mark Cleighton McLaughlin Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
1985 Los Angeles Artist’s Call | Hollywood, CA
1985 Ankrum Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
1985 LA Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) | Los Angeles, CA
1984 Billboard Cafe | San Francisco, CA
1984 Haight-Fillmore Gallery | San Francisco, CA
1984 20 x 20 Gallery | San Francisco, CA

P E R F O R M A N C E . A R T
1992 La Mama Gallery | New York, NY
1988 Art in Heaven Gallery | New Haven, CT

A W A R D S . + . H O N O R S

2010 Main State Ventures Public Art Competition
Bridgeport, CT
Curator: Margaret Bodell, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY

2008 American Graphic Design Awards x 2 | Identity Design

2008 Connecticut Art Directors Club | Excellence Award

2008 UCONN Juried Photography Exhibition
First Place, Portraits
UCONN Art Gallery, Stamford, CT

2007 INDWELLING: Living in a Female Body
Cooper Union, New York, NY
The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute 25th Anniversary Photography Exhibition
Juror: Joyce Tenneson

2006 Passion | Umbrella Arts, New York, NY
Professional Women Photographers, Inc.
Juror: Elinor Carucci

2006 Dia De Los Muertos | Rocking Horse Cafe, New York, NY
Most Celebratory Juror’s Award
Julian Zugazagoitia – Director, Museo del Barrio
Carmen Melian – Director, Latin American Art Department, Sotheby’s
Maria Bonta de la Pezuela – Senior Specialist, Sotheby’s

2005 Dia De Los Muertos | E3 Gallery/Rocking Horse Cafe, New York, NY
Celebration Juror’s Award
Julian Zugazagoitia – Director, Museo del Barrio
Carmen Melian – Director, Latin American Art Department, Sotheby’s
Maria Bonta de la Pezuela – Senior Specialist, Sotheby’s

1998 No England, No Amsterdam III
Real Art Ways
Juror: Richard Vine, Managing Editor, Art in America

1997 AIGA BoNE [ Best of New England ]
Best Website Design for the design of wondriskarusso.com

1994 Visionary Voices
Legislative Office Building, Hartford, CT
Juror Award
Juror: Sal Scalora, Director: Atrium Gallery, Professor of Art, UCONN

L I V E . S T R E A M I N G . B R O A D C A S T S
1997 The kHyal™ Show | The American Film Institute via OnlineTV NYC
1997 Art Dirt | Pseudo Programs, NYC
1996 The Silicon Alley Reporter | Pseudo Programs, NYC
1996 Cherry Bomb Interview by Josh Harris | Pseudo Programs, NYC

O N L I N E . P E R F O R M A N C E
1997 kHyal™ on Hotstuff NYC

B O O K S
1997 Ltd. Edition Computer Self Portraits | Publisher: Le Friches de L’Art
1995 Killer Squirrel | Publisher: Post-Retro

B O O K . A R T
Mondo 2000: A User’s Guide to the New Edge by Rudy Rucker, R.U. Sirius and Queen Mu
Mutant Monkees Meet the Masters of the Multi Media Manipulation Machine by Davy Jones