An Elephant Terrible / Visual Poet / Stadtarzt based in Barcelona.
With one eye looking to the past and the other to the future, I have fallen more times than I care to admit, but luckily I have found the ground beneath my feet to be an inspiring place. The world of asphalt has informed my works, which search for meaning, contradictions, beauty, and destruction inherent with our sordid relationship with the city.
I have a (relatively) formal education based on the intersection of fine arts, architecture, spatial design, performance & queer theory. The cherry on top of this scholastic sundae takes the form of a PhD Cum Laude in Design from BAU College of Art & Design/Universitat de Vic for my thesis "Trouble-making Place-making: Dissident Bodies, Deviant Acts, and the Queer Art of Undefining Urbanism".
Born outside of Philadelphia, I have lived, laughed, loved, and lost, in Harrisburg, New York, Vienna, Linz, Porto, Valparaiso, São Paulo, Prishtina, Durrës, and Barcelona. Perhaps coming to a port near you.
Education
- PhD in Design, Cum Laude - BAU · College of Arts & Design/Universitat de Vic (Barcelona, ES) – 2026
- Master’s degree in advanced studies in Design - Escola Tècnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (Barcelona, ES) - 2021
- MA with Distinction - Space & Design Strategies - Kunstuniversität Linz - 2018
- BA with Distinction - Space & Design Strategies - Kunstuniversität Linz - 2014
Selected Spectacles
- 2025 - Creativity Under Limitiation - Bulevard Arts & Media Institute (Tirana, AL)
- 2025 - Atlas of Ruins Vol. 2 [Photography Publication - STH Press] (Florence, IT)
- 2024 – Raumteiler Sommerfest (Linz, AT)
- 2024 – DissenyHub (Barcelona, ES) – Pure Gold: Upcycling (video work in traveling exhibition)
- 2023 - Arts Can Batlló (Barcelona, ES) – Parets de Contes: Teixits Parlants (Walls of Stories)
- 2022 - The Royal @ Royal Society of American Art (New York, US) - NOIR
- 2021 - Dissenyem comerç [publication] (Barcelona, ES) – Monuments for Diversity
- 2019 - Spatial Cultural Festival (Novi Sad, RS) – Seeing the invisible: Spatial Provocations
- 2019 - LLLLLL Gallery (Vienna, AT) – H.O.M.E. is a four letter word – solo exhibition
- 2018 - Edificio Lutetia (São Paulo, BR) - Residência Artística FAAP Open Studio
- 2018 - Galeria Incendio (Valparaiso, CL) – 24 hr Performance
- 2017 - Schauspiel Köln (Cologne, DE) – Die Stadt Von Morgen (The City of Tomorrow)
- 2016 - Centro Cultrale Ex Vetreria Di Pirri (Cagliari, IT) – Postcards from the Future
- 2016 - Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, ES) – Intervention during “Documents d’acció” exhibition
- 2015 - 2. Centenniale (Gottsbüren, DE) -
- 2015 - Mikser Festival (Belgrade, RS) – Black Box Exhibition
- 2014 - Galeriehaus (Wels, AT) – Urban Sketching
- 2014 - WUK (Vienna, AT) – Essays On Identity Questions
- 2013 - Edificio AXA (Porto, PT) – Exposição Finalistas API
- 2008 - South Street Seaport (New York, US)– East Village Radio Festival
- 2006 - Warehouse Gallery (Miami, US) - YoungArts Finalist Exhibition
Speaking Engagements
- 11.2025 - Invited Speaker at the 5th International Forum on Architecture and Urbanism: Power, Space & Culture conference, Polytechnic University of Tirana
Talk entitled: “Queer Temporalities, Set in Stone: The Politics of Permanence Of LGBTQ+ Monuments”
- 10.2025
– Keynote Speaker at DesignMatters. Nurturing Inclusive and Innovative Design Research: Diversity in Design conference,
Sapienza University of Rome
Talk entitled: “To queer or not to queer, that is .... a question”
- 06.2024 – Invited speaker / Moderator at Urban Futures - Cultural Pasts conference, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Talk entitled: “Largo do Arouche: São Paulo's Queer Battlefield”
- 12.2022 – Invited speaker at the 1st International Platform in Architecture and Urbanism: Architectural Identity of the City conference, University of Pristina
Talk entitled: “Towards a queer urbanism?”
Publications
- Book Chapter: "Largo do Arouche, São Paulo's Militant Battlefield". About Streets: Perspectives on Urbanism, Architecture and Placemaking [p.402-411]. Springer Publishing. 2025. ISBN 978-3-031-84230-6
- Article: "Balkan Eyes: Surveying Pristina through queer eyes". Dearq Journal of Architecture, no. 40 [p.64-72]. Universidad de los Andes. 2024.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq40.2024.07
- Article: “Trouble-making Place-making: Towards a Queer Urbanism”. ARCHITECTURAL IDENTITY OF THE CITY: 1st International Conference on IPAU 2022: Book of Proceedings. Faculty of Architecture (FA) – University of Prishtina “Hasan
Prishtina” (UP). 2024. ISBN 978-9951-00-325-4
- Co-Author: Dissenyem comerç. L'Eixample Esquerra de Barcelona : design studies. Iniciativa Digital
Politècnica, Oficina de Publicacions Acadèmiques Digitals de la UPC. 2022. ISBN: 978-84-19184-55-9
