Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY - 2013

Bachelor of Arts, Eugene Lang College, New York, NY - 2013

Performances

2017, AAMAA, Taragaon Museum, Kathmandu Triennale

2017, Earthly Bodies, director: Anna Halprin, 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco

2017, Walking with Milk, performed with Ashmina Ranjit, Monali Meher, Alice Fox and Marie Julia Bolansee, Kathmandu Triennale, Nepal

2017, AAMAA performances, Siddhartha Art Gallery

2017, Ma (part 1-4) film, exhibited Siddhartha Art Gallery

2017, Performance for Body, performed with Keepa Maskey, Siddhartha Art Gallery

2016, Sensory City, choreographer: Anna Halprin, San Francisco, CA

2015, Henri, The Smith Center for Performing Arts, Las Vegas, NV 

2014, Working Title: Henri, North American Cultural Laboratory, NY, NY 

2013, One Day in the Life of Henri Shnuffle, Loomstate, NY, NY 

Exhibitions

2017          Ma: A History of Us, Siddhartha Art Gallery

2016          Mitini, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, NYC, NY

2014          Displacement, Third Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2012          Postcards to North Brooklyn, Arts @ Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY

2012          12th Street Literary Journal, NY, NY

2011           Loveable, Huggable, Gallery Hanahou, Soho, NYC

2010          Palimpsest, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY

Awards

2017          Fulbright Creative Arts Research Grant, Nepal

2017           MAP Fund Finalist, NY, NY

2017          Outside Agency Grant, Las Vegas, NV

2016         Outside Agency Grant, Las Vegas, NV

2015         MAP Fund Finalist, NY, NY

2014         Nevada Humanities Grant, Las Vegas, NV

2014         Caesars Foundation Grant

2014          Isabella Geriatric Center, Board Member, NY, NY

2013          Clinton Global Initiative Commitment Winner, St. Louis, MO

2012         Parsons Student Senate Grant, NY, NY

2012         The Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Eugene Lang

2008        Eugene Lang College Academic Achievement Award, NY, NY

2008        Parsons School of Design Dean’s Award, NY, NY

Press

2017, Irina Giri, The Person in a Woman, Kathmandu Post

2017, Embodiment of Mother, The Himalayan Times

2017, Telling the Dancers from the Dance, Kathmandu Post

2017, Zeenat Nagree, Making Place: A Report on the First Kathmandu Triennale, Biennal Foundation

2016, NYTimes, Fraying at the Edges, Cover Story, NYC, NY

2014, Las Vegas Sun, Arts, John Katsilometes, ‘Henri’ Plays a Powerful Melody at the Smith Center

2014, Las Vegas Weekly, Jacob Coakley, The Alzheimer’s Focused ‘Henri’ Makes for a Challenging – and Rewarding – Experience

2014, Channel 8 News Now, Discussion about ‘Henri’ Performance at Smith Center for Performing Arts, Arts Review, October 20th

2014, Vegas Magazine, Making Memories, Seth Olenik

2014, Las Vegas Weekly, Playwright Ryan Reid brings the realities of Alzheimer's to center stage, Kristen Peterson

2013, New York Times, Theater Neil Genzlinger, A Long Day’s Journey Toward Infinite Night

2013, Hyperallergic, Arts, Allison Meier, Can Theatre Help us to Better Understand the Elderly?

Residencies

2017          Patan Museum, KCAC Artist Residency, Patan, Nepal

2016-17      Anna Halprin Performance Lab, Kentfield, CA

2015          Art Farm, Nebraska

2014          North American Cultural Laboratory, NY, NY

2013          Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2012          Arts @ Renaissance residency, Brooklyn, NY

Panels + Symposiums

2017, Post-Modern Dance in Nepal, Fulbright South & Central Asia Conference in Kolkata, India

2017, Ephemerality in Art, Kathmandu Triennale, Symposium Series

2017, Women Creating Collectively, Kathmandu Triennale, Symposium Series

2017, Ma: A History of Us: Creating Artwork with Multi-Generational Nepali Women, U.S. Embassy, Nepal

2015, Alive Inside: Music Therapy for Persons with Alzheimer's, University Nevada, Reno

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