V is an interdisciplinary artist working across installation, moving image, sound, ritual performance, and writing.

Through long-term artistic research, they develop projects that investigate how aesthetic experience shapes attention, relation, and collective imagination. Their work unfolds through exhibitions, performances, films, and public programming that invite new forms of gathering, inquiry, and participation

Education

Rice University, Houston, Tx   Graduation: May 2025

• Major: Philosophy of Religion

• Concentration: Philosophy of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Media Studies

• Cumulative GPA: 4.0

• Thesis: Love Letters to Anne Carson: On Relational Ethics and Being with Time

Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA     Graduation: December 2017

• Majors: Philosophy and Religious Studies - Graduated with honors

• Cumulative GPA: 3.5

• Member of the National Society of Leadership and Success

• Thesis: Buddhist Philosophy of Emptiness and its Implications in Linguistic Meta-Ethics

Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan                                                                                                                               Spring and Summer 2016

• Study Abroad Experience - One Semester

• Competence in basic Japanese

• Studied Asian Philosophy and Religion

Curation & Exhibitions

Undone, New Orleans, LA                                         January 10 - January 30 2026
Group Exhibition; Curator & Exhibiting Artist

• Works exhibited: photography, sound piece, zine

• Curated a group exhibition exploring rupture, incompletion, and undoing as aesthetic and ethical conditions.

slip [the instrumentality project], Houston, TX                                           April 13 2025
Group Exhibition; Exhibiting Artist

• Contributed sound work presented on KTRU Rice Radio.

• Work: Against Fixed Rep

Performances

ArcheTexture, Rice University                                                   October 10 2024
Sculptural Performance

• Performance exploring horizontal temporal webbing, material memory, and embodied structure.

Soaring Silence, Rice University                                               December 13 2024
Sculptural Performance

• Performance-installation structured as a speculative temple for negation and listening.

Fire & Circus Arts 2011-2016
Public performances at festivals and club venues

• Including Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, Buku Music + Art Project, and an Alex Grey exhibition.

• Mediums: fire performance, movement-based performance, lyra hoop

Published Works and Media

Transformer Fall 2025
Rice University Arts Research Publication

• Contributed a visual sound work to Transformer, an interdisciplinary publication bringing together artists and humanities scholars to explore pedagogy, solidarity, and collective resistance through artistic practice.

Khimaira July 2025 - Present
Podcast / Experimental Interview Series

• Artist-run podcast exploring artistic practice, ritual, and philosophy through long-form conversations, essays, and sonic composition. Each episode investigates listening as a creative and relational methodology.

Anime Tarot Deck & Guidebook, Insight Editions                                                      June 7 2022
Author of guidebook

• Conceptual tarot publication combining divination, narrative structure, and anime.

SaturnVox 2020 - Present
Multimedia artistic platform

• Artist-run platform supporting V's interdisciplinary practice across installation, film, sound, writing, and public programming.

• Functioning as an evolving archive and online exhibition space, SaturnVox documents artistic research while presenting projects, publications, and curatorial initiatives.

On Love November 29 2025
Zine 

• Experimental artist publication combining poetic writing, embodied theory, and sound-based inquiry to explore grief, desire, relationality, and ethical attention.

Ghostling 2016-2018
Poetry zine, 6 issues

• Curated and wrote poems for each issue and distributed them around New Orleans

• Themes include eros, transformation, and haunting.

Autobiography of a Halfling‍ ‍‍ ‍November 29 2024 - Present
Ongoing blog and long-form writing project

• An evolving body of essays and experimental writing that documents and extends V's artistic research. Published through SaturnVox, the work investigates grief, transformation, relationality, and poetics across an evolving online archive.

Saturniidae Films                                                                                                  2026 – Present

Independent experimental film project

• Artist-run film initiative producing ritual and ecological moving-image works that explore attention, transformation, and more-than-human relations through experimental documentary and sound. Current works include How to Live Creaturely (2026) and Rite of the Alluvial (2026).

Skills

Sound art & audio editing • Experimental interviewing • Performance & ritual work

Zine production • Curatorial practice • Writing as artistic method

Listening-based research • Sound-based epistemology • Multimedia publishing