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Education

Bachelor’s in Fine Art, Calarts (2011)

Master’s in Fine Art, Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of Art (2025)

Select Exhibitions

With Casey Kauffmann at Human Resources, 2022

“Final Fantasy Art Show” at Human Resources, 2016 (curator)

“Who is Ken Sugimori?” solo exhibition at Human Resources, 2015

“The Great Pokemon-athon” at Chin’s Push, 2014

“Legendaries and Mega-Evolutions” at Sunday, 2014

“Avalanche” at Kchung Radio, 2013 (curator)

Performances

Super Gay, a podcast for comic book gays with Alexandro Segade, on the Linoleum Knife network (2018-2021)

“Daytime” at Machine Project (2016)

American Grizzly at Night Gallery (2014)

“Untitled Shake Weight Performance” at MOCA Geffen (2014)

Lectures

Visiting Artist Lecture at Cornell (2021)

Pokemon at the Hammer Museum (2014)

"My Little Brony" Segment on A&E's Storage Wars (2014) 

Press

LIFE AIN’T EASY FOR A BOY NAMED SUE- SUSANNE HUBER ON CASEY KAUFFMANN AND JOHN DE LEON MARTIN AT HUMAN RESOURCES, LA (Texte Zur Kunst, 2022)

AN ARTIST TRIED TO DRAW MORE THAN 700 POKÉMON FOR A ONE-NIGHT EXHIBITION (LA Weekly, 2015)

CATCH ‘EM ALL: CAN A POKEMON TOURNAMENT BE AN ARTWORK? (Art in America, 2014)

NETWORKED TELEVISION as a part of Kchung (Artforum, 2014)

ONE ARTIST’S BIZARRE CAMPAIGN TO WIN THE HAMMER MUSEUM’S ART PRIZE - (LA Weekly 2014)

Painting on a Radio Canvas as a part of Kchung (New York Times, 2014)

Hammer Host’s Pokemaniac at Pokemon Panel (Daily Bruin, 2013)

Animal Welfare (volunteering)

Sante D’Or foundation, 2015-2016

Earthfire Calarts Artist Residency, 2011

Equilibrio Azul, 2010

Gibbon Conservation Center, 2008-2014

Castaic Animal Shelter, 2008-2011

Communidad Inti Wara Yassi, 2007 and 2010