sifts through digital and social milieu
using photography to interrogate precarious times. Humor accompanies multi-layer realities told and recreated through modern media and technology. Nostalgia is an entry point of access to the work, allowing viewers to overindulge and share in 21st century feelings.
Trina holds a BA in Photography and an MFA in Visual Studies. Research on our lives online and through image have been presented at PCA/ACA, SECAC, and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Visual research has been published by Birchwood Palace Industries.
EDUCATION
MFA in Visual Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2021
BA in Photography, California State University Sacramento, 2013
BOOK & ZINE
vickies.online, Birchwood Palace, 2024
Do It Yourself/Hang In There Baby (3rd printing), Birchwood Palace, 2023
Let's Go On a Date!, self-published, 2019
Chimps'n'Shit, self-published, 2018
Hire Me, You Mother Fucker, 2018
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Center of Photography for Non-Photographers, PCA/ACA, 2023
Social Media and The New Banal Photo, PCA/ACA, 2021
Health Humanities in Times of Crisis Symposium, Smart Art Museum, 2021
Keeping Us Conformed: A brief History on the Punk Zine, SECAC, 2020
2020 Quarantine: 100 Days of Space, SooVAC, 2020
EDITORIAL
AWARDS
Minnesota State Arts Board Individual Artist Grant, 2022
MCBA MCAD Collegiate Fellowship, 2021
