Billy T’s CV

Upcoming events in bold, followed by most recent events

Summer 2025 Yah Yah Collective installation in the Buddy Window at the Chicago Cultural Center

Spring 2025 Graduate Assistant for the Anthropocene Lab/Art Garden/Living Materials Lab with Professor Beate Geissler

Spring 2025 UIC’s Sarah Isaacs Award

Spring 2025 UIC’s Student Funded Sustainability Award

Spring 2025 - Graduate Assistant for Sound Sorcery course with Professor Deborah Stratman at the School of Art and Art History at UIC

January 2025 Charcoal Making Workshop w/ Elise Ro Bison

Fall 2024 - Technical Assistant for Intro 16mm Class with Edgar Jorge Baralt at the School of Art and Art History at UIC

August 2024 - Attending Northwestern Universities’ Phytogram Workshop

August 2024 - Starting graduate school at UIC’s School of Art and Art History

August 2024 - Attended Northwestern Universities’ Media Aesthetics Summer Institute: Shared Grounds with discussions led by Ayesha Omer, Thomas Patrick Pringle, Weihong Bao, Debashree Mukherjee, and hosted by Dilip Gaonkar and Michael Metzger

July 2024 - Glass House Green Garden A pencil drawing titled “The Tower and the Well” was placed along a trail and was featured for two days amongst about 20 artists work.

May 2024 - SAAH Art Prize Award

May 2024 - Started Volunteering at UIC’s Art Garden

May 2024 - Radical Drabble Festival “its two yahs” super 8 film by yah yah was featured, and it was co-curated with Tania Kelly and I. I also ran all the technicals from the booth.

May 2024 - BFA Summa Cum Laude at at UIC’s School of Art and Art History

April 2024 - Transcience - UIC Thesis 2024 show featured “its your choice” was comprised of 31 Xerox photos of clothes, 2 water color paintings and fabric black and white photo print with a 16mm animation loop projected onto it, as well as slide projector featuring 31 slides in an adjacent room, as well as the 16mm/8mm film titled “we always wanted to move to the country”.

April 2024 Interspace Film Festival - 2 separate programs on 2 separate nights which included collections of films cut and collaged. Seiya Abe Bell’s film Remnants of the Ceaseless and Brian Castillos Captive Tolerance Assessment were also shown. I worked on both films as AD, Cinematographer, Sound and even some acting in CTA.

March 2024 - Co-founded yah yah with Seiya Abe-Bell, Veronica Prueneda, Brian Castillo, and Dan Meinhart

February 2024 - Received a scholarship and attended Union Docs (NYC) In the Wings: Edgelands and Atmospherics led by Deborah Stratman, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Mary Helena Clark

January 2023 - UIC’s School of Art and Art History Talent Tuition Award

August 2023 - UIC’s School of Art and Art History Talent Tuition

April 2023 - upstream(2022) was featured amongst in Emmanuel Ramos Barajas’ Working Process Moving Image Screening at UIC’s Behavioral Sciences Building

February 2023 - Co-founded Photo Club w/Diana Bowden, Beth Kotz, Greg Fitzsimmons, Raine Yung, Meg Eastwood, Brian Castillo, Adam Orellana, Natasha Rac, and Maren Celest

January 2023 - UIC’s School of Art and Art History Talent Tuition Award

August 2022 - Started at UIC’s School of Art and Art History

May 2022 Graduated at Wright College and received an AFA Studio degree

May 2022 Warmth at Wright College Theatre

March 2022 Admitted to School of the Art Institute

July 2021 Untitled photo and Becoming at When They Open the Books group show at USS Gallery

November 2019 Desolation Slow screening, Moon Palace, Minneapolis, MN

May-August 2019 The music of the Allen Killian-Moore Ensemble, from the 2017 Drone not Drones event, where I played guitar was featured in Allen’s exhibition, “I Am What Is Wrong With World” at the Duluth Art Institute

April 2019 Saltless Sea Cinema Presents: 2012 - 2013 part 1 seasons, Nordic Center, Duluth, MN

January 2019 Desolation Slow screening, Teatro Zuccone Zeitgeist, Duluth, MN

December 2018 Desolation Slow debut screening, Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL

Sept 2018 LOOPS group show at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY

July-October 2018 A Garden of Pomegranates group show at U.S.S. Gallery Nomadic Projects, Chicago, IL

August 2017 Started at Wilbur Wright Community College

February 2017 first solo photo show The Annex, Chicago, IL

GED 2002 Truman College