Education
2023 MFA, Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, RI
2023 Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art + Design, conferred with Collegiate Teaching Experience Rhode Island School of Design, Providence , RI
2019 BFA, Ceramics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Liminal, solo exhibition, Fine Arts Work Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Pitch Pipe Choir, solo exhibition, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA*
2025 hiccup, solo exhibition, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2026 Total Flow: NewInc Showcase curated by Mindy Sue, 2026, New Museum, New York, New York
Fine Arts Work Center Resident Showcase, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2024 Everywhen, International Symposium for Electronic Arts, KEPK Gallery, group exhibition, Brisbane, Australia
2023 Interior Atlas: Reimagining Research, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Sound in Space, Sound in Place, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Amica Pavillion, Providence, RI
2022 No White Walls, Yale Sculpture Gallery, group exhibition, New Haven, CT
Transitory Void, CyberArts Boston, Boston, MA
1+1=22, RISD Digital + Media Biennial Exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2021 LOL, Fairgrounds Projects an Immersive Art Museum, Permanent Collection, St Petersburg, FL
2020 Kore: Leitmotif, Exhibition at the Morean Center for Clay, St.Petersburg, FL
2019 Kore: In the Round, Annex Show, Downtown New Bedford, MA
BFA Group Exhibition, University Gallery at UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth MA
2018 CONNECT Student Design Competition, SOFA Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL
Crosscurrents: Movements in Contemporary Ceramics, Highfield Hall and Gardens, Falmouth, MA.
2017 Gifts from the Fire, Arch Contemporary Ceramics, Tiverton, RI
20/30 Gustin Anagama & Watershed Anniversary Exhibition, Dartmouth, MA
Visiting Artist/ Residencies/Panels
2026 Visiting Artist and Designer Fellowship at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY*
Visual Arts Fellowship , Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Creative Science Track Member , New INC at the New Museum, New York, New York
Juror, Part Time Faculty Research Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2025 Visual Arts Fellowship , Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Creative Science Track Member, New INC at the New Museum, New York, New York
Juror, Sound Art and Experimental Music Residency 2026, Selection Panel, Bemis Center , Omaha , Nebraska
Juror for Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Third Annual AI Film Festival Hackathon, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Sound Art + Experimental Music 2025 Artist-In-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2024 Visiting Critic, School at the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Thesis Show
Artist in Residence, ACRE Projects, Stuben, WI
Awards
2026 Visiting Artist and Designer Fellowship at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY*
Visual Arts Fellowship , Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2025 Visual Arts Fellowship , Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Residency Sponsorship by the Mellon Foundation, Sound Art + Experimental Music Artist-In-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2024 Part Time Faculty Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Homiens Art Prize, longlisted, France
2022 Graduate Commons Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Digital + Media Assistantship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2021 Digital + Media Assistantship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2020 Individual Artist Grant, St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, St.Petersburg FL
Teaching
2026 Instructor - Intro to Physical Computing, Fall, RISD, Art and Computation, Sophomore Core Curriculum
2025 Instructor - Ambient Interfaces Activated Objects, Fall, RISD, D+M/CTC, Grad/Undergrad
Instructor - Intro to Physical Computing, Fall, RISD, Art and Computation, Sophomore Core Curriculum
Instructor -3D Foundations: Spatial Dynamics , Fall, RISD, EFS, Freshman
Student Advisor, Sculpture MFA Thesis Committee, RISD
2024 Instructor - Ambient Interfaces Activated Objects, Fall, RISD, D+M/CTC, Grad/Undergrad
Instructor - Ambient Interfaces Activated Objects, Fall, RISD, D+M/CTC, Grad/Undergrad
Instructor -3D Foundations: Spatial Dynamics , Fall, RISD, EFS, Freshman
Instructor - Ambient Interfaces Activated Objects, Wintersession, RISD, D+M/CTC, Grad/Undergrad
Guest Critic, Photography MFA Thesis Committee, RISD
2023 Instructor - Ambient Interfaces Activated Objects, Fall, RISD, D+M/CTC Grad/Undergrad
Instructor -3D Foundations: Spatial Dynamics , Fall, RISD, EFS, Freshman
Instructor - Dada Instruments , Wintersession, RISD, D+M, Grad/Undergrad
Professional Experience
2026-2027 Visiting Assistant Professor in Art and Computation, RISD, Providence, RI
2023- 2026 Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Digital+Media, Art and Computation, and Experimental Foundations, Providence, RI
2022 Exhibition and Artist Liaison graduate assistantship for RISD D+M, Providence, RI
Install Lead- Design Art Technology Institute of Massachusetts presentation of Artists, Do Huh Suh, Rael San Fratello, & Abier Seikaly, New Bedford, MA
2023 Shelter Summer Series, New Bedford, MA Assistant, Design Art Technology Institute of Massachusetts, 2023 Shelter Summer Series New Bedford, MA
2021 Install Lead- Design Art Technology Institute of Massachusetts presentation of Swiss Artist Zimoun, 2021 Water Summer Series, New Bedford, MA
Creative Technologist, Fairgrounds St Pete, development and opening of an 15,000 sqft immersive Art and Technology Space, St Petersburg, FL
Art Handler, St. Cate Fine Arts Services, St Petersburg, FL
2017-2020 Studio Manager to Sculptor Chris Gustin, Gustin Ceramics LLC, Dartmouth. MA
2019 Installer -Public Art firm Poetic Kinetics , Los Angeles CA , Design Art Technology Institute of Massachusetts 2019 Summer Series Wind, New Bedford, Massachusetts
2018 Design Lead for CONNECT Student Design Competition at SOFA Expo in Chicago, IL
2015-2016 Ceramic Studio Assistant Manager and Instructor, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Selected Bibliography
Selected Bibliography
2026 Provincetown Independent, Artist Feature, “Making Music for an Unexpected Choir”, Antonia DeSilva, Apr 8
Provincetown Independent, Show Review, “A Turn Toward the Domestic”, Emma B Jones, Feb 26
2025 Chicago Reader, Art Review “Queering Sound”, Christopher Reeves, June 26
2024 RISD News, “Interdisciplinary Sculptor and RISD Alum Brian Oakes Sees Tech as Vital Artistic Medium”, Simone Solondz, November 25
2023 Boston Globe, “Sound in Space Sound in Place an aural experience”, Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent, May 2
RISD web, “RISD’s Graduate Class of 2023 Presents Thesis Work in Wide-Ranging Exhibition”, Simone Solondz, June 1
2020 St Petersburg Arts Alliance, “St. Pete Individual Artist Grant 2020 Winners”, John Collins, May 20