b. 1969, Falls Church, Virginia
Education
2000-2002
MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1989-1990
Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China
1987-1991
BA, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Awards
2007
Best Documentary (Trina's Collections), DIGit Media Exposition, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
Best Film (Trina's Collections), Chlotrudis Short Film Festival, Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film
2006
Juror's Award, ArTech – New Media Works, California State Fair
2005
Mediamaker Award, Bay Area Video Coalition
Individual Artist Grant, City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program
2002
Herringer Prize, Mills College
Mills College Graduate Teaching Assistantship
2001
Murphy & Cadogan Award, The San Francisco Foundation
Mills College Graduate Research Grant
Nell Sinton Scholarship
2000
Mills College Graduate Research Grant
1999
Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
Selected Exhibtions
2008
Coming of Age, Crawl Space, Seattle, WA
Reconciling America, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Love/War/Sex, Exit Art, New York, NY
Open Skies: Tinkadelic, COCA Center for Outdoor Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Oh Johnny, WGBH Digital Mural, Boston, MA
Artbots, The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006
Bound: Works by Graciela Carrillo and Ellen Lake, Mama Buzz Gallery, Oakland, CA
Flora & Fauna, Hobby Horse, Berkeley, CA
2005
By Any Means Un/necessary, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
2004
Geek-tique 3: The Geek-tique Roadshow, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Artbots: The Third Annual Robot Talent Show, The Mink Building, New York, NY
This is Arizona?, Collective Gesture, Tempe, AZ
2003
Time and Transcendence, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
2002
The L-7 Project, Crocker Galleria, San Francisco, CA
Cream: The Right Stuff, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
Bay Area Student Sculpture Biennial, Pacific Rim Sculptors, San Francisco, CA
Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2001
Murphy & Cadogan Award Exhibition, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
Paintings by Ellen Lake, Peter Najarian, and Chuck Overton, Fig Tree Gallery, Berkeley, CA
15th Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
Interpreting the Human Form, Fig Tree Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1999
ArtShipFoundation, Jack London Square, Oakland, CA
Neighborhood Windows Project, City of Oakland, Oakland, CA
Selected Screenings
2008
SWan Day Screening, Swan Day RI at the Artists' Exchange, Cranston, RI
Women with Vision, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
On the Move, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Rotterdam VHS Festival, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, NL
2007
Fast Women, Astrodime Transit Authority RI, Lowell, MA
Hearsay: Open Space Arts Centre, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, New York, NY
MadCat Women's International Film Festival, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA
New York Experimental, The Tank, New York, NY
Extremely Shorts X, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Monkey Town Semiennial, Monkey Town, Williamsburg, NY
Boston CyberArts Festival, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Venturous Vanguard Video Festival, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angleles, CA
Winter Screening, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Monument Recall, Central Cinema, Seattle, WA
Chlotrudis Seventh Annual Short Film Festival, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
FREEDM Films, Noise Pop Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Winter Screening, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rotterdam VHS Festival on the Road, Foundation VHDG, Leewarden, Netherlands
2006
Apple Cider Screening, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Chlotrudis Seventh Annual Short Film Festival, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Bay Area Shorts, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Microcinema International: Summer Edition 2005, Central Cinema, Seattle, WA
24 Hour Film Festival, Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), New York, NY
Scanners: 2006 New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater, New York, NY
Zeitgeist International Film Festival, Zeitgeist, San Francisco, CA
Rotterdam VHS Festival, Robert Fruinstraat 35, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival], Hell Gate Social, Astoria, NY
Ms. Films Festival,, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
4th R-Eject Film Festival, Binnenwegplein, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2005
Microcinema International: Summer Edition 2005,
Diverseworks, Houston, TX
Itau Cultural Center, Sau Paolo, Brazil
Subterranean Cinema Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, TX
Golden West Saloon, Albuquerque, NM
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Apple Cider Screening, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Shorts: Collections Program, 21st Film Arts Festival, Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Ms Films Festival Northwest Tour
911 Media Center, Seattle, WA
Yes, Yes Alliance, Olympia, WA
Liberty Hall, Portland, OR
The Long Haul, Berkeley, CA
Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Small Film Festival, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Lost Film Festival, Rotunda Theater, Philadelphia, PA
Gadabout Traveling Film Festival, The Globe Cafe, Bethleham, PA
Reel Venus Film Festival, Symphony Space, New York, NY
Cross Currents, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Cross Currents, Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart, Germany
Ms. Films Festival
Flicker Theater, Athens, GA
PS1 Theater, Durham, NC
Tucker Theater, Williamsburg, VA
PXL This 14 Video Festival
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Vidiots, Santa Monica, CA
TURNOFF, Acorn Gallery, Highland Park, CA
9th Annual ASU Short Film & Video Festival, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
UP CLOSE: And Personal, Two Boots Pioneer Theater, New York, NY
Video Time: Work in Series, Ellen Lake & Michael Trigilio, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
New Video Work on the Brink, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
OUT/EX, Artist's Television Access, San Francisco, CA
3rd International Video Festival, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
2004
PXL This 14 Video Festival, Dudley Cinema at Sponto Gallery, Venice, CA
Monument Recall, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
LABoratory Exhibition of Experimental Film & Video
Provo Arts Center, Provo, UT
Tower Theater, Salt Lake City, UT
The Collections Series, Axlegrease/Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
MadCat Women's International Film Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Cleveland's Outdoor Film Festival, Overlook Park Shorts, Cleveland, OH
Tinkering! Film Series, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Reel Venus Film Festival, Symphony Space, New York, NY
Flicker Film Festival, Project Space 211, Winston-Salem, NC
Ladyfest Seattle, Capitol Hill Art Center, Seattle, WA
Repetition and Obsession, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA
Press Play Video Series: Visions of Excess, Attack Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
Flicker Film Festival, Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide, Australia
Rotterdam VHS Festival, Off_Corso, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Flicker, Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
Obsessive Absence: Ellen Lake and Catherine Ross, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
T-10 Video Festival, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
20,000 Leagues Under the Industry
51 Buckingham, Pomona, CA
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
7th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival
Santa Barbara Contemporary Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Grand Central Art Center, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Video MixTape Volume 3
Lucky Tackle, Oakland, CA
Pond, San Francisco, CA
Rotterdam VHS Festival, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Cement Wall Cinema, Foreign Cinema, San Francisco, CA
PXL This 12 Video Festival
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Vidiots, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Counterflow, August Coppola Theater, San Francisco, CA
PXL This 12 Video Festival, Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA
Alternative Requirements, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
IFP Buzz Cuts, The Pioneer Theater, New York, NY
PXL This 11 Video Festival, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Hi! Mom Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
Signal Flow Festival, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2001
PXL This 11 Video Festival
Vidiots, Santa Monica, CA
Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA
PBS, Egg Art Show
Viva La Video, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Film Arts Foundation Screening, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
Video Pieces, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Teaching, Lectures, Broadcasts, Curatorial Projects
2008
Collector Documentarian, Spoiler Alert Radio Podcast, 88.1 WELH, Providence, RI
2007
Tinkadelic: Scratch Film Workshop, Open Skies: Gilman Playground, San Francisco, CA
Fast Women: INtransit vol 2, a bi-annual video art journal, Astrodime Transit Authority, Lowell, MA
Finalist, War Stories Open Call (Oh Johnny), WGBH Lab, Boston, MA
Eye Am: Season Three, Episode Seven, MNN.org, Time Warner Channel #34, New York, NY
Guest Artist, Video: Collections Series, Park Day School, Oakland, CA
2006
Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens, MNN.org, Time Warner Channel #34, New York, NY
Guest Lecturer, The Language of Painting, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Pandora Box, Co-curated with Elliot Lessing and Heike Liss, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2004
Guest
Lecturer, Visual Dynamics 3D: Memory, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
Artist’s Talk: On Your Own, Griffins Foothill Middle School, Walnut Creek, CA
2002
Artist’s Talk, Cream: The Right Stuff, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA
Video Instructor, East Bay Media Center, Summer Media Camp, Berkeley, CA
LaExtravaganza@DasMuseum, Co-curated with Heike Liss, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Teaching Assistant, Arts 161-166: Advanced Painting, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Guest Lecturer, Arts 10286: Advanced Electronic Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2001
Teaching Assistant, Arts 009-109: Beginning Painting, Mills College, Oakland,
CA
Guest Lecturer, Art History Seminar: Contemporary Women Artists, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1999
Art Teacher, Johnson Elementary School, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Art Instructor, Berkeley Food & Housing Project, Berkeley, CA
1994
Studio Art Teacher, Art Enrichment Program, Pine Ridge School, Williston,
VT
Articles
2008
"The State of Video Art," Jen Graves, The Seattle Stranger, March 5, 2008
“Reconciling America,” Valerie Imus, Shotgun Review, March 2, 2008
"Coming of Age at Crawl Space," Jim Demetre, Artdish, February 25, 2008
2007
“War and Sex,” Michèle C. Cone, artnet.com, December 28, 2007
“Picks of the Week,” Sarah Giovanniello, feminist.bloggers@brooklynmuseum, December 7, 2007
“ArtBots: Robot Talent Show invades the Esther M. Klein Gallery," A.D. Amorosi, Art Matters, June.
2006
“Where Does Heart of Gold Sleep,” Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, August 20, 2006
"Pack Rats," Rachel Swan, East Bay Express, July 6, 2006
2005
"Short Cuts: Film Arts Festival Highlights," Johnny Ray Huston, San
Fracisco Bay Guardian,
November 4, 2005
"These Movies are Women's Work: Ms. Films Festival Starts Today," Craig Lindsey,
newsobserver.com, February 17, 2005
2004
"Showoff: Collectors bare unknown troves," Joyce Slaton, sfweekly.com, October 13, 2004
"Nothing Robotic About Robo-Art," Cyrus Farivar, wired.com, September 20, 2004
"Artbots 2004," www.neural.it.com, hactivism, e-music, new media art, September 16, 2004
"Obsessive Absence," Nirmala Nataraj, SFStation.com, January 12, 2004
"Cultural Stimuli in SF: This week's flavor - ART," Flavorpill.net,
Issue 89, January 13 - 19, 2004
2002
"Coming To You in Glorious Pixelvision," Lynn Smith, Times Staff Writer,
November 9, 2002,
latimes.com
"Best New Artists Come to Benicia," Lily W. Heyen, August 11, 2002,
benicianews.com
"The Living Museum," Ariel Thomas, Mills Now, Spring 2002, Mills College,
Oakland, CA