CV | shows Education: 2022 MFA in Sound, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2017 Deep Listening Certificate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2014 Bachelor of Arts, Music (voice), University of Mary Washington Bachelor of Science, Psychology, University of Mary Washington Selected Exhibitions & Performances: 2026 single channel radio installation, Grunt’s Radio, curated by Lia Kohl 16 channel performance (piano and voice), Piano and a Partner Perhaps — Elastic Arts solo performance, Common Sage Arts — Madison, WI solo performance, Not Not collaborative performance, Daylight Savings Time Vortex, Bookclub Chicago synth/vox in Anna Johnson band, Psychfest, The Hideout solo performance, with Bug Jazz, Sweat FM, and Kevin King Regime, Burlington Bar presentation, Sound Bath, Dorothy Downstairs solo performance, opening for Sam Prekop and Zander Raymond, Empty Bottle 2025 collaborative performance with =RYN= feat. Moth Cock, Tasha’s Hideous Laughter and Support, Cole’s Bar, presented by Hausu Mountain 4D Girlz album release with Rin Peisert/RXM Reality, 404 not found, Zach Moore, Empty Bottle 8 channel sound installation & deeply choir performance, Sonic Pavilion Redux, Experimental Sound Studio solo performance, CHAR with Bitcrush + Deidre, Mina Mills, and Sulffffur, California Clipper commissioned vocalist, Raven Chacon’s American Ledger no. 3, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, presented by the Renaisssnce Society 16 channel performance, Pleiades Series — Elastic Arts PN & SL on tour, Partners & Son — Philadelphia, PA PN & SL on tour, secret location — Ridgewood, NY PN & SL on tour, Green Lodge — Chatham, NY Paige Naylor & Sarah Lutkenhaus on tour, Selva — Brooklyn, NY collaborative performance with Ro Lundberg and Andrew Tham, Ro Lundberg’s by-passing-upon, Watershed Art & Ecology 4D Girlz, supporting Bonfire Madigan, Color Club solo performance, with Flesh of Fruit and Trucker Spouse, California Clipper 24-channel sound installation & deeply choir performance, ESS’s Sonic Pavilion Festival 2025 24-channel sound installation, ESS’s Sonic Pavilion Festival 2025 solo performance, with Carey/Beisel/Miller trio, Comfort Music Series solo performance, with Zander Raymond and leshy, Marmalade Preserve solo performance, supporting Briana Marela with Lula Asplund, Empty Bottle 4D Girlz, The Courtyard — Chicago, IL collaborative performance with Haruhi Kobayashi, Color Club sound collab with poets Cecily Chen, Alex Cope, Phoebe Kaufman, Franscesca Kritikos, & Léon Pradeau, Sidekicks — The Whistler visiting artist, Maria’s Burundarena & Alberto Aguilar’s Party As Form, Ox-Bow School of Art collaborative performance with Sharon Udoh, Vincent Davis, & Ben Willis, Side Yard Sounds — Compound Yellow duo performance with Haruhi Kobayashi, Elastic Arts Benefit 2025 DJ set, SAIC Faculty Strike Fund Benefit, Co-Prosperity Sphere DJ set, Maria Plotnikova’s Ok Let’s Talk About You Instead, Leroy Neiman Center Olivia Block trio, Variations Festival — Nantes, FR Olivia Block trio, Rewire Festival — The Hague, NL solo performance, TriTriangle — curated by Nick Meryhew collaborative performance, opening for Lia Kohl’s The Sound is in the Telling — Roman Susan solo performance in quadraphonic sound, Compound Yellow video installation, Sound Sculptors Union, New Media Contemporary — Dallas, TX 2024 solo performance, Cactus Club — Milwaukee, WI 16-channel sound performance, Freedom From, Freedom To — Elastic Arts 4D Girlz, supporting Angel Bat Dawid and JOBS — Color Club solo performance, Orange Noise, The Capsule — curated by Chris Reeves 16-channel sound performance, Chicago Laboratory for Electro Acoustic Theatre Olivia Block trio, 2200 Arts and Archives — Los Angeles, CA Olivia Block trio, Indexical—Santa Cruz, CA Olivia Block trio, The Lab—San Francisco, CA solo performance, supporting Zelienople, Constellation — Chicago, IL Paige Naylor + Haruhi Kobayashi on tour, Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project PN + HK on tour, Public Records — Brooklyn, NY PN + HK on tour, Rhizome — Washington, D.C. PN + HK on tour, Visible Records — Charlottesville, VA PN + HK on tour, Cave Valley Kava — Louisville, KY PN + HK on tour, Kerr Foundation — St. Louis, MO PN + HK on tour, The California Clipper — Chicago, IL 7.1 sound installation and performance, The Lawn Series — Chicago, IL sound collab with poet Léon Pradeau, P.O. Box Collective Poetry Series — Chicago, IL solo performance, Out of Thick Air, Compound Yellow — Chicago, IL solo performance, LANGWE JART, Elastic Arts solo performance, No Nation – Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab — Chicago, IL solo performance, EXP/VOX, Tritriangle — Chicago, IL live electronics, collab with Ruby Que, [We Don’t Know Yet] What a Cinema Can Do, Onion City Film Festival Paige Naylor Album Release Show (with Olivia Block & Lula Asplund). Constellation 2023 sound designer, ‘Ok, Let’s Talk About You Instead’, collab with Maria Plotnikova, Museum Villa Stuck — München, GE 4dGirlz Music Video Release Show, Digital Art Demo Space — Chicago, IL solo performance, Green Noise. Granite City Art and Design District, curated by Chris Reeves PrrPrr & Die Physiker, Comfort Music. Comfort Station — Chicago, IL soundwalk, Hearing the Horizon at Northerly Island Park — Chicago, IL soundwalk, Ecovoice Project, Evanston Ecological Center 2022 solo performance, The Wire 40 x ESS Streaming Festival solo performance, Soft Noise. The Plan — Chicago, IL, curated by Chris Reeves solo performance, Elastro Series. Elastic Arts soundwalk, Hybrid Listenings at West Ridge Nature Preserve — Chicago, IL Spectre Song film screening, WAVEFORMS, Gene Siskel Film Center — Chicago, IL sound/light installation, IMPACT Performance Festival, SAIC Galleries 2021 solo performance, The Documentarian Showcase. Chicago Cultural Center Ghostmail sound installation, Terrain Biennial 2021, Hyde Park Art Center Olivia Block Trio, Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea. The Empty Bottle Shhh sound/performance installation, Zhou B Art Center (Waveforms) — Chicago, IL Sonant Arboretum 16-channel sound installation, Elastic Arts soundwalk, Sympathetic Resonance at Columbus Refectory — Chicago, IL solo performance, Vox Effusis vol. 4. The Quarantine Concerts voice/electronics, A Brief Lament, collab with Seth Sexton, Mana Contemporary lighting designer, the bird thinks not of gravity, collab with Llio Zogra, Impact Performance Festival At SAIC 2020 sound designer, Revenant, collab with Anthony Sims, Adds Donna — Chicago, IL new media performance, Abandoned Practices online, Lumpen Radio solo performance, The Quarantine Concerts. Experimental Sound Studio pnqbud (NON) sound/video screening, collab with Ryan Maguire and Jason Robinson, SEAMUS performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Vox Populi — Philadelphia, PA performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, D.C. Arts Center performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Baltimore Theatre Project 2019 performer for Seth Sexton’s Stack, School of the Art Institute of Chicago solo performance, No Nation Art Gallery — Chicago, IL collaborative performance, New Blood, Links Hall — Chicago, IL performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Black Iris — Richmond, VA performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Dwell — Washington, D.C. performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Samek Art Museum — Lewisburg, PA solo performance, Waveforms, Experimental Sound Studio — Chicago, IL performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Jefferson Theatre performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Camp Corduroy Festival pnqbud, The Southern Cafe & Music Hall — Charlottesville, VA performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Live Arts performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, The Southern Cafe performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Telemetry Series pnqbud, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative — Charlottesville, VA solo performance, Telemetry Music Series, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative solo performance, Fern Hill Series: A Tribute To Waltz, Fry’s Spring Beach Club Curation: 2024 [We Don’t Know Yet] What a Cinema Can Do, Onion City Film Festival — Chicago, IL 2024 Co-Founder, Chicago Sonic Commons Video installation, Elastic Arts Annual Benefit — Chicago, IL 2022-24 Program Director, MSAE Summer Soundwalk Series 2023 Elastro AV Festival, Elastic Arts — Chicago, IL 2022- Elastro Series, Elastic Arts — Chicago, IL 2021 WAVEFORMS, Zhou B Art Center — Chicago, IL MIMA Ad Lib, The Bridge Progressive Arts — online Archivist for Aural Neighborhoods, Open House Chicago Co-Founder, Sound Sculptors Union 2019 Arts Fellow, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative 2017-19 Deep Listening Series, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative Honors & Awards: 2025 Comfort Station 2025 “Artist to Watch” 2021 Chicago Makers Fund 2020 Graduate Dean Professional Development Award (SAIC) 2019-22 Full Merit Scholarship (SAIC) 2014 Mu Phi Epsilon Sterling Achievement Award in Music 2012-13 Anne F. Hamer Music Scholarship Residencies: 2023 Chop Wood, Carry Water 2021 Terrain Biennial 2021 2020 The Neighbors AIR 2018 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Presentations: 2024 Making Multichannel Music, Chicago Laboratory for Electro Acoustic Theater 2022 Graduate Artist Talk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2019 Visiting Artist, Eric Leonardson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Visiting Artist, Noel Lobley, University of Virginia Service: 2024 Admissions Panelist, ACRE Residency 2022 Jury Panelist, Ohio Arts Council 2020 Jury Panelist, Seamus Miniatures 2020 Album