Inquiries/contact

shroads@usc.edu

Education

California Institute of the Arts. BFA awarded 2003.

University of California, Riverside. MFA awarded 2014.

Experience

 USC Roski School of Art & Design. Laboratory Technician. Los Angeles, CA. 2015 – present.  Technical Specialist & Lab director to students/faculty/staff, budget analysis, equipment acquisition and maintenance, and student worker management.

Jenny Holzer. Technical Designer (remote). Los Angeles, CA. 2015-2016. Technical designer for CNC engraved permanent installation in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

 Mash Industries. CNC Programmer. Los Angeles, CA. 2015-2017. CNC programming & product engineering for Mash Studios. clients including Facebook, GitHub, and Uber

 69 & Holly Herndon. Designer. New York, NY. 2014. Designer and fabricator for performance installation at the Guggenheim Museum

 69 & Bjarne Melgaard. Designer/ Illustrator/ Fabricator. Oslo, Norway 2015. 3-D architectural and environmental rendering and fabrication for upcoming exhibition at the Edward Munch Museum.

 Anthony Pearson. Designer/ Illustrator. Los Angeles, CA. 2014 3-D design and rendering for upcoming public art project for LAXart.

 University of California, Riverside. Teacher’s Assistant. UCR. 2012-2014. Teacher/student correspondence, grading, lecturing, class management and instruction on a variety of skills including video, music, animation, and web production.

 Gluck Foundation for the Arts. Web Designer and CMS manager/publisher. UCR. 2013. Implementing site architecture and management for the Gluck Foundations UCR web portal, as well as designing web educational tutorials for Gluck administration.

 KB Projects.  Project Manager / Fabrication Tech. Brooklyn NY 2007-2010.  Project management, fabrication, cost analysis for large scale sculpture commissions for artists such as Kelly Walker, Richard Prince, Kai Althoff, and Paul McCarthy.

 Atta Inc. Fabricator. New York, NY. 2006-2007. Furniture and sculpture fabrication and design implementation.

 The Pearl. Environmental designer and lead fabricator. Jacksonville, FL. 2006. Environmental designer for 4000 sf. night club.

 Jason Meadows. Part-time studio assistant to the artist. Los Angeles, CA. 2005. Duties included: crating, woodwork, painting

 Haim Steinbach. Assistant/intern to the artist. New York, NY. 1999.

Certifications

Autocad 2010. Mastercam X from CDM Institute.

Awards

 MFA Graduate Fellowship Award. UC Riverside. 2013-2014.

CARL Residency. Culver Center for the Arts. 2012

California Institute of the Arts Grant 2002

California Institute of the Scholarship 2001

SIGES Scholarship 2000

Exhibitions

 Present & Accounted For. Group exhibition. USC Ed & Gayle Roski Gallery. Los Angeles, CA 2023.

Monster. Group exhibition. Culver Center for the Arts/ Sweeney Gallery. Riverside, CA. 2014.

Perfect 69/Assembly. Group exhibition/pop-up store. Space 15Twenty. Los Angeles, CA. 2013.

Boom. Group exhibition. Den Contemporary/Pacific Design Center. Los Angeles, CA. 2012

Drag & Logged Sculptures + Noise Drawings. Solo exhibition. Culver Center for the Arts. 2012.

An Arm and a Leg. group exhibition at Errant Garrison Gallery Brooklyn, NY 2008

Fresh. group exhibition at Basement Gallery Los Angeles, CA 2004

Untitled. solo thesis exhibition at Calarts Valencia, CA 2002

Problematic. group exhibition curated by Charles Long at Calarts Valencia, CA 2002