Princeton University
Joint Ph.D., Architecture; Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
Doctoral Dissertation: The Organization of Life: Architecture and the Life Sciences in Britain, 1921–1951 (Dissertation Supervisor: Spyros Papapetros)

Princeton University
M.A., History and Theory of Architecture

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
MDes, History and Theory of Architecture

Concordia University
MFA, Studio Arts, Photography, Installation

Ryerson University
BFA (Hon.), Photography

Texas State Galleries, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX (Forthcoming)

HumanTRANSforms, an installation and social sculpture produced for the Mellon Research Forum on the Urban Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Cambridge, MA

Continuous Structures, Espace 528, Centre d’art Belgo, Montréal, QC

Esther Choi & Jeanie Riddle, Galerie Thérèse Dion, Montréal, QC

Relative Room, Relative Space, Toronto, ON

Gemini (In collaboration with Leigh Davis), Bourget Gallery, Montréal, QC

Running with the Devil (with Katia Taylor) Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, ON

Changes of State, with Anthony Acciavatti, a pedagogical performance for Water Futures, curated by Jane Withers, A/D/O, Brooklyn, New York, (Nov. 28-29, 2018)

The Store Show, an ad hoc variation on Asad Raza's The Home Show, hosted by Asad Raza, D. Graham Burnett, Jeff Dolven, and Brooke Holmes, Labyrinth Books, Princeton, NJ (April 25, 2018)

On Sympathy: A one-off Occasion hosted by Isabel Lewis, with Brooke Holmes, Michael Squire, Chiara Cappelletto and Esther Choi, as part of The Classical Now exhibition, Kings College London, UK (April 6, 2018)

Radical Pedagogies, 7th Warsaw Under Construction Festival, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (Oct. 12-Nov. 10, 2015)

Radical Pedagogies- Action-Reaction-Interaction, Venice Biennale 14th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy (June 7- Nov. 23, 2014)

Radical Pedagogies, Lisbon Triennial “Close, Closer,” Lisbon, Portugal (Sept. 12-Dec. 15, 2013) Curator: Jose Esparza

Break/Step, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY. Curator: Eileen Jeng

Horizon Variations, Camera Club of New York, New York, NY. Curator: Elizabeth Saperstein

Summer Group Show, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON. Curator: Gareth Brown-Jowett

Elektra Festival International Arts Numériques (10th Edition), Usine-C, Montréal, QC (May 1-10, 2009)

Group Show, Galerie Thérèse Dion (Espace 2), Montréal, QC

Ignition 3, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal, QC (Dec.7-Jan 6, 2007) Curator: Marie-Josée Jean and Michèle Thériault

Lucid, Concordia FOFA Gallery, Montréal, QC. Curator: Geneviève Cadieux

Décalage, The Parisian Laundry, Montréal, QC. Curator: Jeanie Riddle

Will Munro, Spin Gallery, Toronto, ON

Assistant Professor (Tenured 2012)
OCAD University, Faculty of Art
Depts. of Photography; Criticism and Curatorial Practice (CRCP); Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media, and Design (IAMD)

Lecturer
The New School
Dept. of Art and Design History and Theory

Assistant Professor, Adjunct
Cooper Union
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design Classics (New York/ London/ Munich: Prestel Publishers, Forthcoming).

Architecture Is All Over. Edited by Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2017).

Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else. Edited by Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter (Cambridge: Work Books, Inc./ MIT Press, 2010).

"A Nature Like Us: Round and Round with Frank Lloyd Wright," Guggenheim Museum. Web. (Forthcoming)

"Introduction: This Must Be the Place," Dash Marshall: Matter Battle, 45 Lessons Learned (New York, 2018)

"Disorderly Conduct: Reimagining a World Built with Lava," 032c/ SSENSE. Web.

“Second Lives” in Reaper: Richard Hamilton, Sigfried Giedion. ed. Carson Chan (Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2017).

“User Experience: Rick Owens New York,” 032c/ SSENSE. Web.

“Insides and Outsides: On 'The Other Architect'," Journal for Architectural Education. Web.

"An Appeal to Consciousness," Paprika - Fold: 3-01: Foundations. Yale School of Architecture Web.

“Introduction: The Crisis of the Crisis,” with Marrikka Trotter, Architecture Is All Over (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2017).

“New Power Generation: Interview with MOS,” PIN-UP Magazine (Fall/ Winter 2016-17). Link.

“Sociable Realism: On Assemble,” Artforum, vol. 54, issue 3 (November 2015): 133–34. Link.

“Atmospheres of Institutional Critique: Haus-Rucker-Co’s Pneumatic Temporality,” Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia., ed. Andrew Blauvelt (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2015), 31–43.

“On Covers, Connections, and Criticality: Interview with Günter Zamp Kelp, Haus-Rucker-Co” Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, ed. Andrew Blauvelt (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2015), 395–402.

“Unspeakable Signs: Interview with ONYX,” Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, ed. Andrew Blauvelt (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2015), 411–18.

“Natural Disasters,” Into the Wild, ed. Caitlin Sutherland (Hamilton: Hamilton Artists Inc., 2015)

“Photographic Architecture” (Book review), Art Papers (Jan. 2015): 63-4.

“Art Post-Internet Questionnaire,” Art Post- Internet (exh. cat.). Curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham (Beijing: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2014).

“From Object to Field: Sketches for a Virtual Ecology,” in Krabbesholm Høj Skole Studio by MOS (Skive: Krabbesholm 2013).

“Radical Pedagogies in Architectural Education,” with Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio Gonzalez-Galan, Anna-Maria Meister, The Architectural Review 233 (October 2012): 78-83. Link.

“How Does It Feel to Feel?,” Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else, eds. Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter (Cambridge: Work Books, Inc./ MIT Press, 2010).

“Airtight: A Conversation between Philippe Rahm and Esther Choi,” Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else, eds. Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter (Cambridge: Work Books, Inc./ MIT Press, 2010).

“Introduction: The Name of the Game,” with Marrikka Trotter, Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010).

"You're Not the Boss of Me Now: Assemble x Architecture Is All Over", Amica Dall, Joseph Halligan and Esther Choi in conversation, e-flux, New York, NY (Nov. 3, 2017)

Architecture Is All Over - Book Launch and Discussion, with Esther Choi, Marrikka Trotter, Rosalyne Shieh and Troy Schaum, A/D/O, Brooklyn, NY (Oct. 18, 2017)

An Evening with Assemble, with Paloma Strelitz, Fran Edgerley, Martino Stierli, Sean Anderson, Esther Choi, Michael Meredith, Bill Menking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (March 28, 2016)

Architecture Is All Over Symposium, with D. Graham Burnett, Jill H. Casid, Esther Choi, David Gissen, K. Michael Hays, Patty Heyda, Jennifer W. Leung, Sanford Kwinter, Trevor Patt, Andrew Payne, Olga Touloumi, Marrikka Trotter, Mason White and Alexander Hilton Wood. Co-presented by OCAD University and University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON (Feb. 11-12, 2011)


Photography Lecture Series with Anthony Goicolea, Manon de Pauw, Leigh Davis, Scott McFarland, OCAD University, Toronto, ON


Rem Brûlée and Other Hits: Social Alchemy as a Spatial Practice, Sci-Arc, Los Angeles, CA (Nov. 14, 2018)

"The Compositing Impulse," Architectural Design Studio: Collecting, Combining, Collaging Architecture—and Other Acts of Radical Reuse, Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, New York (Nov. 2, 2018)

"The Compositing Impulse," VIS-2226: Digital Media: Image, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA (Oct. 31, 2018)

"Walter Gropius's Last Meal in London (and recent projects)," Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA (October 30, 2018)

"The Nature of the Beast: Tecton and the Gorilla House at the London Zoo," Media and Modernity Doctoral Colloquium, Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ (May 15, 2018)

"Against the Architectural Imagination: Sustainability's Image Problem," Panel: Towards an Aesthetics of Geology in the Age of Anthropocene, Association for Art History Conference, King's College London and Courtauld Institute, UK (April 7, 2018)

“Microbes”, a conversation between Orkan Telhan and Esther Choi, Spring 2018 Mellon Research Forum on the Urban Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (April 2, 2018)

"Against the Architectural Imagination: Sustainability's Image Problem," Cranbrook Academy of Art, Architecture Lecture Series, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (March 21, 2018)

"Audience/ Experience" panel with Lucia Allais, André Brock, Esther Choi and Megan Sapnar Ankerson, moderated by Thom Moran and Laida Aguirre. Becoming Digital Conference, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, Ann Arbor, MI (Feb. 3, 2018)

"The Nature of the Beast: Tecton and the Gorilla House at the London Zoo," The Center for Experimental Humanities, New York University, New York, NY (Nov. 3, 2017)

Architecture Is All Over - Soft Book Launch and Discussion, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Planning (Sept. 21, 2017)

“Common Denominators: Biotechnics and Architectural Modernism," GSD HIS-04491: Narratives of Design Science, Harvard University GSD (March 24, 2017)

“Rethinking Radicalism,” Free Radicals Symposium, Cranbrook Art Museum (October 9, 2016)

"Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India’s Ancient River. A Discussion on Visualizing Environmental Change" with Anthony Acciavatti, Sean Anderson, Esther Choi, Upmanu Lall, Rhode Island School of Design, SY Partners, New York, NY (March 29, 2016)

“Frederick Kiesler’s Magic Architecture” Workshop led by Spyros Papapetros with Gerd Zillner, Laura McGuire, Stephen Phillips, Felicity Scott, Lucia Allais, Craig Buckley, Esther Choi, Michelle Fornabai, Romy Golan, James Graham, Nadine Helm, Steven Lauritano, Ara Merjian, Rachel L. Price, Effie Rentzou, Julian Rose, Carolyn Yerkes , Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ (April 24, 2015)

“Ornament and Evolution in ‘The Age of Force’.” Panel: Darwinism and the Evolution of American Architecture. Society for Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (April 15-19, 2015)

“Frederick Kiesler’s On Correalism and Biotechniques.”GSD HIS-04491: Narratives of Design Science, Harvard University GSD (April 8, 2015)

“On Frederick Kiesler’s On Correalism and Biotechniques.” Panel: Making Reality Visible: Redefining the Art and Reality Relation in the 21st Century. Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, OCAD University, Toronto, ON (Oct. 23-26, 2014)

"Trend Forecasting” discussion with Greg Fong, Sean Monahan and Emily Segal (K-Hole); Michael Rock; Michael Meredith; Axel Kilian; Lucia Allais; Alejandro Zaera-Polo; Carson Chan; Esther Choi; Liam Young. SoA Lecture Series, “The New How”, Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ (Oct. 8, 2014)

“From Shirts to Shelter: On Frederick Kiesler’s Biotechnical Correality.” Cornell University AAP, New York

“Atmospheres of Institutional Critique: Haus-Rucker-Co’s Pneumatic Temporality,” Panel: Artistic Research and Institutional Critique. Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, QC (Nov. 2, 2012)

"Artists’ Research Round Table" panel discussion moderated by Rebecca Duclos, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

Artist Talk, International Marketplace for Digital Arts Conference, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, QC

"On Fanzines and DIY Feminism," York University, Dept. of Women's Studies. Toronto, ON

Interview, Monocle on Design, “Who are the Pritzkers?”, Monocle Radio (June 12, 2018).

Robert Wiesenberger, Review of Architecture is All Over, Art Papers (Winter 2017/2018).

Matthew Scribner, “What is happening to architecture?” Concordia Magazine (Jan. 22, 2018)

Sammy Medina, “The Architecture Book Is Alive but Evolving,” Metropolis (Dec. 2017).

Kristina Ljubanovic, “It was all a dream,” Globe and Mail (Nov. 2, 2017)

Christopher Hawthorne, “Two decades after Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao, where does architecture stand?” Los Angeles Times (Oct. 12, 2017). Web.

Mollie Claypool, “Architecture Is All Over,” The Journal of Architecture vol. 22, 7 (Sept. 2017): 2162-65.

Sammy Medina, “Is Architecture Finished? Depends on How You Define It.” Metropolis vol. 36, 11 (2017): 162-65.

Jan Kattein, “Made in Architecture: Education as collaborative practice,” Architectural Research Quarterly vol. 19, 3 (2015): 295–306.

Terrence Dick, “Three Short Essays on Growing Up,” Fuse Magazine (May 2002)

John Gemmell, “Metalheads Are People Too,” The Eye Opener (Sept. 19, 2001

Richard Rogers Fellowship

Princeton Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities Travel Grant

Princeton Postclassicisms Global Collaborative Network Travel Grant

Princeton Interdisciplinary Humanities Doctoral Program Fellowship

Howard Crosby Butler Traveling Fellowship in Architecture, Princeton University

Henry N. Young III Fellowship, Princeton University School of Architecture

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Travel Fellowship

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Canadian Centre for Architecture–TD Bank Group Research Grant

Society for Architectural Historians Graduate Fellowship

Graduate School Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel, Princeton University

Joseph Sanford Shanley ’17 Memorial Award, Princeton School of Architecture

Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada Institutional Grant

Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Harvard Graduate School of Design International Student Grant

International Council for Canadian Studies Graduate Scholarship

Harvard University International Employment Award

Ontario Student Opportunity Grant

Centre Interuniversitaire des Arts Mêdiatiques Project Grant

Toronto Arts Council Media Arts Grant

Artist in residence, Concordia University, Dept. of Photography, Montréal, QC