ART EXHIBITIONS
Solo Shows [after 2017]
2023 “Flatland” - Studio 103, SEATTLE, WA
2023 “Folding In” - Thomas Architecture Studios, OLYMPIA, WA
2022-2023 “Trancending Boundaries II” - Yuan Ru Art Center, BELLEVIEW, WA (Dec-Feb)
2022 “CoCA Heals” – Harborview Hospital Emergency Department break rooms, SEATTLE, WA
Juried Group Shows [after 2017]
2025 “Around the Square” — Studio 103, SEATTLE, WA
2023 “JIM CROW MUST GO” – Center on Contemporary Arts (CoCA) SEATTLE, WA; book published Sep 2023
2022 “LIKE MOTHER 2022” - University House, SEATTLE, WA
- juried by June Sekiguchi
2021 - 2023 “ART IN THE TIME OF CORONA | A Global Art Project”, Dab Art Co., LA, CA
- online gallery: Jun 2021 - Dec 2023. Book published Feb 2022
2021 “The FL3TCH3R Exhibit 2021” — JOHNSON CITY, TN Best in Show
2021 ART MARATHON – CoCA, SEATTLE, WA
2021 “REFLECTION” - Nuu Muse Gallery, DALLAS, TX
2020 “ICON 2020” – Lynn Hansen Gallery, SEATTLE, WA
2020 “2020 VISION” – Center on Contemporary Arts (CoCA), SEATTLE, WA
2020 “Rose Quartz” – Envision Arts, online (Dallas, TX)
2019 “Wide Open 10” – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, BROOKLYN, NY
- juried by Ylinka Barotto, Assistant Curator, the Guggenheim Museum, NCY, NY
2019 “Recycle 2019” – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), BROOKLYN, NY Certificate of Recognition
- juried by John Cloud Kaiser, Director of Education at Materials for the Arts
2019 “Motherland” – Center on Contemporary Arts (CoCA), SEATTLE, WA
- juror: Amanda Manitach, former Visual Arts Editor at City Arts Magazine
2018 “Creativity Persists” – Center on Contemporary Arts (CoCA), SEATTLE, WA
- juror: Jodi Bento, Director, Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Gallery
2018 Seattle Recycled Arts Festival, Juried Arts – Phinney Center, SEATTLE, WA
2018 Really Affordable Art Show – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, BROOKLYN, NY.
- juror: Brinda Kumar, curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Met. Museum of Art, NYC, NY
2018 “Jewish Words” – Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga, Jewish Cultural Center, CHATTANOOGA, TN
Solo Shows [prior to 1999]
1998 “Whispered Stories” - Gang Gallery, NYC, NY
1997 “Hard Sensualism” - Gang Gallery, NYC, NY
1994 Introductions: “First Convergence” - New Gallery, HOUSTON, TX
1993 “Works in Bronze” - New Gallery, HOUSTON, TX
Juried Group Shows [prior to 1999]
1998 “In/Out Sites” - Agora Gallery, NYC, NY
1997 “17th Annual Faber Birren Color Show” - STAMFORD, CN
- juror: Naomi Urabi, curator, The Whitney Museum, NYC, NY
1997 “Primitive Works” - New Gallery, HOUSTON, TX
1997 Group Show - Gang Gallery, NYC, NY
1996 Group Show - Gang Gallery, NYC, NY
1995 Mannequin group show - New Gallery, HOUSTON, TX
1995 “Confluence” - Hill Country Arts Foundation, INGRAM, TX
- juried by Peter Doroshenko, Director, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum
1994 Annual Houston Retablo Show - Lawndale, HOUSTON, TX
ART RESIDENCIES
2026 (upcoming) Château D’Orquevaux International Artists’ and Writers’ Residency, ORQUEVAUX, France
2023 Château D’Orquevaux International Artists’ and Writers’ Residency, ORQUEVAUX, France (Sep)
ART MEMBERSHIPS, CURATING, & VOLUNTEERING
Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle, WA (member and volunteer since 2018)
Coordinated and led on-line artist discussion groups to facilitate connections amongst CoCA members, particularly during Covid
Curator, Gallery CEL - Instagram page @Gallery.CEL
Featured and sold work by artists who were struggling financially due to Covid. All profits went directly to the artists.
American Guild of Judaic Art
Set up and curated the Guild’s Instagram page @AmericanGuildofJudaicArt, Jun 2019-Nov 2020
“Origin Story” - Designed and co-curated the online annual online art show, 2020 https://jewishart.org/walanka-2020/
board member, 2019-2020
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EDUCATION
1990 - 1996 THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY NYC, NY
PhD thesis: “CORTICAL MECHANISMS of COLOR VISION”. Laboratory of Neurobiology (Torsten Wiesel)
1984 - 1988 RICE UNIVERSITY HOUSTON,TX B.S. in Electrical Engineering, emphasis in Bioengineering
WORK EXPERIENCE
2014-2017 CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WA
Senior Research Associate, Center for Integrative Brain Research
2007-2014 HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE, MA
Assistant Professor, Center for Brain Science
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOSTON BOSTON, MA
Department of Neurology
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL BOSTON, MA
Department of Neurobiology
2004-2006 HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL BOSTON, MA
Instructor (Research Faculty), Department of Neurobiology
2002-2004 BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, RI
Investigator (research faculty), Department of Neuroscience
1996-2002 BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, RI
Postdoctoral Research Associate, laboratory of Barry Connors, Department of Neuroscience
SELECTED ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
Landisman CE, Long MA, Beierlein M, Deans MR, Paul DL, Connors BW. Electrical synapses in the thalamic reticular nucleus. J Neurosci 2002;22(3):1002-9. http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/1002
Landisman CE, Connors BW. Long-term modulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian thalamus. Science 2005; 310:1809-13.
Press Coverage:
- Hughes SW and Crunelli V. Hardwiring goes soft: long-term modulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian brain. Cell Science 2006.
- Stern P. Editor’s Choice: Modification of Electrical Synapses. Science, STKE 2005, tw457 (2005).
Haas JS, Zavala Z, Landisman CE. Activity-dependent long-term depression of electrical synapses. Science 2011; 334:389-393.
Press Coverage:
- Perspectives, Hestrin, S. The strength of electrical synapses. Science 2011; 334:315.
- Synaptic Plasticity: Tuning electrical synapses. Research Highlights, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2011; 12.
- Verrico, CD. Does neuronal activity affect the strength of electrical synapses? Physiology, Feb 2012.
Wang Z, Nealy RA, Landisman CE. Activation of Group I and Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Causes LTD and LTP of Electrical Synapses in the Rat Thalamic Reticular Nucleus. J Neurosci 2015; 35(19): 7616-7625.
Press Coverage:
- Teresa Esch. mGluRs Induce LTD and LTP of Electrical Synapses. This Week in the Journal, J. Neurosci 2015; 35(19): i.
Coulon P, Landisman CE. The Potential Role of Gap Junctional Plasticity in the Regulation of State. Neuron 2017; 93: 1275-1295.