Born on July 29.

Enrolls at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and takes summer courses at Ohio University.

Studies drawing and printmaking for a year at the University of Chicago.

Graduates from Ohio University with a major in drawing and printmaking.

Travels to France and Spain.

Enrolls at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a master’s degree in fine arts two years later.
Begins to use language in her work.

Moves to New York after being accepted into the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Creates the Truisms series of aphoristic texts, which she prints and hangs anonymously on walls in Manhattan.