EDUCATION
2006     MFA, Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA
2000     BFA, Painting & Graphic Design, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024    Fragments of Reality: Exploring the Imagined and the Seen, Rasmussen Art Gallery,

            Pacific Union, College, Angwin, CA

            Group Crit: MFA Painting and Sculpture 1969–2024, 808 Gallery, Boston University,

            Boston, MA

            Up-cycle, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Curated by Mirabel Wigon & Frank Stockton

2022    17th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, (Recipient of Juror's

            Award), Juror: Kevin B. Chen, Resident Curator, San Francisco State University Art

            Gallery

            Vibrant Exploration, Works in Representational Abstraction, Curated by Omar Thor

            Arason & Manuel Fernando Rios, The Barn Gallery, Woodland, CA

2021    Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, York, Juror: Sangram Majumdar

2019    6th Annual Juried Art Show, Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA, Juried by

            Nancy Lim, Assistant Curator of Painting & Sculpture, SFMOMA, and Carin Adams,

            Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of CA

2018    Here and Now, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
            Holding the Center, Group show including works by Wynne Hayakawa, Stephanie Peek,                  Deborah Kirklin & Stephanie Sanchez, Skyline College Art Gallery, San Bruno, CA
2017    The Landscape Show, Curated by Michael Holden & Peter Schenck, Park Place Gallery,                  Brooklyn, NY
2016    Home: Contemporary Art in the Bay Area, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland CA
            stART up Art Fair, San Francisco, Pro Arts Gallery
2015    30 Painters to Collect, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
            Summer, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
            Botanica: All Things Plant Life, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Juried by Ken

            Harman, Director, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA & MacKenzie Stevens,

            Curatorial Assistant, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
            Solo Exhibition, Cañada College Art Gallery, Redwood City, CA
2014    Convergence, 60th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston University,
            College of Fine Arts, Boston MA
            NUTUREart Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
            Summer Show: Focus on Painting, Group show including works by Mattia Barbieri, Alice                Browne, Franklin Evans, Jocelyn Hobbie, Paul Pagk, Andrey Zignnatto, FL Gallery,
            Milan, Italy
            U:L:O: Part II Paper for the Sky, Curated by CAVE, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
            Downstate/Upstate Blackburn Exchange Show, The Ink Shop Printmaking Center,

            Ithaca, NY, Juried by Devraj Dakoji

2013    Time in My Borrowed Lives, Two-person show with Sean Downey, The University of

            Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME

2011    Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2010    Momenta Benefit 2010, Momenta Art, New York, NY
2009    Reunited: Boston University Alumni Exhibition, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2008    Postcards from the Edge Benefit, Visual Aids, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2007    Nightshift II: Hidden Hands, White Box, New York, NY
2006    Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
            Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA,
            Juried by Kiki Smith
            MFA Thesis Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2005    Graduate Summer Show, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
            Graduate Solo Exhibition, CFA Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA


REVIEWS/ARTICLES
2014    U:L:O: at Interstate Projects, Preview, By Nick Irvin, July 11, 2014, Art in America
            Whatever It Takes, by John Kidahl, The Coastal Post, May 14, 2014,  

            http://thecoastalpost.tumblr.com

2013    Image for book review by Carmen María Machado on Junot Díaz’s book, This is How

            You Lose Her, The Buenos Aires Review, www.buenosairesreview.org

2007    Subsidizing a Vision, ARTINFO, www.artinfo.com
2006    Scene, Snowmass Sun, Snowmass Village, CO


AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2018    The Hopper Prize Grant Finalist, Juried by Patricia Restrepo, Assistant Curator,

            Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, & Mia Lopez. Assitant Curator, DePaul Art

            Museum, Chicago
2017    Nominee, Tosa Studio Award at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2006    Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist-in-Residence, Snowmass Village, CO
            Freedman Prize Winner, Boston, MA
            Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Nominee
            Kahn Award Nominee
            Joseph Fellowship, Boston, MA
2005    CFA Visual Arts Scholarship, Boston University, Boston, MA
            Constatin Alajalov Scholarship, Boston University, Boston, MA
2003    Vermont Studio Center, Artist-in-Residence, Johnson, VT


TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016    Drawing II, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
            Drawing I, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
2015    Printmaking: Monotypes, Representational Painting, Drawing I,
            Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
            Approaches to Painting, University of California, Berkeley
            Intermediate Painting and Beginning Painting, University of California, Davis
2014    Beginning Painting and Intermediate Drawing: Color, University of California, Davis
            Drawing I, San Francisco City College Continuing Education, San Francisco, CA
            Drawing I, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
            Children’s Art Club, Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View, CA
2013    Painting I and II, Life Drawing I and II, Gallery Techniques, Senior Seminar,
            Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
2005-2006 2-D Design, Teaching Assistant, Boston University, Boston, MA
            Drawing I, Teaching Assistant, Boston University, Boston, MA
2000-2001 Preschool – Eighth Grade, Kollage Community School for the Arts, Belmont, CA