Education
2006 MFA University of Delaware
2001 BFA Millersville University
Residencies and Related Work
2011, 07 Guest Lecturer – University of Delaware – Newark, DE
2008 Guest Lecturer, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts – Wilmington, DE
2008 Visiting Artist, Truman State University – Kirksville, MO
2008 Guest Juror – Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Truman State University – Kirksville, MO
2007 The Fabric Workshop and Museum; Apprentice Training Program – Philadelphia, PA
2007 Visiting Artist; Young Artists at Work summer art experience
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art – Boulder, CO
2007 Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency Program – New York, NY
2007 Visiting Critic, University of Delaware
2007 Guest Lecturer, The Art Institute of Philadelphia
2005-06 Instructor of Painting and Drawing, University of Delaware
2002 Vermont Studio Center, painting residency – Johnson, VT
2001 Chautauqua Institution, painting concentration – Chautauqua, NY
2001-02 Young Artist-In-Residence, Millersville University – Millersville, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2011 you make me nostalgic for a place I’ve never known, curator: Amanda Jirón-Murphy
Flashpoint Gallery – Washington, DC
2008-09 I will find us a path to everything we hope for, Constance S. and Robert J. Hennessy Project Space,
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts – Wilmington, DE
2007 all our plans that lead back to beginnings, The Hall – Crane Arts Building – Philadelphia, PA
2003 why don’t you take the day off and try to repair, Lancaster Galleries – Lancaster, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 (e)merge Art Fair, Flashpoint Gallery, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Washington DC
2010 The New Intimists, curator: Samantha Friedman, NURTUREart – Brooklyn, NY
2010 Nowhere: Selections from the Files of the Hand Drawn Map Association, curator: Kris Harzinski
Arcadia University Art Gallery – Glenside, PA
2010 I saved this for you, collaboration with Colleen Hooper, Topaz Arts – Queens, NY
2009 New Members Show, NEXUS / foundation for today’s art – Philadelphia, PA
2009 Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art, curator: Margaret Winslow
Maryland Art Place – Baltimore, MD
2009 Hand Drawn Map Association, curator: Kris Harzinski, Green Library, Florida International University
2009 Beyond Matter, University of Delaware MFA Alumni Exhibition, juror: Nora Lawrence
Crane Arts Building – Philadelphia, PA
2008 Connect to Future Modules, two-person exhibition, Pool Art Fair, Cavalier Hotel – Miami Beach, FL
2008 Absurd Situations, two-person exhibition, New Wilmington Art Association – Wilmington, DE
2008 NURTUREart 2008 Benefit, jurors: Koan Jeff-Baysa, Lowell Pettit, Amy Rosenblum Martin, Lilly Wei
James Cohan Gallery – New York, NY
2008 My Little / Membrane, curators: Zeljka Himbele-Kozul and William Heath, NURTUREart – Brooklyn, NY
2007 Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency Program Exhibition
The Cooper Union School of Art – New York, NY
2007 Art of the State 2007, juror: Kevin Wixted, The State Museum of Pennsylvania – Harrisburg, PA
2007 Disappearance, curator: Patrick Coue, The Art Institute of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA
2007 3rd Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition: Across & Between
Juror: Matthew Higgs, Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA
2007 Juried Works on Paper Exhibition, juror: J. Susan Isaacs, Muse Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
2007 2007 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award
juror: Jerry Saltz, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University – Oxford, OH
2007 Young Talent Show, juror: Barbara von Schreiber, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
2006 draw_drawing_2, coordinator: Giacomo Picca, the foundry gallery
London Biennale 2006 – Shoreditch, London
2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Delaware – Newark, DE
2005 Identity, curator: Louis Flanigan, Gallery MC – New York, NY
2005 MFA Biennial Exhibition, juror: J. Susan Isaacs, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
Carole Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery – Wilmington, DE
2005 32nd Annual Juried Competition, juror: Barbara Grossman, Masur Museum of Art – Monroe, LA
2002 Y.A.R. Show, Sykes Gallery – Millersville, PA
1999 New Works New Artists, Doshi Gallery for Contemporary Art of the Susquehanna Art Museum
Harrisburg, PA
1998 Istituto San Lodovico – Orvieto, Italy
Awards and Honors
2011 Kitchen of Innovation grant with curator Amanda Jirón-Murphy
2011 Kickstarter grant with curator Amanda Jirón-Murphy
2007 Juried Works on Paper Exhibition- Muse Gallery, third place
2007 Finalist for the Miami University National Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck
Award, juror: Jerry Saltz
2005,06 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship Nominee
2002 Vermont Studio Center partial fellowship
2000 Edna Rochow Workman Memorial Art Award
Registries/Memberships
2006-present Maryland State Arts Council Visual Artists’ Registry (www.msac.org)
2006-present NURTUREart artists’ registry (www.nurtureart.org)
2009-2010 NEXUS / foundation for today’s art (www.nexusphiladelphia.org/)
2006-2010 In-liquid (www.inliquid.com)
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