TEACHING:

2009-present: Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Co-Director of Foundations. University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama.

2006-2009: Teaching Associate, Instructor of Record, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA. Courses taught: Basic Design, Foundations Drawing, Painting I, Advanced Drawing, Digital Imaging.

EDUCATION:

University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Master of Fine Arts, Studio Arts, 2009.

Colgate University, Hamilton NY, Bachelor of Arts (Honors, Magna cum laude), Art and Art History, 2005.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: (* denotes solo shows)

Upcoming:

Seasons, Small Works, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2009.

2009:

Paper Explorations, Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, MA.

Flower Power, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

*Regalia and Repetition, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

UMass-RISD Exchange Show, Benson Hall Art Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

*New Works, Essential Design, Boston, MA.

2008:

Remedy, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, Juried Invitational, November 2008.

New York/New England/New Talent, Hampden Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Juried by David Gibson and Klaus Postler.

Radius, Herter Art Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA, Juried by Roger White, Jackie Gendel, and Tom McGrath.

Paper in the Wind Part I, A Small Works Exhibition, RealForm ArtSpace/Article Projects, Williamsburg, New York.

New Art 2008, MPG Contemporary Gallery, Boston MA, Juried, National. Curated by Rachel Rosenfeld Safo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.

Midway, Student Union Art Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

More is More, Student Union Art Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA February 2008 (Co-Curated Exhibition with Kimberly Hennessy)

*New Works, Essential Design, Boston, MA.

2007:

Counterpoints, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, NY.

The Fantastical, Student Union Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Transcribing the Figure, Campbell Hall Gallery, Western Oregon University.

Boston Printmaker's North American Biennial and Arches Show, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA.

Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

The Condom Show, Naked Duck Gallery, Williamsburg NY.

2006:

BGH Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.

In House, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

GASA Show, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

2005:

Concentrators Exhibition, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

National Arts Club 18th Annual Exhibition (Juried Invitational), National Arts Club, New York City, February 2005. Winner, Marguerite R. Josel Prize.

2004:

National Arts Club 17th Annual Exhibition (Juried Invitational), National Arts Club, New York City.
February 2004, Winner, Art Spirit Foundation First Prize.

GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS:

Finalist, Sprout Emerging Artist Competition, Juried by Jane Adlin, Associate Curator of 19th Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum of Art; Kathryn MacLeod-Schafter, Senior Photography Producer, Vanity Fair; Julie Ragolia, Fashion Director, CITY Magazine; and Will Ryman, Artist, 2009.

Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting, 2008.

Nominated for the Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, 2008.

Harriet Wagner Prize in Art and Art History, 2005.

Marguerite R. Josel Prize (NAC Show), 2005.

J. Curtiss Taylor Research Grant in Arts and Humanities, 2004.

Art Spirit Foundation First Prize (NAC Show), 2004.

REVIEWS:

The Boston Globe, Review of Boston Young Contemporaries, "Novel Works by Artists-In-Training" Cate McQuaid, July 23 2008.

RESIDENCIES:

Nes Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland, Accepted for 2009-2010

Can Serrat Artist Residency, Partial Fellowship, Barcelona, Spain, Accepted for 2009-2010.

OTHER DISTINCTIONS:

Inclusion in Flat Files at Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Inclusion in The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, NY, NY