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SELECTED SOLO / TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022 Big Bang Votive Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT

2021 B.Y.O.G. (Build Your Own God) And Other Ideas for a Kinder World Artshack Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2020 - 2021 Big Bang Votive The Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2015 The Suitable World Collaborative Project with Joshua-Michele Ross, Mengi, Reykjavík, Iceland

2011 Circlesaints Two Person Exhibition with Mike Meyers, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

2009 Green Mansions Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2008 Tickling Thicket Two Person Exhibition with Katy Stone, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

2008 The Ceding Sky Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2007 Summer Solos Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

2006 The Garden of Sorts Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2005 Last Light Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2004 Unquiet Preserve Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2004 Desire’s Receding Outline Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

2003 Vespertine Legion of Honor and the de Young Art Center, San Francisco, CA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS

2021 Wide Awakes: Eyes Open 21C Museum Hotel, Kansas City, MO

2021 Witches Get Stitches Curated by Katrina Majkut, Spring Break, New York, NY

2020 Abortion is Normal Curated by Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY

2019 No Boundaries Wilma Daniels Gallery, Cape Fear Community College, Wilmington, NC

2019 Radical Love Stockholm Fringe Festival, Stockholm, Sweden

2019 Daddy’s Books Curated by Lauren Faigeles & Caitlin MacBride, Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, VT

2019 We Vote Parade Public Performance, curated by Michele Pred, New York, NY

2018 It's Time Curated by Anuradha Vikram, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

2018 Daddy’s Books Curated by Lauren Faigeles and Caitlin MacBride, Life Lessons Garage, Far Rockaway, NY

2018 Line of Vision Curated by Etty Yaniv and Jaymie Crimmins, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY

2017 Parade Against Patriarchy Curated by Michele Pred, Miami Art Week, Miami, FL

2017 Nasty Women Knockdown Center, Queens, NY

2013 Millennial Abstractions Marin Community Foundation, Curated by Patricia Watts

2011 Outlandish Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA*

2010 Knowledge Hacking Wonderarium, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA*

2010 Monster Drawing Rally Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2010 San Francisco Art Fair Johansson Projects, San Francisco, CA

2010 Secret Drawings Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

2010 Academy of Sciences NightLife, Mobile Plant Ambassador + Succulent Circus, San Francisco, CA*

2009 NADA Art Fair Johansson Projects, Miami, FL

2009 NEXT Art Fair Johansson Projects, Chicago, IL

2009 Collective Compulsions Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

2009 Speak for the Trees Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

2008 Aqua Art Fair Johansson Projects, Miami, FL

2008 Biophilia Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2007 Excavations Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

2007 Pillow Talk Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2006 The World Domination of Painting (and Drawing) Ego Park, Oakland, CA

2006 Through the Trees Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

2006 ConTempoRarities 2006 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawai’i


RESIDENCIES/AWARDS/GRANTS

Forthcoming: Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship, Montauk, NY

2019 No Boundaries Colony, Full Fellowship, Bald Head Island, NC

2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Merit Award Fellowship, Johnson, VT

2012 Alameda County Arts Commission, Purchase Award, Oakland, CA

2011 Oakland Cultural Funding Grant Award, Oakland, CA

2010 Knowledge Hacking Residency, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA

2007/09 Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Montevideo, Uruguay

2006 Jentel Foundation Artist Residency, Banner, WY

2005 ArtSpan Art For Inner City Youth, San Francisco, CA

2003 de Young Museum Art Center and Palace of Fine Arts Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA


LECTURES AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

2020 Artist Mentor, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentor Program

2019 Artist Mentor, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentor Program

2010 Knowledge Hacking Art/Science Panel, Berkeley, CA

2010 Wonderarium Workshops, UC Botanical Garden, Berkeley, CA

2007/09 Guest Lecturer, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

2007 Guest Lecturer, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA

2007 Artist Mentor, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

2003 Artist Talk, DeYoung Art Center, San Francisco, CA

2003 Artist Demonstration, Legion of Honor Fine Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Art in Embassies Permanent Collection, American Embassy, Riga Latvia

Lynda and Stewart Resnick, Los Angeles, CA

Franklin Companies, Los Angeles, CA

The Law Society of Upper Canada, Ontario, Canada

The Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong                                                                                                                                                         

Highland Hospital, Oakland, California

 

EDUCATION

1994 Ecole de Beaux Arts, Angers, France, Painting

1993/94 Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Norwich, England, Painting

1991/93 University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, Painting

 

* Wonderarium, Mobile Plant Ambassador, and Succulent Circus were projects co-created with artist Sarah Filley