EDUCATION    

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (BFA painting)

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SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON SHOWS (solo shows indicated by *)​

2022    

• Correspondences, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA 

2016    

• From this Distance*, Stripe Design Group, Santa Cruz, CA

• Corrugated, collaboration w/Mary Bergs, Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais, MN

• The Perfect City*, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

2014    

• Out of the Ordinary, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA

2011    

• Undoings*, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

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SELECTED INVITATIONAL GROUP SHOWS 

2024    

• RE/Aligned: a visual journey in collage, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA 

2022    

• Time, Mark, Memory: Ucross at 40, curated by Leah Ollman, Clearmont, WY 

2020    

• Connecting Distances, Rountree Gallery, Platteville, WI

2013 –19

• Connect and Collect, (auction/exhibit), San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2017

• Santa Cruz Recycled Art Program (SCRAP) exhibit, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2016

• Small Is the New Big, Nisa Touchon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 

2015

• Repurposed, Harrington Gallery, Firehouse Art Center, Pleasanton, CA 

• nothing = everything, Kirk Stoller’s c2c Project Space Annex, San Francisco, CA 

• Collage: New Directions, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA

2013

• Yes, We’re Open, sculpture installation, Art Research Office, Santa Cruz, CA

• PaperWorks, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA 

2012

• Picturing Music: Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, 50th Anniversary,
  Santa Cruz County Bank, Santa Cruz, CA

2011

• Collage–Relatively Speaking, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA

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RESIDENCIES and AWARDS

2023 

• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, residency, Amherst, VA 

2020

• Monson Arts, residency, Monson, ME 

2019

• Ucross Foundation, residency, Clearmont, WY 

• In Cahoots, residency/collaboration, Petaluma, CA

2017 

• Santa Cruz Recycled Art Program (SCRAP), residency, Santa Cruz, CA

• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, residency, Amherst, VA 

2016

• Jentel Artist Residency Program, residency, Banner, WY 

• Grand Marais Artists Colony, visiting artist, Grand Marais, MN

2015

• Arts Council Santa Cruz County, Develop Grant, Santa Cruz, CA

• Left Coast Annual, Juror’s Exhibition Award, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA

• Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, residency, Rabun Gap, GA 

• Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, residency, Saratoga, WY 

2014

• Ragdale Foundation for the Arts, residency, Lake Forest, IL 

2013

• Arts Council Santa Cruz County, Develop Grant, Santa Cruz, CA

• Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, residency, Saratoga, WY 

• U.S. Geological Survey grant for exhibition of Earth/Science/Art, USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA

• City of Brea Art Gallery, travel grant for PaperWorks exhibition, Brea, CA 

2011  

• Vermont Studio Center, residency with partial funding, Johnson, VT 

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SELECTED JURIED SHOWS

2023

• Paper Circle, Online Exihibition, Works on Paper

• ArtFluent, Online Exihibition, Wanderlust

2022

• Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Reverberations II, Sebastopol, CA 

2021

• Paper Circle, Online Exihibition, Jurors: Cecil Touchon, Helen Hiebert, Cyrilla Mozenter

2019

• Gallery 110, 9th Annual Exihibition, Seattle, WA  
  Juror: Carrie Dedon (Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum)

2018

• The Built Environment, Orr Street Studios, Columbia, MO  
  Jurors: Joe Johnson (Professor, Univ of Missouri); Dr. Robert Walsh (Professor, Univ of Missouri)

2017

• 19th Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ  
  Juror: Jane Panetta (Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art)

• Marvelous! International Exhibition of Collage, Assemblage & Construction,
  Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

2016

• 11th Annual National Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Juror: Gregory Volk (Curator/Critic) 

• Slice, (honorable mention) Pence Gallery, Davis, CA; Juror: DeWitt Cheng (Curator, Critic) 

2015

• Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA; 
  Juror: Cathy Kimball (Executive Director/Chief Curator San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art) 

2013

• Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 
  Juror: Lucinda Barnes (Chief Curator, UC Berkeley Art Museum)

• Playground, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

 

PUBLICATIONS

2021    Elsie, (online publication), March 2021, interview, Les Jones editor

2020    Inspirational, Issue #38, (online publication), John Hopper editor

2018    Catamaran Literary Reader, fall 2018

2016    Inspirational, Issue #10, (online publication), John Hopper editor

2015    Embark magazine, (online publication) June/July featured artist

2013    New American Paintings, (juror: Janet Bishop, SFMoMA) Issue #109, Open Studios Press

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OTHER

2014–2018

• Grants Panel Juror, Arts Council Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA

2014

• Visual Arts Juror, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts residency, Saratoga, WY

2011–13

• Earth/Science/Art: sixteen collaborative explorations: Organized project and exhibits pairing U.S. Geological Survey researchers with California-based artists. Exhibits at R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz CA, USGS headquarters, Reston VA