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Education

·2021 MFA, Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art
·2002 BFA, Painting, The Kansas City Art Institute

Solo Exhibitions

·2021 House-Trained, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
·2020 Google, Boulder CO, (canceled covid-19)
·2018 Messinger Gallery JCC, Boulder, Colorado
·2017 Alternative Facts, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
·2016 Colorado Ballet, Denver CO
·2016 Love Bombs, 530 Sante Fe Dr, Denver, Colorado
·2015 Nature’s Line, Space Gallery,Denver, Colorado
·2013 Mind over Matter , Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
·2010 Synesthesia for the Times, Living Room Gallery, Chicago, IL

Group shows & Projects

·2022 Might Real Queer Detroit, Collected Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
·2021 Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan
·2021 Speculative Histories, Saarinen House, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
·2020 Fresh Paint, Painting Dpt, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
·2020 Second Year MFA show, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
·2019 Pearl Street Project, Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, Colorado
·2019 Grand Open Space Gallery Annex, Denver, Colorado
·2017 Best of, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
·2016 Winter Show, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
·2016 Longmont Front Range Film Festival
·2014 End of Year Best of, Space Gallery, Denver Colorado
·2014 Space Gallery New Building Grand Opening, Denver, Colorado
·2013 Total Abstraction, Republic Plaza, Denver, Colorado
·2013 Summer Show, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
·2012 Winter Invitational, Buena Suerte a los Compañeros, Telephonebooth Gallery, Kansas City, MO
·2010 Sonar Donkey-Deer Days music, Rogers Park Peoples Radio, Chicago IL
·2010 Sonar Donkey-Deer Days, shown at US Social Forum, Detroit, Michigan
·2010 Dharma Art show, Chicago, IL
·2008 Around The Coyote Spring Show, Chicago, IL
·2008 Bubble Burst Time, d/vision gallery, Chicago, IL
·2002 Kansas City Art Institute BFA Show, H & R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
·2002 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, Kansas City, MO
·2002 Treehouse Meeting, Kelvin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
·1998 The Opie Gallery, Kansas City MO

Awards/Scholarships

·2021 Cranbrook Academy of Art: President’s Award for Sustainability
·2002 Kansas City Art Institute: Graduated on the Deans List
·1998 Kansas City Art Institute: Scholarship
·1998 The Chicago Academy for the Arts: Humanitarian Award
·1996 The Chicago Academy for the Arts: Polk Brothers Foundation scholarship
·1994 The Chicago Academy for the Arts: Scholarship

Press

·2020 Barbed Magazine, Spring 2020, Detroit
·2017 Review: Layered Takes in Alternative Facts at Space Gallery, Denver Westword
·2014 Earls Restaurant on the 16th Street Mall Gets sleek new renovation, Denver Post
·2013 Review of Mind over Matter show at Space Gallery, Westword Denver
·2013 Interview with Ian McLaughlin, Gaurdian Stewardship Editions
·2011 Studio Visit Magazine, Vol 16
·2010 Chicago Art Magazine

Professional Experience

·2015-17 Guest Teacher, Boulder Prep Highschool & Picture Woods Ltd Mural Painting project, Boulder CO
·2011-12 Northwestern University Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Preparator team
·2009 The Chicago Cultural Centers Tiffany stained glass dome restoration project
·2002-06 Ranger, Colorado
·2002-06 Wild land Fire Fighter, Colorado
·2001 Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Preparator, Kansas City MO
·2000-02 & ’08 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Prep Department subcontractor, KCMO