EDUCATION
2019 MFA, Indiana University
2005 BA, Oberlin College
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Woman Life Freedom (with poupeh missaghi), Davis Gallery, Denver University,
Denver CO
2022 Morning Hours, A Gallery/Allen + Alan Fine Art, Salt Lake City UT
2020 Light and Heat, Yeiser Gallery, Paducah KY
2020 Nature of the Abstract, Surel’s Place, Boise ID
2019 Emergence, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington IN
2015 Painting Poems, Ridgewood Public Library, Queens NY
2013 I Wake to Sleep (and Take My Waking Slow), Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford MA
2012 I Never Saw a Moor, Red Horse Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2011 Do I Contradict Myself? Bank RI Gallery, Providence RI
2011 Winter Garden, Orr Street Studios, Columbia MO
2011 Crawling Out the Window, AS220 Project Space, Providence RI
2010 Water and Sky, Kemijärvi Residency Center Gallery, Kemijärvi Finland
2009 Crackling Sky, Alice Gryphius Galerie, Berlin Germany
2009 North, Solnik Fine Arts, Berlin Germany
2008 Fragment, ACUD Galerie, Berlin Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 FUTURE, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis MN
2022 Free Iran: Ashes Literary and Arts Collective, Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn NY
2022 Woman, Life, Freedom: Ashes Literary and Arts Collective, Counterpath, Denver CO
2022 35th Annual Robert N. & Peggy Sears Invitational, Sears Art Museum, St. George UT
2022 The Art of the Landscape, A Gallery/Allen+Alan Fine Art, Salt Lake City UT
2021 The Blocks: Exhibitions on Main, Salt Lake City UT
2021 Phase Change, Vital Spaces, Santa Fe NM
2021 Works on Paper, The In Art Gallery, www.theinartgallery.com
juried by Laura F. Gibellini
2020 Transformation Shift II: Abstraction, Brown County Art Gallery, Nashville IN
2019 Creative Climate Awards, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, New York NY
2019 Transformation Shift: Abstraction, Brown County Art Gallery, Nashville IN
2017 (re) Access, Fuller Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
2017 Through the Trees, Sager Braudis Gallery, Columbia MO
2015 Merit Scholarship Show, Phyllis Harriman Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Red Dot Show, Phyllis Harriman Gallery, New York, NY
2015 World Was in the Face of the Beloved, Brooklyn Folk Festival, Brooklyn NY
2014 48 Hours Neukölln, Galerie Hope and Glory, Berlin Germany
2013 Legacies in Paint: The Mentor Project, Newport Art Museum, Newport RI
2013 Annual Juried Exhibition, Newport Art Museum, Newport RI
2012 Go: Brooklyn Museum’s Open Studios, Brooklyn NY
2011 The Great Kreuzberg Pavillon Show, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin Germany
2009 Neuköllner Hängung, Coaching Culture Gallery, Berlin Germany
2008 Querschnitt 21, Bethanien Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008 Anonyme Zeichner, Blütenweiss: Meinblau Galerie, Berlin Germany
2007 Phantasiewelt, Malerei und Graphik Galerie, Berlin Germany
2007 International Coloring Kollektiv, Schererstr 8 Galerie, Berlin Germany
2007 30 x 30 Malerei, Malerei und Graphik Galerie, Berlin Germany
2007 BBK Offnen Atelier, Atelier Erkelenzdamm, Berlin Germany
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, & AWARDS
2024 Adams County Cultural Arts, multi-vocal painting commission, Denver CO
2023 Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, {Re}HAPPENING, Asheville NC
2023 Bard Prison Initiative Summer Residency, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2022 Career Empowerment Grant, Salt Lake City Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts
2022 Artist Career Advancement Award, Utah Division of Arts & Museums
2021 Commissioned artwork: four paintings commissioned by Indiana University Hospitals
2021 Brimstone Printmaking, Artist Residency, Logan UT
2020 (postponed due to Covid-19) Metropolitan Fukujyuso, Kyoto Japan
2020 (postponed due to Covid-19) Brush Creek Arts Residency, Saratoga WY
2020 (postponed due to Covid-19) Villa Barr Artist Residency, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Novi MI
2020 Surel’s Place Artist Resedency and Grant, Boise ID
2019 T.C. Steele State Historic Site, Artist Residency, Nashville IN
2019 Oberlin College Alumni Fellowship
2018 Indiana University Travel Award
2017 Dorland Mountain Arts Residency, Temecula CA
2017 True/False Film Festival, artist installation and grant, Columbia MO
2016 Queens Council on the Arts: Su-Casa Residency, Queens NY
2016 Alderworks Alaska Artists and Writers Residency, Dyea AK
2015 Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence: Semi-finalist, New York NY
2015 Queens Council on the Arts: Individual Artist Grant Recipient, Queens NY
2015 Queens Council on the Arts: Su-Casa Residency, Queens NY
2014 Merit Scholarship – Art Students League of New York, New York NY
2010 Kemijaervi Artists Residency, Kemijärvi, Finland
2009 Vermont Studio Center Residency and Artist Grant, Johnson VT
2009 Teacher/Artist in Residency, Berlin Office of Cultural Affairs, Berlin Germany
2001-2005 John F. Oberlin Scholarship, Oberlin OH
2001-2005 Oberlin College Grant, Oberlin OH
ARTIST TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2024 Beyond the Bars: Art from Inside, invited speaker and multi-vocal painting2023 FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory in Education) Reality Bites: Revisioning the Foundations Classroom
commission, Harvard University, Cambridge MA (forthcoming)
2023 Multi-Vocal Paintings, visiting artist’s workshop, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
2023 Collaborative Artwork, visiting artist’s workshop, Barnardsville Community Center,
Asheville, NC
2023 Street Lab, visiting artist’s workshop, Brooklyn NY
Away from Perceptual Realism, paper presentation, Denver CO 2023
2023 Pacific Northwest College of Art Low-Residency MFA program, Multi-Vocal Paintings, Visiting Artist’s
Workshop, Portland OR
2022 Free Iran: Ashes Literary and Arts Collective, Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn NY
2022 Abstraction through Process, visiting artist’s talk and panel discussion, University of Colorado,
Denver CO
2022 SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference) paper presentation, How Teaching Art in Prisons Can
Change the Way We View the Traditional Studio Art Classroom, Baltimore MD
2022 SECAC, co-chair for Anti-Racism and Historiography: Classroom Approaches Baltimore MD
2021 Colorado College, visiting artist’s talk: Experimental Printmaking in Painting, Colorado Springs, CO
2021 Utah Valley University, artist’s talk: Painting as Inheritance, Orem UT
2021 Florida Atlantic University, artist’s talk: Iterations, Boca Raton FL
2020 Paducah School of Art and Design, artist’s talk: Painting from Process, Paducah KY
2020 Surel’s Place, artist’s talk and workshops: The Nature of the Abstract, Boise ID
2019 Brown County Art Gallery, gallery talk, Nashville IN
2017 Lee Elementary School and Hawthorne Elementary, workshop with 120 second-graders,
Columbia MO and Mexico MO (as part of the True/False Film Festival)
2016 Skagway Senior Center, artist’s talk and workshop: Size and Space in Alaska, Skagway AK
2015 Ridgewood Public Library, artist’s talk and workshop series: Painting Poems, Queens NY
2010 Kemijärvi Art Center, workshop: WWII and Finland’s Landscape, Kemijärvi Finland
2007 Malerei und Graphik Galerie, Crackling Sky, gallery talk, Berlin Germany
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2022 KSL News story on the Dissolving Contradictions exhibition (with work by incarcerated youth):
https://ksltv.com/513657/art-created-by-incarcerated-youth-in-utah-featured-in-new-library-exhibit/
2022 Utah Public Radio article about Dissolving Contradictions:
https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2022-12-01/art-exhibit-highlights-underrepresented-perspectives
2022 Utah Public Radio about Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth program:
https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2022-12-22/utah-tech-program-creates-opportunities-for-incarcerated-youth
2022 KSL article about Dissolving Contradictions:
https://www.ksl.com/article/50525127
2022 Cover image for Lesser Birds of Paradise by Cindy King, Louisiana Literature Press
2021 Featured artist, Route 7 Review
2021 Paintings and illustrations for Yanara Friedland’s Uncountry, Mattes & Seitz Berlin
2015 Artwork featured in the Denver Quarterly (University of Denver Literary Magazine)
2014 Featured artist, Tupelo Quarterly
2012 Catalogue: 12th Scenography Colloquium, Dortmund Germany, artwork featured in
“INTERMEDIATE SPACES – Change and Transition” by Maria Reinecke
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023
Art Manager, Utah Arts + Justice Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT
Teaching art classes for incarcerated youth and for adults in the Utah State Correctional Facility
Introduction to Painting
Introduction to Drawing
Reinventing Portraits: Painting and Drawing
Individual and Society: Issues in Contemporary Art
2023
Adjunct Professor of Art - Denver University, Denver CO
Intermediate/Advanced Drawing
2022 – 2023
Adjunct Professor of Art - Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth Program, Utah Tech University, St George UT
Seminar in Art
2020 – 2022
Visiting Professor of Art - Utah Tech University, St George UT
Art Seminar - Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth
2D Design
Introduction to Art
Integrated Arts
2016 – 2019
Associate Instructor – Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Drawing Fundamentals
Painting 1
Introduction to Art and Design
Drawing and Painting in Florence: Summer 2018, Florence Italy
2015 – 2016
Painting Instructor – Su-Casa Residency, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens NY
2009
Visual Arts Instructor, Plural Arts International, Berlin Germany
2009
Teaching Artist, Berlin Office of Cultural Affairs, Berlin Germany