Lives and works on the Central Coast of California.
EDUCATION
2014 MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara
2011 School of Art & Design at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
2003 BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
EXHIBITIONS
2025 (forthcoming April 2025) Tisser le Futur, Musées d'Angers, Angers, France
2023 Faculty Exhibition, HJ Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo CA
2023 Portals, solo exhibition, The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, CA
2022-23 Dirty Laundry, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA
2022 Conceptual Stitch, Concord Center for the Arts, Massachusetts
2022 Uncanny, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2022 Nobles Among Us; material thoughts on a poetic ecology, solo exhibition, HJ Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo CA
2021 Living Matter, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 Organic, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2021 BioMass, Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA
2018 Mentors & Makers, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 JuxtaPOSE, Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 In the Woods, Perpetual Youth, solo exhibit, New Media Gallery, Ventura College, CA
2016 Sinking Sinking Sinking, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2015 Passage, solo exhibit, Red Barn Gallery, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2015 Logical Elsewhere, 2-person exhibit, Cal State Channel Islands, Napa Gallery, CA
2015 Out of the Great Wide Open, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Insert Salutations, Gallery 1328, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Greater Los Angeles MFA (GLAMFA), Cal State Long Beach, CA
2014 What Would Barry Do?, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Left Coast; Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
2014 Alter, MFA Thesis Exhibition, AD&A Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Drift & Fixation, Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 The Land Has Many Parts, Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Discarted, Porch Gallery, Ojai Art Festival, Ojai, CA *First place Juror's award
2013 208: First Year Review, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Unholy Mess, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Ridley Tree House, CA
2013 Remnants, Gallery 479, Santa Barbara, CA (Duo show with Maria Rendon)
2012 The New Oceanscapes, Art from Scrap, Santa Barbara, CA *2nd Place Juror's Award
2012 Fiber Options: Material Explorations, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD *Honorable Mention Award
2012 MFA National Competition, First Sreet Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Materialize, Maze Gallery, solo exhibit, Cafritz Art Center, Takoma Park, MD
COLLECTIONS
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Private Collections
GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2022 Honorable Mention, Uncanny Juror Award, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 Artist-in-residence, The Squire Foundation, Santa Barbara
2014/15 Artist-in-Residence, University of California, Santa Barbara
2013 First Place Juror's Award, Discarted Art Festival, Ojai, CA
2013 Levitan Graduate Fellowship in Art Studio
2013 UC Santa Barbara Art Block Grant
2012 UC Santa Barbara Art Block Grant
2012 2nd Place Juror's Award, The New Oceanscapes, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Honorable Mention Juror's Award, Fiber Options, Annapolis, Maryland
PRESS
Hyperallergic, “View from the Easel” February 2024
Canvas Rebel, “What if you hadn’t pursued a creative path?”, online interview, October 2023
Arte Morbida, online interview, December 2022
SLO Times, “Wild Wonder”, February 2022
SLO Living, artist spotlight, 2022
805 Living, artist spotlight, 2021
VC Star, "Edging Upward," January 2015
SB Independent, "Review: Out of the Great Wide Open at MCASB," January 2015
Scene Magazine, "States of the Art," January 2015
The Creative Community t.v. Episode, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, interview by David Starkey; minute 23:00- 30:00, December 2014
Scene Magazine, "Afterlife of a Collection," June 2014
Scene Magazine, “Five for the Future,” May 2014
Scene Magazine, “Naturally Unnaturalized,” April 2014
Fiber Art Now, “On View Readers Showcase,” Spring 2014
Scene Magazine, “Landscape, Revisited and Rethought,” January 2013
The Bottom Line, “MFA Open Studios Event Showcases Imagination, Innovation,” November 2012.