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.