Education
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Summer 2012 Pre-College Program
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Summer 2011 Early College Program
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Summer 2010 Pre-College Program
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Experience
2017–Present: Advisor in the Disability and Learning Resource Center, SAIC
2016-2017 Intern in the Disability and Learning Resource Center, SAIC
2010-2012 Member, Youth Opportunities Advisory Board, Boulder, CO
Two-Person Exhibitions
2023 Pure Fantasy, LV3, Chicago, IL
2019 Double Exposure, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2024, Moreover 50 Paintings, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2024 Perennial Hug, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
2023 Ingres Gallery Soho House, Chicago, IL
2023 Inter mezzo Blind Barber, Chicago, IL
2022 Boulder Open Space in Mountain Parks Show, Boulder Library, Boulder, CO
2022 ArtMix, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2021 ArtMix, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2019 The Storytellers, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL 2019 Regarding the Wild, Chashama Gallery, New York, New York 2018 Creatures of the Night: Shape Shifters, No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab, Chicago, IL 2018 Black and White, Site:Brooklyn, New York, NY
2017 Hide and Go Chic, Rover Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 LA Artcore 3rd Annual Art Competition & Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Colorado Visions, North Metro Arts Alliance, Westminster, CO
2017 A Flat of Eggs, The Art Students League of Denver, Denver, CO
2017 University of Texas at Tyler, 32nd Annual International Exhibition, Tyler, TX
2016 Pliocene Park, Site Red, Chicago, IL
2016 Art Mix, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2016 Work on display at Sheridan Road Financial Offices, Northbrook, IL
2016 Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal U.S.A. Exhibition 2, Chicago, IL
2015-2016 Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal U.S.A. Exhibition 1, Chicago, IL
Awards and Honors
2022 Artistic Achievement Award, National Fine Art Show, Louisville Art Association
2016 Frederick Fursman Scholarship, Ox-Bow School of Art
2015-2016 Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal U.S.A./SAIC Art Appreciation Program Presidential Award Exhibition Winner, Chicago, IL
2015 Frederick Fursman Scholarship, Ox-Bow School of Art
2014 Morton Salt Girl Centennial Scholarship
2014 Frederick Fursman Scholarship, Ox-Bow School of Art
2012-2016 School of the Art Institute, Merit Scholarship, Chicago, IL
Publications
2024 New American Paintings: West Issue #168
2020 Art work featured in POSIT Journal of Literature and Art
2019 Art work featured in the School of the Art Institute Biannual Magazine
Presentations
2023 Artist Talk, Soho House, Chicago, IL
2023 Visiting Artist Talk, NIAD, Bay Area CA
2022 Visiting Artist, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design2022 Visiting Artist, Arts of Life
2022 Panelist, Arts of Life2021 Virtual Panelist, Artist Communities Alliance2019 Panelist, Unlonely Film Festival, New York, NY
2018 Panel on Disability and Belonging, Disability and Learning Resource Center, Chicago, IL
2017 Artist Talk Panelist, Artists of Access, Chicago, IL
Curatorial work
2023, Trusting Nature, Rare Visions, Boulder, CO
2023 Unfettered Recognition, East Window Gallery, Denver, CO
2023 Voices Embodied IV; Uplifted, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022 Connecting the Dots, School of the Art Institute’s Wellness Center, Chicago, IL
2021 Curator, Voices Embodied: Extensions, Zhou B Art Center Chicago, IL
2021 Gravity of the Unsubstantiated, Rare Visions Gallery Project llc. Boulder, CO
2020 Guest Curator, The Whole Body, Selected by Alex Stark (online exhibition) NIAD Art Center
2020 Voices Embodied; Convergence. The Wellness Center, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2019 Corporeal Forms. Rare Visions Gallery Project llc. Boulder, CO
2019 Voices Embodied; Cosmoses. Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2018 Nod to Infinity. Rare Visions Gallery Project llc. Boulder, CO
Residencies
2018 Resident Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT