CV

Education

Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, Maine.

University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, M.F.A.

University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, B.F.A.

Public Art

2023           Cavern, cast-aluminum sculpture, commissioned by the City of Logan for Logan Library, Logan, Utah.

2020           A Path Forward, sculpture environment including bronze, stainless steel, and landscape architecture.  A collaboration with Kelsey Harrison, commissioned by Better Days 2020 Foundation, Utah State Capital Collection, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2018           Haiku Fence, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, Utah.  Welded aluminum, community-based project working with local youth through summer workshops in conjunction with a Welding Camp for Girls program at Weber State University.

2017            Play, Art in the Parks, Sternhill Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa.  Commissioned by the Iowa West Foundation.  Permanent sculpture with brick (approximate dims. 7’ h x 25’ w x 15’ d).

2012           Believe, Green, Manhattan Beach Sculpture Garden, Manhattan Beach, California.  An interactive, light sculpture with stainless steel, steel, solar panel, motion sensor, LED lights.  Installed 2012-2014, commissioned by the City of Manhattan Beach.

Solo & Two-person Exhibitions

2024

Nomadic Journal, American University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Manowar, Buinho, Messejana, Portugal.

2018

Shrinking Room, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.  (2017) Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

Fixed Flux, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016

no, Words Matter, Snow College Art Gallery, Ephraim, UT

2014

Paved Forest, CUAC Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2013

Wild West, Lambert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2011

Suspending Belief, Public Fiction, Church Series, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Embassy Anonymous, MorYork Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Propositions, Lambert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

Works on Paper, Chic Dessin, Paris, France.

2009

Monumental Misunderstandings, POVevolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006

At the Perimeter, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2004

Tropic of Memory, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Winter Residency Show, Pada, Barreiro, Portugal

2020

In Verbis Artis, Hoffmitz Milken Center for Topography, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2018

  • Skulpturengarten, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA
  • Transiting, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • Rendezvous, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2017

  • Personals, Skowhegan New York Space, New York, NY

2016

  • The Drawing Board, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC.
  • Objects+Intersections, Platforms, Ogden, UT

2015

  • LA Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Primo Lane, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree, CA

2014

  • MASS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
  • Draftpunk, Autonomie Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  • Draftpunk 2: Carbon Footprint, Mid Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Utah Ties, CUAC Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2012

  • Placemakers, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

2011

  • No Land, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
  • La Costa Nostra, Rheeway Gallerie, Los Angeles, CA
  • NURTUREart Benefit Show, (juried), Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
  • Home on the Grange, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • California: Adulterated Landscapes and Deflated Icons, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2010

  • InSCRIPTion…text…image…action, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California.
  • Made/Born/Live in Tucson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona.
  • 2nd Anniversary Exhibition, POVevolving Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

2009

  • Molasses Happens Rather Quickly, Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, California.
  • Go Big or Go Home, Summer Camp Project Project, Los Angeles, California.
  • Resort II, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, California.
  • Typography, Language and Landscape, Arcane Gallery, San Francisco, California.
  • Faculty Show, Mullin Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.
  • Brand 38 Works on Paper, Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, California.

2008

  • Hair of the Dog, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • Drawing Los Angeles, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California.

2007

  • Parallel Lines, two-person exhibit, Raid FC, Los Angeles, California.

2006

  • Reboot, Red House Gallery, Venice, California.
  • Metropolis, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, California.

2005

  • Interior Landscapes, Shaw’s Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Inset/Onset, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.

2004

  • Platform Salon, Platform Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.
  • The Weight of Paper, Delta Axis at Marshal Arts, Memphis, Tennessee.
  • The Terrain, The Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
  • Housebroken, MFAThesis Exhibition. Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson.
  • Medici Scholars, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

2003

  • Drawn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona.
  • THE SHOW: Southwest Juried Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jurors: Terezita Romo, Susan Rothenberg and Charles Stainback.
  • Floors, Walls, and Ceilings, Freemont House, Tucson, Arizona.
  • Meet, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.

2002

  • Midwestern Myths, University of California, Long Beach, California.