EDUCATION
2010 Master of Fine Arts: Studio (Fiber & Material Studies)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois
2008 Master of Arts: Painting
Savannah College of Art and Design – Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
2007 BA in Studio Art: Painting & BA in Music Education; Secondary Certification in Art & Music
Summa Cum Laude, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa
SOLO & COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2017 (Upcoming solo exhibition) at Bret LLewellyn Gallery, Alfred State College
2013 Here, Look String Room Gallery, Aurora, NY
2010 Things Are, Could Be, collaboration: Eric Mercer, Constance Gallery, Lamoni, Iowa.
2009 Stutter, Interrupt, Student Union Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
2009 OffSet, Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2008 Be Sure Your Presence is Observed, ACA Sculpture Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2006 Surrogates, Shaw Center Gallery, Lamoni, Iowa, 2006
2006 Lessons We Have Learned, Shaw Center Gallery, Lamoni, Iowa
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2017 (Upcoming exhibition) Water, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2017 150 Years of Canadian Light, Propeller Centre for Visual Arts, Toronto, ON
2015 Finding The Zeitgeist through Submission, Fjord Space, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Things We Thought We Could Destroy, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
2015 Gray Scale, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2014 Post-Photography: Beyond the Print, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2014 Glitch: teh Beauty of Malfunction, Propeller Centre for Visual Arts, Toronto, ON
2014 Some restrictions may apply, Propeller Center for Visual Arts, Toronto, ON
2014 Screening of Build-Up, Gannett Center Rotunda/Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, NY
2013 Meaning in Motion, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2013 Ten Artists to Watch, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2013 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY.
2012 Fibers, Madison Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA.
2012 Day on Fire: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.
2011 Kauno Bienale: Rewind Personal Story, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, Museums of Lithuania, Kaunas, LIthuania
2011 Public, Artspace in conjuction with Peterborough ArtsWeek, Peterborough, Ontario
2011 Craft in Binary, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
2010 A Fickle Existence, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2010 The Extended Pause: online radio show by Sayward Schoonmaker, Transistor, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Final Statement: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago Illinois
2010 Eye-Kea International Video Event, Basement Project Space, Cork City Ireland
2009 Assembly, 32 Up Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Ease of Oak, Around the Coyote Fall Festival, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Le Flash Atlanta 2009, curated by Cathy Bird & Stuart Keeler, Atlanta, Georgia
2009 Baggage Un/Claimed, Navo Gallery, Decatur, Georgia
2008 Social Exchange, Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2007 Go All Night! High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2007 Room x Room: Explorations of Domesticity, Atlanta, Georgia
2007 Des Moines Arts Festival, Des Moines, Iowa, *Emerging Iowa Artist Best in Show
2005 Searching for Truth: Images of Media in America, Farnham Gallery, Indianola, Iowa
2005 Tuber presents: Rob’s Kids in Flashpoint:468, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa
2004 Catch Phrase, Iowa State University Print Society Print Exchange Exhibition, Ames, Iowa
2004 Lifeline, Shaw Center Gallery, Lamoni, Iowa
2003 Greenhouse, Shaw Center Gallery, Lamoni, Iowa
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012 Wells College, Aurora, NY
Assistant Professor of Studio Art (August 2012 – present)
2011 Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA
Full Time Instructor: 4D-Design (August 2011- June 2012)
2011 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Family Day Artist (February-April, 2011)
GUEST LECTURES
2014 Continuity & Disruption, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2013 Continuity & Disruption, Wells College Faculty Club, Wells College, Aurora, NY
2010 Guest Lecturer, Historical Geography of the US (Class Field Trip: Chicago Neighborhoods) University of
Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville, Wisconsin
2010 Collaborative Artists’s Talk (in conjunction with collaborative exhibition “Things Are,Could Be,” with Eric Mercer)
Constance Gallery, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa