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EDUCATION & TRAINING

2006 MFA in Photography, Columbia College Chicago

2003 BFA in Photography with a minor in Art History, Arizona State University

Extensive education and experience with black & white, color and digital photography (digital camera work and Adobe Creative Suite). Extensive training and experience with view camera and studio lighting (both strobes and hot lights). Training with Windows & Mac operating systems. Experience with office administration, including Microsoft Office suite.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
(Upcoming) Cellmates, The Trunk Space, Phoenix, AZ
(Upcoming) fetish, Standard Usage Project Gallery, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL

2007
After, image: a memorial for those lost to HIV/AIDS, (Opening World AIDS Day, Dec. 1) Center on Halsted, Chicago, IL

2004
State ID, Good Girl Art Gallery, Springfield, MO

2003
Male Identity Crisis, eye lounge gallery, Phoenix, AZ
snap/judgment (collaboration with Stephanie Carrico), Art Detour, Phoenix, AZ

2002
peeps, Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
VERSION>08 Dark Matter Annual Silent Art Auction Fundraiser, C-PS, Chicago, IL
Slideluck Potshow, Maddron Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007
Standard Usage Project, Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL
artXposium, West Chicago, IL
Summer Salon II, Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL
The 12th Annual Soho Photo National Juried Photography Competition (juried by Mia Fineman of The Metropolitan Museum
of Art), Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
Carnaval de Rio, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2006
transmutation: artificial evolution of the body, Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL
Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bonus Tracks, Hothouse Gallery, Chicago, IL
Standard Usage Project, Nova Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Subject Object Relations, Schopf Gallery on Lake (curated by Adam Brooks), Chicago, IL
Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, IL

2005
Home, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004
eye lounge Member Group Show, eye lounge gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2003
Annual Juried Photo Exhibition, Paper Heart Gallery, Phoenix
BA/BFA Photo Exhibition (Best in Show), Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2002
Arizona Room, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Majority Rules, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Aces Wild, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Printed Matter, Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ
BA/BFA Photo Exhibition (Honorable Mention), Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Creative Stew: An Interactive Multimedia Event, Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ
The Altered View (curated), Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
Structure 3 Juried Exhibition, Tempe, AZ 110 Photography, Phoenix, AZ

1999 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ

COMISSIONED ARTWORK

2001
5x17’ photomural for the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County

AWARDS

2007
City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program Grant

2005
Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship
Getz Graduate Award
Stuart & Iris Baum Grant

2003
Arizona Commission on the Arts Professional Development Grant

2002
Katherine K. Herberger Scholar Herberger College of Art Alumni Scholar

2001
Katherine K. Herberger Scholar
J. Russell & Bonita Nelson Scholar

2000
ASU School of Art Regent’s Scholar

1997
ASU Regent’s Scholar National Merit Semi-finalist

COMMUNITY SERVICE

2007
Silent Art Auction, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2006
Benefit Auction For LeGal, Danese Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2007
Arizona State University Art Museum Silent Art Auction Catalog

2006
eye lounge gallery inaugural member artists catalog
NOVA Art Fair exhibition catalog

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