education
2001 – MFA, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1997 – BFA, Painting Department, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
awards, honors, and residencies
2007 – Artist In Residence, International Natural + Cultural Residency Program, Arts Tasmania, Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania, Australia
2005 – Juror’s Choice, SVMA Biennial 2005, Jurors: Larry Rinder, Janet Bishop, Chris Brown
2004 – Artist In Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2001 – Artist In Residence, Kala Bhavana, Kerala, India
2001 – J. Ruth Kelsey Traveling Merit Award, Department of Art Practice, U.C.Berkeley
2000 – Eisner Fine Art Award, University of California, Berkeley
1997 – High Distinction, California College of the Arts, Painting Department
solo exhibitions
2010 – Places We Call Home, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 – Talking in Place, Sister Rosaire Gallery, St. Mary's College, South Bend, IN
2007 – The Subjective Landscape, Gallery 6a, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2006 – Spaceball Ricochet, Keys That Fit Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 – The Reflected Nature Series, Atelier Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002 – The Moment Nothing Became Everything, Little Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
2001 – Six Poem Paintings, Swallow, Brooklyn, NY
selected exhibitions
2010
New American Landscape, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL
SF Fine Art Fair with Swarm Gallery, For Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Current Work, Faculty Show, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2009
In Vicinity, Worksound, Portland, OR
December 5x5, Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, OR
Northwest Emerging Artists, Seattle City Light Portable Works: Part 1, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 – Black Milk, Milk Contemporary, Hellerup, Denmark
The Sum of Its Parts, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 – Red Dot, Miami Beach, with Swarm GalleryAlumni at the Centennial, Oliver Art Center, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2006 – Oakland: East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Works On Paper, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Affair at the Jupiter Hotel Art Fair, Portland, OR, with Swarm Gallery
2005 – SVMA Biennial 2005, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
Paper! Awsome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Picturing Berlin, Galerie sphn Artist Studio, Berlin, Germany
2004 – Periphery 2, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art + Craft, Portland, OR
Trabajos del Corazon, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Advance to Go, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2003 – Landing,13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror, Manray Hsu, Southern Exposure, SF,CA
Flat Constellations 2, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 – Western States Small Works 2002, Juror, Ralph Rugoff, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA
2001 – Mastermind, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
CloseUpClose, Juror, Rupert Jenkins, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
MFA Survey Exhibition 2001, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Five Star, MFA exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA