EDUCATION
MFA, Painting, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY, 2005 Fulbright Fellowship, Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany, 1998-1999 BFA, Painting, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, 1998 (summa cum laude)
BA, German, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, 1998 (summa cum laude)
University of Freiburg, German studies, Freiburg, Germany, 1995-1996
AWARDS
Foundation of Art Award, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, 2009 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Fine Arts, U.S. Department of Education, 2000 (4 year
graduate fellowship)
Fulbright Fellowship, Painting and Graphic Arts, Germany, 1998
Presidential Scholarship, Pacific Lutheran University (4 year academic, 1994-1998)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Winter Group Show, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY, 2010 (group exhibition) Referencing the Past, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2010 (group exhibition) The Badman, Telephone Room, Tacoma, WA, 2009 (solo exhibition) New Paintings, The Helm Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2009 (solo exhibition)
Queens International 4, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, 2009 (collaboration with
Okamoto Studio)
Hello, Telephone Room, Tacoma, WA, 2009 (group exhibition) Trout Paintings, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA, 2009 (solo exhibition) The Vancouver Project, various locations in Washington State and British Columbia, 2008- 2009 (traveling group residency exhibition) Houses on Stilts, Basil Hallward Gallery, Powell's Books, Portland, OR, 2008 (solo exhibition) The TransHudson Project: State of the Art, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY,
2007 (group exhibition)
Planet Hollywood, Planet Thailand, Brooklyn, NY, 2006 (group exhibition) The Trinity: A Family Relationship in Three Parts, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY, 2005 (group exhibition) Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition, 2005 The Four Laws, Priority Associates, New York, NY, 2004 (group exhibition) DUMBO Works on Paper, 70 Washington Building, Brooklyn, NY, 2003 (group exhibition) Three Artists' Interpretations of Home, Home Experimental Space, Queens, NY, 2003 Visions of the Future, Priority Associates, New York, NY, 2003 (group exhibition) Borders to Bridges- Fort Collins, Colorado State University, 2003 (group exhibition) Contemporary Drawing 2003, Priority Associates, New York, NY, 2003 (group exhibition) Borders to Bridges, King's College, New York, NY, 2003 (group exhibition) Roads to the East, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg,
WA, 2002 (group exhibition)
Passauer Monotypien, Stadt-Museum Neuötting, Germany, 1999 (group exhibition) Jahresausstellung, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, 1999 (group exhibition)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Contracted Art Handler, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, (2007-present)
Principal Ice Sculptor, Okamoto Studio, New York, NY, (2003-present)
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