Education:
2013 MFA, Department of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,IL
2008 BA, Commercial Photography, Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
Solo Exhibitions:
2022 are we here for ourselves alone? Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT
2021 Los Angeles is not a desert, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Dark Blue 668, Gallery 6, Chicago IL
Two and Three Person Exhibitions:
2020 A Curious Horizon, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2018 CONTRACT/RELEASE, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 2017 West Coast Annual Awards Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2016 Sky’s Edge, The Aviary, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 The ghost and the sun, NOMAD, Torrance, CA
2024 Beautiful Hurt, Tryst Alternative Art Fair, Torrance, CA
2024 The Closed Eye, Cicada Curatorial
2024 Troubled Kinships, SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
2024 Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Night Swimming, SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
2023 NOMAD Art Fair, Torrance, CA
2023 Cultural Landscape Foundation Silent Auction
2022 A Glaring: Monte Vista Projects Members Show, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Knowing Darkness, Northern Daughters, Vergennes, VT2021 Vellum Projects, London Art Fair, London, England
2020 Vellum, SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Vellum, Art on Paper, New York, NY
2020 HABITAT CALIFORNIA: Flora & Fauna. Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
2019 Cultural Landscape Foundation Silent Auction, San Diego, CA
2019 America is…, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
2019 All Media 2019, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2019 Wholly Coast, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2019 When Black Swallows Red, Galleria at La Mama, New York, NY
2019 79th Crocker Kingsley Biennial, Blue Line Art Center, Roseville, CA
2018 Contemporary Photography 2008-2018, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2017 2017 Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2017 FOCUS photo la, Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Representing the West, Sangre De Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO
2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2016 Hot New Pics, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2016 Girl Trip at the Lodge, The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Art Now! Photography, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2015 Color Photography: A Picture Show, Black Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Dark Blue 668, Unused Space 2, Chicago IL
2014 Dark Blue 668, Unused Space, Chicago IL
2013 Dark Blue 2424, FAME, Chicago, IL
2013 MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 I fell into Water, Photo Departmental Catalogue, Chicago, IL
2013 Prospective: Series 1, Untitled, Chicago, IL
2012 Trace, Columbus Drive Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
2010 Not Another Steel Horse, Mess Hall, Evanston, IL
Curatorial Projects:
2025 While light still falls here, Rio Ash Phoenix, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Troubled Kinships, SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
2024 Sandbox, Zara Kuredjian, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Anti-Frontier, Daniel Tovar, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angles, CA
2023 Night Swimming,Group Show SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
2022 We Know Better, Alison Neville, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 What am I, to you? Lucy Wood Baird, Monte Vista Projects Los Angeles, CA
Publications:
2023 Western Humanities Review, Fall 2021, Art Feature
2022 Disappearance, Dovetail Magazine
2021 Artists as Archeologists of Wildfire, American Scientist
2019 Innovate Artist Grant Interview
2019 Issue 26, Floorr
2019 Forest of Illusion, Vellum Magazine
2017 Baroque Magazine, Issue No.1
Grants and Awards:
2025 Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO
2023 Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2021 Ayatana Biophilia Residency
2020 Top 250 Projects of the Year, PH Museum
2020 Finalist PHmuseum Lab Solo Show
2019 Fall Innovate Artist Grant
2019 Jurors Award, All Media 2019
2018 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center
2018 Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center
2017 Juror’s Award, 2017 Left Coast Annual
2016 Honorable Mention Art Now! Photography
2013 John and Mary Hoggins Scholarship- Spring
2013 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Nominee
2012 John and Mary Hoggins Scholarship- Fall
2012 Tatsuo Nakata Memorial Scholarship
2012 Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Residency Program
2010- 2012 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant
2010 SAIC Enrichment Scholarship
Lectures:
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture, CalState Dominguez Hills, CA
2023 Night Swimming Artist Talk, Berlin, Germany
2023 In this World: Panel Discussion, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA
2020 In Conversation, A Curious Horizon, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2018 Artist Talk Series, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2018 CONTRACT/RELEASE Artist Talk, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Second Year Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2012 Guest Lecture School of the Art Institute Visual Communication Department
2012 Brush Creek Presents Lecture Series
Education:
2013 MFA, Department of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,IL
2008 BA, Commercial Photography, Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
Solo Exhibitions:
2022 are we here for ourselves alone? Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT
2021 Los Angeles is not a desert, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Dark Blue 668, Gallery 6, Chicago IL
Two and Three Person Exhibitions:
2020 A Curious Horizon, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2018 CONTRACT/RELEASE, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 2017 West Coast Annual Awards Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2016 Sky’s Edge, The Aviary, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 The ghost and the sun, NOMAD, Torrance, CA
2024 Beautiful Hurt, Tryst Alternative Art Fair, Torrance, CA
2024 The Closed Eye, Cicada Curatorial
2024 Troubled Kinships, SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
2024 Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Night Swimming, SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
2023 NOMAD Art Fair, Torrance, CA
2023 Cultural Landscape Foundation Silent Auction
2022 A Glaring: Monte Vista Projects Members Show, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Knowing Darkness, Northern Daughters, Vergennes, VT2021 Vellum Projects, London Art Fair, London, England
2020 Vellum, SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Vellum, Art on Paper, New York, NY
2020 HABITAT CALIFORNIA: Flora & Fauna. Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
2019 Cultural Landscape Foundation Silent Auction, San Diego, CA
2019 America is…, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
2019 All Media 2019, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2019 Wholly Coast, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2019 When Black Swallows Red, Galleria at La Mama, New York, NY
2019 79th Crocker Kingsley Biennial, Blue Line Art Center, Roseville, CA
2018 Contemporary Photography 2008-2018, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2017 2017 Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2017 FOCUS photo la, Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Representing the West, Sangre De Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO
2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2016 Hot New Pics, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2016 Girl Trip at the Lodge, The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Art Now! Photography, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2015 Color Photography: A Picture Show, Black Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Dark Blue 668, Unused Space 2, Chicago IL
2014 Dark Blue 668, Unused Space, Chicago IL
2013 Dark Blue 2424, FAME, Chicago, IL
2013 MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 I fell into Water, Photo Departmental Catalogue, Chicago, IL
2013 Prospective: Series 1, Untitled, Chicago, IL
2012 Trace, Columbus Drive Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
2010 Not Another Steel Horse, Mess Hall, Evanston, IL
Curatorial Projects:
2025 While light still falls here, Rio Ash Phoenix, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Troubled Kinships, SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
2024 Sandbox, Zara Kuredjian, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Anti-Frontier, Daniel Tovar, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angles, CA
2023 Night Swimming,Group Show SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
2022 We Know Better, Alison Neville, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 What am I, to you? Lucy Wood Baird, Monte Vista Projects Los Angeles, CA
Publications:
2023 Western Humanities Review, Fall 2021, Art Feature
2022 Disappearance, Dovetail Magazine
2021 Artists as Archeologists of Wildfire, American Scientist
2019 Innovate Artist Grant Interview
2019 Issue 26, Floorr
2019 Forest of Illusion, Vellum Magazine
2017 Baroque Magazine, Issue No.1
Grants and Awards:
2025 Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO
2023 Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2021 Ayatana Biophilia Residency
2020 Top 250 Projects of the Year, PH Museum
2020 Finalist PHmuseum Lab Solo Show
2019 Fall Innovate Artist Grant
2019 Jurors Award, All Media 2019
2018 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center
2018 Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center
2017 Juror’s Award, 2017 Left Coast Annual
2016 Honorable Mention Art Now! Photography
2013 John and Mary Hoggins Scholarship- Spring
2013 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Nominee
2012 John and Mary Hoggins Scholarship- Fall
2012 Tatsuo Nakata Memorial Scholarship
2012 Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Residency Program
2010- 2012 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant
2010 SAIC Enrichment Scholarship
Lectures:
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture, CalState Dominguez Hills, CA
2023 Night Swimming Artist Talk, Berlin, Germany
2023 In this World: Panel Discussion, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA
2020 In Conversation, A Curious Horizon, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2018 Artist Talk Series, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2018 CONTRACT/RELEASE Artist Talk, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Second Year Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2012 Guest Lecture School of the Art Institute Visual Communication Department
2012 Brush Creek Presents Lecture Series