2022 MCIT, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
2006 MFA, Painting, Claremont Graduate University
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
AB, Art & Archaeology, Magna cum Laude, Princeton University
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2022 - Present
Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA
2016
World Without End, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
Supermodern, Launch LA, Los Angeles, CA
2014
in flux, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Vergence, Cerritos College Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2011
Invirtuality, Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
Working Space, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2005
Best Laid Plans, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Featured video artist, LACDA, Los Angeles
Paintings from the Interior, UCR ArtsBlock, Riverside, CA, curated by Andi Campognone
2017
On Board, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2016
Featured video artist, LACDA, Los Angeles
Cerritos Collects: Archival Beginnings (Objects from the Permanent Collection), Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2015
Featured video artist, LACDA, Los Angeles
2014
The Intuitionists, Drawing Center, New York, NY, catalogue, curated by Lisa Sigal
2012
The Subterraneans, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, catalogue
TarFest 10 Year Anniversary, Variety Building, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Holly Harrison, LACMA
Oasis, Shangri-La Arts, Joshua Tree, CA, curated by Durden & Ray
2011
La Cosa Nostra, Gallerie Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Max Presneill
Speculative Materialism II, Andi Campognone Projects, Pomona, CA
FLAG STOP 2011, South Bay Lexus, Torrance, CA, curated by Steven Hampton
Speculative Materialism: Abstract Art and its Conditions, D-Block Projects, Long Beach, CA, curated by Grant Vetter
2010
Volume, AT1:Projects, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Andrea Neustein
Forever Now, East and Peggy Phelps Galleries, Claremont, CA, curated by David Pagel
2009
Edenistic Divergence, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, curated by Andi Campognone
12x12x122, BECA Gallery/CoLab Projects, New Orleans, LA
Emerging Artists Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2008
Infrastructure, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, catalogue, curated by Roman Stollenwerk
Sum of Parts, dba256, Pomona, CA, curated by Andi Campognone
2007
Velocity, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Water Garden, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Helen Varola
Summer Group Show, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Meltdown, Salon Oblique, Venice, CA
LAAA South Biannual, LAAA South, Hermosa Beach, CA, juried by Susan Cross, Mass MoCA
Modular: New Art from Los Angeles, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO, catalogue, curated by Dana Turkovic
2006
TarFest 2006, Desmonds Building, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Supersonic, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA, catalogue
Scale, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, juried by Caryn Coleman, Sixspace Gallery
New Math, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
2005
In the Game, Bancroft Gallery, Cohasset, MA, juried by William Stover, Asst. Curator of Contemporary Art, MFA Boston
Greater LA MFA: A Student to Student Invitational, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Grants / Fellowships / Awards
2007-2013 Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
2007 Finalist, NY NY 2007, myartspace.com, juried by Jessica Morgan (Tate Modern), James Rondeau (Art Institute of Chicago), and Steven Zevitas (New American Paintings)
2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Program Award - Nominee
2005 CGU MFA Fellowship
1996 Internship, Department of Photography/Rights & Reproductions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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