Education

2011       
Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006       
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2012       
Sugartown, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions   
                                                     
2011       
Beached, The Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown, MA
Cloud Gate, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Hudson D Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA    
2010       
MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Zrobili Gallery, Chicago, IL
Midnight Snacks, 1366 Space, Chicago, IL
2004       
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC
2002       
BFA Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Residencies

2013       
Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, Artist in Residence, Bangalore, India
2012
Kerala Kalamandalam, Artist in Residence, Thrissur, Kerala, India
Sanskriti Museum Artist Residency, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India       
2011
Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Provincetown, MA

Awards and Fellowships

2012       
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award, India
2011      
George Rickey Endowed Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Clare Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artist, Chicago, IL
2010      
Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
2009      
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Competition Finalist,Chicago, IL
Marion Parry World Less Traveled Grant, Chicago, IL
Enrichment Grant, School of the Art institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006      
SAIC Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,  Chicago, IL
Official Selection, Green Ginger, Digital Media Film Festival, Pasadena, CA
Finalist, Between Dialogues, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC
2004      
Scholarship, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Michael Steven Olvera Jr Memorial Scholarship, presented by Hacemos SB Pacific Bell, Santa Ana, CA
Disney Creative Arts Scholarship, Anaheim, CA

Professional Experience

2010     
Build Shop Intern, Redmoon Spectacle Festival, Last of my Species, Astronaut’s Birthday, Guerrilla project, Redmoon Theater, Chicago, IL
2009     
Dinosaur mural drawings for a permanent exhibition, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, FT. Worth, Texas
2007     
Art I and Art II Instructor, First Presbyterian High School, Arcadia, CA
T-Shirt Design for MOCA Store, ”Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Bibliography

2006     The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006, National Portrait Gallery.
                    Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2006.