Bio
Select Exhibits and Galleries
- 2024- Bidwell Park, Chico, CA; Erosion Line, community-built environmental art work to raise public awareness of trail erosion
- 2024 Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA; lead coordinator and curatorial assistant for In Flux: Recalibrating the Unknown exhibit featuring work from over 175 SFAI alumni
- 2024 Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA; project lead and curator for Articles of Belonging collaborative multi-media installation within the In Flux exhibition
- 2022 Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Thresholds: 2022 MFA Final Exhibit
- 2021 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Arts Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
- 2021 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; curator and exhibitor for Fragile Estate, juried group exhibit
- 2021 Chico Art Center, Chico, CA; California Contemporary Sculpture, juried group exhibit
- 2020 Valene Smith Museum of Anthropology, CSU Chico; Fire and Water: Elements of Change, invitational exhibit
- 2020 The Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Walnut Creek, CA; Fire!, invitational group exhibit
- 2019 Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA; Reflections, juried group exhibit
- 2019 Schafer Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA; curator and exhibitor for Mutually Assured, juried group exhibit
- 2018 Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Taking Temperature, juried group exhibit
- 2018 Chico Art Center, Chico, CA, Livable Planet?‘ juried group exhibit
- 2015 Museum of Northern California Art fundraiser event, Chico, CA; The Pale and Beyond, five person exhibit by the Art Officials
- 2014-15 Gallery 2110, Sacramento, CA
- 2009- Art Obsessions Gallery, Reno, NV
- 2009-11 Art Attack Gallery, Incline Village, NV
- 2008-2012 Vista Gallery, Tahoe Vista, CA
- 2007 Federal District Court, Reno, NV; Solo exhibit
- 2007 Catherine Bouwer Fine Art Gallery, Reno; NV
- 2007 Carole Sesko Contemporary Art, Truckee, CA; Truckee-Tahoe: Modern Regional Art, group exhibit
- 2006 Carole Sesko Contemporary Art, Truckee, CA, Collaboration: Party of 3; three person exhibit
- 2005 Northern California Arts, Inc, Sacramento, CA; Bold Expressions 50th Annual Open International Exhibition
Education
- 2022 San Francisco Art Institute, MFA with Honors, Studio Arts
- 1990, University of California, Berkeley Extension Program, Certificate in Landscape Architecture
- 1982, California State University, Chico, BA in Chinese Studies
Selected Awards and Residencies
- 2024- Artist in Residence, Bidwell Park, Chico, CA
- 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
- 2021 Cadogan Art Scholarship award, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
- 2021 Isaac M. Walter Sculpture Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
- 2021 Nominee, International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Award
- 2018 Outstanding Regional Environmental Awareness Award for Carbon: Bristlecone Pines, Livable Planet? exhibit, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA,
- 2010 Best in Show for Geometry of Horses, Horse HeART National Equine Art Competition and Exhibit, Incline Village, NV
- 2010 Mustang Spirit Award for Night Horse, Horse HeART National Equine Art Competition and Exhibit, Incline Village, NV
- 2005 Award of Excellence for Quercus lobata ‘Serpentine,’ Bold Expressions 50th Annual Open International Exhibition, Northern California Arts, Inc. , Sacramento, CA