EDUCATION

BFA in Fine Art: Printmaking, Minor in Art History, The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY. Summa cum laude.


INDEPENDENT ART STUDIES

Awarded Residency, Playa Summer Lake, OR, February 2023

Virtual Residency with Mira Schor, NYC Crit Club, Fall 2022

Visiting Critic Program with Deanna Evans, NYC Crit Club, Fall 2022

Cyanotype Workshop with Julia Whitney Barnes, Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, Maplecrest, NY August 2022

The Art and Science of Symbiosis Workshop with Dr. Diana Six, Playa, Summer Lake, OR

Art Career Intensive, NYC Crit Club, New York, NY, Summer 2021

Visiting Critic Program, NYC Crit Club, New York, NY, Spring 2021



PRESS/PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA

In The Art Scene podcast, featured artist interview, January 29, 2023

Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine, “Home” by Ginny Battson January/ February 2023

Emergence Magazine, “On Death and Love” by Melanie Challenger, January 2022

SDVisualArts.net, web--lecture feature, July 2021

All She Makes Magazine, Inaugural Issue, Spring 2021

Artist Round Table, Oceanside Museum of Art, April 2020 (moderated by Katie Dolgov)

Gallery Selections Exhibition Discussion, Sparks Gallery, August 2020 (moderated by Zach Telles)

Artist Round Table, Oceanside Museum of Art, July 2021 (moderated by Rebecca Webb)


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, AND COMMISIONS


2024

Order/Disorder: Belonging In Nature, La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla, CA (curated by Danielle Deery)


Size Matters, Medium Photo, Athenaeum Art Center San Diego, CA (curated by Crista Dix)


2023

Echo’s Potential, solo show at OMA West at the Seabird, Oceanside, CA (curated by Natalie Gonzales)


Relational Gradient, solo show at Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Sonya Sparks)


Broken Mirror, Techne Art Center, Oceanside, CA May-July 2023 (curated by Chuck Thomas)


Size Matters, Medium Photo, San Diego, CA April 2023 (curated by C. Meier)


Photography and Collage, Thinking About Photography, (curated by Ann Mitchell and Amandine Nabarra) March-June 2023


If it Makes You Happy, Float Magazine (curated by Lanna Apisukh)


Holobiont, Solo Show at The William Herrick Health Library, La Mesa, CA, Jan-March 2023 (curated by Holland Kessinger)


The Hand Magazine, Issue 39, February 2023


2022

Flat Files, Collar Works Troy, NY (curated by Jeremy Dennis)


6th Annual Alternative Photography Exhibition, The Image Flow, San Anselmo, CA (curated by Adam Finkelston, J. Jason Lazarus, and Chris McCaw)


Out of the Blue, Acci Gallery, Berkeley, CA


Garden Universal, False Cast Gallery (curated by Mark Navarro and Vivien Chung)


New Visionary Magazine, Issue 3 (curated by Danielle Krysa)


Expansive Embrace, commissioned for The On Being Project’s Starting Point, July 2022


ArtMaze Mag, Issue 27, (curated by Karen Hesse Flatow)


minis 2022, Sparks Gallery, (curated by Sonya Sparks)


On The Move, Trash Lamb Gallery, (curated by Melody Jean Moulton)


Myths and Fables, Analog Forever Magazine, (curated by Amy Jasek)


Stories I Tell Myself, Visionary Art Collective (curated by Pennylane Shen)


Zoonotic Hex, Field Projects, New York, NY (curated by Jacob Rhodes and Kristen Racaniello)


Love is an Action, The Front Gallery, San Ysidro, CA (curated by Monica Hernandez)


Emerging Artists 2022, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn NY


2021

Less Than a Pair of Centenaries II, Trash Lamb Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Melody Jean Moulton)


Dynamic Mutuality, commissioned for the On Being podcast episode featuring Dr. Suzanne Simard


Presence of Mind, Seabird Hotel, Oceanside, CA (curated by Rebecca Webb)


minis 2021, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Sonya Sparks)


Artist Intervenes Exhibition, Lenscratch, (curated by Adriene Hughes)

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Stretched Imagination: Artist Alliance, Ashton Gallery at Art on 30th, San Diego, CA (curated by Chi Essary)


2020

Less Than a Pair of Centenaries, Trash Lamb Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Melody Jean Moulton)


Aurora, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (curated by the Los Angeles Arts Association Exhibition Committee)


November Show, Teros Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Melajandra Frankdencio)


Gallery Selections, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Sonya Sparks)

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29th Annual Juried Exhibition, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA (curated by Joe Yorty and Elizabeth Rooklidge)

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Art Auction Exhibition, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA (curated by Maria Mingalone, Executive Director Oceanside Museum of Art)


2020 Invitational, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA (curated by Karen McGuire, Cannon Art Gallery Curator of Exhibitions)


2019

Artist Alliance 2019 Biennial, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA (curated by Maria Mingalone, Executive Director Oceanside Museum of Art and Robert L. Pincus, art critic and writer for the San Diego Tribune)


Array, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Sonya Sparks)


C-Note Show, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA (curated by Sarah Trujillo-Porter, SDAI Deputy Director)


All Media 2019, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA (curated by Constance Mallinson)

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Growing Wild by Artist Alliance, San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas, CA (curated by Kathi McCord and Peter Tobias)


minis 2019, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Sonya Sparks)

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OMA Artist Alliance: Creative License/ A Group Show, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Sonya Sparks)

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Cannon Art Gallery Juried Biennial, Carlsbad, CA (curated by Robert L. Pincus, art critic and writer for the San Diego Tribune, and Maria Mingalone, Executive Director Oceanside Museum of Art)

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2018

Out of the Box Experimental Show, Honorable Mention, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA (curated by Daniel Foster)

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27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Second Place and Leslie von Kolb Memorial Award, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, (curated by Maria Mingalone, Executive Director Oceanside Museum of Art and Rebecca Webb, Special Projects Director Oceanside Museum of Art)

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Offbeat Nuances, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA (curated by Judy Schroeder)

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2017

H20 Portayals, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA (curated by Linda Doll)

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Seeds of Inspiration, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA (curated by Helen Shafer Garcia)

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Gales of Color, Juror’s Commendation, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA (curated by John Swink)

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Kick Start Experimental Show, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA (Curated by Penny Hill, Director of Exhibitions, The National Watercolor Society, San Pedro, CA)

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2014

Completion and installation of 6'H, 20'W mural at San Diego Cooperative Charter School 2, San Diego, CA

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2010

Communication Arts award recipient, Illustrator for Anthropologie perfume collection packaging, A Rather Novel Collection

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Published illustrator for Anthropologie furniture product information

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2008

Printmaking Show, Anthropologie, Philadelphia, PA

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2007

Published illustrator for "Scrapbooking Your Family History: The Ultimate Workbook", Leisure Arts, Little Rock, AR

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Genesius Project Group Show, Mew Gallery, Philadelphia

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2005

Albany Underground Artists Group Show, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

ORGANIZATIONS AND RESIDENCIES

2020 Los Angeles Art Association

2018-20 Art Alliance, Oceanside Museum of Art

American Women Artists, associate member

2016-19 San Diego Watercolor Society member
2016-17 Representation by the co-Lab Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Artist Residency in Motherhood

2007-09 Representation by Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City, NY
2006-07 Member of The Genesius Project: A Printmaking Collective, Philadelphia, PA

Work held in public and private collections in Europe and across the United States