Education
San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A. Painting and Sculpture, M.F.A. Sculpture
One Person Exhibitions
Looking After, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA 2010
Aggregate, Richard L.
Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA, 2008
The Butterfly and the Tsunami, California
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 2008
When Hell Freezes Over, Gallery 16,
San Francisco, CA, 2008
Dominion, ampersand
international arts, San Francisco, CA, 2007
as if, Gallery 16,
San Francisco, CA, 2005
Ultra-marine: the workshop for alternative aquatic taxidermy, Artist-in-Residence exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco, CA 2002
Practical Taxidermy, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA 2000
working
like a beaver, vitra, San Francisco, CA, 2000
down pour, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1995
the wound
and the bow, Space 743, San Francisco, CA, 1995
Selected Group
Exhibitions
so many products, so little time, Soap Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010
non-mart, Y2Y Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
Let's leave
it at that, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Interface Nature, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Urban Idiom, Patricia
Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Natural
Blunders, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA, 2009
Plan B, The Lab, San
Francisco, CA, 2009
these are
the people in your neighborhood, Gallery 16,
San Francisco, CA 2008
Art of the
Diorama, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 2008
Artists as
Collectors, Oakland Museum at the Oakland International
Airport, CA, 2008
Don't Try This at Home: Obsessively
Reshaping the Ordinary, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA,
2007
Strange
Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Work a Day, Blank
Space Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2007
The Little
Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2007
Cultivating
Creativity, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA,
2007
Close
Calls, The Headlands, Sausalito, CA, 2007
Animal
House, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY, 2006
here's the
thing, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, 2006
Close Calls, The Headlands, Sausalito, CA, 2006
Instant
Messaging, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, 2005
The Diorama
Show, Mission17, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Better than
Real, mixedUse Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005
a group of
mostly unrelated things, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Thirty
Something, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Cross
Pollination, Museum of Contemporary Art/Luther Burbank Center
for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA, 2005
Monster
Drawing, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Points of
View: Selections from the Museum Collection, Oakland Museum
of California, Oakland, CA, 2004
Close
Calls, The Headlands, Sausalito, CA, 2004
The Drawing
Room, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2004
Geektique
Road Show, Build, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Animal
Magnetism, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, 2003
From Research to Action: Medical Research Symposium, University of California Medical School, San Diego, 2003
The Big
Tree Project, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Regional Center for the
Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, 2003
All Animals, Milo Foundation Exhibition, Berkeley, CA 2003
Q:Where are you at?/Q:Where is your drawing
at?,The Lab, San Francisco, CA, 2003
Is it Photography: Polaroid Processes, Calumet Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000
Bow Wow, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Regional Center for the Arts,
Walnut Creek, CA, 1999
Site
Specifics '98, The Carriage
House, Project Space at the Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY, 1998
California
Photography, Triton Museum
of Art, Santa Clara, CA Museum
Purchase Award, 1997
Small
Wonder, CEPA Photographic Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1997
Gold!, The
Collectors Gallery, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland , 1997
Public
Collections
Oakland Museum
of California
Triton Museum
Frontier
Collection
Residencies/Awards
California
Academy of Sciences, Artist-in-Residence, 2008
Djerassi
Resident Artist Program, Irvine Foundation Fellowship, 2007
Creative
Capital/Headlands Professional Development Award, 2006
SFMOMA SECA
Award Finalist, 2004
Artist-in-Residence
with solo exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco, 2002
Artist-in-Residence
exhibition, The Carriage House, project space at the Islip Art Museum, Long
Island, NY, 1998
Museum Purchase Award, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA selected by Sandra Philips, Sr. Photography Curator, SFMOMA, 1997
Drawing Award, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX selected by Neil Benezara, Chief Curator SFMOMA, 1993
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