Education
2010 M.F.A., Painting, New York Academy of Art
2006 B.A., Art, University of California, Santa Cruz
Solo Exhibitions
2023 July and Everything After, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2022 Flag Paintings, Olympic Mills Commerce Center, Portland, Oregon
2020 Flag Paintings, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2018 Paintings, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2017 Separation Anxiety, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2015 Medicine Men, Fireplace Gallery, Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, Oregon
2014 Medicine Men, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2013 Black Comedy, FireHouse Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Creative Diversity Abides, Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, Oregon Creative Diversity Abides, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2022 Land Art, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Protest Signs, University of North Carolina Wilmington CAB Gallery, curated by Dr. Travis Williams of VCU
6 x 6, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon
2021 Artworks Northwest Bienniel, Umpqua Valley Art Center, Roseburg, Oregon
Impacted, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2020 Love Politik, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Adjunct Riot, contributor, artist book created by Amy Fleming for Porch Possum Press
Oregon Coast Online Show, Newport Visual Arts Center
30 Works in 30 Days, Blackfish Gallery online show
2019 A Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, IU Kokomo Downtown Gallery, Kokomo, Indiana
She Flies with Her Own Wings, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, Oregon
Reflections, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, Oregon
40th Anniversary Members Exhibition, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2018 Around Oregon Annual, The Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon
American Portfolio 7—Pacific Northwest Artists, Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Salem, Oregon
2017 We the People, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
We the People, Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, Oregon
Debt Fair, Occupy Museums, included in digital display, Whitney Museum of Art
2016 Fishbowl Window Project, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2015 Closer, Scene Metrospace, Michigan State University
(Con)temporary, Littman Gallery, Portland State University
2014 Fishbowl Window Project, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2013 Fishbowl Window Project, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Back Room Show, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Ritual, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2012 Popular Campaigns and Political Culture, Prescott College Art Gallery, Prescott, Arizona
Under the Influence, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
New Members Show (three-person), Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Fishbowl Window Project, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Where Do We Go From Here?, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon
2011 Where are We Now?: Artists Reflect on America 10 Years After 9/11, Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery,
Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon
ReMake, ReNew, ReUse, Marygrove College Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Seriously Funny, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2010 Un-Pop, A Gathering of Tribes, New York, New York
Summer Exhibition, Wilkinson Gallery, New York Academy of Art
You Naughty Children: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wilkinson Gallery, New York Academy of Art
Single Fare, 224 Grand, Brooklyn, New York (New York Times article)
Off the Wall, Prince Street Gallery, New York, New York
2009 Take Home a Nude, Wilkinson Gallery, New York Academy of Art
2008 Thirty under Thirty, Varnish Gallery, San Francisco
Mischief, 100th Monkey Studio, Portland, Oregon
2007 Works on Paper, Gallery One, San Francisco
2006 Simmer, The Canvas Gallery, San Francisco
Selected Awards/Nominations/Presentations
2023 3C Grant, Regional Art and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon
2018 Selection Committee Member, State Library % for Art, Oregon Arts Commission
2016 Panelist, “Beauty Exiled?”, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2012 Nominated for Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum
College Art Association Conference presentation, title: The Freakshow and Transformation in Michael
Jackson's Life and Work
2010 Nominated for a Terra Foundation residency
2006 Florence French Scholarship recipient
Teaching Experience
2018 Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon, Adjunct Faculty, Drawing I
2015 Portland State University, Adjunct Faculty, Drawing I
2013 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon, Figure Drawing: An Anatomical Approach
2011-13 Portland State University, Adjunct Faculty, Drawing I and Life Drawing
2010 New York Academy of Art, Teaching Assistant, Perspective Drawing
Publication
Alves, Rita. “The Freak Show and Transformation in Michael Jackson’s Life and Work.” Media-N. CAA Conference Edition, 2012.
Bibliography
Verzemnieks, Inara. “Artful Mischief at the 100th Monkey Studio.” The Oregonian. August 11, 2008. (The Keys to the Kingdom, reproduction)
A Gathering of Tribes, issue 13, 2011. (Abu Ghraib 3, reproduction, page 96)
Noble, Hannah, “Now you see it, Now you don’t,” PSU Vanguard, January 30, 2012.
Alaks, Kathleen. “Women Artists show at RCC Galleries,” Grants Pass Daily Courier, April 11,
2013.
Gallery Representation
Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon