Education

2005          MFA, Painting, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY
1998-99     Fulbright Fellowship, Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany,
1998          BFA, Painting, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA (summa cum laude)
                  BA, German, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA (summa cum laude)
1995-96     German Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany,


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011          Western King, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010          Build to Suit, Fulcrum Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2009          The Badman, Telephone Room, Tacoma, WA
                  New Paintings, The Helm Gallery, Tacoma, WA
                  Trout Paintings, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA
2008          Houses on Stilts, Basil Hallward Gallery, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR


Selected Group Exhibitions

2011          Between Cornice and Cantilever, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2010          Summer Selections, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
                  Winter Group Show, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
                  Referencing the Past, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
                  Foundation of Art Award Retrospective, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2009          Queens International 4, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
                       (in collaboration with Okamoto Studio)
                  Hello, Telephone Room, Tacoma, WA
2008-09     The Vancouver Project, various locations in Washington and British Columbia
                       (traveling residency exhibition)
2007          The TransHudson Project: State of the Art, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY 
2006          Planet Hollywood, Planet Thailand, Brooklyn, NY
2005          The Trinity: A Family Relationship in Three Parts, New York Center for Art and Media
                       Studies, New York, NY,
                  Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition, City University of New York, New York, NY
2004          The Four Laws, Priority Associates, New York, NY
2003          DUMBO Works on Paper, 70 Washington Building, Brooklyn, NY
                  Three Artists’ Interpretations of Home, Home Experimental Space, Queens, NY
                  Visions of the Future, Priority Associates, New York, NY
                  Borders to Bridges- Fort Collins, Colorado State University
                  Contemporary Drawing 2003, Priority Associates, New York, NY
                  Borders to Bridges, King’s College, New York, NY
2002          Roads to the East, Central Washington University,
1999          Passauer Monotypien, Stadt-Museum Neuötting, Germany,
                  Jahresausstellung, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany


Awards

2009          Foundation of Art Award, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
2000          Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Fine Arts, U.S. Department of Education
1998          Fulbright Fellowship, Painting and Graphic Arts, Germany
1994-98     Presidential Scholarship, Pacific Lutheran University


Selected Public and Private Collections

Swedish Hospital, Issaquah, WA
Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Tacoma, WA
Pierce County, Tacoma, WA
City of Kent, Kent, WA
Grantmaker Consultants, Tacoma, WA
Forest and Sequoia Foundations, Tacoma, WA