EDUCATION
M.F.A. Fine Arts - Graduated 2015 B.F.A. Painting and Ceramics – 2005-2009
UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Teaching Fellow, Graduate Assistantship, SC Life Scholarship, Rutledge Scholarship
Teaching Assistantship, Ackland Fellow
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current - 2020 Visual Art Teacher at Ravenscroft School
Current - 2015 Art Adventures Instructor – Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2020 - 2019 Education Assistant - ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC
2020 – 2015 Youth and Adult Art Class Instructor – ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC
2018 – 2015 Art a La Carte Instructor – Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2017-2015 Afterschool Arts Immersion Instructor – ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC
2016 Visiting Lecturer, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Core Concepts: Image – Instructor of Record)
2016-2013 Tool Room Monitor, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2015 Teaching Fellows, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (introduction to Painting – Instructor of Record)
2014 Teaching Fellows, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Core Concepts: Image – Instructor of Record)
Ackland Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Art a La Carte Instructor)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Introduction to Drawing)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Ross Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
2018 Glimpse. Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2017 Emerging Artist Gallery, Arts Center, Carrboro, NC Raleigh HQ, Raleigh, NC
2016 The Things We Keep, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
2015 Objectness, UNC Alcott Gallery, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2014 Between Intuition and Reason, Green Gallery – Scrap Exchange, Durham, NC
2012 Perimeter Gallery, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC
2011 Etherredge Center at USC Aiken, Aiken, SC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Bascom Atrium Series – The Bascom – Highlands, NC
Visionary Ball Art Auction - – Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
Au community art show – Goldenbelt, Durham, NC
2022 Mineral House Media Group Exhibition – Dry Ice Gallery, Nashville, TN
Elemental Print Exhibition – Sponsored by Speedball, Iredell Arts Council, Statesville, NC
Basement + Peel Fundraiser – Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
Home – Orange County Arts Commission, Hillsborough, NC
2021 Raleigh Fine Arts Society Virtual Exhibition
Mutual Aid Art Auction – Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
Peelin’ in the years – Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
2019 65th Annual Juried Exhibition, curated by Emily Stamey, Durham Arts Guild, Durham, NC *Honorable Mention
Traditions: Compounded, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
2018 Juried Art Show, curated by Annah Lee, Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC *Awarded First Place One Night Stand, curated by Lindsay Metivier, Joel Hopler, and Carley Zarzika, Goldenbelt, Durham, NC
Artfields, Lake City Partnership Council, Lake City, SC
Raleigh Fine Arts Exhibition, curated by Jennifer Dasal, Duke Center for Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC
Schwa, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC
2017 Community Show, ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC notBIG(4), curated by Kurt Gohde, M S Rezny Studio/Gallery, Lexington, KY
Mixtape, Subverbal Collective, The Carrack, Durham, NC The Lived Body, Subverbal Collective, The LAB, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2016 Instructors Show, ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC Mater-realism, curated by Will Partin, The Alcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Monster Drawing Rally, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Meld, curated by Jina Valentine, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC Camstellations, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC Fresh, curated by Marshall N. Price, Artspace, Raleigh,NC Artfields, Lake City Partnership Council, Lake City, SC
2015 Community Show, Arts Center, Carrboro, NC The Land of No Things, curated by Chris Vitiello, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC Community Show, The Carrack, Durham, NC UNC Art Auction, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2014 Exchange Gallery, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC SCOPE, The southern landscape, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC Artfields, Lake City Partnership Council, Lake City, SC Move, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC That makes me nervous, Chapel Hill Underground, Chapel Hill, NC Open Hang, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC Community Art Show, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2013 Anything Goes, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC Artfields, Lake City Partnership Council, Lake City, SC
2012 Art Frenzy Art Auction, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC Group Exhibit, Community Performing Arts Center, Rock Hill, SC
2011 Art Frenzy Art Auction, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC 22nd annual juried competition, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC *Awarded First Place Out in, Gallery 313, Anderson, SC
2010 35th Annual Juried Show, Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC BFA Senior Show, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
2009 A show of series, The Loading Dock Gallery, The Getty’s Building, Rock Hill, SC 50 Paintings, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC Student Exhibition, Sims Science Building, Winthrop University, Rock Hill SC The Function of Art, Windows with a view, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Winthrop University Pottery Sale, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
2008 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC *Purchase Award Advanced Painting Show, Lewandowski Gallery, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Student Exhibition, The Loading Dock Gallery, The Getty’s Building, Rock Hill, SC Winthrop University Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
AWARDS/GRANTS/LECTURES/PUBLICATIONS
2019 Honorable Mention, 65th Annual Juried Art Show, Durham Arts Guild, Durham, NC
2018 Artists lecture given at Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, NC
First Place Award, Juried Show, Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC
2017 Vitiello, Chris, “BURNAWAY’s Best of 2017: Favorite Exhibitions in the South and Beyond,”
Burnaway, http://burnaway.org, December 20, 2017
Darland, Joe, “Small Is More Than Just A State Of Mind,” UnderMain, http://www.under-main.com/,August 20, 2017
Co-Founder and member of Subverbal Collective
2016 Fallon, Katherine, “Exhibit Explores “The Things We Keep’,” Connect Statesboro, http://www.connectstatesboro.com, March 08, 2016
Artist for the Artspace CSA (Community Supported Art) Program
Durham Emerging Artist Grant – Durham, NC
Artists lecture given at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
2015 HGTV’s Love it or List it, Mid Century Maternity
2014 UNC Arts and Sciences Magazine Awarded the “Top Prize for Outstanding MFA Work,” UNC Chapel Hill
Dedalus Award Nominee
2013 Studio Visit Magazine – Winter edition
2011 First Place Award, 22nd Annual Juried Competition, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC
2010 President’s & Plumb Purchase Award, Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2018 Azule, Hot Springs, NC
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (Declined to attend)
2015 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Awarded Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
COLLECTIONS
Hanes Art Center, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Raleigh Municipal Art Collection, Raleigh, NC