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Education

MFA University of Delaware: Painting

Richmond College, London, England

BA (Double Major) University of San Diego: Studio Art/ English

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026 Almost Never, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2022 What Gives, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2020 Yes Way, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2019 Hot Zone, Space K Adeline, Oakland, CA
2018 Slowdown Summer, Roll-Up Project, Oakland, CA
Half-Moon, Right Window Gallery (Artists' Television Access) San Francisco, CA
2017 Never Contained the Landscape, w/ Kathryn Spence, Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Some Other Sense of Time and Place, w/ May Wilson), Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
Far Away Closer, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
2013 All The Pink Together: Boom, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 Color As Space, Sense, w/ Danielle Lawrence) 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA
2011 New Paintings at 101 California Street, ArtSource, San Francisco, CA
2010 Inside Out, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Thirteen Watercolors, Rose Burlingham Fine Art, New York, NY
2007 Paintings/ Works on Paper, House of Hengst, San Francisco, CA
2006 New Paintings, Rena Bransten Gallery, New Work, San Francisco,CA
Out of the Blue, Bau Institute, Museo Ecologie Nationale, Otranto, Italy
Out of the Blue Part 2, Bau Institute, curated by Lilly Wei, Otranto, Italy
2002 Recent Paintings, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 New Paintings, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 New Paintings, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Group Show Pt.2, Oakland, CA
2025 5 x 5 x 5, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, San Rafael, CA
Instrumentals, curated by Lisa Cralle/ Rebekah Goldstein, Personal Space Vallejo, CA
Pyramid Scheme 2, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Living Room, organized by Joe Ferriso, Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, CA
XXS, curated by Wendy White, Brintz + County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2024 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Capp Street Project Invitational, San Francisco, CA
2022 House Show, curated by Matt Katsoros and David Wilson, San Francisco, CA
Midas, curated by Squeak Carnwath: Maria Guzman Capron, Ricki Dwyer, Sahar Khoury, Kyle Lypka & Tyler Cross, and John Moore, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2021 Seconds, curated by Griff Williams at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2018 Way Bay Part 2, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Thinking Structure, The Buck Institute, San Rafael, CA
2017 About Abstraction: Bay Area Painters, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Albany Library, with Todd Bura, Colter Jacobsen, Albany, CA
2016 PURPLE [Tears] w/ Sofie Ramos and Laura Rokas, Guererro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
I Dreamt That Bees Made Honey, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
21st C Abstract Painting/Sculpture, curated by Gerald Jackson, Rush Arts, New York, NY
2015 Ascent, curated by Elizabeth Leach Gallery, One California Street, San Francisco, CA
New Normal #1, organized by Guererro Gallery, Oakland, CA
After Living in the Room of Realities Nouvelles, Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Color Shift, Berkeley Museum, curated by Apsara DiQuinzio, Berkeley, CA
The Possible, curated by David Wilson, Larry Rinder, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2013 Unruly, curated by Lucinda Barnes, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2012 Watercolors / Works on Paper at Pulliam Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Still Life Landscape, Castaneda/ Reiman at Baer Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Night Tide, curated by Colter Jacobsen, San Francisco, CA
Frank Holliday, Stephen Mueller, and Gwen Thomas at Rose Burlingham, New York, NY
Introductions, Pulliam Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Three-Person Exhibition at Barry Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Dream With Everything That Fades Away, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Interference, 3-person show, HP Garcia Gallery, New York, NY
Introductions, 3-person, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 7 – 07 curated by Hung Liu, at Barry Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Long Time Collective Plus One, M1 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Jack Davidson, Stephen Mueller, Melissa Meyer, Rose Burlingham, New York, NY
Snap, Crackle, Pop, curated by Sarrita Hunn, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 November Show, Gruen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Commission 05, SF Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Black Market Auction, curated by Jon Rubin, Independent School of Art, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Bazaar, curated by Laurie Reid, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2022 MacDowell residency, Peterborough, NH
MacDowell Residency Kendall Fellowship award, Peterborough, NH
2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
2020 SF Arts Commission Award, SFO, International Terminal, San Francisco, CA
2019 Facebook AIR mural project, San Francisco, CA
Sanskriti Museum Kendra Foundation Residency, New Delhi, India
2018 Kriti Residency, Varanasi, India
2017 Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY
Yaddo Alma B. Shapiro award, Saratoga Springs, New York
2012 Berkeley Art Museum Collector's Circle Acquisition, Berkeley, CA
2011 Bau Institute Residency, Otranto, Italy
2007 Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY
2006 Bau Institute Residency, Otranto Italy
1998 Elizabeth Foundation Grant, New York, NY
Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
1995 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Curatorial Projects

2026 Everyone Is Killing It, with David Huffman, CCA Playspace, San Francisco
2024 Fool's Gold MFA exhibition, co-organized with Kota Ezawa, San Francisco Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2020–24 Curatorial Board member, Right Window/ Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2021 Believe In Truth Exhibition, Teaching and Election Initiative with Citizens In Action Coalition Grant, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2020 Patch, Terri Friedman, Kori Girard, Cliff Hengst, Jo Jackson, Colter Jacobsen, Chris Johanson, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2015 Painting Expelled, co-organized with James Gobel, California College of the Arts, CA
2013 Hotbox Forever, Lecia Dole-Recio, Jeff Gibson, Mary Weatherford, Wendy White, at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

Other Projects

2022 Blankets and Notebooks, Open Editions, San Francisco, CA
2018 Slowdown Summer zine, Roll-Up Project, Oakland, CA
2014 Open Mic for Studio Visit, organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Plumb Notebooks in collaboration with Tucker Nichols and MacFadden & Thorpe Design, San Francisco, CA
2013 Painting Expanded Symposium, co-organized with James Gobel, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Trapped in the Wunderkammer, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2012 Margaret Tedesco's KUSF In Exile Archive, Linda Geary and Jordan Stein, San Francisco, CA
2011 In The Make, studio profile with Klea McKenna and Nikki Grattan, June 2011

Publications

2025 Passing Through, three etchings with 45th Street Editions, Oakland, CA
2023 Roll-up Project, The First Five Years exhibition catalog, essay by Maria Porges, Oakland, CA
2022 Nomadic Structures, exhibition catalog, curated by Annemarie Stohr, Saarbruken, Germany
What Gives, exhibition catalog, essay by Jamie Baron, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Midas, exhibition catalog, essay by Julia Couzens, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2020 Yes Way, Sidewalks, River catalog, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2018 Vital Voices Book Project, Washington, D.C.
Half-Moon zine, essay by Norma Cole, Right Window at Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2013 Studio Visit, essay by Norma Cole, Edition One, Berkeley, CA
2010 Reverse Psychology, essay by Leigh Markopoulos, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Out of the Blue, essay by Kenneth Baker, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Teaching/Professional

2022–26 Visiting Faculty, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado
2015–27 Professor of Painting and Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2024 Discussion with Theresa Baker, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2011–24 Chair of Painting & Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2022 Panel Discussion with Maja Ruznick, Karma Gallery, New York, NY
Panel Discussion with Squeak Carnwath, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2015–19 Visiting Faculty, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO
2016 Conversations in Craft, Oregon College for Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Visiting Artist, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Visiting Artist, Shasta College, Redding, CA
2014 Interview with Leonardo Drew, Art 21 premiere, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Visiting Artist, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Visiting Artist, New York Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Visiting Critic, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011–12 Assistant Chair of Painting, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 Exhibition Juror, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2010–13 Associate Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Chair of Painting, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005–10 Assistant Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

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