MFA University of California, San Diego 2002
BFA New York University Tisch School of the Arts 1999

Awards/Honors 2008
California Council for the Humanities, California Stories Fund Grant
  2008 Summer Research Grant for Continuing Faculty
  2007 18th Street Arts Center Residency, Santa Monica CA
  2006 Summer Research Grant for Continuing Faculty, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
  2006 CUE Art Foundation Studio Residency, New York, NY
  2005 Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA ARC Grant
  2005 Summer Research Grant for New Faculty, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
  2005 Adjunct Faculty Development Grant, New York University, New York, NY
  2005 Artists Fellowship Award, AIR Gallery, New York, Y
  2004 Finalist for Fellowship Award/Partial Studio Residency, Smack Mellon Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
  2003 Fellowship Award, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
     
Solo Exhibitions
2009
"Without a Car in the World," 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA October 17- December 11
  2006 "Quiet Moments Spent With Friends" AIR Gallery New York, NY January 10- February 7
2005
"Born on a Train" Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO January 7- March 15
2002
"Westward Ho" Marcuse Gallery, University of California, San Diego May 13-17
   
Group Exhibitions 2009
"Material Afterlife," Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI April 10- August 9
   
"Site Seeing: Explorations of Landscape” Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY January 24- March 30
     
  2008 “Helsinki Biennale,” Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland October 24- January 25
    CUE Art Auction, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY October 14
    “I Want to Believe,” Café Bolivar, Santa Monica, CA September 11- October 11
    “Animal Magnetism,” juried by Matt Gleason, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA September 4-28
    “Postcards from the Art Edge,” i-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA August 30- October 18
    NEXT Art Fair, Chicago, IL April 24-28 represented by CUE Art Foundation
    “GEM” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA April 12
    “Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?” Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ April 6- May 25
    “Women Shooting Women: Contemporary Interpretations of Formal Portraiture,” curated by Karen Florek, The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY April 4- June 29
    “Transportation and the Environment,” Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA April 2- June 14
    “Human Resources,” curated by Sara Reisman, The Seaport Cultural Center, New York, NY January 8- February 3
     
  2007 “CBRE Exhibition,” CB Richard Ellis, New York, NY curated by Susanna Cole and sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council December 18- December 13, 2008
    “Imaginary Arsenals” curated by Kimberly Lamm, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY December 8- January 19
   

“Jamaica Flux,” Jamaica Center for Art and Learning, show of citywide site-specific installations, Queens, New York September 29- November 17 (catalog)

    “Animal Instincts: Allegory and Anthromorphism” Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA September 22- November 11
    “Biannual” juried by Alma Ruiz, The Michael Napoliello Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA September 13- November 10
    “Transformations: Photography and Imaging @ 25” curated by Fred Ritchin, Patricia Snavely, and Deb Willis, Kimmel Center, New York University, New York, NY September 7- November 17
    “Summerstock” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA August 11- 19
    “Kentucky Derby,” Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY May 5
   

“GEM” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA April 21

    “Points of Departure: Inner and Outer Journeys in ContemporaryArt,” Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA February 6- February 23
    "Xpositions: Faculty Exhibition," Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA January 28-February 28
     
  2006 "Blips, Drips, and Strips," curated by Christine Morla, Upfront Gallery, December 9- January 23
    "Flash Forward" Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario November 2-14 (book)
    "Radiant" Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY November 8- December 22
    "Biannual" curated by Jeremy Strick, The Michael Napoliello Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA June 22- September 2
   
"Scale" curated by Caryn Coleman, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA May 2- June 10
   
"Back to Nature" Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA May 28- July 15
   
"Kentucky Derby" Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY May 6
   
"The Downtown Dinner," Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY June 4
   
"On Site" Angel's Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA April 30- June 11
   
"The Art of Photography" Lyceum Theater, San Diego, CA April 22- June 4
   
"Generations V" AIR Gallery, New York, NY March 7- April 1
     
  2005
"Night of 1000 Drawings" Artists Space, New York, NY December 9
   
"The F Stops Here" Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA November 5- December 2
   
"Peekskill Project" curated by Allison Levy, Peekskill, NY September 24- October 24
   
"Pin-Up Show" Jen Bekman Gallery at Fanelli's, New York, NY September 21- October 2
   
"Alumni Exhibition" New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY September 6- October 9
   
"ID= I.D." AIR Gallery, New York, NY June 17- July 25
   
"Topographic" Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH January 12- March 11
     
  2004

"Larger Than Life: 3D Cinema" Wadsworth Antheneum, Aetna Theater, Hartford, CT November 12

   
"International Fine Art Photography" Museum of Contemporary Photography, Fort Collins, CO June 19- August 21
   
"Grotto II" Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY June 18- July 18
   
"New American Talent" Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX June-July (catalog: traveling exhibition)
   
"Generations 04" AIR Gallery, New York, NY March 2- 26
   
"Managing Eden" Traveling Show Organized by the Center for Photography at Woodstock, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX January 26- February 28
     
  2003
"Miraculous: Contemporary Ex-Votos Painting," ChezTGN, Brooklyn, NY December 10- January 5
   
"Reality Fiction: (re)constructing representation" Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY October 25- January 17
   

"Current Works" Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City,MO, October25- November 29

   

"Open Studios," Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Residency at the Woolworth Building, New York, NY, September 20-21

   
"AIM 23" Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY July-October 2003
   

"Wish You Were Here Too," A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, June 24- July 19

   

"5th Biennial," A.I.R. Gallery, New York, Juror: Shamim Momim, March 4-29

   

"Americana," Westside Gallery, New York, curated by Anne Ellegood and Rachel Gugelberger, February 8-22

     
  2002

"TV or Not TV," LA Freewaves, "See Ya at the Movies," finale screening, Vermont Music Café, Los Angeles, CA November 30

   

"Once Over," Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, New York, NY, September 6- 30

   

33/20," Tisch School of the Arts, Gulf and Western Gallery, New York, NYAugust 26- September 27

   

"Love Hotel," Pillow Lavas Collective, University of California, San Diego,Visual Arts Facility, June 1 - June 13

   

Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg, WA March 1- April 27

   
Generations III," A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, February 26- March 23
     
  2001

"Current Works 2001," Society for Contemporary Photography,Kansas City, MO October 19- November 24

   

ana 30," The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, Juror: Peter Schjedahl, August 24- October 28

   

"Sewn," Studio 237, University of California, San Diego, June 4-8(curator of show and contributing artist)

   

"4th Biennial" A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: Anne Ellegood, February 27- March 24

   

"Curious Journeys," Gallery 214 Art Space, Montclair, NJ February 23 -March 24