Born in, lives, and works in Los Angeles, California

Education

2022 - University of California, Irvine - MFA in Visual Art

2009-2018 - Santa Monica College Art Department

2006 - University of California, Los Angeles - BA in English Literature, Creative Writing Concentration (Poetry). Minor: Geography, Emphasis Environmental Geography

Solo Exhibitions

May, 2022, Dolphins Swimming in the Cracks of Sidewalks, Contemporary Arts Gallery, UC Irvine

December, 2018, Coyote Winter, Rio de Los Angeles State Park

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

January 2022, GLAMFA, CSULB SOA Art Galleries

July 2021, ULTRA!, Torrance Art Museum

 May 2021, Please Wait Here, UC Irvine UAG Gallery

December, 2018, Art Mentor Program Pop-Up Exhibition, Santa Monica College

June, 2018, Popularity and Realism, Curated by Meg Cranston, Santa Monica College Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery 

Residencies

2024, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California

Seminars, Conferences, and Presentations

International Research Collective Time of Monsters, June 2021. Presentation of my ongoing thesis research and the development of Dolphins Swimming in the Cracks of Sidewalks (2022)

The Sea: Mobility, Ingenuity, and Ecology in the Early Modern World, UCI/UCLA graduate student conference, May 1, 2021. Presentation of Paper: Expanded Perceptions: Water Through the Microscope and Alternative Notions of Subjecthood

Getty Research Institute Graduate Scholars Program, Art & Ecology, 2020, Seminar led by James Nisbet, University of California Irvine

Awards and Fellowships

Medici Scholarship, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine, 2021