EDUCATION

2008-2009

Eastern Illinois University

Master of Arts, Studio Art, summa cum laude

 

2000-2004

Washington University in St. Louis

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Art History, cum laude

 

Spring 2002

Santa Reparata International School of Art, in partnership with Washington University in St. Louis

Study Abroad in Florence, Italy

 

AWARDS

2021 DANG! Artist Grant through Dane Arts, Madison WI

 

2010 Beverly Art Competition Honorable Mention Award, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL

 

2008 Graduate Assistantship

Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

 

2004 Yale Book Award

Washington University in St. Louis

Excellence for an art student with majors in art and art history

 

2000-2004 Siroky Scholar

Washington University in St. Louis

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS & 2-Person shows

2024

* The Shape of Time, Gallery 1, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI (with J Myszka Lewis)

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2023

* Growth, Andrew Family Art Gallery, Creekside Place, Evansville, WI

 

2022

* Memories:  A Consideration of Color & Pattern, Atrium Gallery, Capitol Lakes, Madison, WI

* The Light That Emerges, Gallery 1308, Union South, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

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2019

* Aesthetic History, Gallery 1308, Union South, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

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2017

* Relevant Shapes, Gallery 1, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI (with Justin Eccles)

 

2014

* Pattern of Remembering, Governor’s State University, Atrium Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL

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2011

* Interconnected, EDGE Gallery, Chicago, IL (with Becky Chmielewski)

 

2006

* Patch Works, Room with a View Gallery, Drake Hotel, Chicago, IL

* Creating Folklore, Cliff Dweller Gallery, Dallas, TX 

* Private/Public, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL (with Becky Chmielewski)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

*Celebrating Dane Arts 2026 Calendar & Poster Artists, Madison, WI (November 7 - December 30)

*UW Hospital Member Show, Wisconsin Visual Artists, Madison, WI (September 7 - October 3)

*Perspectives 2025, Wisconsin Visual Artists Juried Show, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fon du Lac, WI

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2024

* Women's Work 2024, Women Artists Forward Fund Art Prize entrants, Gallery Aubergine, Madison, WI

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2023

* As a Fragment Points to the Whole, The Empty Circle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

* 2023 Forward Art Prize Group Exhibition, Artist and Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

 

2022 

* Art From Science, Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery, Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research, Madison, WI

 

2021

* Roots:  Transplanted, Center for Visual Arts, Wausau, WI

* Interconnectivity, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL

 

2019

* XOXO Onsite>Vital Art Project, Vaulted Malt Brewery, Racine, WI

 

2015 - 2016

* Lobby Exhibition, Prudential Building, downtown Chicago, Curated by Susan Auriko

 

2011

* Ravenswood Art Walk, Chicago, IL

* 35th Annual Beverly Art Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL

* BIG WOMEN, small works:: A Salon Show, Portage ARTspace Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

2010

* 34th Annual Beverly Art Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL

* Sub Terrain, Work:  Ann Arbor Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Curated by Andrew Thompson

* Ravenswood Art Walk, Central Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

2009

* When I Grow Up…, MA Graduate Exhibition, Eastern Illinois University, Tarble Gallery, Charleston, IL

 

2008

* Lumb Art, Splat Flats Studios, Chicago, IL

 

2007

* Around the Coyote Art Festival, Splat Flats Studios, Chicago, IL

* Art Benefitting Children, for Children’s Memorial Hospital, Reserve, Chicago, IL

* The Winter Button-Up, Tense Forms Collective, The Subterranean, Chicago, IL

 

2004

* Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Show, Washington University’s Steinberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO

* The Romance Issue, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO

* Chock Your Truck!, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO

 

2002

* Culmination Show, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy