Education

2005    MFA     San Jose State University
2002    BA        Humboldt State University


Select Group and Solo Exhibitions (solo exhibits marked with *)

2021
The KMA Mail Art Project, Katonah Museum of Art, NY
InFocus: 34th Annual Photography Competition and Exhibition, Tuolumne County, CA (Virtual, Online Exhibition)
2020
Collision IV: the intersection of poetry and photography, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, CA
2019
Strangers, Modesto Junior College Gallery, Modesto, CA
PhotoModesto, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, CA
2018
Collision V: the intersection of poetry and photography, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, CA
PhotoModesto, The Goat Gallery, Modesto, CA
2017
Insights, New Approaches to Photography since 2000, SF Photofairs 2017, San Francisco, CA
Migrant Mother, (on exhibit, featured photographs from panelists), Prospect Theatre, Modesto, CA
2016
*A Lonely Hunter, Stanislaus State University Gallery, Turlock, CA
Seen, Unseen, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA
2015
Post-Rural, Modesto Junior College Gallery, Modesto, CA
SF Art Market, Kala Institute Gallery Booth, San Francisco, CA
2014
*Terra Incognita, Modesto Junior College Gallery, Modesto, CA
Post-Rural, Donald H. Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Post-Rural, Brink Gallery, Missoula, MT
Transformed Landscapes, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA
Artist’s Annual, Kala Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Kalassal, Kala Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2013
Fellowship Artists Exhibition, Kala Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Ground Truthing, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Post-Rural, College of Southern Nevada, Fine Arts Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Post-Rural, University of Wyoming, Visual Arts Gallery, Laramie, WY
The Art of Recology.  San Francisco International Airport Museum, San Francisco, CA
Faculty Exhibition, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA
PARADE, Annual Fundraiser + Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Benefit Auction, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2012
Banned & Recovered:  Artists Respond to Censorship.  National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA
Fine Print Editions. SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Lightscape/Darkscape.  Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
On View.  Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Recology Collection.  University of San Francisco, Gleeson Library, San Francisco, CA
2011
*Above Me the Day-Blind Stars.  True Silver Gallery, San Francisco, CA
*Our Land.  San Francisco International Airport Museum, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Artists for Japan.  Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art from the Recology AIR Program.  Embarcadero Four Conference Center, San Francisco, CA
SF Camerawork 2011 Benefit Auction.  SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Banned & Recovered, Artists Respond to Censorship.  UC Merced Kolligian Library, Merced, CA
Kala-fornia: State of the Art.  Kala Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2010
Annual Artist in Residence Exhibition.  Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Work From the Recology Collection.  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, CA
On View.  Kala Institute Gallery. Berkeley, CA
Banned & Recovered, Artists Respond to Censorship.  Humboldt State University, CA
Making Sense of Waste.  Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Geomorphics.  The Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
Front and Center.  Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County, CA
Lay of the Land.  Reese Bullen Gallery, Arcata, CA
One to Many.  Partisan Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Artists of Zyzzyva.  Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SF Camerawork 2009 Benefit Auction.  SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2008
*Partial Landscapes.  Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Banned & Recovered, Artists Respond to Censorship.  African American Museum, Oakland, CA
Off State Street.  Orchard Commercial Gallery, San Jose, CA
2007
On Paper.  Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Landscapes: Rural and Urban Realities.  Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Critical Foreground.  New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006
*Perfectly Good.  SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc., San Francisco, CA
The Art of Recycling Returns.  Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
10 Years – A Retrospective.  Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Dream Half Remembered.  Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
*MFA Thesis Exhibition.  Gallery 2, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
SJSU MFA Exhibition.  The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2004
*Being There.  Herbert Sanders Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
*The Last Leaf.  Phantom Galleries: installation at 1st St. & San Fernando, San Jose, CA
*How things can be.  Black Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
For Whom I’ve Studied—From Whom I’ve Learned.  First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
2003
*Birds + Bees.  Gallery 5, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2002
*Aberrations.  Black Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
*Aberrations.  Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
Dining in the Dump.  SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc., San Francisco, CA
2001
A Collector’s Obsession: Photographs of Humboldt County, California, from the Peter E. Palmquist Collection.  Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA


Awards and Honors

2012
Kala Fellowship Award
2010
Joan Mitchell Foundation and Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
Kala Fellowship, Honorable Mention Awardee
2003
Excellence in Photography Award, San Jose State University
2000
Van Duzer Scholarship, Humboldt State University


Publications

2016
A Lonely Hunter, Exhibition Catalog, Stanislaus State University, Turlock, CA

2014
Post-Rural, Exhibition Catalog, Donald H. Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Unless You Will, Issue 29
Mutant Space, May 28, 2014 
Lenscratch, January 18, 2014
2013
The Liner, Issue no. 2, Los Angeles | New York
Lenscratch, Fine Art Photography Daily, August 31, 2013  
2012
Orion Magazine, November/December Issue, Great Barrington, MA
2011
11 11:  A Journal of Literature and Art, Issue 11,  California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010
Color & Color #2, Black and White edition, Amanda Curreri and Erik Scollon, Oakland, CA
Art at the Dump:  The Artist in Residence Program and Environmental Learning Center at Recology (Cover Image), San Francisco, CA
2009
Banned & Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
One to Many (Box set of zines), Partisan Gallery Publication, San Francisco, CA
2008
Viva Loss, Sarah Fran Wisby, Small Desk Press (Cover Image), San Francisco, CA
ZYZZYVA, the last word: west coast writers & artists. Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2008, San Francisco, CA
2007
Daily Serving, An International Publication for Contemporary Art, July 29, 2007     
2006
ZYZZYVA, the last word: west coast writers & artists. Volume 22, Number 3, Winter 2006, San Francisco, CA
SHOTS. Issue No. 91, Minneapolis, MN
2003
CMYK Magazine. Issues No. 23, No. 22 and No. 21, Sausalito, CA
2001
A Collector’s Obsession: Photographs of Humboldt County, California, from the Peter E. Palmquist Collection. Peter E. Palmquist, Arcata, CA


Residencies

2010-13
Kala Institute of Art
2010
Vermont Studio Center
2006
AIR Program, at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc. (Recology)
2002
Student/Group residency at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc.


Artist Talks and Lectures

2013
Artist talk, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Artist talk, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2012
Panel Discussion: Censorship in the Arts, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA
2011
Artist talk, Society for Photographic Education, Western Regional Conference, Santa Cruz, CA
Panel Discussion: Professional Careers, Post Graduation, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2010
Artist talk, Society for Photographic Education, Western Regional Conference, San Diego, CA
Panel Discussion: Silver Practice in the Digital Age. Society for Photographic Education, Western Regional Conference, San Diego, CA
Artist talk, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2009
Artist talk, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County, CA
Artist talk, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
2008
Artist talk, Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz County, CA
Lecture in Beginning Photography Course, California College of Arts, Oakland CA
2007
Artist talk, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Lecture in Beginning Photography Course, California College of Arts, Oakland CA
Lecture in Digital Photography Course, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2006
Lecture in Beginning Photography Course, California College of Arts, Oakland CA
Lecture in Intermediate Photography Course, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2002
Artist talk, Society for Photographic Education, Western Regional Conference, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA


Collections

The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation
Gap Inc
Little Nell Hotel
Peter E. Palmquist Collection
Recology
SF Camerawork
Whitney Museum Library
Yousendit


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