Education
MFA San Jose State University, 2005
BA Humboldt State University, 2002
Select, Group and Solo Exhibitions (solo exhibits marked with *)
2010
On View. Kala Institute Gallery. Berkeley, 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, C
2001
A Collector’s Obsession: Photographs of Humboldt County, California, from the Peter E. Palmquist Collection. Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
Residencies
2010
Kala Institute of Art
Vermont Studio Center
2006
AIR Program, at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc.
2002
Student/Group residency at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc.
Publications
2009
Banned & Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship, San Francisco Center for the Book
One to Many (Box set of zines), Partisan Gallery Publication
2008
Viva Loss, Sarah Fran Wisby, Little Desk Press (Cover Image)
ZYZZYVA, the last word: west coast writers & artists. Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2008.
2006
ZYZZYVA, the last word: west coast writers & artists. Volume 22, Number 3, Winter 2006.
SHOTS. Issue No. 91, Russell Joslin—Editor & Publisher.
2003
CMYK Magazine. Issues No. 23, No. 22 and No. 21
2001
A Collector’s Obsession: Photographs of Humboldt County, California, from the
Peter E. Palmquist Collection. Peter E. Palmquist, Self Published.
Artist Talks and Lectures
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, SPE Regional Conference at California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
Awards and Honors
Joan Mitchell Foundation and Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, 2010
Excellence in Photography Award, San Jose State University, 2003
Van Duzer Scholarship, Humboldt State University, 2000
Collections
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Auchenback Foundation, CA
Gap Inc, San Francisco, CA
Little Nell Hotel, Aspen, CO
San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, Inc, CA
Whitney Museum Library
Representation
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA