Education

2006
M.F.A.   Social Practices     California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2004
B.F.A.   Photography     Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
(President’s Scholar List)

Awards/Honors

2004- 2006
CCA Grant, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2003
Award for Excellence in Photography, Student Independent Exhibition,
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibitions

2011
Full Service, VATe Coventry Center, Cleveland Heights, OH

2010
4th Annual Yawpist Biennial, The SIDESHOW Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Building Peers, The Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland, OH, Invitational 

New Visions, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror Michael Itkoff

2009
Image/Project, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Juror Taryn Simon
              
19, Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, OH, Invitational

2008
Greetings, Gallery 301, San Francisco, CA, Invitational

2007
3rd Annual Yawpist Biennial, Gallery 301, San Francisco, CA

2006
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Online Catalogue)
           
2004
Space-makers, Lothringer Dreizehn Space for Contemporary Art, Munich, Germany

Faculty and Staff Show, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2nd Annual Yawpist Biennial, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

Half: a Show, 13hundred Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2003
Faculty and Staff Show, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI

Exchange Show, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI

Student Independent Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, Juror Niki S. Lee

2002
1st Annual Yawpist Biennial, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

FAVA Six State Photography Show, Fireland Gallery, Oberlin, OH, juried

2001
Student Independent Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, juried        

Bibliography

Douglas Max Utter, “Sideswiped,” Cleveland Scene, July 22-July28 2009, page 26

Ben Kinmont, “Student Series: Spring 2005,” Antinomian Press, Spring 2005, page 4

Serbin Press, “Best of College Photographers,” 2001, page 89

Publications

“Political, Social, and Art Realities: Three Interrelated Worlds that are Out of Touch with One Another,” :pro libertate, Spring 2006, issue 7

Conferences

Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, 2008, Cleveland, OH
Conference Co-Chair and Member of Planning Committee

Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, 2003, Chicago, IL
Presentation: “Photographic work of the Cleveland Institute of Art”

Artist Lectures

2008
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH,
“Art, Politics and Change”

2005
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA,
“The Edge of Art”

2004
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI, “Wallace4freedom”

Exhibitions Curated

2011
Cross Process, The SIDESHOW Gallery, Cleveland, OH

De-Figuration, The SIDESHOW Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2007
3rd Annual Yawpist Biennial, Gallery 301, San Francisco, CA

2003
Half: a Show, 13hundred Gallery, Cleveland, OH