b. 1979, Venice Beach, CA
EDUCATION:
2007BFA in Photography, School of Visual Arts, NYC
AWARDS:
2008CCNY Residency, Runner Up Award
2007PDN Annual, Student Category Winner
School of Visual Arts, Alumni Grant
American Photo, Images of the Year Competition, Honorable Mention
2005School of Visual Arts, Cage Scholarship
2004-07 School of Visual Arts, Silahs Rhodes Scholarship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008Fractured Fictions, Pingvao International Photo Festival, China
Wallflower, Yancey Richardson Gallery Project Space, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2010Homesick, curated by Joaquin Trujillo, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA.
2009Commercial Paper, Barbara Walters Gallery, Bronxville, NY
Pulse Miami, Beckers Galerie booth (Frankfurt Germany), Miami, FL
The House was Quiet and the World was Calm, Tina Kim Gallery, New York
Domesticated: Men and the Domestic Interior. Transformer Gallery, DC.
The Portrait. Photography as a Stage: From Robert Mapplethorpe to Nan Goldin.
Curated by Peter Weiermair, The Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2008Art Miami, Midtown Miami Art District, Miami, FL
31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography, 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn
My Other Nature, Camera Club of New York Gallery, New York
School of Visual Arts Alumni Society Auction, New York
Invisible Truth: Explorations of Emotional Honesty, Westbeth Gallery, New York
Camera Club of New York Auction, New York
Bare, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York
2007A Show in Self Portraiture, Fette’s Gallery, Los Angeles
Degrees of Separation, PEER Gallery, New York
The New American Portrait, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York
The Mentor Show, The Visual Arts Gallery, New York
2006Pinned Up- New to the Neighborhood, 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn
PIP International Photo Festival, Pingyao, China
Young Artists Festival, Gallery Elsa, Heawoondeagu, Busan Korea
Young Artists Festival, Gallery Gagopa, Heawoondong, Masan Korea
2005Portraits, National Arts Club, NY
PUBLICATIONS:
2009 Visura Magazine “15 Minutes,” Issue 1.5
Washington Post “When a Man's Home Is His Castle to Care For,” May
D.C. Decider “Domesticated,” June
“The Portrait. Photography as Stage”, Kunsthalle wien exhibition catalogue, July
Arch+, Berlin, Issue 194
2008Corduroy Magazine “Emerging Talent,” February
NY Arts Magazine, January/February
2007POP Photo, November
OUT: OUT100, October
NY Times Magazine, “Bronxville Story,” September
Dear Dave Magazine, Launch issue
PDN: Annual, May
A Field Guide to the North American Family: An Illustrated Novella, April
EyeMazing Magazine, February
American Photo, “Images of the Year,” January/February
2006Conscientious, “A Contemporary Photo Blog”
Artist Talks and Guest Lectures
2009 Guest Lecturer, School Of Visual Arts, New York
2008 Panel Discussion with WIPNYC, Elinor Carucci and Robin Schwartz, Aperture Gallery, NYC
Guest Lecturer, International Center of Photography, New York
Artist Talk, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA.
Guest Lecturer, School Of Visual Arts, New York
2007 Guest Lecturer, Parsons, New York, New York
Guest Lecturer, School Of Visual Arts, New York
CURATING AND NON PROFIT EXPERIENCE
2009 Women in Photography: Deconstructing the Female Gaze within the group exhibition
Young Curators New Ideas II, PPOW Gallery, New York, August
Women in Photography: WIP-Lightside Individual Project Grant
2008 Co-founded Women in Photography, June