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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Landing Gallery, Untitled Art Miami Beach, Miami, FL
2024 Johansson Projects, Light Echoes, Oakland, CA
2021 The Landing Gallery, Evenfall, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Sewn Constructions, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Survival Strategies, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Edward Cella Art + Architecture,A Future Perfect, Los Angeles, CA
2018 BKB Art + Design, Object/Window, Palm Springs, CA
2017 Espronceda Center for Art and Culture, You’re A Tourist in My Town, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Commonwealth & Council, Portal, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Grand Central Art Center, Crosscut, California State University Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA
2013 Prescott College Art Gallery, Tomorrowland, Prescott, AZ
2011 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tomorrowland, Tucson, AZ
2010 Greenleaf Gallery, La Fuente de la Vida, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2008 Locust Projects, The Magic City, Miami, FL
2008 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Gods Eye, Omaha, NE
2008 Gardiner Art Gallery, Storm Tracking, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
2006 Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Comfort Food, Portland, OR

GRANTS and RESIDENCIES
2027 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist in Residence, Snowmass Village, CO, Spring 2027 (forthcoming)
2027 The Clay Studio, Guest Artist Residency, Philadelphia, PA, Spring 2027 (forthcoming)
2027 City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Trailblazers Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2026 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Residency, Skælskør, Denmark
2025 Cobb Mountain Art and Ecology Project, Residency, Loch Lomond, CA
2025 Otis College of Art and Design, Part Time Faculty Professional Development Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2022 The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Residency and Windgate Scholar Grant, Helena, MT
2021 Otis College of Art and Design, Part Time Faculty Professional Development Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Vermont Studio Center, Residency and Grant, Johnson, VT
2017 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Residency, Venice, Italy
2017 Espronceda Center for Art and Culture, Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2013 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts, Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Foundation For Contemporary Arts, Grant, New York, NY
2011 Center For Cultural Innovation, Creative Capacity Fund Grant, San Francisco, CA
2011 Babayan Cultural House, Residency, Cappadocia, Turkey
2010 Durfee Foundation, Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grant, New York, NY
2009 Takt Kunstprojektraum, Residency, Berlin, Germany
2008 Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Residency, Omaha, NE
2006 Arizona Commission of the Arts, Grant, , Phoenix, AZ
2005 Sculpture Space, Residency, Utica, NY

COMMISSION PROJECTS
2027 Rockstad Foundation, Disc Portal, permanent outdoor sculpture commission, Bismark, ND (forthcoming)
2023 Google Headquarters, CA Women paintings, Mountain View, CA
2021 Atlanta Beltline, Disc Portal, public art sculpture project, Atlanta, GA
2021 Boxo Projects, Disc Portal, permanent outdoor sculpture commission, Joshua Tree, CA
2019 Oracle, Sculptural installation project, Redwood City, CA
2017 Facebook, Sculptural installation project for the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2015 Google, Sculptural installation project for the Google Analytic Conference, San Francisco, CA
2015 Merck, Sculptural installation project, San Francisco, CA

SELECT COLLECTIONS
Stanford University
Art in Embassies Program, U.S Department of State, U.S. Consulate General, Mérida, Yucatán Mexico
Google Headquarters
Hermes Collection
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Espronceda Center for Art and Culture
Boxo Projects
Meta Headquarters
JPMorgan
Sculpture Space
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
The Landing Gallery, 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition Part 2: 21st Century Contemporary Program, Los Angeles, CA
High Desert Art Fair with Boxo Projects, Book release/signing and group presentation, Pioneertown, CA

2025
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Step and Repeat, curated by Nancy Meyer and John Weston, Los Angeles, CA *catalogue
Hollywood Vintage Estate, Material World, curated by Brooke Hodge, Palm Springs, CA
Felix Art Fair, La Ayuda Network Fire Relief Benefit, Los Angeles, CA
Pio Pico, Fridge LA, Los Angeles, CA

2024
Museum of Art and History, Formation, Lancaster, CA

2023
The Landing Gallery, Painted, Fired Clay, Los Angeles, CA
Vama Gallery, This Archipelago, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
California Governor's Mansion, Eureka! Creativity in the Golden State, Sacramento, CA, *catalogue
Sarah Brook Gallery, Earth Room, curated by Clay CA and Blumenfield Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Tamarisk Country Club, Art at Tamarisk, curated by Rochelle Steiner, Rancho Mirage, CA
Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Transcendent Voices, Los Angeles, CA

2022
Haines Gallery, Social Abstraction, San Francisco, CA
Johansson Projects, Receiver, Two person with Katy Stone, Oakland, CA
Boxo Projects, Experiments in Transformation, Two person with Edie Fake, Joshua Tree, CA
Archie Bray Foundation Warehouse Gallery, Resident Artists Exhibition, Helena, MT
Ortega y Gasset Projects, Flat File 2022, Brooklyn, NY
The Brand Library and Art Center, Mapping the Sublime, Glendale, CA
The Ekru Project, Shifting Instinct, curated by Kevin Umana, Kansas City, MO

2021
Luis De Jesus, The Barnsdall Art Park Olive Grove Restoration Initiative Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Ladies' Room, Garden, curated by Annie Wharton, Los Angeles, CA

2020
AMP Art Gallery, Surroundings, Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, CA
Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Two person with Amir Zaki, Los Angeles, CA

2019
Sarasota Art Museum, Color. Theory. & B/W, Sarasota, FL
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Shady Acres, Salt Lake City, UT
Boxo Projects, Joshua Treenial, Joshua Tree, CA

2018
Jaus, Fixed Flux, Two person with Jason Manley, Los Angeles, CA
Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Vernacular Environments Part II, Los Angeles, CA
Fellows of Contemporary Art, SPACE + LAND, curated by Chelsea Dean, Los Angeles, CA
BKB Art and Design, Outline, curated by Brian Bosworth, Palm Springs, CA
Odd Ark LA, An Art Den, with Barker Hanger, a project by artist Hayley Barker, Los Angeles, CA

2017
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Interstitial, curated by John O’Brien, Pasadena, CA

2016
Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Los Angeles, CA
Titanik Gallery, Lazy Susan, Turku, Finland

2015
ACME, Works of Paper II, Los Angeles, CA
Eastside International, Time, Time, Form, Two person with Ian Pines, curated by Manual History Machines, , Los Angeles, CA
Fellows of Contemporary Art, 6H to HB; Contemporary Drawing in Los Angeles, curated by Sydney Croskery, Los Angeles, CA

2014
Friedman Benda Gallery, Apocryphal Times, New York, NY
Ichibeicho Gallery, From The Dust Returns, curated by Kio Griffith, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery MC, Contemporary Abstraction, New York, NY
Universidad de Guanajuato, Esferas, León, Mexico
Hoxton Gallery, Up and Coming, London, UK
MOCA Geffen LA Art Book Fair, Feminist Dossiers, with WCCW (Women’s Center for Creative Work), Los Angeles, CA
Centro Cultural Atarazanas, Una Casa Como Yo, , Veracruz, Mexico

2013
Galeria La Miscelanea, Una Casa como Yo: Asuntos Domésticos, Universidad Del Arte, Puebla, Mexico

2012
Zatoka Sztuki, Projekt Papier, curated by Gosia Wojas, Sopot, Poland
High Desert Test Sites, Postcard Project 2012, Joshua Tree, CA
Cerritos College Art Gallery, Architectural Deinforcement: Constructing Disaster and Decay, Los Angeles, CA *catalogue
Jardin De Las Esculturas, Una Casa como Yo: Asuntos Domésticos, Xalapa, Mexico

2011
El Bauhaus Gallery, Una Casa Como Yo: Asuntos Domésticos, Monterrey, Mexico
Asihlquaiss Offspace, Anonyme Zeichner Archiv, Zurich, Switzerland

2010
Golden Parachutes Gallery, Flat File, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, MADE in Tucson/BORN in Tucson/LIVE in Tucson, Tucson, AZ
Jen Bekman Gallery, New Topographies, New York, NY

2009
Gallery Satori, Invisible Duck Tape, New York, NY
Liste Basel, Anonymous Drawings no.9 Archive, Basel, Switzerland
Freie Universitat Berlin, Anonymous Drawings no.9 Archive, Berlin, Germany
Lumenhouse Gallery, Abstractions and Contractions, Brooklyn, NY

2008
Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Anonymous Drawings no.9, Berlin, Germany
Jen Bekman Gallery, X Marks the Spot, New York, NY
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Drawing Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

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EDUCATION
2021 Permaculture Design Certificate, Joshua Tree Foundation for Arts and Ecology, Joshua Tree, CA
2014 Advanced Web & Interactive Design Certificate, University of California, Los Angeles Extension, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking and Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

ETC
2014–2020 Founder & Curator, Outpost Projects, Yucca Valley, CA
2011–2015 Co-Founder, Editor, Los Angeles Art Resource