Solo Exhibitions
Star Stuff, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL 2024
In Plain Sight, The Admiral at the Lake, Chicago, 2023
Newtok: Seen and Unseen, salonlb., Chicago, IL, 2022
Imaginarium, The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, IL, 2022
There Is Still Magic Here, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2021
Seen and Unseen, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2019
Visions, Spotlight Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2018
Devil in the Details, The Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, IL, 2018
Customer Service, The Bagelers Coffeehouse, Chicago, IL, 2017
Hoping for More, Open House Contemporary, Chicago, IL, 2016
Spectacularly Ordinary, University of St. Francis Art Gallery, Joliet, IL, 2016
(In)Conspicuous, I AM Logan Square Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2016
Shuttered, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2015
Powder Room, Water Street Studios Loading Gallery, Batavia, IL, 2013
Dreaming in the Doldrums, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2013
Daydreaming, R. Hanel Gallery in collaboration with Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2012
Wandering Around in a Small Place, R. Hanel Gallery in collaboration with Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2011
At Home, UIC Art Lounge, Chicago, IL, 2010
The Peculiar Manifestation of Paint in my Life, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2010
Cabin Fever, Joie de Vine, Chicago, IL, 2010
Group Exhibitions
2024
Hydrological Shift, Governor’s State University, University Park, IL
2023
Beverly Arts Walk, Nikki’s of Beverly, Chicago, IL
Sixth Midwest Open, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Feminist to the Core, salonlb., Chicago, IL
Good People, Pop-up exhibition by Beauty & Brawn Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022
Annual 12 x 12 Group Show, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
Atomic Number 13, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
Poison Garden, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
People, Places, and Things, Elephant Room Gallery at The Other Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Outriders, Frame Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021
Annual 12 x 12 Group Show, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
Atomic Number 13, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
Se Son Rose, Fioriranno, [salonlb.], Chicago, IL
2020
12” x 12” Annual Holiday Exhibition, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
Private Art Viewing, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
Intimacies and Influence, Open House Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2019
10 Year Anniversary Show, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
Grappling with a Luminous Doom, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Concrete and Adrift: On the Poverty Line, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
2018
Chicago: INsideOUT, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist Series, Chicago Yacht Club, Chicago, IL
Show of Shows, CC’s Art Garage and Gallery, Chicago, IL
Foibles and Fantasies, Horse Thief Hollow, Chicago, IL
2017
H2O, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Second Annual Portrait Exhibition, CC’s Art Garage and Gallery, Chicago, IL
Beverly Art Walk, 95th Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art and Ecology: An Evening of Ecological Awareness, Whole Foods, Chicago, IL
Portals, ACS Gallery, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
Luminarts Finalist Exhibition, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
Urban Spaces, Tall Grass Arts Association, Park Forest, IL
DRAWN, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
A Woman's View, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
Witness, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
Beautiful Humanity, Horse Thief Hollow, Chicago, IL
Google Chicago Artist Initiative, Google Building, Chicago, IL
2016
Sense of Place, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Naked People, Vintage Quest, Chicago, IL
Dangerous Lullabies II, Lakeside Legacy Art Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL
Portraiture, Perkolator, Chicago, IL
Enemies, East Room, Chicago, IL
Back to Our Foundations, Elephant Room Gallery/CC’s Art Garage, Chicago, IL
Tempo Memoria, Museo Internazionale Italia Arte, Turin, Italy
Neutral Ground, Tall Grass Arts Association, Park Forest, IL
You, Me, and Everyone Else, Elephant Room Gallery/CC’s Art Garage, Chicago, IL
Fourth Annual Bridgeport Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Cults, Group Show at East Room, Chicago, IL
Winter Group Show, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Touch of the Blues, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
In View, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2015
We the Survivalists, Gallery 213, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Dangerous Lullabies, Lakeside Legacy Art Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL
ArtPrize, DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI
Coyote, Flat Iron Building, Chicago, IL
Hidden Process, Open Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
Logan Square Arts Festival, exhibition at The Rocking Horse, Chicago, IL
Live in the Ville, White Ripple Gallery, Hammond, IN
The Base Line: An Exhibition on Drawing, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bridegport Art's Third Annual Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2014
38th Annual Juried Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Holiday Group Show, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
Outside of the Box: Works by Artists at the Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
ArtPrize, DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI
Coyote, Flat Iron Building, Chicago
10th Annual National Self Portrait Exhibition, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
Individual Directions, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
Monochrome, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Artist Exhibition, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
What We’ve Known, Two-Person Exhibition at Joliet Junior College, Joliet, IL
2013
ArtPrize, DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI
Roots, group exhibition of University of Illinois graduates, Chicago, IL
Art, Energy, Future, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
Illusions of Reality: Realism, Perceptions, and Impersonations, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Figure as Storyteller, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Cultural Symbiosis, Institute of Culture of Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico
From Motion to Stillness, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2012
Anniversary Show, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
America: Now and Here, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
Explorations: New Works by Emerging Artists, Highland Park, IL
Urban Transmissions, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art, Energy, Future, Regional Museum of Natural Science, Turin, Italy
Facemask, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
Embody, Black Cloud Gallery, Chicago, IL
En Route: What She Saw, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Illuminate, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
Blue, Dispatch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Stream of Consciousness, Dispatch Gallery, Chicago, IL
ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Coyote, Flat Iron Arts Building, Chicago, IL
7th Annual National Self Portrait Exhibition, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
Impetus, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
Get Real: New Figurative Realism in Chicago, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
Third Annual Evolving Artists Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2010
Connected, Rumble Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Beyond the Coyote, Flat Iron Arts Building, Chicago, IL
I AM Fest, House of Blues, Chicago, IL
Gutter, Group Exhibition for Logan Square Arts Festival, Chicago, IL
2009
33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Artists in Residence Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL
Black Duckling Art Exhibition, Dream Theater, Chicago, IL
2008
32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center Chicago, IL
BFA Graduate Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Being(s) Senior Thesis Exhibition, Champaign, IL
Painting and Sculpture: A Show About Things, Link Gallery, Champaign, IL
2007
Student Juried Exhibition, Illini Union Gallery, Champaign, IL
Community Artist Exhibition, Robert F DeCaprio Gallery, Palos Hills, IL
P.S. Painting and Sculpture, Link Gallery, Champaign, IL
Family, Student Coalition Gallery, Champaign, IL
Honors and Awards
Individual Artists Program Grant Recipient, Chicago DCASE, 2023
Grant Recipient, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 2023
Kalos Art Prize Recipient, Ruminate Magazine, Fort Collins, CO, 2019
Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2018
Luminarts Finalist, Luminarts Cultural Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2017
Artist in Residence, The Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, IL, 2016
Grant Recipient, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 2016
Best Representational Work - First Place, Fourth Annual Bridgeport Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2016
Best in Show, In View: Member and Faculty Exhibition, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL, 2016
Best in Show, Urban Landscapes Digital Exhibition, Urban Riche Gallery, 2016
Figurative Award, 37th Annual Juried Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL, 2013
Best in Show, Anniversary Show, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL, 2012
Best in Show, America: Now and Here, Juror: Eric Fischl, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL, 2012
Best in Show, Fourth Annual Evolving Artists Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL, 2012
Best in Show, Explorations: New Works by Emerging Artists, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL, 2012
Best in Show, Third Annual Evolving Artists Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL, 2011
Figurative Award, 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL, 2009
Outstanding Achievement in Painting merit award, University of Illinois, 2008
Outstanding Achievement in Art Education merit award, University of Illinois, 2008
Bronze Tablet Highest Honors, University of Illinois, 2008
Best In Show, 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center Chicago, IL, 2008
Publications
Ruminate: What Sustains, Issue 50, Ruminate Magazine, 2019
INPA 7 Manifest International Painting Annual, Manifest Press, 2018
INPA 8 Manifest International Painting Annual, Manifest Press, 2018
INDA 11 Manifest International Drawing Annual, Manifest Press, 2017
Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 9, 2015
Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 6, 2015
Face Figure Identity, David Downs, Sprocketbox Entertainment, 2012
Poets&Artists: The Chicago Issue, review by Grady Harp, 2012
Bluecanvas, Issue 10, extended feature, 2011
New American Paintings, No. 95, 2011
Studio Visit, Vol. 10, 2010
Education
2009 Study Abroad: Camberwell College of Art, London, UK
2009 BFA Art Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2008 BFA Painting: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL