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Education

 

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                                                                                        

2021-2022 

Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) with emphasis on Art History; Cinema and Media Studies; Race, Culture, and Politics; and Women and Gender Studies 

 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                                                             

2016-2018 

Master of the Fine Arts (MFA), Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, Poetics, and Social Justice 

 

Selected Exhibitions 

 

Bennett Prize Finalist Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI     

2025 

Works on Paper 2024, Long Beach Island Foundation, juror Kim Conaty, Chief Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art  

2024

ONCE Emerging Artist Exhibition, Cleve Carney Art Museum, IL                                  

2023

We Were Made for Another World Altogether (solo exhibition), Willamette University, OR

2023

Global Anxieties and Existential Doubts (solo exhibition), Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

2023

Hidden, Harmless, Human (two-person show), Roots and Culture Gallery, Chicago, IL 

2022

Luminarts Visual Arts Finalist Exhibition, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, IL 

2022

You’ve Got Somewhere Else to Be (solo show), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL                                   

2022 

Small Works, Harper College, Palatine, IL                                                                                                                                                        2021 

Moments Like This, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL  

2021 

Chronologia Alumni Showcase, Carleton College, Northfield, MN  

2021 

34th Annual McNeese Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 

2021 

Works on Paper (solo show), Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI  

2020 

Tickled Pink, Emergency Gallery, Lawrence, KS 

2020 

No Real Desire (solo exhibition), Upstate Galleries, Spartanburg, SC  

2019 

Pop-Up Exhibition (dual exhibition), Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC 

2019 

A Mosaic Portrait (solo exhibition), Artist Guild, Spartanburg, SC  

2019 

44th Annual Juried Watercolor Exhibition, 2 Friends Gallery, Anchorage, AK  

2018 

Masterpieces, Manifest Galleries, Cincinnati, OH  

2018 

Low-Residency MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL  

2018 

The Art of Care, Marmion Academy, Aurora, IL 

2018 

Not Just Drawing: A Line With Intent, ARC gallery, Chicago, IL 

2018 

95th Annual All Media Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI      

2017

In Transit, Rhode Island Art League, Newport, RI

2017 

Rags to Witches, Ragdale Foundation for the Arts, Lake Forest, IL

2017 

Always, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL 

2017 

Open Studios, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL 

2017 

Opposing Forces, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL 

2017 

Open Studios, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL                                                                                                      

2016 

Articulated, Pearlman Teaching Gallery, Northfield, MN 

2016 

Look At Yourself, Weitz Center White Space, Northfield, MN 

2016 

Accumulation, Boliou Building, Northfield, MN 

2015 

South Pacific Artists’ Books, Weitz Center, Northfield, MN 

2015 

 

Residencies 

 

Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT      

2022 

Hashinger Hall Artist-in-Residence at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS                             

2019-2020 

HUB-BUB Artist-in-Resident at the Chapman Cultural Center, Spartanburg, SC                            

2018-2019 

Ragdale Foundation Group Residency for exhibition Rags to Witches, Lake Forest, IL                           

2017 

 

Awards

 

Bennett Prize Finalist for Women Figurative Painters 

2025

Luminarts Visual Arts Grant Finalist

2022 

Purchase Award, McNeese State University                                                                                 

2021

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award 

2018 

Illinois Collegiate Press Association 2nd-Place Award for Comic Strip 

2017 

Graduate Teaching Fellowships, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

2017 

Distinction in the Visual Arts, Carleton College 

2016 

Phi Beta Kappa 

2015-2016 

 

Teaching Experience

        

Assistant Professor of Drawing, University of Arkansas                              

Fall 2025-present

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Drawing + Expanded Practices, Willamette University       

Fall 2023-Spring 2025

   

Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Wofford College                                  

Fall 2022-Spring 2023

           

Lecturer, University of Kansas                                   

Fall 2019-Spring 2020

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