EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE

2025      LARNACA BIENNALE, Larnaca, Cypress, work selected for International Biennale

              TAG GALLERY, Boston, MA, Interwoven Narratives, juried exhibit exploring fiber as storytelling medium

              CAA/@CANAL GALLERY, Cambridge, MA, Materiality: Memory in Cloth, Group exhibit juried by Jenine Shereos

2024      EAST MANNING STREET PROJECT GALLERY, Providence, RI, …summer hours, curation and participation in 14 artist exhibit

             OVERLAP GALLERY, Newport, RI, Counterpoint, exhibit of work produced in collaboration with Taleen Batalian

             PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE, Pawtucket, RI, Exquisite Corpse, Group show

2022     CONVERGENCE ART CENTER, Morro Bay, CA, Juried International Encaustic Conference Exhibit

2021     IVANO-FRANKIVS’K, Ukraine: Scythia, 10th International Biennale Exhibition of Contemporary Textile Art

            ABORN GALLERY/ AS220, Providence, RI, Together Crowned in a Halo of Light, Group Show

2019    INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER, Indianapolis, IN, Pushing Paper, National Juried Show

2017    RISD UNBOUND, Providence, RI, Presenter of Beauty Book * zine at Artist Book Fair *Purchased by RISD Library for permanent zine collection

2016     186 CARPENTER STREET GALLERY, Providence, RI, Blocked, Flocked and Stenciled, exhibit of 30 artist wallpapers

2014     BANNISTER GALLERY, RI COLLEGE, Providence, RI, Embodied: The Figure in Paint, six artist exhibit focusing on the figure

              AS220 PROJECT SPACE/READING ROOM, Providence,RI, Paper Dolls Project, Curatorial project

2012      COLOCOLO GALLERY, New Bedford, MA, Glue, Paper, Scissors, Curated and exhibited in 10 artist Collage exhibit

2011      CHAZAN GALLERY, Providence, RI, Figurations-4 artist Group show

2011      VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY, Summit, NJ, Juried by Joan Young/Associate Curator of Contemporary Art/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  

              CARROLL AND SONS GALLERY, Boston, MA, The Drawing Project exhibit of works on paper

2005      HAMPDEN GALLERY, UMASS, AMHERST, Amherst, MA, work selected for New England/New Talent 2005

              WALSH GALLERY, FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, Fairfield, CT, Night and Day, curated by Helen Cooper, Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture/Yale University 

2002      CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP, New Haven, CT, Matter as Protagonist, Juried by Jessica Stockholder, Artist, and Director of Graduate Studies/Yale University

              BERNARD TOALE GALLERY, Boston, MA, Drawing Project Exhibit-drawings/collages from Beauty Book

2001      HERA GALLERY, Wakefield, RI, Artists respond to 9/11 exhibit curated by Judith Tannenbaum, Curator/Contemporary Art at RISD Museum

              HOLTER MUSEUM OF ART, Helena, MT, ANA 30 exhibit-Juried show curated by  Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic/New Yorker Magazine. Awarded Juror’s Prize

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, M.F.A., Philadelphia, PA, Master's degree of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking 

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, B.A., Middlebury, VT, Bachelor of Art degree in studio art with minor in English; graduated Cum Laude with highest honors in Art 

TEACHING/ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

2002-2020    RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN(RISD)/Continuing Education, Providence, RI, FINE AND APPLIED ART MANAGER

2002-2005    RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN (RISD)/Continuing Education, Providence, RI, INSTRUCTOR: 2D Design, Drawing

2000-2005    RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE, Providence, RI, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR: Painting, Drawing II

1996-2000    PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, New York, NY, ASSOCIATE CHAIR, Foundation Department

1984-1996 PARIS PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Paris, France, CHAIR, Foundation Department, INSTRUCTOR:Foundation Department-Drawing 

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS AND AWARDS

2025     VERMONT STUDIO CENTER, Johnson, VT, Winter residency in Painting

CASTLE HILL AT TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Truro, MA, Residency

2002      RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, Fellowship recipient in Painting

1993       NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH/PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award                        

1994-1995    NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH/PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Awarded for study in Tokyo,Japan  

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

 2023      RISD MUSEUM, Providence, RI, Led Artist in Conversation culminating event: Feedback Loop

               RISD MUSEUM, Providence, RI, Artist in Conversation series-- facilitated workshop: Object as Metaphor

2008       BLAFFER GALLERY/UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, Houston, TX, About Face: Contemporary Portraiture in Damaged Romanticism, Lecture and workshop

                RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE, Providence, RI, Visiting Artist