Education:    
MFA    1999     Drawing/Painting    University of California, Berkeley
BA    1996     Fine Arts        California State University, Northridge
 
Exhibitions:
2009    [Print] Run] 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
            Compound Interest, The Compound Gallery
    Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2008    “How Soon is Now?”, Fleetwing Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
    “Life is a Pigsty”, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA (solo)
2007    Rock n Roll Bingo (Wall Drawing), Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
            Golden Robot Launch, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006    Drawn, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
    Annual Benefit, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
2005    Mixed Use, San Francisco, CA
    Small Works, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
    Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA    
    Smorgasbord, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, CA
2004    Hotdogbone, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, CA
            Discrete Palettes, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
    Roadside, Mighty, San Francisco, CA
    Interim Show, Oakland Art Gallery. Oakland, CA
2003    Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
    Chicago International Art Expo, Lucky Tackle Gallery, Oakland, CA
    Solid Gold, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
    Faux Real, Off the Preserve – di Rosa Annex, Napa, CA
    What We Saw When We Got There, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
        Curator: Michael Damm
    San Francisco International Art Expo, Linc Real Art, San Francisco CA
    What’s Hot, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2002    Objects in and of Eight Parts, Lucky Tackle Gallery, Oakland, CA. (solo)
    Remember When, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA.
    New York, New Work, Now!, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester,
        New Hampshire. Traveling Exhibition of the Pierogi Flat Files.
    Repurpose, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
        Curator: Nicolaus Bourriaud, Art Critic and Co-Director
        Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
    Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
        Curator: Tim Jagg, Artist, San Francisco, CA.
    The Final Show, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    The Proper Aesthetics of War, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001    Groupings, Gallery 207, West Hollywood, CA
    Luminous Wonders of the Eclectic World, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
    The Pierogi Flat Files, Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO. (Traveling Exhibition).
    LA, CA. Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
2000    Haulin’ Ass, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
        The Pierogi Flat Files, (Traveling Exhibition)
    Backstage/ Frontstage, Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Chill Factor, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
    Multiple Sensations: the Pierogi 2000 Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the
        Arts, San Francisco, CA.  Curator: Joe Arnheim, Director, Pierogi 2000 Gallery.             Brooklyn, NY. (Traveling Exhibition)
    1:1, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
    The Drawing Room, Gallery 207, West Hollywood, CA
    Deep End/SMAC, Patricia Correa Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999    East Bay MFA’s, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
 
Awards:
1999    Berkeley Art Museum Council Founders/ Margaret Calder Hayes Prize
    Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement  in Film, University of California, Berkeley
    Marian Hahn Simpson Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
1998    Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement  in Art, University of California, Berkeley
1997    Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
1995    Arts Council Scholarship, California State University, Northridge
 
Curatorial:
2005-present        Co-Owner, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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