upcoming exhibitions

education

2014    VACP, University of Chicago Graham School, Chicago, IL
            The Center Program, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL

2008    Society of Gilders, San Francisco, CA

2007    Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mount Carroll, IL

1982    BA with Honors, Communication Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

awards

2024    Best in Show — 47th Annual Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL — Juror: Kimberly Oliva

2018    Merit Award — 75th Annual Salon Show, Munster IN, South Shore Performing Arts Center — Juror: Sergio Gomez

2013    Top Prize, Helen V. Surovek Memorial Award — 70th Annual Salon Show, Munster IN, South Shore Performing Arts Center — Juror: Paul Klein

2012    Ernestine M. Wisnewski Memorial Award — 69th Annual Salon Show, Munster IN, South Shore Performing Arts Center — Juror: Daniel Schulman

2011    Merit Award — 68th Annual Salon, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN, South Shore Performing Arts Center — Juror: David Klamen
            Honorable Mention — Life, ArtFutura, Chicago, IL — Juror: James Rondeau
            Third Place Award — Facades, LaGrange Art League, LaGrange, IL — Juror: John Fraser

2010   Solo Show Recipient Award — Winter Exhibition, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI — Juror: Janet Roberts

solo exhibitions

2013    Forest for the Trees — Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL

2012    Corpus Obscurus — Old Town Art Center, Chicago, IL

2011    Deconstruction/Reconstruction IV — Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI

2010    Deconstruction/Reconstruction III — Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
            Deconstruction/Reconstruction II — Jane’s, Chicago, IL

2009    Deconstruction/Reconstruction I — At Home Design, Forest Park, IL

group exhibitions

2024    47th Annual Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL — Juror, Kimberly Oliva
            Patterns, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL — Casey Whitter
            81st Annual Salon Show, South Shore Performing Arts Center, Munster, IN — Juror: Chris Jackson, Kaitlyn Miller

2023    80th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Performing Arts Center, Munster, IN — Juror: Ish Muhammad
            26th Evanston + Biennial, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL — Jurors: Chantal Healey, Denny Mwaura, Erica Warren

2019    Abstractly Speaking, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL — Juror: Melanee Cooper

2018    42nd Annual Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL — Jurors: Paul Nudd & Bert Green
            75th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Performing Arts Center, Munster, IN — Juror: Sergio GomezI
            24th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial , Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL — Juror: Sergio Gomez, Aron Packer, Therese Quinn

2016    4th Annual Art Competition, Bridgeport Arts Center, Chicago, IL — Jurors: Mary Ellen Croteau and William Liberman
            ArtPrize, City Water Building — Richard App Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
            73rd Annual Salon Show, South Shore Performing Arts Center, Munster, IN — Carrie Johnson

2015    72nd Annual Salon Show, South Shore Performing Arts Center, Munster, IN — Juror: Brian Byrn
          
2014    ArtPrize, Harris Building, Grand Rapids, MI
            Front and Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL — Cruator, Trica VanEck
            Geometric by Form: Art & Floral, Room 1520, Chicago, IL — Curators, Jeremy Kreusch & Marcella Andrade

2013    70th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Performing Arts Center, Munster, IN, Top Prize, Helen V. Surovek Memorial Award — Juror: Paul Klein
            Endpapers, North Branch Projects, Chicago, IL
            Endpapers, Backspace Gallery, Peoria IL — Juror: Regin Igloria
            1st Art Competition, Bridgeport Arts Center, Chicago, IL — Juror: Thomas McCormick

2012    36th Annual Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL — Jurors, Larry Lee & Bernard Williams
            69th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Performing Arts Center, Munster, IN, Ernestine M. Wisnewski Memorial Award — Juror: Daniel Schulman
            Inspired By, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL — Juror: Mary Stoppert
            The Abstract Show, Brickton Art Center, Park Ridge, IL — Juror: Frank Juarez

2011    35th Annual Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL — Jurors: Olivia Gude & Brad Kilam
            Catawampus, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL
            68th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Performing Arts Center, Munster, IN, Merit Award — Juror: David Klamen
            It’s Your World, CCT Gallery, Northwestern University Settlement House, Chicago, IL
            100 Canvases for a better World, The Silver Room, Chicago, IL
            54th Annual Beloit & Vicinity Exhibition, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI — Jurors: Darryl Jensen and John Riepenhoff
            Spring Artists Reception, Chromophobia Gallery, Chicago, IL
            Life, ArtFutura, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Honorable Mention — Juror: James Rondeau
            Facades, LaGrange Art League, LaGrange, IL, Third Place Award — Juror: John Fraser
            6th Emerging Artist Exhibition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
            Intimacy, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL — Juror: Andrea Green
            Community Art Show, Harper Gallery, Chicago, IL
            First Friday’s, 914 Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010    Winter Exhibition, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
            Winter Exhibition, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI, Solo Show Recipient Award — Juror: Janet Roberts
            34th Annual Group Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL — Juror: Linda Warren
            Art Open, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL

2009    Members Show, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL