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EDUCATION
2003-06 MFA Painting, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California 1996-00 BA Design, Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts GALLERY REPRESENTATION HONORS 2017 – Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Artist-in-Residence, New Haven, CT 2017 – Weiss Sisters Award, “116th Annual Juried Art Exhibition”, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT: Juror: Richard Klein 2016 – Award of Excellence,  “The Healing Power of ART 2016” online juried competition, Manhattan Arts International 2016 – Awarded Second Place, “The 105th Exhibition”, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, Connecticut: Juror: Darby Cardonsky, Will Lustenader 2015 – Award of Excellence, Four Point Contemporary, Online Gallery 2015 – Award of Merit, Four Point Contemporary, Online Gallery 2012 – Special Recognition Award, All Women Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time, Online Gallery 2009 – Awarded Second Place, “I’ll bet you can’t paint a portrait”, 712 Art Space, San Francisco, California: Juror: William Theophilus Brown MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 2018 – “Make Your Mark”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, CA 2018 – “The 107th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT 2017 – “Metro Montage XV”, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA 2017 – “The 106th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts,  Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT 2016 – CWA 86th Annual National Open Juried Show, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT 2016 – “The 105th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts,  Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT 2015 – “Metro Montage XV”, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2020 Mika Gallery, Group Exhibition, Tel Aviv, Israel                                                                                                                                                                                                      “Socially Distanced” Online Exhibition, Artist Alliance, Santa Fe, NM Curator: Jen Tough                                                                                                       “Full of Possibility”, Solo Exhibition, DaSilva Gallery, New Haven, CT                                                                                                                                       “Centered and Calm”, Solo Exhibition, New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven, CT                                                                                                                              “Art Takes Armory 2020 “S/he Persisted”, SeeMe Gallery Armory Exhibition, New York, NYC

2019

Group Exhibition, MIKA Gallery Retzif HaAliya HaShniya St 48 Tel Aviv, Israel “Hidden Depth”, Solo Exhibition, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 102 EXHIBITION/ Greenwich Art Society, The Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT Curator: Megan Fontanella Arts to the Avenue”, Putnam and Mason, Greenwich, CT Our Bodies Ourselves“, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 2018 “Winter Showing”, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, Curator: Debbie Hess “EGGIWEGS“, DAB ART, Ventura, CA, Curator: Yessica Torres “In Formation: Gesture & Geometry”, Whitney Center, Hamden, CT, Curator: Debbie Hess “Parallel Visions, Realism & Abstraction”, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT, Juror: Jenny Harris “Color”, Brooklyn Waterfront Coalition, Brooklyn, NYC  Juror: Marcela Guerrero. “Summer National Juried Exhibition, Make Your Mark”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, CA Juror: Jen Tough “The 107th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT Juror: Eric Aho and Robert Reynolds “Art Makes a Stop”, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT “Arts to the Avenue”, Alliance Francaise of Greenwich, Greenwich, CT 2017 “116th Annual Juried Art Exhibition”, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT Juror: Richard Klein “Small Works Summer 2017”, National Association of Women Artists, Inc., New York, NY “Metro Montage XV”, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA “The 106th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT, Juror: Emilia Dubicki and Deborah Quinn-Munson 2016 “CWA 86th Annual National Open Juried Show”, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT, Juror: Min Jung Kim “The Healing Power of ART 2016” online juried competition.,  Manhattan Arts International, Juror: Renee Phillips “The 105th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts,  Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT: Juror: Darby Cardonsky, Will Lustenader “Contemporary Woman 2016”, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA: Juror: Ruth Von Jahnke Waters 2015 “11th Annual Small Works Show”, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Juror: Amy Williams “Annual Contemporary Art Survey”, Fort Collins Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO: Juror: Dean Sobel “Metro Montage XV”, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA: Juror: Robmat Butler “The Healing Power of ART” online juried competition.,  Manhattan Arts International, Juror: Renee Phillips “4th Biannual Competition”, Four Point Contemporary, Online Gallery: Juror: Ahyor Thompson “Impulse”, Bay Area Juried Exhibition,  ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Juror: Michael Yochum, Priscilla Otani, Stephen C. Wagner, & Matthew Frederick 2014 “The F Word: Feminism Now”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL: Juror: Jeanne Dunning “The Figure: A Bay Area Legacy”, Gary Francis Gallery, Alameda, CA 2013 “Small Work – Big Deal” , Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA “Women’s Rights: An Artists Perspective”, Women United, Online Gallery: Juror: Karen Gutfreund “Diaspora”, New Artists Gallery, New York, NY:  Juror: Laura Kruger “Hearts in San Francisco Exhibition & Gala Event”, AT&T Park, San Francisco, CA 2012 “Bay Area Women Artist”, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA:  Juror: Donna Seagar 2012 National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, , New York, NY:  Juror: Dore Ashton Momentum: 40 Years of the Women’s Caucus for Art,Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA:  Juror: Rita Gonzalez All Women Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time, Online Gallery “Pacific Art League Faculty Show”, Norton Gallery, Pacific Art League Faculty Show,Palo Alto, California 2011 “The Guerrilla Show”, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Beyond the Visible”, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA “Pacific Art League Faculty Show” , Norton Gallery, Palo Alto, California Soma Art Gallery, Art Span Live Auction, San Francisco, California 2010 Hang Art Gallery, Group Showing, San Francisco, CA “Ocean Rescue”, Driftwood Salon, San Francisco, CA Artist X-Change Gallery, San Francisco, California “Spring Garden Theme Show”, Norton Gallery, Pacific Art League Faculty Show, Palo Alto, California “Bay Area Educators Invitational”, Louie Meager Art Gallery, Ohlone College, Fremont, California 2009 “I bet you can’t paint a portrait”, Art Space 712, San Francisco, California, Juror: William Theophilus Brown “Simply Nina”, African American Culture Complex, San Francisco, California Sixth Street Gallery and Salon Show, Oakland, California 2008 Art Span Open Studios, San Francisco, California Electric Works Gallery, San Francisco, California 2007 “Bold Expressions”, Northern California Arts, Inc., Sacramento, California “Old Faces New Peeps and Fresh Works”, Space Gallery, San Francisco, California “Best of the Bay”, Artist Alley Gallery, San Francisco, California 2006 “Perception”, 625 Sutter Street Gallery, San Francisco, California Art Span Open Studio, San Francisco, California 2005 “Big Bang Show II”, 79 New Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California “Collage of Many Women’s Voices”, Atrium Gallery Group Show, San Francisco, California PUBLIC ART PROJECTS 2013 – Hearts in San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, Project Purchased by Intel PUBLICATIONS

2020 – Shape of Things Article, Daily Nutmeg, New Haven, CT

2019 – Serendipity Magazine, Westport, CT 2016 – Mentioned in Daily Connecticut, “Mystic Museum of Art celebrates 105 years of

Connecticut art”, July 2016 (online publication) 2015 – Overcoming Creative Frustration, Art Square Online Article 2014 – Equilibrium Catalog, Chicago, IL 2013 – Diaspora Catalog, New York, NY 2012 – CBS News, Best Peninsula Area Artist, Online Publication 2012- “Face, Figure, Identity” (Sprocketbox Entertainment) 2012 -Momentum: 40 Years of the Women’s Caucus for Art Catalog, Los Angeles, CA 2012 – All Women Art Exhibition Catalog, Light Space & Time, Online Gallery 2009 -Mentioned in Art and Entertainment, “I’ll bet you can’t paint a portrait”, September 2009 (online publication) 2008 – Featured Artist Listed in San Francisco Examiner, October 2008 2007 – Featured Article, Academy of Art University Fine Art Students and Alumni Collaborate for exhibition Brick to Blue Exhibition, October 2007 (online publication) 2006 – Exhibition Perception Interview, (Online- media publication)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2007 – Present (Private Instruction)

2020- Guilford Art League, Guilford, CT (Online Studio Arts Instructor)

2019- Present Creative Arts Workshop (Studio Arts Workshop Instructor) 2009 – 2015 Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California Instructor of Abstract Painting 2009 – 2012 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California Instructor of Abstract Painting and Portrait Drawing

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