2002 MFA, University of California Los Angeles

1998 BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts

Selected Exhibitions

2015

Paintings from 1997 2014, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Essence de la vie, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2009

Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany

2007

"Utopias”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, with Adam Ross

"Empty Cities”, Plane Space, New York

Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2006

Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2005

"Caution”, Plane Space, New York (in progress)

"Night Light”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City (in progress).

"Elements, Particular", G Fine Art Gallery, Washington, DC

2004

"Stand", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, project space

"re:moving", Plane Space, New York, NY

2003

"C6H6", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

"Tied Up…Down (in the basement)", Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

2002

"Intraurban Interurban", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

MFA Thesis Exhibition, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000

"Paintings", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

2011

“Baker’s Dozen”, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA

2009

"Orphans and Kittens Go to the Circus", Circus of Books, Silverlake store in conjunction with the Third Annual LACE 10K, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Kristin Calabrese, Joshua Astor

"Assembly", Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver Canada

"Foundations" with Anthony Goicolea, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

"Interiority Complex", ACP (Artist Curated Projects), Los Angeles, CA, curated by Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe

"Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children", The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI, curated by Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster

2008

"Weekend Warrior”, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA, curated by Beautiful/Decay

"Salon", Ars Libri, Boston, MA, curated by Steven Holmes, The Cartin Collection

"Scene/Seen: Recent Acquisitions from the Luckman Fine Arts Complex Permanent Collection, 1979-2006”, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles

2007

Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, curated by Mary Snowden

2006

"Small Wonders”, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland

2005

"New Trajectories I: Relocations: Recent painting, drawing and multi-media work from the Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles", Cooley Gallery at Reed College, Portland, OR

"PETS", Fundacion Internacional Arte Contemporaneo, Monterey, Mexico

2004

"Painting at Plane Space", Plane Space Gallery, New York, NY

"Reciprocal Influences", Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

"About Painting", Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

"New ", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Inaugural exhibition Culver City space

2003

"Place", Harris Art Gallery at the University of La Verne, La Verne, CA

ArtBasel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

Armory Show New York, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

2002

ArtForum Berlin, Project Space, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Berlin, Germany

"Painting and Illustration", Luckman Fine Art Complex, CalState Los Angeles, curated by Adam Ross

2001

Cal's Art, Sampling California Painting, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Liste 01, Basel, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Switzerland

2000

"H2O", works on paper, Los Angeles, CA

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2015

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2008

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2007

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2006

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2005

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2004

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2003

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2001

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2000

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Public Collections

2009

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2000

Shirle Carter Scholarship, UCLA

1997

Ted Boyle Scholarship (Painting) CCAC

1996

Richard K. Price Fund (Painting) CCAC

University of California Davis, Departmental Citation (Art Studio)