Education
2006 Master of Fine Arts Degree (Sculpture)
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Sculpture)
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2001 Associate of Arts Degree
Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL
Exhibitions and Collaborations
Forthcoming
2012 2011 Creative Stimulus Award Exhibition, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
The Natural and the Man Made, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Klondike Territory, Canada
Exhibitions (Solo)
2010 Humanly Occurring, Pedestrian Project, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO
2008 Biomass, SPACElab 2, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
You’re Invited (1980-2008), PSTL Window Gallery, Pace Framing, St. Louis, MO
A Human Geology, William and Florence Schmidt Art Center,
Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL
2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2004 Path, The Ground Floor, Belleville, IL
Exhibitions (Group)
2012 Urbanity, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
I’ll Be Your Mirror, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
For Rent, 3224 Indiana Ave, 2nd floor, St. Louis, MO
2011 The Shape of a Man, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Dining Room Project, piece: You’re Invited (1980-2011) Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art,
I’ll Be Your Mirror, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
Poetry in Place: The Platforms, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO.Dining Room Project, piece: You’re Invited (1980-2011) Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art,
A collaborative project involving the KCJCMA and the Charlotte Street Foundation: Urban Culture Project,
Kansas City, MO.
Humanature, La Esquina, Charlotte Street Foundation: Urban Culture
Project, Kansas City, MO (Artist/Curator)
2010 Sub-Terrain, Work: Ann Arbor, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Gravity and its Friends, Voice of the City Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Breaking Form, Multi-Media Invitational at the Gallery at St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Will Build Forever, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
Interface: Nature, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
Happy Tree Friends (Part II), Paragraph Gallery, Charlotte Street Foundation: Urban Culture Project,
Kansas City, MO
Human Craters, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Shrine/Installation Exhibition, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2008 Three-Hundred Six, Hoffman LaChance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Take Out, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2007 Turning Points, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 Live Action: An Exhibition of Interactive and Performance Art, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Exposure 9, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Please Touch: Sculpture Show 2006, 2500 Ohio Ave. St. Louis, MO
Symbiosis, Perkinson Gallery, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Off Course, Baseline Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005 Continued Colonies: The New Human Landscape, 2500 Ohio Ave. St. Louis, MO
First Year MFA Exhibition (8), Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Sculpture Show 2005, 2400 S. Jefferson Ave. St. Louis, MO
2004 Human’s Being: Image, Icon, Identity, Beth Allison Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Collaborations
2010 Post-Performance #1, Performed at the Old Post Office Plaza through the Luminary Center for the Arts,
St. Louis, MO (collaboration with the St. Louis based musical acts: Spelling Bee, and Theodore)
FLAT 5, Floor Length and Tux Apartment Gallery, Chicago, IL (collaboration w/ Brett Williams,
Catie Olsen, and Erik Brown)
2008 Liv Ullman, Anaerobic Digestion, Post-Psychiatry: An Associate Degree in Science (traveling exhibition from
Chicago to Kansas City w/Erik Brown & Catie Olsen) Open Lot Collective, St. Louis, MO
2007 We’ll Talk More Later (w/ Greg Edmonson and Jonathan Lisenby) Open Lot Collective, St. Louis, MO
2006 Perfect E’s (w/ Kim Humphries) The Kim Humphries New Years Eve Hot Tub Party, White Flag Projects,
St. Louis, MO
Blood. Brothers. (w/Chris Vogt) The Ground Floor, Belleville, IL
Residencies
2012 Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada (forthcoming)
2006 Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France
Awards, Scholarships, and Selections
2009 Santo Foundation Grant Recipient
2007 Selected Artist, Visiting Critics and Curators Program, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis:
Nato Thompson, Curator and Producer, Creative Time, N.Y., NY
2006 Graduate Student Cité Residency Award & Bill Kohn Travel Scholarship
Washington University in St. Louis
2005/06 Laura and William Jens Scholarship
Henrietta Wahlert Scholarship
Washington University in St. Louis
2004/05 Laura and William Jens Scholarship
School of Art Scholarship
Washington University in St. Louis
Lectures and Related Events
2011 Presenter, Pecha Kucha, Los Caminos Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Artist Lecture, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Moderator/Presenter, Correlations lecture and panel discussion, HUMANATURE exhibition, la Esquina, Urban Culture Project/Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
2010 Presenter, Green Drinks, Hosted by the Missouri Botanical Gardens, Schlafly Bottleworks, St. Louis, MO
Featured Speaker, Contemporary X Pecha Kucha, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2009 Artist Lecture, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
Juror, University City Library Art Gallery, 2010 Exhibition Series
Featured Speaker: Maps Contemporary Art Space (Director)/Open Lot Collective (Member),
Chautauqua Art Lab, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
Applications of Medical Imaging Technology in Contemporary Artistic Practice, a Discussion with Curator
Nina Horisaki Christens and artists Robert de Saint Phalle and B.j. Vogt, in co-ordination with the exhibition
Human Craters at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Lecture and Demo, New Art in the Neighborhood, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2008 Artist/Professional Lecture, Professional Practice Course ,Webster University, Asst. Professor John Watson;
in co-ordination with the exhibition A Human Geology at the William and Florence Schmidt Art Center,
Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL
Artist Lecture, Southwestern Illinois College-Art Appreciation/Washington University in St. Louis-Sculpture
Area in coordination with the exhibition A Human Geology at the William and Florence Schmidt Art Center,
Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL
Artist Lecture, Webster University Friday Artist Lecture Series, Webster
University, St. Louis, MO
