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RESIDENCIES

2026 Art Omi, Artists Residency, Ghent, NY (Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship)
2007 The Fields Project, Ogle County, IL

HONORS & AWARDS

2027 Women to Watch Nominee, National Museum of Women in the Arts Curator: Leesa Fanning, Ph.D.
2026 Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, Art Omi Residency
2016 Best of Painting, Ridgeland Festival of Fine Art, Ridgeland, MS
Juror: Daniel Piersol, Curator Emeritus, Mississippi Museum of Art
2014 Raymond James Financial Best of Show, Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Tampa, FL
Juror: Michael Komanecky, Ph.D., Chief Curator, Farnsworth Art Museum

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo
2025 “The Surface and the Space,” Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2024 “Elevate,” 21c Museum Hotel, Kansas City, MO
2021 “Chromatic Adaptation,” JRB Art, Oklahoma City, OK
2019 “Not Everything Will Be Replaced,” Bunker Center of the Arts, Kansas City, MO
2018 “Undiscovered Countries,” CityArts, Wichita, KS
2017 “Boundaries of Color,” The Arts Company, Nashville, TN

Two-Person
2024 “Hanging Paper,” with Garry Noland, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO

Group
2025 “Florescence,” The Smalter Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2025 “Flat Files,” Voth Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2025 “Becos of You,” The Waiting Room, Kansas City, MO
2024 “Wavelength,” Mountain Gallery, Kansas City Central Library, Kansas City, MO
2024 “Selfhood,” Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023 “New Language: Contemporary Abstraction,” Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2023 “SYNT Flat Files,” The Front, New York, NY
2023 “Weaver/Ryan/Nugent,” Holsum Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2022 “MDW Fair,” Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2022 “Writing Gesture Shape,” Rountree Gallery, Platteville, WI
2021 “Run, Run Riot,” Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
2021 “Selects,” Sioux City Arts Center, Sioux City, IA
2020 “Beyond Bounds,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2020 “Art That Matters,” Chauvet Arts, Nashville, TN
2017 “Building Blocks,” Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO
2016 “Graphic, Color, Lines,” Roan and Black Contemporary, Saugatuck, MI
2015 “Holiday Art Fair,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

KC Current, Kansas City, MO
Hallmark, Kansas City, MO
De Bruce Foundation, Kansas City, MO
Pinnacle Bank, Nashville, TN
St. Anthony’s Hospital, Lakewood, CO
St. Luke’s Hospital, Overland Park, KS
University Health, Kansas City, MO
Four Seasons Hotel, Chicago, IL
Grand Hyatt, San Antonio, TX
Robertson Law Group, Kansas City, MO
Coldwell Banker, Overland Park, KS

SELECTED INTERVIEWS

2024 KC Studio Artist Pages — Elisabeth Kirsch
2024 ArtSpeak Radio, KKFI — Maria Vasquez Boyd
2024 Core Magazine — Brittany Noriega
2021 InKansas City Magazine — Judith Fertig
2017 Nashville Arts Magazine — Margaret Walker
2017 Arts Upload, KCPT — Julie Denesha

COMMUNITY ACTIVITY

Past President, Kansas City Artists Coalition
Visiting Critic, Kansas City Art Institute
Artist-in-Residence Mentor, Charlotte Street Foundation
Facilitator, Artist Inc., InterUrban ArtHouse
Selection Panelist, International Artist Residency, Kansas City Artists Coalition
Juror, Country Club Plaza Art Fair
Featured Artist & Speaker, ArtsKC Inspiration Breakfast
Judge, Thomas Hart Benton Prize, Neosho Arts Council

EDUCATION

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
BFA, Painting
Studio Art Centers International (SACI), Florence, Italy
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
The New School, New York, NY