Education
2010 University of California, San Diego - MFA, Visual Arts
2004 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA - BFA, Photography
1995 Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - BA, English-Journalism • BA, Spanish
Selected Exhibitions
2010
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Here Not There, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2009
Raskolnikov, Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA • UCSD Department of Arts and Humanities, LUI Velasquez, Tijuana
MFA Conversations, I-5 Gallery, LA
Who Killed Kurt Cobain, The Experimental Bureau, Frankfurt, Germany
2008
Los Angeles County Juried Exhibition (Department of Cultural Affairs), Barnsdall Gallery, LA
Studio Green, New Children’s Museum, San Diego
Art Scene Auction/Aids Research Alliance Benefit, Smashbox Studios, LA
2007
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, Fl.
Inheritance, Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA
2006
Assorted Social Realisms, Winda Cultural Center, Kielce, Poland
Professional Experience
2011-present University of Dayton, Ohio - Lecturer, Visual Arts
2008-2011 Southwestern Community College,San Diego - Adjunct Professor, Photography
2006-2010 University of California, San Diego- Teaching Assistant, Visual Arts
2003-2010 compactspace Gallery, Los Angeles - Director
2004-2006 Los Angeles County High School of the Arts- Photography Instructor
Awards/Honors/Grants
LUCIE foundation, 2010 • inaugural scholarship, shortlist
Jacumba Hotel and Spa, 2009 • Artist in Residence
University of California San Diego, 2008 • Russell Grant
University of California San Diego, 2008 • First prize research grant • juror Tyler Stallings – director/curator UC Riverside, Sweeney Art Gallery
UCIRA Humanities Research Grant, 2008 • funding for ‘Project Cali-Miami’
Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, 2008 • Honorable Mention
UCSD Department of Visual Arts, 2006-2009 • Recruitment Award
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, 2001-2004 • incoming and
continuing merit-based scholarship
Photographic Directing, Consulting and Assisting
2010
Cloud of Hope, a film by artist Steve Fagin - photographer
2009
New Silk Road , a project by artist and architect Kyong Park - photographic
El Pasado ya no es lo que era, and exhibition by artist Ruben Ortiz-Torres - lab assistant, photographic print-makerconsultant
Fader Magazine, Dub Machines by Tristan Shone - photographer
Selected Curatorial Projects
2011
This Old House • multi-media art event • Alpine, CA
2010
Good Mourning, California • multi-media group exhibition • Periscope Project, San Diego
anything to declare? • new works on paper by Iana Quesnell • compactspace LA
and the world is ours • works by Robert Twomey and Tim Schwartz, compactspace LA
2009
Repeat Until • work by Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Gretchen Mercedes, Merve Kayan, Kael Greco, Mauren Brodbeck, Katie Herzog and Kate Barclay, compactspace LA
Alien Organic • works by Julia Westerbeke, compactspace LA
We Ourselves Flash and Yearn • work by Gretchen Mercedes and Tristan Shone, compactspace LA
2008
Dispatches from the Era of Blue Pants, work by Scott Horsley, compactspace LA
Artist Talks / Readings / Lectures
2011
Curator Presentation, This Old House with artist Fabian Cereijido, The Periscope Project, San Diego, CA
Artist Talk, University of Dayton, Ohio
Artist Talk, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA
Reading (fiction piece commissioned for Tim Schwartz' Wild Bill Project), Agitprop Gallery, San Diego, CA
2010
Curator Talk, Good Mourning, CaliforniaThe Periscope Project, CA
Reading (from Likely Stories and other sides), Mommy Mommy! Los Angeles, CA
2009
Reading (from Granite), Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects San Diego
Reading / Artist Talk (with Fabian Cereijido and Patricia Montoya) Department of Arts and Humanities, UCSD
2008
Artist Talk, LUI Velasuez, Tijuana, Mexico
Artist Talk, New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA