RESUME 

Education

Fine Arts Degree, George Washington School of the Arts & Design, Washington DC

Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Symbiont, Freight Gallery, Washington DC

2022 Symbiotica, StoneTower Gallery, Glen Echo, Maryland

2017 Conflicted, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2017 #Vote4Pope, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC

2015 Contemplating Candy II, The Gallery, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA

2015 Ne Pas Sourire, The Arts Club of Washington DC, Washington DC

2014 The Candy Store, VISARTS, Rockville, MD

2012 Minimally Charged, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2012 Send Me Your Last Cigarette, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

2012 Label Me: Call Me A Name, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC

2012 Girls – Nice Doesn’t Cut It, Gallery 555, Washington, DC

2011 INPUT OUTPUT, The Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2011 Ashes To Ashes, The Red Mountain Gallery,Truckee Meadows College, Reno, NV

2010 Where Drawing Meets Painting, Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD

2010 Where Drawing Meets Painting, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD

2009 Where Drawing Meets Painting, Fisher Art Gallery, Schlesinger Arts Center, NOVA, VA

2009 Blurring the Lines, Dumbarton Concert Gallery, Georgetown, Washington DC.

2007 Totally Mixed Media, Gaithersburg City Hall, MD

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Lights Out, Gateway Arts Center, Brentwood, MD

2022 Finalist, Arts Bank Exhibition, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, DC

2022 Protest, Touchstone Foundation, DC

2019 2nd Tri-Annual Maryland State Artist Registry Juries Show, Maryland, Arts Place, Baltimore, MD  

2018 Interact + Integrate, VISARTS, Rockville, MD

2018 Free Space, Betty Kramer Gallery, Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, MD

2017 BodyBag, Dusklit, Seligman Center, Sugar Loaf, NY

2017 We The People, The Gallery, Catonsville Community College, Baltimore. MD  

2016 BodyBag, In One Night, Arlington, VA (performance)

2015 Strictly Painting 10, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

2014 Readymade@100, American University Museum, Washington DC.

2012 Multiple Visions, The Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD

2012 Crossing the Line, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

2010 DC 2’ x 10’, Gallery 555, Washington DC

2010 Fine Artists in Residence (3 person show) Strathmore Mansion, Bethesda, MD

2010 The Figure Redefined (4 person show) The Arts Barn, Gaithersburg, MD

2010 Home, Priddy Library, Universities at Shady Grove, Rockville, MD

2010 Informed Design, Long View Gallery, Washington, DC

2010 Amnesty International Human Rights Festival, Silver Spring, MD

2010 Strathmore Mansion, North Bethesda, MD

2010 Mayer Fine Art Gallery, Norfolk, VA

2009 Double Vision II, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC

2009 A Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, NYC

2009 Virtually Digital V, Montgomery College, Rockville MD

2009 The National Art of Recovery Show, ART6 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2009 Embracing Our Differences, Sarasota, FL

2008 Art Anonymous, Invitational, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

2007 Rhythm & Blue, National Juried Exhibit, Montgomery College, MD.

2007 9x10 Show #6, Washington Project for the Arts, WWP Gallery, Washington DC.

2007 Graduates Show, White Walls Gallery, Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington DC.

ArtWatch Collaborative Projects (co-founded 2016)

2021 Symbols of Resistance - Ukranian Crowns, public participatory project, Washington DC

2020 Art from the Heart, Covid-19 response, Washington DC

2019 Miss Amer(I)Can, Eaton Hotel, Washington DC

2019 Kindness Rocks, African American Museum of History & Culture, Washington DC

2018 One House, Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD

2018 What Feminism Looks Like – A Nasty Woman Exhibit, DCAC, Washington DC

2017 One House, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC

2017-present various Guerilla Art Actions (see Artwatchdc.com)

Awards/Residencies/Talks

2023 Dots & Lines—The Reach, Kennedy Center, Washington DC

2022 Artist talk Symbiotica--the Intersection of Fungi, Art & Technology, Silver Spring Town Center Inc

2020 Artist talk Fungal Futures: Art & Science Find Common Ground, Silver Spring Town Center

2020 Residency at the Sirius Arts Center, Ireland

2019 Winner & Presenter, IMPRINT competition, Women in Cyber, National Spy Museum, Washington DC

2019 Presenter, Maryland Art Summit (ArtWatch)

2019 District of Columbia Commission on the Arts & Humanities Arts Bank Grant

2018, 2016, 2012, 2020, 2021 Individual Artist Award, Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County

2018, 2015 Residency at Cill Rialaig, Ireland

2016 Artist talk, Luce Foundation Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum

2016 Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland

2014 Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2012 Semi-finalist, Bethesda Painting Awards

2012 Fellowship, Vermont Studio School, VT

2009 Strathmore Fine Artist in Residence, Strathmore Hall Foundation, North Bethesda, MD

Selected Bibliography

2023 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post

2022 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post

2020 Washington City Paper (for Art from the Heart project)

2018 Voice of America (for One House project)

2018 Gina Gallucci-White,  Culture Spot MC (for One House project)

2018 Telemundo (for One House project)

2018 Barbara Trainin Blank, Maryland Sentinel (for One House project)

2018 Matt Hooke, Maryland Sentinel

2018 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post

2017 Elsabe Dixon, East City Art

2017 Natalie Spanner, Pittsburgh City Paper

2016 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eye Level ezine

2016 Erin Devine, The Washington City Paper

2016 Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post

2016 Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post

2014 Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post

2012 Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

2012 Liz Georges, Washington Projects for the Arts Projector Newsletter

2012 Arin Greenwood, The Huffington Post

2012 Cody Calamaoi, The Art of Destruction, Gazzette.net

Curatorial

Director & Curator Visual Arts, Solas Nua (SolasNua.org) 2015 – present

2020 Shipsides & Beggs, American University at the Katzen Center, Washington DC

2020 Brain Maguire, American University at the Katzen Center, Washington DC

2019 Aideen Barry & Alice Maher, American University at the Katzen Center, Washington DC, curated by Dr. Tina Kinsella

2018 Sights & Sounds of Ireland, Dupont Underground, Washington DC

2017 Home + Discordance = US, New York University (NYU), Washington DC

2016 Repression – Resurgence – Re-emergence, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC

Independent Curatorial Projects:

2014 Tag You’re It: Curate the Curator. Focus on the Figure. ARTDC, Hyattsville, MD

2012 Exquisite – It’s the Nature Of Things, CountDown Temporary Artspace, Bethesda, MD

2012 Construct::Destruct (Open Until Implosion), CountDown Temporary Artspace, Bethesda, MD

2012 [Dis]Figure, CountDown Temporary Artspace, Bethesda, MD

2011 Presence, CountDown Temporary Artspace, Bethesda, MD

Founder/Boards/Panels

2016 – present    co-founder, ArtWatch

2017 – present    Board member, Solas Nua

2012 -2013        Founder, Countdown Temporary Art Space,