EDUCATION

2010 MFA in Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2006 BFA in Painting and Art History, summa cum laude

Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

2005 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2010-11 J. William Fulbright Post Graduate Research Grant to Finland

EXHIBITIONS

2011 "Inspiration and Collaboration in Art, Design and Cultural Exchange

in the Finnish Fulbright Experience," FinnFest 2011

San Diego, California

2011 Solo Show, Galleria Atski, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

2010 Out of the Woods, MFA Thesis Exhibition

Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan

2010 Daimler Financial Services One Year Collection, Farmington Hills, Michigan

2009 Solo Show, Cartel Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2009 Can I Live. Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2009 A Little Piece of Painting, Forum Gallery

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2009 Electric Landscape, Forum Gallery

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2008 Ephemerality & Sensuality, Forum Gallery

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2007 Solo Show, Studio Clout Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2006 Student Exhibition, Commonwealth Gallery

Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

2006 CAA Regional BFA Juried Show, 808 Gallery

Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

2006 Group Exhibition, Paradigm Properties Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2005 Juried Show, Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

2005 Group Exhibition, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy

PUBLICATIONS & SELECTED WRITINGS

"Cranbrook: Not an Art School in the Ordinary Sense,"

United States Embassy of Finland, Beat of America,

posted June 28, 2011.

"Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds," Art21 Blog,

Open Enrollment Column, posted May 18, 2011.

"In Poor Taste: Lunch with Jani Leinonen," Art21 Blog,

Open Enrollment Column, posted April 20, 2011.

"In Poor Taste," Jani Leinonen: Funeral Notice,

Galerie Gmurzynska: Zurich, 2011.

"All Aglow with Marimekko," United States Embassy of Finland, Beat of America,

posted April 8, 2011.

"An Afternoon with Miina Äkkijyrkkä," Art21 Blog, Open Enrollment Column,

posted February 23, 2011.

"Artists Are Like Rats," Art21 Blog, Open Enrollment Column,

posted January 26, 2011.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010 Experiencing Perspectives, Exhibition Catalog Daimler Financial Services,

Farmington Hills, Michigan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009 Instructor, Portfolio Building Class, Cranbrook Summer Art Institute

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2009-2010 Teaching Assistant, Painting Department Cranbrook Academy of Art

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES

2011 America in Living Color Seminar, Speaker, “The Artists of Marimekko”

University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

2011 Speaker, “The History of Cranbrook” Aalto Univeristy, Helsinki, Finland

2010 Speaker, American Voices XVIII Univeristy of Turku, Turku, Finland

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2010-11 Visiting Scholar, University of Art & Design, Helsinki Finland

AWARDS

2005 Dean’s List with Special Distinction, Boston University

2004 Dean’s List, Boston University

2002 Ruth Tweed Memorial Scholarship