Education

2017             MFA in Visual Art, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2013             BFA in Sculpture/Performance/Video/Painting, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN



Selected Exhibitions & Performances

2024 Indigenous Gallery Walk, University of Utah Student Union, Salt Lake City, UT

2024 Similar Logic, West Pierpont Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT

2024 Parable Bodies, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT

2023 Kunst auf der Grenze, Off-Space, Hof, Bayern, Germany

2023 Kunst auf der Grenze, Modlareuth, Bayern, Germany

2023 Shifting Ground- SeelenArt Galerie, Munich, Germany

2023 Surrealism- Annual Gala, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2022 Hidden But Not Concealed, Captain Captain, Salt Lake City, UT

2021 Space Maker, Utah Museum Of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

2021 Unveiled, Leu Art Gallery, Nashville, TN

2020 Alone In My Room I Found A World, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN

2020 Quake, WAG Gallery, Nashville, TN

2019 Here We Are, Where We Were, Curry Ingram Gallery, Nashville, TN

2019 Orographic Light- The Depth Above, Das KloHäuschen, Munich, Germany

2019 Spontaneous With Friends, SP CE, Munich, Germany

2018             Same Old Song: Alkohol, Giesinger Brau, Munich, Germany

2017             Performance Night, Folly Tree Arboretum, Springs, NY

2017             Cabinet, David B Smith Gallery, Denver, CO

2017             FAM, Thesis Exhibition, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2016             Be Somebody With A Body, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

2016             The Cut & The Crumb, The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2016             Flux, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2016             What's A Steak, Carnegie-Mellon University MFA, Pittsburgh, PA

2015             Service, Neu Kirche Contemporary Art center, Pittsburgh, PA

2015             Telling Our Story, Apexart, New York, NY

2015             Life After Death and Elsewhere, Apexart, New York, NY

2015             Open Engagement, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2015             Low Room, 808 Pop-up Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2014             Works, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2014             Lowlights, Carnegie Fine Arts Building, Pittsburgh PA

2013             Morelessness, Curry Ingram Gallery, Nashville, TN

2013             Unit 2 (Part 1), Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN

2013             Habit Nocturne, May Hosiery Building, Nashville, TN

2013             Mystique, Der Kuturanker, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

2012         Beneath, Un-Known: performance series, Nashville, TN

2012             Backstock, Ziehersmith Pop-Up Gallery, Nashville, TN

2012             Strange Materials, Co.H juried exhibition, Nashville, TN

2012             Co.H Council, Curry Ingram Gallery, Nashville, TN

2012             Watkins Juried Exhibition, Curry Ingram Gallery, Nashville, TN

2011              Little Monsters, The Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN

2011              The Future Show, Co.H juried group exhibition, Nashville, TN

2010             Ripple Effect, Gallery F Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, TN

2010             Ecclesiaudio, Downtown Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN



Projects, Curation & Residencies

2023             UMOCA, Artist in Residence, Salt Lake City, UT

2016             Iron Casting: Thrival Music Festival, Rivers of Steel, Carrie Furnaces, Pittsburgh, PA

2015             Iron Casting: Casting the Iron Garden, Rivers of Steel, Carrie Furnaces, Pittsburgh, PA

2014             Unit 2: Collaboration with the men of Unit-2 ward, Riverbend Prison in Nashville, Tn

2013             Internship: Work & Life, collaborative project with Willard Tucker, Berea KY

2013             Curator: Projections, Co.H Winter Show,  Nashville TN

2012             Artist Assistant: Willard Tucker, sculpture installation, Austin Peay University

2012             Emergence, A collaboration with The Nashville Ballet multimedia dance & performance

2012             Curator: Council, Co.H Winter Show, Nashville TN

2010             Artist Assistant: Wayne White, Sam Watkins sculpture project



ARTIST TALKS / LECTURES

2024 Artist’s Talk: Parable Bodies, Belmont University, Nashville, TN

2024 Parable Bodies: Artists in Conversation, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT

2023 SeelenArt Salon, Artist’s Talk, SeelenArt Galerie, Munich, Germany

2021 Will We Hear / If We Listen, Artist’s Talk, Stanford Department of Art & Art History, Stanford, CA

2018 Red Liquid Mustang, Artist’s Talk, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN

2018 Artist’s Talk, SeelenArt- Sozialpsychiatrisches Zentrum, Munich, Germany

2017             FAM, Artist's Talk, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2015             MFA Presentations, CFA Lecture Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

2015             Telling Our Story, Performance & Open Discussion, Apex Gallery, New York, NY

2014             OSHER Artist’s Talk, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA



Academic Committees & Arts Organizations

2023-25 Chair, Gittins Gallery Committee, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2022-25 Advisor, U of U Sculpture Club, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2023-24 Scholarship Committee, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2023-24 Chair, De-Siloing Ad-Hoc Committee, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2022-24 Graduate Student Direst Study Faculty, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2021-24. Equity & Diversity Committee, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2020-21 Gallery Committee, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN

2019-21 Artist Member, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN

2019-20 Faculty Senate, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN

2016-17     Graduate Representative, Faculty Arts Council, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2014-15        Graduate Representative, Faculty Arts Council, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2012-14     Founding Member, Co-Chair, Co. H, Artist Collective, Nashville, TN



Collaborations - Organizations -  Links

Kunst auf der Grenze https://www.kunst-auf-der-grenze.com/Home/

Unit 2 http://reachcoalition.wordpress.com/art-projects/unit-2-part-1/

Reach Coalition http://reachcoalition.wordpress.com

Land Back https://landback.org

NDN Collective https://ndncollective.org

Indian Law Resources https://indianlaw.org

Native Governance Center https://nativegov.org

Emergence, The Nashville Ballet http://www.nashvilleballet.com/performances

Company H (Co.h) Watkins College of Art