EDUCATION
MFA University of Washington, Seattle, WA
BA University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2021 McLaughlin Foundation Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands, Calif
2020. Artist Trust Fellowship Seattle, Wa
2016 Camargo Foundation residency
2015 the Stranger Genius Award, visual art
2014 New Foundation travel grant
SOMA, residency mexico City, Mexico
2013 Art Matters Foundation Grant Recipient, New York, NY
2012 Artist in Residence, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2010 MacDowell Colony, Pollock/Krasner Fellowship/Residency, Peterborough NH
2009 Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA (residency)
2009 JentelArts, Sheridan, WY (residency)
2003 Northwest Institute of Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy (NIAUSI) (residency)
2002 Oregon College of Arts and Crafts (residency and workshop director)
2000 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA (painting award recipient)
1998 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA (finalist, painting award)
1997 Artist Trust Ten-Year Presidents' Award for Artistic Achievement and Leadership
1997 Art Workshop, Association of Museums of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul (residency)
1995 Art Matters Foundation, New York City, NY (individual artist fellow)
EXHIBITIONS
2021 continental drift, James Harris Gallery, online exhibition
2016 impossible monument (nothing but the memory) Oxbow, Seattle, Wa.
2015 what stays the same is never so, James Harris Gallery , Seattle, Wa
2013 Seattle University Vachon Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 from a history of ruin, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 if thinking is form: a visual diary, Edmonds Community College, Lynwood, WA
2009 and the edge becomes the center, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 in an instant, James Harris Gallery, Seattle WA
2006 this world and mine, James Harris Gallery, Seattle,WA
2000 palimpsest, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA
1999 myself inside your story, onsite drawing, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1998 if thinking is form, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA
1996 myself inside your story, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA
1995 Four Corners, open studio, Seattle, WA
1994 Notes, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR
1989 Espana, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 And Now This, "Eyes of Love; Windows on AIDS" project Seattle, WA
1988 The Pool, 911 Contemporary Arts Center windows project, Seattle, WA
1987 eide (working drawings), Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1985 The Picture Wall, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 Notes Towards the Picture Wall, Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA
1984 Silent Partners, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR
1983 Silent Partners, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981 New Work, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1980 site unseen, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Shadow Time, studio e, Seattle, Wa
2021 Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Wa
2021 Momentous Gesture, Soil Gallery, Seattle, Wa
2015 Genius/21st Century, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Wa.
out of site, King Street Station, Seattle, Wa.
2013 Chamber Music, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Wa.
2011 Seattle As Collector, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2010 A Show of Hands:Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2010 mirror,mirror, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2006 Junctions, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 A Decade of Excellence: Celebrating the Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum
2005 Lucky 7 , WinstonWachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2004 Perspectives; Selections for City of Seattle 1% Program , Trade & Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2004 Paperworks, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Variations of Abstraction, City Space Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2002 Northwest Masters, City Space Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2002 Artist in Residence, Hoffman Gallery, OCAC, Portland, OR
2000 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation invitational, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation invitational, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Drawing, national invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA
1998 Northwesterners, Fresh Paint Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Meeting in Art I, International Art Workshop, invitational, Istanbul, Turkey
1996 Surface Stories, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1995 Visionaries, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle , WA
1995 Metaphor, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 Seattle Noir, invitational Vox Populi Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 Spatial Flux: A Means of Expression, Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle, WA
1994 Telling Stories: Looking for Narrative in Visual Art, Newmark Center, Seattle, WA
1993 invitational, 1004 Gallery Port Townsend, WA
1993 Art Works for AIDS, invitational, Seattle, WA
1993 Proposals: New Projects at the Por, Italia Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Lingua Franca, Falkirk Cultural Center, Richmond, CA
1992 Women Painters in the Northwest, Viking Gallery, Bellingham, WA
1992 Bill of Rights, David Shearer Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Poncho Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 The Big and The Small of It, Northview Gallery, Portland Comm. Col., Portland, OR
1991 Artists Respond to the War, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 Visual AIDS Project, New York City, NY
1991 Poncho Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 Notes towards Akbar’s Muse, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
1991 Notes towards Akbar’s Muse, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA