Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Bachelor of Arts, With Distinction, Studio Art, June 1991
Bachelor of Arts, With Distinction, Anthropology, June 1991
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Master of Fine Arts in Painting, May 1994
Stanley L. & Lucy M. Lopata Fellow, 1992-1994
Artist Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (June 2003)
Artist Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (May-June 2002)
Artist Residency Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire (Dec. 28, 1994 -Feb. 9, 1995)
Grumbacher Award, Coastal Arts League Museum, Half Moon Bay, California (September 1994)
Stanley L. & Lucy M. Lopata Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis (1992-1994)
Daniel M. Mendelowitz Memorial Award, Stanford University (June 1991)
Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting, Stanford University (June 1991)
Robert M. Golden Grant for the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University (May 1989-90)
Latin American Studies Field Research Grant, Stanford University (May 1990)
National Science Foundation Research Experience, City University of New York (June 1990)
Department of the Interior, 233 27th Street, San Francisco, California (October 2007)
Then & Now: Japanese Influences in American Art, SFMoMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco (July 2007)
Emerge, GenArt San Francico, 988 Market Street, San Francisco (November 2006)
Presence & Absence, Fisher Weisman Studio, San Francisco (November-December 2005)
Small Works, Graystone Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California (February -March 2005)
Small Works, Graystone Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
(January -February 2004)
San Francisco International Art Exposition
V ( January 17 - 20, 2003)
The Miniature Show, Graystone Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
(December 2002-January 2003)
Delta National Small Print Exhibition, Arkansas
State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas (November 6-29, 2000)
Coastal Arts
League Traveling Exhibit, Half Moon Bay, California and Lake Forest,
Illinois (July-August
2000, Oct.2000, respectively)
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, New York (March 9-April 5, 1998)
Exemplary Contemporary 1997 Paintings,
University of California Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery,
Santa Cruz, (Nov-Dec.1997)
National Juried Exhibition of Small Works, Montclair
State University, Montclair, New Jersey (June
23-July 18,1997)
Three Painters, Gallery Theatre, Skyline College, San Bruno, California (March 3-22,
1997)
Northwest
Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, Washington (Oct.
1995)
Faculty Exhibition, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California
(Dec. 3, 1994-Jan. 31, 1995)
Recent Paintings, Left Bank Books, St. Louis,
Missouri (May 20-June 30, 1994)
Honor Award Exhibition, St. Louis Design
Center, St. Louis, Missouri (Jan. 1994)
Abstractions, Maryville University,
St. Louis, Missouri (Jan. 12-Feb. 11, 1994)
Art St. Louis IX, St. Louis
Design Center, St. Louis, Missouri (Oct. 8-Nov. 19, 1993)
First Year MFA
Exhibition, Pierce Arrow Building, St. Louis, Missouri (March 1993)
Golden
Award Exhibition, Cummings Art Building, Stanford, California (May 1990)
Vazifdar, Lena. "Fostering Emerging Artists: GenArt’s Annual Exhibition". 26 March 2007.
Hirsch, Faye, Ed. “Working Proof” review, Art on Paper, September-October 2001.
PublicationsZyzzyva, Volume XVII, No. I Spring 2001
Montage, Soviet and American Student Journal (1990-92)
12/02 Visiting Artist, +=studio blu=+, suite of lift ground etchings
editioned. Seattle, Washington.
11/01 Visiting Artist, +=studio blu=+; experimental workshop devoted to art on paper,
collaboration with Stephen Hazel and Kathleen Rabel, artists & founders.
Seattle, Washington.
10/01 Visiting Artist Lecture, Senior Thesis Seminar, Ceramics Department, California
College of Arts and Crafts. Oakland, California.
4/95-4/97 Board of Directors, WORKS/San Jose. Non-profit,
alternative art & performance space, dedicated to providing a venue for work that expands the
scope of cultural and artistic experience. San Jose, CA.
7/94-3/96 Instructor, Drawing, Painting. Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA.
9/93-5/94 Teaching Assistant, School of Art, Washington University,
St. Louis, MO. Freshman Core Drawing Course; duties included advising
students with in-class work and final projects; demonstrating use of
new materials; preparing slide lectures; leading class during instructor’s
absence; assistance with semester grading.
Summer Program Assistant, Community School for Music and Arts, Santa Clara County, CA. Classes
in painting, drawing, sculpture casting and construction, paper making, weaving, and musical instrument
building. Produced a videotape record of classes and performances held.
6/92-8/92 Intern, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Duties included installation of exhibits, interaction
with gallery visitors, administrative support.
7/91-6/92 Graduate Admissons Assistant,
Stanford University Art Department Office. Assisted with applications,
advised students interested in Art/Art History programs.
6/91-9/91 Teaching Assistant, Art Department, Stanford University. Drawing Course. Conducted class during Professor’s
absence, advised students, critiqued students' work.
6/90-9/90 Individual Research, Chiapas, Mexico; Fieldwork done under guidance of Dr. George Collier
(Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University). Research of visual language of weaving and ethnic clothing
in a highland Maya community. Interviewed residents in Spanish and Tzotzil; learned to weave using backstrap loom; created photographic record
of clothing, weaving, embroidery; assembled collection of handmade textiles for Stanford Anthropology Dept.; post-field
report.
4/89-5/90 Robert M. Golden Grant for Arts and Humanities, Produced a year long series of paintings, drawings, and sculptural pieces
based on abstractions from landscape, color studies of leaf cuttings. Held an exhibit of these works at Cummings Art Building,
Stanford University, May 1990.
6/89-8/89 Summer Fieldwork Project, Department
of Anthropology, Stanford University. Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico.
Mapped and surveyed surface sections of plains & hillsides
for scatters of stone tools and fragments of pottery, to study their manufacture
and use.
Courses taken in Book Arts, San Francisco Center for the Book
and University of California Extension
Vermont Studio Center,
Johnson, Vermont. (October 1995)
Art Director, Eliot Review, literature
and art journal, Washington University. (Spring 1993)
Gallery Assistant,
Bixby Gallery, School of Fine Arts, Washington University. (1992-93)
Work
published in Dialtone, literary and art publication; and Montage, Soviet
and American Journal. (1990-92)
Merit Scholarship to attend Washington
Studio School, Washington, D.C. (Summer 1988)
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