exhibitions & awards

Recent Selected Group Exhibitions 

  2009 PS122 Gallery, “Two Person Exhibition”, New York, NY - Guest jurors: Lauren O’Neil Butler,

  Contributing writer - ArtForum & Time Out NY, Benjamin Godsell, Artist/Curatorial Assistant - New

  Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Calvin Reid, Artist/freelance writer

  2008 Art Miami Basel, Design Crib – Wynwood Art District - Miami Beach, Fl

  2008 Jersey City Museum, “SPRAWL”, 2008 New Jersey Arts Annual – Fine Art, Jersey City, NJ – Jurors:

  Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Curator – Carmen Ramos, Independent Curator, Doug Ferrari, Director of

  SICA, Margaret Murphy, Artist & Director of Garage

  2008 Court Gallery of the Ben Shahn Galleries, “Currents”, William Paterson University - Wayne,

  NJ - Guest juror: Beth A. Venn, Curator – Newark Museum

  2007 Hiestand Galleries, “Miami University National Young Sculptors Competition” for the William and

  Dorothy Yeck Award, Oxford OH – Guest juror/curator: Mary Ceruti, Executive Director, Sculpture

  Center – Long Island City NY

  2007   The Noyes Museum, “2007 New Jersey Arts Annual - Fine Art”, Oceanville NJ – Curator: Jeffrey

  Wechsler, Senior Curator, Zimmereli Art Museum – Rutgers University NJ

  2007 The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, “The Gun Show”, Long Branch NJ – Independent Curator:

  Donna Gustafson, formerly Curator of the Hunterdon Museum of Art

  2007 Visual Art Center, “International Juried Show”, Summit NJ - Curator: Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator,

  New Museum of Contemporary Art NY

  2006 The Newark Museum, “Out There: 2006 New Jersey Fine Arts Annual” in the Museum’s Alice

  Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, Newark NJ – Curators: Beth Venn – Newark Museum and

  Alyson Baker – Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City NY

  2006   Pierro Gallery, “Three Person Show“, South Orange, NJ – Curator: Judy Wukitch

  2005   Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, “On Locations” (Emerge 6) Exhibition, Newark NJ -Independent

  Curator/Writer: Lilly Wei

Awards

2008 Peters Valley Residency, Artist Full Fellowship & stipend, The Geraldine R. Dodge

Foundation & New Jersey State Council On The Arts - Layton, NJ

  2007 “Miami University National Young Sculptors Competition” for the $10,000.00 William

  and Dorothy Yeck Award – 1 of 10 finalists selected by Mary Ceruti: Executive Director

  of the Sculpture Center – Long Island City NY

2007 “Menzione d’Onore” – Honorable Mention Award “Italy for a Young Artist” issued by Paola

Toschi: The Vice Consul of Italy - Newark, NJ – Consolato d’Italia –New York and Marion

Grzesiak: Executive Director - The Jersey City Museum – Jersey City, NJ

2007 Individual Artist Grant, Change Inc. Captiva, FL.

2007 Individual Artist Grant, Artists’ Fellowship Inc. New York, NY

2006 Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Residency Program, Loveladies, NJ

2005 Jentel Foundation Artist Residency Program: Banner, WY

2005 Vermont Studio Center, Artist Full Fellowship & stipend, Brundage Foundation: Johnson, VT

2004 Emerge Six Artist Fellowship/Development Program, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art

1999 Grant, American Society of Media Photographers, Morristown, NJ