Curriculum Vitae

Education
2017        MFA (pending), School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (Expected May 2017)

2013        BFA-AE with Departmental Honors, Massachusetts College of Art, Studio Education/ Painting, Boston, MA

Awards/Grants/Residencies
2017         St. Botolph Emerging Artist Grant, Boston, MA

                Museum Council Sculpture Prize, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA

                Graduate Student Research Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA

                Dedalus Fellowship Nominee, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA

2016       Vermont Studio Center Residency, Merit based grant, Johnson, VT

2015        Deans Scholarship, Boston Top Honors, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2013        Departmental Honors, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

                Inez K. Woodberry Award, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2012        2D Department Award of Excellence, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Group Exhibitions
2017          American Nightmare (solo show), AS220 Resident Gallery, Providence, RI

                Boston Young Contemporaries, Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, Boston, MA

                 The Cyclorama Show, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, SMFA at Tufts

2016         Junk Yard Kids,  JYK Gallery, Boston, MA

                Push, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA

                Free Cookies and Pizza, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Mission Hill Gallery,  Boston, MA

                Self-Portraiture: Changing Identities through New Media, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,      
               Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
   
                Waterhouse Project Pop-Up Show, Vermont Studio Center, Firehouse Studios, Johnson, VT

                Peripersonal, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA

                She Comes in Rags 2016 Painting Biennial, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

                First Year MFA Show, Well Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA  

2015        New Student Salon Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2014        Iron Wolf Press: Fresh Meat, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA

2013        Graduating Senior Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Boston, MA

                Art Education Senior Show, Arnheim Gallery, Boston, MA

                Multitudo, Oeiras Municipal Garden, Oeiras, Portugal

2012        Sophomore Selects, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

                Kind Buds, Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art , Boston, MA

2011         Stranded, Strand Theater, Dorchester, MA

                Sand Reckoner Sensory Exhibition, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

                First Thursdays, Fixotronics, Jamaica Plain, MA

                Whimsy, Margaret and H.A. Rey Center, Waterville Valley, NH

                All School Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2010       All School Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
 

Teaching Experience
2016         Teacher’s Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (Drawing, Spring 2016)

2014-15    Extended Term Substitute, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA
                (Grades 9-12, Foundations of Art, Studio 1, and Art of Fashion 1)

2013-14    Weekly Substitute Teacher/ Teacher’s Assistant, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA
                (Grades 9-12, AP Studio Art, Studio 1, Studio 2, Art of Fashion 2, Art of Fashion 3)

2012        Student Teacher, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA
                (Grades 9-12, AP Studio Art, Studio 1, Studio 2, Spring 2012)

                Saturday Studios Teacher, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (Grades 9-12, Painting, Fall 2012)

2011         Family Day Teacher, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
                (Grades K-12, October 2011)

                Teacher’s Assistant, Saturday Studios, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
                (Grades 9-12, Painting, Fall 2011)

                Art Lab Volunteer, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (All Ages, February-March 2011)

Artist Lectures
2017    New England Graduate Media Symposium, Unsettling: Reexaminations of Home, Emerson College, Boston, MA

            SMFA Graduate Interview Day, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2016    Artist Talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (July 2016)



Curatorial Projects
2016          Junk Yard Kids, JYK Gallery, Boston, MA

2012         Kind Buds, Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

                 M(other), Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2011          Stranded, Strand Theatre, Dorchester, MA

 

Bibliography
2017         Rob Phelps, “Art in the Round”, Tufts Now, May 16 2017, http://now.tufts.edu/articles/art-round-0

                 MFA Thesis Exhibition: The Cyclorama Show”, e-flux,
                 http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/masters-thesis-exhibition-the-cyclorama-show/

2016         Stace Brandt, “Junk Yard Kids- Consecrating American Anti-Culture”, The Arts Fuse: Boston’s Online Arts
                 Magazine, December, 12, 2016
                 http://artsfuse.org/152990/visual-arts-review-junk-yard-kids-consecrating- american-anti-culture/
        
                 Thomas, “Junk Yard Kids”, Lodown Magazine, November 11, 2016,
                 http://lodownmagazine.com/pulse/junk-yard-kids

2011         Priyanka Tanavde, “Sand Reckoner Sensory Exhibition”, April 19, 2011,
                https://issuu.com/tastemakersmag/docs/issue24