Curriculum vitae

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 The Inspiring Canopy: Trees of the South, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2024 Leafy Wonders, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
2021 Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 Urban Sprawl, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
2018 Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
2018 Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX
2017 Spontaneity Within Structure, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX
2017 Arbores Venerabiles, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 Arbores Venerabiles, Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID
2016 Witness Trees of Texas, Blue Print, Dallas, TX
2015 Witness Trees of Texas, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX
2011 Space and Place, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2011 Space and Place, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX
2010 Friesen Gallery, 43° 40' 47" N 114° 21' 57" W, Sun Valley, ID
2009 Coordinates, Solo Show, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX
2008 Paper, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2013 Jill Lear + Katie Maratta, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Paper, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2023 Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
2023 Pulp Reality, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2022 Winter Exhibition, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2021 Winter Exhibition, Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID
2021 Elements of Nature, Slate Gallery, Sonoma, CA
2020 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Gilman Contemporary Ketchum, ID
2019 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2018 Drawing From Preception VIII, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2018 NJC: Works on Paper 2018 Long Beach Island Foundation, NJ
2015 Summer National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2013 Leap, Bank of America Center, Houston, TX
2013 Drawing From Perception VII, Juried by Stanley Lewis, Wright State University < Dayton, OH
2012 International Contemporary Drawing 2012, Place Suisse des Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011 Signs on the Road, Winkleman Curatorial Research Lab, New York, NY
2010 Speak For The Trees, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Speak For The Trees, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2009 A Collaboration, Anne Reed Gallery/Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2009 Arbores Venerabiles, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2009 Open City, Juror: Sean Scully NYSS, New York, NY
2007 Painting Governor’s Island, NY Studio School Gallery, NY, NY 2004 Expressions, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2003 Paper, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Drawing from Perception IV, Juried by Graham Nickson
2002 Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2018 NJC: Works on Paper Long Beach Island Foundation, 1st Prize
2013 Wright State University, Dayton, OH, Juror Award, Drawing from Perception VII
2010 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Artist Residency
2006 The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Accepted into Viewing Program and Artist Registry
2002 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Partial Fellowship
2002 Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH, Merit Award. Purchase Award. Drawing From Perception IV

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Witness Trees of Texas, TBP Fall 2015
Rocky Mountain Artists, TBP 2015
Green Art: Trees, Roots, Leaves Dec 2013
Speak For The Trees, Marquand, December 2009
Zyzzyva, Volume XIX No.3, Winter 2003  

COLLECTIONS

One World Trade Center, New York, NY
The Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
The American Institute, Taipei, Taiwan.
Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio
Philip Isles Collection, New York

EDUCATION

New York Studio School, New York, New York
La Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, Paris, France
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas B.A.