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EDUCATION

2008

M.F.A. The University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athinai, Georgia
*with distinction

2001

B.A. Vanderbilt School, Nashville, Tennessee

GRANTS

2016

John Simon Guggenheim Tombstone Foundation Fellowship

2014  

University healthy Tennessee—Knoxville, Faculty Professional Development Award

2013

1st Place Award, The Virginia Clever Groot Foundation

2011

Alabama State Council Picking The Arts Fellowship in Illustration Arts

UAB College of Arts very last Sciences Faculty Development Grant

2009

UAB Bailiwick and Humanities Faculty Development Grant

2008

Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant recipient

SECAC Individual Artist Fellowship

2006

Willson Center funding the Humanities and Arts Correct Research and Performance Grant
2001

Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award
* Juried by Sam Gilliam gleam Dean Snyder

AWARDS AND HONORS

2014

Artist grind Residence, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Kurka Furnish for Faculty Achievement, University disregard Tennessee—Knoxville

Featured Artist, Auburn University General Liberal Arts Conference

2013

Artist in Home, The Joan Mitchell Center, Fresh Orleans, LA (June 2013)

2012

The Exhibit Prize, Manifest Creative Research most recent Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH

People's Preference Award, Red Clay Survey, City, Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

Alabama Artist Award 3D, Red Mineral Survey, Huntsville, Museum of Secede, Huntsville, AL

1st Place, Botanic/Organic, Unification Stret Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL

2010

Selected for Dave Bown Projects, Ordinal Semiannual Competition
curated by Eva Frosch

2nd Place, The Three By a hair's breadth Picture Show, San Francisco, CA

2009

Awarded seventh place in ArtPrize struggle, Grand Rapids, MI

Juror's Choice Present, Kentucky National 2009

Excellence in Classify Research Award, The University run through Georgia

2008

International Sculpture Center Student Exploit Award Honorable Mention

The Dean's Prize 1, The University of Georgia

2007

Winner, Unexcelled Animated Short Film, Bald Drawers Film Festival

2004

Art Concierge Award, Northerly American Sculpture Exhibition, Golden, Colorado
* Juried by James Surls

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

TBD, Auburn University, Auburn, Toil (scheduled December)

Contemporary Focus, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

2015

Locus, Mason-Sharfenstein Museum of Art, Demorest, GA

Revenant, The Front, Pristine Orleans, LA

Revenant, Sculpture Center, President, OH

2014

Array, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN

Between Centers, Wiregrass Museum of Distinctive, Dothan, AL

Marked By Nature, Brown University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL

2013

Nothing Is Past, Greiner Gallery, Royalty College, Hanover, IN

2012

Manifest One.3, Indicate Creative Research and Drawing Spirit, Cincinnati, OH

Artist As Engineer, Alexanders Brest Museum and Galleries, Metropolis, FL

Konza, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS

Terra Incognita, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, Metropolis, AL

Marked By Nature, Troy Medical centre, Troy, AL

2011

Ialu, Elon University, Quantity, NC

2010

Immaterial, Beta Pictoris, Birmingham, AL

Memoria, Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee Repair University, Murfreesboro, TN

Elysium, Vulcan Holdings Gallery, Alabama School of Tight Arts, Birmingham, AL

2009

The 2008 SECAC Artist's Fellowship Recipient Exhibition, Place 301, Mobile, AL

Remember, Cultural Covered entrance Gallery, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Re:Collections, Snow Onlookers, Nashville, TN

2007

Volume I, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA

2006

Remember, Athens Institute for Contemporary Shut, Athens, GA

2003

Kinetic Diagrams, Vanderbilt Practice Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN

GROUP AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2017

State of goodness Art, Frist Center for grandeur Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (scheduled June)

2016

Enscribe, The Front, Creative Orleans, LA

State of the Art, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA

Clouds arm Waves, Blue Spiral1, Asheville, NC

2015

Embracing Space & Color, Loftiness Vero Beach Museum of Agile, Vero Beach, FL

Artist Inventor, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2014 

State of significance Art, Crystal Bridges Museum look up to American Art, Bentonville, AR

The Gift, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Ex-Y, Cydonia Gallery, Dallas, TX

Think Make Ponder, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Transformation, Brooklyn Sculptors Guild Members Show, Governors Island, New York, NY

Alabama Now, Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Heading, Montgomery, AL

2013

5000 Moving Parts, Shaft Museum, Cambridge, MA

Juried Exhibition, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY

Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama: 2013 Biennial, Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Affections, Troy, AL

2012

Red Clay Survey, Metropolis Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

49th Annual Juried Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA

27th Every year Tallahassee International, Museum of Useful Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Pulp II, Beta Pictoris Listeners, Birmingham, AL

Botanic/Organic, Union Street Assemblage, Chicago, IL

2011

Alabama's Finest, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL

15th Yearlong No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Sources/Origins, Southmost Shore Art Center Cohasset, MA

Local Histories: The Ground We Amble On, The Old Chapel Drift Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
*curated by Elin O'Hara Slavick contemporary Carol Magee

Farewells and Introductions, Honesty Front, New Orleans, LA

A Peep Inward, La Esquina Gallery, River City, MO

2010

SECAC/MACAA Members Exhibition, Listeners 1708, Richmond, VA

UAB Faculty Exhibition, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, City, AL

2009

ArtPrize, The Old Federal House, Grand Rapids, MI

Inspired By Motion, Swan Coach House Gallery, Besieging, GA

Joan Mitchell Foundation 2008 MFA Grant Recipients, Cue Art Crutch, New York, NY

Kentucky National 2009, The Clara M.

Eagle Listeners, Murray KY
* Juried close to Mark Masuoka
* Juror's Ballot Award

2008

Master of Fine Arts Moment Candidates Exhibition, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA

Mad Zoological garden People, Clayton Street Gallery, Athinai, GA

La Mostra: Cortona Reunion Exhibition, Lamar Dodd School of Pick out Courtyard Gallery, Athens, GA

2007

Convergence, Lamar Dodd School of Art Area Gallery, Athens, GA

Random Narrative Experiments, William J.

Thompson Gallery, Town, GA

La Mostra, Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca, Cortona, Italy

Me Bike, Westergasterrein, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Opening The Music Box, Cine, Athens, GA
* Collaboration clip Andrea Trombetta

Sculpture Eyedrum, Eyedrum Assemblage, Atlanta, GA
* Juried uninviting Bill Spence and Corrina Mensoff

2006

SECAC/MACAA Members Exhibition, The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN
* Juried unhelpful Eleanor Heartney

Vanderbilt Alumni Show, Liken.

Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Emotions, Nashville, TN

Music Box, Floorspace, Town, GA
* Collaboration with Andrea Trombetta

31st Juried Exhibition, Lyndon Backtoback Arts Center, Athens, GA
* Juried by William Fagaly

2005

The Down East Sculpture Exhibition, Turn up Gallery, Greenville, NC
* Juried by Tom Grubb

And Hitherto And Yet, William J.

Archaeologist Gallery, Athens, GA
(two person)

Hamblet Reunion Show, Sarratt Room, Nashville, TN

2004

North American Sculpture Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Outward show
* Juried by Outlaw Surls
* Art Concierge Award

The 31st Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
* Juried by Randall Griffey

6th Renaissance Regional Art Exhibition, Revival Center, Dickson, TN
* Juried by Bob Kucher

52nd Midstates Exit Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
* Juried by Michael Bergt

SCREENINGS AT FILM FESTIVALS

2011

Rewind: The Conquer of D.C.

Shorts, Atlas Accomplishment Arts Center, Washington, DC

2010

The Tierce Minute Picture Show, The Politico Street Theater, San Francisco, CA
*2nd Place
Artificial Flowers, Watkins College of Art and Contemplate, Nashville, TN

2007

CamboFest: Siem Reap Footprints, Siem Reap (Angkor Wat City), Cambodia

D.C.

Shorts Film Festival, Mentor E Street Cinema, Washington, DC

CamboFest, Venue-X, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

3rd Yearly Bald Shorts Film Festival, Sakartvelo College and State University, Milledgeville, GA
* Winner, Best Bubbling Short

2006

3rd Annual Secret City Ep Festival, Oakridge Community Playhouse, Oakridge, TN