SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Under the unminding sky Guy Hepner Editions, New York
2023 Le Feuvre et Roze, Paris
2022 Guy Hepner Editions, New York
2018 The wall, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown
2017 The wall, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
2017 Unmeasured (catalog), Castor Gallery, New York, New York
2016 Between here and now, Castor Gallery, New York, New York
2015 (Un)governed Spaces (catalog), Schmucker Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
2014 (Un)governed Spaces, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
2013 Highway (catalog), Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
2013 (Un)governed Spaces, Galerie Derouillon (formerly Republic Gallery), Paris, France
2010 Spring Solos, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, Virginia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Unseasonable Expectations, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, Pennsylvania
2018 Natural Proclivities, Shirley Fiterman Art Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY
2018 Strenuous, Castor Gallery, New York
2018 Liminal Worlds, curated by Katerina Lanfranco, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Segundo Gran Bienal Tropical, Piñones, Puerto Rico
2016 Finally, Castor Gallery, New York, New York
2016 Centennial Exhibition, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, New York
2016 Summer show of New York artists, Coburn Projects, London
2016 Plein air painting, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, New York
2016 Plan de Evasión, La Tunca Fundaçion, Project Room, ArteBA Art Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Rutas de escape / Nuevas Cartografias, El Mirador Espacio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 (Un)governed Spaces, Aligarh University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
2015 Seeing the Elephant, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
2014 Road Trip: The American Landscape through the Windshield, Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont
2014 Select, Washington Project for the Arts, Artisphere Gallery, Washington, DC
2013 Dialogue: Past, Present, Future, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, New Jersey
2013 Art With Atmosphere, Arizona Children’s Museum, Mesa, Arizona
2012 Washington Realism, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
2011 Wet Paint, Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, Ohio
2011 On the road, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, Virginia
2011 Drive by, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC
2010 The roads they traveled, Arthuna Temple Site, Arthuna, Rajasthan, India
2009 Seven Perspectives, Peter Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada
2009 Introductions, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2008 Bridge Art Fair, Kidder Smith Gallery, Miami, Florida
2008 On the street, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Arthouse, Lowell, Massachusetts
2007 Holyoke Center Exhibitions, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts
2007 Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, New York
2006 Particular Places, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
2005 Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, New York
2005 Red, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, & RESIDENCIES
2017 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Amherst, Virginia
2016 La Tunca Foundation Residency and Site Project, Argentina
2015 Ucross Foundation Residency, Ucross, Wyoming
2015 La Tunca Foundation Residency, El Salvador
2013, 2014 MUSE Fellowship, The College of New Jersey
2010 – 2011 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Award, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
2011 Hybrid Art Projects Residency, El Zonte, El Salvador
2010 Sanskriti Kendra Residency Fellowship, Delhi, India
2010 American Scandinavian Foundation Artist Grant
2010 Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, DC, Artist Grant
2010 Sandarbh International Residency, Partapur, Banswara (Rajasthan), India
2009 Neerja Modi International Art Camp Fellowship, Jaipur, India
2009 Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award
2004 Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts, Miramonte, California
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GUEST LECTURES
2018 Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
2015 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
2015 University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
2015 Scripps College, Claremont, California
2015 Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2014 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
2014 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2014 George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia,
2013 American University, Washington, DC
2013 George Washington University, Washington, DC
2012 University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
2012 The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey
2010 College of Art, Delhi University, New Delhi, India,
2010 Tajasvini Mahila College, Partapur, Rajasthan, India
2009 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts (critic)
2009 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
2007, 2012 Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
2006 Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
2004, 2005 Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012 – 2015 Assistant Professor of Art, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey
2006 – 2009 Adjunct Studio Art Professor, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
2005 Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, MFA in Painting
2002 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, BA in Art History with Honors