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Exists in Seattle, WA. California born 1985.

Education
2008                   BFA Magna Cum Laude, Fine Art Photography and Video, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Washington
2006-2007          3rd year abroad, Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2003                   H.S. Diploma, ArtQuest Theatre, Santa Rosa High School, Santa Rosa, CA

Professional Experience
2011  Curator - City Arts Festival 2011 FRED Wildlife Refuge, Seattle, WA
2011  Guest Curator - 'Must Show Here' former Howard House, Seattle, WA
          A month long exhibition/exploration featuring the work of Daniel Carrillo, Jim Demetre, Mandy Greer,
          Amanda Manitach, Ian Toms and The Secret Order of Ovis aries
2011  Curator - 'Show and Tell' A 48 hour mobile art gallery on the streets of New York. A collaboration with Victoria Yee Howe
2011  Guest Curator - 'Being There' Cornish Alumni Exhibition, Seattle, WA
          Featuring work by Jenny Heishman, Shaun Kardinal, Matthew Offenbacher, Joel Kvernmo, Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen
2011  Founder/Curator - Vignettes, Seattle, WA
2010  Curator - Joe Bar, January 2010 - December 2010
2009  Guest Curator - 'Rattle My Cage' Vermillion, Seattle, WA featuring work by Amelia Layton, Mckenzie Porrit and Joel Kvernmo
2009  Curator Assistant - to Jess Van Nostrand, Daley-Watson Residence, Seattle, WA
2008  Curator - 'Digitize Me' Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
2008  Internship - to Gretchen Bennett, Sampling and Storytelling, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
          Assisted in weekly course developed taught by Gretchen Bennett in conjunction with two exhibitions by Dario Robleto.
2007  Video Lab Technician - Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

Collaborations
2011  Trying to Land
          Collaboration with Adriana Grant
           Violet Strays Curated by Serrah Russell and Alyssa Volpigno
2010   Window #4: Tacoma
          Collaboration with Gretchen Bennett
          Woolworth Building, Tacoma, WA
2009   (T)here Mixed Media Installation
          Collaboration with Carlos Esparza
          Seattle City Hostel, Seattle, WA
2009  Jherek Bischoff & Richard Webb
          Under The Sour Trees CD Release Performance
          Film and Video
          Chop Suey, Seattle, WA
2006  Darling Politics
          Clothing Designs in collaboration with Tilla Kuenzli and Morgan Johnson
          Columbia City Theater, Seattle, WA
2005  Icon Ink
          Empire Empire Designs
          Clothing Designs in collaboration with Morgan Johnson
          Seattle, WA

Group Exhibitions
2010  BAD WORDS, Indubitably, Email and Ink
          Twilight Artist Collective, Seattle, WA
          Curator: Chris Crites
2009  Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered, Extractions, Drawings given to me.
          Alumni Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
          Curator: Ian Toms
2009  Constructs, Native Produce, Photo and found objects
          White House Gallery, Glasgow Curator: Ric Warren
2009  Modern World, to regress.. video monitor installation
          Gallowgate, Glasgow, Curator: Anna Goldthorp
2008  Fred Hutchinson Temporary Collection, Tumbling, Pen and Ink Drawings
          Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, Curator: Bonnie Biggs
2008  Open Floor, to regress… Video Projection
          Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, Curator: Carlos Esparza
2008  Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, Sex, money, burritos… Video and Photography Installation
          Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, Curator: Jess Van Nostrand
2007   Making Art Public, 3rd year Environmental Art/Sculpture Department Exhibition
          Occidental video projection, Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow
2007  Underworked and Overplayed, A Shift video animation
          Barnes Building, Glasgow

Press
2011   Willie Fitzgerald MSN Postbox - Light Switch, January
2011    Jen Graves Too Small to Fail: The Brilliance of City Arts Festival's One-Night-Only Art Shows, October
2011    Willie Fitzgerald - MSN Postbox - Home Show, October
2011    Artzone with Nancy Guppy Sara Edwards and Leah Baltus, October
2011    Cairo Little City, Big Giraffe, October
2011   Amanda Manitach Four Investigations of a space (Must Show Here) Artdish, September
2011   Erin Lindholm A Marriage of Food Truck Culture and a Gallery on Wheels Hyperallergic, September
2011   Adriana Grant Open House Seattle Met Magazine, September
2011  You Look Hungry Show and Tell for 48 Hours This Weekend  August
2011   NY Art Beat “Show and Tell” Mobile Gallery August
2011  City Arts Magazine- Putting the Art in Apartment  August
2011  Jen Graves- Sierra Stinson Moves Her Bed So You Can See Good Art Slog, News and Arts, May
2011   Joey Veltkamp- 'Alternative Spaces' Best Of: Joey Veltkamp, January
2011  Amanda Manitach- 'Vignettes Featuring Graham Downing' My Heroes Died of Syphilis, January
2009  Joey Veltkamp- 'Rattle My Cage / Vermillion Gallery' Best Of: Joey Veltkamp blog, December
2009  Regina Hackett- 'At the end of ’09- up and at ‘em,' Another Bouncing Ball- ArtsJournal, December
2009  Jen Graves-'It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times', The Stranger- Slog, August
2008  Charles Mudede-'H(e)aven', The Stranger, May

Awards/Grants
2011 Awesome Grant, Seattle, WA
2005-2008 Presidents Scholarship, Cornish College of the Arts
2005 Art Department Merit Award, Cornish College of the Arts