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EDUCATION 2008 M.F.A. The University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Georgia 2001 B.A. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
GRANTS 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2014 University of Tennessee—Knoxville, Faculty Professional Development Award 2013 1st Place Award, The Virginia A Groot Foundation 2011 Alabama State Council On The Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts UAB College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Grant 2009 UAB Arts and Humanities Faculty Development Grant 2008 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant recipient SECAC Individual Artist Fellowship 2006 Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts Graduate Research and Performance Grant Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award
AWARDS AND HONORS 2014 Artist in Residence, MIT, Cambridge, MA Kurka Award for Faculty Achievement, University of Tennessee—Knoxville Featured Artist, Auburn University Montgomery Liberal Arts Conference 2013 Artist in Residence, The Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA (June 2013) 2012 The Manifest Prize, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH People's Choice Award, Red Clay Survey, Huntsville, Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL Alabama Artist Award 3D, Red Clay Survey, Huntsville, Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 1st Place, Botanic/Organic, Union Stret Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL 2010 Selected for Dave Bown Projects, 1st Semiannual Competition 2nd Place, The Three Minute Picture Show, San Francisco, CA 2009 Awarded seventh place in ArtPrize competition, Grand Rapids, MI Juror's Choice Award, Kentucky National 2009 Excellence in Graduate Research Award, The University of Georgia 2008 International Sculpture Center Student Achievement Award Honorable Mention The Dean's Award, The University of Georgia 2007 Winner, Best Animated Short Film, Bald Shorts Film Festival 2004 Art Concierge Award, North American Sculpture Exhibition, Golden, Colorado
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 TBD, Auburn University, Auburn, AL (scheduled December) Contemporary Focus, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN 2015 Locus, Mason-Sharfenstein Museum of Art, Demorest, GA Revenant, The Front, New Orleans, LA Revenant, Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH 2014 Array, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN Between Centers, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL Marked By Nature, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL 2013 Nothing Is Past, Greiner Gallery, Hanover College, Hanover, IN 2012 Manifest One.3, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH Artist As Engineer, Alexander Brest Museum and Galleries, Jacksonville, FL Konza, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS Terra Incognita, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, Birmingham, AL Marked By Nature, Troy University, Troy, AL 2011 Ialu, Elon University, Elon, NC 2010 Immaterial, Beta Pictoris, Birmingham, AL Memoria, Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN Elysium, Vulcan Materials Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL 2009 The 2008 SECAC Artist's Fellowship Recipient Exhibition, Space 301, Mobile, AL Remember, Cultural Arts Gallery, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Wilmington, NC Re:Collections, Snow Gallery, Nashville, TN 2007 Volume I, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA 2006 Remember, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA 2003 Kinetic Diagrams, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
GROUP AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS 2017 State of the Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (scheduled June) 2016 Enscribe, The Front, New Orleans, LA State of the Art, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA Clouds and Waves, Blue Spiral1, Asheville, NC 2015 Embracing Space & Color, The Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL Artist Inventor, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2014 State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR The Gift, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Ex-Y, Cydonia Gallery, Dallas, TX Think Make Think, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN Transformation, Brooklyn Sculptors Guild Members Show, Governors Island, New York, NY Alabama Now, Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery, Montgomery, AL 2013 5000 Moving Parts, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA Juried Exhibition, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama: 2013 Biennial, Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Center, Troy, AL 2012 Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 49th Annual Juried Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA 27th Annual Tallahassee International, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Pulp II, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL Botanic/Organic, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011 Alabama's Finest, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL 15th Annual No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On, The Old Chapel Hill Museum, Chapel Hill, NC Farewells and Introductions, The Front, New Orleans, LA A Glimpse Inward, La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2010 SECAC/MACAA Members Exhibition, Gallery 1708, Richmond, VA UAB Faculty Exhibition, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, Birmingham, AL 2009 ArtPrize, The Old Federal Building, Grand Rapids, MI Inspired By Motion, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA Joan Mitchell Foundation 2008 MFA Grant Recipients, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY Kentucky National 2009, The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray KY 2008 Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA Mad Zoo People, Clayton Street Gallery, Athens, GA La Mostra: Cortona Reunion Exhibition, Lamar Dodd School of Art Courtyard Gallery, Athens, GA 2007 Convergence, Lamar Dodd School of Art Courtyard Gallery, Athens, GA Random Narrative Experiments, William J. Thompson Gallery, Athens, GA La Mostra, Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca, Cortona, Italy Me Bike, Westergasterrein, Amsterdam, Netherlands Opening The Music Box, Cine, Athens, GA Sculpture Eyedrum, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2006 SECAC/MACAA Members Exhibition, The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN Vanderbilt Alumni Show, E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center, Nashville, TN Music Box, Floorspace, Athens, GA 31st Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA 2005 The Down East Sculpture Exhibition, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC And Yet And Yet, William J. Thompson Gallery, Athens, GA Hamblet Reunion Show, Sarratt Gallery, Nashville, TN 2004 North American Sculpture Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO The 31st Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA 6th Renaissance Regional Art Exhibition, Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN 52nd Midstates Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
SCREENINGS AT FILM FESTIVALS 2011 Rewind: The Best of D.C. Shorts, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC 2010 The Three Minute Picture Show, The Clinton Street Theater, San Francisco, CA 2007 CamboFest: Siem Reap Edition, Siem Reap (Angkor Wat City), Cambodia D.C. Shorts Film Festival, Landmark E Street Cinema, Washington, DC CamboFest, Venue-X, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 3rd Annual Bald Shorts Film Festival, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 2006 3rd Annual Secret City Film Festival, Oakridge Community Playhouse, Oakridge, TN
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