EDUCATION
1996 MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1993 BFA, Painting, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
TEACHING and EXPERIENCE
Present Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Installation Technician, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
1998 Painting department, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
AWARDS and HONORS:
2008 PULSE MIAMI, Miami, Florida (Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo)
2007 Visiting Artist for “Food for Thought”, Summer MFA, University of the Arts
2006 90.1 WRTI, “ Creatively Speaking” featuring “Picture journal Project”
The Alumni Travel Grant, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists,
Philadelphia
2004 The Choice of Award, City Paper, Philadelphia
Fleisher Challenge Exhibitions, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Melbourne Art Fair, Australia, (Mizuma Art gallery, Tokyo)
1999/2000 Art Futures Program Artist Residency, Education
Department, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998 Panelist for Artist Discussion, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Featuring RIKRIT TIRAVANIJA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 "Idle Daydreams", Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia
2007 "Traveller's Tale", Seraphin Gallery, Philadephia, PA
2006 "away", The Center for the Emerging Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2004 "ESORAGOTO", Challenge Exhibitions 2, Samual S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
2000 "I paint", Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA
1997 "Cities on the Move", T. Ozama's Project, Nasubi Gallery, Wiener Secession, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 "Landscape show", Hubner & Hubner Gallery, Frankfult, Germany
2008 "Fantastical Imagining", Delaware Center for the Conteporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
"Global Suburbia", Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
"Sense of Place", Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
"Emerging to Established", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Useless Weapon", Green Lantern, Chicago, IL
2007 "Naked Paper", Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Drawnwork", Littman Gallery, Portland, OR
"Christopher Harthsorne & Hiro Sakaguchi", Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2006 "SubTarrane", The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Sean Stoops, curator
“diorama!”, Pudlock Gallery, Alina Josan, curator, Philadelphia
“Works on Paper 2006”, Archadia University Gallery, Cornelia Butler, (Curator of Drawing at MOMA, NY), juror, Philadelphia, PA
2005 “Drawing for it 2”, Spector, Philadelphia, PA
“Since1994”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“INHABIT”, Sean Stoops, curator, Apartment show, Philadelphia, PA
2004 “Answer with Yes and No”, T. Ozawa Exhibit, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Kotatsu-ha 2 ”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Makoto Aida, curator.
2003 “Creative Artists Network at The West Collection at SEI”, Oaks, PA, Lee Stoetzel, Curator.
2002 “15 Exposure”, US Artists, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Annual Juried Exhibition”, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, Judd Tully, Juror.
1999 “Cities on the Move”, Nasubi Gallery, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinski, Finland.
1997 “ Kotatsu-ism ”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Makoto Aida, Curator
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2009 My Dog Speaks, Seraphin Gallery
2008 Useless Weapon
2006 Picture Journal Project
COLLECTIONS
Night Kitchen Interactive, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA