• Exhibition History

    RESIDENCIES
    Studios of Key West, Peyton Evans Artist Residency (PEAR) Program, resident artist, Key West,
    Florida, 2026
    Cycladic Arts, resident artist, Paros, Greece, 2023 and 2025
    Cornaro Institute of Cyprus, resident artist, Limassol, Cyprus, 2019
    Cornaro Institute of Cyprus, resident artist, Larnaca, Cyprus, 2013
    Djerassi Resident Artist Program, resident artist, awarded the John D and Susan P Diekman Fellowship, Woodside, CA, CA, 2012

    SOLO SHOWS
    Fragments of Belonging, Dalit Fresco and Jan Blythe, Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2026
    Reimagining Commonalities, NY2CA Gallery, Benicia, CA, 2026
    Domestic goddess, Cornaro Art Institute, Limassol, Cyprus, 2019
    Reach, Aurobora Gallery, Ketchum, ID, 2017
    Reach, A Starck Project, Berkeley, CA, 2016
    Thematic Cartography, Cornaro Art Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus, 2013

    SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
    Beyond Color: The Language of Black and White, Group show curated by Melissa Mohr, Executive Director & CEO at Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA and Demetri Broxton, Executive Director at Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 2025
    Reclaimed/Repurposed, Group show juried by Nancy Toomey, Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2024
    In Flux: Recalibrating the Unknown, Group show, Museum of Northern California Art (MONCA), Chico, CA, 2024
    Bay Area Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Group show, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2024
    A Question of Balance, Group show juried by Jeff Nathanson, Executive Director and Curator, Museum of Sonoma County and Kate Eilertson, Executive Director/Chief Curator, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, 2024
    She/They: Pacific Rim Sculptors, Group show, juried by Lauren Baines, Interim Director of the Saisset Museum, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, 2024
    Finding The Form, Bay Area Sculpture, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2023
    EcoSculpt, Pacific Rim Sculptors, juried by Ann Hazels, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, 2022
    Weave, Cut, Bundle and Layer: Artists with Material Instincts, curated by Lisa McCutcheon,
    Root Division, San Francisco, CA, 2021
    Truth or Beauty, Pacific Rim Sculptors, juried by Chandra Cerrito, San Rafael, CA, 2021
    Crocker Kingsley national juried competition, juried by Carrie Lederer, Blue Line Arts,
    Roseville, CA, 2021
    Fragments, juried by Jen Tough Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2020
    Bird, Nest, Nature, juried by Jeffrey De Bois, Assistant Curator, ICI Boston and Rebecca Lowery, Assistant Curator, MOCA, Los Angeles, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 2020
    Tunnels of the mind, curated by Orit Ben Shitrit, ZAZ10TS, Times Square, New York, NY, 2020
    Alchemy, juried by Jenny Gheith, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Arts Guild of Sonoma Gallery, Sonoma, CA, 2019
    Annual Juried Show, juried by Amy Owens, Curator at the di Rosa Center for contemporary Art, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2019
    Red, juried by Sara Reisman, Executive Director and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
    Contemporary photography 2008-2018, juried by Kristen Gaylord, Site-Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
    Altered, curated by OFFspace, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA, 2018
    National Juried Show, juried by Jane Panetta, Associate Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, New Jersey, NJ, 2017
    2014 Invitational, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2014
    Annual Juried Show, juried by Jenny Gheith, Assistant curator of painting and sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2014

    PUBLICATIONS and AWARDS
    Djerassi Resident Artist Program, John D and Susan P Diekman Fellowship, 2012
    Jurors’ Cash Award, Bedford Gallery Guild and Docent Council, 2011
    Retractions at Root Division, Artweek, review by David Buuck, March 2009
    Ways and Means, SFAI, SF Weekly.com, review by Traci Vogel, 2008
    Mixed messages, East Bay Express, review by DeWitt Cheng, 2008
    On, Of and About Paper catalog, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA, 2008
    WAM catalog, San Francisco, 2008
    Home catalog, Root Division, San Francisco, 2007
    Best of New Designers, Financial Times, London, 1992

    EDUCATION
    MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2008
    B.A (Honors) Degree Textile Design (Print), Loughborough College of Art and Design,
    England, 1992
    Certificate of Art and Design, Loughborough College of Art and Design, England, 1989

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