EDUCATION

1966-1967 Bradley University, Peoria, IL
1967-1968 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
1968-1971 University of Illinois, Champaign, IL - B. F. A. in painting 1971
1971-1973 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD - M.F.A. in Painting 1973

PAINTING AWARDS

2021 Show of Heads, Best in Show ($500) Award, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY 2021 WHATEVS, ($250) Director’s Choice Award, Art Fluent Online Exhibit, Boston, MA. 2021 Artist of the Month, Poetica Magazine, Norfolk, VA. 2020 - 2021 Finalist in the 2nd and 4th Editions of the Boynes Emerging Artist Award, Melbourne, AU
2020 1st Place Artist Portfolio Magazine, Issue 43
2017 Dave Bown Projects, Award of Excellence ($1000)
2017 1st Place in Painting ($500) and the Clara Ely Award ($150) 45th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX
2016 1st Place ($800) Award 29th September Competition Exhibition, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA
2016 Stories To Art, 1st Place ($5000)
2015 Featured Artist Art Reveal Magazine, Vol. 12
2015 Featured Artist, No Barking Art Magazine, Vol. 3
2014 Featured Artist, The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today, Vol. 5
2014 Finalist in Painting, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice Italy
2014 50arts Series, Huffington Post
2013 Featured Artist, Direct Art Magazine, Vol. 20
2012 Artslant Showcase Juried Award Winner
2011 Artist if the Week, Saatchi Online
1973 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship ($5000)
1973 Painting Biennial, VCU, Richmond VA, 1st Prize ($800)
1972 Henry Walters European Travel Scholarship ($1500), Given by the Henry Walters Museum, Baltimore, MD
1971 Kate Kinley Memorial Fellowship ($2500) (Given by University of Illinois Trustees)
1971 Wabash Valley Regional, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN, 1st Prize, Purchase Award

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

- Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute IN
- Combank Corp., Chicago, IL
- Towers, Perrin, Forster, and Crosby, Philadelphia, PA
- First Union Bank Corp., Wilmington, DE
- Beneficial Savings Corp., Wilmington, DE
- General Instrument Corp., Horsham, PA
- Monell Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
- Howard Tullman Collection, Chicago, IL
- Estate of Grace Hartigan

ONE PERSON SHOWS

2020 Artist Spotlight Solo Art Exhibition Winner (Virtual), Fusion Art, Palm Springs, CA 2017 James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
2013 Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2013 Giles Gallery, Easter Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
2011 2 Brothers - 2 Profiles, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Kelly and Weber 201 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1993 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
1979 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1977 Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia PA
1975 Center Square, Philadelphia, PA
1973 Turner Auditorium, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
1972 Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN

GROUP SHOWS

2021 Finalist (EXPOSURE) See/Me, Scope Miami Beach, FL 2021 Virtual Gallery, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2021 Dreams and Their Edges, I Like Your Work Online Exhibit 2021 Emerging Scene, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 2021 Salon at Triton, 3rd Place in Painting, Triton Museum of Art Santa Clara, CA 2021 WHATEVS, Art Fluent, Online Exhibit, Director’s Choice Award, Boston, MA 2021 (Exposure) New Realism/ Altered Reality, See/Me Booth, Scope Miami, Miami, FL 2021 Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY 2021 FEMME, Art Fluent, Online Exhibit, Boston, MA. 2021 Portraiture, Manifold Global, Online Exhibit, Philadelphia Region 2021 Stories of Love, Spotlight Art Collective, Online Exhibit, India 2021 STAND, Art Fluent, Online Exhibit, Boston, MA 2021 The New Vanguard:Explorations into the New Contemporary ll, Keep Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2020 Creative Distancing, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX 2020 Divulge, D’Art Center, 1st Place Award, Norfolk, VA 2020 Nature of Color, Art Brut 27, 3rd Place Award 2020 The New Vanguard:Explorations into the New Contemporary, Keep Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Faces, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Tiny Biennale, Tyler Gallery, Rome, Italy
2017 30th Annual September Competition Exhibition, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA
2017 45th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX
2016 29th Annual September Competition Exhibition, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA
2016 Forces, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Potato Eaters, No Barking aRT, Especial Gallery, London, UK
2016 Tiny Biennale, Tyler Gallery, Rome, Italy
2015 Black Cube Collective Annual Show, Gayfield Creative Spaces, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 Art of the State, State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2014 Art Undressed Event, McCormack Place, Miami, FL
2014 Irreversible, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami,FL
2014 Square Foot Art Basel Redux, Projects Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Projects Gallery at Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
2014 Experiencing War, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh,NY
2014 Arte Laguna Prize Exhibit, Venice Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2014 Part II no Barking aRt Bienalle
2014 "Material World", Espacio Gallery, London, UK
2014 Part I no Barking aRt Bienalle
2014 "Material World", Space 25 Truman Brewery, London, UK
2014 Kinsey Institute, Juried Art Show, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2014 Mid-Atlantic New Paintings, UMWG Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA
2013 Rag Dolls, Robots, and Rocketships, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2013 Summer Juried Show II, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA
2012 No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012 Death is the Destination, Welch School Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2012 Living With Others, Giles Gallery Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
2012 Au Naturel, Clatsop Community College Art Center Gallery, Astoria, OR
2011 Hello World, Milavec Hakimi Gallery, NYC
2011 Summer Juried Show, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA
2011 Artist of the Week, Saatchi Online
2011 Northern Liberties: A Transformation, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 To-day is Another Day-MAKE ART Art in the Great Recession, Pterodactyl Philadelphia Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Philadelphia Story, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Obamarama, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Operation Raw, The Icebox, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Art in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
2000 National Invitational art Exhibition, Brenau College, Gainesville, GA
1999 The Art & Science of Surviving Cancer (Traveling Exhibit), Amgen Inc.
1997 Manna Benefit Art Auction, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Confronting Cancer through Art, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Group Show, Moore on Second Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Meet the Neighbors, Paley Design Center, Philadelphia College of Textiles, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Shades of the Spirit, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Group Show, Axis Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
1994 National Invitational Art Exhibition, Brenau College, Gainesville, GA
1994 15x15 Alumni Exhibit, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD
1992 National Invitational Art Exhibition, Brenau College, Gainesville, GA
1992 Dominion: The World of Man and Beast, F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Differing Views-Four Artists, Spokane Art School Center for the Visual Arts, Spokane, WA
1990 Third Annual Exhibition of Pennsylvania Artists, Josiah White Exhibition Center, Jim Thorpe, PA
1988 Consciousness and Reality, More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Untitled One Nine Eight One, Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1979 Opens Friday, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1978 Arthur A. Baer Memorial Art Competition, Beverley Art Center, Chicago IL
1978 About Face- Contemporary American Portraits, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1977 Grace Hartigan and Friends, Gallery at the Mechanic, Baltimore, MD
1975 641 Gallery, Washington, DC
1973 National Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Muncie, IN
1973 National Drawing Exhibition, Potsdam, NY
1973 National Annual Print and Print Drawing Show, Grand Forks, ND
1973 Painting Biennial, Richmond, VA (1st Prize)
1972 National Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Grand Forks, ND
1972 Recent Baltimore Paintings, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
1972 Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, NY
1972 Baltimore Arts Festival, Baltimore, MD
1971 Wabash Valley Regional, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN

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