b. Norfolk, Nebraska
PROFESSIONAL
2020-Present
Co-Owner/Co-Curator, Strange Paradise Gallery, located inside Oregon Center for Contemporary Art
2017-2019
Gallery Director, Pushdot Gallery
2010-2015
Education and Membership Director, Newspace Center for Photography
2011-2013
Editor, Diffusion: Unconventional Photography Magazine
2004-2007
Photo Workshops Director, Rocky Mountain School of Photography
COLLABORATIONS
2015-Present
Founder, Small Talk Collective, Portland OR
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 - Atlas, Carnation Gallery. Portland, OR (group)
2021 - Works in Progress, Strange Paradise Gallery. Portland, OR
2020 - Strange Paradise, Strange Paradise Gallery. Portland, OR
2019 – RUMORS, Small Talk Collective, Wolff Gallery, Portland, OR
2018-Heartbreak City, Small Talk Collective, Redux, Portland, OR
2018-Conversations: A Small Talk Social, DISJECTA, Portland, OR
2018-We're Always Touching By Underground Wires, Small Talk Collective, Pushdot Studio, Portland, OR
2017-PDX 30, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
2014-Then.Now.Here, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
2014-Fact and Fantasy Exhibition, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington VA
2014-Magic Exhibition, A Smith Gallery, Johnston City, TX
2014-Dreams:Illusions and Fantasy Exhibition, Black Box Gallery, OR
2013-Then.Now.Here, Oregon Historical Society, Portland OR
2013-The Make Believe Exhibition, Darkroom Gallery, Essex, VT
2013-Spooky Exhibition, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
2013-Camera Work: Contemporary Portraiture Exhibition, Blackbox Gallery, Portland, OR
2012-Spooky Exhibition, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
2012-Masks and Costumes, Lenscratch
2012-Group Exhibition, Portland Metro Arts, Portland, OR
2011-Spooky Exhibition, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
SELECTED CURATION
2021 - LIGHT CONVERSATION: Vol. 2, A Pop-Up Projection Series, Founders + Curators, Oregon Contemporary
2021 - Reverberations, Marilyn Montufar, Curators, Strange Paradise
2021 - Reverberations, Kelda Van Patten, Curators, Strange Paradise
2019 - LIGHT CONVERSATION: Vol. 1, A Pop-Up Projection Series, Founders + Curators, Disjecta
2018-Humanae. Work in Progress, Angelica Dass: Brought to the West Coast of the United States for the first time.
2018-30 from 10: Fraction Magazine’s 10 Year Retrospective
2018-We're Always Touching By Underground Wires, Small Talk Collective
2018-Diplomats of the Crow Nation: 1873 Crow Delegation, Wendy Red Star
PRESS/PRINT/WEB
Off the Cost. Small Talk Interview, 2021
Strange Paradise. Self published, 2020
Separate Checks. Small Talk Interview, September 2019
Fraction Magazine, 11th Anniversary Issue, May 2019
Edge of Humanity Magazine, Haunted Spaces: Kristina Hruska, April, 2019
Fraction Magazine, Book Feature: Small Talk Collective, June 2018
We’re Always Touching by Underground Wires. Self published in Portland, OR, 2018
Ain't Bad Magazine, What We've Read (Small Talk Collective), May 2017
Fraction Magazine, Feature: Small Talk Collective, September 2017
Ain't Bad Magazine, Audio Interview: Small Talk Collective, August 2017
JUROR
Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon
Ain’t Bad Magazine, Issue 13 Publication
SELECTED EXPERIENCE + AWARDS
2020 - Arts Equity Grant Recipient, Regional Arts and Culture Council
2018 - Co-Curators, AINT-BAD Print Issue No.13
2018 - Project Grant Recipient, Regional Arts and Culture Council (with Small Talk Collective)
2017 - Lecture: Small Talk Collective: A Collective Perspective, Photography Council’s Brown Bag Lunch Series, Portland Art Museum