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 Magazine11th Anniversary Issue, May 2019

Edge of Humanity Magazine, Haunted Spaces: Kristina Hruska, April, 2019

Fraction MagazineBook Feature: Small Talk Collective, June 2018

We’re Always Touching by Underground Wires. Self published in Portland, OR, 2018

Ain't Bad MagazineWhat We've Read (Small Talk Collective), May 2017

Fraction MagazineFeature: Small Talk Collective, September 2017

Ain't Bad MagazineAudio 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