Education

University of Illinois-Chicago, MFA, Studio Art, 2004
University of Chicago, BA, English Language and Literature, 1998

Selected Exhibitions

2008
Kara Braciale, Weston Public Library, Weston, MA

2005
why break the spell?, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL

2004
Den Nya Framtidsvetenskapen (The New Science Fiction), Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
Summershow, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Scholarship Exhibit, Civic & Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
Statestyle, Great Space, Chicago, IL
UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL

2003
Formfit, Great Space, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Gallery 400, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Love and Lust, New Works Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paintingshow, Austrian Art Studio, Chicago, IL

2002
Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Scholarship Exhibit, Civic & Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL

2001
Royal Oak, GBU Gallery, Chicago, IL, with Annika Seitz
Blisster, Joymore Gallery, Chicago, IL, juried exhibition
NEST Project, Dept. of Space and Land Reclamation, Chicago, IL, public installation

Curatorial Projects

Co - Director of Proof Gallery, South Boston, MA

Awards

2004 Artadia Chicago Award Finalist - Judges: Tom Eccles, Ann Ellegood, Paul Ha, Paola Morsiani, Lorelei Stewart

2004 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Visual Arts Scholarship Recipient, Chicago, IL – Judge: Hamza Walker, Curator, Renaissance Society, Chicago

2002 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Visual Arts Scholarship Recipient, Chicago, IL – Ist place grant recipient- Judge: Dominic Molon, Curator, MCA Chicago

Teaching Experience

2007-2008 Instructor, Digital Arts I and Intro to Art, Community College of Rhode Island

2007 Critic, Architecture Career Discovery, Harvard Graduate School of Design

2003 - 2004 Teaching Assistant, Drawing I University of Illinois-Chicago. Instructor of Record.

2002 – 2004 Guest Critic, Sculpture I, Drawing II, Painting I, University of Illinois-Chicago, final critiques, multiple semesters

2002 Director of Arts and Crafts, Fred’s Camp, Chicago, IL, Summer

2001 – 2002 Language Arts Tutor, Educational Specialties, Chicago, IL

Collections

James and Judy Gillespie, Chicago, IL
Susan Sensemann, Chicago, IL
Melissa Schubeck/Joymore Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Bibliography

“You don’t have to buy it you just have to acknowledge it (the Dribbler)” drawing featured in Green House Magazine, Greenpoint Brooklyn Issue 4, 2007

Panel-house.com, “Den Nya Framtidsvetenkapen” @ The Lisa Boyle Gallery, Mary Gustaitis Beyer, 2004

Clamor Magazine, DSLR Reclaiming the Manipulative City, July/August 2001

Streetwise, Reclaiming Public Space in Chicago, Kari Lydersen May 2001, Vol. 9, No. 28