Born 1973 in Atlanta, GA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

MFA  Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

BFA Painting/ BA Art History   University of Georgia

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Leo Koenig Inc, New York, NY

Groeflin Maag Galerie, Zurich Switzerland

Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA        

Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland

Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY

Frieze Art Fair, London, UK (LFL Gallery)

Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY

Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009, National Academy Museum, NY

Poised, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA

Conceptual Figures, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

In Your Face, Buia Gallery, New York, NY

Size Matters, XS, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

The Drawing Narrative, Jenny Jaskey Gallery, Philadelphia PA

B.I.O. 2, Kinz, Tillou and Feigen, NYC

Admirer, 31 Grand, curated by Maureen Cavanaugh, New York, NY

Recent Acquisitions, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Size Matters, Hudson River Center for Contemporary Art, Hudson, NY

The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC

Neo Integrity, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

The Incomplete Incomplete, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY

Stiff, curated by Ann Toebbe, Gallery 4000, Chicago, IL

Sweets and Beauties, Fredericks and Freiser, New York, NY

Benjamin Butler, Holly Coulis, Ridley Howard, Galleria Glance, Torino, Italy

Hello Sunday, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY

Honeymoon with Romeo, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel Switzerland

Radical Vaudeville, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

Joan Mitchell Foundation Recipients, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY

2005 Of Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, New York, NY

Introspective Men, Madder Gallery, London, UK

Homegrown, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA

Under The Sun, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

Expect Art, Sean Kelly gallery, New York, NY

East International, selected by Neo Rauch and Harry Lybke, Norwich, UK

Garden State, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY

I See You 2, curated by Kiki Smith and Sam Messer, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, N

Cream, Howell Mill, Atlanta, GA

Snapshot, The Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD

Open, LFL Gallery, New York, NY

Go Figure, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA

Posing, The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

AWARDS

Joan Mitchell Foundation (Career Opportunity Grant)

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

Dana Pond Painting Award, SMFA

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