EDUCATION
2020 Room with a View Landscape Painting Marathon with Fran O'Neill, New York Studio School, NYC, NY
2020 Vincent Desiderio's Master Class, New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY
2020 Will Cotton's Master Class, New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY
2019 BFA, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West-Hartford, CT
2019 5 Points Arts Seminar with Power Boothe, Torrington, CT
2001 BLA, Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Haifa, Israel
AWARDS
2024 Fine Crafts Teddy Goberts Award for Excellence in Ceramics, Mystic Outdoor Art Festival, Mystic, CT
2022 Finalists Award, Landscape Painting, globalpaintingconclave.com
2022 Artists in Action Residency, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
2022 Honorable Mention, Artful Ice Shanties Design-Build Outdoor Exhibit, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattelboro, VT
2021 Juror's Choice Award, Emerging Artists Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2021 Merit Prize, Art Show Internatinal's Still Life Competition, artshowinternational.com
2021 Artist in Residence, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
2020 Summer 2020 Scholarship Award, New York Studio School, NYC, NY
2020 Full Tuition Scholarship, New York Academy of Art Undergraduate Master Class Program,
New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY
2019 AXA Art Prize, Finalist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA | Richard Gray Gallery,
Chicago, IL | New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2018 Shoham Purchase Prize, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2014 Hans Weiss Scholarship, Manchester Community College Foundation, Manchester, CT
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2024 Timeless Expressions, Hygienic Art, New London, CT (with Michelle DiCesare, curated by Hygienic curators)
2024 Walking with the World, Windsor Art Center, Windsor, CT (with Zvi Goldman and Kenneth Zablotsky, Curated by Marianna Martino- curatorial Chair Windsor Art Center)
2024 In My Backyard, Not Real Art, notrealart.com (curated by Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis)
2023 Collage, West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT
2023 Ceramics, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
2023 Still Life, Arts Center East, Vernon, CT
2022 Landscape Painting, Global Painting Conclave, globalpaintingconclave.com, Finalists Award
2022 Artful Ice Shanties design-build outdoor exhibit, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattelboro, VT, Honorable Mention
2022 UN+ART-5, Hartford ArtSpace Gallery, Hartford, CT
2022 Artists in Action, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
2022 Flat File 8x8 Season 4 online exhibition, Flat File Gallery, flatfile.gallery
2021 Artist in Residence Solo Exhibition, Just a Little Bit Longer, Drezner Gallery, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
2021 Art Show Internatinal's Still Life Competition, artshowinternational.com, Merit Prize
2021 $200 Flat File online exhibition, Deanna Evans Projects, deannaevansprojects.com, New York, NY
2021 Perspectives of Home, Galleries at Work_Space, Manchester, CT
2021 Home Is Where The Art Is, Drezner Gallery, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
2021 Abstracting Nature, Spectrum Gallery, Centerbrook, CT
2021 Emerging Artists, Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Juror's Choice Award
(Juror: Erika b Hess, Painter and creator of I Like Your Work podcast)
2021 CT+6, West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT (Juror: Helen Addison, The Addison Art Gallery)
2020 Fresh Faces, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 What Now?, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2020 Alexander A. Goldfarb, University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT
( Juror: Namulen Bayarsaihan, Director of Education, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum)
2020 Solo Exhibition, University of Hartford International Office, West Hartford, CT
2020 Room with a View, roomwithaviewexhibition.com (curated by Jamie Madison)
2019 AXA Art Prize, traveling student exhibition: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA | Richard Gray Gallery,
Chicago, IL | New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (Jurors: Ian Alteveer, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Jennie Goldstein, Whitney Museum, Cara Manes, MoMA, and Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum)
2019 Today // Tomorrow, Five Points Annex Gallery, Torrington, CT (curated by Erin Cunliffe)
2019 Small Works 2019, Five Points Annex Gallery, Torrington, CT (Juror: Brigid Kennedy)
2019 Alexander A. Goldfarb, University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT ( Juror: John O’Donnell)
2018 Solo Exhibition, University of Hartford Auerbach Administration Center, Robert’s Conference Room, West Hartford, CT
2018 Collective Ground, BFA painting exhibition, University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2018 Alexander A. Goldfarb, University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT ( Juror: Valentina Galossi)
2017 The 106th Exhibition, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT
(Jurors: Emilia Dubicki, Deborah Quinn-Munson)
2017 Flight, Dehn Gallery, Manchester, CT ( Jurors: Jane Rainwater, David Borawski, Neil Daigle-Orians)
2017 CT+6, West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT ( Juror: Min Jung Kim, Director, New Britain Museum of American Art)
2016 The Thing of It Is, Washington Art Association, Washington, CT ( Juror: Eric Aho)
2016 Solo Exhibition, West River Community Project, West Townshend, VT
2016 Alexander A. Goldfarb, University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT ( Juror: Judith McElhone)
2015 Rainbow Beach, installation for PARK(ing) Day, Hartford, CT
2015 Art in the Windows, New Canaan Society for the Arts, New Canaan, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Brian Goslow, Re-emerging Together: Artists, Audience Reunites at Cambridge Art Association, Artscope 7/8.2021
2017 J. Fatima Martins, Live and Learn: Drawing on History in Connecticut, Artscope 7/8.2017 p.26
2015 Amanda Roy, Reimagining Downtown Hartford on Park(ing) Day, The Connecticut Landscape Architect, Fall 2015