EDUCATION
2004 University of Miami, Summer Arts Institute, Video and Film Graduate
Class.
2003 Completed 40 credits in graduate work M.F.A. Florida
International University
2000 University of Miami, Summer Arts Institute, Photoshop and Book
Making Graduate Class.
1995 Professional Five Year Teacher Certificate Art K-12 expires
June 2010.
1990 Florida International University, Bachelors of Fine Art majoring in
Drawing and Painting.
1984 Miami Dade Community College (North Campus), A.A. Degree in
Fine Arts.
GRANTS / AWARDS
2008 First Place, 100% Pure Exhibition, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Mark Mittleman, Melborne, Florida.
2008 Honorable Mention, Dade Art Educators exhibition, Miami Dade College, Juried Exhibition.
2006 Honorable Mention, Palm Beach Community College, Dario Gallery, 2nd Annual Drawing, Painting, Print Making Exhibition, Palm Beach County, Florida.
Who’s Who Among American High School Teachers.
2005 New Art International, Accepted into the Inclusion in 2006 New Art
International, Book Art Publisher.
2005 Who’s Who Among American High School Teachers.
2004 Who’s Who Among American High School Teachers.
2004 Finalist, Ocean Bank Exhibition, Ocean Bank, Miami, Florida.
2003 The Bellinger Memorial Award, Chautauqua Institution, 46th National
Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, New York.
2002 George Sugarman Foundation, Inc. Grant recipient, Novato,
California.
Butt Stop Public Art, Springfield Massachusetts Business
Improvement District, Springfield, Massachusetts.
Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public
Places, Public Art, LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
Tropical Trailer Award, Florida International University Art, Museum,
Miami, Florida.
2001 Best Three-Dimensional Effect, Absolut Chalk Street Art Festival,
Miami Beach, Florida.
1999 New Forms Miami, Grant recipient, Miami, Florida.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 New Forms Miami, Grant recipient, Miami, Florida.
Lost Cities: An Artist’s View of the Inner City, Solo Exhibition, funded by
the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami Board of
Commissioners, Miami ArtWorks, Coral Gables, Florida.
EXHIBITIONS
2009 100% Pure Exhibition, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melborne, Florida.
The Richeson75 International Figure/Portrait Juried Exhibition, Juror Michael Shane Neal, Kimberly,Wisconson.
Artist Project, Juried Selection , Chicago, Illinois,
2007 Dade Art Educators exhibition, Miami Dade College,
Juried Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
Kudos Art International Juried On line Exhibition, Juror Peter Trippi
San Diego Art Institute, Museum of the Living Artist, 49th International
juried Exhibition, San Diego, Ca.
2006 Outside the Classroom: Dade Art Educators Association Exhibition
September 23 - December 15, 2006, South Dade Regional Library.
CG Gallery, Dade Educators Association, Miami, Florida Exhibition.
The Chautauqua 49th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror Louis Grachos.
2006 Palm Beach Community College, Dario Gallery, 2nd Annual Drawing, Painting, Print Making Exhibition, Palm Beach County, Florida, Juror Barry Sparkman.
2005 New Art Gallery, Deck the Walls, Hollywood, Florida.
CG Gallery, Small Works Exhibition. Dade Educators
Association, Miami, Florida Exhibition.
“Celebration Exhibition”, K.D. Moore Gallery Evergreen, Colorado.
2004 The Chautauqua 47th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror Dr. Donald Kuspit.
Ocean Bank Exhibition, Ocean Bank, Miami, Florida.
2003 The Chautauqua 46th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror Michael Gitlitz.
Annual Student Show, Florida International University Art
Museum, Miami, Florida.
Hollywood Biennial Juried Art Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of
Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida.
2002 University of Alabama, Miami Exchange Exhibition, Alabama.
WolfeCenter Exhibition, Florida International University, North
Campus, Miami, Florida.
Invented Figure Show, WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
Collaborative Book of Poetry, “Inhabiting the Body”, Moon Press
Journal, Chicago, Illinois.
Annual Student Show, Tropical Trailer Award, Florida International
University Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
2002 Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public
Places, Public Art Piece, LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables,
Florida.
2001 Group Show, Green Door Gallery, United Artists, in support of the
WTC relief, Miami, Florida.
Stanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida, Masks Auction, Selected
Artist, Miami Beach, Florida.
2001 National Juried Competition, Portrait of a Day, Associated Artists of
Winston- Salem, Inc., Winston Salem, N.C.
Works on Paper: When the Artist draws a Shape, GraPa Studio of Art,
Miami Beach, Florida.
Dade Art Educators Group Show,Jackie Hinchey Snipes Gallery, Miami
Design District, Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale
Miami, Florida.
Best Three-Dimensional Effect, Absolut Chalk Street Art Festival,
Miami Beach, Florida.
2000 Dreamscapes and Landscapes Exhibition, Montclair, New Jersey.
The Chautauqua 43rd Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York.
1999 New Forms Miami, Grant recipient, Miami, Florida.
Lost Cities: An Artist’s View of the Inner City, Solo Exhibition, funded by
the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami Board of
Commissioners, Miami ArtWorks, Coral Gables, Florida.
1992 Sanibel Barrier Big Arts Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts,
Sanibel, Florida.
1991 25th Annual National Small Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition, Delmar
College, Corpus Christie, Texas.
COMMISSIONS
2003 Butt Stop Public Art, Springfield Massachusetts Business Improvement
District, Springfield, Massachusetts.
2002 Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public
Places, Public Art, LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
COLLECTIONS
2007 Matt Zuckerman, New York, New York.
2002 Jay and Ronda Fuchs, “Humanity in Flight”, Coral Gables Art in Public
Places, Public Art LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
Jaffe Collection Video Library, Edible Art Festival, Florida Atlantic
University, West Palm Beach, Florida.
PUBLISHINGS
2008 The Richeson 75 International Figure/Portrait 2008 ,Jack Richeson &
Co., Inc., Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly,Wisconson.
2005 New Art International, Accepted into the Inclusion in 2006 New Art
International, Book Art Publisher.
2003 Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Miami Herald, Herald,com.
2002 “Inhabiting the Body”, Collaborative Book of Poetry, Moon Press
Journal WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.
2000 Miami Herald Living Arts, Chalk It Up, featured “Duality of Nature”.
1999 Miami Herald Neighbors Section, Sunday Profile, “Artists Work
Illustrates Bleak Life.”
CONFERENCES AND DISCUSSION PANELS
2001 GraPa Studio of Art, When the Artist draws a Shape Discussion Panel,
Miami Beach, Florida.
1999 Conference Speaker, Miami 99 - Art For Our Sake, Florida Art
Education Association, “Breaking the Mold of Tomorrow Workshop”.
