Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2025 MSc Diploma, Psychology of Coercive Control, University of Salford

2011 BA, Art History, Bard College

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022
Messages from a Secret Place, Revolution Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2021
Burdens of a White Dress, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY

2019
Burdens of a White Dress, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX

2016
Burdens of a White Dress, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR

ARTIST TALKS

International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), Annual & Virtual Conferences — 2020–2021

  • The Phoenix Project, Québec, Canada

  • Unification Church Second Generation Adults: The Future is Unwritten, Québec, Canada

2021 

Healing Through Art: Reclaiming & Rewriting Your Narrative, Conference on Religious Trauma, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2019

Burdens of a White Dress, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX

2018

Story Sessions: Fear, Creativity & Connection for Artists, Promoting Passion Convention, Joshua Tree, CA

2014

Perceptions of Beauty, Fashion Filter Panel, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • The New Vanguard, Keep Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2019

  • Photographic Visions 2019, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

  • 5th Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY

  • Stories, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary


2018

  • Art After Dark Auction, Franklin D Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY


2017

  • Celebrating the Creative Process, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Kat Keirnan

2016

  • O+ Festival Auction, Uptown Coffee, Kingston, NY

2015

  • Through the Professional’s’ Lens, Mill Street Loft Faculty Exhibit, Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie, NY

  • PHOTOgraphy, RCHAN Gallery, Red Hook, NY. Juror: Ariel Shanberg. (First Place)

2014

  • Unchained at Last Fundraising Auction, Westfield, NJ

  • Show & Tell, Mill Street Loft Faculty Exhibit, Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie, NY

  • PHOTOgraphy, RCHAN Gallery, Red Hook, NY. Juror: Susan Spiritus

  • Self Portraits/Selfies, LENSCRATCH

  • Forgotten, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX. Juror: Blue Mitchell

  • Dreams, Fantasies, and Illusions, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Jurors: Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick

  • Fade Into You, Twilight Gallery, Seattle, WA

2013

  • Lenzless, Plates to Pixels. Juror: Zeb Andrews. (Juror’s Honorable Mention)

  • Demons and Monsters, 1 Lb. Gallery, Winchester, VA. Juror: Lauralyn Brickhouse. (Juror’s Award)

  • Curiouser and Curiouser, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Blue Mitchell

  • Mobile Magic, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR. Juror: Aline Smithson

  • In Bloom, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct, VT. Jurors: Kristen and Mark Sink

  • Seasons, New York Center for Photographic Art & Gallery 69. Juror: Doug Beasley. (Juror’s Honorable Mention)


2012

  • Enchantment, Plates to Pixels. Juror: Blue Mitchell

  • Portals, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX. Juror: Jeffrey Becomb

  • Still Life: The Art of Arrangement, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA. Juror: Jason Landry

  • PHOTOgraphy, RCHAN Gallery, Red Hook, NY. Juror: Henry Horenstein

  • Both Sides of the Lens: Self-portraiture, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA. Juror: Russell Joslin

  • In Your Dreams, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Susan Burnstine

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES

  • Your Daily Photograph — Features (2020–2021)

  • Beautiful Bizarre Magazine (Online) — Artist Interview & Feature (2020); Overcoming Fear to Find Your Artistic Voice (2021)

  • Booooooom — Burdens of a White Dress Feature

  • The Flux Review — Artist Q&A

  • SHOTS Magazine — The Self Portrait Issue, Spring 2018

  • Capture Magazine — The Art of Self Expression, September 2017

  • Diffusion X (One Twelve Publishing) — Winter 2019

SELECTED EARLIER PUBLICATIONS

  • COOP — Burdens of a White Dress, Summer 2016

  • Mutant Space — Burdens of a White Dress, Spring 2016

  • Plates to Pixels — Featured Artist, 2015

  • Don’t Take Pictures — Photo of the Day, 2015

  • Adore Chroma Magazine — Issue 4, 2014

  • Lenscratch — 4th Annual Favorite of 2012 Photo Exhibition

  • F-Stop Magazine — Issue 52, 2012

  • Hey Day Magazine — Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2011

  • Vain Magazine — Vol. 09, Fall 2010

SELECTED TALKS & INTERVIEWS

  • Talk Beliefs — Dismantled: Moonie No More

  • The Phil Drysdale Show — Let’s Talk About Cults

  • Shunned Podcast — Episode 88

  • Sensibly Speaking Podcast — Episode 318

AWARDS

2014
Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Fine Art Category Third Place Winner

2015

  • Critical Mass, Top 200 Finalist, Portland, OR

  • PHOTOgraphy, RCHAN Gallery, Red Hook, NY. Juror: Ariel Shanberg. (First Place)

2019
13th Pollux Awards, Fine Art Category Honorable Mention


PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

2021
Co-Juror, Echo in the Valley, Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston, NY