Education

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA),
Boston, MA & Tufts University, Medford, MA
M.F.A. May 1997

Smith College, Northampton, MA
B.A. May 1994, cum laude


Solo Exhibitions

2006 Plane Space, New York, NY

2005 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

2004 Blink Gallery, Newport, RI

2003 Plane Space, New York, NY

2002 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA


Selected Group Exhibitions

2010   Imagining Home, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
            Exposed: Critical Mass, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA

2009   It's Still Life, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
            HOME, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
            Creatures Great and Small, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY
            CyberArts South, Design Gallery 154, N. Dartmouth, MA

2008   Gangbusters, Plane Space, New York, NY
            Open House, Howell Studios, Portland, ME

2007   Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME

2006   Approaches to Narrative, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
            Maine: The Way Life Is, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2005   Items May Have Shifted, Plane Space Gallery, New York, NY
            Griffin Museum of Photography Exhibition, Winchester, MA

2004   PRC Members' Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

2003   Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
            Faculty 2003, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
            In Summation, Plane Space Gallery, New York, NY
            Photographers' 03, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
            Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME

2002   Safe Haven: Picturing Domestic Space, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
            Bowdoin College Faculty Exhibition, Icon Gallery, Brunswick, ME

2001   Manifest 2001, The Copley Society , Boston, MA
            PRC Members' Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
            New England/New York/New Talent, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA

2000   New Work/New Ideas, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
            Twice Born: Beauty, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA, September 2000
            Blue, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge Art Association

1999   New American Talent 14, Centerspace, Austin and various cities, Texas
            The Apartment Show, 760 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

1998   3rd Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
            New Directions '98, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY
            9th National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, New York, NY
            Urb, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 1998
            New Photography, Weems Center, Boston, MA, January 1998

1997   Women in Photography, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA, June 1997

1996   First Expressions Gallery, Boston, MA
            Seats of Meaning, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA
            Selections from New England M.F.A. Programs, Boston University Art Gallery


Selected Screenings

A Few Repairs, a color 10 minute 16mm film screened:

Hi/Lo Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, November 1998
Thaw Film and Video Festival, Iowa City, Iowa, April 1998
New York Women's Film Festival, New York City, NY, April 1998
Ohio Independent Film Festival, Cleveland, OH, November 1997
Film and Video Annual, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, May 1, 1997


Chloe's Brother, a B & W 10 minute 16mm film screened:

Solid State Film Festival, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA, April 8, 1997
Film and Video Annual, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, May 2, 1996
Local Sightings, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA, December 7, 1995


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Selected Grants, Honors, and Awards

Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, 2006

Artist Grant in Photography, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2001

Jean & Kahlil Gibran Award for Manifest 2001, Copley Society, Boston, MA

Purchase grant for films "A Few Repairs" and "Chloe's Brother", The Video Slammer, Boston, June 1998

Grant from Electronic Imaging Exhibition for iris ink jet print, 1996

Chosen by Trevor Fairbrother, Barbara Krakow, and Mary Drach McInnes to represent the SMFA in the C.A.A. exhibition, "Selections from New England M.F.A. Programs", 1995

Recipient of Graduate Fellowship, Smith Alumnae Association, 1994

Awarded high honors for Thesis Project, "Insides", Smith College, 1994

Awarded Dana Grant for research project, "Tappan Project", Smith College Art Museum, 1993


Recent Teaching Positions

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, Full-time Lecturer, 2008-present

Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Vistitng Assistant Professor of Photography, 2007

Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Assistant Professor of Photography, 2005-2007

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography, 2001-02 & 2004-05

Brown University, Providence, RI, Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography, 2002-04