CV
EDUCATION
2026 - MFA Studio Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2018 - BFA cum laude, Ceramics, California College of the Arts
ARTIST TALKS
2026 Queer and Trans History Conference - Roundtable Participant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2023 Artist Talk, NIAD, Richmond, CA
2022 Artist Talk, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
2020 Artist Talk (canceled due to COVID-19) Mills College, Oakland, CA
2020 Artist Talk (canceled due to COVID-19) UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2019 Artist Talk, Mutual Stores, Oakland, CA
RESIDENCIES
2025 Artist in Residence, ACRE, Steuben, WI
2024 Open Studio Residency, Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2021 Artist In Residence, Play Press, Ukiah, CA
2021 Artist In Residence, Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA
2020 Invited Teaching Assistant (canceled due to COVID-19) Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC
2019 Artist In Residence, Mutual Stores, Oakland, CA
2018 Summer Residency, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
AWARDS
2025 Outstanding Student Achievement Award Nominee, International Sculpture Center
2025 Maxwell / Hanrahan Materials Award, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI
2020 The Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant Awardee for Lost Objects at CTRL+SHFT, Oakland, CA
2018 Summer Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2018 CCA’s Windgate Fellowship Nominee, The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design
2017 Arthur E. Nelson Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2017 Carmen M. Christensen Scholarship, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2015 Daniel B. Jordan Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 - 2024: Studio Assistant, Woody Othello Studio, Oakland, CA
2021 - 2022: Art Teacher, Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland, CA (Drawing, Painting, Ceramics)
2019 - 2020: Instructor, Pinckney Clay, San Francisco, CA (Ceramics - Wheel Throwing)
2019 - 2020: Instructor, Merritt Ceramics, Oakland, CA (Ceramics - Handbuilding)
2019 - 2020: Instructor, Clayroom, San Francisco, CA (Ceramics - Wheel Throwing)
2019: Guest Lecturer, City College San Francisco Extended Education (All Levels Ceramics Workshop)
2019: Education Intern, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (organized education workshops to engage the public and volunteered as a TA at a local elementary school)
2018 - 2022: (part time / as needed) Artist Assistant: Jim Melchert, Woody De Othello, Jesse Schlesinger, Dana Hemenway, Char Tan, Cathy Lu, Sydney Cohen, Sean McFarland, Oakland & San Francisco, CA (studio and administrative)
2018 - 2019: Glaze Technician & Ceramics Studio Technician, The Potter’s Studio, Berkeley, CA (studio maintenance, conducted technical and safety trainings)
2016 - 2018: Ceramics Studio Technician, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA (work study / studio maintenance & operations)
2017: Teaching Assistant, California College of the Arts Pre-College Program, Oakland, CA (Ceramics)
2014 - 2016: Carpenter’s Apprentice, DeScience Laboratories, Brooklyn, NY (helped build, deliver, and install custom furniture )
SOLO PRESENTATIONS
2022 * “Object Permanence” - Cone Shape Top, Oakland, CA
2021 * “Loose Ends” - Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA
2021 * “To Hold And Be Held” - Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA (juried)
2019 * “People, Places, Things” - Mutual Stores, Oakland, CA
2018 * “Don’t Look At Me” - Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 “Everyday People” - Talking Dolls, Detroit, MI
2025 “Pushing Boundaries: Ceramic Artists and Identity” - Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA
2024 “A Tale of Love” - Climate Control, San Francisco, CA
2024 “Hunter Gatherer“ - 120710, Berkeley, CA
2024 “Moving Clouds” - Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2023 “Leap” - Melrose Botanical Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Bay Area Now 9” - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2023 “Landline” - Personal Space, Vallejo, CA
2023 “Still, The Meandering Path - A Tribute to Jim Melchert”, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2023 “As Yet and Still to Come” - Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Pyramid Scheme” - Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
2022 “The Letters of Mina Harker” - Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2022 “Structures” - Cube Space, Berkeley, CA
2022 “Cool Jacket” - Hercules Records, Berkeley, CA
2022 “July Group Show” - Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021 “Closer Together” - Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 “Temporal Encounters” - Strangeways Projects, Oakland, CA
2021 “I Am A Friend” - Crisis Club Gallery, Emeryville, CA
2021 “Heavy Lift / Uplift” - Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA (juried)
2020 “Lost Objects” - CTRL+SHFT, Oakland, CA
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2026 “Hole Show”, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI (co-curator)
2025 “Lonesome No More”, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI (curator)
2022 “Matrix”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (curator, essayist, catalog)
2020 “Lost Objects”, CTRL+SHFT, Oakland, CA (co-curator, essayist)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Remenchik, “Artists Pay Homages to Histories Preserved and Forgotten”, Hyperallergic.com, June 2023
“Press Release - July Group Exhibition,” part2gallery.com, July 2022
Anthony Rotunno, “Burn These After Reading,” New York Times Style Section, January 2022
“Looking In / Closer Together - Press Release,” jessicasilvermangallery.com, October 2021
Amanda Wong, “Looking Outward: Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts”, variablewest.com, November 2023
COLLECTIONS
Private Collection - Natasha Boas