EDUCATION

2009     University of Manitoba, BFA Honours, May 2009

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018     ‘Tumbling,’ The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

2013     ‘Boundaries of Being,’ The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019     ‘Shift,’ Aceartinc, Winnipeg, Manitoba

2018     ‘Figureworks,’ St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario

2018     ’20/20,’ Gwen Fox Gallery, Selkirk, Manitoba

2014     ‘Marrow,’ The Frame Arts Warehouse, Winnipeg, Manitoba

NATIONAL COLLECTIONS

2021     Manitoba Legislative Building

2010 — 2020     Winnipeg Regional Real Estate Board, Winnipeg

2016     University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

2012     Qualico, Regional Offices of Canada: Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver 

INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS

2016     National Museum of Bermuda, Bermuda

2015     Embassy of Canada, Washington, D.C.

2014     Canada House, London, England

2014     Juno Beach Centre, Normandy, France 

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2022     Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant

2018     Figureworks: Annual International Juried Art Prize, Third Place, Ottawa, Ontario

2017     Winnipeg Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant

2015     The Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, Vermont

2015     Manitoba Arts Council, Travel/Professional Development Grant

2015     Winnipeg Arts Council, Professional Development Grant

2013     Winnipeg Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant

2009     Cecil C. Richards Memorial Award: Achievement in Life Modeling

2008     Lynn Sissons Memorial Scholarship: Best Watercolour Presented to a Jury of Selection

2008     Academic Achievement Scholarship

2008     Cecil C. Richards Memorial Award: Achievement in Life Modeling 

PUBLIC SCULPTURE

2021     Manitoba Legislative Building, ‘Mosasaur and Prey:’ creation of bronze mosasaur and shark from fossil records

2007     Portage Avenue, Art on the Avenue, ‘Once Upon a Chair,’ Winnipeg, Manitoba: construction of 12-foot-tall sculpture that follows public safety standards, creating complex armature for interlocking components 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2019     Co-curator of ‘Shift:’ an exhibition of emerging female artists who took part in the 2017-2018 Foundation Mentorship Program through MAWA – Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art

2017 — Present     Studio Assistant to Sarah Anne Johnson: building figurative sculpture for New York exhibition with complex components: interlocking figures, moving limbs, and extreme balance (e.g. top-heavy piece on a spinning base), mold-making, creating wax patterns for bronze casting, oil painting, and studio management

2009     Conservation Internship with Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: competitive-entry internship to learn conservation skills and care for important bronze sculpture

2009 – 2021     Personal studio practice 

MENTORSHIPS

2017 — 2018     Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art: Foundation Mentorship Program Mentee: developing art practice under Chris Cooper 

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH

2015     National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2015     Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

2012     Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence, Italy

2012     Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

2012     Vatican City, Italy

2012     Salvador Dalí Museum, Figueres, Spain

2012     Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

2012     Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

2009     Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

2007     Serpentine Gallery, London, England

2007     Tate Modern, London, England

2007     The National Gallery, London, England