Education

PhD in Fine Art candidate, Lincoln School of Art & Design, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK, expected 2013

MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, 2009

BFA in Sculpture and Painting, Tyler School of Art – Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2000

Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy, 1999

Selected Exhibitions

*Transient Spaces, Campus Gate Art Gallery, Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA, 2009

*MFA Thesis Exhibition, Haybarn Gallery, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, 2009

The Art of Word, Science, and Sound, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2008

AGENDA: Queering Popular Media, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2008

Silent/Sound Film Festival, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY, 2008

Central Gallery, SUNY Empire State College, Syracuse, NY, 2008

Painting the Spectrum: SASOD Film Festival, Georgetown, Guyana, 2008

Evolutionary Girls, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY, 2008

Critical Line Invitational, Critical Line, 2007

Drawings, Dessins, Zeichnungen, Basil Hallward Gallery, Portland, OR, 2006

*No Sale, Tollbooth Gallery, Tacoma, WA 2005

Rorschach Notions, Tollbooth Gallery, Tacoma, WA 2004

Art Born New, SOTA Gallery, Tacoma, WA 2002

*Please Take Care of My Baby, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2002

*Making Babies, Don’t Bite the Pavement, Tacoma, WA, 2002

*Making Babies, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2002

*Bleh, Penrose Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1999

*Michele Quaresima: Gifted Personal Advisor, Piazza di Spagna, Rome, Italy, 1999

*Post-its, Temple University Gallery, Temple University, Rome, Italy, 1998

*Post-its, various, Rome, Italy, 1998

Drawings, Penrose Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1997

*True Blue, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1996

Copies, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995

Enveloped Angels, Aliquippa Projects, Aliquippa, PA, 1994

PGSA Exhibition, Mercyhurst Gallery, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, 1993

Collaboration, Frick Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992

Selected Curatorial Work

Curator, Critical Line

Critical Line Invitational, Critical Line, 2007

The End, Critical Line, 2007

Nativity Artists, Critical Line, 2006

Keeping Score, Critical Line, 2006

Found Space, Critical Line, 2006

Curator, Tollbooth Gallery

Dreams of Failure, Tollbooth Gallery, Ido Fluk, 2006

Public Parks/Public Beaches, Tollbooth Gallery, Lauren Steinhardt, 2005

Antenna, Tollbooth Gallery, Jessica Spring and Kristen Baumlier, 2005

Split, Tollbooth Gallery, Alex Schweder, 2005

Jealous Poche, Tollbooth Gallery, Alex Schweder, 2005

The Valentine’s Day Round-Up Massacre, Tollbooth Gallery, Patrick Rock, 2005

Tollbooth Junction: 11th & Broadway, Tollbooth Gallery, Bridget Irish, 2004

Maps to Radical Imagining, Tollbooth Gallery with Performance,

    Wynne Greenwood (Tracy + the Plastics), 2004

Perfect Entrance, Tollbooth Gallery, Tim Sullivan, 2004

Rorschach Notions, Tollbooth Gallery, Delta Camshaft Collective, 2004

Rising Up, Tollbooth Gallery, Vanessa Renwick, Donovan Skirvin, and Celebrate People’s

    History Project, 2004

Stepback, Tollbooth Gallery, Denise Smith, 2004

Seadrift, Texas, Tollbooth Gallery, Bill Daniel, 2004

Some Say She Lost Her Head, Tollbooth Gallery, Jared Pappas-Kelley, 2003

Publisher, Toby Room magazine

Artists in Residencies:

Mattie Matt, El Whit, Chauney Peck, Thin Ice, Rachel Carns, Tim Sullivan, Themba Lewis

Teaching and Lectures

Young Harris College. Young Harris, GA; Artist Lecture, 2009.

Goddard College. Plainfield, VT; Studio Gestures in Space, Place, and Color. 2009.

ArtRod. Tacoma, WA. Studio workshops in Video and Drawing. 2006-2008.

University of Washington: Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA; Make Your Own Life: Artists in and Out of Cologne. 2007.

Americans for the Arts - Conference. Austin, TX; Public Art as a Conduit to Contemporary Art. 2005.

Selected Writings

“October Fire.” The Minutiae of Visionaries: Experiments Toward Social Evolution (essays). Evolutionary Girls Press. 2010. (forthcoming)

“The Curator’s Eye: Toxic Warning.” City Arts magazine. Sep./Oct. 2007.

“Review: Building a new Tacoma Art Museum.” Toby Room magazine. Issue 7.

Honours, Awards, and Residencies

Awarded Full Studentship to PhD in Fine Art programme at the University of Lincoln, 2010 - 2013

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant, 2009

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: Tollbooth Gallery project included in curriculum, 2007

Amocat Arts Genius Award – Individual Innovators, 2005

Google.com Grant recipient, 2005 - 2009

Greater Tacoma Community Foundation Grant, 2004 - 2006

City of Tacoma Arts Project Grant, 2004 - 2007

Washington State Arts Commission Project Support Grant, 2005 - 2006

Midwest Academy, Blackwood, NJ, 1997

School of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995

Pennsylvania Governor’s School for Excellence in the Arts, Erie, PA, 1993

Selected Bibliography

Clayton, Alec “3x2” City Arts Magazine. Seattle, WA. Jan. 2007.

Clayton, Alec “Stupid Rain: Mother Nature Rains on Michael Lent’s Brilliant ‘No Sale’” Weekly Volcano.

    Tacoma, WA. 3 Nov 2005.

Clayton, Alec “Critical Line: Tacoma’s new gallery opens with ‘Found Space’” Weekly Volcano.

    Tacoma, WA. 27 Apr 2004.

Clayton, Alec “Underground Rumblings” Weekly Volcano. Tacoma, WA 28 Apr 2004.

Clayton, Alec “Creative View” Weekly Volcano. Tacoma, WA. 2 Jul 2004.

Driscoll, Matt “A Video Visionary” Weekly Volcano. Tacoma, WA. 17 Nov 2004.

Dunkelberger, Steve “24-hour Lent: Art Man About T-town” Weekly Volcano. Tacoma, WA. 18 Apr 2005.

Engeleson, Andrew “Reviews: Tollbooth” Seattle Weekly. Seattle, WA. 30 Jun 2004, et. al.

Graves, Jennifer “Art in Tacoma’s present links past with uncertain future” The News Tribune.

    Tacoma, WA. 2 Jan 2005.

Graves, Jennifer “Critical Line (With a Nod Towards Mass)” The Stranger: SLOG. Seattle, WA.

    11 May 2006.

Graves, Jennifer “Three of a Kind” The News Tribune. Tacoma, WA. 12 Nov 2004.

Graves, Jennifer “The Tollbooth Beckons for Thee” The News Tribune. Tacoma, WA. 6 Mar 2005.

Graves, Jennifer “On Top of the Underground” The News Tribune. Tacoma, WA. 12 Mar 2004.

Hackett, Regina “Mind-Expanding Art Packed Into Cramped Quarters at Tollbooth” The Seattle

    Post-Intelligencer. Seattle, WA. 2 Jul 2004.

Hackett, Regina “Reviews: Tollbooth” The Organ Review of Arts. Portland, OR. Mar/Apr 2004.

Hall, Emily “Reviews: Tollbooth” The Stranger. Seattle, WA. 17 Nov 2004, et. al.

Kavage, Sara “Creative Class: Yes, it is About the Artists: The Tacoma Story” The Next American City.

    New York, NY. Jan 2005.

Lippens, Nate “Reviews: Tollbooth” The Stranger. Seattle, WA. 27 Jan 2005, et. al.

Lippens, Nate “Toby Room” The Stranger: SLOG. Seattle, WA. 20 Jul 2005.

Lamoza, Chris “Society of the Spectacle: Tollbooth Gallery Redefines the Monument” The

    Internationalist Magazine. Fall 2004

Meade, Fionn “Fall Preview” Artist Trust Journal. Seattle, WA. Summer 2004.

Peper, Staci “New gallery proves critical to new media scene” Tacoma Weekly. Tacoma, WA. 18 May 2006.

Ponnekanti, Rosemary “That aroma from Tacoma? It’s the smell of artistic success” Seattle

    Post-Intelligencer. Seattle, WA. 12 May 2006.

Stump, Suzy “Tollbooth” Weekly Volcano. Tacoma, WA. 10 June 2004.

Wagonfeld, Judy “Tacoma: The Dynamics of Temporary” Public Art Review. St. Paul, MN. Spr/Sum 2005.