awards
2025
Juror’s Choice, 23rd National Fine Art Show, Vintage Aero Museum
2025
First Place, Surrealism, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center
2025
Best in Show Award, Likeness, Wallkill River Center for the Arts
2024
Jury Award, Mystery, Magic & the Macabre, Deines Cultural Center
2024
People’s Choice Award, Primary Colors, Rhode Island Watercolor Society
2024
Honorable Mention, Teravarna 10th Open International Juried Art Competition
Publication and Press
2025
Novum Artis Magazine, Issue 7 (2025) – featured as front cover artwork with an accompanying artist profile
Recent Group Exhibitions
2025
Vintage Aero Museum, 23rd National Fine Art Show, Gig Harbor, WA
2025
A Space, Verifying Identity… Please Log In, New York, NY
2025
San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Surrealisms, Encino, CA
2025
AuSable Artisan Village, 2025 Great Northern Art Explosion, Grayling, MI
2025
Spiva Center for the Arts, Behind the Mask, Joplin, MO
2025
Culture Lab LIC, [Un]Framing Gender curated by Tess Howsam and Pomme Gohar, New York, NY
2025
Springfield Art Association, “Persona”, Springfield, IL
2025
Northern Arts Council, 38th Annual Northern National Art Competition, Rhinelander, WI
2025
SFA State University, Texas National Competition and Exhibition 2025, Nacogdoches, TX
2025
Luddington Center for the Arts, Loneliness, Isolation, and Connection, Ludington, MI
2025
Brooklyn Art Cave, The Four Elements curated by Alesy Ortiz, New York, NY
2025
Wallkill River Center, “Likeness” a National Call Portrait Exhibit, Montgomery, NY
2024
Blue Mountain Gallery, 2024 Winter Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
2024
Solas Studio, Winter Showcase 2024, New York, NY
2024
Art Link, MARK: Current Approaches to Drawing, Fort Wayne, IN
2024
Solas Studio, Fall Showcase 2024, New York, NY
2024
Lore Degenstein Gallery, 15th Annual Figurative Art Exhibition, Selinsgrove, PA
2024
Deines Cultural Center, Mystery, Magic & the Macabre, Russell, KS
2024
Upstream Gallery, Drawn from Life, Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY
2024
Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Primary Colors, Pawtucket, RI
2024
Chianciano Biennale, curated by Museo d’Arte di Chianciano Terme, Chicanciano Terme, Italy
Artist talks and panels
2022
Labels and Lab Coats: Exploring Identity. Simons Foundation, New York , NY
Education
2015
Doctor of Philosophy, Theoretical Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009
Master of Science, Physics and Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada