Education
Rhode Island School of Design Providence Rhode Island, USA
MFA Sculpture 1986
Trent Polytechnic Nottingham, England
BFA Honors, First Class 1981
Cardiff Art College Cardiff, Wales
Foundation Year 1977-78

Awards
Dorland Colony Resident Dorland Mountain Art Colony, Temecula, CA 1992-93
Ucross Foundation Fellow Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, 1991
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 1990
Artist Fellowship Artist Fellowship, Inc., New York, 1990
Rauschenberg Foundation Grant Change Inc. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 1990
Second Place Texas Art Celebration '89, Houston, 1989
Juror's Prize Synergy Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, 1986-88
Teaching Assistant Award Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, 1984-86
Study Abroad Grant Mid Glamorgan Trust Fund, Cardiff, Wales, 1984-86
Starter Grant East Midland Arts, England, 1982

Solo Exhibitions
GVG Gallery Houston, Texas, 1989

Group Exhibitions
"Learning by Doing, 25 years of the
Core Program at the MFAH" Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, 2008
"Issues of Choice" LACE, Los Angeles, CA, 1992
"Singular and Plural, Recent
Accessions, Drawings and Prints" Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1992
"Miller, Smith, Ward" Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991
Group Exhibition West End Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991
"Sid Y Vida" Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, 1991
"Extrapolations" Toni Jones Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991
"Direct References: Drawings by
Texas Artists" Glassell School of Art, MFAH, 1990
"Austin Annual '90" Mexic-Arte, Austin, Texas, 1990
"Landscapes" Site Specific Sculpture Exhibition, Buffalo Bayou, Houston 1990
"A View from the Bridge" Tree beard Gallery, Houston, 1990
"Tradition and innovation: A
Museum celebration of Texas Art" Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 1990
"Women View Women" Women and their work, Austin, 1990
"Instruments for Improvement" The Axiom, Houston, 1990
Bayou Queen Performance Diverse Works, St Joseph's School, Houston, 1989
Texas Art Celebration '89 Houston Assistance League 1989
selected by Alison de Lima Greene
Houston Area Show Blaffer Gallery, Houston, 1988
selected by Edward and Nancy Kieinholtz and Richard Koshalek
"Directions and Diversity" Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 1988
"Media Whore Performance" The Axiom, Houston, 1988
collaboration with Dean Chachere
Synergy Collection Show Transco Tower, Houston, 1988
Core Residency Exhibition Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston, 1988
Houston '88 Houston Arts Dealer Association, Houston 1988
selected by Juror's invitation
Synergy Exhibition - Juries' Prize Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston, 1988
Twenty First Juried Exhibition Jewish Community Center, Houston, 1987
selected by Mary Jane Jacobs, Honorable Mention
Core Residency Exhibition Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston, 1987
Art Assistance League Exhibition Houston, 1987
selected by John Caldwell
MFA Thesis Exhibition Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island, 1986
Exchange Exhibition Brown University/RISD, Rhode Island, 1986
Graduate Group Exhibition Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island, 1985
Small Works Exhibition Wheeler Gallery, Rhode Island, 1984
Group Exhibition Kingsgate Workshop, London, England, 1983
Group Exhibition The Midland Group, Nottingham, England, 1982
BFA Thesis Exhibition Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England, 1981

Commissions
Six Park Tile Murals City of La Verne, La Verne, CA, 2001-2006
Tile Mural - Roynon Elementary Bonita School District, La Verne, CA, 2001
Glass Mural and Donor Wall Temple Beth Israel, Houston, 1987

Collections
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Synergy Collection Houston, Texas
San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio, Texas
Edward Albee Foundation
Private Collections

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