Lives and works in San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
May 2018 Master of Fine Arts, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA
May 2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ox-Bow School of the Art, Saugatuck, MI
RESIDENCIES
2022 Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon, WA (Forthcoming)
2018 Carrizozo Colony Artist Residency, Carrizozo, NM
SELECTED AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIP
2018 Large-scale Commencement Exhibition Award, Collab w/Flavia D’urso, San Francisco, CA
Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellow Finalist, San Francisco, CA
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Award Finalist, San Francisco, CA
2017 Art and Artifice Curatorial Proposal Award, San Francisco, CA
ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 NASAD Exhibition, Dogpatch Studios, San Francisco, CA
2017 Two Figures, Atrium, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 California Contemporary Sculpture, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA (Juried by Linda
2019 Artist Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2018 Taking Temperature, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Necessary Existence, Collaboration with Flavia D’urso at Nave Alcove, San Francisco, CA
Commencement Exhibition, CCA, San Francisco, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
Caught in the Fray, College Ave. Galleries, Oakland, CA
Gray Matters, Hubbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Artifice and Nature, Nave Alcove, San Francisco, CA
Death, Acción Latina gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mission Print, Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Post-its, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 13 x 13 x 13, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015 Alter Para Mi Muerte, Studio Grand, Oakland, CA
Collect, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2013 Annual Open Studio, Art Explosion, San Francisco, CA
2011 Little Animal House, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
BFA 2011, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2009 SmART Show, The Flat Iron Arts Building, Chicago, IL
PRESS
Nathan Falstreau, "High school students install mixed-media artwork on Ocean Avenue utility boxes", Hoodline, Aug 2018
TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE
Jan 2022 - Present Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Nov 2018 - Present Printmaking Instructor, Girl’s Garage, Berkeley, CA
Jul - Aug 2021 Instructor, YASP Printmaking, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Jul - Aug 2019 Instructor, Summer Atelier Screen, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019 Teaching Artist, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Aug 2014 - Dec 2018 Adv. and Intro Printmaking Faculty, Youth Art Exchange, San Francisco, CA
July 2013 - Dec 2018 Etching Instructor, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
Mar 2018 Visiting Teaching Artist, Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
Jan 2018 - May 2018 Teaching Assistant, Screen-printing I & II CCA, San Francisco, CA
Oct 2017 - May 2018 Graduate Mentor, First Year Honors Program CCA, San Francisco, CA
Aug 2014 - May 2016 Visiting Teaching Artist, John O’Connell High School, San Francisco, CA
June 2013 - Aug 2015 Printmaking Instructor, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
Feb-May 2011 Curatorial Intern, Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings, Chicago, IL
May-Aug 2010 Studio Intern, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago, IL