I am an interdisciplinary artist who employs a range of materials, objects, and methods to make work that largely addresses the anxieties and absurdities of American domestic culture. Including sculpture, collage, video, and photography my studio practice grapples with the stuff of thrift store refuse, last-minute estate sale deals, and the occasional dumpster dive to rub against the pathos of the ceaseless search for fulfillment in the accumulation of things that, to a large extent, defines the American experience in the 21st century. My work has been shown on both coasts of the United States and some places in between.
I was born in southwest Utah, raised in Southern California, served 11 years in the U.S. Navy, and received an MFA in Visual Art at UCSD in 2013. I currently live and work in San Diego where I serve as the founding Creative Director for the non-profit gallery and project space BEST PRACTICE and the co-owner and operator of JOEHNS, a small neighborhood coffee shop.
CV
Born 1977, St. George, UT
Lives and works in San Diego, CA
EDUCATION
2013, Master of Fine Arts, Visual Art, University of California, San Diego
2002, Bachelor of Arts, Visual Art, University of San Diego
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Kilo Quebec (w/ Joshua Tonies). Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Treachery of Pleather (w/ Joshua Tonies), BEST PRACTICE, San Diego, CA
2023
2023 SD Art Prize Exhibtion, San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA
Pallet, Estación Tijuana Libertad, Tijuana, México
The Last Group Show, Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA
San Diego Abstraction, Then & Now, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
2022
Memory Traces (curated by Elizabeth Rooklidge), La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla, CA
I ate and I ate and nothing happened (w/ Joe Cantrell), Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA
Photographs, Inc., Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2021
SD Practice, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2020
Bloom studies on view, Ocean Beach Hardware, San Diego, CA
Teetered, Nae Rae Gallery at Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
Fear No Art: Civic Engagement, Histories, Currencies (curated by Lara Bullock), San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA
2019
Rulers, Coco Hunday, Tampa Bay, FL
2018
Being Here with You/ Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
The ghost I love the most, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
The Dangerous Professors, Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX
2017
Family Four Pak (310 U.S. fl. oz.), bijou, San Diego, CA
Talk Talk, Ship in the Woods, Escondido, CA
Millennial Pink, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Sum of the Parts, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2016
What's Right for Your Family?, Window | National, Asheville, NC
Lovingly Maintained, WRONG, Marfa, TX
Less Than A Whole Story (w/ Chantal Wnuk), Edgewood, La Mesa, CA
Paying Attention, Sediment, Richmond, VA
Art Auction 2016, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Wouldn't it be nice . . . Selections from San Diego (a project of good good things), H Gallery at Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
2015
La Mesa Charmer (w/ Matt Savitsky), Edgewood, La Mesa, CA
Creative Nights, LUX Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
The Ramble, The Range, Saguache, CO
Familiar Malaise (curated by Ruslana Lichtzier), ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
Pizza Party, Airlock Gallery, San Marcos, CA
2014
Don't Go in the Hot Tub (w/ Brianna Rigg and Allison Wiese), Sediment, Richmond, VA
Object Object! II - A show of smaller works (a project of good good things), Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
The Smile Face Museum at Frieze London, in collaboration with Salon 94, London, UK
Sketches from California (curated by Frankie Martin), FJORD, Philadelphia, PA
STIR!, Low Gallery, San Diego, CA
New Contemporaries VII (San Diego Art Prize), Perry Meyer Fine Art, San Diego, CA
The Smile Face Museum (organized by Adrienne Garbini), 228½, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Crackle Paint Technique (HELM series curated by Lara Bullock), A Ship in the Woods, Del Mar, CA
FEAST (w/ John Brady), The New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
Save On Everything, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
Object Object! A show of smaller works (a project of good good things), Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
Carried Array (w/ Jessica Sledge & Emily Grenader), Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Fiction Alters Form (w/ Joshua Miller & Matt Rich), T.F.R. Gallery, Encinitas, CA
Cheerful and Heroic: 8 Artists Perspectives on Failure (curated by Lauren Lockhart), Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
2012
God Made Mondays, Studio 452, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
It’s getting darker and darker and darker (w/ Kelly Eginton), Summer Salon Series, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship (curated by , Higher Pictures, New York, NY
Worldmaking (curated by Eliza Slavet), Artifact Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Collide (sponsored by Sezio), Carnegie Building, San Diego, CA
Hyperstudio, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
New Institutions, VAF Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
After Taste (w/ Vabianna Santos) , VAF Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2011
Circulate, Exchange: Nugget & Gravy (curated by Matthew Greenfield and Christine Wang), New Wight Gallery at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
GLAMFA, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Neighbors, Agitprop, San Diego, CA
This Old House, Glenna Jenning's House, Alpine, CA
Untitled, Voz Alta Project, San Diego, CA
Suspension (curated by Lauren Popp), DNZA Projects, San Diego, CA
Slide Projector (co-organized w/ Micki Davis), Agitprop, San Diego, CA
N7442.27 1972 - N7442.27 2010, VAF Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
The Future (curated by Lara Bullock), VAF Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
I would prefer not to (curated by Lauren Popp), DNZA Projects, San Diego, CA
2010
Some Works, Pendergrast Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Overstuft, Agitprop, San Diego, CA
Hyperlocal Identities (curated by Tatiana Sizonenko), Dean of Arts & Humanities Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Artifact (curated by Susanna Bielak), Artifact Gallery, La Jolla, CA
There Goes The Neighborhood, Agitprop, San Diego, CA
Queer Pile-up (organized by Darin Klein), Amy Adler’s Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Confluent Forms, Rose Gallery, San Diego, CA
Hippopotamus, VAF Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2009
We Live Inside, Future Retail Space, La Jolla, CA
18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Social Climbing, Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA
USD Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, San Diego, CA
2008
Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Tapout, Agitprop, San Diego, CA
How Low Can You Go?, Limbo Fine Art, San Diego, CA
Wake, Visual Art Center, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
2007
The Global Individual, Agitprop, San Diego, CA
2005
Eminent Remains, Axis Mundi, San Diego, CA