EDUCATION
2005 San Francisco Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts, Painting
2000 University of California Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts, Community Studies/Studio Art
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Window Study: St. Göran’s Gymnasium, Arkitekturens Grannar, Stockholm SE
2018 Sneaking in the Monument Lot from the Building on the Right, Spencer Brownstone, NY
2017 Afterimage, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Façades, Open Projects @ Alpha, New York
2013 Renovation, Mixed Greens, New York
New Work, Webb School of Knoxville, Knoxville TN
2011 Tenement, Mixed Greens, New York
2010 Detour Ahead, SHO Gallery, New York
Dis/Integrations, Swarm Gallery, Oakland CA
2009 BARQUE, Cleopatra’s Gallery, New York
New Work, Gallery Diet, Miami FL
2007 Uptown Station, Chashama Project Exhibition Studio, New York
2005 Sonya Blesofsky, Plane Space, New York
2004 Constructions, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA
2000 Playground, Senior Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA
Group Exhibitions
2020 Works From Home, Spencer Brownstone, New York
2019 Kastrering Av Inre Rum, Crum Heaven, Stockholm SE
Iaspis Open Studios Spring 2019, Iaspis at Maria Skolgata, Stockholm SE
2018 Witnesses, Satellite Art Fair, Miami FL
Hole Histories, Art Lot, Brooklyn NY
Daddy’s Books, Life Lessons, Far Rockaway NY
Garage Sale, Life Lessons, Far Rockaway NY
2017 Aquarius BOS Group Show, Aquarius Studios, Queens NY
2016 20th Anniversary Show, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn NY
Borderless: In Residence, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn NY
Ambient Occlusion, Present Co, Brooklyn NY
Bulldoze/Cement, Spring/Break Art Show, New York
Artistic Developments: Art & the Language of Real Estate Advertising, NARS, Brooklyn NY
2015 Natural States, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland NY
Published by the Artist, International Print Center New York
Somewhere Between, ArtHelix, Brooklyn NY
2014 Estuary, NYFA, Brooklyn NY
Benefit Preview Exhibition, Dieu Donne New York
The Invitational, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn NY
2013 Housewarming: Notions of Home from the Center of the Universe, BRIC, Brooklyn NY
If color, then also dimension; if flatness, then texture, etc, LMCC Building 110, New York
Thanks, Lu Magnus, New York
2012 Process and Progress: Sonya Blesofsky & Lan Tuazon, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx NY
Interrogations, Interventions, & Modifications, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading PA
Printshop Benefit 2012, Lower East Side Printshop, New York
Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
Course/Discourse, The Park School Gallery, The Park School, Baltimore MD
2012 Annual Benefit Exhibition, Dieu Donne, New York
Superstruct, Plug Projects, Kansas City MO
2011 Rethinking Memorial: Ten Interactive Sites for 9/11, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York
Can't Hear the Revolution, Kunsthalle Galapagos, New York
2011 Intuitive Realities, Cuchifritos Art Gallery, New York
2010 Summer 2010, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis MN
A Communist Gala, Cuchifritos, New York
2009 Brooklyn Utopias?, Brooklyn Historical Society, New York
Get the Led Out, SHO Gallery, New York
X (10th Anniversary Exhibition), Mixed Greens, New York
2008 Treemendous, Islip Art Museum, Islip NY
Paper City, Mixed Greens, New York
Emerging Artists, Smack Mellon, New York
Rental Work!, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans LA
Here and Now, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
Benefit Exhibition, Dieu Donne, New York
Gangbusters, Plane Space, New York
Site 92: Phase II, Smack Mellon, New York
2007 Workspace Program 2001-2007, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York
On The Third Day, 3B Space, New York
Per Square Foot, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York
Stop Pause Forward, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco CA
2006 Open Studios, LMCC Workspace:120 Broadway, New York
2005 GenArt Emerge 2005, Warfield Building, San Francisco CA
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Graduate Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco CA
2004 Ephemeral Feminism, Crucible Steel Gallery, CELLspace, San Francisco CA
By Any Means Un/Necessary, Mission 17, San Francisco CA
Unfurled, Pond Gallery, San Francisco CA
Continuing MFA Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA
2003 Memory/Loss, Lacunae Gallery, San Francisco CA
Assembly, Crucible Steel Gallery, CELLspace, San Francisco CA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2020 Artist in Residence, RAIR Philly, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Fellow, NYSCA/NYFA Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, NY
2019 FST Studio Projects Fund Grant, Brooklyn NY
2019 Artist in Residence, IASPIS International Art Residency, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough NH
2016 Artist-in-Residence, KKV Grafik Studio/Workshop Monumental, Malmo, Sweden
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
2014 NYFA Project Space Residency, Artist’s Alliance, NY
2014 Finalist, NYFA Fellowship (Architecture/Environmental Structures), NY
2014 Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2013 Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, NY
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Webb School, Knoxville, TN
2010 Artists Alliance Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program, NY
2009 Studio Artist, Museum of Arts and Design, NY
2009 Artist in Residence, The Fountainhead Residency, Miami Fl
2008 Artist-in-Residence, CUE Art Foundation, NY
2007 Studio Artist, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Chashama Project Exhibition Studio Grantee, NY
2006 Workspace Artist in Residence, Dieu Donne, NY
2006 Artist-in-Residence, LMCC’s Workspace:120 Broadway, NY
2005 Visiting Artist, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
2005 Artist-in-Residence, Plane Space, NY
2000 Robert Irwin & Susan Hyde Benteen Art Projects Grant, Santa Cruz, CA
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VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2019 KHM x MMM Lecture Series, Moderna Museet, Malmö SE
2012 Visiting Artist Panel Discussion, Albright College, Reading, PA
2012 Visiting Artist, Brooklyn College Sculpture I, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Visiting Artist Lecture, State University of NY Purchase, Purchase, NY
2009 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
2005 Artist’s Lecture, Bowdoin College Undergrad Seminar @ Plane Space, NY