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Eugene, Oregon-based photographer (b. 1994) exploring photography as unreliable narration.
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2024 MFA in Art, University of Oregon
2016 BA in Political Science (summa cum laude), DePauw University
2025 Where Does That Flower Bloom, self-published (forthcoming)
2024 Watchers, self-published
2022 Incantations, self-published
2021 Summer Song, self-published
2025 Artist in Residence, Blue Sky Photography Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
2024 Invited Participant, Impromptu Bookmaking Workshop, Void
2023 Shortlist, Lenscratch Student Prize
2023 Shortlist, Urbanautica Institute Awards
2021 Finalist, Film Photo Award – Student Project Award
2019 Grantee, Fulbright Research Grant, Serbia
2017 Shortlist, If You Leave
2017 Shortlist, I.P.F. Photo Prize
2016 Stephen Charles Sellett Award, DePauw University
2016 Dr. Irving Serlin Distinguished Honor Scholar Award, DePauw University
2016 Honorable Mention, Radius Books Book Weekend Scholarship
2015 Phi Beta Kappa, DePauw University
2024 After Cassandra, Solas Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 Beacon, Washburn Gallery, University of Oregon
2024 Renewal, Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
2024 On the Shelf, Filter Space, Chicago, IL. Juried by Clint Woodside
2024 The Overlook, MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Oregon. Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
2024 Poetics of Darkness, Guest Room:Tina Campt & Keisha Scarville, Der Greif
2024 Letters From a Mirage, LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon
2023 (make) belief, Guest Room: Daniel Boetker-Smith & Tanvi Mishra, Der Greif
2023 The Sisyphus Problem, Knight Library Tiny Galleries, University of Oregon
2023 SPE Northwest Members’ Exhibition, Matthews Art Center, Spearfish, SD
2023 Objects of Consequence, Assisi House, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Art For The Isolated
2023 Light Conversation Vol. 4, Oregon Contemporary. Curated by Small Talk Collective
2023 Second Street Pawn & Loan, Center for Art Research, Eugene, OR
2023 Haunted Beach Barbie Jeep, LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon
2022 DEWPOINT, The Humid. Curated by Irina Rozovsky and Mark Steinmetz
2022 Only In Dreams, LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon
2022 Medium Inconvenience, Adell McMillan Gallery, University of Oregon
2022 Notes on Resilience, LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon
2022 2022 Pacific Northwest Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery. Curated by Dru Donovan
2022 My Very Own Private Apocalypse, LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon
2021 now/current/present, Oranbeg, Pratt Institute ARC/online. Curated by John M. O’Toole
2020 Utopia, Castleton University Art Galleries. Curated by Kelly Burgess
2020 Interior Life, Filter Space, Chicago. Curated by Strange Fire Collective
2019 Group Show #61: Loss, Humble Arts Foundation. Curated by Jon Feinstein and Tara Wray
2018 Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Peeler Art Center, DePauw University. Curated by Elsy Benitez
2017 Landscape, Grand and Personal, Southeast Center for Photography. Curated by Eliot Dudik
2017 Guest-Room: Francesco Zanot, Der Greif.
2017 Nothing Special, L.A. Photo Curator. Curated by Bree Lamb
2017 Constructing Narrative, Light Leaked. Curated by Dana Stirling and Yoav Friedlander
2017 I.P.F Photo Prize. House of Vans, London
2017 Group Show #52: Alternative Facts, Humble Arts Foundation. Curated by Jon Feinstein
2024 form.a, Oregon Contemporary. Portland, OR
2022 Photo Zine and Book Fair, Photographic Center Northwest. Seattle, WA
2022 The Extended Ear: An Artist Book Fair, Carnation Contemporary. Portland, OR
2023 Facsimile, Borderline Press & Benschop Books
2020 Goldenrod Zine, Issue 01
2017 Fraction Magazine, Issue 98
2017 Pictures Without Words, Issue 001
2016 Touch.My.Prints, Issue 05
2014 A Midwestern Review, Fall & Spring Issues
2024 The Seattle Times
2018 Newspaper Club
2017 DePauw University
2017 Fotoroom
2017 Mull It Over
2017 Art Narratives
2017 Orion Magazine
2016 Pool Resources
2016 Another Place Magazine
2015 Same Coin Press
2024 “The Overlook.” University of Oregon Scholars’ Bank
2017 “What Democracy Looks Like.” The Prindle Post
2017 “Standing Still in Las Vegas.“ The Prindle Post
2015 “Seeking Out Schrödinger’s Cat.” The Prindle Post
2015 “A Rose in a City Square.” The Prindle Post
2024 “The Overlook.” MFA Terminal Creative Project, University of Oregon
2016 “Where Does That Flower Bloom.” Honor Scholar Program, DePauw University
2016 “Reflections on Ethnic Partition in Post-Dayton Bosnia.” DePauw University
2015 “A Resistance, Remembered? Remembrance, Commemoration and the Parallel System in Prishtina, Kosovo.” SIT Digital Collections, World Learning
2018-2021 Founding Editor, Epistem
2016-2018 Editor, The Prindle Post
2025 “The Overlook.” Society for Photographic Education, national conference (upcoming)
2024 “The Overlook.” Society for Photographic Education, northwest chapter conference
2023 “The Overlook.” Third-Year MFA Presentation, University of Oregon
2023 “The Sisyphus Problem.” Knight Library Tiny Galleries, University of Oregon
2021 “First-Year MFA Presentation.” University of Oregon
2016 “Where Does That Flower Bloom.” Artsfest: Art and Utopia, DePauw University
2016 Political Science Senior Showcase, DePauw University