Education

2017 MFA in Studio Art,  State University of New York, Albany, NY

2011 BFA in Studio Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Exhibitions (Group)

2021 Sunrise Sunset, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY

2020 Holiday, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY

Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY (Juror: Susan Cross, Senior Curator at MASS MoCA)  

Show #2, The Hallway/Second St. Studios, Troy, NY

Northern Lights, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY 

2019 Holiday, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY

Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (Juror: Victoria Palermo, artist, Upstate New York)

Take Back the Walls, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY (Juror: Karlos Carcamo, artist, New York, NY) 

Ear to the ground, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT (curated by Julie Torres)

2018 BIG Holiday Show, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY

Two-Person Exhibition, Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Oneonta, NY (with painter, Sarah Knill)

Mad Collar Party, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY

Projections, Third Eye Gallery, Hoosick Falls, NY

True North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY

Creature, LIC Arts Open Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2017 Nasty Women of the North Exhibition, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY

Mad Collar Party, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY

UAlbany MFA Exhibition, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY

POWER, APR/Boor Sculpture Studio, SUNY Albany,  Albany, NY

2015 Lincoln Bicycle Art Tour, Tugboat Gallery/Darger HQ, Lincoln, NE

2014 Figure 50, National Showcase of Figurative Art, Online Exhibition  

2013 Tugboat Art Gallery Auction/Fundraiser, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2012 It’s Time to Get Weird-A Lincoln Art and Music Showcase, The P.S. Collective, Omaha, NE

Manufactured Reality, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE

On Paper, Porridge Papers, Lincoln, NE

Freestyle 50, Screen Ink, Lincoln, NE

Bike Art at the Dairy, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO

2011 Creativity in Crisis: A Kent Bellows Studio Benefit Show, The New BLK, Omaha, NE

2010 Biklops Poster Show, Screen Ink, Lincoln, NE

2009 BFA Capstone Exhibition, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE

The Cruelest Month, Tool House, Lincoln, NE

2005 Beating a Dead Horse, 1415 O Street, Lincoln, NE

Teaching Experience

2019-2020 Lecturer, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2018 Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 

2017 Visiting Artist, The Roarke Center, Troy, NY

Adjunct Instructor, State University of New York, Albany NY

2015-2017 Teaching Assistant, State University of New York, Albany NY [instructor of record]

2013-2015 Art Instructor, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE

Related Experience

2019-present Education and Public Engagement Coordinator, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY

2018-2019 Curatorial Assistant, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY

Awards/Grants/Fellowships

2017 Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation Internship, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY

2012 Curator’s Award, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO

2005 Undergraduate and Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE), University of 

Nebraska, Lincoln, NE


Bibliography

2014 Sarah A. Chavez, All Day, Talking. Dancing Girl Press, 2014

Publications as Author

2018Indestructible Body: Figuration in the Work of Alex Bradley Cohen, Louis Fratino, and Tschabalala Self,” Triple Exhibition Brochure, University Art Museum, June, 2018

Artist Lectures/Presentations

2017 Slide Slam, The Teaching Gallery at Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY, November 30

2016 Lecture/Presentation, Combined Media Presentations, State University of New York, Albany, NY, December 5

2010 Pecha Kucha, Vol 2, Bourbon Theater, Lincoln, NE, June 16

Collections

2014 University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE