SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Nature of Stereotypes, Cunneen-Hackett Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2023 The Nature of Stereotypes, Studio 89, Highland, NY
2021 Slang Language, Knaus Gallery, Highland, NY
2012 BWAC Invitational, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2000 What We Call Women, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL
1999 Dishy and Domestic Delights, Welles Gallery, Lenox, MA
1997 Female Myths, Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, OH
1997 Untitled, Mars Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Untitled, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
1995 Untitled, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN
1995 Untitled, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
1995 Personal Space, David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL
1995 Untitled, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL
1995 Untitled, Kishwaukee Art Gallery, Kishwaukee College, Malta, IL
1995 Home Sweet Home, Mueller Hall Gallery, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
1994 Untitled, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL
1994 Associations, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
1994 Untitled, World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Losing Heart, Contemporary Art Center of Arlington, Arlington Heights, IL
1994 From The Heart, Mueller Hall Gallery, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
1994 Eat Your Heart Out, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
1991 Inventory, MWMWM Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Affairs of the Heart, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Untitled, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 So Different, So What?, Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY (9wArtists)
2025 While You Were Out, Lace Mill Gallery, Kingston, NY (9wArtists)
2025 Intersections, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY (3-person show)
2024 Holiday Salon Invitational, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2024 Arte Natura, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2023 Vivarium, Pretty Girls Making Cool Shit (virtual)
2023 Respire, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY (Juror: Jennifer McGregor, Independent Curator))
2023 Tickled Pink, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (virtual)
2023 PLAY/FUN, Woodstock Art Association & Museum, NY (Jurors; Melanie & Ryan Cronin, Cronin Gallery, New Paltz, NY)
2022 What in the World?, Denizen Theatre Gallery, New Paltz, NY
2022 A Circle of Horizon Lines, Woodstock Art Association & Museum (Juror: Jess Wilcox, Curator)
2022 Fevered Imagination, Denizen Theater Gallery, New Paltz, NY
2022 Best in Show, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY (virtual)
2021 Strange Figurations, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2021 Luscious. Tasty. Delicious. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2021 Extraordinarily Ordinary Art Exhibition, J. Mane Virtual Gallery (virtual)
2021 Diversia: Nature, Exhibizone.com Online Gallery, Canada (virtual)
2021 Far & Wide, Woodstock Art Association & Museum, NY (Juror: Jane Eckert, Eckert Fine Art in Washington Depot, CT)
2021 Hudson Valley Imprints, Orange County Council for the Arts, NY (Juror: Daniel Belasco, Exec Director, Al Held Fdn)
2021 Yellow, Colors of Humanity Online Art Gallery, PA (virtual)
2020 Your Favorite Color, Gallery 40, Poughkeepsie, NY
2020 WOMEN, Queen City 15, Poughkeepsie, NY
2020 Untitled, Art Bar, Kingston, NY
2019 FOCUS: Illumination, Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, NY (Juror: Joe Concra, Artist, Founder, O+ Festival)
2019 Untitled, Juxtapose Gallery, Rosendale, NY
2019 Arte Natura, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2019 2nd Anniversary Reunion Show, Knaus Gallery, Highland, NY
2018 1st Anniversary Reunion Show, Knaus Gallery, Highland, NY
2017 Mother/Daughter exhibition, Knaus Gallery, Highland, NY (2-person show)
2012 Untitled debut exhibition, Gallery in the Gunks, Pine Bush, NY
2011 Concealment and Disclosure, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Eat/Art, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Water, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Summer Show, Wright Gallery, Northport, MI
2007 Playing with Toys, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Monarch, Diesel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Trash, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Centennial, Carnegie Mellon Fine Arts Building, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Free for All, Diesel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Take it on Faith, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Project Diversity: Under the Rainbow, Tastes Like Chicken Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Danny Simmons, Artist)
2005 Identity, Diesel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 A Fine Romance, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Fabrications, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 YW, Viridian, New York, NY
2004 Girl Fest, A Safe Zone Foundation Gallery, Honolulu, HW
2004 The God Show, Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
2004 Generations ’04, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Feminine Trilogy, Mather Gallery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
2003 Annual Winter Invitational, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Dimensions 2001, Associated Artists, Winston-Salem, NC
2001 Art and Social Justice Exhibition, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend, IN
2001 New Glass and Paintings, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2000 24th Annual Alice & Arthur Baer Art Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
2000 6th Annual Juried Show, Art Guild of Burlington, IA
2000 Rockford and Vicinity Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2000 50th Annual Quad-State Exhibition, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
1998 22nd Annual Alice & Arthur Baer Art Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
1998 Rockford and Vicinity Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1998 Evanston and Vicinity 14th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1998 13th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, John G. Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
1997 Paducah ’97, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
1997 Female Myths, Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, OH (3-person show)
1997 Around the Coyote, DiFalco Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 ARC Regional Fourth Annual Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Three Rivers Exhibition, Saint Francis College, Weatherhead Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
1997 Westmoreland Art Nationals, Westmoreland County College, Latrobe, PA
1996 Evanston and Vicinity 13th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1996 Art and Social Justice Exhibition, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend, IN
1995 DE-FENCES, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA (4-person show)
1995 Art in Celebration of the Season, Gallery 451, Rockford, IL
1995 Paint and Content, Post Gallery, Kansas City, MO (4-person show)
1995 19th Annual Alice & Arthur Baer Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL (Juried by Hamza Walker)
1995 38th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Assn Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
1995 ’95 National Juried Competition, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Untitled, Ohio Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 45th Annual Quad-State Exhibition, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
1995 New American Talent, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX; University of Texas At Permain Basin, Odessa, TX; Grayson County Community College, Denison, TX (Juror: Chris Bruce)
1994 Politically Correct, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Positive Images of Diversity, Margaret Fort Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
1994 Utopian Visions, New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony, IN
1994 New Art Examined ’94, William Engle Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
1994 Self-Possessed, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX (Juried by Lynn Zelevansky)
1994 Unknown Chicago, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1994 Creative Synectics, An Art Place Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Jack & Jill, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Art and Social Justice Exhibition, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend, IN
1994 10th Annual Juried National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1994 LaGrange National Biennial, Chatahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
1994 Expo ’94, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
1994 Sixth Annual National Art Competition University Art Gallery, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO
1994 The Courage Exhibition, Art at the Powerhouse, Cleveland, OH
1994 Philadelphia International Contemporary Art Competition of Old City: Pentimenti, LaPelle & 479 Galleries; Philadelphia, PA
1993 12” x 12”, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
1993 Highlights ‘93, Limner Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Dimensions 1993, Associated Artists, Winston-Salem, NC
1993 Multi-Perspectives, An Art Place Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 20th Year Anniversary Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Beauty and the Beast and other Myths and Fairy Tales, UWM Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1993 17th Annual Fine Arts Competition, Arts Consortium of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1993 CAC National Exhibition, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY
1993 Senses of Sensuality, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Untitled, MurMur Box Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Realism Today, Evansville Museum of Art & Science, Evansville, IN
1993 Biennial Exhibition ‘93, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
1993 BSU National Small Painting & Small Sculpture Exhibition, Boise State University, Boise, ID
1993 Tenth Gallery ’76 National Juried Art Exhibit, Gallery ’76, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA
1993 Faculty Exhibition, Mueller Hall Gallery, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
1993 The Dishman Competition, Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
1993 Parabolic Matter, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Great Midwest International Exhibit, Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO
1992 The 1992 Artwest Open National Competition, Artwest Gallery, Jackson, WY
1992 Rockford & Vicinity Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1992 Juried Exhibition 1992, Akademia Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1992 Second Annual Juried Exhibition, 1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, VA (Juror: Stephen Westfall)
1992 The 35th TAG Annual, Trumball Art Gallery, Warren, OH
1992 Realism Today, Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN (Juror: Penelope Schmidt, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, NYC)
1992 Piss on Passivity, At The Gallery, Chicago, IL (SisterSerpents)
1992 Call it the Blues, University Art Gallery, Center Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1992 Art in the Hospital, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
1992 That’s Nice Dear, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 The Tyro, Red Horse Gallery, Taft, CA
1991 The Sky’s The Limit, Contemporary Art Center of Arlington, Arlington Heights, IL
1991 Artemisia Group Show, 1800 Clybourn, Chicago, IL
1991 Untitled, Aurora University Art Gallery, Aurora, IL
1991 Art Against Dickheads, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL (SisterSerpents)
1991 Artemisia Exchange Show, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 Devotions, Northwest Gallery, Indiana University-Northwest, Gary, IN
1990 Rattle Your Rage, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL /ABC No Rio, New York, NY (SisterSerpents)
1990 Women in Visual Art, Katherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
1989 Members Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Landscapes/Mindscapes, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (Jurors: Edith Alman, Victoria Lautman & Sonia Zaks)
1988 15th Year Anniversary Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 The Intimate Eye, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Rites/Rights of Passage, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL (Juror: Sue Taylor, Curator & Author)
AWARDS/HONORS
2025 Art in the Loft Finalist, Arts Mid-Hudson/Millbrook Winery, Millbrook, NY
2023 Rare Artist Finalist, Everylife Foundation, Washington, DC
2000 Honorable Mention Cash Award, 24th Annual Alice & Arthur Baer Art Competition, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
2000 Honorable Mention, 6th Annual Juried Show, Art Guild of Burlington, IA
1998 Best Figurative Work Cash Award, 22nd Annual Alice & Arthur Baer Art Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
1994 Cash Merit Award, Utopian Visions, New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony, IN
1994 2nd Place Award, Sixth Annual National Art Competition, Northeast Missouri State University Gallery, Kirksville, MO
1993 Certificate of Recognition, 17th Annual Fine Arts Competition, Arts Consortium of Cincinnati, OH
1993 1st Place Cash Award, CAC National Exhibition, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY
1993 3rd Place Award, BSU National Small Painting & Small Sculpture Exhibition, Boise State University, ID
1993 Honorable Mention, The Dishman Competition, Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
1992 Bristol-Myers Squibb Purchase Award, Realism Today, Evansville Museum of Art & Science, Evansville, IN
1987-89 SAIC Endowed Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1986 Samuel Rosenberg Award, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1985 John Porter Award, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1984 Joseph B. Ellis Award, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
WORK IN PUBLIC PLACES
June 2025-Present Bad Seed Cidery, Highland, NY
May-Nov 2025 Millbrook Winery, Millbrook, NY
Sept 2021-Present Hudson House Distillery, Ulster Park, NY
COLLECTIONS
Bank of NY Mellon, New York, NY
Denison University, Granville, OH
Evansville Museum of Art & Science, Evansville, IN
Numerous private and museum collections throughout the United States
BIBLIOGRAPHY
– Bruce Schneider, “Lace Mill Exhibit Celebrates the Variety of Contemporary Painting”, Kingston Wire, Kingston, NY, January 16, 2025
– Clements, Veronica, Interview, Live on Instagram, July 23, 2023
– Diane Piniero-Zucker, “Highland woman’s near-death experience drives daughter to spread awareness of aortic dissections”, Daily Freeman, Front Page-December 5, 2021
– Rowley, Chris, “Gallery in the Gunks”, Shawangunk Journal, Ellenville, NY, November 2012
– MacGregor, Sharon, “Gallery in the Gunks opens in Pine Bush”, Wallkill Valley Times, Newburgh, NY, November 28, 2012
– “New Glass and Paintings”, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, 2001
– “Rockford and Vicinity Exhibition” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 1998
– “50th Annual Quad-State Exhibition”, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL, 2000
– “Rockford and Vicinity Exhibition”, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 1998
– “38th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art”, Chautauqua Art Association Galleries, Chautauqua, NY, 1995
– “New American Talent”, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, 1995
– “Self-Possessed”, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, 1994
– “20th Year Anniversary Show”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1993
– “Landscapes/Mindscapes”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1989
– “15th Year Anniversary Show”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1988
– “Rites/Rights of Passage” Dittmar Gallery, Evanston, IL, 1998
VISITING ARTIST GIGS/INTERVIEWS/ARTIST TALKS
2025–Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, Guest Artist in survey Social Work course
2023–WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL, Interview with Tickled Pink curator, live on Instagram
2023–Studio89, Highland, NY, Artist Talk: The Nature of Stereotypes, live on Facebook
2022–Belvoir Terrace, Lenox, MA, Visiting Artist/Teacher
2021–Hudson House Distillery, West Park, NY, Artist Talk in gallery
2019–Roost Gallery, New Paltz, NY, Creative Conversations Presenter
2005–Humanities Prep New Visions High School, NYC, Visiting Artist: Workshop
2001–Chicago Metropolitan Center, Guest Artist
2000–Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Student Exhibition Juror
2000–Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL, Visiting Artist; Lecture/2-day Workshop
1999–Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Visiting Artist; Lecture/Workshop
1999–Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL, Student Exhibition Juror
1998–International School of Art, Umbria, Italia, One-month Artist Residency
1998–Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, Research Consultant
1997–Denison University, Granville, OH, Visiting Artist; Lecture, Made print in Printmaking Dept
1996–Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Student Exhibition Juror
1995–Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Visiting Artist; Lecture, 2-day Workshop
1995–Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, Visiting Artist; Lecture
1995–Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, IN, Visiting Artist; Exhibit/Lecture-Engendering Images
1994–WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL, Exhibition Juror for Beyond Words
1994–Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL, Visiting Artist; Exhibit/Lecture/Student Exhibition Juror
1993–Oxbow, Saugatauk, MI, Artist in Residence
1991–MacArthur Foundation, Invited Panelist
UNIVERSITY/MUSEUM TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021 Teaching Artist, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York, NY (virtual workshop during covid)
2003-04 Teaching Artist, “Learning Through Art” Program, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1999-01 Lead Teaching Artist, “Park Voyagers” Program, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1998 Figure Drawing Instructor, University of Illinois/Chicago
1997 Drawing & Painting Instructor, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1994-98 Full Time Faculty, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, “Chicago Arts Program”, Chicago, IL
1993-96 Drawing & Painting Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1991-94 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
COMMUNITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021 Teaching Artist, “Airy Knoll Arts Project”, Airy Knoll Arts, Middlebrook, Virginia (virtual)
2014 Teaching Artist, “Project ABLE Co-Director”, Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie, NY
2013-2014 Interdisciplinary Arts Specialist, Ramapo for Children, Rhinebeck, NY
2013-2015 Painting Teacher, Vineyard Commons Senior Community, Highland, NY
2000 Program Director, Gallery 37 in the Parks Program, Chicago, IL
1998-9 Art Dept Chair/Painting Teacher, Belvoir Terrace, Lenox, MA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/COMMUNITY SERVICE
2024 9w Artists, Founder
2023 Highland Inaugural Open Studio Tour (HOST), Co-Founder
2022 Roost Arts Hudson Valley Member, Hudson Valley, NY
2011 Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC, Community Arts Grants Panel, Juror
2009 Space 414, Founding Member, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Brooklyn Artists Collaborative
2004 Artists Collective NYC
2003 Association of Teaching Artists NYC
2002-2010 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
2001-2005 New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER)
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA
1996-2000 New Art Examiner, Board Member/Secretary, Chicago, IL
1998 Department of Cultural Affairs-CAAP Grants Advisory Panel, Juror, Chicago, IL
1996 Illinois Arts Council-Arts-in Education Residency Advisory Panel, Chicago, IL, Juror
1992-2004 College Art Association
1992-2001 Chicago Artists Coalition
1991 MacArthur Foundation Panelist (new art forms research at Randolph Street Gallery), Chicago, IL
1990-1992 SisterSerpents Collective, Chicago, IL (Feminist graffiti art group)
1988-1989 Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Chicago, IL
1988-1990 Artemisia Gallery, Vice President/Search Committee Coordinator, Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
1989 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
1986 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (painting/printmaking major)