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2024 Books, Brecks, San Francisco
Spring Invitational, Capp Street Projects, SF
2023 2023 deYoung Open, DeYoung Museum, SF
AABA6 2023, Incline Gallery, SF
(un)Banned, Arion Press, SF
4th Annual Mothbelly Gallery Fundraiser, SF
And Now I find Myself, ASIF, Nevada City, CA
Here & There, Upper Market Gallery, SF
Inaugural Show @ American Messenger, SF
Animals, CAHS Museum, SF
2022 3rd Annual Mothbelly Gallery Fundraiser, SF
Art Auction 22: Coalition for Homelessness, SOMA Arts, SF
Art Benefit for David Campos, Pop Up Space, SF
2021 5th Anniversary Show, Incline Gallery, SF
2020 2020 deYoung Open, DeYoung Museum, SF
Allowance for Form, Guerrero Gallery, SF
2019 4th Anniversary Show, Incline Gallery, SF
Art Auction 19: Coalition on Homelessness, SOMA Arts, SF
GIFC Oslo, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Norway
Velvet Ropes, Zero Zero Gallery, Los Angeles
Allowance for Form, Guerrero Gallery, SF
2016 The Persistent Nature of Urgency, Mayson Gallery, NYC
New Work, Powell Street Projects, SF
Shelves and Drawers: New Work, Birch, SF
2008 RISD Nor Cal Alumni Biennial, Oakland, CA
2007 One Night Stand, Mina Dresdin Gallery, SF
Artists Go Lightly, Temporary Autonomous Museum(s), SF
Interrupted Process, AMuse Gallery, SF
2006 White Work: Art and Objects, Spin Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2004 Burnoff, Hespe Gallery, SF
Vernissage, SFAI MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason Herbst Pavillion, SF
2003 Amoroso, Diego Rivera Gallery, SF
Pause / Pausa, Palazzo Piccolomini, Pienza, Italy
The Curatorial Eye: Fifteen Perspectives, Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
Fresh, Swell Gallery, SFAI Center for Graduate Studies, SF
2002 Embedded Environments, Melting Point Gallery, SF
Continuing MFA Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, SF
Sapiens, Crucible Steele Gallery, SF
2001 Art for America, Clos Pegas, Calistoga, CA
2000 Heads, The Make-Out Room, SF
1996 New Paintings, The Make-Out Room, SF
1994 New Work, The Latin American Club, SF
1992 Jeannie Pettigrew & Bella Laeyendecker, Theatre Pomegranate Gallery, SF
The Fine Artist & Business (CCSF) Group Show, Southern Exposure Gallery, SF
City College of San Francisco Annual Juried Show, Fort Mason, SF
1991 Rob Fitzgibbon & Jeannie Pettigrew, Theatre Pomegranate Gallery, SF
1990 RISD BFA Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
1985 An Odyssey, Studio 13, San Francisco Art Institute
Experience
2023 Spring Residency, Cow House Studios, Wexford, Ireland (March)
2022-23 Board member and President of Cate Parent Organization, Cate School, Carpinteria, CA
2022 Dignity Moves Murals for SF Tenderloin Temp Housing Site, SF
2020 Presidio Covid Field Hospital Murals (Dr Andrea Tenner, SF Dept of Public Health, SF General Hospital)
2019 Spontaneous Collaborative Mural with Henry Cross, Bar Saru, Naoshima, Japan
2016 Board Member, Hope Mohr Dance
2016 Artist Assistant, Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #280 and Wall Drawing #273, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2012 Artist Assistant, Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #45: Straight Lines 10” (45cm) long, not touching, covering the Wall Evenly spaced,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2006-2012 Preparator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2007 Curator and Exhibition Coordinator, RISD’s One Night Stand, Mina Dresdin Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Artist Assistant, Robert Gober, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1999. Studied Ashtanga Yoga and Pranayama with BNS Iyengar, Mysore, India
1989 Intern, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, MA
1988 Intern, Andrew Stevovich, Brookline, MA
Teaching Experience
2025 Guest Teacher, Advanced Art Classes, Cate School, Carpinteria, CA
2007 Art Institute of Boston, Tutorial Mentor for MFA Candidate, San Francisco
2003-2006 San Francisco Art Institute, Adjunct Continuing Education Professor: Oil Painting, Figure Drawing
2001-2003 San Francisco Unified School District, Substitute Teacher K-12
2000-2001 Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, Art and Design Teacher, SFUSD, San Francisco
2000 UC Berkeley Extension, Figure Drawing Instructor, Berkeley, CA
1997-1999 Redwood High School, Art and Cermaics Teacher, Yearbook Advisor, Editor “Redwood Log,” Sequoia Union High School District, Redwood City
1996 AHA Language School, English Teacher, Prague, Czech Republic
1992-1996 Mid-Peninsula High School, Art Department Chair, Art & Ceramics Teacher, Yearbook Advisor, Annual Student Exhibition Fundraiser, Palo Alto
Education
2002-2004 MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1997-1998 CLAD Teacher Credential, Art, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
1986-1990 BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI