EDUCATION:

MFA         New York Academy of Art

BA            SUNY Purchase

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TEACHING:

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2026

• Faculty; Cast Drawing Instructor, Art Students League of New York (Fall, Spring, Summer)

• Faculty; Pen Drawing Instructor, Art Students League of New York (Summer, Fall, Spring)

• Faculty; Life Drawing Instructor, Art Students League of New York (Summer)

• Workshop Instructor, "Silverpoint Reimagined" Art Students League of New York

• Workshop Instructor, "Ballpoint Basics" Art Students League of New York

2025  

• Faculty; Cast Drawing Instructor, Art Students League of New York (Fall, Spring, Summer)

• Faculty; Pen Drawing Instructor, Art Students League of New York (Summer, Fall)

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2024

• Faculty; Cast Drawing Instructor, Art Students League of New York (Fall, Spring, Summer)

• Workshop Instructor, "Ballpoint Basics" Art Students League of New York

• Workshop Instructor, "Ballpoint Figure Drawing" Art Students League of New York 

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2023

• Faculty; Cast Drawing Instructor, Art Students League of New York (Fall, Spring) 

• Substitute Teacher (Life Drawing, Cast Drawing, Painting), Art Students League of New York

• Workshop Instructor, "Silverpoint Bootcamp,"Art Students League of New York

• Substitute Teacher, Life Drawing (Spring Semester), Salmagundi Club

     

2022

• Substitute Teacher (Life Drawing, Cast Drawing), Art Students League

• Teaching Assistant, Art Students League of New York (Frederick Brosen monitor)

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2021

• Adjunct Professor, SURP, New York Academy of Art (teaching Drawing to undergraduate residents)

• MFA Teaching Assistant, New York Academy of Art; assistant to Wade Schuman

• MFA Teaching Assistant, New York Academy of Art , assistant to Marshall Jones

• MFA Teaching assistant, New York Academy of Art, assistant to  Thomas Germano

 

​EXHIBITIONS (GROUP SHOWS):

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2026

• Instructors Salon, Art Students League, New York, NY

• League-X LIC, Long Island City, New York​

• LIC Arts Open Studios, Reis Studios, Long Island City, NY 

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2025​

• Double Exposure: A Survey of Works by New York Art Educators, Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY

• Instructors Salon, Art Students League, New York, NY

• LIC Arts Open Studios, Reis Studios, Long Island City, NY 

• Bakerz Dozen, The Experimental Space, Long Island City, NY

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2024

• Instructors Salon, Art Students League, New York, NY

• Take Home A Nude, Sotheby's (benefitting New York Academy of Art), New York, New York​

• Power Dynamics, Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, NY

• LIC Arts Open Studios, Reis Studios, Long Island City, NY 

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2023

• Compositional Inventions, Manhassat Public Library, Manhassat NY

• Deck The Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York

• LIC Arts Open Studios, Reis Studios, Long Island City, NY 

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2022

• Silver! Equity Gallery/DFN Projects, New York, NY 

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2021

• Blue Review Art Prize (Honorable Mention), Artsy.com / Sugarlift.com 

• Treading Lightly, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York

• MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art

• Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art

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2020 

• Deck The Walls, New York Academy of Art, Online

• Paralells, New York Academy of Art

• Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, Online

• Take Home A Nude, New York Academy of Art

• Spaces, New York Academy of Art

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2019

• Deck The Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York

• Fluidity, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY

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2018 

• Watercolors, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY

• Anatomical Drawing, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY

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2017

• Single Fare 4, Highline Stages, New York, NY

• Spring Art Exhibition, Wix Lounge Chelsea, New York, NY

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2013

• Swipe Magazine Artists, National Arts Club, New York, NY

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2010 

• Swipe!, 25 CPW Gallery, New York, NY

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HONORS AND AWARDS:
 

2021       

• Blue Review Art Prize (Honorable Mention)

• SURP Faculty Award, New York Academy of Art

• 2021 Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Award

• Academy Scholar, New York Academy of Art

• Trustee Scholarship, New York Academy of Art

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2020

• Gally Mayer Patrons Scholar Award, New York Academy of Art

• Academy Scholar, New York Academy of Art

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 

• Sotheby's - Artwork Featured - "New York Academy of Art’s Virtual Tribeca Ball Honors Eric Fischl" April 1, 2021

• Juxtapoz Magazine - "Art in Uncertain Times" April 10, 2020

• WYNC radio, “Guards and Artists” The Leonard Lopate Show March 25, 2010.

• NPR Morning Edition, Margot Adler, ”Museum Guards Swipe The Spotlight” March 22, 2010

• New York Times, "Hoping to Graduate From Guards to Gauguins" March 5, 2010