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EDUCATION

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2024            Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting Major, With Distinction, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB

2022            Bachelor of Fine Arts Transfer Program, Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

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2024            Fresh Paint and New Construction, Art Mûr, Montréal, QC

2024            Surface Surface, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB

2024            Crit Room, Crawlspace Gallery, Calgary, AB
2024            Grad Show, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB

2024            Kaleidoscopic Self Sameness,  Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2023            FINA Show,  Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2023            The Whole Kit and Caboodle, Truck Contemporary, Calgary, AB
2023            Yeehaw Show, Wall Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB

2023            Misremembering Space: Vacant Bodies (Nicole May Jones), Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, AB

2023            Fluorescent Red Gallery: The Second Time, Gallery Crawl, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB

2023            Defining the Proprieties of Extravaganza: Illusion of the Big Square, Gallery Crawl, Alberta University

                    of the Arts, Calgary, AB

2022            Fluorescent Red Gallery, Gallery Crawl, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB

2022            The Return Painting Show, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB

2022            Under Pressure, Year End Student Exhibition, Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB

2022            Uncharted Terrain, Lacombe Arts Centre, Lacombe, AB

2022            18th Annual Agora Conference, Art Exhibition, Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB

2022            2D Technologies and Strategies, Knock Knock Gallery, Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB

2021            Landscapes (Yessenia Delgado and Danika Koester), Knock Knock Gallery, Red  Deer Polytechnic, Red                      Deer, AB

2020            Show Off!, Alberta University of Arts, Calgary, AB

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AWARDS

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2023             Frank Vervoort Memorial Scholarship, Calgary, AB
2023             Jason Lang Scholarship, Calgary, AB

2021             Louise McKinney Scholarship, Alberta, Canada 
2021             Faculty Association of Red Deer College Award for University Transfer Programs, Red Deer

                     Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB
2021             Ian and Hope Cook Sr. Art Study Travel Scholarship, Alberta, Canada 
2020-21        Dean's Honour Roll, Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB
   

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES


2024             Artist Collective Member, Crawlspace Studios, Calgary, AB
2024             Management & Head of Finance, Crawlspace Gallery, Calgary, AB

2024             Grad Show Graphic, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2024             Studio Assistant, Grad Show, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB

2023-24        Management of Independent Gallery, Wall Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2024              Volunteer  Coordinator,  Kaleidoscopic Self Sameness,  Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2023              Volunteer  Coordinator, FINA Show,  Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2023              Volunteer, The Whole Kit and Caboodle, Truck Contemporary, Calgary, AB
2023              Curator for Independent Gallery, Yeehaw Show, Wall Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts Calgary,                           AB

2023              Curator for Independent Gallery, Fluorescent Red Gallery: The Second Time, Gallery Crawl, Alberta

                      University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2023              Curator for Independent Gallery, Defining the Proprieties of Extravaganza: Illusion of the Big Square,

                      Gallery Crawl, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2023              Social Media Management, Fluorescent Red Gallery Collective, Instagram page, Calgary, AB
2022              Curator for Independent Gallery, Fluorescent Red Gallery, Gallery Crawl, Alberta  University of the

                      Arts, Calgary, AB
2022              Volunteer Coordinator, The Return Painting Show, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2022              Arts Summer Program Leader, Red Deer Museum and Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2022              Volunteer Coordinator, Under Pressure, Year End Student Exhibition, Red Deer Museum and Art

                      Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2021              Faculty Hiring Committee, Student representative, Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB
2021              "Singer Sargent: The Impact of Madame X (Virginie Amelie Gautreau)" In 19th Century European   

                      Art, edited by Megan Bylsma, Chapter 7. OER: Open Education Alberta, AB
2021              Alberta Craft Council Member, Calgary, AB 
 

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