CV
EDUCATION
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan.
GRANTS / AWARDS
2016 Danish Arts Foundation. Project grant for "Fallen" and additional sculptures in Flyveplads Sculpture Park in Skovlunde, Denmark.
2006 Jerome Foundation Fellowship Grant.
2001 Schweinfurth Foundation Grant.
2000 Creative Artists Grant from ArtServe Michigan.
1998 Creative Artists Grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan.
1996 Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Grant.
1993 National Endowment for the Arts (Multi-artist project organized by Detroit Focus).
1991 National Endowment for the Arts (Multi-artist project organized by Detroit Focus).
RESIDENCIES
2016 Artist in Residence, Margrethe Reedz School, Ryde, Denmark.
2014 Scholar in Residence, University of Oregon, Overlook Field School, Dalton, Pennsylvania.
2014 Artist in Residence, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, Michigan.
2014 Artist in Residence, Art in Movement, Jutland, Denmark.
2013 Scholar in Residence, University of Oregon, Overlook Field School, Dalton, Pennsylvania.
2007 Environmental Residency Program, I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut.
2006 Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota.
2001 Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mount Vernon, Illinois.
SITED WORK
2019 Scenes From An Eventual Eden "Eldorado - Lille-3000, Lille, France.
2019 Somewhere in Your Blind Spot, Orchestra Hall, Detroit, Michigan.
2017 There's Always Something Here, Breckenridge, Colorado.
2017 Fallen, Flyveplads Sculpture Park, Skovlunde, Denmark.
2016 Shadow Cabin, Ryde, Denmark.
2015 Systema Naturae, OpenArt, Örebro, Sweden.
2014 Sightings and Encounters, Kunsten i Bevælese (Art in Movement), Jutland, Denmark.
2013 Between Now and Then, University of Oregon Overlook Field School, Dalton, Pennsylvania.
2012 Wilderness Drift, Etangs d'art. Broceliande, France
2011 Seigneural Chandelier, Créations sur-le-champ, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
2008 Infiltrations, Chemin d’Art 2008, Saint Flour, France.
Under Outside Input, Humus Park, Parco del Seminario,Pordenone, Italy.
2007 Flow Line, Horizons 2007. Puy de Chambourguet, Besse-et-St-Anastaise, France.
Water Borne, I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut.
2006 Wake, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota.
2005 Pretty Little Blight, Memorial Park, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Compounded Eye, Shihmen Sculpture Festival, Shihmen Reservoir Park, Dashi, Taiwan.
2003 Section Through, Peatpolis.nl, Emmen, The Netherlands.
2001 Grommet, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, Michigan.
Isolated Ground", Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mount Vernon, Illinois.
1998 Five Needles, Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, Michigan.
Curved Ridge Private collection, Bloomfield, Michigan.
Passage, Clark Park, Detroit, Michigan.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 A Shortcut Through the Sun, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, Michigan.
2016 Wild Synthesis, House for Art and Design, Holstebro, Denmark.
2014 Your Back to the Woods, Urban Center for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
2013 Your Back to the Woods, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Beverly Hills, Michigan.
2012 Reckoning a Peripheral Wilderness, Public Pool, Hamtramck, Michigan.
2010 Value-Added Nature, Motor City Brewing Works, Detroit, Michigan.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Beyond Topography, Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield, Michigan.
2021 Notes from the Quarantimes, Marshall Fredricks Museum, Saginaw, Michigan.
2017 To the Ends of the Earth, Detroit Artist's Market. Detroit.
2017 Whistling Past the Undertow, Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit.
2013 Interspecies, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
U Build It, Public Pool, Hamtramck, Michigan.
Constructed Realities, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan.
2012 Retooled/Repackaged, Marygrove College, Detroit.
2011 Scenes From Something Overlooked, Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit.
2009 Living Green; Art Design & Cuisine. Arkitektura In-Situ, Birmingham, Michigan.
2004 Finalist Maquettes. Frederik Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
2003 McGillis/Hoffman. Marygrove College. Detroit, Michigan.
1999 Art and Nature. Paint Creek Center for the Arts. Rochester, Michigan.
LECTURES
2019 College for Creative Studies. Presentation of recent artwork to students.
2016 Hatch Art. Gallery talk to accompany A Shortcut Through the Sun.
2016 House of Design and Art. Discussion to accompany Wild Synthesis.
2014 Public Sphere, Lawrence Technological University. A panel discussion with Mary Miss.
2013 BBAC, Birmingham. Gallery talk to accompany Your Back to the Woods exhibition.
2012 Public Pool, Hamtramck. Gallery talk to accompany Reckoning a Peripheral Wilderness exhibition.
2011 Center Galleries, Detroit. Gallery talk to accompany Scenes from Something Overlooked exhibition.
2009 Arkitektura In-Situ. Lecture to accompany Living Green exhibition.
2006 Franconia Sculpture Park. Public presentation to accompany residency project.
2005 Taipei National University of the Arts. Presentation involving contributing artists to accompany
Shihmen Reservoir Sculpture Exhibition.
2003 Marygrove College, Detroit. Presentation to accompany exhibition.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Upper, "Land of Plenty", Above Magazine, Spring 2010, pgs. 158-165.
Susan Kendzulak, "Junket Heaven for Driftwood Fans", Taipei Times, December 15, 2005, pg. 15.
Kerri Guten Cohen, "Sculptors make case for nature", Detroit Free Press, Octobe15, 2003, pg. 8J.
Christina Kallery, "Nature and un-nature", The Metro Times, September10, 2003, pg. 22.
Nick Sousanis, “Exhibition Reviews”, TheDetroiter.com,October 31, 2003.
Sculpture, Sept. 2001, vol. 20 No. 7. Announcement with photograph of Cedarhurst commission, pg. 5.
WTTW TV Chicago, Illinois, PBS affiliate, June, 2001. Arts Across Illinois, four-minute interview; Cedarhurst Project.
WSIL TV Harrisburg, Illinois, ABC affiliate, April 28, 2001. One minute interview: Cedarhurst project.
Dennis Nawrocki, Art in Detroit Public Places. Great Lakes Books, 1999, pg. 135.
Alice Rhein, "Nature's Gallery", Michigan Monthly, July 1996. Vol. 2, no. 2, pg. 16.
Hobey Echlin, "Surface Tension" The Metro Times, August 23, 1995, pg. 45.