Education
2012 MFA in Studio Art, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2009 MPH in Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2005 BA in Studio Art & Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
BS in Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Minor in Spanish
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Uncertain Projections, SG Gallery, Venice, IT
2014
An Achronism, Station Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Your Painting Is in Another Castle, Video Game Art Museum, Manifesto-ish.com
2012
Transplant, City Limits Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
20th Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2018
Near Misses, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA (2-person; with Imin Yeh)
2017
SF Book Fair, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
Everyone is Hypnotized: Artists Dérive the Bay Area, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
2016
Monster Drawing Rally 2016, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2015
Crank, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (Juror: Lorelei Stewart, Director, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL)
Introductions 2015, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Parking Lot Art Fair (P.LA.F.), San Francisco, CA
To Whom It May Concern, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
Office Work, StoreFrontLab, San Francisco, CA (3-person exhibition with Carrie Katz and Niki Korth)
Signs for the Public Sphere, Public Art, SGC International 2015, Knoxville, TN
2014
Something Completely Different, City Limits Gallery, Oakland, CA
Survival Adaptations, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA
Survival Adaptations, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stop Being Poor, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dear Tech Industry, We Love You., TEDx: Market Street, DG717 San Francisco, CA
Serial Relations, Museum of the Peninsula, SGC International 2014, Burlingame, CA
Re:MKE, Ramp Gallery, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2013
This Will Never Work, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (Juror: Corrina Peipon, Assistant Curator,
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA)
Belonging: Bay Area Student Film Festival, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Character Profile, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Monster Drawing Rally 2013, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Language - Stanford Multidisciplinary Multimedia Meeting of the Arts, Sciences and Humanities,
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Translocura: Art at the Brink of Madness, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Re:MKE, Portfolio, SGC International 2013, Milwaukee, WI
2012
Iowa Artists 2012: Print, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (curated by Amy Worthen, Curator,
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA [catalogue])
No Printing Necessary, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Why Don't You Talk to Me (?), Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
(2-person exhibition with Rebecca Levitan)
2011
Gridlock - Graduate Student Conference and International Exhibition, Stony Brook University,
Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, AC Institute, Chelsea, NY
Proof, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (Juror: Denise Markonish, Curator, MASS MoCA,
North Adams, MA)
Continuing MFA Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Out of Context, Gallery 454, San Francisco, CA
No Shadows, Queen's Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
2010
Collaborative Appropriation, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Curatorial Projects
2014
VGAM: Laine Nooney, Video Game Art Museum
Summer Camp, Studio 110 Projects, Sausilito, CA
VGAM: Alice Shintani, Video Game Art Museum
Multiply & Conquer, Root Division, SGC International 2014, San Francisco, CA
Serial Relations, Museum of the Peninsula, SGC International 2014, Burlingame, CA
2013
Re:MKE, Portfolio, SGC International 2013, Milwaukee, WI
Residencies & Awards
2016
Visiting Artist Fellowship, Scuola Grafica Internazionale di Venezia, Venice, IT
2015
Residency, Doublewood Denim, San Francisco, CA
Micro Mission 888 Grant, StoreFrontLab, San Francisco, CA
2015-13
Residency, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2014
Digital Residency, Manifesto-ish.com
2012
Outstanding Graduate Student - Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography
2014
Printeresting, "Manual," September, 2014
Adobe Books, "Artist Survival Guide," July, 2014
Candace Cui, "Scenery, A Bay Area Perspective," Mosshouse, February 18, 2014
Andy Cush, "Video Game Art Archive Collects Paintings from Classic Games,"
Animal New York, January 28, 2014
Anthony John Agnello, "This Gallery of Paintings Found in Games is a Thing of Pixelated Beauty,"
A.V. Club, January 16, 2014
2013
Sarah Thibault, "SFAQ Review: This Will Never Work," SFAQ, December 9, 2013
Alyssa Block, "Jon Gourley," Workspace, June, 2013
"Code/Koodi," HESA inprint, (20), http://www.hesainprint.com/
2012
Mark Taylor, "Debauchery and David Lynch: SFAI’s 2012 MFA Exhibition,"
KQED Arts, May 17, 2012
Gold Collective/Root Division, "MFA Now Archive Project," February, 2012
Publications
Video Game Art Archive (blog), 2015-14, http://videogameartarchive.tumblr.com
Barf Sandwich (co-founder, editor), Issue 1: 3-4, Issue 2: 16-17, Issue 5: 3, 14
Lectures & Visiting Artist
2016
"Talk to Me”, Scuola Internazionale di Venezia, Venezia, IT, April 10
2015
"Love Will Tear Us Apart", Special Topics in Visual Studies, visiting speaker, University of California - Berkeley, July 30.
"Love Will Tear Us Apart", The Painting Salon, San Francisco, July 21.
"Plenary Remarks", Office Work: Meeting About Nothing, StoreFrontLab, April 17.
2014
"Career Practice After School", Career Development for Visual Artists,
visiting speaker, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, September 9.
"Resident Artist Talk", Manifesto-ish.com, April 6.
2012
"Monoprint Workshop", Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, October 14.
2011
"I Hate You, Don't Leave Me", Stony Brook University, Department of Cultural Analysis and
Theory AC Institute, Chelsea, NY, October 14
Collections
Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA
Southern Graphics Council International Archive, Terre Haute, IN
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI