Curriculum vitae

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Education

1997 — MFA, Painting, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

1994 — BFA, Painting (Highest Distinction), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1988 — AAS, Illustration, Pratt Institute, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2026 — Telluric, Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH

2026 — Extracted, Armstrong Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH

2025 — Apeiron, Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH

2024 — Vital, Vanderbilt University Center for Art, Enterprise, Public Policy, Nashville, TN

2023 — Vital, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Cambridge, MA

2022 — Alluvial, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2021 — Hydrophilic, Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, CA

2020 — Anthrotopographies, Stockton University, NJ (traveling exhibitions continued 2019)

2018 — Renewal, Tower Hill Botanical Garden, MA

2017 — Unearthed Topographies, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2016 — Axioma & Cortex, Indian Road Gallery, New York, NY

2015 — Resonance II, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2013 — Toxic Art, OU Stevenson Gallery, Chillicothe, OH

2013 — Arborescent, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010 — current, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008 — Harbinger, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003 — Skin Deep, Elmhurst Art Museum, IL

2002 — Fabrication, Elliot Smith Contemporary, St. Louis, MO

1999 — New Work, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2026 — Ohio Now: State of Nature, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, OH

2026 — Ohio Thrives, Ohio Arts Council Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH

2026 — Sustainable Expressions, Treehouse, London, UK

2025 — Ohio Now: State of Nature, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

2025 — Our Changing Landscape: Life in the Anthropocene, Ohio Wesleyan University

2024 — Seeing Red, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

2024 — The World in Which We Live, Miami University Art Museum, OH

2023 — New Geologic Epoch, ecoartspace (online)

2023 — New Pigment Display, Forbes Pigment Collection, Harvard Art Museum

2023 — Original Thinkers, Telluride Arts, CO

2023 — I Am Water, Palo Alto Art Center, CA

2022 — If Not Now, Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center, VA

2021 — Art. Sustainability. Peace., UNESCO patronage (virtual, Vienna)

2021 — Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, Gregory Allicar Museum, CO

2020 — Unsustainable: A Planet in Crisis, Ewing Gallery of Art, TN

2020 — Change, National Geographic / Lindblad Expedition, Antarctica

2020 — Ecotopian Library, Boulder / New York (traveling)

2019 — Art Now 2019: Metamorphosis, Hearst Tower, NY

2019 — Upstanders, Holocaust and Humanity Center, Cincinnati, OH

2019 — Pairs, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY

2018 — Masters of Drawing, Alden B. Dow Museum, MI

2017 — Save The Earth, Ordos Exhibition Center, Inner Mongolia

2016 — Save The Earth, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY

2016 — The Body, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY

Collaborative Projects (Selected)

2008–Present — Planet Panorama I–II, with Dr. Mangala Sharma & Dr. Thomas Statler

Installed internationally including NASA Goddard Visitor Center (MD), Ottawa RASC (Canada), Bishop Museum (HI), Science Center of Iowa, St. Louis Science Center, and others

Exhibitions Curated

2016 — Chicago Paints, Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University

Collections (Selected)

Forbes Pigment Collection, Harvard Art Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu

Department of the Interior, Washington D.C.

Bank of America, NYC

Citizens Bank, Boston

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Northwestern University

Union League Club of Chicago

Hilton Corporation

Leipzig University, Germany

Chubu University, Japan

Newmont Corporation

Elmhurst Art Museum

Accenture Health

Awards, Grants & Fellowships (Selected)

2026 — STEAM Star Award, COSI, Columbus, OH

2025 — Kohei Miura Visiting Professor, Chubu University, Japan

2024 — Distinguished Professor of Art, Ohio University

2024 — 1804 Grant: Carbon and Creativity ($50,000), Ohio University

2023 — BIL Fund ($3.6M), ODNR/OSM, Columbus, OH

2023 — Sugar Bush Foundation Grant ($50,000)

2022 — Sugar Bush Foundation Grant ($50,000)

2021 — Sugar Bush Foundation Grant ($42,000)

2020 — Sugar Bush Foundation Grant ($48,000)

2019 — AMLER/PILOT Fund ($1.8M), ODNR

2018 — Baker Award ($11,948), Ohio University

2018 — Kickstarter Project Funded ($33,000)

2017 — Sugar Bush Foundation Grant ($50,000)

2016 — University Professor Award, Ohio University

2003 — Artist of the Month, The Artist’s Magazine

1995–1997 — Northwestern University Fellowships & Scholarships (multiple awards)

1994 — Amsden Art History Book Award, University of Kansas

Publications & Press (Selected)

2024 — Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, Intellect Books (feature)

2023 — Earthkeepers Handbook, ecoartspace publication

2023–2026 — Features in Hyperallergic, CNN, National Geographic, Smithsonian-related coverage, PBS/NBC, and major environmental art publications

Selected media coverage includes:

• Hyperallergic (2023)

• CNN feature on pollution-derived pigments (2022)

• National Geographic coverage of reclaimed pigment practice (2020)

• Multiple documentary and film features (Toxic Art, Rivers Are Life)

• Harvard University Center for the Environment feature (2023)

Lectures, Keynotes & Visiting Artist Engagements (Selected)

2026 — Grace Farms Foundation (Design for Freedom Summit), Cambridge University panel

2025 — Canton Museum of Art artist talk

2024 — Vanderbilt University workshop and lecture

2023 — Original Thinkers Festival (virtual talk)

2022 — Keynotes: Mining Reclamation Conference (CO); International Sustainability Conference (Malaysia)

2021 — Colorado State University (virtual workshop), Chautauqua School of Art (lecture)

2020 — Union League Club of Chicago lecture; Stockton University keynote

2019 — Wexner Center for the Arts; CAA Conference panelist; SMFA Tufts keynote

2018 — United Nations Sustainable Development Conference keynote

2017 — TEDx Warwick talk (UK)

Academic Appointments

2024–Present — Distinguished Professor of Art, Ohio University

2022–Present — Area Chair, Digital Art + Technology, Ohio University

2014–Present — Professor of Art, School of Art + Design, Ohio University

2014–Present — Area Chair, Painting + Drawing, Ohio University

2007–2014 — Associate Professor of Art / Chair of Foundations / Assistant Director, Ohio University

2003–2007 — Assistant Professor of Art, Ohio University

2000–2003 — Assistant Professor of Art / Core Coordinator, Washington University in St. Louis

1999–2000 — Full-Time Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis

1996–1997 — Instructor / Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University