CURRENT EVENTS:
We are supporting herARTS in Action and the With a Drop fundraising campaign. Go to www.herartsinaction.org to learn more and make a tax deductible donation.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Collective Visions,Great River Arts Juried Exhibition
Main Gallery July & August 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 20th, 2017 (6 - 8 pm)
New York- Ulaanbaatar, Blue Moon Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
November 3-10, 2017
We are supporting herARTS in Action and the With a Drop fundraising campaign. Go to www.herartsinaction.org to learn more and make a tax deductible donation.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Collective Visions,Great River Arts Juried Exhibition
Main Gallery July & August 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 20th, 2017 (6 - 8 pm)
New York- Ulaanbaatar, Blue Moon Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
November 3-10, 2017

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS from 2012-2017
AWARDS
JURIED SHOWS
INTERNATIONAL GROUP SHOWS
SOLO
AWARDS
- 2017, Emerging Artist Award, VSA Minnesota/Jerome Foundation Artist with Disability Award.
- 2015, Emerging Artist Award, Central MN Arts Board/McKnight Foundation Individual Artist Award.
JURIED SHOWS
- "In My Dreams" and "Dancing Our Way Through Life," Collective Visions, Great River Arts, Little Falls, MN (Juried by committee)
- "In My Dreams," Spiritual Art, New York Realism Fine Art, Manhattan, NY (Jury: Michael Prettyman, Vasily Zolottsev & Bekzot Kobilov). [Golden Eagle Special Achievement Medal in Romanticism]
- “Dancing the night away,” Visual Arts MN’s Essential Art Exhibition, Paramount Center for the Arts, St. Cloud, MN (Juried by Tricia Heuring).
- 8 pieces, RIPO, Maison du Peuple, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (Juried by committee). [Artistic merit]
- “Water bearer,” “Water wall,” and “Patterns,” Paramount Juried Exhibition, Paramount Visual Arts Center, St. Cloud, MN (Juried by committee).
- Millstream Art Festival, St. Joseph, MN (Juried by committee 2014 & 2015).
- “Pretty but poisonous” and “Life on the volcano,” Summertime, Paramount Visual Arts Center, St. Cloud, MN (Juried by committee).
- “Changing faces,” Rivers, Paramount-St. Germain Gallery, St. Cloud, MN (Juried by Rachel Daly Flentje).
- "Unity," Muslima, International Museum of Women, online (Curated by Samina Ali).
- Cultural perspectives: Color our world, Burnsville Performing Arts Center Gallery, Burnsville, MN (Juried by committee).
- “Whose liberty?” and “Modest stereotype,” Impact: Art as a catalyst for social change, Paramount Visual Arts Center, St. Cloud, MN (Juried by Michael Strand). [Honorable mention]
- “People, not animals,” Fantasy, an international fine arts exhibit, West Park Art Gallery, Manhattan, NY (Jury chair: Michael Prettyman). [Silver medal winner]
INTERNATIONAL GROUP SHOWS
- “Dancing the night away,” New York- Ulaanbaatar, Blue Moon Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (Curators: Berik Kulmamirov & Leila Elias).
- “Tokyo skyline,” New York-Tokyo, NIW Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Curators: Berik Kulmamirov & Leila Elias).
- “A tale of two bridges,” New York-London, HOUSE Gallery, London, England (Curators: Berik Kulmamirov & Leila Elias).
- “Whose liberty?” and “In the country’s fabric,” American visual art, Marina Tsvetaeva Museum and Cultural Center, Moscow, Russia (Curators: Berik Kulmamirov & Leila Elias). [“In the country’s fabric” is in the permanent collection.]
SOLO
- Black Water, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN.
- Walking Water, Whitney Senior Center, St. Cloud, MN.
- Spaces and Places, Exit Metro Realty, Minneapolis, MN.
- Torn: From, about, between, Paramount Visual Arts Center, St. Cloud, MN.
- Water: A catalyst for development, Great River Regional Library, Waite Park, MN.
- On the margins: The dream not yet achieved, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN.
- From white cloud to color the cloud, American Red Cross, St. Cloud, MN.
- The (re)purposeful journey of life, River’s Edge Convention Center, St. Cloud, MN.
- Water is life, Great River Regional Library, Waite Park, MN.