Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
2003 Yale University School of Art
M.F.A Department of Painting and Printmaking
2000 Columbia University
B.A. Department of Visual Art, Columbia College
AWARDS & HONORS
2021-22`. Connecticut State University System-Wide BOR Teaching Award
2021-22. Western Connecticut State University Campus Teaching Award
2021. NEA Grant for the Home Project- Faculty Mentor
2019 Provost Teaching Award, Western Connecticut State University
2019 Invited to join a four-year (2019-2023) interdisciplinary international research collaboration funded by CAPES, The Brazilian Office of Postgraduate Studies to start protocols in collaboration on positive emotions, art and neuroscience, and its effect on wellbeing. With Paulo Boggio Sergio, Professor of Neuroscience at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paolo, Brazil, Thalia Wheatley, Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Cornell University, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Professor of Practical Ethics at Duke University, Diana Tamir, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, and June Gruber, Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Colorado Boulder- travel to Alagoas and Amazonia to study quilombolas and indigenous tribes.
2018 Connecticut Commission of the Arts Grant- Painting
2018 Art Residency at The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida
2017 WCSU Grant, towards an art residency at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy
2016 National Art Education Association (NAEA) Golden: Educator and Artist Award
2016 WCSU Grant to study Mokuhanga: Japanese Woodblock Printing, at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY
2015 Steamroller Printmaking Artist for City Wide Open Studios: supported by Artspace, Da Silva Gallery, and Westville Artist Alliance New Haven, CT
2010 Radius Program, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2007 Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020-present. Director of Kathwari Honors Program, Western Connecticut State University
2021-present Associate Professor of Painting / MFA Critic, Western Connecticut State University
2016-2021 Assistant Professor of Painting / MFA Critic, Western Connecticut State University
2012 Adjunct Professor, Connecticut College
2011-2015 Adjunct Professor of Drawing / MFA Critic, Western Connecticut State University
2008 Adjunct Professor, Whittier College
2008-2016 Artist Teacher, Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT
2005 Adjunct Professor, UCONN
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2018 Cayo Hueso, The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida
2018 Day Dreamers, Branford College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2018 Menagerie, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2016 Café con Leche, East Rock Coffee, New Haven, CT
2011 Goatville Excursions, Lulu’s, New Haven, CT
2007 Mi Patria Querida (My Beloved Homeland), Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Group
2022 Lines and Colors, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
2022 Shimmer, Leonhardt Gallery, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
2021 Art in Isolation, Columbia University Teachers College, NY, NY
2019. Strange Truth, Platform Project Space, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY
2018 Ecophilia, Leonhardt Gallery, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
2018 Flatfile Exhibition, Arete Gallery, Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
2018 Chromalicious, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2018 Reflections of Humanity, Dehn Gallery, MCC on Main, Manchester, CT
2018 NatureLab, curated by Eric Wolf, LabSpace, Huntington, NY
2017 Squared x 2, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2016 Monothon, Carriage Barn, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, New Cannan, CT
2016 Squared, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2016 Wonderland, curated by Sue and Phil Knoll, Six Depot, West Stockbridge, MA
2015 By and by... at Home with Sam and Livy, curated by Sarah Fritchey and Rashmi Talpade, The Gallery at Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT
2015 Polysolaris, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2013 Futurecast, curated by Ihrie Means, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2013 Our Expanding Circle, Paper New England, Hartford, CT
2012 5th Anniversary, curated by Susan Classen-Sullivan, MCC on Main, Manchester, CT
2012 Connecticut College, Cummings Art Center, New London, CT
2012 Creativity and Compassion, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
2012 Fur Feather Fin, Vernon Arts Center, Vernon, CT
2012 I See The Moon, Milavec Hakimi Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Pick Two- curated by Timothy Young of the Beinecke Library, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2011 Extraordinary Facilities, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
2010 Radius, curated by Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2008 Drawing, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
2008 Sexy Time: A Group Effort, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Vintage Reserve, Studio 70, New Haven, CT
2008 Uneasy Prospects, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
2008 Focus New Haven, Paper New England, Hartford, CT
2008 Paper II, Bushnell Gallery, Hartford, CT
2007 Slide Slam, curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2007 Show For A Show, Artwell Gallery, Torrington, CT
2006 Ensemble, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2006 Particular Places, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2004 Holiday Shopping, Wallspace, New York, NY
2003 Photography As Model, Wallspace, New York, NY
2003 Metro Area MFA Show, Hunter College, New York, NY
2003 Thesis Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2002 Girls, Girls, Girls, Storefront 1838, New York, NY
2002 Summer, Norfolk Gallery, Norfolk, CT
2000 National Arts Club, New York, NY
1999 Summertime, Massacio Gallery, Montecastello Di Vibio, Italy
ART REVIEWS
2022 Cate McQuaid, Delighting in ‘Lines and Colors’ at Bernay Fine Art, The Boston Globe, June 21
2022 Sharon Mullen, Created against a backdrop of dark times, these works of art ‘Shimmer’ with hope, a healthy dose of whimsy, Berkshire Eagle, Mar 24
2018. Katherine Abbott, ‘Ecophilia’: A show for the love of nature, October 19
2018 Grant Spicer, Poet Artist’s Culture and Creativity, Quaker Campus, February 8
2016 Corsair: New Haven’s new upscale 235-unit apartment complex, where art meets history, New Haven Independent, Sept 4
2015 Crew Steamroll Art on the Street, New Haven Independent, October 19
2013 Christopher Arnott, Art Whips up a Storm, Artscope, Nov/Dec Issue
2012 Susan Dunne, P/NE Paper New England: A 5th Anniversary Look, Hartford Courant, Nov 16
2012 Cara Cifferelli, Milavec Hakimi Gallery Shines Moonlight on Contemporary Artists, NYU Local, Jan 25
2011 Yvette Borja, Extraordinary Facilities Strange, Sexy, Yale Daily News, Jan 28
2008 Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Sex,. Rugs, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Mark Summer’s Arrival- Morgan Lehman Gallery, The Villager, Vol 78 No 4
2008 Judy Birke, Today’s Complex World Fodder, New Haven Register Feb 24
2008 Stephen Vincent Kobasa, Good Looking, New Haven Advocate, Feb 20
2008 Hank Hoffman, Imaginative Painting, at Ely House, Connecticut Art Scene, Feb 14
2007 Cuba Inspires Marques’ Lush Painting, The Arts Paper, Oct Vol 10 No 9
2007 Hank Hoffman, Imagining Cuba, Connecticut Art Scene, May 7
2006 Christopher Arnott, Art School Confidential, New Haven Advocate, Oct 12
CATALOG
2018 by Eric Wolf, The Nature Lab, LabSpace
2007 by Nicholas Laughlin, The Dream of Cuba, Real Art Ways
RESIDENCIES
2019 Trelex Residency, Trelex, Switzerland
2018 The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
2017 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
2009 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT
2007 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
FLAT-FILE
2018-2020 Arete Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006-2020 Artspace, New Haven, CT
INTERVIEW
2018 Robert Reed Teaching Archives, by Cathy Braasch
2011 Gorky’s Granddaughter, by Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy
INVITED WORKSHOP AND LECTURES
2021 Yale University, Color Workshop for Technical Examination of Art, Department of Art History
2021 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Invited Panelist “Explorations of the Mask”
2020 Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, invited to lead a Color Workshop by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
2019 Penn State University, Drawing Workshop
2018 Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Course “Advanced Topics on Emotion and Well Being: Insights From Affective Science and Art Theory/Practice”, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2018 The Studios of Key West, Key West, Artist Lecture and Workshop, Key West, Florida
2018 Yale University, Branford College, Visiting Artist Lecture
2018 UCONN, Visiting Artist Lecture and Critic
2017 MICA, Visiting Artist Lecture and Critic
2016 American Association of University Women, “Reflections of a Family’s Cuban Heritage through Art” Lecture
2016 International Center of Photography, Invited Panelist “The Singular They”
2008 Quinnipiac University, Department of Art, History of Contemporary Art
2008 CUNY-City College, Department of Psychology, Art and the Unconscious
2007 Paier College of Art, Department of Art, History of Contemporary Art
2006 School of Visual Arts, Department of Photography, Junior Seminar
2005 College of Southern Idaho, Department of Art
2003 Yale University, Undergraduate Senior Seminar
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Fluent in reading, writing, speaking, teaching
Portuguese: Conversational in reading, writing, speaking