Education
2002 BFA, Painting, Kansas City Art Institute
2009 MFA, Visual Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Selected Exhibitions
2018 – PAC Gallery, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Solo Exhibition – The Sun Will Rise and The Sun Will Set Forever
2017 – Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, New York
Group Exhibition – State Goods, Art in The Era of Mass Incarceration
2016 – Marshall Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
Group Exhibition - Planet Nine: Displacement
Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
2015 – Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
Tablula Rasa Gallery, Rahway, New Jersey
Solo Exhibition - All These Things
2014 – Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Group Exhibition – Ready or Not
Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Gallery, Somerville, New Jersey
Group Exhibition – RVCC Faculty
2013 - AMAG, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York
Group Exhibition - Faculty Show
Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - New Beginnings
RSI Bank, Rahway, New Jersey
Juried Exhibition - Celebration
2012 - Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
The Gallery at Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - Community
Wiseman Gallery at Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon
Group Exhibition - The 99%
2011 - Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - Faculty Exhibition
2010 – AMAG, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York
Group Exhibition – Light, Camera, Action
Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey
Group Exhibition – LUMEN
Artist Trifecta, Atlanta, Georgia
Solo Exhibition – The Reel
2009 - The Writers Place, Kansas City, Missouri
Group Exhibition - Internal Documents
Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group Exhibition – Thesis Exhibition
2008 - Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - Doppelganger
ISE Gallery, New York, New York
Group Exhibition - Summer Student Exhibition
2007 - Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - First Year Exhibition
2006 - Central Missouri State, Warrensburg, Missouri
Group Exhibition - American Democracy Project
The Bank, Kansas City, Missouri
Group Exhibition - Studio Residents Exhibition
Fahrenheit, Kansas City, Missouri
Benefit Auction - Cassanova Debutant Ball
Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, Missouri
Solo Exhibition - Artificial Flavor, spectacle
2005 - Epsten Gallery, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Juried Exhibition - Urban/ Suburban
2004 - The Cube at Becco, Kansas City, Missouri
Solo Exhibition - Borderline Illegal
2002 – H&R Bloch Art Space, Kansas City, Missouri
Juried Exhibition – BFA Exhibition
Public Art Commissions
2014 – Rahway Arts District, Rahway, New Jersey
Public Art Commission – Rahway Mural Lab
2013 - Art in Odd Places, New York, New York
Public Art Commission - Numbers, Wallart
Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey
Public Art Commission – ART
2010 - Flux Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
Public Art Commission - Vibrating Pictorial Field of Vision
2007 - Avenue of the Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
Public Art Commission – Sculpture Garden, Wildflowers
2006 - Art in Odd Places, New York, New York
Public Art Commission - Outdoor Animals
Teaching Experience
Fall 2017 - Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Adjunct Professor
Summer 2017 – Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Visiting Artist Fellow, MART
Spring 2017 - South Avenue Arts, Garwood, New Jersey
Instructor
2015 - 2017 – Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice, Newark, New Jersey
Lecturer, NJ-STEP
2011 – 2017 – Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, New Jersey
Adjunct Professor
2010 - 2017 – Centenary University, School of Professional Studies, Hackettstown, New Jersey
Adjunct Professor
2013 – 2016 – St Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York
Adjunct Professor
2010 – 2016 – Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey
Instructor
2007 – 2009 - Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Instructor
Awards and Residencies
2016 – RVCC Adjunct Faculty Research Grant, Branchburg, NJ
Complex Stories
2012 – RSI Bank Juried Exhibition, Rahway, NJ
2nd Prize Award for Excellence
2007 – Mason Gross School of the Arts, Kansas City, MO
Video Scholarship
2005 – Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO
Studio Residency
Publications
2018 – Teaching Artist Journal, Taylor & Francis
Orange is the New Who: Reflections on Teaching a College Level Art Appreciation
Course at Six New Jersey State Prisons
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Jc6fBhxzeIbHP9vZuBki/full
Press
2017 - STATE GOODS: ART IN THE ERA OF MASS INCARCERATION, NY Times Review
2015 – Marking Time: Prison Art and Activism
2014 - Rahway's Own Episode 2 - J.D. McGuire
2013 - “Wallart Takeover” AiOP 2013 festival
2013 - Culture Crawl Spotlight Artist: J.D. McGuire
2013 - NJ.Com Public art adds interest to downtown Rahway landscape
2002 BFA, Painting, Kansas City Art Institute
2009 MFA, Visual Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Selected Exhibitions
2018 – PAC Gallery, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Solo Exhibition – The Sun Will Rise and The Sun Will Set Forever
2017 – Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, New York
Group Exhibition – State Goods, Art in The Era of Mass Incarceration
2016 – Marshall Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
Group Exhibition - Planet Nine: Displacement
Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
2015 – Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
Tablula Rasa Gallery, Rahway, New Jersey
Solo Exhibition - All These Things
2014 – Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Group Exhibition – Ready or Not
Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Gallery, Somerville, New Jersey
Group Exhibition – RVCC Faculty
2013 - AMAG, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York
Group Exhibition - Faculty Show
Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - New Beginnings
RSI Bank, Rahway, New Jersey
Juried Exhibition - Celebration
2012 - Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - The Art Faculty Exhibition
The Gallery at Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - Community
Wiseman Gallery at Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon
Group Exhibition - The 99%
2011 - Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, Branchburg, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - Faculty Exhibition
2010 – AMAG, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York
Group Exhibition – Light, Camera, Action
Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey
Group Exhibition – LUMEN
Artist Trifecta, Atlanta, Georgia
Solo Exhibition – The Reel
2009 - The Writers Place, Kansas City, Missouri
Group Exhibition - Internal Documents
Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group Exhibition – Thesis Exhibition
2008 - Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - Doppelganger
ISE Gallery, New York, New York
Group Exhibition - Summer Student Exhibition
2007 - Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group Exhibition - First Year Exhibition
2006 - Central Missouri State, Warrensburg, Missouri
Group Exhibition - American Democracy Project
The Bank, Kansas City, Missouri
Group Exhibition - Studio Residents Exhibition
Fahrenheit, Kansas City, Missouri
Benefit Auction - Cassanova Debutant Ball
Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, Missouri
Solo Exhibition - Artificial Flavor, spectacle
2005 - Epsten Gallery, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Juried Exhibition - Urban/ Suburban
2004 - The Cube at Becco, Kansas City, Missouri
Solo Exhibition - Borderline Illegal
2002 – H&R Bloch Art Space, Kansas City, Missouri
Juried Exhibition – BFA Exhibition
Public Art Commissions
2014 – Rahway Arts District, Rahway, New Jersey
Public Art Commission – Rahway Mural Lab
2013 - Art in Odd Places, New York, New York
Public Art Commission - Numbers, Wallart
Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey
Public Art Commission – ART
2010 - Flux Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
Public Art Commission - Vibrating Pictorial Field of Vision
2007 - Avenue of the Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
Public Art Commission – Sculpture Garden, Wildflowers
2006 - Art in Odd Places, New York, New York
Public Art Commission - Outdoor Animals
Teaching Experience
Fall 2017 - Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Adjunct Professor
Summer 2017 – Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Visiting Artist Fellow, MART
Spring 2017 - South Avenue Arts, Garwood, New Jersey
Instructor
2015 - 2017 – Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice, Newark, New Jersey
Lecturer, NJ-STEP
2011 – 2017 – Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, New Jersey
Adjunct Professor
2010 - 2017 – Centenary University, School of Professional Studies, Hackettstown, New Jersey
Adjunct Professor
2013 – 2016 – St Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York
Adjunct Professor
2010 – 2016 – Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey
Instructor
2007 – 2009 - Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Instructor
Awards and Residencies
2016 – RVCC Adjunct Faculty Research Grant, Branchburg, NJ
Complex Stories
2012 – RSI Bank Juried Exhibition, Rahway, NJ
2nd Prize Award for Excellence
2007 – Mason Gross School of the Arts, Kansas City, MO
Video Scholarship
2005 – Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO
Studio Residency
Publications
2018 – Teaching Artist Journal, Taylor & Francis
Orange is the New Who: Reflections on Teaching a College Level Art Appreciation
Course at Six New Jersey State Prisons
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Jc6fBhxzeIbHP9vZuBki/full
Press
2017 - STATE GOODS: ART IN THE ERA OF MASS INCARCERATION, NY Times Review
2015 – Marking Time: Prison Art and Activism
2014 - Rahway's Own Episode 2 - J.D. McGuire
2013 - “Wallart Takeover” AiOP 2013 festival
2013 - Culture Crawl Spotlight Artist: J.D. McGuire
2013 - NJ.Com Public art adds interest to downtown Rahway landscape