Education
2002 BFA, Painting, Kansas City Art Institute
2009 MFA, Visual Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Selected Exhibitions
2022 - KOA Gallery, Bradford, Pennsylvania
Solo Exhibition - After the Eclipse
2020 - Jim Hayward Fine Arts, Independence, Kansas
Solo Exhibition - Practice What You Love
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
2020 - AdAstra, Independence, Kansas
Public art Commission - ICC Fine Arts Building Mural
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
2023 - present - University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Rice Lake, Wisconsin
Lecturer
2021 - 2022 - University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, Pennsylvania
Visiting Assistant Professor
2019 - 2021 - Independence Community College, Independence, Kansas
Associate Professor
2018 - 2019 - Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
Adjunct Professor
Summer 2018 - Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Visiting Artist Fellow, Graduate Arts Program
Fall 2017 - Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Adjunct Professor
Summer 2017 – Drury University, Springfield, Missouri
Visiting Artist Fellow, Graduate Arts Program
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
2020 - Marking Time, Art in The Age of Mass Incarceration
Harvard Press, Nicole R. Fleetwood
Page 37
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