Born Rochester, Minnesota

Select Solo Exhibitions

  • 2026: Cloak, Drive Thru Art Box, Arts Southeast, Savannah, GA

  • 2025: Fresh Soot, studio pop-up in collaboration with Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA

  • 2024: Percolate, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA

  • 2020: Structure of Comfort, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA

  • 2019: Billie, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2013: Ghost Within, SCAD Arnold Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA, curated by Melissa Messina

  • 2012: Tillandsia Usneoides, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2011: CafeZeum, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA

  • 2010: Astolfi Art, Atlanta, GA

Select Group Exhibitions

  • 2026: Return the Sun, Thompson Savannah, Savannah, GA, curated by Sarah Cherry of Laney Contemporary

  • 2025: Eclectic, University of South Carolina Beaufort, Sea Islands Center Gallery, Beaufort, SC

  • 2025: Don’t You Forget About Me, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA, curated by Will Penny & Sarah Cherry

  • 2024: Here and There, SCAD Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA, curated by Haley Clouser

  • 2023: Look!, Arts Southeast, Ellis Gallery,  Savannah, GA

  • 2023: Summer Selections, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA

  • 2014–2023: Annual Art Auctions, Art Papers Invitational, Atlanta, GA

  • 2020: Onward / Forward, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2017: ArtFields, Lake City, SC

  • 2014: Mushrooms, Moss, and a Movie: Jim Toia, Peter O’Kennedy, and Blanche Nettles Powers, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2013: SECAC 2013 Members’ Exhibition, Juror Nancy Doll, Gatewood Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC

  • 2009: The 24th Tallahassee International, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida

  • Additional group exhibitions at Kim Foster Gallery, SCAD, and regional venues from 2008–2024

Residencies & Fellowships

  • 2024, 2022, 2016, 2015: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

  • 2019, 2017: Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

  • 2018, 2016: Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO — Workshop (Fellowship)

  • 2017: Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY – Fellowship

  • 2010: Ossabaw Foundation, Ossabaw Island, GA

  • 2007: SCAD NYC Studio Residency, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Building, NY

  • 2005–2008: SCAD, Savannah, GA — Academic Fellowship

Commissioned Projects

  • 2025: Mercedes Benz Stadium Collection, Atlanta, GA

  • 2022: Verge Yacht Design, Savannah, GA

  • 2007, 2006, 2004: SCAD, Savannah, GA

Select Curatorial Projects

  • Fresh, 1704Lincoln, Savannah, GA (2015)

  • Christine Sajecki: American Villages, 1704Lincoln (2012)

  • Dayna Thacker and Deb Oden: Whistling in the Dark, 1704Lincoln (2011)

  • Marcus Kenney: State of Nature, 1704Lincoln (2011)

  • Curated exhibitions at Rosewood Contemporary, including artists Yoko Iwanaga, Aliza Lelah, Betsy Cain, Katherine Sandoz (2006–2008)

Collections

  • Mercedes Benz Stadium Collection

  • Savannah College of Art and Design

  • Hotel Indigo

  • Numerous private collections

Select Bibliography

  • Rob Hessler, Savannah Morning News, Aug. 2024

  • Beth Logan, Connect Savannah, June 2024

  • O’Delle Abney, NYC Gallery Openings, YouTube (2012–2014)

  • Mutual Art Magazine 2014

  • Bill Dawers, Savannah Morning News (2012–2013)

  • Alison Hersh, Art & Soul columns, Savannah Morning News (2007–2013)

  • The Week Magazine, March 2012

Education

  • 2008: M.F.A., Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design

  • 1993: M.Ed., Art Education, Georgia Southern University

  • 1989: B.F.A., Illustration, Cum Laude, SCAD