Education
2009 M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design (with Honors)
2009 Sheridan Collegiate Teaching Certificate, Brown University
2003 B.A. Yale University (cum laude, with Honors in Art)
2002 Yale Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk
Exhibition Record
2009
East|West Emerging Artist Exchange Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Geography of Imagination Adam House Gallery, New York, NY
Curated by Phong Bui, Publisher of The Brooklyn Rail
Interactive Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence RI
Lather, Rinse, Repeat (as Desired) Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Dialogue: Bauhaus Chace Center, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2008
A Varied Terrain Chace Center, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Graduate Painting Departmental Exhibition Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Boston Young Contemporaries Gallery 808, Boston, MA
Juried by Jackie Gendel, Tom McGrath, and Roger White.2006 Greenwich Academy Visual Arts Faculty Show
Luchsinger Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Creative Works Open Studios Artspace, New Haven, CT 2005 – 2009 Artspace Flatfiles
Artspace, New Haven, CT
2004
Process to Present: Recent Work 2000-2003 (solo) Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton, NJ
2003
Undergraduate Thesis Work Green Hall Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002
Still Wet: Recent work by Molly Christian, Anne Weber, and Gabriela Salazar Maya’s Room, New Haven, CT
Photographs by Gabriela Salazar, Molly Christian, and Elina Fessi Maya’s Room, New Haven, CT
Norfolk School of Art End-of-Summer Show Yale Norfolk School of ArtGallery, Norfolk, CT
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
2009
MacDowell Colony Fellowship
Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
2008
Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
Juried by Ian Berry, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and
Curator at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.
RISD Fellowship
2007 RISD Fellowship
2006 Vermont Studio Center Residency
2005 Keegan Art Fellowship, Greenwich Academy
2003 Berkeley College Arts Prize, Yale University
2002
Ellen Batell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Art
Richter Fellowship for Summer Travel and Research, Yale University
Paul Mellon Grant for Senior Research, Yale University 2000 – 2003 Sudler Fund for the Creative and Performing Arts, Yale University
Curatorial Experience
2009 Lather, Rinse, Repeat (as Desired), Sol Koffler Gallery
Co-curated with Elizabeth Ferrill.
2008 A Varied Terrain, Chace Center
Co-curated the first student show in the new addition to the RISD
Museum, with fellow students Martin Smick and Mayen Alcantara.
Proposals juried by Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art,
RISD Museum.
2007 – 2009
Arthur Loeb Design Science Collection
Assistant Curator
Publications
2006
Lostwriters.net
Art Critic
"Aerosol and Glass: Graffiti and Dale Chihuly, Together at Last," September 19.
"Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 3: Felix Gonzalez-Torres Makes a Cameo in El Barrio,” June 5.
"Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 2: Sorolla and The Hispanic Society," May 18.
"Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 1: An aged Goya keeps it up at the Frick," April 30.
"The Art of Existing from A-Z," April 10.
1999 – 2002
Yale Daily News Magazine
Art and Design Editor 2000 – 2002
Staff (Layout, Art, and Photography) 1999 – 20002001 – 2002 Berkeley-Saybrook College Literary Magazine (Yale University)Co-Editor and Design Editor 2002 Yale Literary Magazine
Cover Art Contributor, Contributor
Professional and Teaching Experience
2007 – 2009 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Instructor of Record, Mixed Media: Painting Without Paint
Teaching Assistant
Painting I
Painting III
Issues in Contemporary Art History
“Roving Critic” Visiting Artist Committee
2005 – 2007 Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT
Keegan Fellow in the Arts
2004 – 2005 Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ
Art Intern
Additional Experience
2001 – 2007 Costume Design
Costume Assistant, Greenwich Academy 2005 – 2007
The Taming of the Shrew, Lucky Penny Children’s Theater, New York, NY 2004
Angels in America, Yale University 2002
The Taming of the Shrew, Yale DRAMAT 2002
Side Man, Yale University 2001
O’Neill at Yale, Yale University 2001
2003 Habitat Bicycle Challenge
Rode bicycle 4,000 miles across North America to benefit Habitat for Humanity; raised $4,000.