My work is about connection. As someone who has struggled with isolation, which is increasingly common in our hyper-digitized world, creating for me is an act of reaching out. My work is an exercise to touch, to feel, the details in absence, memory, and community that typify the story of living. To share those stories and create a sense of relationship with the unknown.

Education

MFA Photographic Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

BFA Photography Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

Exhibitions

2021 Reunion MFA Group show, Madison, WI

2021 Paper on the River, Paper Discovery Center, Appelton, WI

2021 41st Annual SECURA Fine Arts Exhibition, Trout Museum of Art, WI

2021 Morgan Conservatory Juried Group Exhibition, Cleveland, OH

2021 Redis: Online Exhibition Sergio Gomez Curator of Zhou B Art Center, Chicago

2020 SubjectivelyObjective: Infrastructure, Detroit, MI

2020 Separate/Together: A Collective Exhibition, Daytona Beach, FL

2020 Outside Looking In, Garver Feedmill, Madison, WI

2020 Familiar Words Between Good and Bad, Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI

2020 92nd Annual Student Art Show at the Wisconsin Union Galleries

2020 Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

2019 Society of Photographic Education, Midwest Juried Members Show

2019 Why Mom, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

2019 Now is Not The Time Print Show, Giant Jones Brewing, Madison, WI

2019 Overture Galleries Spring Session Gallery III, Madison, WI

2018 CSA Exhibition, Arts + Literature Library, Madison, WI

2018 Chroma Color Screen Print Edition of 20, MMOCA Madison, WI

2018 First Year Review, Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI

2017 Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art, MFA Exchange Show, Minneapolis, MN

2017 Wally Douma Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2015 Slideluck Photography Show, Austin, TX

2014 Darkroom Coop Annual Review, Austin, TX

2011 Manifest BFA Exhibit, Columbia College Chicago

2011 Necessary Fictions Alumni Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago Library

2011 South Suburban Illinois College Solo Exhibition

2011 Critical Encounters, Columbia College Chicago Library

2011 Contact 19th Century Process Show, LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago IL

2011 Purgatory Warehouse Group Exhibition, Wieser Warehouse Chicago, IL

2010 Art in Mind Group Show, Bricklane Gallery, London, England

Awards/Grants/Fellowships

2018-2020 Network Curatorial Fellowship, School of Education UW Madison, WI

2019 Finalist for Chazen Prize Curated by Glenn Adamson

2019 Summer Workshop Scholarship; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

2018 Madison Arts Commission Grant, City Council of Madison, WI

2018 Professional Development Grant, UW-Madison Art Department, Madison, WI

2018 CSArt: Madison New Work Grant, Arts + Literature Library, Madison, WI

2015 Summer Workshop Scholarship; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

2011 Columbia College Purchase Award, BFA Manifest Show, Chicago, IL

2010 Art Directors Club, Henry Wolf Photography Scholarship

2010 Critical Encounters Spotlight Award, Chicago, IL

2006 Columbia College Chicago Presidential Scholarship, Chicago, IL

2006 Scholastic Art Awards, Gold Key in Photography, Denver, CO

Print Media

2020 Subjectively Objective Volume 7 Collection Book, Detroit, MI

2018 Rum Magazine, Graz, Austria

2017 Aint Bad Magazine, Portfolio Review

2017 Indestructible Energy Zine; Theme: Isolation, Birmingham, England

2016 To Be Determined, self published bike polo zine, Denver, CO

2015 Aint Bad Magazine, Portfolio Review

2010 Colorless Green Ideas, Zine Publication, London, England

Publications as Author

2018 Aint-Bad, What We’ve Found December review: Family of us

2018 Aint-Bad Issue No. 13 Interview of Ian Bates

Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations/Critiques

2019 Colloquium Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2018 Speed Dating, MOCA, Madison, WI