SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

Lifelike, Walker Art Center, group

2011

Paradise, Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA solo

The Digital Eye, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA

Selections, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR solo

The Fair, Lawrimore Project, Vancouver BC, Canada

Pulse, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Miami FL

artMRKT, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, San Francisco CA

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Lawrimore Project, Los Angeles CA

Selections, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR

2010

110%, Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA solo

Now WHAT?, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (12/10-3/11)

Pulse, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Miami FL

Taking Pictures, Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA solo

Northwest Art Editions, Open Satellite, Bellevue WA

Design Meets Art, The Art Stable, Seattle WA

The Arc of Picasso, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA

Re-Present, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR

Vantage, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver WA

Intellectual Property, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle WA

2009

The 9th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA

Business Edition, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY

Seattle Public Utilities: Northwest Emerging Artists Portable Works, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle WA

2008

Isaac Layman: 2008 Betty Bowen Award Winner, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA solo

Photographs from Inside a Whale, Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA solo

Outta My Light!: Picturing the Processes of Photography, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA

The Terrible Twos: A Lawrimore Project Biennial, Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA

2007

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Photographer, Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA solo

Aqua Art Wynwood, Lawrimore Project, Miami FL

Still Life, Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland OR

In focus: Seattle Galleries at SAM Gallery: SOIL, SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA

2006

Aqua Art Miami, SOIL Art Gallery, Miami FL

Façade, SOIL Art Gallery, Seattle WA

SOIL New Member Exhibition, SOIL Art Gallery, Seattle WA

2005

Aqua Art Miami, SOIL Art Gallery, Miami, FL

Storyboards, Hugo House, Seattle WA solo

Portraits, Crawl Space Gallery, Seattle WA solo

2004

2004 National Photography Competition, SoHo Photo Gallery, New York NY.

Juror: Lyle Rexer, critic, New York Times, Art in America

2003

UW School of Art Open, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle WA

16x20, The Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA; New Zealand, Tasmania.

B.F.A Thesis Exhibition, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle WA

Photograms, Trofeo Gallery, Seattle WA solo

Photographs, Hiroki, Seattle WA solo

Object Participation, Hiroki, Seattle WA solo

Inaugural Show, Trofeo Gallery, Seattle WA

Finding Patterns in Chaos, Mohala Arts Gallery, Seattle WA

2002

S.A.P.R.IX Fall Exhibition, Palazzo Pio, Rome Italy

Installations, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle WA

2001

UW School of Art Open, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle WA

Juror: Greg Kucera, Greg Kucera Gallery

ArtDrill, Sandpoint Naval Base, Seattle WA

2000

Spring Show, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley WA

1999

Powerlines, Rosebud, Seattle WA solo

1998

Choochokam Open, Bayview Gallery, Bayview WA

1997

Isaac Layman, Bayview Gallery, Bayview WA solo

 

AWARDS and HONORS

2011

Contemporary Northwest Art Award finalist, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR

2010

2010 CityArtists Project Award, Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, King County, WA

2009

2009 Individual Artist Project Award, 4Culture, King County, WA

Brink Award finalist, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA

2008

Betty Bowen Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA

Public Artist Roster, Washington State Arts Commission’s Art in Public Places program

2003

Juror’s Award, UW School of Art Open. Juror: Esther Claypool, Esther Claypool Gallery

3rd Place, 16 x 20. Juror: Elizabeth Brown, Chief Curator, Henry Art Gallery

1998

Best in Show, Choochokam Open. Juror: Brian Wallace, Curator, Bellevue Art Museum

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

4Culture and King County Public Art Collection, King County, WA

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA

Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston TX

Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami FL

Monsen Collection of Photography, Seattle WA

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA

Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection, City of Seattle WA

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA

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