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Education

2016 – M.F.A., Photography, Rhode Island School of Design
2008 – B.F.A., Photography, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
2000 – B.A., Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington

Selected Exhibitions

2025 – Billboard project, Rubus Discolor Project, N. Rosa Parks and N. Interstate Blvd, Portland, OR
2022 – Tanglefoot, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
2019 – Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 – If but a sunbeam strikes too warm, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
2018 – Companion Pieces, Anytime Dept, Cincinnati, OH
2017 – Deception, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
2016 – Vernacular Spectacular, Gelman Gallery at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2016 – Wide Open Spaces, Charles Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR
2016 – Certain Things, Clamp Art, New York, New York
2016 – Prisoner’s Cinema, Gelman Gallery at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2015 – In Our Company, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2015 – RISD Photography Department Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2013 – The News and The Weather, Corner Gallery, PNCA, Portland, OR
2013 – Wood Anniversary: Five Years of Signal Fire, The Art Gym at Marylhurst, Portland, OR
2011 – We Have Begun Our Final Descent, Nationale, Portland, OR
2010 – Dead Roads Make Nice Meadows, Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 – Time Ends Now, Nationale, Portland, OR
2009 – White Noise, Work/Sound Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 – The Escape (a collaboration with Miranda Lehman), PNCA BFA Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 – BFA Thesis Show, PNCA Stevens Studios, Portland, OR

Residencies & Awards

2024 – Faculty Development Grant, Pacific NW College of Art
2022 – Make/Learn/Build Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2021 – Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission & The Ford Family Foundation, OR
2018 – Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Lowell, ME
2017 – Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
2017 – Professional Development Grant, Pacific Northwest College of Art, OR
2016 – Graduate Studies Research Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
2014 – 2016 – Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design
2015 – Signal Fire Wild Open Studios, Paiute Wilderness, Arizona
2013 – Artist in Residence, Pacific Northwest College of Art Photography Department
2010 – Signal Fire Outpost Residency, Mt. Hood National Forest, OR
2007 – Ruth Halverson Memorial Scholarship

Collections

Portable Works Collection, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR

Online

2023- An Interview with Sarah Meadows, St. Agnes Studio
2018 – A New Photography Exhibition Remakes the Order of the Natural World, Humble Arts Foundation
2017 – On Beauty, Humble Arts Foundation

Books

2019 – AMPAMOMP, the Institute For Interspecies Art & Relations
2018 – And light followed the flight of sound, One Day Projects
2011 – 174 Birds, Publication Studio

Curatorial

2023 – Big Camera Show, A group show of undergraduate and graduate student work from around the country using large format film photography, presented at the University of Iowa

2025 – Big Camera Show, A group show of undergraduate and graduate student work from around the country using large format film photography, presented at the University of Iowa and Pacific NW College of Art

Professional

2017-present –  Adjunct Professor, Pacific Northwest College of Art departments of Photography and Liberal Arts
2018-present – Documentation & Production Administrator, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2015 – Adjunct Professor, Rhode Island School of Design department of Photography