RESUME

Curriculum Vitae

MFA   School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                                   

BA       University of California, Santa Cruz, California                                                   

Residencies

2023   Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

2022   Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia

            Soaring Gardens, Laceyville, Pennsylvania

Solo Exhibitions

2026   The Origin of Species (working title), Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

2025   TBD, Crary Gallery, Warren, Pennsylvania

2024   Folk Tails, Robert T Wright Gallery, College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois

2021   Folly, Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee

2017   Heroic Painting, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee

2016   Heroic Painting, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky

2015   Ectoplasm from the Underworld, The Bike Room, Chicago, Illinois

           Ryan Richey: Ghostbuster, The Newhart Promenade, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois (curator)

2012   The Failure of Rational Thought, The Bike Room, Chicago, Illinois

2011   Meat for the Siren, Gallery UNO, Chicago, Illinois

2009   Christian Rieben: Recent Work, Gallery 73, Belgrade, Serbia

           Phallusy, Stumptown Gallery, Alma, Wisconsin

           Friend of Dorothy, Gallery UNO, Chicago, Illinois

2007   How To Make a Painting, Gallery UNO, Chicago, Illinois

Selected Group Exhibitions

 2024   Moreover: 50 Paintings, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

           Thunderdomesticity: The F-Word, No. 7 Center Gallery, Vermillion, South Dakota

           TMA Contemporary, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, Wisconsin

           Arbeiten internationaler Künstler, Gallery UNO Projektraum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

           Faculty Exhibition, Lawton Gallery, Unniveristy of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin

2022   What Strange Water, What Strange Air, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina

 2021   If It Ain’t Baroque, William King Museum, Abingdon, Virginia

           FLEX, Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee

          Destruction Before Creation, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee

2019   The Rejects, Coldbench.com, online curated exhibition

2018   The Face of Danger, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee

           Wherefore Art Thou Romeo, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee

           Ciao: Virgin Disaster, Il Museo, Spannocchia, Tuscany, Italy

           National Juried Exhibition, Knoxville Alliance, Knoxville, Tennessee

2017   Side by Side: Warhol and the Body, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee

2015   Marks from Sparks, Beverly Art Center, Beverly, Illinois

           Prism Walls: Sexual Identity and the Expression of Desire, The Newhart Promenade, Loyola University, 

           Chicago, Illinois (curator)

           Affordable Art Fair, Gallery Uno Berlin, London, England

2014   Surrealism and War, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois

            Art of it All, Featured Artist, Shy Rabbit, Online Exhibition 

            Review, Reflect, The Newhart Promenade, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

2013   More than Naked, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois (curator)

2012   Ordinacija #3, Inex Film, Belgrade, Serbia

            Midway Art Fair, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

            Faculty Biennale, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

2011   Studio Art Faculty Exhibit, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois

2010   Faculty Biennale: Outside the Classroom, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

2008   Berliner Liste, Cumberland Haus, Berlin, Germany

            Make Me an Offer, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, Illinois

            Summer Show, Castello di Santa Severa, Italy

            Secret Lives Revealed, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

            Kewaunee Art Fair, Voda Gallerie, Kewaunee, Wisconsin

            Living Room Paintings, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2007   One by One, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

            Studio Art Faculty Exhibit, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 

            (Un)restricted, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2006   Balls Out, 518 Erie, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (curator)

           Fantastical Dreams and Primitive Desires, Thesis Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois

2005   Love 8, Gallery X, Chicago, Illinois

          (W)holeness, Gallery 1926, Chicago, Illinois (curator)

          Fluid Motion, Chicago Theater Building, Chicago, Illinois

2004   Thesis Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois

Employment:

East Tennessee State University

2016-2022     Visiting Assistant Professor, Painting

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2007-2018                 Early College Program Faculty

2006                           Roving Substitute Professor

Fall 2005                    Teaching Assistant, First Year Program

Summer 2005           Teaching Assistant, Advanced Painting

Spring 2005              Teaching Assistant, Multi-level Painting

Loyola University, Chicago

2008 - 2016  Instructor, Department of Fine and Performing Arts

College of DuPage

 2007-2013     Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts Department