| Born 1966 in Indianapolis, Indiana | |
| Lives and works in New York City | |
| Education | |
| 1995 | MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1988 | BFA, Boston University, Boston, MA |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2022 | Recent Paintings, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2018 | Women, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2015 | New Paintings, ACME, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2009 | Barack and Michelle Obama, Deitch Projects, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Everybody Knew That Canadians were the Best Hockey Players, Deitch Projects, New York, NY |
| 2003 | ACME, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 | Deitch Projects, New York, NY |
| 1999 | ACME, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1997 | Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (two person exhibition with Judie Bamber) |
| ACME, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2019 | Kith & Kin, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA |
| Palinopsia, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen | |
| Drawn Together Again, The Flag Foundation, New York | |
| 2017 | The New Baroque, Booth Gallery, New York, NY |
| Really?, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| By the River, ACME, Los Angeles | |
| 2016 | Passage, ACME, Los Angeles |
| Minerva, Cuevas Tilleard Projects, New York | |
| Introspective, Bravin Lee Programs, New York | |
| 2015 | Unrealism, Moore Building, ArtBasel Miami Beach, Curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian |
| 2014 | Convergence, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA |
| Unrealism, Part 1, Fredericks and Freiser, New York, NY | |
| Twenty Years, ACME, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2013 | Totally Gay for Sports, Lodge Gallery, New York, NY |
| Ladies and Gents, Solomon Contemporary, New York, NY | |
| Silhouette, Blackburn 20/20, New York, NY | |
| 2012 | Rich and Cultivated, Sardine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| I Glove You, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA | |
| MIE: A Portrait by 35 Artists, Freight + Volume, New York, NY | |
| 2011 | Cinematic Bodies, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| GOLDMINE: Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA |
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| 2010 | Private Future, Mark Jancou Gallery, New York, NY |
| Casual Male, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA | |
| private(dis)play, COCA, St. Louis, MO; travelled to Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; and The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY | |
| Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Identity in Sports, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
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| Superficiality and Superexcrescence: Surface and Identity in Recent California Art, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles | |
| 2008 | Conceptual Figures, Deitch Projects, New York, NY |
| Out of Shape, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY | |
| 2007 | NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY |
| Celebrity, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ | |
| Fung Wah, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA | |
| 2006 | ArtBasel, Deitch Projects, Basel, Switzerland |
| Stiff, Gallery 40000, Chicago, IL | |
| 2005 | Superstar, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria |
| Postmodern Portraiture, The Logan Collection, Vail, CO | |
| Tete a Tete, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Honeymoon with Romeo, Groeflin/Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Image/Text, G.A.S.P., Boston | |
| 2004 | The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT |
| Monument to Now, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece | |
| She’s Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY | |
| When I think of You I Touch Myself, New York Academy of Art, curated by David Humphrey | |
| Singing My Song, ACME, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2003 | Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Neuberger Berman Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas Cramer, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY | |
| By The Hand of the Father, Luckman Fine Arts Center, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Cher Peintre, Centre Pompidou, Musee National D’Art Moderne, Paris; travelled to Kunsthalle Wien and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA | |
| Post L.A. Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA, curated by Michael Duncan | |
| Enough About Me, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Deb Kass | |
| Supernatural Playground, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy | |
| 2001 | Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy |
| Casino 2001, First Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium | |
| Before They Became Who They Are, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY | |
| 2000 | Recent Acquisitions, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece |
| Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC | |
| Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| 1999 | In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 | Painting From Another Planet, Deitch Projects, New York, NY |
| Transience and Sentimentality, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA | |
| 1996 | Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| Subject/ Object, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA | |
| 1995 | Realm of Morpheus: Dream Image in Art, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| Self-Portrayal, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Vital Signs, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA | |
| ACME Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1994 | House of Styles, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Figuratively Speaking, Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Hot Crop, Claremont Mckenna College Gallery, Claremont, CA | |
| 1990 | Figures, Faces, and Body Parts, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY |
| Awards and Honors | |
| 2019 | Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 2006 | Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 2001 | Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 1999 | Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant |
| 1989 | Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant |
| 1988 | Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant |
| Collections | |
| The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT | |
| The Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC | |
| The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA | |
| Teaching Experience | |
| 2005 – present | Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY, Associate Professor |
| 2003 – present | New York Academy of Art, New York, Adjunct Faculty, Visiting Senior Critic |
| 2009 – 2018 | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Visiting Associate Professor |
| 2000 – 2005 | Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT, Assistant Professor |
| 1996 – 2000 | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, Full Time Painting Faculty |
| 1995 – 1996 | Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA, Painting Instructor |
| 1995 – 1996 | University of California Los Angeles, Painting Department Technician |
| 1993 – 1995 | University of California Los Angeles, Teaching Assistant |
| Lectures and Panel Discussions | |
| 2019 | Panelist, The Young and Evil, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Cooper Union for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA |
| 2014 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA |
| Lecture, “Rembrandt’s Lady with a Pink,” Portraits in Words: The New European Paintings Galleries, 1250–1800,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA | |
| Panelist, “The Figure in Flux,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2012 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA | |
| 2011 | Moderator, George Tooker, Panel Discussion at DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2010 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Parsons School of Design, New York |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, American University, Washington, DC | |
| 2009 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Boston University, Boston, MA | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Lyme Academy, Old Lyme, CT | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MO | |
| 2008 | Distinguished Fellow in Painting Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| Panelist, “Conceptual Figures,” organized by Ad Hoc Vox, Deitch Projects, New York, NY | |
| Atlantic Lecturer, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Tyler School of Art and Design, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY | |
| 2007 | Panelist, “Fan Fictions,” organized by Ad Hoc Vox, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Hunter College, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, The Claire Trevor School of Art, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS | |
| 2005 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Parson School of Design, New York, NY |
| 2004 | Panelist, “The Charged Image,” The Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, moderated by Robert Rosenblum |
| Lecture: “Tastelessness and Taste in Contemporary Art,” University of Hartford, Hartford, CT | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MO | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2003 | Visiting Artist Lecture, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, The Graduate School of Figurative Art, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY | |
| 2002 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Boston University, Boston, MA | |
| 2001 | Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA |
| 2000 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA |
| Panelist, “The Shaping of the Artist in the Institution,” Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, moderated by Howard Singerman | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH | |
| 1999 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, MA |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA | |