EDUCATION
MFA in progress, Painting, Montclair State University, 2008-2010
Bachelor of Arts, Painting, State University of New York at Albany, 2005 (studied with David Carbone and Mark Greenwold)
Studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, 2002-2003
HONORS AND AWARDS
Graduate Assistantship, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, 2009
Graduate Citation, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, 2009
First Place in the Fence Select Exhibition, Arts Center of Troy, NY, 2006 (Juror: Nato Thompson, Curator of MassMOCA)
The Roanne Kulakoff Award for Painting, Spring 2006
Art Departmental Award for Drawing and Painting, S.U.N.Y. Albany, 2005
Dean's Commendation for Part-time Students, S.U.N.Y. Albany, NY, Fall 2005
Dean's List, S.U.N.Y. Albany, NY, 2005, 2004, 1999
Presidential Scholarship, 2006, 2005, 2001, 1999
Private Scholarship, University of Rochester, NY, 2005, 2004
University Honors Scholarship, 2005, 2004
Bradley Smith Art Purchase Award for Sculpture, Rochester, NY, 1999
Grant for a 2 year Apprenticeship in Caste Drawing, Lori Harpole, Rochester, NY, 1997, 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Recession Ghosts. Finley Gallery, Montclair, NJ, February 2010
SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Nice to Meet You. Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY, June 16 through July 31, 2010
Super Passage. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, May 2010
The War On Insight. Ed Reilly, Sarah Zar. Finley Gallery, Montclair, NJ, November 2009
Excess Pounds. Index Art Gallery, Newark, NJ, August 15, 2009
Animal Husbandry. Ed Reilly, Sarah Zar and Saydi Kaufman. Finley Gallery, Montclair, NJ, March 2009
I Lost The War. Sarah Zar and Amanda Potter. Finley Gallery, Montclair, NJ, October 2008
Nothing but Drawings, Sketches, Doodles, Wizbangs, and Scallywags, Finley Gallery, Montclair, NJ, October 2008
MFA Student Exhibition, Finley Gallery, Montclair, NJ, September 2008
Antiverse, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, January-February 2008
Songs For The River, Troy, NY, September, 2007
Drawn Close, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, July-August 2007
Ocular Gratification, Exhibition Space, S.U.N.Y. at Albany, NY, April, 2006
Senior Art Show, Exhibition Space, S.U.N.Y. Albany, NY, 2006, 2005, 2004
The Ontario College of Art and Design Exhibition of Selected Student Works, Toronto, CA, Fall 2003
Mike Parsons' Artists off the Walls Show, Toronto, CA, Aug. 2003
Prison Letters, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, Jul.-Aug. 2003
Delire de Proprete, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, May-Jun. 2003
Deserts of Constriction, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, March-April 2003
Grime, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, Jan.-Feb. 2003
The Ouroboros Factory, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, Nov.-Dec. 2002
Okay With Passion, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, Sept.-Oct. 2002
Five Crows From the Volery: selections in ink, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, Jul.- Aug. 2002
Shadows and Fog, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, May-June 2002
The Relayer Show, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, March-April 2002
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Party at Chris's House. Curator Phong Bui. Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NY, Nov.-Dec. 2009
Forever Summer, Denise Bibro Fine Art/ Platform Gallery, NY, NY, June 26-July 3, 2009
From Across The River, Steuben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, Broolyn, NY, Jan. 2009
Major Works By Minors, Athens Cultural Center, NY, October-December, 2007 (Curator: Howard Zar)
Vestuary Operatics - A Spectacle of Decay, St. Anthony's Church, Grand Street Community Arts, Albany, NY, June 2007 (Curators: Michael Oatman and Ryder Cooley)
Fence Show, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, NY, June 2006 (Juror: Nato Thompson, MassMOCA)
Color and Light, Athens Cultural Center, NY, April- May 2006 (Curator: Howard Zar)
Menagerie Art Circus Benefit, Albany Center Galleries, NY, Oct. 2005 (Curators: Jason and Sarah Martinez)
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
Fence Select Juried Exhibition, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, NY, July- August 2006 (juror: Nato Thompson)
INVITED PRESENTER
Montclair State University, MFA website workshop, Montclair, NJ, Winter 2010
Montclair State University, MFA and BFA lectures, "Logical Magicanism", Montclair, NJ, Fall 2009
Montclair State University jewelry class, Unified Design in Metalsmithing, Montclair, NJ, Fall 2009
Kelley Writers House, The language of technology in contemporary post-modern fiction for "After David Foster Wallace", Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 8, 2008
CURATOR
Editorial Crew, On and On Screen, Philadelphia, PA, Spring 2009- Present
Portals and Port-smiths, Finley Gallery, Montclair, NJ, October 2008
Co-curator, The Green Room, Toronto, CA, Nov.-Feb. 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Co-author with Brett Despotovich, Helpmeat, NY Arts Magazine/Art Fairs International, Summer 2010
Contributing Writer, What Do You Believe? (ISBN: 0981739873), Outside the Box Publishing, 2009
Writer/ Consultant, InsideOut Magazine, Hudson River Valley, NY, 2007
Various drawings, Relayer Magazine, Toronto, CA, Jan. - July, 2002
Poetry,"Hazmat Literary Review", Vol.3, Issue 1,(Clevis Hook Press) Rochester, NY, Spring/Summer 1998
SELECTED PERFORMANCE ART
River (Live mural painting performances on ladders with C. Ryder Cooley), Albany Center Gallery, Albany NY, July 4 and 18th, 2008
Parting Ways (Collaboration with R. McPhail and Carolyn Ryder Cooley), Athens, NY, Nov. 2007
Dark Well Serenade (Collaboration with Todd and Carolyn Ryder Cooley), Athens, NY, Oct. 2007
Songs for The River (Collaboration with Carolyn Ryder Cooley), Troy, NY, September, 2007
Crumbling Pier Serenade (Collaboration with Carolyn Ryder Cooley), The Stewart House, Athens, NY, August 2007
Balcony Vignettes (Collaboration with Carolyn Ryder Cooley), Cedar Grove's Fourth Annual Summer Party: Thomas Cole House Benefit Dinner, Athens, NY, July 2007
The 30 Year Haunting (Collaboration with Carolyn Ryder Cooley), Jan Galligan's 30 Year Introspective WORKSPACEd OUT, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY, October 2006
Detournement in 132 Minutes (Collaboration with J. Jackson Zazlo), S.U.N.Y. Albany, NY, September 2006
Spectrum Of The Spirits (Collaboration with Carolyn Ryder Cooley), Spectrum 8 Theater, Albany, N.Y. Sept. 2006
Lyrical Apparitions (Collaboration with Ryder Cooley), Monday Cabaret at The Lark Tavern, Albany, NY, May 2006
Sighing Saws and Ne'er Do Wells (Collaboration with Carolyn Ryder Cooley), Menagerie Art Circus Benefit, The Arts Center of The Capital Region, NY, Oct. 2005
MUSICAL PERFORMANCES with:
Row Raven Row
Shayfer James (occasional guest)
Yula & The Extended Family
The Torcher Chamber Ensemble
The Marionette Roulette
Music, Performance Art and Spacial Design with Ryder Cooley, (Nicole Peyraffitte's Experimental Cabaret, Albany Center Gallery, Spectrum 8 Theaters, and other sorted sites), Albany, NY, 2005- present
FILM
Bit Part Actress, Flood, 2008
Actress, Jason Murphy's "Wolf Priestess", 2007
FASHION
Body design for the charity event "Have a Heart Fashion Gala", For Hurricane Katrina via Magdelina Design, Reverb, Toronto, Ontario, 2004