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education
1998 : B.F.A(Hons) University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
1993: University of Pretoria, Visual Arts, Pretoria, South Africa

honors
Enrique Martínez Celaya Workshop, Whale & Star, Miami, FL, 2010
Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop, FL Division of Cultural Affairs, FL, 2010
Seoul Art Space Geumcheon Residency, Seoul South Korea, 2010
Florida Individual Artist Grant, 2010
Anne McKee Artist Grant, 2010
Mino Paper Art Residency, Mino, Japan, 2009
Best by land choice award, Sculpture Key West, FL, 2009
Sculpture Key West Exhibition Artist funding Grant ,2009

selected solo and two person exhibition
2010: “Tenterhook” Boyden Gallery, St. Mary, MD
A series of sculptures each combined with their own territory in the form of environmental drawings. This series interrogates the role between sculpture and painting and also confronts issues that arise from the dominance of territory, whether through war, occupation, or in the name of freedom, religion, or civilization.

2010: “Flow of Thoughts” PS 333 Gallery, Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Inspired by the writings of Buckminster Fuller, this project includes drawings, relief work and an environment constructed out of geodome sculptures that contemplates the continues incestuous journey of our own thoughts and references and its resemblance to patterns in nature.

2010: "Fragmentary Memory", Artformz, Miami, FL
An exhibition with two installations that consists mainly out of paper that offers a visual meditation on the journey of ancestral genes, codes and memories traveling through cells of generations like a message in a bottle. A reflection on the hidden side of ourselves.

2009: "Trio", Artformz, Wynwood district Miami, FL
A study on the fragility and perseverance of man versus nature and how this leads to the emergence of a grotesque identity. This exhibition consist of three monotone life size sculptures that captures lone man in an environment of solitude.

2007 : "Garden in my Closet", FKCC Gallery, Key West, FL
This environment of ten assemblages and three large collages explore the motif of time. Man and nature are encapsulated in time boxes to explore the imminent closure of their cycle together.

2005 : "Hereditary", Kate Gallery, Key West, FL
A series of assemblages confronting the structure of duplication that stems from our own inner dialogue and the dialogue from our direct environment. Mostly it is the repetition of that which we cannot control, that of genes and disease, that becomes the backdrop for these works.

2003 : "Fore-Mothers". Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, FL Four alters are installed as a place of reverence for narrative which was passed on through generations of mothers in the form of folklore and myths. This duplication of morals are further explored through four transparent screen drawings.

selected group exhibitions
2010:
Open studio in Seoul Art Space Geumcheon Factory. Seoul, Korea
SAPAL Soho Art Space, Miami, FL
Giants in the City, Public Project Botanical Garden, Miami, FL
Ping Pong Art Fair, Collaboration with Irreversible magazine, Basel, Switzerland
2009:
Paper Exhibition Washi Museum, Mino City, Japan
Aqua Art Fair Aqua Wynwood, Miami, FL
Profile Artist, Florida International Magazine launch, Miami, FL
2008:
Making of the Giants, Artformz Gallery, Wynwood district, Miami, FL
Sculpture Key West, Fort Zachary Taylor Park, Key West, FL, Juror: Shamim Momin
Giants in the city, The Knights Foundation, Bayside Park, Miami, FL
New Directions, Artformz Gallery, Miami, FL
2007:
Sculpture Key West West, Martello Towers, Key West, FL, Juror: Mary Ceruti
New Voices, KW Art and Historical Society Museum, Key West, FL
2006:
Robert Frost Exhibition, Robert Frost Museum, Key West FL
Crossing Borders, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL
2005:
Woman and Trauma, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
ArsErotica, Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, FL
2004:
Aids, Three Legged Dog Gallery, Key West, FL
Fall show, Limner Gallery, New York, NY

collections
Jean Carper Private Collection, Key West, FL.
Akari Museum, Mino City, Japan
Mino Cultural Centrum, Mino City, Japan
Mr and Mrs Watanabe Private Collection, Mino City, Japan
Barry D. Briskin, Chair of American Folk Art Museum, Private Collection, NY
Dr. Perry Arnold and Rita Linder, Key West, Florida/ New York, NY
Victoria Lesser Private Collection, North Branch, NY
Ed Reilly Private Collection, New York, NY