Education:
MFA: University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts
Yale University, Graduate School of Art, Painting & Drawing
BFA: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Visual Communications
Select Exhibitions & Projects:
Schingoethe Center, Aurora University: Home, Aurora, IL 2023
Art Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2022
Landmark Center North Gallery, St. Paul, MN, 2022
Arrowhead Gallery, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL, 2021
Global Center for Latvian Art, Cesis, Latvia: Diaspora Art from the Permanent Collection; 2020
Logan Center for the Arts, Screenshare Gallery, Chicago, IL: Experimental Animation; 2020
Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL: Fashioning the Self; 2019
South Shore Arts, Munster, IN: Things that go Bump, curated by Bridget Earnshaw Covert; 2019
Logan Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago IL: Ants Don't Have Names; 2019
Cassandra (a film by David Tolchinsky): Artwork featured; 2018
William Pope.l Production, Logan Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Gretel & Hansel; 2018
Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL: Solo Show “Finding Place”; 2018
Co-curator, "Art is Community" Exhibition, Downers Grove Museum; 2018
Black Hawk College, Moline, IL; Solo Show & Artist Talk, 2016
Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL: Solo Show “Residuals”; 2016
33 Contemporary, Chicago, IL: Reinventing Ourselves from Another Point of View; 2016
Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL: Expanding Borders, curated by Joanne Aono; 2016
Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL: Art for Social Change: Behind the Wall; 2016
Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL: Dialogue Chicago: Full Force; 2016
Illinois State Museum, Lockport Gallery, Lockport, IL: The People’s Exhibition; 2015
Museum of Latvian Diaspora Art, Valmiera, Latvia: Diaspora Art Returns; 2008
Klinklava Gallery, Three Rivers, MI: Two-person show with Rita Grendze; 2007
National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia: The Second Worldwide Latvian Contemporary Art Exhibition; 1998
Gary Marks Gallery, Chicago IL: The Figure—Seven Points of View; 1997
Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT: MFA First-Year Show; 1993
Awards
Anslavs Eglitis & Veronika Janelsina Foundation Grant; 2016