(b. 1977, lives in Chicago, IL)       

EDUCATION:

2005    M.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2001    B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1997    B.A. Psychology, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2006   

Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2007   

Fifths, Swingr Gallery, Vienna, Austria

Jesse Chapman, Aliza Nisenbaum, William J. O’Brien, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

Handcrafted Optimism, Tony Wight/Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Armory Show, Shane Campbell Gallery, New York, NY

Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

2006   

Bentnames, 50/50 Gallery, Chicago, IL

Slowness, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL

Believers, Curated by Michelle Grabner, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY

2005   

NADA Art Fair, Shane Campbell Gallery, Miami, FL

Slow Down: Contemporary Abstraction from Chicago, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX

Sarah Lobb, Aliza Nisenbaum, Noah Rorem, Organized by Noah Rorem, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL

Lookers, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL

M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Nova Young Art Fair, Dan Devening Editions and Projects, Chicago, IL

2004   

Millhaus Collective, The Stray Show, Chicago, IL

2002   

Three Painters, Susanna Coffey, Apartment Space, Chicago, IL

2001   

The Base Space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2000   

Group Show, American Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico   

1999   

Confined Space, The Three Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Myers, Terry. Slowness, catalogue essay, May 2006.

Smith, Laura. “The Possibility of Painting.” Review of Lookers at Heaven Gallery, June 2005.

“Slow Down:  Contemporary Abstraction from Chicago.” catalogue, The University of Texas at Tyler, 2005.

AWARDS:

Richard Dreihaus Emerging Artist Nomination

MFA Trustee Merit Scholarship in Painting, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Visiting Artist Lecture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago