CV Summary
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Athletic Hands-Human Stories, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (June-July 2026)
2025 Emotive Dominion, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
2025 Emotive Dominion, Crean Lutheran High School, Irvine, CA
2023 Bygone Patterns, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Oxidized!, City of Auburn, WA
2020 Oxidized!, Progress Gallery, Pomona, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2026 Fleur-ish, the heART, Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts, Tustin, CA
2026 Black and Gold, Accent Gallery (Curator’s Choice) online
2026 City of Hope bi-annual call for art, Lennar Cancer Treatment Center, Irvine, CA
2026 Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2026 World Photo Annual, Silver Award, reFocus, online
2025 Ontario Airport Open, Athlete Hands-Human Stories (two images), Dec 2025-Oct 2026
2025 heART, Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA
2025 Juried Fine Art Exhibition, City of Laguna Beach, CA
2025 City of Hope bi-annual call for art, Irvine, CA
2025 How Is the Weather: Art + Climate Change, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA;
2024 The Next Big Thing, Studio Channel Islands, Channel Islands, CA
2024 Street + Night + Architecture, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2024 Illuminated, The Gold Meal Exhibition, curated by California Art League
2024 Tree Stories, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
2024 Perceive Me, Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles (October group showing)
2024 Water, curated by California Art League, Betsy Luke Center, Pasadena, CA
2024 heART, Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA
2024 Open Juried Show, Thousand Oaks Art Association, Thousand Oaks, CA
2024 Thresholds, LACP (Honorable Mention), Helms Bakery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Botanicals Art Competition, Artist Space Gallery, online
2023 Collectors Choice, Studio Channel Islands, Channel Islands, CA
2023 heART, Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA
2023 Open Juried Show, Thousand Oaks Art Association, Honorable Mention, Thousand Oaks, CA
2023 56th Annual Newport Beach Art Exhibition, Newport Beach, CA
2023 Open Group Show, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
2023 The Art of the Word, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA,
2022 Lighting the Path, International Juried Show, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2022 Art-A-Fair, City of Laguna Beach, CA
2022 Converging, Thousand Oaks Arts Association, First place Digital Arts Award, Thousand Oaks, CA
2022 Repose, Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts, Honorable Mention, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA
2022 Bridges Calendar, American Society of Civil Engineers, Month of May, Yaquina Bay Bridge, OR
2021 Ontario Arts & Culture Festival, Ontario, CA
2021 Art-A-Fair, City of Laguna Beach, CA
2021 Starry, Starry Nights, Tubac Center of the Arts, Honorable Mention, Tubac, AZ
2021 Palm Springs Photo Festival, CA
2021 Orange County Fair, photography, multiple-level ribbon winner, 2017 through 2021
2019 Medium Festival of Photography, San Diego, CA
2016 OC Fair Digital Photography Challenge, first-place award
Education
2023 Street Photography, Los Angeles Center of Photography
2023 Kipaipai Professional Development Workshops, Willow Pond; and online, 2021
2022 An Introduction to Marketing Your Photographs, with Mary Virginia Swanson
2019 National Park Photography Expeditions Landscape Art Program, Online
2015 Sports Shooter Academy, Costa Mesa, CA
1988 Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1981 Bachelor of Science, Soil Science, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Publications
2022 Metals from the Mojave photo exhibit draws deep truths from what pioneers left behind, Auburn Reporter, 2022
2021 Lassen Volcanic National Park Flip Book, by National Park Photography Expeditions, Chino Hills, CA
2021 Journeys in Photography, Samy’s Camera YouTube Series, Costa Mesa, CA
2020 Oxidized!, Dodho Magazine’s Call #14, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Our Magnificent Planet, LensWork’s Community Book Project, Anacortes, WA
2018 Mojave’s Desert Light Magazine, back cover art, Kelso, CA
Professional Affiliations, Memberships, & Board Positions
Orange County Fine Art Association, Orange County, CA
Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Nikon Professional Services, USA
Professional Photographers of America, USA
Kipaipai Fellow
Mojave National Preserve Artists Foundation Board, Kelso, CA (Board since disbanded due to COVID)
Lassen Volcanic National Park, volunteer photographer (2022)
Contract sports photographer, up to 140 events annually, private high school, Irvine, CA
Forestry Trail Worker, rehabilitated forest trails in California’s northern Sierras & coastal ranges, Youth Conservation Corps (1976- 1979)
Project and Program Manager, Civil Engineer, Consultant, (1981 – 2020)
Backcountry hiker, successful summits of Mt. Whitney, Mt. Lassen, and Mt. San Jacinto, CA
Teaching
Guest lecturer, photography classes, private high school, Irvine, CA (2017 – 2026)
National Park Photography Expeditions Workshops, field teaching assistant (2018 – 2023)