Education

1997

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Master of Fine Arts in Painting

E. Poplack Merit Scholarship

1992

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

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concentration in Painting

Merit Scholarship

1991

Lorenzo De Medici ~ Instituto di Studi Italiani

Year Abroad Art/Language Program, Florence, Italy

Awards and Residencies

2012

Nehru-Fulbright 2011-12 Scholarship, New Delhi, India

2007

Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL   Artist in Residence

2002

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH   Artist in Residence

Individual Artist Grant from Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA

        2000-01

Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA     Affiliate Artist

2000

de Young Artist Studio, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum,

 San Francisco, CA     Artist in Residence  

Solo Exhibitions

2009

Ever Epic, Livingroom Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006

Under Skin, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA

2004

Tenuous, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA

2001

Fluttering Fairy Tales, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA

1999

Encyclopedia of Peripheral Vision, Galesburg Art Center, Galesburg, IL

1998

Visual Conversations, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI

Group Exhibitions

2011

The Urban Imaginarium, Marwen, Chicago, IL

Big Paper, Pop-up Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010

Let’s Talk about Love Baby, Joan Flasch Book Center,

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

2009

Altered: curated by Julie Baker, The Artisan, Sacramento, CA

2008

Spring Exhibition, Aldo Castillo Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2007

Through the Eyes of Strangers, Artists Visit South Africa,

Chemeketa Community College art Gallery, Salem, OR

Childish Things, 301 Bocana, San Francisco, CA

2007

Under Five Feet, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL

Opening Exhibition, Aldo Castillo Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2007

Childish Things, 301 Bocana, San Francisco, CA

Plane, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006

August Group Exhibition, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA

Gift, 301 Bocana Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Brilliant Deductions, Rhodes & Fletcher LLC, San Francisco, CA

Don’t Believe Everything You Think, Viva, Sebastopol, CA

Absent/Present, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

2005

A New View, Julie Baker Fine Arts, Grass Valley, CA

Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2004

Bay Area Currents, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

2003

Subtle, playSpace, California Collage of Arts, San Francisco, CA 

CSUS Art Department Faculty Show, University Library Gallery,

Sacramento, CA

Individual Artist Grantees Showcase Exhibit, Falkirk Cultural Center

San Rafael, CA

2002

Access, Pakhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

9<24, Upton Gallery, Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY

2001

Surface, Line and Mark, Paint Creek Center for the Arts,  Rochester, MI

2000

Multiplicity in Time and Space, ampersand international arts     SF, CA

Select

Commissions

2008-09

Kleinsburg Residence, large scale site specific piece, San Francisco, CA

2008

Wong Residence, site specific piece, San Francisco, CA

2006

Holland Residence, site specific piece, San Francisco, CA

1997

Cranbrook Institute of Science, large scale paintings, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Teaching Experience

2008 -2010

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

Contemporary Practices, CORE and Research Studio

Coordinator and Developer for Intertwined: New Delhi, a travel course

2006

Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA

Adjunct Professor, Art Department

2002-04

California State University, Sacramento, CA 

Adjunct Professor, Art Department

Articles and Publications

2009

‘Ever Epic at Living Room Gallery’ by Madeleine Bailey, Chicago Art Map, Oct 24, 2009

2005

‘A New View’ at Julie Baker Fine Arts’, by Cherie Louise Turner,

   Artweek, July/August 2005, Volume 36, Issue 6

‘A New View’ at Julie Baker Fine Arts, ARTnews, September

New American Paintings Number 55

2004

Two @ Ampersand: Tanya Hastings, Tenuous, by Abe Orden

stretcher.org/reviews/rev2.php

Collections

The Detroit Zoological Society

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Milles House 1997-2007

Numerous Private Collections