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EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS)

Edinburgh International Photography Exhibition, (Gold Medal Award), Edinburgh, Scotland 2025

5020 Penn Avenue Gallery, (Solo Exhibition), Pittsburgh, PA 2025

Pittsburgh Fringe Art Show, Best Visual Full Art Show Award, (Solo Exhibition), Pittsburgh, PA 2025, 2024, 2022

Pittsburgh Subculture, Unsmoke Systems Artspace, (Solo exhibition), Braddock, PA 2018

Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion Exhibition, Art of the State 50th Anniversary, Harrisburg, PA 2018

Art of the State 50th Anniversary Exhibition, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA 2017

Pittsburgh Fringe Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA 2017

Allegheny West 2nd Annual, Pittsburgh, PA 2017, 2016

Pittsburgh Filmmakers Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA 2016

Copyleft Gallery, Doors to the Universe, Pittsburgh, PA 2016

Art All Night, No Censorship, Pittsburgh, PA 2016

Henry Clay Frick Museum, Face Value Deconstructing Identity in Portraiture, Pittsburgh, PA 2012

University of Massachusetts “Lost in Pittsburgh”  Lowell, MA 2010

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey International, Summit, NJ 2009

DeSoto Row Gallery ‘The Extended Moment’ Savannah, GA 2009

Robert Morris Photography Invitational, Pittsburgh, PA 2008

Art of The State, (Award) Pennsylvania State Museum, 2005, 1997

Marczibanyi Ter Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary, 2002

Silver Eye Gallery National Fellowship Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA 1998

Ernst Haas Awards, Finalist, Maine Photographic Workshops, 1995

Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA 1992

Houston Fotofest, Houston, Texas, 1988

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh: A New Generation, Pittsburgh, PA 1987

Delaware Center For the Contemporary Arts,National Juried Show, Wilmington, DE 1986

GRANTS

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellow, 1996 – 1997

S.O.S Pennsylvania Arts Grant,  2002

ARTIST TALK

University of Mass “Lost in Pittsburgh”  Lowell, Mass 2010

Maricziban Ter Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Portraits, Budapest, Hungary 2003

BOOK PUBLICATIONS

Lost in Pittsburgh: A Journey into Youth Subculture

Fotomuveszet: European Journal of Photography

Living Inland: Poetry and Photography (cover)

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: A New Generation

JOURNAL/NEWS PUBLICATIONS

Pittsburgh Juried Zine Fest 2024

Arab Center, Washington DC 2024

Znet 2021

World Atlas 2021

The Hard Times 2021

Cogito Research Magazine 2021

The Captain 2021

COLLECTIONS (PUBLIC)

Carnegie Mellon University, Hunt Library, Pittsburgh, PA

University of Pittsburgh, Archives and Special Collections, Pittsburgh, PA

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

Maricziban Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary

EDUCATION

Maine Media College, MFA Photography 2008

Point Park College, BA Photography 1986

INSTRUCTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA 2009 – Present

Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA 2002 – 2009

Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA 1989 – 2015

STOCK AGENCIES

Shutterstock, New York, NY 2021 – Present

Pond 5, New York, NY 2022 – Present