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2008 • Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Art, The Ohio State University > Additional Certificate of Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization 2004 • Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Fine Art, Columbus College of Art and Design Solo Exhibitions
2025 (title forthcoming) Francis McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art, WNMU, Silver City, New Mexico, USA 2024 Dwell & Dusk: The Incredible in the Mundane, Stockton University, NJ, USA 2023 Into Thin Air, Archiv Massiv, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany 2021 Color of the Wind, Galerie Gänge, Leipzig, Germany 2020 Casting Light, Throwing Shade, Display, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, DE 2017 Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland Scratching the Surface, Modern Art Museum, Yerevan, Armenia Outside In, Helmut, Leipzig, Germany 2015 Color Coded, Bureau for Cultural Translations (Bükü), Leipzig, Germany 2013 LAND/SCAPE: Viewfinder, Galerie Lifebomb, Leipzig, Germany 2011 Superimposition, A und V, Leipzig, Germany Wanderlust, ItLooksLikeItsOpen Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2006 Neighborhoods, Ohio Art League Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2004 Recent Works, Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio, USA Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings & Juried Compettions
2025 Constellation, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2024–2023 Things That Were Are Things Again, Museum of Contemporary Art (GFZK), Leipzig, Germany 2023 Horizonte, Galerie Vitrine, Lucerne, Switzerland Dresden Connection, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, USA Let's Stay In Touch, Galerie Gänge, Leipzig, Germany 2022 Austauschpunkt, Galerie 2. Stock, Rathaus (City Hall), Dresden, Germany Small And Wonderful, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, USA New American Paintings, Issue #161, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, Published by the Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, USA Unterm Rock: Reflections on Gender Issues, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, (MdbK) next;raum, Leipzig, Germany Small and Wonderful, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Summer Selections, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, USA Borsdorf Beleben, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Borsdorf, Sachsen, Germany Horizont – Offenes Feld, Schloss Gleina, Gleina, Germany Inspired Reunion, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2021 Zeit.Raum.Land, Bund Bildender Künstler Leipzig, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany; Kunstverein Meißen, Meißen, Germany; O.K. Offspace-Kaisitz, Kaisitz, Germany Practise What You Preach, LindeNOW #17, Leipzig, Germany 2020 We Are Nature Defending Itself, Artrooms Moravany Nad Váhom, Slovakia Grey / Gray (Matters), Divisible Projects, Dayton, Ohio, USA Close Friends, Galerie b2, Leipzig, Germany I Am an Artist, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Inspired Reunion, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2019 Small and Wonderful, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Just Following, Lichtspiele des Westens, Leipzig, Germany Family Reunion, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Zartes Texas: 19ff, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland 2018 Schaustellung, organized by LE SALON & DAS KAPiTAL, Raum für Kunst, Berlin, DE Art for the Climate organized by Limity jsme my (We are the Limits), Klimakemp, North Bohemia, Czech Republic Festival Nasuti, Nová Cvernovka Cultural Center, Bratislava, Slovakia Absurdist Videos, Helmut, Leipzig, Germany On Limits, Borders, Edges and Boundaries, Else Foundation Symposium, Mexico City, Mexico 2017 Nacht der Kunst, Georg-Schumann-Straße, Leipzig, Germany #Postfuture, 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Athens, Greece Wend One's Way: Domestic Journey Series, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, DE 2016 For Your Viewing Pleasure, Rehab, Columbus, Ohio, USA Drifting Socially — Slipping Aesthetically, Бükü, Leipzig, Germany Herbstrundgang, BSMNT Galerie, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany Secrets, Faculty Club, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Xenia Motel, Collective for the Commoning of Space, Karteros, Crete, Greece 2015 in den Bergen wird nicht viel gesprochen, Lindenow 11, Blauer Stern, Leipzig, DE Sunny Binaural, PAMAF, Leipzig, Germany Blind Date, Alabama Sir, Leipzig, Germany Revolver, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig Rundgangsausstellung, Leipzig, Germany 2014–2013 Wurzeln mehr Aufmerksamkeit widmen, Kunstvereins Familie Montez, (Cross-Country Exhibition), Leipzig, Nürnberg, Köln, Frankfurt, Germany 2013 RATIONAL ANIMAL, Rumbalotte Continua, Berlin, Germany Re: Working, Thinking, Seeing. Adapting to the 21st Century, Gallery K, Max Kade Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Exquisite Corpse: Stamped and Mailed, collaboration with Derrick Velasquez, Groundswell Gallery, Denver, Colorado Flora & Fauna, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, Germany International Girls, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, Germany Arkanum XX, Westpol Gallery, Westwerk GmbH, Leipzig, Germany 2012 Shining, Westpol Gallery, Westwerk GmbH, Leipzig, Germany Niemandsland: All Dies und Nichts, geh8 Kunstraum und Ateliers e.V., Dresden, Germany How to Pirate an A4, Festival de l'Oeil d'Oodaaq, La gaLerie du 48, Rennes, France Room + Style, Künstlermesse Dresden, Germany 2011 Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy Means to No End, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Rooms To Let, House Project, Columbus, Ohio, USA Maps Project, Fill In The Blank Gallery, The MDW Fair, Visual Arts Landing, Chicago Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio, USA 2010 Gentrified, BAG Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA Fortify, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Apart, geh8 Kunstram und Ateliers e.V., Dresden, Germany HouseWARNING, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Calling Beauty, Bureau for Open Culture, Curated by Jim Voorhies Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA Inhabit, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA 2009 Drawing It Out: An Exploration of the Recording of Thought Through Drawing, The Wayne & Geraldine Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery, Marion, Ohio, USA Greener Grass, A Cross-Country Juried Exhibition, New Orleans, Houston, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, USA Fake Irrational, Ohio Art League Exhibition, Acock Gallery, Columbus, OH and Concourse Gallery, Upper Arlington, Ohio, USA Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Juried by Iduna Bohning and Rosemary Fiore 2008 Sites Seen, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Ways of Knowing Water, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA Dewey Decimal Days, Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, Ohio, USA Ohio Art, Carnegie Gallery, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio, USA Lecturer Exhibition, Hopkins Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Faculty Exhibition, Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA OSU MFA, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2007 Ohio Art League Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH Juried by Megan Lykins Reich, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Cleveland, Ohio, USA Annual Exhibitions, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, juried by Petra Kralickova, Director of Exhibitions, Ohio University and Sean Foley, Senior Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Inspired Reunion: Alumni Exhibition, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus 2005 Composite, Michael Orr Gallery, Grandview, Ohio, USA Gerdeman, Jackson, Price, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA Ohio Art League Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH, Juried by Joe Houston, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2004 International Printmaking Exhibition, Pension Roskolnikoff Gallery, Dresden, Germany Gerdeman, Gray, Sell, Studio Ash Gallery, Columbus,OH,USA 2003 Exploration into Non-Representation, So-Loft Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Ohio Art League Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH Juried by Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA Annual Exhibitions, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2002 Some People Do Art, three-person exhibition, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Four Serious, Four-person exhibition, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2000 Generations, Ace Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Selected Grants, Awards, Honors & Residencies
2025–2024 Artist Residency, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico, USA 2024 Artist Residency, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, USA 2023 Artist Residency, Cabin Studio, Trenčín Region, Slovakia 2022 Project Anywhere, Global Exhibition Program, supported by Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology, (Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC) and the Centre of Visual Art, (University of Melbourne) Individual Artist Grant, City of Leipzig Cultural Office, Leipzig, Germany Painting Symposium, Kunst & Kulturvereins Artpark, Schweiz Kultur- & Fördervereins, Schloss Gleina, Gleina, Germany Artist Residency, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland 2021 Land and Time-Based Art Symposium, Zeit.Raum.Land, O.K. Offspace Kaisitz, in cooperation with Kunstverein Meissen e.V. & Bund Bildender Künstler Leipzig e.V., supported by the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS) Creative Pathfinders, The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts & Enterprise, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2020 Commissioned Public Artwork, Courage Design Project, Land in Sicht & Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Treibhaus e.V., Döbeln, Germany Grant, Denkzeit, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS), Saxony, Germany 2019 Shortlisted Candidate, Goethe@LUX Artist Residency, London, UK Artist Residency, Schloss Gleina, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Artist Residency, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland Nominated for purchase of artworks by the Kunstfonds des Freistaates Sachsen, (KdFS) Dresden, Germany Candidate Selected by the Fine Arts Advisory Council KdFS for a National Artist Scholarship Residency at Casa Baldi, Rome, Italy 2018 Artist Residency, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland Candidate Selected by the Fine Arts Advisory Council KdFS for a National Artist Scholarship Residency in Paris, France 2017 Artist Residency, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland Artist Residency, Art & Cultural Studies Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia Grant, European Cultural Foundation with the support of Compagnia di San Paolo 2013 Artist Residency, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, Germany 2012 Project Funding, Niemandsland International Art Exhibition, Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Germany 2011 Sistercity Expense Allowance for Artists, Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Germany 2010 Greater Columbus Arts Council Dresden/Saxony Artist Residency, Artist Residency, Dresden, Germany Juror's Choice Award, Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, USA 2007 Teaching Associateship, The Ohio State University, USA 2006 University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, USA 2004 Joseph V. Canzani Award, Columbus College of Art & Design, USA 2003 Edward G. & Maxine Tracy Scholarship, Columbus College of Art & Design, USA 2001–2004 Dean’s List and/or President’s List, Columbus College of Art & Design, USA 2001 Four-Year Academic Scholarship, Columbus College of Art & Design, USA Americorps Education Award, USA 2000 Americorps Education Award, USA Bibliography
Linda Brown, “WNMU Artist-in-Residence Finds Inspiration and Collaboration in New Mexico.” Western New Mexico University News. October 23, 2024. Mark Melhorn, “Art Majors Work with Pros in Gallery's Visiting Artist Program.” Stockton University News. March 7, 2024. Artforum, Artguide, “Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst: Things That Were Are Things Again.” Summer, 2023. Amanda Bischoff, "Jubiläumsschau der GfZK in Leipzig" (Anniversary show of the Contemporary Art Museum [GfZK] in Leipzig). Kunstmarkt Media. May 11, 2023. Ulrike Thielmann, “Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig feiert 25-jähriges Bestehen mit Ausstellung” (Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Exhibition). MDR Kultur. May 12, 2023. New American Paintings, Issue #161, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, August/September 2022. Martin Buhlig, Zeit.Raum.Land, Exhibition Catalogue, Offspace Kaisitz, 2021. Rosie Shackleton, "Creating Despite Corona: What Does the Artworld Look Like Now?" Humankind Zine. March 22, 2021. Ben Gosling, “Elizabeth Gerdeman: Colliding Worlds.” Pilotenküche. January 23, 2021. Peter Tonguette, “Visual Arts | Gallery Exhibition Has Artists Explore Who They Are.” The Columbus Dispatch. February 2, 2020. Toni Parpan, Zorten 19ff./Zartes Texas, Project Catalogue (Z)orten, 2020. Anna Remešová, “Na mrtvé planetě není umění (There is no art on the dead planet).” Arttalk.cz. August 15, 2018. Jens Kassner, “Spione, Hirsche, Elefanten.” Kunstszene Leipzig. January 10, 2015. Susan Froyd, “Groundswell Gallery's Exquisite Corpse: Stamped and Mailed, in bits and pieces.” Denver Westword. July 12, 2013. Melissa Starker, “Festival Preview: Go West!” The Alive. June 09, 2011. Jennifer Sadler, “International Exchanges: Global Explorations through Art.” Front Row Center. May, 2011. Deborah Lynn Blumberg, “Gentrification: Inspiring Art, Regardless of Implications.” Carroll Gardens Patch, New York. December 21, 2010. Amy Davis, “Breaking the Mold: Works Broaden Traditional Definitions of What Pleases the Eye.”The Columbus Dispatch. March 14, 2010. James Voorhies, “Beauty in the Expanded Field of Painting.” Calling Beauty. Bureau for Open Culture with Columbus College of Art & Design, 2010. Bill Mayr, “Displays Brush Up On Images Of City And State.” The Columbus Dispatch,Weekender. Weekender. September 4, 2008. Melissa Starker. “Small World.” The Alive. August 21, 2008. Bill Mayr. “Old Lazarus Building Figures Into Works By Eight.” The Columbus Dispatch, Weekender. August 21, 2008. Bill Eichenberger. “Hydro Dynamic.” The Columbus Dispatch. July 27, 2008. Tracy Zollinger Turner. "Go with the Flow." Columbus Alive. July 24, 2008. Bill Mayer. “Alumni exhibit reveals depth of Fort Hayes talent pool.” The Columbus Dispatch, Weekender. January 11, 2007. Emily Hanna. “In the Neighborhood.” Columbus CityScene. August, 2006. Jacqueline Hall. “Between Paints and Prints.” The Columbus Dispatch. October 9, 2005. Melissa Starker. “Composite.” Columbus Alive. September 7, 2005. Elizabeth Ann James. “Thoughtfulness Reigns at ROY G BIV.” Short North Gazette. February, 2005. Melissa Starker. “A-list.” Columbus Alive. November 6, 2003. Teaching Experience
Current Visiting Artist, Expressive Arts Department, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico, USA 2024 Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Program, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, USA Visiting Artist, Studio Art Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 2023–2015 Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany 2022 Visiting Artist, Painting Department, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA 2021 Lecturer, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland Lecturer, Pilotenkueche Artist Residency Program, Leipzig, Germany 2020 Visiting Artist, Contemporary Practices Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, Illinois, USA Visiting Artist, MFA Graduate Studies Department, Columbus College of Art & Design, (CCAD), Columbus, Ohio, USA 2019 Visiting Artist, School of Art & Design, Prague College, Prague, Czech Republic 2018 Visiting Artist, Art Department, University of Central Oklahoma, USA 2016 Visiting Artist, Printmaking Department, The Ohio State University, USA 2015–2011 Independent Instructor, WIR Projects 2014 Visiting Artist, Professional Practices, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2013 Visiting Artist, Studio Professions, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2011–2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA 2010–2008 Adjunct Faculty, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2008–2007 Instructor of Record, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2006–2005 Art Specialist, ScholARTS Preparatory School, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2001–2000 Americorps Artist Member, Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Children of the Future Program, Columbus, Ohio, USA Other Professional Experience
Current–2022 Founder and Facilitator, Third Room: Artist Talks, Leipzig, Germany Speaker, Transcultural Exchange International Conference, Boston, MA, USA 2022–2011 Editor, exhibiton catalogues, artist books, monographs, critcal essays 2021 Public Presentation, Recent Work, LE SALON, Das Kapital, Berlin, Germany 2019–2018 Contributor, The Leipzig Glocal, Leipzig, Germany 2019–2016 Guide, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany 2019 Presentation & Workshop, Prague College, Prague, Czech Republic 2018 Presentation of Student Art & Workshop, IASFM 17 Conference:"Whither Refugees? Restrictionism, Crises and Precarity Writ Large," Thessaloniki, Greece Public Presentation, Recent Work, LE SALON, Das Kapital, Berlin, Germany Public Presentation, Artwork and Practice, University of Central Oklahoma, OK, USA 2016 Coordinator, For Your Viewing Pleasure: Video Screening, Rehab, Columbus, OH, USA Performances, Panayiotis Michael's “a book of small things” Terra Mediterranea: In Action – Über den flüssigen Kontinent, HALLE 14 – Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany Performance, Sharon Kivland Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour: A Reenactment, HGB Galerie, Leipzig, Germany Performances, Heaven27, Kunstraum D21, Ilses Erika, Leipzig, Germany 2015 Speaker, Transcriptions Exhibition: Christopher Daniggelis Recent Works, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung, Dresden, Germany Public Presentation, Artwork and Practice, Department of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA Public Presentation, Presented as part of the Anthropocene Series, Autodidaktische Initiative, Leipzig, Germany 2013 Public Presentation, American Sublime: Landscape Imagery in Art and Visual Culture, Institute for American Studies, Universität Leipzig, Germany Contributor, Leipzig Zeitgeist: Leipzig’s International Voice, Leipzig, Germany 2012 Curator / Artist, Niemandsland: All Dies und Nichts, geh8 Kunstraum, Dresden, Germany 2011 Scenic Designer, Penthesilea, creActor e.V., Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, Germany Panelist, Platforma 11 Symposium, Leipzig, Germany Visiting Artist, Nemzetközi Kerámia Stúdió, Kecskemét, Hungary 2011–2006 Board Member and Vice President, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Board Member and Vice President, Franklinton Arts District, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2010–2008 Graduate Art Program Coordinator, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Advisory Committee Member and Community Partners Committee Member, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2010–2006
Vice President, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2009 Juror, Pulp Art: Works on Paper, Carnegie Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA Juror, Central Ohio Regional Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2009–2007 Programming Committee Member and Artist Member, Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH 2008 Coordinator Midwest Region, FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT, national art project conceived of and directed by artist Mel Chin, intended to support the rebuilding of New Orleans by making the environmental conditions safer for its residents. Exhibition Coordinator, What Time Is This Place Exhibition, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA Juror, Central Ohio Regional Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA Member and Vice President, Student Printmaking Association, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2008–2006 President and Former Secretary, Graduate Student Council of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2007 Speaker, Water Exhibition Symposium, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 2007–2006 Co-Curator & Exhibition Chairperson, Shot Tower Gallery, Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2006 Curator, Photographic Prelude, Selected Works by Michael Bonardi, Ohio Art League Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2005 Assistant, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio, USA Artist, Children of the Future Program, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH 2004–2003 Work-Study, Printmaking Department, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2003–2002 Art Therapy Intern, Rosemont Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2001–2000 Artist, Americorps Children of the Future Program, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio, USA