1985     

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA in Painting

1979     

Rhode Island School of Design, BFA in Illustration

2005     

Work In Progress, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, curated by Rene Paul Barilleaux

2000     

Fayerweather Art Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

1998     

Wright Art Center, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS
Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship Recipient Exhibition, TAC Gallery, Nashville
Huntingdon College Art Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama

1997     

Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville

1994     

Municipal Art Gallery, Jackson, Mississippi

1993     

Working Space Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee

1989     

Francine Ellman Gallery, Los Angeles

1988     

Missouri Gallery, Chicago

1986     

One Illinois Center, Chicago, selected by Dennis Adrian
John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut

1984     

Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans

2005     

ART CHICAGO, represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago,
Project Diversity, BRIC/Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2004     

Tell Me a Story of a World without Words, City without Walls, Newark, NJ
A Slow Read, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, curated by Katarina Wong
Points of Muse, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago
Seen & UnScene II, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Elizabeth Park
The Melting, Rockefeller Arts Center, State University of New York, Fredonia

2003     

Public Domain, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Innies & Outies, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Annual Juried Show, Delaware Center for the Arts, Wilmington, DE

2002     

Art at Steepletop, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, curated by Linda Shearer

1999     

Arte Contemporanea de Muntanya, Universitat de Lleida, Catalunya, Spain

1998     

Current Visions, part of the PBS American Visions website

1997     

Arte Contemporanea de Muntanya, Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Catalunya, Spain
Lest We Forget, Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, FL

1996     

Red Clay Survey Biennial, Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama

1995     

Confessions, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

1994     

Jan Hankins & Alex O'Neal, P. S. 122 Gallery, New York

1992     

The Quilting of Artist's Ties, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Spiva Annual, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri
Utopia, Forum Gallery, Jamestown College, New York

1990     

Art LA '90, Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles Festival Open Tour, Arroyo Arts Collective
China, June 4, 1989, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

1989     

Seven Western States, Long Beach Art Association, CA, selected by Henry Hopkins
In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, NY
New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas, selected by John Caldwell
Group Exhibition, Francine Ellman Gallery, Los Angeles

1988     

Bigger Than a Breadbox, S.I.T.E., Culver City, California
Artist's Laison, Evanston Art Center, Illinois
What Is Folk Art? Art Network, Tucson, Arizona

1987     

Faculty Exhibition, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
Drawing Show, Gallery Z, New York
Fifty Years of Visual Creation, Memphis College of Art
Open Spectrum, David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL

1986     

Four Artists, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago

1985     

Zumer, Area X Gallery, New York, curated by Richard Merkin

2004     

Klitgaarden Residency Program, Council of Danish Artists, Copenhagen

2001     

Millay Colony for the Arts Residency, Austerlitz, NY
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony Residency, Temecula, California (also in 1999,1996)

2000     

Fundacion Valpara’so Residency, Almer’a, Spain

1999     

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting, New York

1998     

Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship

1997     

Djerassi Resident Artists Program Residency Fellowship, Woodside, California

1996     

Centre d'Art i Natura Residency, Farrera de Pallars, Catalunya, Spain

1995     

Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency, County Monaghan, Ireland
Ragdale Foundation Residency Fellowship, Lake Forest, Illinois

1993     

New York Studio Program, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design

1987-8  

National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant in Painting

1983-5 

School of Art Institute of Chicago Fellowship Awards, Graduate Program

2002     

Zevitas, Steven, ed. New American Paintings, Boston, MA: Open Studios Press, March.

1999     

Carr Black, Patti. Art In Mississippi. University of Mississippi Press.
Cash, Stephanie & Ebony, David. "Artworld," Art In America, June.

1998     

Zevitas, Steven, ed. New American Paintings. Wellesley, MA: Open Studios Press, June.

1996     

Love, Carl. "Local Residents Now Majority On Dorland Mountain Arts Colony Board," Riverside, CA: The Press-Enterprise, July 7.

1994     

Romine, Linda. "Memphians Land Back to Back New York Exhibitions," Memphis Business Journal, March 7-11.

1989     

Jacob, J.P. "The Jury Is Out" (Artview), The Austin Chronicle, June 2.

1987     

Yood, James. "Four Artists," New Art Examiner, February.

1986     

Gonzales, Shirley. "Two at Ely," New Haven Register, April 13.