Selected Exhibitions and Awards

1991: The University of Michigan School of Art -
Received the Bachelor of Fine Arts Award (one award per graduating class based on exceptional achievement).

Art Maui -
An annual, juried show at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center.
My work was featured in the show each year from 1999 - 2004, and in 2007.
Three of my paintings, "Backlight," "Waihe'e Valley," and "Iao Valley" were purchased from this show by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

The Village Gallery, Maui -
Annual shows every January since 2000.

The Schaefer Portrait Challenge -
Hawaii's state-wide juried portrait contest, held every three years at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center. My work was featured in both 2003 and 2006. In 2003, my self-portrait in pastel won the Marion Freeman People's Choice Award.

2001 - Arts for the Parks Top 100
Jackson, Wyoming. A national, juried painting contest. My painting "Kipahulu from Kuloa Point" was accepted into the Top 100.

2004, September 2nd - 29th: "Malama Wao Akua 'o Maui Hikina"
Viewpoints Gallery, Maui. Art contest in support of the East Maui Watershed Partnership. My painting "Cloudforest" won First Prize.

2006 - 2007: "Precious Resources - The Land and the Sea."
The Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu. A multi-artist exhibit; my 2003 painting of "Iao Valley" was featured in the show.

2007, January - February: "Witness to Time."
The Maui Arts and Cultural Center. A multi-artist exhibit featuring the 19th Century paintings of the missionary Edward Bailey, along with recent landscape paintings by eleven contemporary Maui artists. I contributed three paintings - "Cathedral of Time," "Night View of Haleakala from Route 340," and "Kahului from Iao Valley."