b. 1986, Graham, TX
Lives and works in Fayetteville, AR
EDUCATION
2012 University of Washington, Seattle WA, M.F.A. - Sculpture
2009 University of Texas, Austin TX, B.A. Art Studio with an emphasis in Italian and Art History
2007 University of Texas Study Abroad Program, Castilion Fiorentino, Italy Summer 2007
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Make Me Feel Mighty Real, Wingate Museum of Art, Hendrix College, Conway, AR
2021 I’m Going to Dance the Way I Feel, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
GAVLAK, Palm Beach, FL
2019 In Times Like These - Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
2018 Still Stage, Set Life - Art Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, TX
2017 Let Your Flowers Grow - Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
2016 Apollo and Dionysus - Art Palace Gallery, Houston TX
2015 Fat Equals Flavor - Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
With Wild Abandon - Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
2013 Time After Time After Time – The Old Jail Art Center, Albany TX
2012 Still Lives – Vignettes, Seattle, WA
All That Glitters – CMA Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Beauty is Not Benign – Co-lab Projects, Austin, TX
2009 Let the Golden Age Begin – Old Post Office Museum and Art Center, Graham TX
SELECTED LIVE PERFORMANCES
2013 Captain Dirty Bear and his Dirty Cub Cadets Contemplate the Impossibility of Permanence in the Physical World - New and Greatest Hits
Selected Work by Texas Biennial Artists 2005-2011, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2011 Captain Dirty Bear Ask a Question – Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Ceramics Now, Gallerie Italienne, Paris, France
Fairyland - Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Magic Touch - Dinner Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change - The Toledo
Museum of Art, Toledo OH
State of the Arts 2020 - The Momentary, Bentonville, AR
The Backbone of Things - Te Auaha, Wellington, NZ
2019 Inaugural Exhibition - Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Solid Gold: Fuller at Fifty - Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA
Stonewall 50 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX
2018 Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
Rough Trade - Allegheny College Art Gallery, Meadville PA
In Residence - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston TX
You Say Radical! I Say Feminist! - Archer Gallery @ Clark College, Vancouver WA
Inaugural Group Exhibition - Gavlak Gallery Palm Beach, Palm Beach FL
2017 Confabulations of Millenia, Institute of Contemporary Art @ MeCA, Portland ME
Morph - Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York NY
2016 Double Digits: Lawndale's Artist Studio Program, 10 Years and Counting, Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
2014 Natural Beauties: Jewelry from Art Nouveau to Now, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
VANITAS (eat, drink and be merry), Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University, Seattle WA
Open Archive, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2013 The Obsessive Unknown Origins of Grotesques Irregularity, LxWxH Gallery, Seattle WA
Nouveau Baroque – Gallery Fukai, Vancouver B.C. ONN/OF Light Festival
2011 The 2011 Texas Biennial –- Austin TX
-Curator: Virginia Rutledge, Independent Curator and Art Historian
COLLABORATIONS, TWO & THREE PERSON
2019 Zina Al-Shukri – Paolo Arao – Anthony Sonnenberg, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Fransisco CA
2014 Pulliam Fine Arts presents: Anthony Sonnenberg and Saya Moriyasu - The Window Project, PDX Contemporary, Portland OR
2013 Self - with Rodrigo Valenzuela – 4Culture Gallery – Seattle WA
2012 Sticks and Stones – SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA
Best Not To Be - with Graham Downing – 2012 City Arts Festival – Seattle, WA
COLLECTIONS
Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville AR
The Archie Bray Permanent Collection, Helena, MT
Fidelity Investment Corporate Collection
TEACHING
2021 Adjunct Professor, Ceramics, Hendrix College, Conway AR
2019 Instructor - Summer Course @ Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residencies, Saugatuck MI
2018-2021 Present Visiting Assistant Professor in Ceramics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR
2017 Instructor - Glassel School of Art @ MFAH, Houston TX - Ceramic
2015-2017 Adjunct Professor - Lone Star College, Kingwood TX
2011-2012 Instructor of Record- University of Washington, Seattle WA - Ceramic and 3D Foundations
GUEST LECTURER
2021 Panel Member, "Trends in Materiality: Ephemeral Clay " Panel Discussion, part of Contemporary Clay 2021 at Wester Carolina University
Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore MD
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX
Baylor University, Waco, TX
2020 Eastern Pribble Lecture Series, Pratt MWP College of Art and Design,
Brooklyn and Utica NY
2018 California State University, Long Beach
University of Texas, Austin TX
South West School of Art, San Antonio TX
2017 Maine College of Art, Portland ME
2013 University of Texas @ Austin
Pilchuck Glass School
Oregon College of Arts and Crafts
2012 Cornish College of the Arts
RESIDENCIES
2021 Windgate Museum Of Art Inaugural Artist-In-Residence, Conway AR
2019 Inverse Performance Residency, Questa College, San Luis Obisbo, CA
2018 CSULB-CCC Summer Resident Artist, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2017 Ox-Bow School of artists and artist's residencies, Saugatuck MI
Yaddo Artist Residency
2016 Resident at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX 2015-16
Resident in the Lawndale Artists Studio Program, Houston, TX
2014 Artist in Resident at Sculpture Space, Utica NY
Summer Resident at Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena MT
2012 Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
2008 Summer Resident at Ox-Bow School of artists and artist's residencies, Saugatuck MI
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2014 RPF Grant - The New Foundation - Seattle WA
2013 Finalist, Betty Bowen Award, Seattle Art Museum
2011 People’s Choice Award - The 2011 Juried Exhibition, Punch Gallery, Seattle WA
