Resume

EDUCATION

Hartford Art School B.F.A in Painting., summa cum laude
Simmons College, M.S. in Information Science
Rhode Island College B.S. in Dance/Theatre

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • First Street Gallery, Their/not there, NY

2018

  • First Street Gallery, Equilibrium, NY

2015

  • Five Points Gallery, Fire and Water, CT
  • Green Street Gallery at Wesleyan University, Memory and Harbinger, CT
  • The Golden Thread Gallery, CT

2014

  • First Street Gallery, Bone Dry Silence, NY
  • EBK Small Works Gallery, CT

2012

  • Japanalia, Bakora, CT

2011

  • Japanalia, Selected Works, CT
  • First Street Gallery, Ngorongoro Passage, NY
  • Ngorongoro Revisited, Silver Circle Gallery, Ngorongoro Revisited, CT

2008

  • EBK GALLERY, Leaving Eden, CT

2007

  • Leaving Eden, First Street Gallery, Leaving Eden, NY
  • Galleria Nacional Del Museo De Los Ninos, Works on Paper, Costa Rica

2006

  • First Street Gallery, Fractured Fables, NY

2004

  • First Street Gallery, Exotic Properties, NY
  • Roxbury Minor Memorial Gallery, Exotic Properties..Continued, CT

2002

  • First Street Gallery, Dreams and Myth, NY
  • Silvermine Guild of Artists, Director’s Choice: Dreams and Myth, CT

2001

  • EBK Picture Framers and Gallery, New Figurative Paintings, CT

2000

  • First Street Gallery, Recent Work, NY

1999

  • Washington Art Association, Recent Work, CT
  • University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library, Recent Work, CT
  • Canton Gallery on the Green, Recent Work, CT

Selected Exhibitions

2020

  • Open Studio Hartford, CT

2019

  • Open Studio Hartford, CT

2018

  • Open Studio Hartford, CT
  • Silver Circle Gallery, Inner Circle///Women in the Arts, CT

2017

  • Open Studio Hartford, CT

2016

  • Open Studio Hartford, CT

2015

  • First Street Gallery, Under the Influence, NY
  • Five Points Gallery, CT

2013

  • Open Studio Hartford, CT
  • Zelnick Pavilion/Wesleyan University, Artists for World Peace, CT

2012

  • Silver Circle Gallery, Modern Landscape, CT
  • ArtSpace/Torrington, CT
  • Open Studio Hartford, CT

2011

  • Wheelock College, Details of Thought, MA
  • Hartford Art School, Faculty Collects, CT
  • John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, Extraordinary Facilities, CT
  • Open Studio Hartford/Artspace, CT
  • First Street Gallery, Art for Clearwater, NY
  • Details of Thought, WHEELOCK COLLEGE, Boston, MA

2010

  • Open Studio Hartford, CT

2009

  • First Street Gallery, 40th Anniversary, NY

2008

  • Donna Sernberg & Dancers, Lying on Iguanas, performed in CA, Mexico
  • Hans Weiss New Space Gallery At Manchester Community College, Paint, CT
  • The Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism Gallery, Worlds Away, CT
  • The Hartford Art School Silpe Gallery, Size is Relative, CT

2006

  • Erickson Davis Gallery, Natural Instincts, CT

2005

  • Flushing Town Hall, Sleight of Mind: Magic Realism in Contemporary Art, NY
  • Hartford Art School, Christopher Horton: Tribute Exhibition, CT
  • Erickson Davis Gallery, Very Personal Portraits, CT

2003

  • First Street Gallery, Three Visions, NY

2002

  • New Arts Gallery, New Work/ New Artists, CT

2001

  • Silvermine Guild of Artists, Chromophobia, CT

2000

  • Central Connecticut State University, Notes on Ourselves, CT

1999

  • Wadsworth AtheneumArt, Wine & Love, CT
  • The Copley Society of Boston, Manifest: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Art, CT
  • Krasdale Corporate Headquarters Gallery, Group Exhibition, NY

1998

  • Emerging Artists, THE ALDRICH MUSEUM AND THE RIDGEFIELD GUILD OF ARTISTS, Ridgefield, CT
  • Portraits, DARIEN PUBLIC LIBRARY, Darien, CT
  • Six by Six, SMALL WALLS GALLERY, Hartford, CT

1997

  • Art of the Northeast, SILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS, CT
  • Exhibition: Six Painters, JOHN SLADE ELY HOUSE, New Haven, CT
  • The Connecticut Vision, MATTATUCK MUSEUM, Waterbury, CT

1996

  • Art Guild, Visage and Vessel, CT

1994

  • 100 Pearl Street Gallery, Miracles V, CT

1993

  • Charter Oak Cultural Center, Artist Affiliates Year End Show, CT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • Artspace, The Mythology Show: A Group Show, CT

2012

  • Open Studio Hartford Group Exhibition

2004

  • Paesaggio Gallery, CT

1999–Present

  • First Street Gallery, NY

1990

  • Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, CT

1994, 1996

  • The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT

1991–2001

  • Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT

1992, 1993, 1996

  • Art Guild, Farmington, CT

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

  • New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
  • University of Connecticut Medical School, CT 9’ x 26’ mural
  • Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
  • Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company, CT
  • Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS

  • First Street Gallery, New York

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES

  • Hartford Open Studio 2013, Best in Show Award
  • Hartford Open Studio 2011, Juror’s Choice Award
  • Studio Visit Vol.1, THE OPEN STUDIOS PRESS, 2008
  • Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship, 2006
  • The Greater Hartford Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship, 2006
  • The Greater Hartford Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship, 1999
  • The Julia and David White Artists’ Colony, 2006
  • Helen Cheney Martyn Prize, Hartford Art School, 1992
  • Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Award, 1991
  • Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Award, 1990

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Adjunct Faculty, Hartford Art School, 1999-2000
  • Visiting Professor, Central Connecticut State College, 1997/98
  • Board of Directors, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT. 1998-2002
  • Continuing Education Committee, Hartford Art School Alumni Association

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Munitz, Charles, “Details of Thought”, www.Bostonartsdiary, October, 2011
  • Bendik, Joe, “Art For Arts’ Sake”, West Sider, January, 2010
  • Studio Visit Volume One: A Juried Selection of International Artists, 2008
  • Hyland, Douglas, “Kathi Packer”, catalogue essay Kathi Packer Paintings, 2007
  • Streitfeld, L.P., “Testosterone Balances Feminine Emergence at Silvermine”, The Advocate Greenwich, Time 3 March 2002
  • Melton, Diane, “A Moveable Feast”, The Hartfort Courant 21 May 2000
  • O’Shaughnessy, Tracey, “Take These Women as They Really Are”, Waterbury Republican-American, 18 May 1999
  • Rosoff, Patricia, “No Guts, No Glory”, The Hartford Courant 30 Sept 1999
  • Charles, Eleanor, “Connecting the Parts”, The New York Times, Sunday 30 August 1998
  • Cohen, Mark Daniel, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Art New England, 30 June/July 1998
  • Damser, Matt, “Art Review: Wanderings,” The Hartford Courant, 17 May 1998
  • Faith Middleton Show: Interview, National Public Radio, 1 May 1998
  • Emerging Artists, The New York Times, Sunday, 15 March 1998
  • Rosoff, Patricia, “Gone to Pot”, The Hartford Advocate, 19 September 1996
  • Rosoff, Patricia, “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” The Hartford Advocate, 15 February 1996
  • Raynor, Vivien, Paintings Are the Main Event in the Barnum Festival, New York Times, 31 July 1994