Masters in Fine Arts, Painting Candidate
Rhode Island School of Design
Certificate in Collegiate Teaching
Rhode Island School of Design
Bachelors in Fine Arts, Painting
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 2019
Summa Cum Laude
Certificate in Business Accelerator
Entrepreneurship For All, South Coast, 2019
Exhibitions
2022 Art Exhibitions
English is Broken Here, Hunter Gallery, St. George Middle School, Middletown,RI
No White Walls, Yale University, New Haven, CT
(Upcoming) June 2022: Public Art and Festival, Providence Rhode Island
Diasporic Threads: Redefining Filipino Identity and Community in Providence Through Arts and Celebration
2021 Art Exhibitions
Not My First Rodeo, Painting Graduate Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
BrownXRISD Grad Art Salon, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Memories and How We Hold Them, Gelman Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island
Artist to Follow in 2021: An International Virtual Show, curated by Michael Rose,
2020 Art Exhibitions
March 5-April 3, You Are Here, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Feb 13-March 3, The Body Language 2020, The Room of Contemporary Art Space,
Venice Italy
Feb 13-March 3, The Body Language 2020, Palazzo Ca' Zanardi,
Venice Italy
Feb 15-Feb 29, Love Hurts, Shockboxx Gallery
Hermosa Beach, California
Feb 29 - Apr 5, Osceola Art Juried Exhibition, Osceola Arts
Kissimmee, Florida
2019 Art Exhibitions
Gender Bending Fashion, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Massachusetts (Curated by Michelle Tolini Finamore)
BFA Senior Exhibition, CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Providence Art Club National Open Juried Exhibition, June 22 – July 19 Providence Art Club,
Providence, Rhode Island. (Curated by Helena Gomez)
Best in Show
Modern Male,July 5 – July 23 Bowersock Fine Art Gallery
Provincetown, Massachusetts. (Curated by Steve Bowersock)
2018 Art Exhibitions
Conversations, Exhibition of CVPA Students and Faculty Pairs, CVPA Campus
Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
Solo Exhibition: Aggao Nac Cagayan, SM Mall Tuguegarao City, Philippines
5th All Media Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community
College, Fall River, MA. (Curated by Kathrine Lovell)
Portrait of Frederick Douglass, UMass Dartmouth Frederick Douglass
Community House, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth. MA
Portrait of Frederick Douglass, New Bedford National Historic Park, MA
2017 -2016-2015 Art Exhibition
Public Hanging, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
BCC Art and Design Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Invitation: Featured Artist at Onset Street Painting Festival, Onset Massachusetts.
2016 Public Hanging, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
Black and White, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
Clothing Optional/Figure X-posed, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
BCC Art and Design Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
2015 BCC Art and Design Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Grants/Fellowship
2021 - St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award
St. Botolph Mary Shannon Award for Public Art
Rhode Island School of Design Grad Commons Grant
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