EDUCATION

2007 - Bachelor of Design Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design

2006 - British Institute of Florence, summer semester   

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 - Out of India, Skew Gallery, Calgary Alberta

2009 - Assemblages, Summit Fine Art, Calgary Alberta

2007 - Landscape Disturbance, IDEAL Art Space, Calgary Alberta

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 - Fresh Paint, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition, Alberta

2009 - Merge, Skew Gallery, Calgary Alberta

2009 - Fresh Paint, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition, Alberta

2008 - Redshift: Witnessing Landscape Change, Two person show at the Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary Alberta

2007 - The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff Alberta

2005 - Book Forms, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver B.C.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

ASSISTANT TO GORDON HALLORAN

2008 - Museum of Modern Ice, Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois

2007 - Paintings Bellow Zero, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, Ontario

2007 - Paintings Bellow Zero, Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario

2006 - Sotto Zero,   Winter Olympics Cultural Olympiad Project, Turin, Italy

RESIDENCIES

2009 - Sanskriti Artist Residency, New Delhi, India

2009 - Emma Lake Artist Residency Program, rural Saskatchewan

2009 - Calgary Allied Arts Foundation Residency, Calgary Alberta

2007 ­- Banff Centre, self-directed residency, Banff, Alberta    

2006 - Num Ti Jah Lodge artist residency, Lake Louies, Alberta

AWARDS

2009 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant

2006 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant

2003 - Friends of Emily Carr Scholarship

2003 - Bill Crosby Scholarship

1995 - Boston Library Competition 'Respect for Differences'

PRESS

2011- (the experamentalist) Wanderlust, by Katie Addleman, Elle Canada, March 2011 No.117, pg.92

2010- Erik Olson: Rhythm in Chaos by Andrew Gunn, Canadian Interviews, April, 2010

2008 - Artist's Show Shift in Landscape by Nancy Tousley, Calgary Herald, July

2008 - How a Ramshackle Shack Became IDEAL Art Space by Anthea Black, FFWD, August

2008 - Fleeting Nature by Andrea Dorrans, Parlour Magazine, October

COLLECTIONS

Alberta Foundation For The Arts

OTHER

2008 - Director, IDEAL Art Space, Calgary, Alberta,