Scarred for Life at the National Gallery of Health and Medicine
"Trade Show" in Instanbul, Turkey
AAOS emotions at Chicago Cultural Center
Scarred for Life @ Oceanside Museum
Muzeuum Gallery
Education B.F.A. Graphic Design. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1980
Touring Solo Show: Scarred for Life 2023 University of Indiana, Bloomfield 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC 2018 Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA Human Science Library/National Museum of Health and Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY 2016 St. John the Divine, NYC National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, MD Muzeumm Gallery, Los Angeles 2015 Virginia Tech University, Roanoke, VA University of New England, Portland, ME 2014 University of California Los Angeles 2011 James Alan Rose Gallery, Francis Parker School, San Diego, CA MorYork Gallery, Los Angeles 2010 The Museum of Arts and Culture, New Rochelle, NY UCLA Learning Resource Center, Geffen School of Medicine ArtShareLA, Los Angeles 2009 NYU School of Medicine Gallery 2007 Pasadena Armory, Pasadena, CA Brevard Museum of Art, Melbourne, FL Sierra College, Rucklin, CA 2006 National Museum of Health and Science, Arlington, VA 2003 USC Center for Genetic Studies Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Shows 2020 29 Palms Are Better than 28 Palms, 29 Palms Art Gallery, CA 2019 #bOOb for Life, Perfect Exposure Gallery, Alhambra, CA 2013 Sophie’s Gallery, San Diego, CA 2010 NY & LA (paintings), Backstreet Gallery, New Rochelle, NY Gallery Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA
Touring Collaborative Series: Exploded Tattoo 2015 San Diego City College, San Diego, CA 2014 KGB Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2012 Philipp Scheidemann Haus, Kassel, Germany Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA 2011 410 Boyd, Los Angeles, CA Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA
Group Shows 2021 (be)mused, Roswel Art Space, Los Angeles High Desert in the Big City, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles 2020 Scar Printing Performance with Dominic Quagliozzi, Made in LA Trauma, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA Skin Deep—Then and Now, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles 2017 Humans Need Not Apply, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Trauma, Trii Art Hub, Athens, Greece 2016 Guns, Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Trauma, Science Museum, Dublin, Ireland 70’s Show, Sugar Mynt Gallery, Pasadena, CA Art of The Spectacular II, BG Gallery Bleicher/ Bergamont Station, Santa Monica 2014 MAS Attack, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA Downtown Muse, ArtShareLA Art of The Spectacular, BG Gallery Bleicher/ Bergamont Station, Santa Monica 2013 15 Minutes of Fame, San Diego Museum of Art Wine, Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, California 2011 Skin Deep (paintings), Lucy Florence Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA Gallery Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Skin Deep (paintings), Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles Gallery Western, Los Angeles, CA 2009 California/Turkey Trade Show, San Diego - Los Angeles - Istanbul Group LA, Part of Photo LA, Skart Gallery, Santa Monica 2008 AAOS emotions + catalog, San Francisco Mosconi Center, Chicago Cultural Center 2005 Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, CA i-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Pierce College, Los Angeles, CA
Appointments & Honors The Sterling Visiting Professorship, Stanford University, 2017–present Artist in Residence, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2015–present Artist in Residence, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2010–2015 Visiting Scholar, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 2009–present Aspen Institute Leadership Seminar Invitee Board Member, Nordic School of Arts and Health, Denmark
Selected Presentations Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Ohio 2023 Voices of Healing, Indiana University, 2023 National Parkinson's Foundation, Los Angeles, 2023 Art Therapy Association of America, (Keynote Speaker), Minneapolis, 2022 Gaucher Community Alliance, 2022 Minneapolis, American Medical Association/TEDMED, Chicago 2017 TEDMED 2016 (Main Stage Speaker) USC Norris Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA Heath Care Symposium (Keynote Speaker), Misericordia University, Dallas, PA Nexus Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 2017 San Diego State University Oceanside Museum of Art USO, Washington, DC CAB V Conference, (Keynote Speaker), Virginia Tech 2015 Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2015 NIH Nursing, 2015 Yale Medical School, 2010, 2015 University of New England San Diego State University, 2016, 2015, 2013 Yale Medical School, 2010, 2013, 2014 UC Davis Genetics, 2011 New York University Medical School, 2009 National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington DC, 2007, 2011, 2016 Various Patient Support Groups in Chicago, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, 2006–present Sierra College, Minneapolis, CA, 2007 Iowa State University, 2002
Books Published Scarred for Life, Rothco Press, 2015 50 States of Cats, Rothco Press, 2014 Good Thing You Can Learn from a Bad Relationship, Santa Monica Press, 2004 Cats Around the World, Santa Monica Press, 2003, Reissued Rothco Press, 2014 The Butt Hello—and Other Ways My Cats Drive Me Crazy, Santa Monica Press, 2002 Reissued by Rothco Press, 2014 Shrink Yourself: The Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Freudian Psychoanalysis, St. Martin’s Press, 2001