BORN
1971 Carmel, CA
EDUCATION
1993 B.F.A., Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2003 Fleishhacker Award
1999 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award
1991 Art Center 100 Scholarship
1989 Press Democrat Service Award
1988 Marie Walsh Sharpe, Grant recipient
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 "The Friggin' Curve" ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Fluttersuckers" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 ACME. Los Angeles, CA
2002 Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery New York, NY
2001 ACME. Los Angeles, CA
2001 "New Paintings" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 ACME. Los Angeles, CA
2000 "Warp Zone: Section 2" Jack Tilton , New York, NY
1999 "Level Three" SECA Award Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Level Four" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Warp Zone: Section 1" ACME., Los Angeles, CA
1998 "Level Two" ACME., Los Angeles, CA
1997 "Level One" ACME., Santa Monica, CA
1996 ACME., Santa Monica, CA
1996 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1995 "Proof" ACME., Santa Monica, CA
1994 "Cruise Control" ACME,. Santa Monica, CA
1994 "The Popsicles Are In Bloom" Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
1994 "Double Click" FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1993 "Principle Secret" FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006-2007 "CCA: 100 Years in the Making" Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2006 "Particulate Matter" Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2005 "Pacific Lines" Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "Very Early Pictures" Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2005 "Playtime" Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2005 "Eye Tatoo" Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
2005 "Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation" 7 USA Venues
2003 "Beauty Stripped Bare: LA Black + White" curated by Joe Jarrell, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 "Before & After Science" Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2003 "California 10 Contemporary" Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 "Plus One (8 Artists invited by 8 MFA Candidates)" F Space, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "Reality Check: Painting in the Exploded Field, Selections from the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection" Oliver Art
Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
2002 "Strolling Through An Ancient Shrine and Garden" curated by Chip Tom and ACME., ACME., Los Angleles, CA
2002 "New in Town" Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2002 "Orange County Museum of Art Biennial" Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2001 "The Sensational Line" Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2001 "Game Show" MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2001 "Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice" Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2001 "PulpFictions: Contemporary Works on Paper" Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2001 "01.01.01: Art in Technological Times" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Trans Poly Bule" Elliot Smith Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2001 "Stranger Than You" New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Under the Influence: New Art From LA" curated by Chris Acuna-Hansen, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2000 "California Dreamin" curated by Bruce Hartman, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, KS
2000 "Twisted. Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting" Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2000 "Inventional" curated by Nowell J. Karten, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 "Paper Cuts" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999-2000 "Chromaform: Color in Sculpture" Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
1999 "Works on Paper (and some other things)" ACME., Los Angeles, CA
1999 "Anebolle-Amar" Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 "The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999" Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalogue)
1999 "Art in the Age of the Consumer: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art" Feldman Gallery,
Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1999 "Attention SPAM" curated by Paul Zelevansky, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 "Art on Paper" University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
1998 "Seca Art Award: Chris Finley Level Three," Gay Outlaw, Laurie
Reid, Rigo 98," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1998 "The Painting Show" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Painting From Another Planet" Deitch Projects, New York, NY
1998 "Juvenescence" Chapman University, Orange, CA
1997 "118W/24N L.A./USA" Kunstverein W.A.S., Graz, Austria, curated by
1997 Dr. Anne Ayres and Sam Erenberg
1997 "Quartoze-20 Los Angeles Artists" Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
1997 "Drawings...An Annual Bi-Coastal Invitational" Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
1997 "Chris Finley, Greg Foley, John Hansel, Laura Parnes" Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA's Permanent Collection, 1975-1996" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Ann Goldstein
1996 "Useful Things" Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1996 "Defining the Nineties" Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL,
curated by Bonnie Clearwater (catalogue)
1996 "Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections,"
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1996 "Real Goods" Manhattan Village Shopping Center, Manhattan Beach,
CA, curated by Marilu Knode (catalogue)
1995 "Contact" The 114th Annual Exhibition, Walter McBean Gallery, San
Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Postmarked LA" P.P.O.W., New York, NY
1995 "It's My Life, I'm Going To Change The World" ACME., Santa Monica,
CA, curated by Maria Guerra
1994 "Layered Look" LAX at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Thomas Rhoads
1994 "Toys/Art/Us" College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1994 "S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)" Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY, curated by Michael Bevilacqua
1994 "Nor Here, Neither There" Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "Thanks Again" FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa
Monica, CA, curated by Thomas Rhoads
1994 "Utter Realities" Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA, curated by Randy Sommer
1994 "Out West and Back East" Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica,
CA, curated by Thomas Rhoads
1993 "Everyday Life" Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Simon Watson
1993 "Germinal Notations" FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1993 "Loose Slots" Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV, curated by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC