b. 1998, Montclair, NJ
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Forthcoming: Thundershark Gallery, Washington, DC.
2023 DEEP/CLEAN, HOMME Gallery, Washington, DC.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 No Place Like Home, Hamiltonian Artists, Umbrella Art Fair, Washington, DC.
Sign of the Times, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC.
Best In Show, Pamplemousse Gallery, Richmond, VA.
$99.99, theBlanc, New York, NY.
Summer Show, Rat Gallery, Washington, DC.
X on the Line, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH.
Translation Through Art, Strathmore, Rockville, MD.
Adams Morgan Art Walk, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC.
Flowers, ArtHouse, Richmond, VA.
Woman | Artist, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC.
SHEDC, Shop Made in DC, Washington, DC.
Strange Oasis, The Material Room, Richmond, VA.
2023 UMBRELLA Art Fair, Washington, DC.
Bubble Bath, Magma Maria, Offenbach, Germany.
WiP! Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC.
Love is destructive. I need you. Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
People and the Planet, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
Adams Morgan Art Walk, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC.
2022 2022 Fall Salon, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
See Support Collect, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC.
Art-N-Stuff V, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA.
Emerging Artists Exhibition, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD.
35th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, Grand Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA.
SHE DC, Shop Made in DC, Washington DC
40UNDER40, Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro VA
2021 still/life, Monochrome Collective, UMBRELLA Art Fair, Washington DC
HINDSIGHT, Marginal Art Projects, Virtual Exhibition
Residencies & Fellowships
2025 Forthcoming: Peter Bullough Foundation Residency, Winchester, VA.
Elf School of the Arts Winter Residency, Hayesville, NC.
2024 Torpedo Factory Post-Graduate Residency, Alexandria, VA.
Sparkplug Collective Fellow, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC.
Grants and Awards
2024 Peters Valley School of Craft Lenore G. Tawney Fiber Scholarship
2022 Arrowmont School of Art & Craft Dr. Judith Temple Scholarship
North House Folk School Full Scholarship
2020 Undergraduate Research Grant
2019 Alfred Levitt Memorial Scholarship in Art
Emil R. Schnellock Award for Excellence in Painting
2018 Rosalie Chauncey Memorial Scholarship
Publications
Ottawa Design Club: Renaissance, Zine 006, November 2023.
Space on Space Magazine: COLLECT, September 2023.
New American Paintings #148 South, April 2021.
Press
Studio Study: A Visit with Samantha Van Heest. Studio Gallery DC, August 2024.
In the galleries: The tension between humans and the environment. The Washington Post, July 2024.
Writing
“Felted Memories: The Kyrgyz Art of Building Ancestral Relationships Beyond Utilitarian Necessity,” American Art sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Fall 2024.
Curatorial Projects
2019 Exquisite Corpse, gallery202, Fredericksburg, VA
Visiting Artist Experience
2024 Lecture and Portfolio Reviews, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, October 9.
Experience
2024 - Now Teaching Artist Fellow, Paul Springs Retirement Community, Alexandria, VA
2023 - Now Art Instructor, Art House 7, Arlington, VA
2023 - Now Teaching Artist, Iona Senior Services: Around Town Program, Washington DC
2022 - 2024 Communications Associate, Art Frankly, Remote Position
2020 - 2023 Art Instructor, New York School of Art, Vienna, VA
2022 - 2023 Gallery Assistant, Studio Gallery, Washington DC
2020 - 2021 Contractor, Amy Sherald’s Studio, Jersey City, NJ
2019 - 2020 President, UMW Student Art Association
2018 - 2020 Gallery Assistant, UMW Galleries
2019 Intern and Painting Assistant for Amy Sherald’s Studio, Jersey City, NJ
Education
2016 - 2020 B.A. in Studio Art, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2018 Marchutz School of Painting & Drawing, Aix-en-Provence, France, Study Abroad