San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Stanford University, MBA, and BA in Economics
with honors, distinction & Phi Beta Kappa
Selected Exhibitions
2011 Aground, PhotoCenter Northwest, Seattle, WA Fresh, KlompChing Gallery, Brooklyn, NY photographers: network 2011, Thomas Kellner's studio, Seigen, Germany Made in Woodstock V, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2010 Benefit Gala, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY Art for AIDS Auction, Live Auction, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 2010 Juried Exhibition, Newspace Center for Photography, Portlad, OR Glimpses in Time, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA 45th
Anniversary Gala, Intersection for the Arts, San
Francisco, CA Promised Lands, Fraction
Magazine, www.fractionmagazine.com Biennial
Photography 2010, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY Revisiting
Beauty, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2009 MOPA, The Lab, San Francisco, CA APATURE, Kearny
Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA Art for
AIDS Auction, Bonham and Butterfields, San Francisco, CA Warehouse
Event, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA Money-Money-Money, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL Intimate
Cartography, MOPA, traveling exhibition, various US locations
2008 Our
Environment, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO ArtSeen 3,
Downtown Gallery Row, Los Angeles, CA Mirror
for the 21st Century, BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA Transformations, Clara
Street Projects, San Francisco, CA Vernissage,
SFAI MFA Graduate Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA Ways and Means, 938
Howard Street, San Francisco, CA
2007 Flash Forward 07 Recycling Exhibition,
Toronto, Canada Another
Country, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA Sublime
Terra (solo exhibition), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA Home,
Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA Diversity
Project, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2006 Shadow Castles (solo exhibition), Diego
Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art for
AIDS Auction, Bonham and Butterfields, San Francisco, CA Composing
Biology, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Two x 20,
Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Selected Awards/Honors
2011 Second Place, Aground exhibition selected by Karen Irvine,
Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography
2010 Award for Excellence, Biennial Photography 2010, selected by Lesley Martin, publisher of Aperture
2008 Ella King Torrey Award, San Francisco
Art Institute, nominee ArtSeen Emerging Artists Competition, winner
2007 Flash Forward Emerging Photographers, Magenta Foundation, winner PX3 Prix
De La Photographie Paris, fine arts category, honorable mention The Independent (UK) “STUART Art Collection Competition,” winning
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Bibliography
2011
"In the Landscape," Dude Magazine, December 2011 Amir, "Donna J. Wan's Promised Lands," Beautiful Decay Magazine, September 2011 Capasso, Raffaele and Francesco Claudio Cipolleta, "In the Landscape," Dead Porcupine Magazine, August 2011 W.M. Hunt, Fraction Magazine Special Edition of Fresh Show 2011
"Klompching Gallery's Fresh 2011 Exhibition," Lenscratch, July 20, 2011 Terranova, Amber, "At the Edge of the Lake," PDN Picture of the Day, July 19, 2011
Wolff, Rachel, "Lay of the Land", Forward Thinking Museum blog, January 2011
2010 Colberg, Joerg, Contemporary Photographer and Promised Lands feature, Conscientious website, August 2010
2009 Weinberg,
Lauren, “Cashing in: Mary Jane Jacob juries ARC Gallery’s timely ‘Money, Money, Money,” Time Out Chicago, January 8-14, 2009, p. 53
2008 Vogel,
Traci, “Ways and Means: SFAI Group Show,” SF Weekly, April 16-22, 2008, p.31 Whiteside,
Jessica, “Ways & Means,” www.artbusiness.com, April 18, 2008 "Your Reviews: 'MIRROR for the 21st Century'”, The Saatchi Gallery,
UK/Saatchi Online, www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk, May 2008
Additional Information
2010 Guest teacher, Landscape Photography Workshop, Olana, Hudson, New York
2009 Guester lecturer, UCLA, invited Catherine Opie on
February 18, 2009 Artist-In-Residence at the
Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
2008 Collectors include the Pulitzer-Prize winning author
Richard Ford
2007 SFMOMA
Artists’ Gallery representation of select work
