Education

2004 MFA University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1998 BA University of California, Santa Barbara

one person exhibitions

2004 BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2004 Just a Pretty Face, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Donna Beam Gallery University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2003 Superficial, with Angela Kallus, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas NV
2003 Hardly Soft, Grant Hall Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2002 Recent Paintings, Grant Hall Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

group exhibitions

2008 Blood and Glitter, curated by Heather Harmon, Bandini Art, Culver City, CA
2007-2008 Las Vegas Diaspora, curated by Dave Hickey, Las Vegas Art Museum, NV and Laguna Art Museum, Luguna Beach, CA
2007 Pink III, curated by Heather Harmon and Nicole Dungao, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2006 Second Home, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Group Sexy, Cartelle Gallery, Marina Del Rey, CA
2005 Winter Group Show, cherrydelosreyes Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2004 The Enemy Show, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas NV
2004 Paint Draw, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas NV
2003 Midas, Post Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2003 femalepersuasion.net, cherrydelosreyes Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2003 Recliner, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress CA
2003 Collecting Dust, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas NV
2002 Local Color, Neonopolis Gallery, Las Vegas NV
2002 Girl on Girl, Miller Durazo Artists Projects Los Angeles CA
2002 South 461 Revisited, Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College NV
2002 Juried Show: Juror Alexis Smith, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas NV
1998 Significant Others: Collector’s Exhibition, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara CA
1998 Art Studio Honor’s Exhibition, Gallery 1434, University of California, Santa Barbara
1998 Abrahms Award Exhibition, Women’s Center, University of California, Santa Barbara

public art

2005 Las Vegas Centennial Mural Project, Las Vegas Premium Outlet Mall, downtown
2003 Aerial Gallery, Downtown Las Vegas Artists’ Projects, Las Vegas NV

collections

Las Vegas Art Museum, NV

press

2008 Oppenheim, Phil, "Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland", Art Papers, January/February 2008
2005 Castaldi, Gwen "State of Nevada" Nevada Public Radio, August 17, 2005 [listen to interview]
2005 Schillaci, Kelle "Gun powder and grrrl power" Las Vegas Citylife, August 22, 2005 [read the article]
2005 Twardy, Chuck "Of Girls and Guns" Las Vegas Weekly, August 18, 2005 [read the article]
2004 Yowell, Erika, Paint Draw, Variety Show, Las Vegas Mercury, June 10
2004 Crosby, Gregory, Playgirl of the West: The Jenkins Girl revels in her own loveliness, Las Vegas CityLife, March 24 [read the article]
2004 Schmidt, Amy, Just Another Pretty Face? Las Vegas Life Magazine, February
2003 Crosby, Gregory, Surface Levels, Las Vegas CityLife, November 16
2002 Pagel, David, Women Lost in their Multimedia Reveries, Los Angeles Times, November 22

awards

2003 – 2004 Graduate Assistantship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2002 – 2003 Alumni Association Scholarship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2001 – 2003 Marjorie Francis Laird Scholarship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2001 – 2002 Harry Knudson Scholarship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1997 – 1998 William Dole Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Santa Barbara
1997 – 1998 Wendy Finkel Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Santa Barbara