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currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION
School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston, MA
Master of Fine Arts and Museum Studies Certificate, 2007
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, 2000

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
Systems Failure, Target Gallery, Torpedo Art Center, Alexandria, VA
Green/Black, Eichold Gallery, Springhill College, Mobile, AL
Summer Salon Faculty Exhibition, Dean's Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
20/10 Vision, Gallery Hanahou, New York, NY
2009
Decadence and Decay: The Mansion Project, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
ReBuilt, Texas Firehouse Gallery, Long Island City, NY
PaintPresent, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Cheap Fast & Out of Control, Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
Pratt Prints, Belas Artes University Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Pratt Prints, Gallery Gravura Brasileira, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2008
Windows Brooklyn, Smith Street and Court Street, Brooklyn, NY
The Line that Connects You to Me, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Sara Jones: Recent Work, ASMS Gallery, Mobile, AL
Simply the Best, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Transformation, Carbon County Cultural Project, Jim Thorpe, PA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Boston, MA
Student Annual Exhibition, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA, Dana Pond Award
2006
MFA Student Annual, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Census, Art in Display, Chicago, IL
Present Tense, artSPACE@16, Malden, MA
Visible Invisibles, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Green, GULF Art Space, Fairhope, AL
2005
Unoccupied Ground, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Objectification, William Morris Hunt Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Saltline Biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
MFA Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Unlearned Response, Project Space, Boston, MA
Off-Site, Mission Hill Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
Student Annual Exhibition, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, Boit Award
2004
The Best of the Best, Art League of Long Island, Oyster Bay, NY
Purple, Space 301, Mobile, AL
2003
Region, GULF Art Space, Fairhope, AL
Southern Currents, Space 301, Mobile Contemporary Arts Centre, Mobile, AL
Postcards from the Edge, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
GULF Veterans Summer Show, GULF Art Space, Fairhope, AL
New Faces, GULF Art Space, Fairhope, AL
emergeNcY, Crane St. Studio building, Long Island City, NY

RECENT CURATORIAL WORK
2010
The Great White Whale is Black, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2009
Architecture at Cooper: 1859-2009, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Windows Brooklyn, Smith Street and Court Street, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Architects Draw–Freeing the Hand, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
by way of observation, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Windows Brooklyn, Smith Street and Court Street, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Two Journeys: Work by Michael Webb, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
____space, 35 Wareham, Boston, MA
The Extropianists, Project Space, Boston, MA
2006
Unlearned Response, Project Space, Boston, MA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The Cooper Union, Spring 2010
Visiting Lecturer in the Freehand Drawing Course of Professor Michael Webb

Pratt Institute, Manhattan Campus, January 2008-present
Spring 2008: Figure Drawing II, Painting IV
Fall 2008: General Drawing I, Painting III
Spring 2009: Figure Drawing II, Painting IV
Fall 2009: General Drawing I, Painting III
Spring 2010: Figure Drawing II, Painting IV

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Fall 2005-Spring 2007
Beginning Figure Painting (Teaching Assistantship)
Advanced Painting, Figuration (Teaching Assistantship)
The Death of Painting (Graduate Teaching Fellowship)

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2010 Vermont Studio Center Residency with Artist Grant (June 2010)
2007 Dana Pond Award in Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006-2007 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006-2007 Teaching Assistantship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006 Bartlett Travel Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2005-2006 Teaching Assistantship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2004 Boit Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2000 Toor Cummings Center for International Studies in the Liberal Arts Certificate
2000-1996 Dean’s Honors, Connecticut College
1999 CISLA Travel Grant, Berlin, Germany
1999 Art Department Award, Connecticut College

PUBLICATIONS
"Decadence and Decay: The Mansion Project," Exhibition Catalogue, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, September 2009
'Windows Brooklyn: A Mutually Beneficial Marriage of Art and Commerce," Flavorwire, June 4, 2009
"The New Victory Gardens," Brooklyn Based, June 2, 2009
"A Strange Tableau," Mobile Register, Dec. 29, 2007
11, Exhibition catalogue, Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 2007
“‘Green’ Opens at Gulf ArtSpace,” Mobile Register, January 8, 2006, G1
Saltline Biennial, exhibition catalogue, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2005
“Go! Ahead.” Boston Globe, January 30, 2005, N12
“Exhibitions and Public Programs” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Spring 2005
“Three Star Evening.” Mobile Register, August 8, 2004, G1
“’Purple’ Reign.” Mobile Register, July 25, 2004, G1
Southern Current, exhibition catalogue, Space 301, Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL, 2003