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  EDUCATION

Columbia University, New York, NY MFA Painting
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY BFA Painting


GRANTS AND AWARDS

2009 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2008 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2005 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
1998 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1995 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
1994 NEA Fellowship in Painting/Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
1984 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship


RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS

2009 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2007 Arts/Industry Program, John Michael Kohler Art Center
2006 Kunstlerhaus Stadt Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2006 Jentel Artist Residency Program
2005 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2004 American Philosophical Society
2003 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2001 Art Omi International Artists' Colony
2000 American Antiquarian Society
1999 The Mac Dowell Colony
1999 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
1999 Ragdale Foundation
1999 Vermont Studio Center
1998 Ox-Bow/The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1997 Women's Studio Workshop
1995 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1991 The Mac Dowell Colony
1990 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1989 The Mac Dowell Colony
1988 Millay Colony for the Arts
1987 Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences


INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2013 Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins Univ, Roanoke, VA
2009 Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
2008 Schroeder Romero/Winkleman Project Space, NY, NY
2008 University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
2007 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Swarthmore College, List Art Gallery, Swarthmore, PA
2006 John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2005 Carleton College, Northfield, MN
2005 Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
2005 American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Tweed Museum of Art, Univ of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
2003 Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2002 Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
2001 McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2000 Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2000 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
1999 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1998 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1998 The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, DE
1997 School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
1997 St. Mary's College of MD, St. Mary's City, MD
1996 Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA
1995 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA
1995 Artists Space/Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
1994 Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1993 RCCA: The Art Center, Troy, NY
1985 Patrick King Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
1985 Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI
1985 431 Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
1984 Columbus Cultural Art Center, Columbus, OH
1984 Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
1984 Artlink Contemporary Artspace, Fort Wayne, IN
1983 The Penn State University, University Park, PA
1982 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY


TWO-PERSON & GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2010

Novel Abstractions, Reyes + Davis, WDC

Historical Prints - Fact and Fiction, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA

Earth, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

WPA Exhibition Katzen Arts Center, American University, WDC


2009

Evolutionary Drift: Works by Sue Johnson and Pam Longobardi
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

OPTIONS - Washington Project for the Arts, Conner Contemporary Art, WDC, curated by Anne C. Goodyear, Assoc. Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institutions

Alonzo Davis Fellowship Exhibition, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

WPA Auction Exhibition, Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum,
WDC

2008

Quart Bag, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC

Kunst und Gewerbeverein Gallery
Regensberg, Germany

3D Multiples: The Object of Production
1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

Mid Atlantic New Painting
Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington Fredericksburg, VA

Personal Vocabulary
James Backas Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2007

Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

Landscape and Nature: A View from Maryland
traveling to James Backas Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Thomas Hunter Lowe House of Delegates Building, Annapolis, MD; and University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD

2006

Artists and Specimens
Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

2004

Bug-eyed: Art, Culture and Insects curated by Tricia Watts Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA

Art for the Birds: Selections from the Collection
Tweed Museum of Art, Univ. of Minnesota Duluth, MN


2002

Insecta Magnifica curated by Jennifer McGregor
Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY

Neo-naturalism, Orange Art Center, Orange, VA

The Nature of Nature curated by Jeffrey Carr
St. Mary's College of MD, St. Mary's City, MD

2001

Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, NY

Botanica: Contemporary Art and The World of Plants
University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Arts in Embassies Program
U.S. Embassy, Papua New Guinea (2001-03)

2000

ArtScape, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD

Meat Products, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants curated by Peter Spooner, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN. Traveling throughout 1999-2001:
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI
Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

1998

Prime Focus curated by Greg Bowen
University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Curio Cabinet of Hybrid Possibilities curated by Andrea Pollan, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD

Food Matters curated by Saul Ostrow and Stuart Horodner Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, and travels to ES Vandam, New York, NY

1997

Frankensteinian curated by Stuart Horodner
Caren Golden Gallery New York, NY

1996

Frankenstein (in Normal) curated by Stuart Horodner
University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Inner Landscapes curated by Karen Wilkin
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada

1995
Environs curated by Sarah Tanguy
St. Mary's College of MD, St. Mary's City, MD

1994

Gallery Group Show
Nancy Drysdale Gallery, WDC

The Press: A Print Workshop
Horodner-Romley Gallery, New York, NY

1993

Charcoal Drawings: Cotton, Johnson and Sheehan
Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY

The Return of the Cadavre Exquis
The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Songs of Retribution curated by Nancy Spero
Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY

Recent Paintings (two-person show)
St. Mary's College of MD, St. Mary's City, MD

A Moment Becomes Eternity: Flowers as Image
curated by Michael Walls, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ

1992

Nature Fabrilis curated by Deven Golden
Steibel Modern, New York, NY

Mssr. B's Curio Shop curated by Saul Ostrow
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

Morphologic curated by Holly Block
Art in General, New York, NY

Beyond Nature
Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

Pain-ting curated by Steven Salzman
Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

1991

Entr'acte, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY

Triangle Artists' Workshop 1991 Exhibition
Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Still-Alive: Contemporary Still-life Painting
curated by Barbara Morris, Rockford College, Rockford, IL

1990

Vital Signs: Artists Respond to the Environment
curated by April Vollmer, Henry Street Settlement, NY, NY

The Environment Show
curated by April Vollmer, Krasdale Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

1989

Works on Paper curated by Charlotta Kotik
Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

Small Scale
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Boundaries: A Tradition of Drawing at Herron School of Art Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1987

Nu-Nature Again curated by Bill Arning
White Columns, New York, NY

Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY (four person)

1986

24 x 24
Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY

Painted Surfaces curated by Thomas Lollar
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

Materials as Media curated by Virginia Roeder and Barbara Blades, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

1985

Plagens, Fendrick, Johnson and Burton
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL

70th Annual Indiana Artists Exhibition
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1984

Illinois Artists' Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

Invitational, Patrick King Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN

1983

Invitational, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

Faculty Exhibition
Herron School of Art, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN





PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University 
U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Gund Library, Cleveland Institute of Art
Special Collections, Chelsea College of Art & Design
Joan Flasch Artists' Books Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Tweed Museum of Art/University of Minnesota Duluth
Hunt Library-Art Library and Special Collections, Carnegie Mellon University
F.W. Olin Library, Mills College
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University
Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University
Maier Museum of Art
Art Omi International Art Colony
Bristol-Myers/Squibb
The Prudential Life Insurance Company
Francis J. Greenburger Foundation
Bucknell University Art Collection
City of Schwandorf, Germany
St. Mary's College of Maryland Teaching Collection
Exxon Chemical Company
John Michael Kohler Art Center
The Kohler Company