Forthcoming Exhibitions:

2012  University of Arizona Museum of Art - Tucson AZ.  Desert Biennial 

November, 2012

   Pittsburgh Center for the Arts - Pittsburgh PA. Solo Exhibition 

February 10 - April 22, 2012
  "2 x 20 - Twenty Regional Artists to Remember" - St. Vincent College, Latrobe PA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011    "Three Rivers Art Festival" -  Pittsburgh PA

    “Artist of the Pike” – Milega Art Museum, Brownsville PA

    “Salvage” – Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg PA

    “Creating Energy” – Chabot Gallery, Providence RI

    “Urbanic III – Expanding the Microcosm” – Future Tenant Gallery, PA

    “The Urban Situation” Earnest Rubenstein Gallery, Manhattan NYC

    “Manufacturing Identity” Art Space 105, Homestead PA

    “Instructors Exhibition” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh PA.

2010    “2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition” University of Arizona Art Museum
2009    “Daydreams of Immensity” – FA4 Gallery, Long Beach CA.
         “LOMEA 2008 International Contemporary Art Symposium” Bulgaria
            “On a Roll” Bulgarian National Gallery – Sofia Bulgaria October
         “Days Gone By” WomanKraft Center for the Arts – Tucson Az.
         “Point Roberts Artist Festival” - Point Roberts Washington
            “Lassedra 8th World Art Print Annual - Mini Print” - Sofia Bulgari
    “New / Made” Balchik City Art Gallery, Balchik, Bulgaria - Process Space Festival           
            “Landscape and Industry” Goggle Works Center for the Arts, PA
            “Continuum Art Fair ” Fremont Avenue Research Lab, Tucson AZ
2008    ”Night of 1000 Drawings” Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson AZ
            “Art in Democracy” Union gallery, University of Arizona. Tucson AZ
            “Facing Front” with Prof. Doug Neilsen, Union Gallery, Tucson AZ
      “The Alchemy of Art”  Lark Gallery Online www.larkgalleryonline.com
            “Crossing” Hartford Art Center, Albuquerque NM
            “The Kids are alright” University of Arizona Union Gallery, Tucson AZ
            “First Year Graduate Exhibition” Freedmont House, Tucson AZ.
2007    “Nostalgic Spaces II”  Miltons, Mt. Vernon Baltimore Md.
            “Architectural spaces”: Mill center, Hampden, Baltimore Md.
2006    “Senior Thesis Exhibition”: Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of PA
            “Intercollegiate Juried exhibition”: California University of PA 
            “Across Time Zones”: Academy gallery, Zagreb Croatia
            “Foundation of the Arts of Bosnia & Croatia”: Zagreb Croatia,
2004-5 “The Italian Landscape”: Student Gallery, Akron Ohio Art University
            “Student Juried exhibition”: Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of PA
 
Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2011    "Palimpsest- Fragments and Coordinates" - Brew House Association
2010    “Progress and the Great Productive Machine” U of A Art Museum

2008-9 “New Paintings” The 5^th at 6^th Gallery, Tucson AZ

    “Heritage” Lionel Rombach Gallery University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
            “Machine in the Garden” Hub Gallery, Cochise College AZ
            “Industry”  Hub Gallery, Cochise College Sierra Vista, AZ
2007    “Abstract Industry” Gallery 17, Baltimore Md
       “Titan”: The Metropolitan, Federal Hill, Baltimore Md.
      “A Study of Nostalgic Space”:  ID8 Gallery, Baltimore MD

Education:

2010   University of Arizona, Master of Fine Art in Painting and Drawing
 
2006   Indiana University of Pennsylvania Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting
2005   Zagreb Academy of Art. Zagreb, Croatia
                         Credit exchange in Painting and Figure Drawing
2004   Study abroad Viterbo, Italy “Painting the Italian Landscape”
 
 
Teaching Experience: 
 

2011  Instructor of Record - Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.  Painting I & II

2010  Graduate Teaching Assistantship University of Arizona, – Figure Drawing,  Drawing 101, 2-D Design

2009  Adjunct Professor of Drawing – Cochise Community College – Drawing Foundations and Drawing 200
  University Assistant Grader, Department of Fine Arts, Fall – Art 183
 
 
Workshops/ Residencies/ Presentations
 
2010  First Year Experience workshop in alternative print techniques.  University of Arizona.
2009  Contemporary Art Society – Presentation Tucson Museum of Art
    Point Roberts Artist Residency 2009 - Alternative Print Techniques, WA
          Process Space Artist Residency, Balchik Bulgaria June, 2009
          Workshop in Acrylic Painting, Alliance Academy, Toledo, OH
 
 
Curatorial Assignments:

2010  Professional Juror for the Ann Boyd Wade Fine Art and Photography Show in Wilcox AZ.

Articles/Publicity:
 
2009   Sarah Jacoby, “Lower-class Landscapes” -Tucson Weekly News
   Sarah Jacoby, “Heritage” - Daily Wildcat News
   Lassedra 8th World Art Print Annual Catalog - Mini Print 2009 - Sofia Bulgaria
2008   Studio Visit Magazine, 2009 issue.
   MFA Now Artist Catalog 2009
   Will Holst, “The Habit of Facing Front” - UA News interview
   Margaret Reagan, “Bodies in Motion” Tucson Weekly News
   Lamonica Stevens “Art in 360 Degrees” - UA News
   Dr. Kubilay Akman “Interview with Chris McGinnis” - European Art Online Magazine
2006   IUP Magazine, “Farewell To My Home” Back cover image.
 
 
Collections/Commissions
 
         Bulgarian National Museum - Sofia, Bulgaria, “Under Coney Island”
 Goggleworks Center for the Arts “Defiance Ohio (Grain Silos)”
         Process Space Festival Permanent Collection “Idefinite Transient Status”
         Douglas Nielsen Private Collection Tucson AZ. “Vacant Lot”
         Indiana University of Pennsylvania at Punxitawny, mural commission
 Hippopotamus Bank, Zagreb Croatia, “Smoke Stack”
 
Awards/Grants/Scholarships:
 
         1885 Society Fellowship for the Humanities - $10,000.00
         Medici Scholars Private Foundation Grant Award  
         College of Fine Art Travel Grant award
         Conaway Scholarship for excellence
         Graduate teaching Assistantship University of Arizona
         Graduate Professional Student Council Small Grant
         Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Arizona
         University of Arizona small grant fellowship

 The Ralph Reynolds Memorial Art Emphasis Scholarship