EDUCATION
 

M.F.A. in Studio Art, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

B.F.A. in Printmaking, Minors in Digital Arts, Enamel, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
 

2018-Present |  Co-Founder of Mirabo Press, Buffalo, NY

2017-18  |  Gallery Manager, Eleven Twenty Projects, Buffalo, NY       
2017-18  |  Project Research Assistant, Sam Francis Foundation, Buffalo, NY

2016-17  |  Curatorial Graduate Assistant, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2015-16  |  Teaching Assistant, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2013-15  |  Marketing Database Specialist/Pricing, Heather Moore Jewelry, Cleveland, OH

2012-13  |  Photography/Samples Associate, Heather Moore Jewelry, Cleveland, OH

2012  |  Award Designer, Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge, UK

2011-12  |  Jewelry & Stamping Artisan, Heather Moore Jewelry, Cleveland, OH

2011-15  |  Instructing Artist in Residence, C.I.A. Printmaking Club, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2011  |  Award Designer & Fabricator, Scholastics Competition, Cleveland, OH

2010  |  Artist's Assistant, Margaret Denk-Leigh, Cleveland, OH

2009  |  Intern, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

2009  |  Freelance Contractor - Exhibitions, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY

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SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2021  |  Group Exhibition, TBA, City Art Space, Rochester, NY

2021  |  Group Exhibition, Last Year on Earth, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY

2020  |  Group Exhibition, Lithography, Megalo, ACT, Australia, Virtual

2020  |  Group Exhibition, Under Fire 3, Enamel Guild North East, Virtual

2020  |  Group Mural, Works, From Home, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2020  |  Two-Person Exhibition, The Presence of Absence, Indigo Art, Buffalo, NY

2019  |  Group Exhibition, Art in Craft Media 2019, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2019  |  Group Exhibition, Environs, Bret Llewellyn Art Gallery, Alfred, NY

2019  |  Group Exhibition, Take Back the Walls, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY

2018  |  Group Exhibition, Immutable — Mutant Notations, El Museo, Buffalo, NY
2018  |  Group Exhibition, Mirabo, Nichols School Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2017  |  Two-Person Exhibition, Don't Be So Blue, Western New York Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

2017  |  Group Exhibition, Emergent, Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, OH

2017  |  Solo Exhibition, Ataraxy: Monotype Prints by Rachel Shelton, Benjaman Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2017  |  Group Exhibition, New Directions, Harris Stanton Gallery, Akron, OH
2016  |  Group Exhibition,  The Measure of All Things: Rethinking Humanism, UB Department of Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2016  |  Group Exhibition, Eleven, UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY

2015-16  |  Showing at Harris Stanton Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2013-15  |  Showing at Fiddlehead Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2013  |  Two Person Exhibition, Decline, Loganberry Books Annex Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2011  |  Group Exhibition, Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books, World Traveling Exhibition

2011  |  Group Exhibition, Women on Waterloo, Arts Collinwood, Collinwood, OH

2011  |  Group Exhibition, The Summer Show, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2011  |  Group Exhibition, B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2011  |  Group Exhibition, Short North Exhibition, Studios on High, Columbus, OH

2011  |  Group Exhibition, AICUO Excellence in Visual Arts, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH

2011  |  Group Exhibition, 4U Exhibition, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

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SELECT HONORS & RESIDENCIES

2020  |  Keep NYS Creating Grant, NYFA/NYSCA, NY

2016-17  |  Curatorial Graduate Assistant Scholarship, Department of Art, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2015-16  |  Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Department of Art, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2011-15  |  Printmaking Artist in Residence, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2011-12  |  Artist in Residence, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

2011  |  President's Traveling Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2006-11  |  Portfolio Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2010  |  AICUO Excellence in Visual Arts Award, Delaware, OH

2010  |  H.C. Cassil Scholarship in Printmaking, Cleveland, OH

2009  |  Honorary Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

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CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2019  |  Ink & Fiber, Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2017  |  Thereafter, UB Department of Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2016  |  Protean, UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY