1975
Born in Westmoreland, KS, USA
1997
B.F.A., Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
2000
M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Solo exhibition
2009
"These Trees" Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
2008
"Dark and Leafless" Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2007
"Leafless Trees and Sakura" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"New Trees" Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
"New Trees" Galerie michael Zink, Berlin, Germany
2006
"New Trees and Forests" Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, USA
2005
"New Paintings" Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Forest's Edge" Team Gallery, New York
"Paintings" Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2004
"Trees" Team Gallery, New York
"Tree Alone" Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
2003
"Early Spring" Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
"Little Mountain" Project Room, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002
"Mountain Painting" Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Group exhibition
2009
"DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
"Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves" Lora Reynolds Gallery, Texas, USA
2007
"Inside the pale (curated by frank Schroder)" Thrust Projects, New York
2006
"Benjamin Butler, Holly Coulis, Ridley Howard" Galleria Glance, Turino, Italy
"Home coming" Nerman Museum/Epsten Gallery, Overland Park, KS
"Summer Group Show" Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin Shane Campbell Gallery Oak Park, IL, USA Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
"Approaching Landscape" Galerie Michael Zink, Munich
"Palette (curated by Augusto Arbizo)" Greenberg van Doren, New York
2005
"Palette (curated by Augusto Arbizo)" Greenberg van Doren, New York
"PULP" Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
"Greater New York" P.S.1, New York
"Honeymoon with Romeo (curated by Holly Coulis)" Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel
"Devil's Punchbowl (curated by Katharina Grosse)" Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
"Hello Sunday" Sixtyseven, New York
2004
"Beat the Reaper (curated by Joe Bradley)" Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
"Full Disclosure" Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA
"Five Artist Shows"Rove/Kenny Schachter, London, UK
"A.C" Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
"Where do we come from, what are we? where are we going? (curated by Katherine Bernhardt)" Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles
2003
"The Larger Room (curated by Mari Eastman)" 678 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles
"Game Over" Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
"Greetings from New York: New Abstraction" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2002
"Inaugural Exhibition" Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto
2000
"Electraslip Knife (curated by Stephanie Campos)" Alternative Space, Chicago, IL
1999
"long cold winter in an endlessnameless (curated by Slater Bradley, Jay Batlle and Amy Sarkisian)" Studio 870, Los Angeles