2024 “Fantasy,” ARC Online Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue, 11 May-8 June, https://www.arc-sf.com,
Beam Me Over

Description:  A collage exploring planetary connectivity from telecom shops in the global south to research stations in Antarctica, with a nod to teleportation in Star Trek which involves the disassembly (disconnection) and reassembly(reconnection) of molecules.

2024 “Interplay,” Collage Artists of America, Juried National Online Exhibition (1 April-31 May, https://sfvacc.org/). Online reception, 6 April, 5:00-7:00 p.m. PST. Zoom meeting ID: 827 8027 9829, Passcode 444328.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82780279829?pwd=NWkrNXpIb3NsbDB1aFFDdk5xVHEvdz09
Girl’s Pipedreams and Silk Nuts

Descriptions: 1) Girl’s Pipedreams: A tokonoma (alcove)-inspired layout. Pipedreams constitute an interplay of dreams and reality checks. A girl seems squashed by her randoseru, the required backpack of elementary school students in Japan, as she bends to examine a vine. The same vine curls around the feet of a demure older (future?) sculpted self, contemplating a flower. The schoolgirl’s sculpted self, minus the backpack, is squatting on the right. Is she dreaming of flying away somewhere? Framing a plane in the open sky, the old-fashioned stove pipe fixed to the hanging scroll (with its trendy mounting), symbolizes her dreams going up in smoke; 2) Silk Nuts: A mandala-like interplay of silkworm cocoons and metal screws cradled in outstretched hands. The shadow “propellers” turn the Silk Nuts mandala and generate a centripetal movement. At the same time, the arms thrust out in the four cardinal directions, creating linear forces away from the center. The tension keeps the fragile, airy cocoons and the chunky metal screws in a precarious balance.

2024 “All Things Considered,” Las Lagunas Art Gallery Juried Online Show,  4-30 April.
Crisis of Faith

2024 17th Annual CVG Juried Show, Three Dimensional Art Category, Collective Visions Gallery, 331 Pacific Avenue. Bremerton, WA 98337 (13 January-23 February). Reception, 13 January, 4:00-7:00 p.m. (view the exibition and video)
Resignation – Brutalism Series

2023 “Connections,” Collage Artists of America, Juried National Online Exhibition (1 November-30 December, https://sfvacc.org/). Online reception, 4 November 2023, 5:00-7:00 p.m. PST (view the exhibit)
Beam Me Over

Description:  A collage exploring planetary connectivity from telecom shops in the global south to research stations in Antarctica, with a nod to teleportation in Star Trek which involves the disassembly (disconnection) and reassembly(reconnection) of molecules.

2023 “Heroes and Villains,” 16th Annual Juried Art Show, Columbia City Gallery, 4864 Rainier Avenue S., Seattle, WA 98118 (9 August – 24 September). Reception 12 August, 5-7 p.m.
All in a Day’s Work

2023 Honorable Mention Award for Cyclical Satori, Collage Artists of America, Juried National Exhibition, Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center, 1100 W Clark Ave, Burbank, CA 91506 (5-25 May)

2023 “Pushing Boundaries,” Collage Artists of America, Juried National Exhibition, Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center, 1100 W Clark Ave, Burbank, CA 91506 (5-25 May)
Cyclical Satori and Which Way to Face

Descriptions: 1) Cyclical Satori: An image representing the push-pull of boundaries of life (color) and death (shadow), in which emergent enlightenment is approached from two directions (clockwise, counterclockwise) and/or/both by moving up or down, in endlessly rotating cycles. There are, ultimately, no boundaries, whether spatial or directional; 2) Which Way to Face: In Meiji (1868-1912) Japan, modernization included experiments with fashion. Elite men cut their topknots and wore suits, while elite women, including the empress, were obliged to “face” to both the “East” (Japan) and the “West” (W. Europe/USA) depending on the occasion or event. Official business called for “western” attire, domestic affairs called for kimono. Which way to “face” alludes to the daily navigation and negotiation of cosmetic and sartorial boundaries and identities. This collage is broadly symbolic of the visual politics of contested appearance and identities way beyond Meiji Japan.

2022 “Blackout” (Artwork that features dominant black or simply features black in a prominent way.) Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Art on 30^th, 4434 30th Street, San Diego, CA 92116 (29 October – 2 December, in the gallery and online (https://www.arton30th.com/)
Lollypop Baton

2022 “Internal Dialogues,” Collage Artists of America, Juried National Online Exhibition (1-30 November, https://sfvacc.org/)
Art Historian and Which Way to Face 

Descriptions: 1) Art Historian: A commentary on the triangulation of landscape (nature), paint (palette, studio), and art history (academic theories and publications). An artist negotiates multiple mediations: subject, paint or media, and critical reception, all of which shape a work of art which then becomes a subject-object of the field of art history; 2) Which Way to Face (see 2023 “Pushing Boundaries” above)

2022 Second Place Award for Elephant in the Room, “Mixed Metaphors,” Collage Artists of America, Juried International Online Open Exhibition.

2022 “Mixed Metaphors,” Collage Artists of America, Juried International Online Open Exhibition (1-30 April, https://sfvacc.org/)
Elephant in the Room,  In Search Of… and  Shall We Dance

Descriptions: 1) Elephant in the Room: “Literalization” of a common axiom, in this case, the elephant’s presence is noticed unlike its unacknowledged status in the axiom; 2) In Search Of…: Ambivalent hybridities–human-nonhuman, nature-culture, grounded-airborne, walk-fly, earth-cosmos, aimless-directed, heart-mind; 3): Shall We Dance: Headlessness as hopefulness, facelessness as resignation. The colorful rainbow, blue sky visible but blocked by drab urban blight. Feral dogs howl, a couple waltzes, a worker trudges on rain-soaked cement.

2021 First Place Award for Female Gaze, “Picking Up the Pieces,” Collage Artists of America, Juried International Online Open Exhibition

2021 “Picking Up the Pieces,” Collage Artists of America, Juried International Online Open Exhibition (1-30 November, https://sfvacc.org/)
Myself in Times of Trouble and Female Gaze

Descriptions: 1) Myself in Times of Trouble: Hatching the ghosts in the shells, and moving onward and upward; Female Gaze: The intersectional and inter-referential female gaze, East and West, past and present.

2021 “Parallel Dimensions,” Collage Artists of America, Juried Online Open Exhibition (1-28 February, https://collageartists.org/exhibits)
Lollypop Baton and Transitions

2016 “Altered States,” Collage Artists of America, Juried National Open Exhibition
Art Historian

2016 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) Traveling Exhibition
Caprice – Public Icon Series

2016 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) 69th Annual Exhibition
Caprice – Public Icon Series

2015 National Watercolor Society (NWS) 95th Annual Members Exhibition
Dangerous Liaisons – Public Icon Series

2013 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) Traveling Exhibition
Gareki (Debris) Gardens – Gareki (Debris) Series

2013 Daniel Smith Merchandise Award for Gareki (Debris) Gardens – Gareki (Debris) Series

2013 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) 66th Annual Exhibition
Gareki (Debris) Gardens – Gareki (Debris) Series

2012 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) 65th Annual Exhibition
Earthquake Craquelure – Gareki (Debris) Series

2011 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) Traveling Exhibition
Daylight Savings Time

2011 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) 64th Annual Exhibition
Daylight Savings Time

2010 Ann Arbor Art Center Annual All Media Exhibition
End of Empire

2009 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) Traveling Exhibition
Bird’s Eye – Post-postwar Japan Series

2009 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) 62nd Annual Exhibition
Bird’s Eye – Post-postwar Japan Series

2008 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) 61st Annual Exhibition
And So It Goes

2008 Loretta Sailors Honorarium Award (MWCS) for And So It Goes

2008 Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) Traveling Exhibition
And So It Goes

2008 Ann Arbor Art Center Annual All Media Exhibition
Once Upon A Time (watercolor)
Faustian Handshake (oil)