MFA, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
BA, Hope College, Holland, MI
Teaching:
2015-present Professor of Art, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX
2010-2015 Associate Professor of Art, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX
2005-2010 Assistant Professor of Art, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX
2002-2005 Instructor of Art, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX.
Solo | Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 A Particular Quality of Loss, Arkansas Museum of Art, Little Rock, AR
2022 Objects of Absence, Neidorff Gallery, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
2016 Accumulated Erosions, Southwest School of Art, Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2010 The Persistence of Moment, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX(catalogue)
2008 Window Works, Artpace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX
2008 any given moment, Gallery4, Blue Star Contemporary Arts Space, SanAntonio, TX
2007 The Yellow Wallpaper, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX (with Erin Curtis; curator: Risa Puleo)
2005 Artists Looking at Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2005 Karen Mahaffy: Recent Work, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2001 Wallflower, Three Walls Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2000 Plain, Instant, Seedless, Project Room, San Antonio, TX
1999 without ceremony, Cactus Bra, San Antonio, TX
Group Exhibitions
2022 Donald Moffett + Nature Cult + The McNay, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2021 18th Annual Collegiate Invitational Exhibition, San Antonio Art League & Museum
2019 The Culture of Materials, Dock Space Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2019 The Sound of Hope, Terminal 136, San Antonio, TX
2015 Blue Moon: The Feeling of Light, Kunsthalle HGN, Duderstadt, Germany (Curator: Dr. Catherine Nichols)
2015 Back from Berlin, Blue Star Arts Museum, San Antonio, TX
2015 Overwater Underland, Screening at Habitable Spaces, Kingsbury, TX
2015 Move Me (CAM Perennial), Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX (curated by Amy Mackie, PARSE Gallery, New Oleans, LA)
2014 Moveable Art Party, Artist Foundation of San Antonio, TX
2014 Open Studios Event, Kunsterhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2014 Tech Talk: The Joan Davidow Collection, University of Texas at Dallas, School of the Arts and Humanities, Dallas, TX
2014 Luminaria, site-specific video installation, San Antonio, TX
2013 Alternate Currents, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX (curated by Patty Ortiz, Director)
2013 Nature, Nurture, Torture, Sala Jesús Gallardo, Instituto de Cultura de León, León, Mexico. (Curator: Barbara Perea)
2013 Moveable Art Party, Artist Foundation of San Antonio, TX
2012 One-night only, video installation, Hotwells, San Antonio, TX
2011 Luminaria, outdoor, site-specific video installation, San Antonio, TX
2011 Home Grown in San Antone: Educators in Art, Beeville Museum, Beeville, TX
2010 SA Draws, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2010 La Mezcla / The Mixture, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX
2009 Perceptible Systems, New York Center for Art & Media Studies, New York, NY
2009 All Ladies Video Review, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX (catalogue)
2008 Playing with Time, Blue Star Contemporary Arts Space, San Antonio, TX
2007 A Quiet, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
2007 Still Life in New Time, University of Texas at San Antonio (Curator: David Rubin) (catalogue)
2007 Hope College Alumni Exhibition, Holland, MI
2006 E-flux Video Rental (EVR); Austin, Istanbul, Canaries (Selected by Renee Barilleaux, Chief Curator/Curator of Art after 1945 at the McNay Art Museum
2006 Impossible Exchange, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (Curator: Lynn McCabe)
2006 Sincerity, Fine Silver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2006 Alumni Exhibition, Hope College, Holland, MI
2005 Moving Pictures, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
2005 What’s Behind What’s Going On: 2nd Annual UTSA Video Show, Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
2004 Drawing, Three Walls Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2004 The Soft Machine, artWhere, Alameda Theatre, San Antonio, TX
2004 The Stray Show Art Fair, Kingsbury Place, Chicago, IL (Represented by Three Walls Gallery)
2003 Beyond the Academy, Arthouse, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
2003 Remember the Rodeo, Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
2002 10×3, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
2002 Shared Sensibilities, Museo del Arte, Queretaro, Mexico
2001 PepperMint (Curiously Strong), Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Drawing the Thread, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
2001 Here/There: An Exploration of Public Art, Blue Star Arts Space, San Antonio, TX
2001 Once There Was a Spot, Locust Street Projects, Miami, FL (Curator: Chris Ingalls)
2000 Annual Sculpture Conference Exhibition, Continental Airlines Building, Houston, TX
2000 Neo-Rococo, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
2000 Spring Fling, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1999 Juried exhibition, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
1999 Blurring the Lines, Satellite Arts Space, San Antonio, TX
1999 XI Biennial Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas at San Antonio
1999 11th Annual Exhibition, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
1998 Art on Tour, traveling exhibition selected from New American Talent 12
1997 Women’s Work, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
1997 Work/Play: Back and Forth, Rrose Amarillo Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Time, Body and Memory, Women’s History Month, Satellite Art Space, San Antonio, TX
1996 Blue Star 11, “Doubles: Mirrors, Twins, Lovers, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX (Curator: Dana Friis-Hasen)
1996 (post-), Satellite Space, 115 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
1996 New American Talent: The Twelfth Exhibition, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
1996 30th Annual National Sculpture and Drawing Competition, Cain Gallery, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
1996 Women’s History Month, The Primary Object Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1995 Materials Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
1995 inasmuchas, The Primary Object Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1995 Profiles, Satellite Art Space at Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
Commissions | Public Works
2021 Living Wall, Commission, Exterior Entryway of Private Family Home, San Antonio, TX
2019 Bus Benches (Maps), S. Alamo St. + Cedar St., King William Historic District, San Antonio, TX
2015 Public Art Commission, PLAYHouse, large-scale sculptural work, Yanaguana Gardens, Hemisfair/HPArc San Antonio, TX (collection of Public Art San Antonio)
2009 Public Art Commission, Look Up/Listen Up, site-specific video installation, Info Centro, San Antonio, TX (collection of Public Art San Antonio)
Honors | Awards | Residencies
2014 Residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2009 Media Arts Award, Artist Foundation of San Antonio
2009 Fulbright Scholars Grant (Lecture/Research), Estonia
2009 Residency, Estonia Artist Association, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Nominee/Applicant, Arthouse Texas Prize for Contemporary Art
2006 Dozier Travel Grant, Dallas Museum of Art
2006 Residency, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China, June 2006
2004 Fulbright-Hays Seminar, China
Lectures | Panels
2022 Objects of Absence, Artist Talk, Trinity University Department of Art & Art History
2014 Back from Berlin Panel Discussion, Blue Star Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (co-panelists: Cathy Cunningham-Little, Vincent Valdez, Ricky Armendariz)
2010 The Phenomena of Place, Panel Discussion, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX (co-panelists: Chris Oglesby, Megan Crigger, Chris Sauter)
2005 2 to Watch, ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX
2005 Artists Looking at Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2003 Charting Communities: Artists Speak from Beyond the Academy, Panel Discussion, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
1999 Alumni Panel Discussion, Making Art in a Mediated Society, Hope College, Holland, MI (co-panelists: Nate Cassie and J. Chadwick Johnson)
Catalogs
Persistence of Moment, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX 2010
All Ladies Video Review, University of Texas, San Antonio 2009
Still Life in New Time, University of Texas, San Antonio 2008
Beyond the Academy Arthouse, Jones Center for Contemporary Art 2003
11th Annual Exhibition, Truman State University 1999
New American Talent:12, Austin Museum of Art, Texas Fine Arts Association 1996
Women’s Work, Arlington Museum of Art 1997
30th Annual National Sculpture and Drawing Competition, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi 1996
Materials Hard & Soft. Center for Visual Arts, Denton 1995
Collections
Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
The West Collection, Oaks, PA
University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts and Humanities, Dallas, TX (Gift of Joan Davidow)