Born
Garden City, NY; lives and works in New York, NY
Education
BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2009	Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007	District & Co., Santo Domingo, DR
2005	Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2003	Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002	Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001	Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1997	The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
	Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1996	Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1994	The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1993	Patricia Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1992	Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1991	Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989	Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, Germany
	Kunst-Station Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1987	Bruce Vellick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
	Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1986	Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985	Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1984	Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
	Limbo Lounge, New York, NY
1983	Josef Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2008	Dangerous Women, DFN Gallery, New York, NY Summer Salon, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY Headsetera, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY Indifference and Apocrypha, FUEL Collection, Philadelphia, PA Partisan, Artropolis, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007	Right to Print: Segura Publishing, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Peter Drake & Kim Keever: Surrealist Visions, Samuel Chen Fine Arts Center, CCSU, New Britain, CT Wet, DFN Gallery, New York, NY The Beholders Eye, Curated by Katherine Chapin, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY Other, Peter Drake & Riyas Komu, Aicon Gallery, London, England Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006	Contemporary Imaginings: The Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum, Mobile, AL Conversations, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL I Love the Burbs, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY What I did on My Summer Vacation, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY Confluence 2006, Gallery ArtsIndia, New York, NY 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Blanco & Negro, District & Co., Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Salon 2006, New York Academy or Art, New York, NY
2005	Visitors From the East, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Group Show, District & Co., Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana Fur, Feathers & Friends, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Animal Tales, DFN Gallery, New York, NY Future Perfect, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY The Other Mainstream, The Weithorn Collection, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Group Exhibition, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2004	Innocence & Insight, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY Art on the Frontier, Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL Where, Dinaburg Fine Arts, New York, NY Bullfight, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ Points of Muse, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2003	People, Places, Things, DFN Gallery, New York, NY From the Collection, Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC Segura in Retrospect, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM the burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY Selections, Dinaburg Fine Arts, New York, NY
2002	Snapshot, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 25th Anniversary, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Surface, Terrence Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 3M, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY Spring Selections, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001	Take Heart, MPI, New York, NY Italianate, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
2000	Imagined Landscapes: Dream, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1999	New American Landscapes, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Ex-capillary, Alan Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
1998	Small Works - The Sequel, Susan Cummins Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Liars (III) Frightful Paint, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1997	Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1996	Screen Memories, K&E Gallery, New York, NY Myth & Magic, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995	Bodies Terrestrial, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, PA New Paintings, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Elementum, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY Drawings, K&E Gallery, New York, NY New York, NY Noir, Allez les Filles Gallery, Columbus, OH
1994	The Seer, O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY Suite, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Fallen Idylls, I.F.A.E., Art Miami, FL Group Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY Three From New York, NY Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1993	M’ aidez/May Day, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Twilight Intervals, Pat Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Suite, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Paper Trail: The Eidetic Image, Krannert Art Museum, Univ. of Illinois Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1992	John Bowman & Peter Drake, Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Paper Houses, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY 28th Annual Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Univ. of NC Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Works on Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY People, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
1991	A Horse of a Different Color, Scottsdale Cultural Council, Scottsdale, AZ Water, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY
1990	Provocative Images, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions, Parsons Design, NY The Art of Drawing, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Group Show, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, New York, NY Group Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1989	Invitational, Sozialdienst Katholische Frauen, Stolberg, Germany Group Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1988	New Figurative Drawing, Midtown Gallery, New York, NY Works on Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1987	Black & White: Visual Sonatas, Aion Fine Art, Dallas, TX Recent Figurative Prints, Associated American Artists, New York, NY Succinctly Stated, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California Monotypes II, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY Avant Garde In The 80’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, CA Made in New York, NY, Gianfranco Zani Gallery, Turino, Italy Group Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA On Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1986	Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC Romanticism & Cynicism in Contemporary Art, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI First Impressions, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY Ten From The Drawing Center, Paine Weber Art Gallery, New York, NY Senza Paura, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, Rome, Italy Inaugural Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Notes From the Underground, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY 57th Between A & D, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY EL Arte Narrativo, PS 1, Long Island University, New York, NY Alumni Exhibition, Pratt Institute,Brooklyn, NY New Art, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA New York, NY/Seattle, Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Outline, Cutout, Silhouette, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY Avenue C By The Sea, Tower Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY East Village Collection, Palladium, New York, NY Summer Pleasures, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1985	New York, NY’s Finest, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA A Brave New World, A New Generation, Charlottenburg Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark Blue Condition, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC The Discovery of America, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, Rome, Italy Psycho-Pueblo, Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain The Figure, An Interpretive Study, Tower Gallery, New York, NY R.E.M., Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY The Best & The Brightest From the East Village & Soho, Moosart Gallery, Miami, FL
1984	Invitational Group Exhibition, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY New Work, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA New York, NY Images / New Directions, The University Art Gallery, SUNY, Albany, NY East Village Art in Berlin, Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin, Germany American Drawings From Neo-Classicism To The Avant Garde, Morris Museum, NJ Nueva Pintura Narrative, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Rediscovering Romanticism in New York, NY, New Math Gallery, New York, NY Neo York, Barbara Art Gallery, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA Artitude, Limbo Lounge, New York, NY Fragments, A & P Gallery, New York, NY
1983	SEX!, Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY Overload, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1982	Selections Show, Drawing Center, New York, NY Selections Show, Artist Space, New York, NY Thirteen on Paper, Center for Art and Performance, Houston, TX
1981	Invitational Print Show, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC Heart Art Show, Forty Walls Gallery, Houston, TX Landscape Installment, 3221 Milan, Houston, TX Insiders/Outsiders, Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO
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Collections
Achenbach Collection, San Francisco, CA Arthur Anderson Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA Centro Cultural Arte Comtemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico Coopers & Lybrand Collection Fredrick R. Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, CA Greenville County Museum, SC Isla Center for the Arts, Guam Kirkland & Ellis, San Francisco, CA Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univ., NJ LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA McCrory Collection, New York, NY Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA New School for Social Research Collection, New York, NY Oakland County Museum, Oakland, CA Phoenix Museum of Art, AZ Post-Newsweek Cable, New York, NY Progressive Collection Prudential Collection Readers Digest Collection, NY RxArt Collection Stafford Trading Inc., Chicago, IL Twin Farms, Vt. University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Awards
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship - Painting, 2006 Haystack Program, PSU, 1997 Artist In Residence, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, Germany, 1989-90 National Endowment For The Arts, 1987
Curated Exhibitions
2007	Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006	Uprising, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Space, New York, NY
2005	Primed, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2003	the burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY Space Invaders, FishTank Gallery, New York, NY
1985-89	The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Artist Curator
Publications, Essays, Exhibition Catalogs Authored
2006	Low, Dishonest Times, In Conversation, Laurence Hegarty, Cynthia Broan Gallery Uprising, Catalog Essay, LMCC / Parsons The New School For Design
2005	Primed, Catalog Essay, Parsons The New School Stories, Amy Bennett, Catalog Essay, Linda Warren Gallery
2003	the burbs, Catalog Essay, DFN Gallery Articulation and Iconography, Bryan LeBoeuf, Catalog Essay, FishTank Gallery Ceramics Art and Perception, Referencing, Susan Budge, Issue 53 Reconstruction, Space Invaders, Catalog Essay, FishTank Gallery
2001	Manchildren, Mark Mennin, Catalog Essay, Howard Yezerski Gallery
1987-88	Flash Art Magazine, NY Exhibition Reviews
Lectures/Panel Disscussions
2007	Penn State University Samuel Chen Fine Arts Center, CCSU, New Britain, CT Lake Placid Center for the Arts Pennsylvania College of Fine Arts CAA, College Art Association Annual Conference
2006	Arizona State University New York Academy of Art Maryland Institute College of Art Katonah Museum of Art
2005	University of Illinois at Chicago Rubin Museum of Art New York Foundation of the Arts
1998	School of Visual Arts
1997	Haystack Program, Portland State University
1990	CW Post Long Island University
1987	Greenville County Museum
1983	Drew University
1986	Stonybrook College

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