EDUCATION   

2001  MFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1997  BFA, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

*indicates solo show

2012   April - May, New Paintings, Orlo Exhibition Space, Portland, OR

2011   In Want of the World, Half/Dozen Gallery, Portland, OR*

            Magic>Nature, FalseFront, Portland, OR

            Shadowshop, as part of "The More Things Change," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

            Faculty Show, Portland Community College, Cascade Campus, Portland, OR

2010   Things are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

            New American Landscape, Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, OR

            San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Swarm Gallery, San Francisco, CA

           Places We Call Home, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA*

2009   Talking In Place, Sister Rosaire Gallery, St. Mary's College, South Bend, IN*

            December 5x5x5x5x5, Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, OR

          Northwest Emerging Artists, Seattle City Light Portable Works: Part 1, Seattle Municipal  Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008   Black Milk, Milk Contemporary, Hellerup, Denmark

          The Sum of Its Parts, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

          Optic Illusion: Southern Exposure's Annual Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

           Intersection's 2008 Art Fundraiser, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2007 The Subjective Landscape, Gallery 6a, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia*

         Red Dot, Miami Beach, with Swarm Gallery

          SOEX Marks the Spot, Southern Exposure's Annual Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

          Alumni at the Centennial, Oliver Art Center, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

          Intersection's 2007 Art Fundraiser, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

          Seventh Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2006 Spaceball Ricochet, Keys That Fit Gallery, Oakland, CA*

          Oakland: East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

          Works On Paper, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY

          State of the Nation, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

          Sixth Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2005 The Reflected Nature Series, Atelier Gallery, Berkeley, CA*

          SVMA Biennial 2005, Jurors, Larry Rinder, Janet Bishop, Chris Brown, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

          Paper! Awsome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

          Picturing Berlin, Galerie sphn Artist Studio, Berlin, Germany

2004  Periphery 2, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art + Craft, Portland, OR

          Trabajos del Corazon, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

          A La Carte, Pond, San Francisco, CA

          Advance to Go, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland,             CA

2003  Garage Sale, Build Gallery, San Francisco

          Landing, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror, Manray Hsu, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

          Flat Constellations 2, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA

          Boutique, Black Bird Space, San Francisco, CA

          Periphery, Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

2002 The Moment Nothing Became Everything, Little Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA*

          Western States Small Works 2002, Juror, Ralph Rugoff, Museum of Contemporary 

          Art at the Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA

2001 Six Poem Paintings, Swallow, Brooklyn, NY*

         Mastermind, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

          MFA Survey Exhibition 2001, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA

          Five Star, MFA exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

          DrawingInResidence: Phase 1, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA

         CloseUpClose, Juror, Rupert Jenkins, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

2000  The Space Between Up and Down, collaboration with Lisa Perez, Institution,

          California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

          MFA Annual 2000, On-line Exhibition, New American Paintings

1999  Blind Date, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

          Windows On Art, Project of the City of Fremont, collaboration with Renee Gertler,

          Fremont, CA

1998  New Paintings, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS

2005  Juror's Choice, SVMA Biennial 2005, Jurors: Larry Rinder, Janet Bishop, Chris Brown

2001  J. Ruth Kelsey Traveling Merit Award, Department of Art Practice, U.C.Berkeley

2000  Eisner Fine Art Award, University of California, Berkeley

1997  High Distinction, California College of the Arts, Painting Department

RESIDENCIES

2007  Artist In Residence, International Natural + Cultural Residency Program, Arts Tasmania, Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania, Australia

2004  Artist In Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2001  Artist In Residence, Kala Bhavana, Kerala, India

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Sampling What?", Stretcher, January 2007.

"Annual New Artist Survey", Artworld Digest Magazine, 2007

"Tia Factor at Keys That Fit Gallery", Shotgun Review, May 2006.

Westbrooke, Lindsey.  "What the World Needs Now (the Love Show)", Artweek, April 2004.

New American Paintings: M.F.A Annual,  Juror, Lisa Phillips, Open Studios Press, Boston, 2001.

Westbrook, Lindsey.  "Mighty Fine Art", East Bay Express, July 2001.

Look, The Quarterly Magazine of the UC Berkeley Art Museum, Spring 2001.