EDUCATION |
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2006 |
Master of Fine Arts, University of Houston, TX |
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2001 |
Teacher Certification in Art, Texas |
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1995 |
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin, TX |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2007 |
November 2 - December 21, 2007 "The Buffalo Hunters" Art League Houston |
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2006 |
"MFA Thesis Exhibition", Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX |
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"Angel-spit and Night-games", Project Gallery, Houston, TX |
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2002 |
"New Works", Citrus, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles |
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2000 |
"Figurative Work", Blossom Street Gallery, Houston TX |
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1998 |
"Recent Works", Ocotillo Gallery, Houston TX |
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"New Works", Blossom Street Gallery, Houston TX |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2007 |
25th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, (Juror: Anne Tucker, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) |
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"Truth Implied: Contemporary Photography in the Digital Age", Irvine Valley College Art Gallery, Irvine, CA. |
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2006 |
Grendel, A Jack-the-Pelican-Presents project, Miami, FL. |
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"The Big Show", Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, (Juror: Dominic Molon, Associate Curator for the Contemporary Art Museum of Chicago) |
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"24th Annual Juried Exhibition", Houston Center for Photography (Jurors: Allison Hunter and Madeline Yale) |
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2005 |
"Landmine Fantasy", CSAW, Houston, TX (Curator: Wes Heiss) |
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"Summer 2005 Open Juried Exhibition", The Arts Alliance Center of Clear Lake, TX (Juror: Jason Makepeace) - Best in Show award |
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"Ninth Annual Photography Exhibition", The Arts Alliance Center of Clear Lake, TX - Juror's Choice award |
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2004 |
"Rock, Paper, Scissors", CSAW, Houston, TX |
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"Will’s Creek Survey", Allegany Arts Council, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD (Juror: Elizabeth Thomas, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art,Carnegie Museum of Art), |
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"Art From The Heartland", Coutts Memorial Museum of Art, El Dorado, KS, (Juror: Bob Regier) - catalogue published |
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"Juried Photography Exhibition", The Arts Alliance Center of Clear Lake, TX (Juror: Allison Hunter) |
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2003 |
"50/50", CSAW, Houston, TX |
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"Miniatures", Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX |
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2002 |
"The Big Show", Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (Juror: Annete DiMeo Carlozzi, Curator at Blanton Museum in Austin, TX) |
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"Round 1", Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX |
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"Summer Drawing Show", Mixture Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, TX |
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2001 |
"Lay It Down", Denise Ramos Studios, Houston, TX (Curator: Judy Moon Kwon) |
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2000 |
"New Works", McCord Development Inc. Houston, TX |
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1997 |
"The Big Show", Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (Curator: Don Bacigalupi) |
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SELECTED BENEFITS AND AUCTIONS |
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2007 |
"Blanco y Negro", Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX. |
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2005 |
"Dollars for Scholars", Art Guys Studio, Houston, TX |
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"Luck of the Draw", Diverse Works, Houston, TX |
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2004 |
"Gone Fishing", Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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2007 |
Sarah Gajkowski-Hill, "Buffalo Hunters", artshouston, December 2007, p31. |
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Troy Schulze, "Buffalo Hunters", The Houston Press, November 29, 2007, p38. |
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2006 |
Nichole Pruitt, "Lawndale Art Center", artshouston, August 2006, pp28-29. |
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2005 |
Marisa C. Sanchez, "Photographers and Printmakers in the Digital Studio" ARTLIES, Vol. 46, Spring 2005, pp 29-33 |
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2004 |
Warren Rosser, "Juror's Statement" National Art Exhibition Catalogue, The Arts in El Dorado, Kansas (Art From the Heartland), October, 2004, p2 and 8 |
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2002 |
Bobbie Semple, "Citrus Shows Eric Michael Jones" The Daily Herald (St. Maarten, N.A.), March 7, 2002, Out and About, p9 and 10 |
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Kelly Klaasmeyer, "Hello, My Name is Simon …” Houston Press, August 15, 2002, p60. |
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2001 |
John Devine, "Curiously Corporate" Houston Press, December 27, 2001, p52 |
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2000 |
Randy Wook, "Eric Jones at Blossom Street Gallery" Houston’s Other, October 11, 2000, p10 |
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AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS |
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2005 |
Dolores Welder Mitchell Fellowship, University of Houston, TX |
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Best in Show: Summer 2005 Open Juried Exhibition, Juror: Jason Makepeace, The Arts Alliance Center, Clear Lake, TX |
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Juror's Choice Award: Ninth Annual Photography Exhibition, Juror: Wendy Watriss,
The Arts Alliance Center, Clear Lake, TX |
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2004 |
Best in Portraiture, Juried Photography Exhibition, Juror: Allison Hunter, Editor of SPOT Magazine, The Arts Alliance Center of Clear Lake, TX |
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Bunker Graduate Fellowship in Art, University of Houston, TX |
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ARTIST TALKS/ PRESENTATIONS/ JUROR |
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2008 |
Speaker, Living the Arts - Digital Artists Show Their Stuff, Houston Community College Southwest, TX. |
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2006 |
Artist Talk, Brown Bag Lunch Tour, Blaffer Gallery, TX |
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Juror, Summer ’06 Open, The Arts Alliance of Clear Lake, TX |
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2005 |
Juror, Red Block Bash, Blaffer Gallery in association with University of Houston, TX |
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2002 |
Slide Lecture, Slide Jam, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. |
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RELATED AFFILIATIONS |
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2003 - 2006 |
Programming Committee Member, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX |
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