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SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2011 (Upcoming) Drake Gallery, St. Paul Academy and Summit School, St. Paul, MN
2009 From Here to There, Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA
2007 Re-Visions, Art Center in Orange, Orange, VA (two-person)
2005 Carrington Gallery, The North Theatre, Danville, VA
Passages, The Madeira School, McLean, VA
Findings, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA (two-person)
2004 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
2003 Caswell County Civic Center, Yanceyville, NC
Variations, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
Shadetree Canvas Gallery, Chatham, VA
2002 Danville Museum of Fine Art, Danville, VA
2001 Offices of Gilbert, Marks and DiGirolamo, Hagerstown, MD
2000 WCAC Gallery, Hagerstown, MD
1999 Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Hagerstown, MD
1998 Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
1996 North Shore Country Day School, Chicago, IL
1994 MFA Thesis Show, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 (Upcoming) Bloomington Theatre and Arts Center, Bloomington, MN (three-person exhibition)
2010 (Upcoming) Farida Hughes, Rashaun Kartak and Mary Bergs, Minnesota Women’s Building, St. Paul, MN
Frank Stone Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
WARM Currents
, Northrup King Building Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (curated by Beate Minkovski)
Size Doesn't Matter, Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA
Art {in} Justice, Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
Foot in the Door 4, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Size Doesn't Matter, Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 Group Exhibition, University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Contemporary Virginia Painters, Process Unveiled
, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
Small Works Invitational, Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA
2007 Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA
INDEX, ArtDC Art Fair, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
Primed, WPA/C Exhibition/Auction, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
WCAC Gallery, Hagerstown, MD
2006 Rentz Gallery, Richmond, VA
McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2005 Turning the Page, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington, D.C.
Entering the Interior, Rentz Gallery, Richmond, VA
Layers (Collaboration with Elsabe Dixon), McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2004 100 Doves, WCAC Gallery, Hagerstown, MD
Breaking Ground, The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, Glen Allen, VA
McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2003 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
Davidson County Community College, NC
Garden of the Mind's Eye at Riverside, Sponsored by Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
AAWS, Winston-Salem, NC
McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
Delaplaine Visual Arts and Education Center, Frederick, MD
2002 Delaplaine Visual Arts and Education Center, Frederick, MD
McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2001 Danville Museum of Fine Art, Danville, VA
1998 Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, MD
1997 Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
1996 D & D Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1995 The 2nd Gallery, Frederick, MD
La Fond Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
25 at 25, The Plaza Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Cancer Research Center, Robinwood Medical Campus
Chesapeake Capital
F&M Bank
Hilton Orlando
Hilton Hotels
Orlando World Market Marriot

REVIEWS

Ruth Latter, "Superb's the Word," The Daily Progress, (Charlottesville, VA), Thursday, May 24, 2007
Aaron Steinberg, "Varied Art Motifs Imitate Music," The Hook, (Charlottesville, VA) March 20-26, 2003, p.28
Ruth Latter, "In Tune with Hughes," The Daily Progress, (Charlottesville, VA), D3, Thurs., March 20, 2003
_____, "Center Branches out…," The Daily Progress, (Charlottesville, VA) Section D, Thurs., Jan. 10, 2002
Artrageous News, (Washington County Arts Council, Hagerstown, MD), Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 5, Sept.- Nov. 2000
"Women in the Arts," The Herald-Mail (Hagerstown, MD), Section D, Sunday, October 18, 1998
Grey City Journal Vol. 1, #22, (Chicago, IL), April 8, 1994

EDUCATION

MFA, Painting, University of Chicago
BA, Studio Art/English, Fordham University
Residency, Vermont Studio School