Education
1993 M.F.A., Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1977 B.A., Broadcast and Film Communication, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Professional experience
1990 - Present Photographic artist
2016-2017 Visiting Lecturer in Photography, Department of Art and Design, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
2003-2014 Assistant Professor of Photography, Div. of Visual, Performing and Applied Arts, Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland
2003-2004 Adjunct Instructor, History of Western Art (online) , Genesee Community College, Batavia, New York
2002-2003 Visiting Instructor, Photography and Art History, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Genesee Community College, Batavia, New York
1999-2002 Adjunct Instructor of Photography, University of Redlands, Department of Art, Redlands, California
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1997-2001 Workshop Instructor, Photography, University of California Riverside Extension, Riverside, California
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1998 Adjunct Instructor of Photography, Chaffey Community College, Rancho Cucamonga, California
1998 Adjunct Instructor of Photography, Golden West Community College, Huntington Beach, California
1996 Adjunct Instructor of Photography, University of South Alabama, Department of Art and Art History, Mobile, Alabama
1994-95 Studio staff, photography instructor and curator, ASUC Art Gallery , ASUC Art Studio, University of California, Berkeley, California
1993 Photography instructor, San Francisco Art Institute Extension Education Program, San Francisco, California.
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SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017
Landscape/Hardscape
Helen S, Smith Gallery, Green River College, Auburn, Washington
Chris Heard and Sonya Lang
Centennial Center Gallery, Kent Arts Commission, Kent, Washington
2015
Notes From Suburbia
Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Department of Art and Design, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
The Penitent: Images from Eastern State Penitentiary
Museum of Culture and Environment , Department of Anthropology and Museum StudiesCentral Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
This exhibition was part of a cross-campus year of dialogue, "Mass Incarceration and Racial Violence: Black and Brown Lives Do Matter."
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Pacific Northwest Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Kent Arts Commission Summer Art Exhibit, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, Washington
2019
Pacific Northwest Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
37th Annual Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts, Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph, Oregon
Kent Arts Commission Summer Art Exhibit, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, Washington
2018
Close In: First Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition, Jundt Art Museum Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington
2016
Faculty Exhibition, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Department of Art and Design, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington
2016 CVG Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, Washington
Kent Arts Commission Summer Art Exhibit, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, Washington
Anacortes Arts Festival, Arts at the Port Exhibition, Transit Shed Gallery, Anacortes, Washington
Kittitas County Juried Exhibition, Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg, Washington
2015
Roslyn Art Festival Juried Exhibition, NWIC Gallery, Roslyn, Washington
Kittitas County Juried Exhibition, Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg, Washington
Anacortes Arts Festival, Arts at the Port Exhibition, Transit Shed Gallery, Anacortes, Washington
Kent Arts Commission Summer Art Exhibit, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, Washington
2010
84th Annual International Competition: Photography, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010 International Photography Competition, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
2009
9th Annual American Landscapes National Open Juried Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland
2nd Anniversary Exhibition, Towson ARTS Collective, Towson, Maryland
2007
Suburbia Redefined, Towson ARTS Collective, Towson, Maryland
Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
2004-2014
Winter Doldrums, faculty exhibition, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland
2002
Camera Obscura, Public Works Art Gallery, Redlands, California
1995
Yosemite Renaissance X, Yosemite National Park Gallery, Yosemite, California
1994 Images and Objects, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, California
1994
Yosemite Renaissance IX, Yosemite National Park Gallery, Yosemite, California
1993
Photo Works, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California
Toledo Friends of Photography Juried Exhibition, University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts, Toledo, Ohio
Society for Contemporary Photography Current Works, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Graduate Thesis Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1989
Looking Homeward: Alabama Landscape Photography, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
HONORS AND AWARDS
2016 Gallery One Board of Trustees Award, Kittitas County Juried Exhibition Gallery One, Ellensburg, Washington
2016 Summer Art Exhibition Purchase Award, Kent Arts Commission, Kent, Washington
2015 Best of Show, Roslyn Art Festival Juried Exhibition, Roslyn, Washington
2015 Summer Art Exhibition Purchase Award, Kent Arts Commission, Kent, Washington
2010 Museo Fine Print Award, The Print Center 84th Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts: Photography
1994 Utrecht Award, Images and Objects, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, California
Jurors Award, Yosemite Renaissance IX, Yosemite National Park Gallery, Yosemite, California