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Representation: Resource Art, Buffalo, NY                                  

Education

MFA Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

BFA Fine Arts, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY - Painting (summa cum laude)

Minor in Museum Studies, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY

Recent Film Work

Serpentine, (2:45 minutes) 2024.

An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Houseplants, (5 minutes) 2023.

Raft of Sanity Gallery, Buffalo, NY (premiere)

Incantations, (5 minutes) 2023.

Short.Sweet. Film Festival, Cleveland, OH (premiere) (People’s Choice Award: Experimental)

Valkyrie International Film Festival, Buffalo, NY (Awarded Outstanding Experimental WNY Film)

West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV

To the Moon & Back, (5 minutes) 2023.

Buffalo International Film Festival, Buffalo, NY

Catskill International Film Festival, Callicoon, NY (Nominated Best Editing)

Toronto Short Film Festival, Toronto, ON

Valkyrie International Film Festival, Buffalo, NY

The Harvest, (2.5 minutes, 3:45 minutes) 2022-2024

Play/Ground, a Resource:Art project, Buffalo RiverWorks, Buffalo, NY (video installation in a silo)

Art in Craft Media 2023, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

NCCC Film & Animation Festival (Honorable Mention - Experimental)

Transit of Venus, (27 minutes) 2022.

Blue Mythologies, Raft of Sanity Gallery, Buffalo, NY (premiere)

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Temple of Hortus, TBD (NYSCA 2024 Artist Grant recipient)

Blue Mythologies, The Raft, Buffalo, NY (2023)

Nature Magic, The Buffalo Club, Buffalo, NY (2023)

Wrapped in Plastic: Botanical Paintings by Amanda Besl, View Arts, Old Forge, NY (2019)

I’ll Try Not to Breathe, Anna Kaplan Contemporary, Buffalo, NY (2017)

The Forest Electric, BT&C Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2015)

Psyche’s Knot, BT&C Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2014)

Selected Group Exhibitions and Opportunities

Kindred, The Raft, Buffalo, NY (2024)

Sweet Dreams, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR (2023)

Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY (2023)

Plastic, Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH (2023)

Spring Break, Cannon Design, Fountain Plaza, Buffalo, NY (2023)

Art and Science of Botanical Illustration, View Arts, Old Forge, NY (2022)

Cover Art for Grammy nominated album Between the Sandhills and the Sea by Eric Starr (2022)

Life As Clouds, String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY (2022)

Botanical Phantasm, Proximity, a Resource:Art project, Buffalo, NY (2020) (installation)

Biophilia, Two-person Exhibition, Exhibit A, Corning, NY (2019)

Counting the Hours, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY (2019)

Persephone, Play/Ground, a Resource:Art project, Medina, NY (2019)

How to Disappear Completely, Play/Ground, a Resource:Art project, Medina, NY (2018)

Echo Art Fair, NYC curated by Resource Art (2016)

Selected Collections

Burger Collection, Hong Kong

Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo

Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan

Tullman Collection, Chicago