Education
Arizona State University, BA, Studio Art, graduated 1993
A Vein is a River, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Beyond the Stars, YG Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Energy Eaters, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Get ‘Em Into Those Bodies, Stark Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Jungle Gym, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Overlooking the Obvious, Park Row Gallery, Venice, CA
Poke a Hole in the World, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
Resilient Bodies, Chartreuse, Phoenix, AZ
The Body Believes in Images, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
The Body Remembers What We Forget, MonOrchid, Phoenix, AZ
This Way to Earth, Practical Art, Phoenix, AZ
VISITATIONS, The Ice House, Phoenix, AZ
You’re So Vein, Sunny Bak Studios, Venice, CA
Your Thoughts are Not Your Own, Treeo, Phoenix, AZ
Selected Exhibitions
10x10 Takes a Ride, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Abstract Journeys of Mutation with Fausto Fernandez, Mood Room, Phoenix, AZ
Abstract Miniatures, Fine Art Complex, Tempe, AZ
Abstraction in the Singular, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
Artist + Researcher Exhibition, Sky Harbor Airport Museum Terminal 4 gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Arizona Biennial 2003, 2013, 2018, 2020, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
AltRealities, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
Alptraum (The Wandering Show) Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ and numerous international venues
Arbitrary, AZOKOZA, Tempe, AZ
Art on a Cellular Level, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 4 Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
ArtRX: the Mind-Body Connection, Center Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Artists Across America, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Beyond the Studio, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 4, Phoenix, AZ
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Chaos Theory 15 through 25, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
Chimerical, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Contemporary Forum Grant Winners Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Cross Current, Phoenix Merchandise Building, Phoenix, AZ
Deconstructing Coyote, GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Diversity in the Desert, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 3, Phoenix, AZ
Fresh Air , Studio 18, Pembroke Pines, FL
From Micro to Macro, Flynn Foundation, Phoenix, AZ
The Future of Print Making, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
Gallery Fake, Eileen Braziel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Gifted, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Good Wonder, Arizona State University Gallery 100, Tempe, AZ
I Hear What You Are Seeing, Center Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Luminous: The Art of Light, I.D.E.A. Museum, Mesa, AZ
Mas Attack with ARTRA, Fine Art Complex, Tempe, AZ
Metabolize, Upstairs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Metempsychosis, AZOKOZA, Tempe, AZ
Meme Democracy, Illuminoidal Arts, Long Beach, CA
Museo Pequeño, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
The Naturalness of Strange Things: Bill Dambrova and Abbey Messmer, The MonOrhid, Phoenix, AZ
NOMAD, Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA
Observation & Imagination, Royce Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
Outside-In, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Permenant Collection Exhibition, Art Farm Iowa, Northwood, IA
PHX ART Now, Arizona State University Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Poly—Chrome, Illuminoidal Arts, Long Beach, CA
Pseudo-Science, Frontal Lobe Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Science Fiction Double Feature, Illuminoidal Arts, Long Beach, CA
Sex and Candy, Sangria Fine Arts, Lake Balboa, CA
Socially Distanced, Center Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
The Snake Eats Its Tail, Joseph Gross Gallery (UofA), Tucson, AZ
The Space Between You and Me: Tat-Dat Nguyen and Bill Dambrova, Tasty Space, Las Vegas, NV
Trajectory Portfolio Print Project, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 3, Phoenix, AZ
True Blue, Sangria Fine Arts, Lake Balboa, CA
Visual Syntax, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
Winter Show, Green Leaf Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Selected Public Collections
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Arizona State University Art Museum
Art Farm Iowa
Carmody Foundation
City of Tempe
DuPont
Kemin Industries
Kroger Inc.
Meow Wolf
Mesa Community College
Mesa Contemporary Art Museum
Northern Arizona University (Medical Campus in Phoenix)
Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art
Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture
Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Museum
Phoenix Suns Legacy Partners LLC
Scottsdale Arts (City of Scottsdale)
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
State of New Mexico: Art in Public Places Program
Tucson Museum of Art
Awards
2021 The National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association Honor Award Judges Choice for Art – Phoenix Sky Harbor Sky Train with Advance Terrazzo
2021 Ted Decker Catalyst Fund, Phoenix, AZ
2014 Contemporary Forum Artist Grant, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ
Public Art
From the Earth to the Sky is a 6000 sqft terrazzo floor design that I created based on my paintings located at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Rental Car Return Sky Train Station. Facilitated by The City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture. Opened in 2022.
Through Valley Metro ArtsLIne, a sixteen foot by forty-foot digital reproduction of a five-panel eight foot by fifteen-foot painting on canvas called We Are Playful but We Are Not Playing Games was temporarily installed at the Central and Roosevelt Light Rail Station for three months in 2018. Reproductions of the painting were printed on train and bus cards and displayed on over 500 busses and several trains.
The City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture commissioned me to create a five foot by twelve-foot painting for Fry’s Marketplace in Peoria, AZ in 2017. The Painting called Floaters depicts the beauty of the surrounding desert.
Collaborations
2026 I was asked to paint artist Royce Carlson's 1956 Mercedes 190SL. The final work of art was titled Celestial Carnival
2022 I was invited by the Phoenix Bioscience Core to collaborate with two researchers on a project for the Artist + Researcher Exhibition (Arx1) program. The project was a one year collaboration with the result being a painting by me called "Invisible War" based on research of Dr. Cindy Ivy and Dr. Gretchen Bachman concerning Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
2021 I was one of 12 artists selected by curator Marisa Flórido Cesar to collaborate with master printer Brent Bond of Santo Press for Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art's Trajectory Print Project.
2018 I was invited and commissioned to paint a mural inside of MEOW WOLFs House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, NM. Facilitated by Caity Kennedy.
2015 Dance choreographer Douglas Nielson commissioned me to paint on ten eighteen-inch boxes for a dance performance titled If You Don’t Leave Me I’ll Find Someone Who Will at the Stevie Eller Theater in Tucson, AZ. Performers wore dresses and bowties with my original artwork printed on it while interacting with the boxes.
2015 Art360 at the Arizona Science Center. Ten of my paintings were selected and turned into animations that were then projected onto the Dorrance Planetarium Dome Screen to music for public viewing throughout the month of June.
Workshops and Lectures
2023 VISIONS, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2021 The Body Believes in Images, The Murial McLatchie Memorial Lecture, Association of Medical Illustrators Conference
2021 VISIONS, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2020-21 Navigating Digital Files for Public Artists Online Workshops, City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Cultures
2018 Pop-Up Studio, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2017 Critters! Drawing Workshop in collaboration with the ASU Natural History Collections and The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2017 Make It: Shade Scoopers, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ
2016 Painting Workshop, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2015 Celestial Rendering: Visual Art Residency, Chaparral High School, Scottsdale, AZ
2015 Kaleidoscope workshop, Scottsdale Public Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Relevant Experience: 1999-Present
Museum Exhibition Designer/ Consultant specializing in conceptual planning, exhibition development, design, art direction, project management, art installation, and graphic design services for museums, aquariums, zoos, and visitor centers.
Selected Exhibition Design Client and Employer List
American Alliance of Museums, The Aquarium of the Pacific, The Birch Aquarium, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Desert Botanical Garden, Discovery Place, Gecko Group, Gray's Reef Ocean Discovery Center, The Heard Museum, I.D.E.A. Museum, J Paul Getty Center and Villa, Lexington, The Los Angeles Zoo, Mokupapapa Discovery Center, The Monterey Bay Aquarium, National Association of Museum Exhibitions, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Navajo Nation Museum, New York Botanical Garden, OdySea in the Desert Aquarium, The Page Museum, The Phoenix Art Museum, Quatrefoil, River of Time Museum, The San Diego Natural History Museum, Scottsdale Historical Society, Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Valley Metro, West Windsor Township Environmental Commission, Ziegler Fiesta Bowl Museum