Education

2000-01
Graduate Program in Art History, Temple University

2000
Master of Fine Art, Painting, Tyler School of Art at Temple University

1997
Bachelor of Art, Philosophy, Goucher College

Residencies

2006
Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2005
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Pan, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2007
New Paintings, Pomona College Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Gyre Carling, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
How to Make Love to a Gasmask, Carl Berg Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

New Paintings, Stephan Stux Gallery, New York, NY

2005
Vectors in the Wounded Plane, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Run, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2003
Draka Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2002
Kolektiv Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Johnson State University Art Gallery, Johnson, VT

2001
Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2000
Temple University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions

2007
No Coast, No Sea, Western Exhibitions, Chicago,IL

Struck, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicagi, IL

The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference, Temple University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Drawings from LA, Carl Berg Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Plex, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA

New York Styles, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2005
Le Desert de Retz, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY, curated by David Hunt

From the Fruit to the Root, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY, curated by David Hunt

More than Dirty South, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Odili Donald Odita

Off My Biscuit, Destroy Your District, Sampson Projects, Boston, MA

The Seismologist, Sarah Nightingale Gallery, Southhampton, NY

Group Exhibition, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Root to the Fruit, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY

Motion/Stasis, Carroll Gallery at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

2003
Sentimental Favorites: Abstract Painting, Triple Candie, New York, NY, Curated by Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett

Louisiana Biennial, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, curated by Valerie Cassel, Terry R. Myers, Odili Donald Odita, and David Rubin

2002
2002 Faculty Show, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

2001
Just Ripe, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Not Yet Housebroken, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1999
MFA Student Exhibition, Tyler School of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Bibliography

New American Paintings #73, “Juror’s Pick” Alma Ruiz MOCA Los Angles curator, pp.64-67

Maine Steven. “Review: Iva Gueorguieva at Carl Berg Gallery,” Art in America, October 2007, pp. 221

Myers, Holly. " Menace Lurks Amid the Colorful Chaos," Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2007, pp. E23

Harrison, Helen A. “Landscapes: Fantastic, Elemental or Formal,” The New York Times, November 13, 2005

Calas, Terrington. “Technique and Meaning,” The New Orleans Art Review, Sept/Oct/Nov 2004, pp. 28-30.

MacCash, Doug. “Energetic Abstraction”, Times Picayune (Lagniappe), August 13, 2004, pp. 14-16

Bookhardt, Eric D. “Born to Run”, The Gambit Weekly, August 17, 2004

Louisiana Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, August 2003

MacCash, Doug. “Competitive Edge”, Times Picayune (Lagniappe), Friday, August 8, 2003, pp. 20-24

Bookhardt, Eric. “Review: Louisiana Biennial”, Art Papers Magazine Nov-Dec, 2003

Awards and Grants

2006
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient

2005
Artist Residency Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

2003-2004
Artist Mini Grant, Louisiana Council on the Arts

2002-04
Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

1999-2000
University Fellowship, full tuition and monthly stipend, Temple University

Summer 1999
Rome Fellowship, full-tuition grant to attend an art history seminar in Rome Italy

1993-1997
Trustee’s Scholarship, full-tuition, room and board for four years, Goucher College

Artist Talks

2007
Guest lecturer, Painter’s Edge, Idyllwild, CA

2005
Lecture and Graduate Studio Visits, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Lecture and Panel Discussion, Artspeak, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

2001
Artist Gallery Talk Series, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1999
“Merleau-Ponty and the Culturing of the Body,” Baltimore, MD