Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Communication

Graphic Design & Illustration
The University of Kansas, 2008

Experience

Museums

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ◊ Exhibition Designer
08/2018–current, San Francisco, CA

The J. Paul Getty Museum ◊ Exhibition Designer
05/2015–07/2018, Los Angeles, CA

Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts & the Institute for Contemporary Art ◊ Graphic Designer
08/2014–05/2015, Richmond, VA

Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas ◊ Exhibition Designer
12/2008–08/2013, Lawrence, KS

Architecture

Gould Evans Associates, LLC ◊ Designer
06/2007–12/2008, Lawrence, KS, USA

Advertising/Marketing

Barkley Collective Studio ◊ Senior Designer
08/2013–08/2014, Kansas City, MO

The Frontier Project ◊ Designer
11/2014–02/2015, Richmond, VA

Exhibitions

“One of the 10 most engaging exhibitions of the year”
— Los Angeles Times
“London Calling is just about perfection and should not be missed.”
— Patricia Zohn, The Huffington Post

Unruly Nature
June–Sep 2016

Noir: The Romance of Black
Feb–May 2016

In Focus: Daguerreotypes
Nov 2015–Mar 2016

Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas

2013

James Turrell: Gard Blue
Sep 2013–May 2014

Rockne Krebs: Drawing for Sculpture You Can Walk Through
Aug 2013–Jan 2014

An Errant Line: Ann Hamilton/Cynthia Schira
Mar–Aug 2013

2012

Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy
Sep 2012–Jan 2013

Mary Sibande and Sophie Ntombikayise Take Central Court
Aug 2012–Feb 2013

Visualizing Farmers’ Land Use Decisions
Jul–Sep 2012

Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing
Mar–Jul 2012

39 Trails: Research in the Peruvian Amazon
Mar–Jul 2012

Prepared: Strategies for Activists
Apr–Jul 2012

Glorious to View: The KU Campus Heritage Project
July–Feb 2012

2011

Jin Shan: It Came from the Sky
Apr–Aug 2011

Stickwork: Patrick Dougherty
Jun 2009–Aug 2011

Networks: Art And Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection at the Spencer Museum of Art
Mar–Jul 2011

Site Specifics
Aug–Feb 2011

Dan Perjovschi Central Court
Sep 2010 – Feb 2011

2010

Qiu Anxiong: New Book of Mountains and Seas
Feb–May 2010

Machine in a Void: World War I & The Graphic Arts
Mar–May 2010

Chen Shaoxiong: Ink Things
Nov 2009–Feb 2010

Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia
Oct 2009–Feb 2010

Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s
Aug–Jan 2010

2009

XY
Jun–Oct 2009

A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change, Photographs by Terry Evans
Feb–Oct 2009

Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches In Nature & Culture
Mar–Jun 2009

Climate Change at the Poles
Jan– Jun 2009

A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-Tsing Li Collection, 1950–2000
Feb–May 2009

Independent Projects

Anywhere But Here 
Wilton House Museum, Richmond, VA, Nov 2014–Jan 2015

Selfies, Kansas City Flat File Exhibition
H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, Jun–Sep 2014

Waves in Color: Paintings by Tristan Telander
Bespoke Salon, Kansas City, MO, Jun–Jul 2014

Sunday Painter: Kansas City Plein Air Coterie (KC PAC)
Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, Feb–Mar 2014

Waves in Black: Paintings by Tristan Telander
The Bourgeois Pig, Lawrence, Kansas, 2013

Mutatis Mutandis
12th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), University of Michigan, 2012

Mutatis Mutandis
The Commons at Spooner Hall, The University of Kansas, 2011

Paintings & Photographs by Tristan Telander, Henry’s Coffee Shop, Lawrence, KS, 2008

Bonus

 

Extracurricular

Guest speaker, University of California San Diego, Exhibition and Curatorial History Course, 2023 

Panelist, Career Insights Panel Series, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2022

Interview, ADPro article, Fashion Designer Patrick Kelly is Due in a New Exhibition, 2021

AIGA Conference, The Shape of Now, Los Vegas, CA., 2016 Museum and the Web Conference, Los Angeles, CA., 2016

Guest teacher, junior graphic design class, Project: “Visualizing Farmers’ Land Use Decisions”, University of Kansas, 2013

Co-author, article, “A Note about Design & Typography”, Spencer Museum of Art Register, 2012

Presenter, University of Kansas Honors Research Symposium, Mutatis Mutandis: Abbreviated, 2012

Guest teacher, junior graphic design class, Project: “Glorious to View: The KU Campus Heritage Project”, University of Kansas, 2012

American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) portfolio workshop reviewer, Kansas City Art Institute, 2010

Awards

12th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), University of Michigan, Artist/Presenter, Mutatis Mutandis, 2012

American Association of Museums (AAM) Publications Design Competition, First Prize, 2011

The Commons at Spooner Hall, University of Kansas grant recipient, Mutatis Mutandis, exhibition, 2011

AAM Publications Design Competition, Honorable Mention, 2010