b. 1986, Johnson City, New York
Lives and works in Richfield, Minnesota
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Education
2015 University of Minnesota; MFA: Ceramics and Sculpture, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Colorado State University; Post Baccalaureate Study, Fort Collins, CO
2008 Alfred University; BFA: Concentration in Ceramic Art and Painting, Alfred, NY
​Minors: Art History, Music
2007 Lorenzo De’ Medici; Concentration in art, Florence, Italy
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Solo Exhibitions
2026 Solo exhibition forthcoming Spring 2026; WHAT Art Gallery, St, Croix Falls, WI
2025 To Unfold; Silverwood Park Gallery, St. Anthony, MN
2023 A Way Through; Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Towards Veracity; Artistry Theater and Visual Arts Center; Inez Greenberg Gallery, Bloomington, MN
2019 Amended Accounts; Solo Exhibition; Ridgewater College Galleries, Willmar and Hutchinson, MN
2018 Comfort and Entanglement; Solo Exhibition; MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
2017 Impetus of Entanglement; Solo Exhibition; Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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Solo Public Work
2021 Encountering the Subtle Threshold; Outdoor Installation; Silverwood Park, St. Anthony, MN
2018 Steadying pause.; Outdoor Installation; Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2017 In the midst of being in the space between.; Outdoor Sculpture Commission; Minneapolis, MN
Hair and Nails Gallery
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Group Exhibitions
2025 Small Favors; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2024 Teaching Artists of Northern Clay Center; Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Collect Call 5; Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Hard and Soft; Juried Exhibition at the Center for the Visual Arts; Wausau, WI
2020 Emerging Artist Grant Recipients; Northern Clay Center Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
After Hours; Quarter Gallery; Minneapolis, MN
C4W: 2020; Gamut Gallery; Minneapolis, MN
2019 You’re Still One of Ours; CSU Alumni exhibition curated by Del Harrow and Sanam Emami; Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO
Object Lessons; NCECA Concurrent Exhibition; Regis Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Little Red Quartet.; Co-Organized NCECA Concurrent Exhibition; The White Page Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Suggestions for Perplexing Thoughts; Co-Organized NCECA Concurrent Exhibition; SpringBOX, St. Paul, MN
Two-person exhibition; in collaboration with Allison Rose Craver; Rochester Community and Technical College Gallery, Rochester, MN
2017 One year later, one day after; Invitational: Yeah, Maybe #13; Yeah, Maybe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Juried Exhibition: Candice Hopkins; Space 369, St. Paul, MN
2016 Receding Environments and Ambiguous Forms; The Island Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Group Show #5: Yeah, Maybe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Underlined Action; MFA Thesis Exhibition; Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Summer Arts Discovery: Invitational; Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN
That gives the urgency and getting there is not all that difficult, you see? Solo Installation; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, UK
2014 Featured Artist: Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
For A Limited Time Only; Invitational; Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Pairing Pottery Dining Experience; Sapor Café, Minneapolis, MN
Let There Be Light; Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
2012 Made for Each Other: Juried Show; Studio 550 Art Center, Manchester, NH
Containment III: A Nesting Instinct; Invitational; Crimson Laurel Gallery, Bakersville, NC
Combined Forces; Odyssey Center Gallery, Asheville, NC
2011 Collect(ive) Components: Resident Artist Show; Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
2010 Post Baccalaureate Ceramic Students’ Show; CSU Art Department, Fort Collins, CO
2008 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Harder Hall, Alfred, NY
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Awards
2021 Early Career Project Grantee; Forecast Public Art; St. Paul, MN
2020 Recipient of the 2020 Artist Initiative Grant; Minnesota State Arts Board, Minneapolis, MN
Silverwood Park Outdoor Sculpture Artist Award; St. Anthony, MN
2019 Recipient of Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant awarded by Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Recipient of Franconia Sculpture Park Open Studio Fellowship, Shafer, MN
2017 Recipient of Sculpture Garden Commission; Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Recipient of the 2017 Artist Initiative Grant; Minnesota State Arts Board, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Recipient of Summer Travel Fellowship; U of M Art Department, Oaxaca, Mexico
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Publications
2017 Christina Schmid; “Erin Paradis: Impetus of Entanglement”; InReview: Winter 2017
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Gallery Affiliations
2025 Gallery member; Galleri 167 Northrup King Building; Minneapolis, MN
Sales Gallery Artist; WHAT Art School; St. Croix Falls, WI
2019-present Sales Gallery Artist; Gallery 360; Minneapolis, MN
2017-2018 Lacuna Gallery; Co-Founder, Curator, and Gallery Coordinator, Minneapolis, MN
2016-2018 Board of Directors member at The White Page Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Island Gallery; Curator and Gallery Coordinator, Minneapolis, MN
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Professional Experience
2024-'25 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art- Ceramics; Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
2021-'24 Teaching Artist at Northern Clay Center,Minneapolis, MN
​​2021 Teaching Artist- Workshop: Digging in Clay- Abstract Art; Silverwood Park, St. Anthony, MN
Workshop: Abstract Clay Sculpture; Franconia Sculpture Park, Schafer, MN
2018-'22 Teaching Artist at Artistry Theater and Visual Arts, Bloomington, MN
2016, ‘17-‘20 Lecturer; University of Minnesota; Ceramics and Sculpture Department, Minneapolis, MN
2016-17 Visiting Assistant Professor, Full time; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Instructor of Record: University of Minnesota- Beginning Ceramics, Minneapolis, MN
2012-‘15 Teaching Assistant; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Related Experience
2022 Juror for Artistry Theater and Visual Arts 2023-2024 Exhibition Program, Bloomington, MN
2020 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Competition: Sculpture Juror, St. Paul, MN
2019 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts: workshop with Linda Lopez, Deer Isle, ME
2015 Scottish Sculpture Workshop; Emerging Artist In Residence, Lumsden, Scotland, UK
2013 Penland School of Craft- Studio Assistant for Tetsuya Yamada, Penland, NC
2011 Assistant for Matt Kelleher and Shoko Teruyuma: Slow Pottery Workshop; Odyssey Center for Ceramic, Asheville, NC
2010-2012 Odyssey Center for Ceramics Resident Artist, Asheville, NC
2009 Watershed Center for Ceramic Art Assistantship, Newcastle, ME
2008 Women’s Studio Workshop; Chili Bowl Fellow, Rosendale, NY
2007 Alfred University Ceramics Summer Intern for David Freddy Fredrickson, Alfred, NY