Awards & Exhibitions

2026 World Art Awards

Six placements across digital art and manipulated photography, including a first-place award.

• First Place · Masala Spätzle Geometry
  Digital Art, Representational
• Second Place, tied · Queen Diana in the Summer Loggia
  Manipulated Photography, Human or Animal
• Second Place, tied · Alba d’Oro
  Manipulated Photography, Landscape or Still Life
• Third Place, tied · Lugaw at the Luau
  Digital Art, Representational
• Fourth Place · Emerald Vigil
  Manipulated Photography, Landscape or Still Life
• Fifth Place · After The Light Answers
  Digital Art, Representational

View the official 2026 World Art Awards results

Exhibitions

• HMVC Gallery New York · Freestyle 4.0
  Selected Finalist · August 2026
  Featured work: Where The Painted Boats Wait
  Selected for the group exhibition and presented in Times Square in connection with the exhibition.
• APA NY / APA National — 4th Annual Juried Exhibition (Curator: Amanda Hajjar)
  Soho Photo Gallery, NYC — January 27–February 1, 2026 (Reception January 29, 2026)
  Selected works: Desert Gothic; WALK, Broadway and 42nd Winter Street
  Included in APA online gallery and printed exhibition catalog

Exhibitions

• HMVC Gallery New York — "Whispers of October" (Online Group Show)
  Finalist / Accepted — October 1–31, 2025
  Featured work: Murmur of Aspens
• APA SF — "Something Personal" (2025 juried exhibition)
  Left Space, San Francisco — December 5, 2025
  Exhibited: Summoned Angel

Publications

• Artistonish (October 2025 contest/publication)
  Selected for publication: Gateway of Stone and Time

American Art Awards 2025 — Nonmanipulated Photography

• Animals: 2nd (tie) Cobalt Duet; 3rd (tie) Traveler's Gaze
• Landscape: 2nd (tie) Iced Picnic; 3rd (tie) Harbor Morning, Catalina
• Still Life: 1st Tiered Symmetry; 2nd (tie) Arcade Diagonals; 3rd (tie) Parade Of Wings; 4th (tie) Hall Of Light; 5th (tie) Chromatic Rosette

Global Lens Photo Awards (GLPA) 2025

• Honorable Mention — Choreography in Indigo (Mobile)
• Honorable Mention — Choreography in Indigo (Wildlife)
• Selected — Botanical Calligraphy (Black & White)
• Selected — Sanctuary in Granite (Architecture)
• Selected — Fugue of Spires (Architecture)
• Selected — Fugue of Spires (Black & White)

20th Spider Awards

• Nominee — Architecture: Geometry of Sun and Shadow
• Nominee — Silhouettes: St. Louis Botanic Gardens Study 2
• Nominee — Fine Art: North Shore Reverie

Art Collectors Choice Awards

• Landscape: 2nd Trail to High Falls on the Pigeon River Study 5; 3rd (tie) Grand Marais Harbor Study 1; 5th (tie) Avalon Harbor Study 2; 6th (tie) High Falls on the Pigeon River Study 3
• Still Life: 1st View from Catalina Casino Study 1; 2nd Wild Strawberry Patch; 3rd (tie) Split Rock Lighthouse Keepers' Homes; 4th (tie) Alton Mill Study 1; 4th (tie) Split Rock Caretaker's Home Still Life Study 7; 5th (tie) Village Hall Waverly MN Study 1; 6th Grand Theater Study 3

World Art Awards

• Animal: 5th Waokele Pond And Koi Study 4
• Landscape: 1st Summit Lake Study 4; 4th (tie) Antonito Train Station; 5th (tie) Bowen Mountain In Summer Storm; 6th (tie) Avalon Harbor Study 7
• Still Life: 1st Catalina Casino Ballroom Study 2; 3rd (tie) Saddle On Ranch Fence; 4th (tie) Split Rock Caretaker's Home Still Life Study 2; 4th (tie) Catalina Casino Still Life Study 3; 5th (tie) McPike Mansion Study 5; 6th (tie) Grand Marais Harbor Study 1

19th Spider Awards

• Nominee — Still Life (Amateur): Catalina Casino Still Life Study 3; Split Rock Caretaker's Home Still Life Study 7

American Art Awards

• Animals: 2nd Monterey Bay Study 6
• Landscape: 2nd Tropical Plantation Maui Study 32; 3rd (tie) Garden of the Gods Study 8; 4th Kula Botanical Gardens Study 25
• Still Life: 2nd (tie) Legion Park Playground Pandemic Summer Year Two Study 1; 2nd (tie) Maalaea Harbor Study 2; 3rd (tie) NYC Outbreak Day 8 Study 1; 4th (tie) Lavender Farms Study 27; 4th (tie) Salt Lake Temple Grounds Study 11; 5th Engine 8

17th Spider Awards

• Nominee — Still Life (Amateur): Air Force Academy Grounds Study 1
• Nominee — Architecture (Amateur): Arnold Hall Study 3
• Nominee — Fine Art (Amateur): Legion Park Playground Pandemic Summer Year Two Study 1

15th Spider Awards

• Nominee — Fine Art (Amateur): NYC Outbreak Day 8 Study 1

Exhibitions

• APA LA — Off The Clock (Santa Monica Art Studios) — April 13, 2019
  Exhibited: Elephant Rocks Study 2
• SeeMe: NYC Affordable Art Fair (Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC) — March 27–31, 2019
  Exhibited: KE Study 1
• APA SF — Something Personal (SOMArts Bay Gallery) — December 9, 2019
  Exhibited: Monterey Bay Study 6, LAX Hotel Room Study 2

American Art Awards 2019

• Animals: 3rd Ho Okipa Beach Park Residents
• Still Life: 2nd Japanese Spring Study 18; 4th Air Force Chapel Exterior Study 2

14th Spider Awards

• Nominee — Photojournalism (Amateur): STL Flood Study 5
• Nominee — Fine Art: Still Life: Chimayo Study 20

Exhibitions

• APA LA — Off The Clock (Santa Monica Art Studios) — April 21, 2018
  Exhibited: Air Force Chapel Study 11

American Art Awards 2018

• Animals: 3rd Horse Play At Oktoberfest
• Landscape: 3rd Muir Woods Study 17
• Still Life: 5th Sherman Gardens Study 31

13th Annual Spider Awards

• Nominee — Still Life (Amateur): Manitou Cliff Dwellings Study 1
• Nominee — Architecture (Amateur): Air Force Chapel Exterior Study 4
• Nominee — Fine Art (Amateur): Sheldon Iowa Vignette 1

Exhibitions

• APA LA — Off The Clock (Santa Monica Art Studios) — April 29, 2017
  Exhibited: Boston Common Carousel Study 4
• APA SD — Untitled 2017 (3rd Space) — November 3, 2017
  Exhibited: OC Fair Study 4
• APA SF — Something Personal (SOMArts Bay Gallery) — December 11, 2017
  Exhibited: Air Force Chapel Exterior Study 2
  Online: Air Force Chapel Study 11

Publications

• Colorado Lottery 2018 Calendar — Main image (May 2018)
  Featured: Trail Ridge Road Panorama

Monochrome Awards

• HM Nature — Desert Study 15
• HM Architecture — Taos Pueblo Study 6
• HM Fine Art — Cumbres and Toltec Cars

American Art Awards 2017

• Animals: 3rd Fennec Fox
• Humans: 3rd Leaning In
• Landscape: 6th (tie) Desert Study 15; 6th (tie) Pua'a Ka'a Falls in Downpour
• Still Life: 3rd Boston Common Study 11; 4th (tie) Sheldon Iowa Vignette 1; 4th (tie) Riverfront Park Primaries; 6th (tie) Boston Common Carousel Study 3

Exhibitions & Installations

• Lionsgate Resort (Winter Park, CO) — Permanent installation
  100 photographs in common areas — April 2016
• APA SD — Untitled 2016 (3rd Space) — October 22, 2016
  Exhibited: Desert Study 15a
• APA SF — Something Personal (Minna Gallery) — December 18, 2016
  Exhibited: Boston Common Carousel Study 3, Boston Common Study 11
  Online: Old Town San Diego Study 6

Publications

• Parker, CO Calendar — Main image (October 2016)
  Featured: Autumn Dance of the Tall Trees

American Art Awards 2016

• Animals: 4th Trail Ridge Road Panorama; 5th (tie) Golden Eagle Profile
• Humans: 2nd Man at Stachusbrunnen in Munich; 5th (tie) Broadway and 42nd Street 1985
• Landscape: 3rd Bryce Canyon Perspective; 4th Summit Lake Study 4; 5th (tie) Taos Pueblo Study 1; 5th (tie) Autumn Dance of the Tall Trees; 6th (tie) Descending from Angels Landing 2
• Still Life: 1st Cumbres and Toltec Cars; 3rd Poppies and Sky; 4th Adobe Window Autumn Still Life

Other Awards

• OneEyeland Awards — Finalist: Taos Pueblo (series of 5)
• Fine Art Photography Awards — Finalist (Architecture): Taos Pueblo (series of 5)
• IPA 2016 — Honorable Mention, Fine Art Landscapes: Little Waverly Lake at Sunset

Exhibitions

• See.Me — Exposure: Landscapes (Louvre, Paris) — October 2015
  Exhibited: Long's Peak
• APA LA — Off The Clock (Santa Monica Art Studios) — April 25, 2015
  Exhibited: Taos Pueblo Study 6
• APA SF — Something Personal (Midway Studios) — November 4, 2015
  Digital: KE Study 1, A Tractor and a Door, Cherry Creek Wilderness
• APA SD — Untitled 2015 (3rd Space) — November 7, 2015
  Exhibited: Planted Mobility

American Art Awards

• Landscapes: 2nd Little Waverly Lake at Sunset
• People: 3rd CC Study 3
• Animals: 4th Bullish on Autumn; 5th Cherry Creek Wilderness

Other Awards

• MyRankArt — Finalist ("Dusk or Sunrise"): Little Waverly Lake at Sunset

American Art Awards

• 1st Place, Still Life — Hedgehog Cactus Flames
• 6th Place, Animals — Pelican Pier at Monterey Bay

Media Features

• Greatest Christmas Trees in the World: Places to see in your lifetime (Christmas 2014)
  Featured: Crystal Cove Greetings