Education
2007 Bachelor of Music, Jazz Performance, Minnesota State University Moorhead
2006 Bachelor of Science, Graphic Communications, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Solo Exhibits
2019 Driving Through Flyover Country, Kaddatz Galleries, Fergus Falls, MN, March 2 - 30
Group Exhibits
2022 Everything is Narrative Subjectively Objective, Rochester Hills, MI, June
2022 Investigations in Infrastructure Subjectively Objective, Rochester Hills, MI, May
2020 Observations in the Ordinary Subjectively Objective, Rochester Hills, MI, February
2019 After Promontory Carnegie Arts Center, Alliance, NE, September 24 - January 4, 2020
2019 After Promontory Durham Museum, Omaha, NE, March 30 - July 28
2019 After Promontory Brigham Young University Art Museum, Provo, UT, March 29 - October 5
2018 The Vernacular of Landscape Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September 14 - October 19
2018 The Vernacular of Landscape Subjectively Objective, Rochester Hills, MI, July
2017 North Dakota Museum of Art Autumn Auction ND Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, October 28
2017 Topographies Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS, September 29 - October 13
2017 Exposure 2.0 The Hotel Donaldson, Fargo, ND, September 14 - September 23
2017 Negative Feedback theprintspace, London, United Kingdom, September 1 - September 14
2017 Pylot Magazine Open Call theprintspace, London, United Kingdom, July 27 - August 2
2017 Juried Exhibition Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS, January 27 - February 10
2016 WE:AMEricans Station Independent Projects, New York City, July 7 - August 7
2016 Night Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, June 17 - July 23
2015 Icons of the West Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT, May 15 - June 30
2014 Icons of the West Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT, May 16 - June 30
2013 Wisconsin Railroads Today East Troy Electric Railroad Museum, East Troy, WI
Monograph
Driving Through Flyover Country, Subjectively Objective, 2023
Abode of Iron Desolation, Self-published, 2022
Selected Published Photographs
Railroad Heritage, The Center for Railroad Photography and Art, 2022
Continuity & Change: The Lure of North American Railroads, The Center for Railroad Photography and Art, 2022
Everything is Narrative, Curated by Noah Waldeck, Subjectively Objective, 2021
Investigations in Infrastructure, Curated by Noah Waldeck, Subjectively Objective, 2021
The Railroad of Art and Place: An Anthology, The Center for Railroad Photography and Art, 2021
Observations in the Ordinary, Curated by Noah Waldeck, Subjectively Objective, 2019
After Promontory, Edited by the Center for Railroad Photography and Art, Indiana University Press, 2019
The Vernacular of Landscape, Curated by Noah Waldeck, Subjectively Objective, 2018
Stop Magazine, Issue Two, Winter 2017
Railroad Heritage, Winter 2017
Trains, May 2010
Regional Railroads of the Midwest, 2007 - Steve Glischinski, Voyageur Press
CTC Board, October 2004
North Dakota 24/7, 2004 - Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, DK Publishing
America 24/7, 2003 - Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, DK Publishing
Selected Published Articles
Railroading in Kansas, in collaboration with Joel Jensen, NRHS Bulletin, Volume 86 No. 4, February 2024
Trains Online, June 2010
CTC Board, October 2004
Bibliography
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