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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Concentration in Photography, summa cum laude with Distinction in Major, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2016–2017 Therapeutic Artist Residency (TAR Project)

Juror’s Honorable Mention, Director’s Honorable Mention, Transitional Landscapes, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. Natasha Egan, Juror; Hamidah Glasgow, Director

Selected Project, WonderRoot CSA Season Four

Finalist Nomination, 5th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award

2013–2014 Walthall Artist Fellowship, WonderRoot, Atlanta

Selected by the New York Times Lens Blog to attend the New York Portfolio Review. Reviewers: Sam Barzilay, United Photo Industries; Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC Arts; Tom Gitterman, Gitterman Gallery; James Wellford, independent curator; Sasha Wolf, Sasha Wolf Gallery.

Selected to attend the WonderRoot / Jackson Fine Art Portfolio Review. Reviewer: Brett Abbott, Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art Third Place Award

Third Place Award, 2008 Juried Student Exhibition, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta. Marilu Knode, Juror

Selected to attend the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Juried Portfolio Review. Reviewers: Natasha Egan, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago; Catherine Evans, Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio; Erik Schneider, Quality Pictures; Madeline Yale, Houston Center for Photography

Parallels: Unfolding Space, Day and Night Projects, Atlanta (forthcoming in July)

Parallels: Holding Space, J Gallery, Atlanta

The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta. Dr. Jerry Cullum, Curator

A Space Oddity: Monolith, Florence, Italy

Ladyfest, Murmur, Atlanta

Transitional Landscapes, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. Natasha Egan, Juror

Invisable:VisAble, Abernathy Art Center, Atlanta. Leisa Rich, Curator

Walthall Fellowship Show, The Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art at Gallery 72, Atlanta (catalog)

MINT Gallery ACP Pop-up Show, Tula Art Center, Atlanta

Leap Year Applicant Show, MINT Gallery, Atlanta

100 at 100, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta. Dr. Jerry Cullum, Juror (catalog)

TWO-PERSON SHOW: Garner Narrative, Louisville, KY (with painter Joyce Garner)

Enchantment, Plates to Pixels, Blue Mitchell, Juror (catalog)

The Imaginary Million, WonderRoot, MOCA GA, The Zuckerman Museum and Atlanta Cultural Affairs for Elevate 2012, Atlanta

Road, Castell Photography Gallery, Asheville, NC. W. M. Hunt, Juror (catalog)

From Cosmology to Neurology and Back Again, Whitespace, Atlanta. Dr. Jerry Cullum, Curator

December Salon, Castell Photography Gallery, Asheville, NC

Portfolio Review Show, WonderRoot, Atlanta

SOLO SHOW: Uncharted Territory, Castell Photography Gallery, Asheville, NC

The December Show, Whitespace, Atlanta

TWO-PERSON SHOW Interior Mind/Exterior World, Whitespace, Atlanta (with photographer Yukari Umekawa)

Axiom, Old 4th Ward, Atlanta. Curated by Public Acts of Art

Spring 2009 BFA Exhibition, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta

College Juried Exhibit 2009, The Art Place – Mountain View, Marietta, GA

Collage: A Colloquium for Students of the Arts in Atlanta, The Dalton Gallery, Decatur, GA

Ka-Chunk: An Exhibition of Medium Format Photography, The Opal Gallery, Atlanta. Stephanie Dowda, Curator

On the Verge, Rialto Center for the Arts, Atlanta. Susan Todd-Raque, Curator

Marilu Knode Selects: 2008 Juried Student Exhibition, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta. Marilu Knode, Juror

Group Exhibition: Sylvie Fortin Selects, Composition Gallery, Atlanta. Art Papers Editor-in-Chief, Sylvie Fortin, Juror

Five, Doogallery, Atlanta

When Day Turns to Night, Eastside Lounge, Atlanta

Smallness Is a Virtue, Aurora Coffee, Atlanta

(You Have Spoken) We Are Speaking, Georgia State University Student Center Gallery, Atlanta

Cullum, Jerry. “Artists grapple with invisible disabilities in “Invisible:VisAble” at Abernathy Arts Center,” ArtsATL.com, November 11,2015, 2015 <http://www.artsatl.com/invisible-visable-abernathy/>

Kramer, Elizabeth. “Best Bet: Mental Landscapes on display at Garner Narrative, The Courier-Journal, July 17, 2013

Thornton, Grace. “Mind full: Whitespace exhibit contemplates intersection of culture and the cosmos,” Creative Loafing, July 26 – Aug 1, 2012, Volume 41, Issue 13 <http://clatl.com/atlanta/whitespace-exhibitcontemplates-intersection-of-culture-and-the-cosmos/Content?oid=5906717>

Levy, Evan. “In Whitespace’s “From Cosmology to Neurology,” images converse amid an ocean of ideas,” ArtsATL.com, July 19, 2012 <http://www.artsatl.com/review-draft/>

Cullum, Jerry; Fox, Catherine; Hicks, Cinqué. Atlanta Art Now, Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape, Possible Futures, Atlanta, GA

Cullum, Jerry. “Evocative photos by Julie Sims and Yukari Umekawa explore inner worlds,” ArtsATL.com, October 27, 2010 <http://www.artsatl.com/review-evocative-photos-by-julie-sims-and-yukari-umekawa-explore-inner-worlds/>

Wang, Sam. Due South, The Southeast Region of the Society for Photographic Education, Boone, NC, IL. p. 58

Portfolio Review. Reviewers: Natasha Egan, Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP); Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

Artist Talk: Invisable:VisAble, Abernathy Art Center, Atlanta, GA.

Artist Talk: Resonance, Wonderroot CSA, Atlanta, GA.

Artist Talk: Imprint, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA.

Organizer, Take a Photo, Leave a Photo, held at WonderRoot, Atlanta, GA.

Artist Talk: From Cosmology to Neurology and Back Again, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

Visiting Artist Presentation: Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta

Castell Gallery Portfolio Review. Reviewer: Ariel Shanberg, Executive Director, Center for Photography at Woodstock

Artist Talk: Uncharted Territory, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

Artist Talk: Uncharted Territory, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA.