Education:
1997- Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Milwaukee, WI (BFA)
1995- Richmond College, London, England, Visiting Artist Studio Program
Awards:
2016- Arts Projects Grant Recipient, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2015- Nominated, City Arts Art Walk Awards
2014- 2ndPlace, City Arts Art Walk Awards
2011- Gap Grant recipient, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2009- New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print, #85
2008- Artistic Merit Award, PONCHO Art Auction, Seattle, WA
2003- EDGE Stipend Recipient, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:
2022- “Some Monsters I Made During Covid”, Soil Gallery, WA
2020- “Empty Heads”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017- “Guerrilla Ceramica”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015- “HighSchoolHigh”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Hunter(less than)Gatherer”, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2012-“Illustration of Events Happening”, Prole Drift, Seattle, WA
“Light Therapy” (with Joey Veltkamp), True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011- “Wasted Time”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006- New Work, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2004- “The Mind’s Last Great Trick”, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2003- “Line” (with Joshua Weintraub), Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA
“Diptychs and Paintings Done in Tandem”, Phinney Center Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002- “Recent Work”, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2001- “New Drawings, Paintings and an Installation” (with Jennifer Dixon), Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1999- “Head Spaces”, New Mixed Media Work, AEON Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected Group Exhibitions, Juried Shows and Competitions:
2022- “Tangents… I Was Looking at the Stars”, Central WA University, WA
2018- “Every Movement Reveals Us”, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
“Becoming American: Louder in the Dark”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017- “Flat/Fat”, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
2016- “Stratum”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015- “Sensations That Announce The Future”, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
2014- “A Place for Memories and Secrets”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013-“Polari/MoWave”, True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA
Various murals for the “Onn/Of” art festival, Seattle, WA
2012-“TEETH”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Soil at Sea-Tac”, Seattle/Tacoma Intl. Airport, Seattle, WA
2012- “Under the Rainbow”, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011- “Black and Blue”, an installation at ACT Theater, Seattle, WA
2010- “Blood, Sweat and Tears”, a mural installation at
Inscape Arts Building, Seattle, WA
“Then and Now”, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“SOIL in Residence”, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
“New American Paintings, #85”, Juried Exhibition in Print, Pacific Coast, USA
2009- “Send Me An Angel” (Robert Yoder), Howard House, Seattle, WA
“Seattle Artists, Idiosyncratic Twists”, artEAST, Issaquah, WA
2008- “Inevitable Continuum”, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2007- “Arts Illustrated”, Seattle University, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
G110 Exhibition, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
“COCA Seafair Ball Art Exhibition”, Seattle, WA
2006- “PULP- Works on Paper”, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2002-“Shelter”, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999- “An Exploration of Queer Space”, Robbie Mildred Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997- “Eller Media Billboard Competition” (2 pieces selected), Various Public Billboard Spaces, Milwaukee, WI
Related Professional Experience:
2019- AIDS Memorial Pathway Public Art Boot Camp Participant, Seattle, WA
2015- Guest Artist Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2010-Present- Member, Soil Artist Collective, Seattle, WA
2006-2009- Guest Artist Lecturer, Green River Community College, Auburn, WA
2004- Juror, League for Innovation, Seattle Central Community College District, Seattle, WA
1999-20002- Steering Committee/Founding Member, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2003- Guest Artist Lecturer, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA
1999-2001- Member, Board of Directors, ArtSpace, Seattle, Seattle, WA
1999-2001- Life Drawing Coordinator for Weekly Figure Drawing Sessions, Seattle, WA
1999- Committee Coordinator, MOVE! Meeting (and ArtSpace Seattle sponsored event bringing together local artists and City Council members to discuss current issues affecting Seattle’s art community) Seattle, WA
Write-Ups and Reviews:
2020- “Empty Heads”, Crosscut, show review/Things To Do, Margo Vansynghel
2015- “The Gay, Life Affirming, Gun Controlling Art of Christopher Buening”, The Stranger, SLOG, Jen Graves
2012- “Cross Dressing the Gendered Gesture”, City Arts, A. Manitach
“In the Studio”, New American Paintings, A. Manitach
2011-“C+D Create Seattle Home for Art…,” Seattle Times, R. Teagarden
“They Hang Together”, Seattle Weekly, J. Waterhouse
2007- “Arts Illustrated- Must See”, Seattle PI, R. Hackett
“Arts Calendar, COCA Seafair Ball Art Show Review”, Seattle Weekly, R. Shimp
2004- “See”, Tablet, Issue 87, E. Hildebrandt
2001- “Ordinary Turned Extraordinary”, Tacoma Reporter, S. Kelly
Collections:
2021- Tacoma Art Museum, “Magazines and Money”, Permanent Collection
2013- Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA
2012- “Under the Rainbow” Private Collection, J. Harris and C. Garcia
2010-2011- Private Collection, Suchan/Robinet
2009- Seattle City Light Portable Works Collection
2007- King County Portable Works Collection
Commercial Work:
2020- “Seattle Skyline”, Public Hospital Lobby Art, Seattle, WA
2017- “1 Lakefront”, Public Building Installation, Seattle, WA
2013- “Dubbabye” Gnomes of Kush EP, Cyan Music
“Three” Gnome and Spybey, Crime League Records
2012- Mario’s Clothing, Storefront Window Displays, Seattle, WA
2010- “Hyperdimensional Animals” Invisible Allies, Arabesque Distribution