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BORN: Princeton, Illinois

EDUCATION:

1996 MFA, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2021  Curious Paintings of Fanciful and Real Beasts, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

Signs and Ciphers, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

On Santa Claus Lane, Lobster Town USA Gallery, Carpinteria, CA

On All Tomorrows, Sue Greenwood Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2020  Arizona Biennial 2020, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

Artlink 20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Phoenix, AZ

Cairns Garden, Canopy Tempe, Tempe, AZ

John Randall Nelson: New Works, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ      

John Randall Nelson” , Gebert Contemporary , Scottsdale, AZ

2018   “An American Vernacular” Windgate Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR “ Signs &    Ciphers” Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

2018   Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA 

"Signs & Ciphers", Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

2017 "Xhibition", Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

"New Work", Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

"An Animate Brand of Mobility", Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA 

"Weird West", Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ

"Weird West", FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA

2016 “Melange”, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

2015 ”Bobo & Friends” Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ

“Flowered” Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Flowered” Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

2014 “Polka Dots for Holly Solomon” FP Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

“Phallic Affirmations” Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2013 “Polka Dots for Holly Solomon” Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

“Affirmations”. FP Contemporary,Los Angeles, CA

2012 “Recent Paintings” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

“Fraught, Simply Fraught, with Narrative”. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

“1996-2011: 15 Years of Art-making”, Vault Gallery, Arizona State University,  Phoenix, AZ

2011 “New Works” Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

“Alter-native Signs”, Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“New Works” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

2010 “Crossing Aesthetic Borders”, Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“American Curious”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

“Small Works”, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2009 “Alchemical Alphabets”, Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“New Works” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

“Alchemical Alphabets”, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

2008 “New Works”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 “New Works”, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

“Short-Lived”, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ

2006 “Flower”, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

“Flower”, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005 “Vacancy”, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ

“Vacancy”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 “New Religions”, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“New Religions”, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ

2003 “Played” Marguerite Oestreicher, New Orleans, LA

“Works”, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ

“From AZ to CA”, Solomon Dubnick, Sacramento, CA

2001 “Signs and Ciphers”, Vanier Galleries, Tucson, AZ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019  “Seattle Air Fair”, FP Contemporary, Seattle, WA

“Chaos Theory ‘19”, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ

2018   “LA Art Show”, FP Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2017   “CONTEXT Art Miami”, FP Contemporary, Miami, FL

“Bill Braun, Jerry Iverson, and John Randall Nelson”, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

2016   “Chaos Theory ‘16”, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ

2015 “Self-Made, 15 years of Eye Lounge”, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ

“LA Art Show”, FP Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2014 “Self-Made, 15 years of Eye Lounge”, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ

“LA Art Show”, FP Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

“Strange Botany” Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2012 “Wood Biennial”, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

“Los Angeles Art Show”, Gebert Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

“Dallas Art Fair”, Gebert Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2011 “Arizona Biennial ‘11”, Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ

“Chaos Theory ‘11”, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ

“Los Angeles Art Show”, Gebert Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

“Houston Fine Art Fair”, Gebert Contemporary, Houston, TX

2010 “Dallas Art Fair”, Gebert Contemporary, Dallas, TX

“Building a Collection”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

“Chaos Theory, ‘10”, Legend City Studios, Phoenix, AZ

“Los Angeles Art Show”, Gebert Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

“SITE Unseen 6”, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2009 “Los Angeles Art Show”, Gebert Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

“Dallas Art Fair”, Gebert Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2008 “Art HK 08”, Gebert Contemporary, Hong Kong, China

“Art 20”, Gebert Contemporary, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

“Los Angeles Art Show”, Gebert Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2007 “Arizona Biennial ‘07”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

“Art Now, Miami”, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

“Los Angeles Art Show”, Gebert Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2006 “Lan-guage”, The New Mexico State Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

“Red Dot Fair, Miami”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

2005 “Chicago Contemporary”, Gebert Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2004 “SOFA Chicago”, Galleria Materia, Chicago, IL

“Artist’s Books”, Studio Lodo, Phoenix, AZ

2003 “Peaceable Kingdom”, Herberger Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2002 “Steeped in Traditions”, Mesa Art Museum, Mesa, AZ

“Works on Paper”, Gallery Terrence Denley, Birmingham, AL

“Water”, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ

2001 “Works on Paper”, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ

SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Phoenix Public Art and Design, City of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

BIO 5, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA

Fennemore-Craig, Phoenix, AZ

Nordstrom Inc., Seattle, WA

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

Wells Fargo Bank, Tempe, AZ

City of Queen Creek, Queen Creek, AZ

Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus, Scottsdale, AZ

Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

The Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

The United States Postal Service, Washington, DC

Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, AZ

The Perrier Corporation, Villaines La Juhel, Mayenne, France

Haarmann-Reimer GMbH, Holzminder, Germany

Chemical Bank, New York, New York.

Tempe Municipal Arts Commission, Tempe, AZ

Intel Corporation, Phoenix, AZ

The Carter Center at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Borland International, Los Gatos, CA

The Disney Corporation, Los Angeles, CA

Midwestern State University, Print Collection, Wichita Falls, TX

State University of New York, Print Collection, Buffalo, NY

The Printmaking Workshop, Print Collection, New York, NY

Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY

Kallish, Forrester, and Torres, Phoenix, AZ

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS AND PUBLIC SCULPTURE

2012-14 “Matthew Henson Hope Gardens” (Shade structures, steel gates. benches and fences)

sited at Matthew A. Henson/Hope VI Housing Projects, Phoenix, AZ

2011 “Anthropomorphic Bicycle” sited at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

2010 “Oon Only” (Sculptural Weathervane), sited at Mitchell Park East roundabouts, Tempe, AZ

“Dingo” (Sculptural Weathervane), sited at Mitchell Park East roundabouts, Tempe, AZ

2008 “La Memoria Vive” (Streetscape) sited at Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ

“Seven Dingbats” (Wall Sculpture) sited at the Max and Lucy Building, Phoenix, AZ

2007 “A Sterling World” (Ceramic Mural) sited at the SARRC campus, Phoenix, AZ

“World O’ El Futuro” (Painting) sited at Bio 5 Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2005 “On Broadway Road” (Streetscape) sited on Broadway Road, Tempe, AZ

2004 “Hop” (Sculpture/Benches) sited at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

“Unity/Diversity” (Transit Shelter/Bus Stop) sited at Marcos De Niza High, Tempe, AZ

2002 “Black Birds” (Steel Gates and Sculpture) sited at the Wells Fargo Bank, Tempe, AZ

“West Bliss” (Streetscape), sited at Queen Creek, AZ

2000 “Tribes Of Israel” (Paintings) sited at Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus, Scottsdale,  AZ

1999 “Chasing Zoe” (Streetscape) sited at Mill Avenue and Broadway Road, Tempe, AZ

1998 “Harry Above the Crowd” (Sculpture) sited at the Tempe City Hall, Tempe, AZ

1996 “Grid Iron Hero” (Sculpture) sited at Sky Harbor Airport, Tempe, AZ