Lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska.

Education
2005 MFA, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art
2003 BFA, Painting, Temple University
2000 Temple University Rome

Honors and Awards
2013 Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2013 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Residency, Nebraska City, NE
2012 Vasari Classics Artists' Oil Colors Artist Grant, New York, NY
2007 Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship Grant, Somerville, MA
2005 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Canada
2005 George Nick Award, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Selected Exhibitions
2013 Observed, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD (solo)
2013 Family Portraits, Fred Simon Gallery, Omaha, NE (solo)
2013 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, UNO Art Gallery, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
2012 Snapshots, Wadleigh Gallery, Chester College, Chester, NH (solo)
2012 Little Waves, Rotunda Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
2011 Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, juror Tanya Augsburg (catalog)
2011 New Work: Stephen Azevedo and Christina Renfer Vogel, RNG Gallery, Council Bluffs, IA
2011 Third Coast National, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX, juror Tony Magar
2011 Intimate: Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Myself: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraiture, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, curator Marjorie Vecchio (catalog)
2011 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, UNO Art Gallery, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE
2010 Portraits, The Lichen, Lincoln, NE (solo)
2010 From Our Perspectives, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI, juror Gilda Snowden (honorable mention)
2009 About-Face, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
2008 Painting as Presence, Fine Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, juror William Bailey
2008 Open Painting, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI, juror Judith Tolnick Champa
2007 Painting 2007, Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA, juror Jenelle Porter
2006 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, juror Cheryl Brutvan
2006 Portraits, The Colony Group, Boston, MA (solo)
2005 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 The Midway Show, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 Habitations, Patricia Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Revisionist History, The Optimistic, Philadelphia, PA

Bibliography
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, juror Trevor Richardson, Volume 18, Spring 2012.
Krainak, Michael J., "See What's Missing", The Reader, November 23, 2011.
Birke, Judy, “Paean to Painting”, New Haven Register, May 18, 2008.
Fletcher, Ron, “Face Time", The Boston Globe, June 25, 2006.

Teaching Experience
2010 – present, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, adjunct faculty
2011, Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE, adjunct faculty
2010, Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, IA, adjunct faculty
2008 – 2009, Chester College of New England, Chester, NH, lecturer
2007, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, adjunct faculty
2005 – 2006, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, instructor

Professional Experience
2010 – present, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, development manager