Solo Shows
2019 Tongue Puddles, School 33 Project Space, Baltimore, MD
Play Date, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C.
2017 Un Bolso Lleno de Mantequilla (A Purse Full of Butter), El Taller, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group Shows
2019 Slime Friendz, Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia
Hop Scotch, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Over, Under, Forward, Back, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
2018 Pocket Object, Juicebox Gallery, Kansas City, KS; Tusk, Chicago, IL; Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN;
Zero Zero, Los Angeles, CA
Too Many Dinner Parties, Terrault, Baltimore, MD
godforsaken, Extra, Syracuse, NY
Absurd, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Wild Cuts, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fused Fragments: The Art of Collage, DC Art Studios Gallery, Washington, DC
2016 Baltimore Women's Maker Collective XXchange Pop Up Show, Open Works, Baltimore, MD
Dada Centennial, The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Santa Fe, NM
Future of Western, National Juried Exhibition, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Washington D.C.
Diagrams of Imaginary Appliances, Art Farm, Marquette, NE
Making Sense, Juried Show by Nora Atkinson, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Dada Lives!, International Juried Exhibition, University of Cincinnati Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
4th Annual Regional Juried Art Show, Larkin Arts Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
New Waves, Second Place, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
2015 Printed Matter, National Juried Exhibition, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, VA
Artist Teacher, Juried Exhibition, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
Kin Aesthetic, collaboration with Stephanie Williams, Greg Stewart, and Braxton Congrove, Spitzer Art Center, Harrisonburg, VA
2014 Exchanged II, Brentwood Arts Exchange Gallery, Brentwood, MD
Residencies
2019 (forthcoming) Wassaic Project
2018 PLOP (formerly Oli Epp Studio Residency) London, UK
The Maple Terrace, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Art Farm, Marquette, NE
Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Azule, Hot Springs, NC
2016 Art Farm, Marquette, NE
Modular Project Space, Harrisonburg, VA
Awards
2019 Wassaic Project Educational Fellowship
2016 Second Place, Juror: Jan Tumlr, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
2015 Alan Tschudi Outstanding Graduating Student of School of Art, Design, and Art History
Art History Senior Achievement Award—highest achieving senior in Art History
2014 David Diller Senior Studio Art Achievement Award—highest achieving senior in Studio Art
Art History Forum Award—Best Research for paper “Lesbian Subjectivity in the Weimar Republic”
Juror’s Award—James Madison University Juried Exhibition
2013 Phillip James Junior Studio Art Achievement Award—highest achieving junior in Studio Art
2011 Martha Curt Endowed Scholarship—given to one JMU art student named by the Director
2010 Studio Art Portfolio Scholarship
Press and Publications
2018 Who Says Your Rug Needs to be a Rectangle?, Architectural Digest, November 5, 2018. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/exciting-independent-rug-design
Spring Issue 7, Art Maze Mag, Spring 2018, London, United Kingdom
Studio Visit Danni O'Brien, Inertia, https://inertiastudiovisits.com/2018/03/30/studio-visit-danni-obrien/.
2017 Juicy, Hiss Magazine, Issue 1, September 2017.
Putting the Pieces Together: A Review of "Wild Cuts" at Woman Made Gallery, NewCity Art. August 2017. art.newcity.com/2017/07/31/putting-the-pieces-together/
Milk, Slag Mag, Volume 3, Issue 3, Summer 2017.
2016 Metadata No.1, The International Journal of Dada Mining.
Education
2015 B.F.A. Studio Art, Magna Cum Laude, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Concentrations in Sculpture, Ceramics, Printmaking, Art History Minor
2019 Tongue Puddles, School 33 Project Space, Baltimore, MD
Play Date, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C.
2017 Un Bolso Lleno de Mantequilla (A Purse Full of Butter), El Taller, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group Shows
2019 Slime Friendz, Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia
Hop Scotch, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Over, Under, Forward, Back, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
2018 Pocket Object, Juicebox Gallery, Kansas City, KS; Tusk, Chicago, IL; Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN;
Zero Zero, Los Angeles, CA
Too Many Dinner Parties, Terrault, Baltimore, MD
godforsaken, Extra, Syracuse, NY
Absurd, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Wild Cuts, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fused Fragments: The Art of Collage, DC Art Studios Gallery, Washington, DC
2016 Baltimore Women's Maker Collective XXchange Pop Up Show, Open Works, Baltimore, MD
Dada Centennial, The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Santa Fe, NM
Future of Western, National Juried Exhibition, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Washington D.C.
Diagrams of Imaginary Appliances, Art Farm, Marquette, NE
Making Sense, Juried Show by Nora Atkinson, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Dada Lives!, International Juried Exhibition, University of Cincinnati Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
4th Annual Regional Juried Art Show, Larkin Arts Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
New Waves, Second Place, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
2015 Printed Matter, National Juried Exhibition, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, VA
Artist Teacher, Juried Exhibition, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
Kin Aesthetic, collaboration with Stephanie Williams, Greg Stewart, and Braxton Congrove, Spitzer Art Center, Harrisonburg, VA
2014 Exchanged II, Brentwood Arts Exchange Gallery, Brentwood, MD
Residencies
2019 (forthcoming) Wassaic Project
2018 PLOP (formerly Oli Epp Studio Residency) London, UK
The Maple Terrace, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Art Farm, Marquette, NE
Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Azule, Hot Springs, NC
2016 Art Farm, Marquette, NE
Modular Project Space, Harrisonburg, VA
Awards
2019 Wassaic Project Educational Fellowship
2016 Second Place, Juror: Jan Tumlr, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
2015 Alan Tschudi Outstanding Graduating Student of School of Art, Design, and Art History
Art History Senior Achievement Award—highest achieving senior in Art History
2014 David Diller Senior Studio Art Achievement Award—highest achieving senior in Studio Art
Art History Forum Award—Best Research for paper “Lesbian Subjectivity in the Weimar Republic”
Juror’s Award—James Madison University Juried Exhibition
2013 Phillip James Junior Studio Art Achievement Award—highest achieving junior in Studio Art
2011 Martha Curt Endowed Scholarship—given to one JMU art student named by the Director
2010 Studio Art Portfolio Scholarship
Press and Publications
2018 Who Says Your Rug Needs to be a Rectangle?, Architectural Digest, November 5, 2018. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/exciting-independent-rug-design
Spring Issue 7, Art Maze Mag, Spring 2018, London, United Kingdom
Studio Visit Danni O'Brien, Inertia, https://inertiastudiovisits.com/2018/03/30/studio-visit-danni-obrien/.
2017 Juicy, Hiss Magazine, Issue 1, September 2017.
Putting the Pieces Together: A Review of "Wild Cuts" at Woman Made Gallery, NewCity Art. August 2017. art.newcity.com/2017/07/31/putting-the-pieces-together/
Milk, Slag Mag, Volume 3, Issue 3, Summer 2017.
2016 Metadata No.1, The International Journal of Dada Mining.
Education
2015 B.F.A. Studio Art, Magna Cum Laude, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Concentrations in Sculpture, Ceramics, Printmaking, Art History Minor