EDUCATION
    
2011: Master in Fine Arts Candidate, University of New Mexico
2000: University of California, Santa Cruz, B.F.A.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007: A Portrait of Andrejsala, The Shed, Andrejsala. Riga, Latvia.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010: reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today, Exhibition and Thames & Hudson and Aperture Publication. Five-Year Traveling Exhibition: Aperture Gallery, New York City; Art Basel, Miami; Pingyao Festival, China; ReContres, Arles, France; Musée de l'Elysée, Switzerland.
High, Low and In Between: Figurative Works on Paper, The Normal Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Banal Retentive, SCA Contemporary Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Monday Afternoon, Juried Group Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jurors: Joel-Peter Witkin and Lucy Lippard
2009: Art // Response. Résidences Croisées Group Exhibition. Espace International CEAAC, Strasbourg, France.
Bitter Sweet, Juried Group Show, Johnson Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2008: At First Sight, Jonson Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Ten, The Agency, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Family Portraits, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, California.
2007: Foto Otto, Three-room apartment, Leipzig, Germany.
2006: Andrejsala Names Day, Singalong Artist Residences. Riga, Latvia.
2004: William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship Show, Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, California.

PUBLICATIONS

2010: “Between Fort Worth and Smyrna: Figurative drawing at The Normal Gallery”, David Leigh, Alibi, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2008: “Tamara Zibners: Sabiedrības zemākie slāņi”, Foto Kvartals, 1/2008.
“Roisin, The Beasty Girl,” Beast Magazine, Issue 9, RED.
2007: "Bumming around in Andrejsala," The Baltic Times, Riga, Latvia
2006: "Walter Ferguson, Costa Rica's Calypso King,” The Tico Times, San Jose, Costa Rica

RESIDENCIES

2008: Artist in Residence, Strasbourg, France
2006-2007: Singalong, Andrejsala, Riga, Latvia

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

2006: Fulbright Scholarship, United States of America Department of State
2004: William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship

EXPERIENCE

2011: Photography Technician, Office of the Medical Investigator, Albuqerque, New Mexico
Cataloging Print Collection Internship, Bunting Visual Resource Library, University of New Mexico
Photography Instructor, University of New Mexico
2008: Editor in Chief, City Paper Magazine, Riga, Latvia
2007: English Language Copy Editor, Foto Kvartals
Assistant Film Editor, FA Film and Vides Film Studios, Riga, Latvia
Foster Children Photography Instructor, Ziemeli Foster Home in connection with the Latvian International Summer School of Photography, Latvia
2006: Photojournalist Internship, The Tico Times, San José, Costa Rica