@soft.science
Education:
BFA Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, 2022
Exhibitions:
2026:
Groundwork, Charmed, Kansas City, MO
Fabric is Memory, Carter Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
2025:
Let It Enfold You, The Waiting Room, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Past Futures, Zhou Brothers Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2024:
Karaoke Night, Troost Gardens, Kansas City, MO
Lovetoy, Holsum Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2023:
When Morning Comes, Artist and Craftsman, Kansas City, MO
Come Again Soon, Artbox, Kansas City, MO
Remnants of Existence, Artschool, Lee’s Summit, MO
Squaredance, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
Unraveled: Telling Queer Stories in Cloth, Squirrel Haus Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Queer Experience 2023, Interurban Arthouse, Kansas City, MO
OddBall Hoedown, Ninth and State, Kansas City, MO
Playful Lush, Anchor Island Coffee, Kansas City, MO
2022:
Little Secrets Too Hard to Hold Onto, Sapien Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Solo Exhibition by Nathan Ford, Citrus Table, Kansas City, MO
27th Annual Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
2022 Undergraduate Showcase, Oak Street Mansion, Kansas City, MO
2021:
Horizon: Fiber Spring End of Semester Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
These Days I Only Get Dressed From the Waist Up, Kansas City, MO
3, KCAI Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Albrecht-Kemper Undergraduate show, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St Joseph, MO
2020:
Emergent: Fiber Department Fall End of Semester Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Present: Fiber Department Spring End of Semester show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2019:
Reflect: Fiber Department Fall End of Semester Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Foundations End of Semester Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2018:
Foundations Fall End of Semester Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Ohio Governor’s Regional Art Show, McConnell Arts Center, Columbus, OH
Colloquy: A Student Exhibition, The Vanderelli Room, Columbus, OH
Scholastics Regional Art Competition, Hosted by Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
Roy G Biv’s Small Work Show, ROY G BIV, Columbus, OH
ImageOhio, The Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH
Recidencies:
Arrowmont Pentaculum, 2026
Features:
Art Against Empire Podcast, Episodes 1 and 7
Sprung Formal: Issue 20
Artist to Watch, KC Studio Magazine, May-June 2024
Artist in Dialogue, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Hi-loft Zine: Issue 1, The National Archive, Washington D.C.
Sprung Formal: Issue 18
CloseKnit Podcast, Episode 68
American Quilts: More Than a Sum of Parts, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
Circular Zine, Issue 1
Eighth Annual Art History Symposium, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Attention Grabbing, The Columbus Dispatch, February 11, 2018, Pg. 5
Permanent Collection:
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, The University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota
Awards:
Repurposed Material Award by Off the Grid Gallery
Satin Award, Emergent Fiber Department Fall 2020 End of Semester Show, Selected by Jurors Garry Noland and Lexie Miliken
Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation Scholarship
Curation:
2021:
2021 Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
These Days I Only Get Dressed From the Waist Up, Kansas City, MO
2018:
Colloquy: A Student Exhibition, The Vanderelli Room, Columbus, OH
