CV & Schedule

Exhibitions & Events

2013 - 2024

CURRENT & COMING:
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PAST:

• Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2024 (groups show)

  Haven Gallery, July 11 - July 14, 2024

• Fable & Folklore, (group show)

  Copro Gallery, with Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

  Santa Monica, CA May 4 - May 25, 2024

• Serendipity (group show)

  Haven Gallery, with Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

  Northport, NY November 4 - December 3, 2023

• Halcyon Days (group show)

  Modern Eden Gallery, with Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

  San Francisco, CA November 5 - December 3, 2022

• Hans Christian Anderson (group show)

  Haven Gallery

  Northport, NY August 13 - September 10, 2022

• Animalia (group show)

  Haven Gallery, with Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

  Northport, NY October 23 – November 28, 2021. 

• The Golden Age of Illustration (group show)

  Haven Gallery

  Northport, NY July 10 - August 8, 2021

• Wonder Festival 2021 Shanghai (group event)

  Manas SUM Inc., Commissioned piece

  Shanghai, China June 13-14 2021

• Lucid Dreaming (group show)

  Copro Gallery, with Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

  Santa Monica, CA April - May 2021

• Heart’s Blood (group show)

  Haven Gallery, with Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

  Northport, NY September - October. 2017

• Illuxcon 2017 (group event)

  Show Commission: Octopoid Descending

  Reading, PA. October 2017

• 6th Annual Maleficium Dark Art Exhibition (group show)

  Kosart Gallery Westmont, IL December 2016

• All That Remains (group show)

  Stranger Factory Albuquerque, NM. October 2016

• Point of Vision: Celebrating Women Artists

  in Fantasy and Science Fiction (group show)

  The Society of Illustrators, New York, NY 2016

• Gods of the Wyld (Allen Williams show, guest piece)

  Krab Jab Gallery Seattle, WA 2016

• Spectrum Fantastic Art Live (group event)

  Kansas City, MO May 2015

• Spectrum Fantastic Art Retrospective (group show)

  The Society of Illustrators

  New York, NY September 2014

• Spectrum Fantastic Art Live (group event)

  Kansas City, MO May 2014

• Grand-Guignol: Thanatos (group show)

  Century Guild Culver City, CA October 2013

Awards

2015 - 2023

• 1st Prize in Sculpture, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, 2023

• Gold in Sculpture, IBA Volume 12

• Bronze in Sculpture, IBA Volume 11

• Silver in Sculpture, IBA, Volume 9

• 3rd Grand Prize, IBA, Volume 9

• Chesley Award 2020, ASFA, 3-Dimensional

• Silver in Sculpture, IBA Volume 8

• Spectrum 25, Gold in Dimensional

• Chesley Award 2018, ASFA, 3-Dimensional

• Gold in Sculpture, IBA Volume 6

• 2nd Grand Prize, IBA Volume 6

• Chesley Award 2017, ASFA, 3-Dimensional

• Chesley Award 2016, ASFA, 3-Dimenional

• Spectrum 23, Gold in Dimensional

• 1st Grand Prize, IBA, Volume 4

• 1st in Mixed Media, IBA, Volume 4

• 2nd in Mixed Media, IBA, Volume 4

• 1st in Popular Vote, IBA, Volume 4

• Spectrum 22, Gold in Dimensional

Books

2013 - 2023

• The Art of Fantasy, A Visual Sourcebook of All That is Unreal by S. Elizabeth, UK, 2023

• Clay Sculpting with the Shiflett Brothers, from 3dtotal Publishing, UK, 2022, (guest how-to chapter)

• Spectrum 27, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Edited by John Fleskes (Forest was a member of the jury)

• Infected By Art (IBA) Volume Eight, Edited by Todd Spoor and Bill Cox

• Polymer Journeys 2019 - The Art & Craft of Polymer, from Tenth Muse Arts Publications

• Spectrum 25, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Edited by John Fleskes

• Infected By Art (IBA) Volume Six, Edited by Todd Spoor and Bill Cox

• Spectrum 24, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Edited by John Fleskes

• Infected By Art (IBA) Volume Five (on jury) Edited by Todd Spoor and Bill Cox

• Spectrum 23, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Edited by John Fleskes

• Infected By Art (IBA) Volume Four Edited by Todd Spoor and Bill Cox

• Spectrum 22, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Edited by John Fleskes

• Women of Wonder, Edited by Cathy Fenner

• The Unseen Partner, by Diane Croft, 2016

• The Art of Creature & Character Design Vol. 3 by Sandy Collora, 2016

• Spectrum 21, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art

• Baba Yaga, The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales, by Sibelan Forrester, Helena Goscilo & Martin Skoro, 2013

Magazines

2010 -2022

• Beautiful Bizarre, Issue 43 (Australia, print, 2023)

• Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume One (USA, 2022)

• Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, “Take Over” (digital social media entries, June 2021)

• ExtraART file 17 (Japan, print, 2018)

• Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s Top 100 Sculptors of 2018 on Instagram (digital list, 2018)

• Beautiful Bizarre, Issue 18 (Australia, print, 2017)

• Air Brush Action (USA, print, July-August 2016)

• Beautiful Bizarre, Issue 14 (Australia, digital, 2016)

• ImagineFX, Issue 126 (United Kingdom, 2015)

• Prehistoric Times, No. 92 (USA, print, 2010)

Commercial Clients

A few of the clients for whom, once upon a time, I designed & sculpted prototypes for models, toys and gift-ware. There may be something of mine lurking in your toybox…

• The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA

• Reed & Barton Silversmiths, Taunton, MA

• Rudolph N. Rohn Liturgical Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

• Safari, LTD., Miami, FL

• Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA

• The National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD

Kind Visitor, just a few words about my odd journey. I studied stage design at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, receiving a BFA in Stage Design, and an MFA in Costume Design.

More anon —I must root about in my drifts of paper and towers of books to find my story, bit by bit! Forest