EDUCATION
2003 Master of Fine Arts, 2-Dimensional area
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI  
 
2000 Bachelor of Science, Fine Arts major and minor in Art History
  Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY  
 
1998 Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy  
 
1997 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI  
 

 
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Gimme Baby Robots, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL. Five in One, Memphis, TN. Fivepoints Arthouse, San Francisco, CA.
 
 
Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
 
 
2007 Open
  Fivepoints Arthouse, San Francisco, CA
 
2006 Miniatures and Multiples
  Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL
 
GROUPGROUP
  Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
 
Two Painters and a Potter
  Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, PA
 
Lowest Common Denominator
  Slingshot Gallery, Madison, WI
 
New Work
  Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE
 
Hastings College Faculty Show
  Hastings College Gallery, Hastings, NE
 
2005 Performing One Particular Function
  Marsh Special Projects Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
 
In a Good Way (solo)
  Graham Gallery, Hastings NE
 
Wish List
  Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln NE
 
The Bridge Magazine's NOVA Young Art Fair
  Chicago, IL
 
  Art 101
  The Space, Austin, TX  
 
  Seven Reasons to Leave Your Home
  Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL  
 
Upsy Daisy!
  Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
 
2004 Paintings by Debra Kayes, Sculpture by Stephanie Adams, and their Collaborative Work
  Graham Gallery, Hastings, NE  
 
  think small
  Illinois State Museum, Chicago, Lockport, Rend Lake, and Springfield IL  
 
  The Stray Show, in association with Art Chicago
  TBA, Chicago, IL  
 
Pretty Vacant
  And Gallery, Saint Paul, MN
 
  13 x 13
  Red Rocket Gallery, Chicago, IL  
 
2003 Zip (solo)
  Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI
 
  Small Works
  Limner Gallery, New York, NY  
 
  Turner McGehee and Debra Kayes
  Hastings College Gallery, Hastings, NE  
 
  Domestics by artist group No Fun
  Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI  
 
  Another Line by artist group No Fun
  The 410 Project, Mankato, MN  
 
  Rock Lock by artist group No Fun
  Effie Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN  
 
  Work by Stephanie Adams and Debra Kayes
  King's Foot Gallery, Madison, WI  
 
  The End
  Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI  
 
2002 Girls
  Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI  
 
  Airplane
  ArtSpace, Chicago, IL  
 
  Work by Ada Gonzalez and Debra Kayes
  The 734 Gallery, Madison, WI  
 
Triagainennial
  One night truck show, March 9, Madison, WI
 
  Spring Salon
  Limner Gallery, New York, NY  
 
  Kresge Art Center
  Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI  
 
  Otherwise Gallery
  Lansing, MI  
 
2001 Seventh Floor Gallery
  Madison, WI  
 
  Catapult
  VU Satellite Gallery, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA  
 
2000 Printmaking All-stars
  734 Gallery, Madison, WI  
 
1997 Feast for the Senses
  Case Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY  
 

 
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2005 Young Painters Exhibition. Juror: Laurie Firstenbert, Assistant Director and Curator of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, CA.
  Miami University, Oxford, OH
 
59th Juried Exhibition. Juror: James Rondeau, author.
  Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
 
Expogallery International Art Exhibition. Juror: Eugene Al. Pann, gallery director.
  Backstreet Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
 
2003 Carry on Drawing. Juror: Avantika Bawa, Curator/ Director, Aquaspace Clubs Project, Inc.
  Clubs Project Inc., Australia, Southeastern College Art Conference, NC
 
Bite Your Lip. Jurors: Donna Feigel and Michelle Grabner.
  Studio Quest, Madison, WI
 
2002 Carry on Drawing. Juror: Avantika Bawa, Curator/ Director, Aquaspace Clubs Project, Inc.
  Aquaspace, Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI, Traveling exhibition. Other sites include India Habitat Center India, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Minneapolis, MN, Washington State University Pullman, WA, Alternative spaces in the Badlands Glacie
 
Autobiographies. Juror: Mary K. O'Shaughnessy, Wood Street Gallery.
  Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
 
National Prize Show. Juror: Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
  Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
 
156 Miles. Juror: Wood Street Gallery.
  Wood Street Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Chicago, IL
 
2001 Annual Juried Show
  Porter Butts Gallery, Madison, WI  
 

 
PUBLICATIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 New American Paintings, Western Competition, book #72
 
 
2006 Two Painters and a Potter at Isadore Gallery 7/1/2006
  Lancaster County Woman, Lancaster, PA
 
www.lancasterarts.com/pages/index.php?pID+40
  Lancaster Arts, Lancaster, PA
 
Fresh Produce: Modern Arts Midwest Exhibits its Spring Bounty of 'New Work.' 5/31/2006
  Michael Krainak, City Weekly, Omaha, NE
 
www.three-walls.org/artist_files
  Threewalls, Chicago, IL
 
2005 Artist's reception just one of 'Seven Reasons to Leave Your House' 3/30/2005
  Eloise Marie Valadez, Daily Southtown, Chicago, IL  
 
  Artists Exert Their Will to Make Blooms Come Early 3/29/2005
  Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Pittsburgh, PA  
 
  http://www.artsfestival.net/gallery.html
  Three Rivers Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA  
 
  http://www.fna.muohio.edu/paintcomp/history05.html
  Miami University Young Painters Exhibition, Oxford, OH  
 
2004 www.museum-of-temporary-art.com, exhibit no. 15
  The Museum of Temporary Art, Tubingen, Germany  
 
  http://www.expogallery.com/dkayes.htm Internet Publication and Promotions Award Expogallery International Art Exhibition
  Backstreet Gallery, Santa Monica, CA  
 
  Public Art 1/29/2004
  Steven Lincoln, Bronco Bits, Vol. 16, #7, Hastings, NE  
 
2003 Unnatural Materials: A Visual Examination. 9/1/2003
  Laura Berman, Review, Kansas City, MO  
 
  www.no-fun.org
 

 
GRANTS/HONORS
2007 Polished Apple Award, Hastings College Student Alumni Ambassadors
 
 
2005 Finalist for the Miami University William and Dorothy Yeck Award
 
2004 Hastings College Vocation and Values Grant
 
2004 Internet Publication and Promotions Award, Expogallery International Art Exhibition, Backstreet Gallery Santa Monica, CA
 
2003 Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant
 
2002 Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant
 
2002 Honorable Mention, Annual Juried Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery and Art Space, Inc., Kenosha, WI, Juror: Doug De Vinny.
 
2002 Dedalus Foundation Nominee
 
2000 Graduated Cum Laude
 
2000 Departmental and College Honors
 
2000 Periclean Honors Society
 
2000 Skidmore College Student Opportunities Grant
 

 
ORGANIZATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS
2004 to 2007 Nebraska Arts Council
 
 
2002 to date No Fun artist group
 
 
2003 to 2007 Hastings College Artists' Guild
 
 
2001 to date College Art Association
 
2001 to 2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants Association
 

 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007 to date Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
  Two Dimensional Design
 
2003 to 2007 Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, gallery Director and Curator
Hastings College, Hastings, NE
 
 
2003 to 2007 Introduction to Painting
2003 to 2007 Advanced Painting
2003 to 2007 Two-Dimensional Design
2003 to 2007 Directed Study/Independent Study
Interim 2006 Visiting Artist Lecture/Workshop Series
Interim 2004 Alternative Painting Methods
Spring 2004 Color Theory and Composition
 
 
Lecture courses:
Spring 2006 Postmodernism and Art Now
Fall 2006 Foundations of Modern Art
Spring 2005 Art History II
Spring 2005 Modernism, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Art
Interim 2005 Performance and Art (team taught with Professor Jim Fritzler, in association with a school trip to NYC)
Fall 2004, 05 Art History I
Spring 2004 Italian Renaissance
Fall 2003 The Human Figure in Contemporary Art
 
 
Committee membership:
2006-2007 National Lecture Series Committee
2006-2007 Senior Thesis (Chair)
2005-2007 Fine Arts Division (Chair)
2005 Political Science Hiring Committee
2004 Intellectual Property Rights Sub-committee
2005 Junior Thesis (Chair)
2003-2007 Junior Thesis and Senior Thesis committee
2003-2007 Faculty Advisor for the Artists' Guild, the Hastings College student art organization
2003 Chaperon for a school trip to Chicago's SOFA show
 
 
2001 to 2003 Teacher's Assistant, Instructor of Record, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
 
 
Drawing II
 
 
Two Dimensional Design
 
 

 
RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2006 Juror: Nebraska Art Teacher's Association Show, Hastings. NE
 
 
2006 Juror for St. Mark's Annual Juried Show, Hastings, NE
 
 
2005 to 2007 Hastings College Art Gallery Director, Hastings, NE
 
 
2004 Artists' Guild Invited Artist Lecture Series, Hastings College, Hastings, NE
 
 
2003 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Minnesota State University at Mankato, Mankato, MN
 
 
2002 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
 
 
2001 Shop Assistant, Relief Printmaking Studio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
 
 
1999 to 2000 Teacher's Assistant, Photography Lab, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY