Topher is a printmaker based in North Carolina. He received his MFA from UNC-Greensboro and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and Cape Fear Community College. His personal artwork ranges the gambit of traditional printmaking, alternative print methods and experimental paper processes. He has helped coordinate numerous large format steam roller woodcut events across North Carolina as well as smaller workshops around the region as well. His recent work incorporates recycled materials and alternative processes to create work with an environmentally friendly footprint.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025  To Know Again, Gatewood Gallery, Greensboro NC

2020  Printed Matter, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC

2016  Perspectives, The Art Works, Wilmington NC

           Varied States, Flytrap, Wilmington NC

2013  Vietnamese Lacquer Paintings, Bottega Art Gallery, Wilmington NC

2012  Recent Work, Groove Jet, Wilmington NC

           Ann Flack Scholarship Show, Boseman Gallery, Wilmington NC

2011  Lacquer Paintings, UNCW Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington NC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025  Print Fest, ACME Art, Wilmington NC

           Printed with a Steamroller, SGCI San Juan P.R.

2024  TRASH BASH, G.P.S, Greensboro NC

  UNCG PRINT BIG, G.P.S, Greensboro NC

  2x2 FEST, Cargo District, Wilmington NC

           Faculty Exhibit, G.P.S, Greensboro NC

           Compost Collab, G.P.S, Greensboro NC

           YART SALE, G.P.S, Greensboro NC

2023  Proof: Printmaking in Eastern NC, Wilma Daniels Gallery, Wilmington NC

  Off the Rack, GPS, Greensboro NC

  5th UNCW PRINT BIG, Mezzanine Gallery, UNCW Wilmington NC

2022   CFCC Faculty Art Exhibition, Wilma Daniels Gallery, Wilmington NC

  Illumination ‘22, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC

  State of the Art, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC

           Smitten, a Benefit Show, GPS, Greensboro NC

2021  Illumination ‘21, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC

  CFCC Faculty Exhibition, Wilma Daniels Gallery, Wilmington NC

  UNCG MFA Thesis Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC

2019  New Prints 2019/Summer International Print Center, New York NY

 Descended Upon, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC

          Unbound Center of Visual Arts, Greensboro NC

          4th UNCW PRINT BIG, Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington NC

2018   Life Itself, WHQR MC Erny Gallery, Wilmington NC (w/Kristen Pors)

          Unearthed Pinpoint, Wilmington NC (w/Kirah Van Sickle)

2017   Art of Illumination Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC

           NBIAC New Works by US Artist Alumni Acme Art Studio, Wilmington NC

  State of the Art/Art of the State Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington

          3rd UNCW Print BIG Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington NC

          Success Beyond the Scholarship Boseman Gallery, Wilmington NC

2015  18th NBI Art Colony Exhibit Wilma Daniel’s Gallery, Wilmington NC

          inside/out: Recent Paintings Bottega, Wilmington NC (w/Blair Nidds)

          2nd UNCW PRINT BIG Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington NC

2014   5th Annual Tapped Exhibit Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH

          17th NBAIC Exhibit Wilma Daniels Gallery, Wilmington NC

  State of the Art/Art of the State Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington

          UNCW PRINT BIG, CAB Art Gallery, Wilmington NC

          UNCW Student Alumni Show Boseman Gallery, Wilmington NC

2013   Student Prints 1985-2013 Boseman Gallery, Wilmington NC      

          Woodcuts CAB Art Gallery, Wilmington NC (w/Ashton Durham).                                          

2012   In a Bind Boseman Gallery, Wilmington NC

          All Student Show Boseman Gallery, Wilmington NC

          Fall Senior Exhibition CAB Art Gallery, Wilmington NC

          Open Art Hang Burney Center, Wilmington NC

EDUCATION

UNC-Greensboro Master of Fine Arts – 2020

UNC-Wilmington Bachelor of Arts - 2012

TEACHING/WORK EXPERIENCE

2025 Demonstrator “Gouache Resist” SGCI, San Juan Puerto Rico

2023-     Adjunct/Printmaking Tech, UNC-Greensboro

2022     Instructor 2D Design, Art Appreciation, UNC-Wilmington

2020-     Instructor 2D Design, Art Appreciation, Cape Fear Community College

2019 Instructor Foundation Design I, UNC-Greensboro

2019 Teaching Assistant, Expanded Print Media, UNC-Greensboro

2018 Teaching Assistant, Intermediate/Advanced Lithography, UNC-Greensboro

2018 Teaching Assistant, Etching and Advanced Intaglio, UNC-Greensboro

2014-19 Facilitator Big Print Block Party UNC-Wilmington

2014-18 Gallery Director CAB Art Gallery UNC-Wilmington

2014-18 Printmaking Instructor Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC

2014-15 Artist in Residence No Boundaries International Art Colony

2011-14 Printmaking Studio Assistant UNC-Wilmington

2004-09 Vietnamese Lacquer Painting Apprentice Xuan Oanh Nguyen, Hue Vietnam