EDUCATION B. A. American Studies; University of Nevada, Las Vegas
BOOKS Southern Paiute: A Portrait, Utah State University Press, 2010
Zion Canyon: A Storied Land, University of Arizona Press, 2007
Pioneer Voices of Zion Canyon, Zion Natural History Association, 2006
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Smithsonian–National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D. C.
Merrill-Cazier Library Special Collections, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Centro Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica, Antigua, Guatemala
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, Utah
Consejo Para La Protección de Antigua, Antigua, Guatemala
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, California
Museo Ixchel, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo, Guatemala City, Guatemala
GRANTS & AWARDS Governor’s Award in the Humanities (Utah), 2002
Working Wonders, commissioned portraits for the St. George Art Museum, St. George, Utah, 1999
Individual Artist Grant, Utah Arts Council, 1995–96
Individual Artist Grant, Utah Arts Council, 1993–94
Utah Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship Award recipient, 1993–94
Received commission from Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo, 1983
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) Selected Works: Maya of Guatemala and Western Landscapes, 2023, CCAI Courthouse Gallery, Carson City, Nevada
Highland Maya of Guatemala, 2017, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, Utah
Southern Paiutes: A Portrait, 2003, University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Vision’s Journey, 1997, Aperture Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1995, Summerlin Library, Las Vegas, Nevada
Southern Europe, 1989, Clark County Library, Las Vegas, Nevada
Architecture and Sequence, 1987, Artists’ Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Old Works, New Works, 1985, Brent Thompson Gallery, Boulder City, Nevada
Mayan Images, 1984, San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, California
Gracias Guatemala, 1983, Guatemalan Tourist Institute, Guatemala City, Guatemala
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) Earth in Black and White, 2018, Human History Museum, Zion National Park
The De-Constructed West, 2001–02, Milennium Arts Center, Washington, D.C
Camera Culture: An International Celebration of Light, 1997, Liss Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Southwest ‘96, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Evolving Medium, 5th Biennial Photography Exhibition, 1995, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
Real Art, The 1994 Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, Utah
A View of Nine, 1993 – 94, Utah Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship Award finalist, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah
A View of Nine, 1992 – 93, Utah Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship Award finalist, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah
Utah ‘92, Utah Arts Council’s annual juried photography exhibit, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah
Michael Plyler: Recent Work, 1992, Mark Masuoka Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
Art Zone ‘91, 1991, juried mixed media exhibit, Jewish Community Center, Denver, Colorado
Wilmer Snell National Invitational Photography Exhibition, 1990, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona
Maya, 1988 – 89, Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Five Photographers, 1987, The Artists’ Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Nevada Connection, 1986 – 87, juried exhibit of Nevada’s best fine art photographers, various locations
Art-a-Fair, 1986, Clark County Library, Las Vegas, Nevada
Four Guatemalan Portfolios, 1984 – 85, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, OAS, Washington, D.C.