University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) Major in Painting 1995
Unviersity of Tennessee, Knoxville TN,
Master of Fine Arts ( Major in painting and drawing 2001)
Residency
Asterides, Marseille France 2008-2009 six months
Art Lab, Berlin, Germany, 2007-2008 (six months)
Spinneri, Leipizig, Germany, 2012 (two months)
De Licierious, Porto, Portugal, 2021(two months)
2007 National funds for the arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 CBK (Center for visual arts Rotterdam project grant)
2023 The undergroundlings, Fried at the church, Den Haag , the netherlands
2021 Mo(nu)ments, Espaco Musas, Porto, Portugal, artists as duo with Bas Zoontjens
2020 Roots Quartair. Den Haag, The Netherlands
2019 Collective banality, Deliceiras18, Porto, Portugal
The Distraction of Progress, Deliceiras18, Porto, Portugal
2018 Constant Struggle, Helicopter, Den Haag, Artists as Duo Manuel Padding
2017 "Every Day War Fare'', Quartair, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2014 Hectoliter, We don't live here any more II, Brussels, Belgium
duo show with sound by manuel padding
2014 Quartair, Draw back, Den haag
2018
“Almost Fiction”, W-O- L-K- E, Brussels, Belguim, Team AC (Samantha Rees, Manuel Padding, Bas Zoontjens)
“Lazer Beacon”, Vuur Toren, Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands (Samantha Rees and Manuel Padding)
2015
“Everything is a parking space”, Any Records gallery
2015
Everywhere is a parking space
Any Gallery Records, 2015
2013
Shame , Error One Piano Fabriek, Brussels, Belgium
Re -Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2012
Re -Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2011
Time Trade, Stroom, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Meet the Pilot,Spinnerai, Leipzig, Germany
Hellbaard, Hasselt, Belgie (group exhibition)
2010
We dont live here anymore (solo exhibition)
Jan Huijens Gallerie, Den Haag, The Netherlands
"The Art of Speculation" (group exhibition)
Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany,
2009
Drawn by Utopia(group exhibition )
Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Convoi Exceptional (solo exhibtion)
Friche la Belle de Mai Gallery, Marseille, France