EDUCATION
MFA University of Washington, Seattle, WA
BA University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2023 Artist Images Award,University of Washington Libraries
Seattle Art Museum Gary Glant Special Recognition Award
2021 McLaughlin Foundation Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands, CA
2020 Artist Trust Fellowship Seattle, WA
2019 Photographic Center NW residency, Seattle, WA
2017 ArtMatters/Jerome Foundation Residency at Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
2016 Beirut Art Residency, Beirut, Lebanon
2015 The Stranger Genius Award, Visual Art, Seattle, WA
2014 New Foundation travel grant
SOMA, residency mexico City, Mexico
2013 Art Matters Foundation Grant Recipient, New York, NY
2012 Artist in Residence, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2010 MacDowell Colony, Pollock/Krasner Fellowship/Residency, Peterborough NH
2009 Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA (residency)
JentelArts, Sheridan, WY (residency)
2003 Northwest Institute of Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy (NIAUSI) (residency)
2002 Oregon College of Arts and Crafts (residency and workshop director)
2000 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA (painting award recipient)
1998 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA (finalist, painting award)
1997 Artist Trust Ten-Year Presidents' Award for Artistic Achievement and Leadership
Art Workshop, Association of Museums of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul (residency)
1995 Art Matters Foundation, New York City, NY (individual artist fellow)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 the threads that bind, James Harris Gallery, Dallas, TX
myself inside your story, Whatcom Art Museum, Bellingham, WA
2024 the edge becomes the center, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2023 pulse of time, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA online exhibition
2021 continental drift, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA online exhibition
2019 traveler, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 slipstream, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 what stays the same is never so, James Harris Gallery , Seattle, Wa
2013 Seattle University Visual Artist in Residence Vachon Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 from a history of ruin, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 if thinking is form: a visual diary, Edmonds Community College, Lynwood, WA
2009 and the edge becomes the center, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 in an instant, James Harris Gallery, Seattle WA
2006 this world and mine, James Harris Gallery, Seattle,WA
2000 palimpsest, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA
1999 myself inside your story, onsite drawing, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1998 if thinking is form, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA
1996 myself inside your story, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA
1995 Four Corners, open studio, Seattle, WA
1994 Notes, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 General Conditions, Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, Kinderhook, NY
2023 Songs of Ritual and Remembrance, Arthur Ross Gallery, UPenn, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Estar(ser), Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Shadow time, studio e, Seattle, Wa
2019 the map is not the territory, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2017 Untold Passage, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2015 Genius/21st Century/Seattle, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
out of site, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
2013 Chamber Music, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2011 Seattle As Collector, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2010 A Show of Hands:Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2007 Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2005 A Decade of Excellence: Celebrating the Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum
Lucky 7 , WinstonWächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2004 Perspectives; Selections for City of Seattle 1% Program , Trade & Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Paperworks, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Variations of Abstraction, City Space Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2002 Northwest Masters, City Space Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Artist in Residence, Hoffman Gallery, OCAC, Portland, OR
2000 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation invitational, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation invitational, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
Drawing, national invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA
Northwesterners, Fresh Paint Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Meeting in Art I, International Art Workshop, invitational, Istanbul, Turkey
1996 Surface Stories, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1995 Visionaries, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle , WA
Metaphor, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Seattle Noir, invitational Vox Populi Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED PROJECTS AND INSTALLATIONS
2024 impossible monument (gilded) Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2023 impossible monument (the threads that bind),commission Arthur Ross Gallery, UPenn, PA
2019 darner’s prism, Sound Transit commission, Northgate Station, Seattle, WA
the map is not the territory, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2017 impossible monument (nothing but the memory) Oxbow Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
impossible monument (ghosting)
the world is a garden, commissioned installation for Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2015 impossible monument (on my eyes and my head), out of sight, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2013 impossible monument, Seattle University Artist in Residence, Seattle, WA
2011 Jim Olson: Architecture for Art Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Commissioned room for Jim Olson retrospective
2009 Private Residence in collaboration with Olson/Kundig Architects, Installation, Hong Kong
2002 recuerdo (after Tomas Rivera), commission,University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
1993 A Canvas of Episodes, Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA
1992 Quiet Room, commission, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
1992 Boushay Solarium (Memorial to Frank Boushay) Bailey/Boushay House, Seattle, WA
1992 Find the Syrian Boys, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA