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Born in 1957, Greenwich, CT. Resides in Seattle
EDUCATION
1975-78
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence: painting, printmaking, illustration
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Quilts and Assemblages, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2020
Quilts and Assemblages, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2015
Americana, Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee WA
2014
Quilts, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2011
Ross Palmer Beecher: Americana, Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, OR
2008
Black Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA curated by Sandra Jackson Dumont
2003
AMERICANA: Quilts, Flags and Famous Folk, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2000
The Great Film Directors, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
The Great Film Directors, Bank of American Gallery, Seattle
1998
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1997
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1995
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1994
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1990
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1989
San Francisco Airport Exhibition, San Francisco
Espiritu Gallery, New York
1988
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1987
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1986
Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle
1979
Merry X-mas, Love, America, Roscoe Louie Gallery, Seattle
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Metalmorphosis, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA.
Curators' Choices, Collection of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom, Museum of Art, WSU, Pullman, WA
2015
Cut & Bent, Bainbridge Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
Saving The Environment: Sustainable Art, Shack Art Center, Everett, WA
2014-5
Group Show curated by Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson,
Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Northwest Art, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2012
Three Quilts, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Reclaimed: Artists working with Recycled or Repurposed Materials, Seattle Municipal Tower
Gallery, Seattle Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
The Art of Recycling, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
New Museum Acquisitions, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for
Northwest Art, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Recycled Art, Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center Word Play, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
2010
Made in the USA, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Show of Hands Northwest Women Artisits 1880-2010, Whatcom Museum at the Lightcatcher,
Bellingham, WA
Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works, Northwest Mid-Career Artists, Seattle Municipal Tower
Gallery, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009
Finds Refined, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Eco Art, Sammamish City Hall, Sammamish, WA
2008
Fathom, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2006
Art of Recycling, Hallie Ford Museum , Salem Oregon
Art in Embassies Program, US Embassy , Austria
Java Divas, Kenneth J. Minneart Center for the Arts Gallery, Olympia, WA
Art: Renew, Recylcle, Recreate, Kirklannd City Hall, Kirkland, WA
2005
West Edge Invitational Sculpture Show, Seattle WA
Faces For Life, Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, WA Henry Bash, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
2004
VEXED, Kittredge Gallery, the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, curated by Esther Luttikhuizen
2003
Art in Embassies Program, US Embassy , Denmark
2002-03
Hero/Anti Hero, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
2002
High Art: Art of the Bank at America Tower, Bank of American Gallery, Seattle
States of the Union: Before and After, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Sweet and Wild: Animals in Contemporary Art, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
The Portrait Project, Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts, Seattle Center
Skeleton Art Gallery, Santa Fe
2001
Dis-Figured, Seattle Art Museum, curated by Tara Reddy, Assistant Curator, Modern Art
2000
Sheen of Silver, Weight of Air: Contemporary Aluminum, Schneider Museum of Art, Distant Echoes, Greg Kucera Gallery
Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
The Art of Protest, Seattle Asian Art Museum, WA
1999
From Head to Toe, Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Good Eye: Artists at the Ball Park, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle
1998
Testimonies: The Art of Ross Palmer Beecher and Barbara Thomas, Seattle Art Museum
Memories, Secrets, Dreams, Northwest Building Corporation, Seattle, curated by Mahler Fine Arts
Local Press, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
1997
20th Century Block Prints, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Celebrity: Fame, Fortune, Heroism, and Infamy, Olympic Room, Seattle Center
West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997, Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
Surrogacy, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1997
Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1996
TEXtures, Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle Art Museum
1995
Surface Design 1995, D.O.T. Gallery, Portland, OR
Pinocchio: Sculpture Made of Carved and Painted Wood, Department of Art Gallery, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, curated by Sean Elwood
The Traditional Impulse, Greg Kucera Gallery (catalog)
Curatorial Eye of James Archer, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Beyond Traditions, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1994
Glories of the Game: The Art of Baseball, SAFECO Plaza, Seattle
1993
Screams with Laughter: Storytelling in Northwest Craft, Bumbershoot, Seattle Center
1992
For the Birds, Outside-in, Los Angeles
Carnival Art, Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle
Games, Pacific Arts Center, Seattle
1991
The Artist in the Art: Self-Portraits, Bumbershoot 1991, Seattle Center
National Governors’ Association Exhibit, Convention Center, Seattle
American Folk and Outsider Art, Outside-in, Los Angeles
Collaborators, Tacoma Art Museum
Celebrations and Ceremonies, Security Pacific gallery, Seattle
Metaphor from the Every Day, University of Washington School of Art Gallery, Seattle
View from the Edge, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1990
God and Country, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Imagination Celebration, Seattle Center House
1988
The Foot Show - Art, History and Ethnology, Community Arts, Inc., Los Angeles (catalog)
Olympia & York/O’M & M Associates, Los Angeles
In the Folk Tradition: Contemporary Wood Sculpture, The Mitchell Museum, Mt Vernon, IL (catalog)
1987
Pacific Northwest Textile Show, The Public Art Space, Seattle, Center
Homes for the Arts, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
1986
La Muerte, Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio
Pacific Northwest Juried Art Show, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
Seattle Sub-Culture Underground Mail Art Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
Pacific Northwest Arts Exhibition, Bellevue, WA
1985
Day of the Dead, Cameron University, Lawton, OK
Neo-York/Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
1983
Western Washington Fair Exhibition, Puyallup, WA
1982
Pacific Northwest Arts Exhibition, Bellevue, WA
Ronald and Nancy Show, Greenwood Gallery, Seattle, curated by Ruby Montana
1978
Pacific Northwest Arts Exhibition, Bellevue, WA
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND GRANTS
2020
Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
2019
Washington Elementary School, Washington State Arts Commission
Sunnyside School District, Sunnyside, WA
2005
Artist Trust/WSAC Fellowship Recipient
Ellensburg School District, Washington State Arts Commission
Ellensburg High School
2002
Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Seattle Art Museum
Selected Public and Corporate Collections
1998-99
Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium, Seattle
1997
Seattle Artist, Seattle Arts Commission
1996-97
Installation, Harborview Medical Center, King County Arts Commission
1995
Seattle Artist, Seattle Arts Commission
1992
Commission for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Port of Seattle
1989
Tacoma School District, Delong Elementary School, Washington State Arts Commission
1987
Homes for the Arts, 9-1-1 Arts Center, Seattle
1983-85
Community Psychiatric Clinic, Seattle
1984
First Place, Bear Skin Rug Crazy Quilt, Western Washington Fair, Puyallup, WA
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Boeing Headquarters, Chicago
Bailey Boushay House, AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle
Bellevue Downtown Association, Bellevue, WA
City of Seattle, Water Department
Dain Bosworth, Inc., Minneapolis
Ellensburg School District, Washington State Arts Commission
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Northwest Building Corporation, Seattle
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
Liberty Mutual, Seattle
T-Mobile Park, (Mariner's Stadium), Seattle
Seattle Arts Commission, City Portable Works Collection
Seattle Arts Commission, Special Northwest Collection
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Swedish Hospital Medical Center, Seattle
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
Walker, Richer & Quinn, Seattle
Washington State Arts Commission, Shoreline School District
Washington State Arts Commission, South Kitsap School District
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia School District
Winston & Strawn, Chicago
INSTALLATIONS
1993-94
Vashon Island Landfill, 1% for Art Project, Vashon Island, WA
1992
Water Clock Installation, Bumbershoot, Seattle Center
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
1993 to present
Bailey-Boushay House; AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle
1992
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
VIDEO/DOCUMENTARIES
2007
Laughing Dog Pictures for Washington State Arts Commission
2006
Seattle Art Museum
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