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Reflection
16 x 17, Encaustic/wood, 2007

University of Washington, Graduate Study: Education; Creative Writing

University of Iowa, M.A., M.F.A.

Yale University Divinity School

Connecticut College, B.A.

Museum School, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art

Boston Latin School, Centrum Foundation; Crown Point Press; Pratt Fine Arts

2021

Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA, Shifting Tides

RiverSea Gallery, Astoria, OR, NightFall

2020

Port Angeles Fine Arts, Port Angeles, WA, Well + Being

Museum of Encaustic Art, Santa Fe, NM. Global Warming is Real

Vesterheim Museum, Decorah IA, Water

Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL, Viral Collaborations

Kutscherhaus, Recklinghausen, Germany, Overseas

2019

Ryan James Belltown, Seattle, WA, Smoke Tree

Mexican Consulate, Seattle, WA, Beyond Borders

IAGO, Graphic Arts Institute, Oaxaca, Mexico, Beyond Borders

Lynn Hansen Gallery, Seattle, WA, Sleight of Hand

Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Seattle, WA, Glove Show

North Seattle College, Seattle, WA, Like Mother

2018

Ryan James Fine Art, Kirkland, Washington, Materials of a Master

WaterWorks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington, JSRoss and DFrench

RiverSea Gallery, Astoria, Oregon, Oysters Surround Me

Tacoma Art Museum Community Gallery, Like Mother, traveling

2017

RiverSea Gallery, Astoria, OR, Vanishing and The Night Sky

Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 12th Annual Encaustic Invitational

Cascadia College, Bothell, WA, Art and Poetry

ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle; Gallery One, Ellensburg, Like Mother

2016

Ryan James Fine Arts, Kirkland WA and VALA, Redmond, WA Ekphrastic Assimilations

Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Winslow, WA, RED

Missouri Western State Univ., St. Joseph, Missouri, Patchwork & Threads

Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, Washington, Presence/Absence

Cannon Beach Gallery, Oregon, Landscape as Perception

2015

Ryan James Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Beneath the Surface, Solo Exhibition

Port Townsend Public Library, 1004 Gallery Artists Exhibition

Foster/White Gallery, Don Foster Memorial Exhibition, Seattle, WA

BallardWorks Galleries, Explorations, Seattle, WA

Truro Center for the Arts, Minimal/Maximal, Truro, MA

A Gallery Art, One + One, Provincetown, MA

Gallery One, In Print, Award, Best Use of Innovative Materials, Ellensburg, WA

Museo Gallery, Grid, Langley, WA

510 Museum, Visionary Art by PAN, Lake Oswego, OR

Bellevue College Gallery, Pigment and Paper, Bellevue, WA

NW Encaustic, Grids, Solo Exhibition, Seattle, WA

2014

Boats as Icon of Passage and Memory, Immigration Station, Wing Luke Asian
Museum, permanently installed at Inscape Building, Seattle, WA

Moses Lake Museum, Invitational Exhibition, Layers of Perception

Centennial Gallery, Kent, WA, Duo Exhibition, In Depth

Oysterville Store, Oysterville, WA, Peninsula Paintings

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, Ink This! Contemporary Prints in the Northwest

RiverSea Gallery, Astoria, OR, Solo Exhibition, Skyswath & Other Stories

Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR, BallardWorks

Scuola di Grafica, Venice, Italy, Silkscreen Exhibition

Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA, Off the Grid

2013

Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Bainbridge, WA. Women in the Abstract

Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA, The Big Small Show

WaterWorks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA, Gallery Artists

BallardWorks Galleries, Seattle, WA, Vision/Revision, Curator

CoCa Georgetown Gallery, Seattle, WA, CoCa Collision

Oysterville Store, Oysterville, WA, Oysters & Boats

Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, WA, Summer Art Exhibit, purchase prize and 2014 duo exhibit

7th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA, Attendance and Hotel Fair

Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA, Little x Little: Miniature Print Exhibition

Baas Gallery, Seattle, WA, GRID on Madison

Johnston Architects, Seattle, WA, Low Tide & Hankies

2012

Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA, Autumn Review

Museo Gallery, Langley, WA, The DOT Show

North Seattle Community College Gallery, Crosscurrents

Boston Center for the Arts ,The Future of the Past: Encaustic in the 21st Century

Nord Gallery, San Antonio, TX, IEA EncaustiCon 2012

BallardWorks Galleries, Seattle, WA, GRID, Salon Exhibition

Gwangju Museum of Art Annex, Geumnamro Gallery, Gwangju, Korea

Pelicano, Ilwaco, WA, Solo Exhibition

Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA, Summer Pages: Past & Present, Solo Exhibition

Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA, On the Surface

2011

Print Arts NW, Members' Exhibition, traveling

WA Community College Humanities Assoc., Crosscurrents, traveling

Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle Design Center, Group Exhibition

2010

Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Features

Washington County Museum, Portland OR, Repurposed

2009

Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA

BallardWorks Galleries, A New Weave of Repertoire

Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, Remember to Play

2007

Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA, Visual Echoes

2006

Espy Foundation, Oysterville, WA, Levitation and Illumination

Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA, Hot Art

2005

Kittredge Gallery, Univ. of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, Joan Stuart Ross

2004

Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle, Embedded: New Encaustics

2003

Handforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library, Texts & Tales

2002

Edmonds Arts Festival Museum, Edmonds, WA, Texts

Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA, Texts & Messages

2001

Cooperhuset, Balestrand, Norway, New Work

Portes Ouvertes, Paris, France

2000

Northwest Bookfest, Seattle, Installation, Text Paintings

Luther Seminary Gallery, St. Paul, MN, Familie-Portrett

Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA, Recent Encaustics

Vesterheim Museum, Decorah, IA, Family-Portrett

Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA, Family-Portrett

1999

Førde og Søgn Kunstnarsenter, Norway, Familie-Portrett, traveling exhibit

2019, '17, '16

Guest Artist, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, AZ

2012

Artist in Residence, Playa, Summerlake, OR

2008

4Culture, Individual Projects Award

2007

Artist in Residence, Espy Foundation, Oysterville, WA
Sabbatical Leave, New Encaustic Work

2006

Artist in Residence, Espy Foundation, Oysterville, WA

2005

Fulbright-Hays Group Study Grant, Vietnam
PDAP Grant, Washington State Arts Commission

2004, 2003

North Seattle Community College Foundation Grant

2001

Artist in Residence, Cooperhuset, Balestrand, Norway
Sabbatical Leave, The Louvre, Paris, France

1999

International Residencies for Artists, Inc. Travel Grant, New York, New York
International Faculty Development & Ford Foundation Travel Grant, Norway

1998

Crown Point Press, Faculty Development Grant

1995

Kathe Kollwitz Award, Seattle Women’s Caucus for Art

1994

King County Regional Justice Center, Design Team Commission, Jury Assembly Rms.

1993

Humanities Award for Art, Crosscurrents
Rome Fellowship, Northwest Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy

1992

Artist in Residence, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA

1987

Visiting Artist, Artists Unlimited, Seattle, WA

1986

Artist in Residence, Pilchuck School, Stanwood, WA; also Centrum, Port Townsend, WA

1981

Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Seattle Art Museum

1980

New Proposals, King County Arts Commission; also 1977

1979-81

Artist in the City, Seattle Arts Commission

1978

Artist in Residence, Voss Folkehøgskule, Voss, Norway

1977, 1979

Master Workshops: Jack Tworkov; Nathan Oliveira, Centrum Foundation

1976

Visual Arts Event, NEA & Seattle Arts Commission, Bumbershoot Arts Festival

1969-81

Artist in Residence, Seattle Pacific University

1968

Artist in Residence, Jane Burr Fund, Woodstock, New York

North Seattle Community College, Tenured Faculty, Fine Arts Department

Others: University of WA, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle Art Museum, Edmonds Community College, Green River Community College, Pratt Fine Arts, Sev Shoon Art Center, Painting, Printmaking, and Monotype Workshops at many Colleges & Universities in the U. S., Norway & France, Private Monotype & Encaustic classes & workshops

2016

Juror, Northwest Collage Society, 2016 Winter Show, Washington State Convention Center

2015

Illustrated Talk, Depth and Dimensionality in Encaustic, 9th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA

Lecture, Encaustic Collage, Northwest Collage Society, Seattle, WA

2014

Panel Talk, Roots of Contemporary Encaustic, 8th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA

2008

Extending the Boundaries of Print, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

2004

Embedded: A Decade of Encaustic Painting, Pratt Fine Arts

2001

Recent Sabbatical in Paris & Norway, North Seattle Community College

Medium Crossings, Southern Graphics Council, Univ. of TX, Austin, Presenter

1999

Travel as Muse, WA Humanities Association

1995

Thirty Years of Art-Making, Pratt Fine Arts

1994

Sense of Direction, NW Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy, SAM

1993

My Art and Seattle’s Public Art, Førde Kunstnarsenter, Førde, Norway

Recent Work, Palazzo Pio, Rome

The Evolution of Color and Imagery in My Paintings and Prints, SAM

1990

Lectures and Workshops: Skagit Valley College, Universities of ID & WA

2016

Fiber Art Now, Fall, Fiber Fusion, by Anne Lee and E. Ashley Rooney

ProWax Journal, Issue 13, Q&A, Interview by Nancy Natale https://prowaxjournal.com/

Surface Design Journal, Memory, Spirit and Gender: Existential Issues in Fiber and Wax, by Joanne Mattera

Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century, by E. Ashley Rooney and Anne Lee

2009

ARTWORKS Magazine, The Color of Joan Stuart Ross, Keira Scholten

2008

Relocations: Selected Art Essays and Interviews, Matthew Kangas, Midmarch Arts Press, NY, NY

2005-1998

Crosscurrents, WA Technical & Community College Humanities Association, Cover, 1998

2002

SCC-TV, Artists Express: Joan Stuart Ross: Persevering Heart, Film-TV Interview

1998

Introduction to Philosophy, M. Bratman, Oxford University Press, Cover, Three Masks I

1997

Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest, Lois Allen, Craftsman House, G. & B. Arts Int’l, Sydney, Australia

1995

The Raven Chronicles, three paintings

1993

Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest, ed. Laura Brunsman & Ruth Askey, Midmarch Arts Press

1992

Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA, Poster, Carnival IV

1990

Northwest Originals: Washington Women & Their Art, Matrimedia, Portland, OR

Skagit Valley College, Poster, Undersea

1984

Allied Arts, Seattle, WA, Poster, Breathe Through

1983

50 Northwest Artists, Bruce Guenther, Chronicle Books

1982

Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B. C., Monograph

1981

Seattle Art Museum, New Ideas IV, Poster, Silver Fox Series IV

Seattle Art Museum

National Museum of Women in the Arts

University of Washington, Suzzallo Library

King County Regional Justice Center

Bellingham Technical College

University of Illinois, Chicago

University of Iowa, Iowa City

Pierce County District Court, Tacoma, WA

Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA

King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA

Junior League of Seattle

Seattle City Light

Oregon State Printing Plant, Salem

State of Washington

Portland State Office Building, Portland, OR

Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon, WA

Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA

ryan james fine arts
Kirkland, WA
www.ryanjamesfinearts.com

Riversea Gallery
Astoria, OR
riverseagallery.com

Patricia Cameron Gallery
Seattle, WA
www.patriciacamerongallery.com

Print Arts Northwest Gallery
Portland, OR
www.printartsnw.org

Waterworks Gallery
Friday Harbor, WA
www.waterworksgallery.com