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Represented by
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
art@elizabethleach.com

to contact me : m_owen@thistlepress.net

Solo Exhibitions

MFA Thesis Show
The Schein-Joseph International Museum
of Ceramic Art

New York State College of Ceramics 2007

Torch Song
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Portland, Oregon 2004

Six of one, a half-dozen of the other
Nine Gallery at Blue Sky Gallery
Portland, Oregon 2004

Wool and Water
Portland Building 2003
Regional Arts and Culture council

Pressed
Fugitive Art Center
Nashville, Tennessee 2002

The Igloo Project
PDX Gallery, Portland 2002

Car Crash Chandelier
PDX Gallery window project
Portland, Oregon   2002

Spoonbill and Sugartown Booksellers
Brooklyn, New York
Beehive Unwrapped 2000

Wallpaper
Reading Frenzy
Portland, Or 1998

Selected Group Exhibitions

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Vitrine Gallery
St. Jean Port Joli, Quebec
August, 2007

Aqua Art Fair Miami, Florida
December 2007

NYSCC MFA Show
J. Cacciola Gallery
NYC 2007

Usufruct
Linfield College McMinnville, Or
November, 2007
Curated by Seth Nehil

Pressing Pause
Zeitgeist Gallery
Nashville, Tennessee 2007

On Others :
Sewannee The University of the South Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
Iron Gate Studios, Austin, Texas
Curated by Greg Pond 2005

25 Years of Drawing in The Art Gym
Marylhurst University
Lake Oswego, Oregon 2005
Curated by Terri Hopkins

Closer In
Contemporary Arts Center
North Adams, Mass 2004
Curated by Ven Voisey and Heather Phillips

Empire Builders
Zeitgeist Gallery and Ruby Green Gallery
Nashville, Tennessee 2004

Intense Focus
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Portland, Oregon 2004

Core Sample
Second Cycle and Capture and Release
Portland, Oregon 2003

Outdoor Sculpture Invitational
Maryhill Museum of Art
Goldendale, Washington Summer 2003
Curated by Lee Musgrave

Bibliocosmos
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
Reed College; Portland, Or 2003
Curated by Stephanie Snyder

Cling
PCAC Modern Zoo 2003

Blood and Guts Forever
Group show at Marylhurst Art Gym
Portland, Or 2003
Curated by Brad Adkins

Beam Splitters , Machine Works
collaboration with Brad Adkins
Portland, Or 2002
Curated by Bill Daniel and Vanessa Renwick

Pacific Northwest Annual
Bellevue Art Museum - Washington 2001
Curated by Sue Spaid

Oregon Biennial 2001
Portland Art Museum
Curated by Bruce Guenther

Snow
Good/Bad Gallery
Brooklyn, NY 1999

Curation:

The 60 Second Southern Video Festival
at Harmony Landing
Nashville, Tennessee 2007 (touring)
(one of several guest curators)

Dissecting Portland 2007
Show of Portland artists
Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY
Cornell Cinema in Ithaca, NY

disappearing zine 2006
Webzine with invited artists and
writers illustrating endangered species

Sleeping in the Woods
Modern Zoo
Portland, Oregon 2003
Artists: Greg Pond and Jack Ryan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grants and Awards

Institute for Electronic Arts
artist residency NYSCC
May 2008

Cite Internationale des Arts
Paris, France
September through December 2007

Est-Nord-Est Residency
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada
July and August 2007

The Gil-Society Residency
Akureyri, Iceland June 2007

Robert R McComsey Career Development Center Special Achievement Award
NYSCC 2007

Mayor's Creative/Cultural Economic
Initiative and Worksystems, Inc.
Professional Development Grant 2005

Caldera residency
Eastern Oregon
April 2004

Regional Arts and Culture Council
Installation Grant, 2002

Oregon Arts Commission
Individual Artist Fellowship 2002

Juror's Award, Oregon Biennial 2001

Oregon Arts Foundation
Young Poets Award 1987

Video screenings

Turtle in The Tank: An Afternoon of Film and Music in the Spirit of 1968
Apr 27, 2008
The Tank, NYC
Curated by Michael Shamberg

Team Spirit Animal Squad
The Zipper Factory, NYC
April 20, 2008

Monkeytown Semiennial
Brooklyn, NY
November 30, 2007

Loop Festival
Barcelona, Spain 2007

The 60 Second Southern Video Festival
at Harmony Landing

Nashville, May 5 2007
Powerhouse, Memphis
Boathouse Cinema, Portland
Basel, Switzerland
Mantua, Ireland
Cairo, Egypt

fo(a)rm festival of sound and video
Portland Art Center 2006
Curated by Morgan Currie

stumptown girls
Curated by Gretchen Hogue  
Chico State University - Chico, Ca
The Padlock Gallery - Philadelphia
The Empty Vessel - Brooklyn, NY 2006

Film and Video from Portland, Oregon
Royal College of Art - London 2006
Curated by Claire Fowler

Sound + Vision
ZKM Germany October 27 2005
Curated by Alex Lakin

TBA Graze Station at the Corberry Press lounge
PICA - Portland, Oregon 2005
Curated by Morgan Currie

The Super-8 Opera
Northwest Film Center
Portland, Oregon 2004  

Lost and Found
Archival film series
Northwest Film Forum Seattle, Wa 2004

PDX Film Festival Invitationals
Guild Theater
Portland, Oregon 2004
Curated by Matt McCormick

Synthetic Zero Bronx 2004
CB's Gallery New York City
Curated by Mitsu Hadeishi

Dallas Video Festival
Dallas, TX 2004
Curated by Bart Weiss

Narrated Tuglines
a film by Matt McCormick 2004
Art for Sleater Kinney video 2005

Print and Web

this dreaming also
Curated and created by Emily Mast 2008

Memphis Magazine
December 2006 Issue

Art Bank, China 2006

Mary Magazine video online (in art drawer)
Curated by Cielo Lutino 2006

Spork Curated by Kevin Sampsell 2005

Drawings in Eye-Rhyme Literary Journal
Issue 7: Roses Are Red 2004
Pinball Publishing

cracks in the pavement
Curated and created by Heather Johnson 2004

Core Sample Catalogue - Reviews of work
Clear Cut Press 2004

The Organ
Drawing in Make do Ink gallery
and Igloos pictured in Broadside 2003

Istanbul Web Biennial 2003

A Common Pornography
illustrations for book written
by Kevin Sampsell 2001