Melody Owen

Group show on Herzog's book "Of Walking in Ice"
Soil Gallery in Seattle, Washington
Curated by Jack Ryan, December 2009
White Box Gallery in March 2010

'Still-Life'
533 Gallery in Los Angeles
and Milepost 5 in Portland
April 2009
curated by Anna Fidler

The Animal Gaze
London Metropolitan University
London, England
November 2008
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (Exeter)
January 2009

The Butterfly Effect
October 19 - 25, 2008
The Leftbank : PICA

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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:

Disappearing Book 2010
Published by Container Corps

TBA
2 chapters : Circles and spinning wheels and
If I could crowd all my souls into that mountain
September 6 - 13th, 2009
Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum

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 book 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

Benefits:

The Pixie Project 2009
Cascade Aids Project 2003 2007
Reading Frenzy benefit for Critical Art Ensemble defense fund 2005
Disjecta Benefit 2005
Prints for PICA 2002 2003 2008

Lectures:

Reed College 2008
Pacific Northwest College of Art 2008
Rhodes College 2006
Portland State University 2004
Watkins College of Design 2002
Sewanee University 2002

Grants and Awards

Regional Arts and Culture Council
Project Grant for Marylhurst show 2010

Gästeatelier Krone
Residency in Aarau, Switzerland
October and November 2009

Oregon Arts Commission
Career Development Grant 2009

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

"A Natural Selection"
curated by Vanessa Renwick
NW Film Forum in Seattle 2009

2009 PDX Film Festival May 9

"For Robert"
curated by Michael Shamberg
for Robert Frank exhibit
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
April 25, 2009

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

Local Sightings
Northwest Film Forum Seattle, Wa
Curated by Karl Lind

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
Sebastian Guinness Gallery
Dublin, Ireland

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

fo(a)rm festival of sound and video
Portland Art Center 2006
TBA Graze Station at the Corberry Press lounge
PICA - Portland, Oregon 2005
Both 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

Featured in the bear DELUXE magazine issue #28 www.orlo.org 2008

Memphis Magazine
December 2006 Issue

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

Selected Bibliography:

The Oregonian March 19 2010
Melody Owen's art gets multiple Portland appearances, Bob Hicks

ARTslant (online) March 2010
Melody Owen's Dada-damaged Collage
John Motley

Visual Art Source (online) 2010
Melody Owen, Richard Speer

Mentioned in NY Times article
about the Nines

artus magazine out of Los Angeles
read it Alexandria, I'm Waiting

Art Papers March/April 2006
On Others, Julie Roberts

Number 54: an independent
journal of the arts. Fall 2005
On Others, Joe Nolan

Core Sample Catalogue
Clear Cut Press 2004
Stephanie Snyder
Lawrence Rinder

Portland Mercury:

Alexandria, I'm waiting, John Motley 2007

Torch Songs, Ryan Dirks 2004

The Modern Zoo,
Blood and Guts Forever,
Chas Bowie 2003

PSU Daily Vangaurd
The unrequited love of Melody Owen
Eva Lake 2004

The Organ, My Art Diary
Camela Raymond 2003

Willamette Week
Queen Bee, Lisa Lambert 2002

Portland Oregonian Artsweek
2001 Oregon Biennial,
Bob Hicks

Education:

MFA from The New York State College of Ceramics Alfred, NY 2007
download thesis here

One year in MFA program
School of Visual Arts, NYC 1998-99

BA in Photography
University of Oregon 1997

Studied abroad in Szeged, Hungary
at József Attila University
with Portland State University 1994

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