SELECTED EXHIBITION RECORD
(* solo shows marked by asterisk)
2026 Feels Like, Queen Northwest, Bellingham, WA, collaborative project with Julia Rooney
2021 Inspiration to Action, Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY
2017 Drawing Practice, Whatcom Museum. Juried by Catharina Manchanda, Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum AND NOT OR, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
*My Love Hath Kissed in Fixing, SOIL, Seattle, WA
2016 American Painting Today, The Old Value Village on Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA
NJ, Elevator Music #3- Studio Sounds:
sonic studio visits with 14 international artists, Gallery Aferro, Newark,
NJ
2015 RESPOND, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
*Arabesque in Remembrance of Kajieme Powell, Jeffrey and Susan Brotman Galleria, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle,
Xenia, Airbnb art installation, Seattle, WA. Conceptualization and installation by Rob Rhee
Sensations that Announce the Future, The Evergreen Gallery, Olympia
2014 The Momentum of Beauty, SOIL Gallery, Seattle,
*Arabesque in Remembrance of Kajieme Powell, Violet Strays, Seattle, WA
2013 Session One, Pocket Utopia, New York, NY
Zwischerliecht, LxWxH, Seattle, WA
Evergreen Gallery, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, Finish
2012 The rug pulled out from underneath; you lie on the floor, The Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
*backscatter, South Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
SeaCat, The Hedreen Gallery, Seattle
2011 DUG: Soil Invitational 2011, Soil, Seattle, WA
Local Histories: The Ground We Walk on Every Day, Satellite, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
Contexts: Contemporary Image Makers, Minnaert Center Gallery, South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA
2010 Un-Words, Bradley Building Atrium Gallery, University of South Carolina, Lancaster, SC
The PDA Show, KAYO Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2009 The Gift Shop: the atlas of gifted ideas, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA. A collaboration with Heidi Hinrichs
Provisional Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Bailout Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
Ontology of the Image, Twilight Artist Collective, Seattle, WA
Postmarked, Claremont Forum Gallery, Claremont, CA
Closet Cases: Artist’s Self Portraits, Happy, LA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015 The Evergreen Gallery, Olympia, Sensations that Announce the Future. An exhibition of artworks that offered multiple perspectives of a present/future informed by its past. Works were chosen as examples of the ways in which art can open up possibility
through sharpening “acuities of sentience,” a term in reference to Elaine Scarry’s Thinking in an Emergency. Featuring artists Steffani Jemison, Davida Ingram, Amjad Faur, Joan Livingstone, Liselot van der Heijden, Cassie Thornton, Damali Abrams, Will
Wilson, Matt Offenbacher, Dakota Gearhart, Lisa Blas, Naima Lowe, Christopher Beuning, and Shaw Osha
2014 SOIL Gallery, Seattle, The Momentum of Beauty. I invited three artists plus a philosopher to join me around the theme of beauty, its plurality of expression, the multiplicity of meanings, and the possibilities of value. The exhibition was collaboratively
conceptualized with jo-ey Tang, Kim Miller, Margie Livingston, and Kathleen Eamon
2012 The Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, The rug pulled out from underneath; you lie on the floor. In collaboration with Dawn Cerny, the show was a response to the exhibition, Elles at the Seattle Art Museum. We also co-edited to exhibition zine/catalog and
convened the opening night discussion panel
2011 Seattle Catalog #2, invited artist in the catalog, “Seacat.” Started by artists Gretchen Bennett, Wynne Greenwood, and Matthew Offenbacher, it was mail-order catalog for art, a non-physical gallery, and a grant generating project connecting artists with
collectors.
2009 The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, The Gift Shop: The atlas of gifted ideas, collaboration with Heidi Hinrichs
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2016 ArtVenture workshop with Associate Curator, Michelle Hagewood, at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Michelle and I led a story-building workshop for the public in Spanish and English with Pablo Helguera’s installation, Libreria Donceles
2015 Nominator, the Brink Award 2015/16
Grant Selection Committee Member for 2015, The New Foundation, Seattle
Set the Table for SAM fundraiser, invited to create an Artist Table, Seattle
2014 Arts Talk Series, Olympia Timberland Library
2013 Met Museum Artists on Artworks gallery talk, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
2012 Set the Table for SAM fundraiser, invited by curator Marisa Sanchez to create an Artist Table, Seattle
2010 My Favorite Things: Highly Opinionated Public Tours, Seattle Art Museum,
Projections: Margie Livingston and Matthew Offenbacher Paint the Town, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
2009 Juror for the Fourth Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Olympia, WA
PBIA (Parking & Business Improvement Area) Bench Project, Olympia, WA,
Here (Olympia) and Elsewhere (LA)
2008 PBIA (Parking & Business Improvement Area) Bench Project, Olympia, WA,
Here (Olympia) and Elsewhere (Central Park, NYC),
City of Olympia, Here Today, temporary public art installation, Public Private Eyes
RESIDENCIES
2022 Greenwoods 58, Norfolk, CT
Virginia Center for Creative Art, Karen Shea and Gabe Silverman Endowment Award, Amhurst, VA
2021 Centrum, Port Townsend, WA
2019 Virginia Center for Creative Art, Amhurst, VA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 The Stranger, “Artbnb-Xenia Turns Condo Rental into an Installation” by Jen Graves
CityArts, “Airbnb as Art Installation” by Amanda Manitach
2013 San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Review: “Zwischerliecht” group exhibition at LxWxH Gallery, Seattle, by Emily Gorman
CityArts, “The Week Was Paved With Stars” by Amanda Manitach
2012 The Stranger, “The Groin, Foods, and More: Bruises and Pride at Hedreen Gallery” by Jen Graves
The Stranger Slog, “Good Job, Whatshertits (Shaw Osha)” by Jen Graves
Catalogue for Provisional Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa
Ana, CA, Juror: Shane Guffogg
2009 The Weekly Volcano, “Remembering Darwin: Evolution of Art and Humanity at The Grand Impromptu” by Alec Clayton
PUBLICATIONS
2025 My Love Hath/Kissed in Fixing, sefl-published artist’s book
2018 La Norda Specialo 15: Restorative and Healing Tactics, “Dear Grandaddy,”
2017 The Encyclopedia Project, Volume 3, “Soul Train” paintings, editors Miranda Mellis, and Tissa Bryant
2012 Jeffry Mitchell: Closed Fist Open Hand, “My Spirit”, artist catalog accompanying the exhibition, Like a Valentine: The Art of Jeffry Mitchell, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
La Norda Specialo No 9, “This is a proposition (to speculate without knowing)”
2011 The Gift Shop Catalog, interview with Matt Offenbacher, published by Publication Studio and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
2010 La Norda Specialo No 6, “Gretchen Bennett and Shaw Osha: Conversations”
EDUCATION
MFA 2009 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont
BS 1985 Columbia University, New York, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009-present Member of the faculty, Visual Art, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
2013-present Adjunct Artist-Teacher, MFA program, Vermont College of Fine Art
2009 Adjunct faculty, South Puget Sound Community College
1985-2007 RN