EDUCATION
1976Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Bachelors of Art
1972University of Idaho, Bachelors of Architecture
SOLO EXHIBITION
2011“Bears,” Platform Gallery, Seattle
2010“Mystery Train,” David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
“Big Trouble,” Missoula Art Museum
2009“American Beauty,” Platform Gallery, Seattle
“Behold the Head,” Elgin Community College, Illinois
“Heads,” Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago
2007“True Grit,” Platform Gallery, Seattle
“Big Trouble: The Idaho Project,” and “Shapers of the 20th Century,”
Boise Art Museum
London Art Fair, Platform Gallery
2006“Geronimo!” Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago
2005“I Am What I Am,” Platform Gallery, Seattle
“Heads,” Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane
“Big Trouble: The Idaho Project,” Idaho Falls and Moscow, Idaho,
Salt Lake City Art Center, Utah, and Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane
(2005 through 2006)
2004“Scott Fife,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
2003Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago
The Evergreen State College Gallery, Olympia, Washington
1999“Betrayal,” Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle
1998“Window Dressing,” Butch Blum, Seattle
1997“Wolves,” Lead Gallery, Seattle
1996Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, Washington
1994Cornish Art Institute, Seattle
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane
1992Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
1991Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle
1990Galerie Redmann, Berlin
1989Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle
1987Ed Kienholz’s Faith, Hope & Charity Gallery, Hope, Idaho
1985Galerie Redmann, Berlin
1979Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle
1976Olson-Walker Gallery, Seattle
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013“Portraits of 20 Northwest Artists,” Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, Washington
“High Fiber Diet, Bellevue Art Museum Biennial,” Bellevue, Washington
2012“Pinkpop,” Schunck Newseum, Heerlen, Netherlands
2011“Creatures: From Bigfoot to the Yeti Crab,” Sun Valley Center, Ketchum, ID
“Heads on Poles,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago
“Seattle Collects,” Seattle Art Museum
2010“Finds Refined,” Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington
“About Face,” Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago
“Kurt,” Seattle Art Museum
“13 Artists,” City of Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery
“The Secret Language of Animals,” Tacoma Art Museum
2008“Editioned,” Platform Gallery, Seattle
“21st Century – Dealers Choice,” The Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle
“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, N. Carolina
“The Surrealist Impulse,” Tacoma Art Museum
“Heads (dis)Embodied,” Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Aqua Art Miami, Platform Gallery, Miami Beach
2007“Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon,” Tacoma Art Museum
2006“Beauty is Embarrassing,” Western Project, Los Angeles
“Respective 20: I,” Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
Aqua Art Miami, Platform and Bodybuilder & Sportsman Galleries,
“Drawings,” Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago
“Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection,”
Frye Art Museum, Seattle
“Studios Part 3: SODO,” SAM Rental Gallery, Seattle
2005“Nouvelle Nuptials,” San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design
2003“Seattle Collects,” City of Seattle
2003“Crossroads: New Art from the Northwest,” COCA, Seattle
“Sense of Place,” Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
“Umbrella,” Bumbershoot Exhibit, Seattle
2000“End of Friends,” Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle
1998“Animals,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin
1997“Friends of Kienholz,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin and Koln Art Fair
1995"Fallen Timber," Tacoma Art Museum
“Miracle on 34th St.,” Fremont Arts Council/NW Aids Foundation, Seattle
“Demolition Party,” The Henry Art Gallery
1994“Die Dritte Dimension” (The Third Dimension), Galerie Redmann, Berlin
1993“American Friends,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin
“Set The Table: Art & Food,” Bumbershoot, Seattle
1992FUEL Gallery, Seattle
1991Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990“Radio Sehen,” Kunstverein Slegen
1989Galerie Redmann, Berlin
1989The University Art Gallery, Albany, NY
1988Discovery Gallery, Long Island
1987Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho
“10 Jahre Galerie Redmann,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin
“The Inland Empire,” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1987“Materialisation,” Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
1984“Sammlung Stahl,” Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
“12 Meister des Trompe L'oiel,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin
1983“Kunst und Technik,” Museum fur Verkehr und Technik, Berlin
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1982Internationale Kunstmesse, Basel
1978Foster-White Gallery, Seattle
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS, LECTURES
2011Artist in Residence, Pratt Institute of Art, Seattle
Individual Project Grant, King County 4Culture
2010Three Walls, Artist Residency, Chicago
Artist Trust, Grant Award, Seattle
Seattle Art Museum, Workshop
Tacoma Art Museum, Artist Lecture and Workshop
Public Art Concept, Washington State Heritage Building, Olympia
2009University of Illinois, Artist Lecture
2008Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, Artist Lecture
2006Cornish College, Seattle, Artist Lecture
2004Spokane Art Lecture Series, Museum of Art and Culture,
Spokane Community College, and Eastern Washington University
2003City of Seattle, Seattle Collects Purchase Award
2002Swedish Hospital, “Nurses Uniforms,” Seattle
Artist Trust, Grant Award, Seattle
2001Safeco Insurance Company, “ Safe at Home,” Safeco Field
2000Lambert Office, Seattle, Linoleum Floor Painting
1999State of Washington, “Overalls,” Renton School District
Mahaney Residence, St. Louis, Commission
1993Tacoma Art Museum, “About Face,” Best of Show Award
1990Geyser Foundation Guest Lecture, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
1989Boyle Wagoner Architects, “Ax and Vase,” Seattle
Fellowship Award, New York Foundation for the Arts
1989Instructor, Walla Walla Art Center
1980Terrace Murals, Pike & Virginia Building, Seattle (Olson/Walker Architects)
1979Wall Murals, Rodgers Residence (Olson/Walker Architects)
Lobby & Ceiling Murals, Moscow Hotel, Moscow, Idaho (Olson/Walker Architects)
1978Lobby Murals, Blue Cross of Southern California Headquarters, Los Angeles
Lobby Mural, Fisher Studio Building, Seattle (Ralph Anderson Architect)
1976Sculpture Award, Western States Bi-Centennial, Great Falls, Montana
PUBLIC & INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
City of Seattle, “Geronimo”
Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois, “Lincoln”
Tacoma Art Museum, “Leroy the Big Pup”
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington
City of Seattle, “Marilyn” and “Teddy Roosevelt”
The State of Idaho
Swedish Hospital, Seattle
Safeco Company, Safeco Field, Seattle
State of Washington, Renton Technical College
Berlinische Galerie (City of Berlin), Berlin
Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin-Kienholz,
Hope & Charity Gallery, Idaho
Sammlung Froer, Oftersheim, Germany
Klauis und Bisela Groenke, Berlin
Sammlung Stahl, Berlin, Germany
Paul and Roberta K. Thompson, London
Zewawell, Mannheim, Germany
Ruth Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco
Hans and Helga Redmann, Berlin
Better Asher, Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Helfreid und Elisabeth Gast, Munchen/Baldham
Blue Cross of Southern California