Exhibitions
2018:
Wolff Gallery, Portland, OR. Individual Exhibition - "Ghost Ships" (Photography)
2016:
Nave Gallery, Boston, MA. for "boXed"
Radius Gallery, Missoula MT. for the Holiday Show.
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX for "Trees" *Director's Honorable Mention
Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY-Individual Exhibition- “Fragments” (photography)
555 Gallery, Boston, MA. "Visionaries" - 4 person show
Radius Gallery, Missoula, Montana for their 2nd Annual Juried Competition*Award, Best of Show
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX- For Diffusion Publication’s “Lemniscate”
Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona for “Photography Reimagined” *Honorable Mention
Edition One Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. For “Woman”
2015
Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL – Group Show
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX. –Juried Group Show “Abstractions” *Honorable mention
2014
Alexander Gallery, Oregon City, OR-Group Show
2012
NO Gallery, NY, NY for the Professional Women’s Photographers Show
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts
AIR Gallery, NY, NY, by invitation, The Postcard Show
2011
PhotoEye Gallery, Santa Fe
Center for Fine Art Photography, Denver, CO, for the Portraiture Show
98 Bottles, San Diego, CA. -3-person show-
2010
Cannibals – For Dia de las Muertes Show.
2009:
Pushdot Gallery, Portland, OR“Code 44” (Mixed Media Installation and Photography)
2007:
Sandy Gallery for the Photo + Construct show
2005:
Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR“Breathing Underwaterland” (Photography) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
2004
Pushdot Gallery, Portland, OR“As Fish & Eel Between my Fingers Flow” (Photography) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
Denver International Airport, for Center for Fine Art Photography
2003
Northview Gallery, Portland, OR“Translucence” (Photography) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR. For 10 Years, one Foot After Another
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Are you Listening Recording Studio -3 person show
Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD for the 2003 Bethesda International Photography Competition
Cade Center for Fine Art, Anne Arundel CC, Arnold MD. For “Mute”
2002
Red & Black, Portland, OR-8 foot living grass construction created for “The Scarecrow Show”
Philip Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR. Faculty Show
Northview Gallery, Portland, OR
2001
First Thursday Street Performance as Exquisite Corps
Alberta Street Exquisite Corps Street Performance
2000
Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery, Portland, OR“Ravenous” (20’ x 30’ Mixed Media Installation) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
1998
Hoyt Arboretum, Portland, ORfor “Arts in the Arboretum” 35’ in diameter, 9’ tall mixed media structure & surrounding space : “Body & Blood”
1997
Gallery 114, Portland, OR “Prolegomena to Inexpedient Access” (40’ x 30’ Mixed Media Installation) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
The Portland Building, Portland, OR“Moss” (14’ x 17’ Mixed Media Installation) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
1996
The Bridge Center for contemporary Art, El Paso, TX“Twixt Sand and Sky” (10’ x 10’ Mixed Media Installation)
Dolce Vita Gallery, El Paso, TX “Photographic Works” INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
Gallery 114, Portland, OR. New Members Show
Nacul Center, Amherst MAfor the “Nature & Culture/Harmony or Conflict” show
Mountain Valley Arts Center, Guntersville, AL. “Abstractions in Black & White”
1995
Linea Gallery, El Paso, TX “Becoming One” (Photography) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
1994
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL“Visual Voices: The Female”
New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony, IN for “Utopian Visions”
Gallery 451, Orckford, ILfor “Spirituality & Death”
1993
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL“Earth, Air, Fire, Water” (29’ x 16’ Mixed Media InstallationINDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
Sierra Club Environmental Center, El Paso, TX –Individual Exhibition- “Fused Voices” Photography
1992
Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY“Altars of Earth: A Symphony of Voices” (40’ x 17’ Mixed Media Installation) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY“Altars of Earth” (12’ x 12’ Mixed Media Installation) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
Bethune Gallery, Buffalo, NY“Common Earth” (10’ x 8’ Mixed Media Installation)
1991
Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY“All Branch from the Stem” (50’ x 60’ Mixed Media Installation) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
The Gallery at SUNY Fredonia“Between Heaven & Earth” (35’ x40’ Mixed Media Installation) INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL. For Art Against Dickheads
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NYGroup Show
REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
2016 --> Diffusion Magazine – Lemniscate of Diffusion// Shots Magazine – Spring, 2016 issue// The Hand Magazine – Winter Issue
Review in The Missoulian for Radius Gallery's Juried Exhibition
Review in Lomography: "of Boxes & Collages: Handmade Photographs by Smith Eliot
Elin Spring reviews "Visionaries"
2015 --> Thought Collective edited by Kat Lahr. “Creatures of a Brief Season," The Hand Magazine – Fall Issue
2014 --> Shots Magazine, Issue 125, Autumn Issue, Black Forest –hardcover book edited by Russell Joslin
2013 --> Bokeh Magazine – Feature with Portfolio & Interview by John Bennette, Shots Magazine, Issues 120 and 121 (Summer & Fall Issues)
2011 --> Photoeye Review of "the Secrets we Keep" // The Center for Fine Art Photography - show announcement
2010 --> Northwest Review – Article and Photographs from the Dammasch series
2009 --> Vagabondage Press & Sein u. Werden as JG Jones “Fragments”
2008 --> B&W Magazine – Honorable Mention
2006 --> Calyx Journal
2005 --> Shots Magazine, Issue 89, Cover Image, Portfolio and Interview
2001 --> PLASM Magazine, Portland, OR. “Art: Ravenous” by Jon Steinhorst
2000 --> The Oregonian, Portland, OR“Palace of Excess” by DK Row, The Mercury, Portland, OR“Ravenous” by Karrin Ellertson
1996 --> The El Paso Times, TX. “The Sacred & the Passionate” by Sandy Salinas, El Paso, Inc., TX“Unusual Art”, The Amherst News, Amherst, MA“Nature & Culture” by Christine Benvenuto
1991 - The Times-Union, Rochester, NY. “Going out on a Limb” by Elizabeth Forbes, The Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY “Looking Reverentially at Trees” by R. Netsky
GRANTS, AWARDS & HONORARIA
2004 Award for Best of Show, Center for Fine Art Photography
2003 Grant for the creation of Translucence. Empowering Women Network, Chicago, IL
1998 ORLO, Portland, OR. Honorarium for participation in Word on the Street
Friends of the Arboretum: Honorarium for Body & Blood
1997 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Honorarium to install Moss, Portland Building
1994 Art Education Association of Indiana. Merit Award
1993 ARC, Chicago. Honorarium to install Earth, Air, Fire, Water
1992 Mark Diamond Foundation -Grant to install Altars of Earth
1991 Pyramid Art Center. Residency and Honorarium for All Branch from the Stem
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 Panel Member for SPENW – Panel on Hand crafted photography.
2005 PNCA, Lecture & Slide Presentation
2003 Portland Community College – Speaking Engagement and Slide Presentationl
2002 Member of the Tri-Met Art Advisory Board (served through 2003.)
1998 Knox College Galesburg, ILPresentation & accompanying slide show, “The Dread of Difference”
Bowling Green University, Blowling Green, OHSpeaking Engagement & slide presentation.
1994 Roosevelt College, Chicago, IL. Guest Lecture
1991 Freedonia, University Visiting Artist
Residency at Pyramid Art Center
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, BA with honors in the College granted in 1988
State University of NY at Buffalo, MFA granted in 1992