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Education
2002 MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1993 BFA, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Nocturne, (two-person with Ryan Pierce) whitespace gallery, Atlanta, GA
Eyeshine, (two-person with Ryan Pierce) Portland State University Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR
2014
Creatio, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR
In Truth, Portland Installation Space-RACC, Portland, OR
2013
Claw, Shine, Gloam and Vesper, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2012
Death Caps and Dark Wood, Wieden+Kennedy Gallery, Portland, OR
Luminosis mori, Nationale, Portland, OR
2011
Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2010
How to Explain Magic to a Dead Rabbit, Wieden+Kennedy Gallery, Portland, OR (catalogue)
2008
No Man’s Land, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA, (catalogue)
2004
Domesticated, Art Concepts, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Animism, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Group Exhbitions
2015
The December Show, whitespace gallery, Atlanta, GA
Stilleven: Contemporary Still life, The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Otis Pop-up Exhibition, Fifth Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Visions of Tomorrow, TedX Portland, Union/Pine Portland, OR
Everything is All White: The New Year Show, Kasher, Potemkin, NYC, NY
2014
The December Show, whitespace gallery, Atlanta, GA
Gilded Forest: The Holiday Show, Kasher, Potemkin, NYC, NY
Intangible Beauty Part II, Go Out Alone in the Dark, Kasher, Potemkin, NYC, NY
Group Show No 41: New Cats in Art Photography, Curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, NYC, NY
2013
Sanctified, Vincent Price Art Museum, curated by Mary Anna Pomonis, Monterey Park, CA
Doing Pennants, Fifth Floor, Los Angeles, CA
2012
CoCA Annual Exhibition, Juried By M. K. Guth,Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA (catalogue)
The December Show,Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
31 Women in Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation in conjunction with Hasted Kraeutler, curated by
Jon Feinstein and Natalia Sacasa, NYC, NY
Blue Sky’s Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Portland, Oregon, juried selection 2012
10th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, (catalogue)
2011
The December Show, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
Fifth Annual JTHAR Art Exhibit, Joshua Tree Art Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA
Equine, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2 Exhibition, curated by Vanessa Kramer of Phillips de Pury & Company for the Humble Arts Foundation, Chelsea Art Museum, NY (catalogue)
2009
14th Annual PCNW Members’ Juried Exhibition, curated by Eric Fredericksen, The Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA
Group Show No. 31, curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, NYC, NY
Town & Country: Oregon at 150, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
Short Stories, Wendy Given and Diem Chau, Fifth Floor, Los Angeles, CA
Wolves and Urchins, Wendy Given, Hayley Barker, and Anne Mathern, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, OR
Green Light, Bank of America Building, exhibition loan from Joie Lassiter Gallery to Behringer Harvard, Charlotte, NC, (catalogue)
2008
Multiple Feeds, LAAA’s Film & Video 825/Otis College of Art and Design, curated by Erika Suderburg,
Democracy Forum at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Los Angeles, CA
Outside the Big-Box, Fifth Floor, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Staying Alive, curated by Mary Anna Pomonis, The Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2006
VITAS Film Festival, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Digital World: L.A., curated by S.E. Barnet, Niche.LA / Lounge 441, Los Angeles, CA
2004
A Minute on Camera, Oct. 21st, Salto Network Television, The Netherlands
Home Grown, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2003
City Zooms.Bremen.2003, Films from Cosmopolitan Cities with sea links,
Uebersee Museum Square, Bremen, Germany
2002
Graduate Thesis Show, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Awards
2011
JTHAR Residency, July–August 2011, Joshua Tree, CA
2010
Caldera Residency, February 2010, Sisters, OR
2009
Shortlist Award for Professional Photography, London International Competition (LICC), (catalog—LICC 02 edition)
2001
Betty and Monte Factor Graduate Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1993
The Gene Allcott Memorial Scholarship Merit Award in Painting, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1990-93
Presidential Scholarship, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
Reviews and Press
Cullum, Jerry. “Wendy Given re-reads magic and modernism at Whitespace”, Burnaway, January 18, 2011.
Feaster, Felicia. “Wendy Given’s dark and beguiling fairy tales at Whitespace”, ArtsCriticAtl, Art & Architecture, January 14, 2011.
Bowie, Chas. “Twin Collisions of Photos, Sculpture”, The Oregonian, June 11, 2010.
Johnson, Barry. “Closing Oregon’s Art Gap”, The Oregonian, July 6, 2009.
“Independent Art”, Bear Deluxe, #29 Summer 2009, p.32-33.
Pomonis, Mary Anna. “Diem Chau and Wendy Given at Fifth Floor”, Artweek, June 2009, Volume 40, Issue 5, p.19.
Speer, Richard. “Warlord Sun King, Art Gym: Northwest artists herald the age of ‘eco-baroque'”, Willamette Week, Vol. 35/18, March 11,2009, p.52.
“Into The Wild”, Voices, NY Arts Magazine, January/February 2009, Vol.14 No. 1/2, International Edition, p.12-13.
Parker, Virginia. “The Fine Art of Collecting”, Atlanta Magazine, Best of Atlanta, Vol. 48 No. 8., December 2008 p. 60.
Wood, Eve. “Staying Alive”, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles CA. artUS, Issue 20, Winter 2007.
Cullum, Jerry. “Atlanta Link Comes Vividly To The Forefront”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 18, 2004.
Cullum, Jerry. “Private Universe Lurks Beneath Cartoon Surface”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, August 4, 2000, p. Q8.
Forrest, Jason A. “Forty Winks for the Four Footed”, Art Papers, July/August 1997, p. 48.
Byrd, Cathy. Accent Nexus, Creative Loafing, April 19,1997, p. 28.
Melrod, George. “Alter Pieces Mix With Alter Egos”, Art & Antiques, Page 37, September 1995.
Publications
“The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, Humble Arts Foundation”, edited by amani olu and Jon Feinstein with an introduction by Vanessa Kramer, Director of Photographs, Phillips de Pury & Company, 2011.