MATTHEW DENNISON

BORN
1961            Portland, Oregon USA

EDUCATION
1981-2         Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007            Vistories, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006            Poiesis, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
                  Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2005            Neologism, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004            New Paintings, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR 
                  Ardent Cloud, Lang Gallery, London, England (color catalog)
                  The Vasana Text, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003            The Phrenic Pinges, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
                  Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
                  Memoric Field, James Tigerman Gallery, Chicago, IL
                  Zenithal, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR (color catolog)
2002            Proximal Content, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
                  Glyphic Current, James Tigerman Gallery, Chicago, IL
                  Ouragan Fuse Project, Installation, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Portland,OR
2001            Afferent Seam, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
                  The Paintings of Mincing Hewn, The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000            The Mapping of Shaped Hully, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR (color catalog)
1999            New Paintings, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
1998            The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997            Vita Gallery, Portland, OR
                  The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996            Vita Gallery, Portland, OR
1995            D.O.T. Northwest Gallery, Portland, OR
1994            D.O.T. Northwest Gallery, Portland, OR
1993            Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR
1985            Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
                  Hundred Waters Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981            Friction Gallery, Portland, OR


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007            Bird Show, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006            Beastiary, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2005            Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago,IL
                  Introductions 2, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
                  Portrait Show, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
                  Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
                  Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2004            Clown Show, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
                  Winter Group Show, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
                  Seattle Art Museum - Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003            SOFA, James Tigerman Gallery, Chicago, IL
                  Surface, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA, Curator: Erik Guttridge
2002            Sanctuary Show, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA, Curator: Dena Rigby
                  Shelter Show, Seattle Art Museum- Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001            Color Show, Seattle Art Museum- Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
                  Salem Art Association, Bush Barn Art Center, Bruce Gunther juror,
                  Salem, OR
2000            Good Drawings, Boundary Gallery, London, England
                  Introductions 2000, Seattle Art Museum- Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
                  PDXs to Quartersaw: Celebrating Sixteen Years, Quartersaw Gallery,
                  Portland, OR Winter Group Show, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
1999            The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
                  The Stick Invitational, L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
                  Art ‘99, Boundary Gallery, London, England
                  The Color of Dreams, Portland Waldorf School at Portland State University, Portland, OR
1998            Figurative Invitational, L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
                  Horizontal Show, Vita Gallery, Portland, OR
1997            The Garden Show, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Lutz Tire Building No.2,
                  Portland, OR, Curator: Victoria Beal Red Show, Vita Gallery, Portland, OR
1996            The Tool Show, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR,
                  Curator: Paul Arensmeyer Beach Party Show, Vita Gallery, Portland, OR
                  The Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
                  Juried Exhibit, Acanthus Gallery, Portland, OR
1995            Transformation: Farewell to D.O.T., D.O.T. Northwest Gallery,
                  Portland, OR
1993            Oregon College of Arts and Crafts-Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR
1992            Artquake, Portland, OR, Juror:  Anne Ayres
1990            Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1987            Pearl District Art Exhibition, Portland, OR
1985            First Invitational, Burnside Artists Workshop, Multnomah Arts Commission,
                  Portland, OR
1981            Group Show, Friction Gallery, Portland, OR
1979            Urban Framing & Fine Arts, Portland, OR


BENEFIT EXHIBITIONS
2006            Poncho, Seattle, WA
2005            Juried LIve Auction, Juror: John Buchanan (Portland Art Museum)
                  Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR (catalog)
                  Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Art on the Vine (catalog)
2004            Oregon College of Art & Crafts, Art on the Vine (catalog)
2002            March of Dimes, Thirteenth Annual Benefit,
                  Cascade AIDS Project 12th Annual Benefit, Weiden & Kennedy Building, Portland, OR
2001            Juried Live Auction, Cascade AIDS Project 11th Annual Benefit, Pacific            
                  Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR,
2000            Juried Live Auction, Cascade AIDS Project 10th Annual Benefit, Pacific
                  Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, Juror:  John Buchanan (Portland Art Museum)
1999            The Color of Dreams, Portland State University-Littman Gallery, Portland, OR (catalog)
                  A Decade of Passion, Portland French School, Portland, OR (catalog)
1998            Third Annual Dada Ball, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR 7th Annual
                  M.S. Spring Auction, Portland, OR
1997            Second Annual Dada Ball, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
                  Cascade AIDS Project 7th Annual Benefit, Saks Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR
1996            First Annual Dada Ball, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
                  Our House Art Auction, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
                  Cascade AIDS Project 6th Annual Benefit, Saks Fifth Avenue,
                  Portland, OR Transition Projects Inc., Portland, OR

COLLECTIONS
                  Smart Forest Ventures, Portland, OR
                  Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
                  EPIQ Systems, Inc. Kansas City, Kansas
                  Wellington Management Co., Singapore, Tokyo, London
                  Phillips Hogue, Esparto, CA. (Houge Winery label commission)
                  Dougherty, Petroff & Associates, Portland, OR
                  Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Portland, OR
                  Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, OR
                  Western Cedar, LLP Seattle, WA
                  Mohr Davidow Ventures, Seattle, WA
                  Mueller Design Inc. Los Angeles, CA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2005            Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, Portland OR (Painting used on card)
2002            Commission Painting for “Genesis” Wine Label, Phillips Hogue Winery, Esparto, CA.
                  Painting as a Visual Language, Wilson High School, Portland, OR, April,
                  Lecture/Presentation 
2000            Artists Resource Bank, Washington State Arts Commission-Art in Public Places Program,
                  Olympia, WA
1999            The Playground, Portland French School, Portland, OR, March, Lecture/Workshop Kite
                  Project-Problemsolving, Damascus Middle School, Damascus, OR, June.
                  Workshop Regional Arts Commission, selection panel member
1998            The O.D.S. Tower, Howard S. Wright Construction Co., Portland, OR, site- specific
                  painting series (temporary)           
                  An Evening with an Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

INTERNET
2002            Paintings and Biography at GenisisHogue.com, Exparto, CA
2000            Paintings available at NextMonet.com, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007            Artists to Watch - Ten Painters on the Rise in 2007, Gussie Fauntleroy & Bonnie
                  Gangelhoff, Southwest Art Magazine, pp 105
2006            No Longer on the Bubble, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, Portland, OR,
                  8 December, pp 39 & 41 KBOO Radio, “Art Focus”, hosted by Julie Bernard,
                  December Poiesis, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR exhibition catalog 
2005            Neologism, Art Access, September
2004            Ardent Cloud DVD, Dreamgarden Studio
2003            New American Paintings, Pacific Coast edition,  Juror: Anne Ellegood, Curator of the
                  Norton Family Foundation, New York City
                  Something to Prove, Jeff Jahn, Modern Painters, Spring issue
                  ATA Airlines inflight magazine, Fall Arts in Chicago,p 48
2002            KBOO Radio, “Art Focus”, hosted by Julie Bernard, October 24 
                  Oregon State Bar Bulletin ,” Profiles in the Law”, June,Volume 62,No.8,
                  p 19 The Corporate Collector, The Business Journal, Portland, OR, 15 February, p 70
2001            The Buzz that Was, The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 28 December, A&E,
                  p 8 Home Ideas, Better Homes and Gardens, Spring/Summer 2001
2000            Dennison on Dennison, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 15 August
                  The Mapping of Shaped Hully, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
                  (exhibition catalog)
                  The End of Victoria’s Era, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 4 June, pp F1-F8
                  Decision Marks the End of an Era, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 15 May, pp B1-B3
                  PICA: Open Walls, Michaela Lowthian, Willamette Week, Portland, OR, 17 May, p 79
1999            A Letter from the Land of Sadness, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 23 April,
                  A&E, p 58
                  A Decade of Passion, Portland French School, April (exhibition catalog)
1998            Seattle Weekly, Seattle, WA, 17 September
1997            New American Paintings, an exhibition in print, Open Studio Press,
                  Wellesley, MA no. 13, pp 36-7, 118Juror:
                  Clare Bell, Asst. Curator of Contemporary Art at the Soloman R.
                  Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Little Worlds,
                  Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, 19 December, A&E, p 60 Local, MD,
                  Mike Roberts, Untitled, Portland, OR,
                  March issue 27, pp N-Q Imagination is Funny...,
                  Ellen L. Boyer, Seattle Magazine, WA, October,
                  p 16 The Fountainhead, Art Access, Seattle, WA, October, vol 6, no.9
                  Kanjo’s Quandary: The Curator Tackles the Oregon Biennial Selections Herself,
                  Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, Portland, OR, E4
                  Cascade AIDS Project, Ourtown, Portland, OR, May
                  Matthew Dennison: Paintings 1997, Black Swan Video, Portland, OR
                  Vita Gallery, Cristin Corey, Ourtown, Portland, OR, 1 December
1996            Pleasure and Paint, D.K. Row, Willamette Week, Portland, OR,
                  23 December Matthew Dennison: Paintings 1996, Black Swan Video, Portland, OR
                  Fools for Tools, Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 10 May,
                  pp 17-18 Form Follows Function, Kevin Francis, Willamette Week, Portland, OR, 29
                  May. p 45
1995            Matthew Dennison at D.O.T. Northwest Gallery, Lois Allan, Reflex   Magazine, Seattle,
                  WA, July, vol. 9 no. 6, pp 6-7
                  Plazm, Portland, OR, July (illustrations)
                  Matthew Dennison: Paintings 1995, Black Swan Video, Portland, OR
1994            Plazm, Portland, OR, April (illustrations)
1981            Art Group Defies Conventions, Joe Uris, The Oregonian, Portland, 20 November, p G4