MATTHEW DENNISON
BORN
1961 Portland, Oregon USA
EDUCATION
1981-2 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Mutualism, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Permutation, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR (Color Catalog)
Rendition and Ideation, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2007 Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
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
2008 Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2007 Green is the New Black, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
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
2009 Lecture/Presentation on Art Process, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Art Lecture, Lincoln High School, Portland, OR
2008 Lecture/Presentation, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
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
2008 Permutation (Film) You Tube
Controlled Chaos (Film) You Tube
2007 Unscripted Inventions (Film) You Tube
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, 118 Juror:
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
