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Ellen Garvens | elgarv@u.washington.edu
www.ellengarvens.com
1987 M.F.A. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1979 B.F.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Solo Exhibitions
2002 Held Still, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
FotoFest Interntional, 1113 Vine Street, Houston TX
2001 Humboldt State University First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
2000 Arts Festival 2000, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1997 Kitteridge Gallery at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
1994 The Art Museum at the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
1993 Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Spaces Gallery, Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH
1990 Ohio Selections, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH
1989 Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
1985 New Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Ruth Ramberg Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1984 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
UNM Experimental Theatre, Installation/Performance, Albuquerque, NM
1983 Albuquerque First National Bank, Changing Installation, Albuquerque, NM
1982 AUA Downtown Center for the Arts, Installation-Performance, Albuquerque, NM
1982 Photogenesis Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1981 Wisconsin Union Theatre Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1980 American Cultural Center, Yaoundé, Cameroon, West Africa
1979 Three-Dimensinal Drawings, Susan Kohn Gallery, St. Paul, MN (2 person show)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Contemporary Northwest Women Phtographers, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2002 Fugitive Testimony, Solomon Fine Art, Seattle, WA
1999 Northwest Bookfest Book Arts Exhibition, Convention Center, Seattle, WA
1998 Women in Media Arts, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
1997 Ellen Garvens and Shawn Brixey, University of Washington Jacob Lawrence Gallery,
Seattle, WA
1996 Certain Uncertainties: Chaos and the Human Experience, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (show included works by Joseph Cornell, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Aaron Siskin, John Pfahl, Frederick Sommer
1995 New Faculty Artists, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington School ofArt, SeattleWA
1994 Making Pictures, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ
FotoFest V, The Global EnvironmentThe Fifth International Festival of Photography, Houston, TX (show included works by Toshio Shibata,Peter Goin, Barbara Norfleet, Patrick Nagatani)
1993 In Camera, Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico, curated by Eugenia Parry Janis, Santa Fe, NM; traveling(show included works by Diane Arbus, Bill Brandt, Brassi, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Sophie Calle, Tina Barney, Adam Fuss, Lee Friedlander)
Off The Wall, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
(show included works by Bill Barrett, Connie Hatch, John Schlesinger)
New York/New Mexico, Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1992 Summer Group Exhibition, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Contemporary Visions: Northern Ohio, Images Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
At One/At War With Nature, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and Schafler Gallery,Pratt Institute, NY(show included works by John Baldessari, Nancy Burson, Joel Peter Witkin)
Summer Group Show, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
Approaches to Drawing, Stark Campus Art Gallery, Kent State University, Canton OH
Annual Acquisition Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1990 American Art Today; New Directions, curated by Dahlia Morgan, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (show included works by Sabina Ott, Elaine Reichek, Jennifer Bolande, Suzanne Bocanegra)
Constructed Spaces, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University and Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA
Highlights, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Alcan-Lavalin Aluminum in Art Exhibition, Alcan-Lavalin Co., Montreal, Quebec, Canada (show included works by Robert Roshenberg, Frank Stella, Magdalena Abakanowicz)
Fantasies, Fables, and Fabrications: Photo-works from the 1980's, University of Massachusetts Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA; traveling to:

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Andover, MA
University of Missouri, Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oostende, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy
(show included works by John Balessari, Chuck Close, Jo Ann Callis, Cindy Sherman, David Hockney, Robert Heinekin, Joyce Niemanus, Joel Peter Witkin)

1988 New Photography, R. H. Love Gallery, Chicago, IL
Photography on the Edge, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI(show included works by Eileen Cowin, Hope Sandrow, Starn Twins, Sandy Skogland, Laurie Simmons, Andy Warhol, Joel Peter Witkin)
1987 Poetic Injury, the Surrealist Legacy in Post Modern Photography, Alternative Museum, New York, NY (show included works by Lucas Samaras, Barbara Ess, Duane Michaels, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Willian Wegman, Arthur Tress, Krzysztof Wodiczko)
Drawing Toward Black, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY (show included works by Sue Coe, Arnulf Rainer, Richard Serra, Joseph Nechvatal)
1986 Extended Time, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
The Dividing Line — Defining Space, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Words and Images,Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies,,Los Angeles, CA
1984 Sound-Off, University of New Mexico Experimental Theatre, Installation and Performance, Albuquerque, NM
Signature, University of New Mexico Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1982 Intentional Wanderings, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Publications (articles and reviews)
2001 Batchen, Geoffrey, Each Wild Idea, Pages 111-114 , The MIT Press.
1999 Batchen, Geoffrey, Pondering Criticism, Creative Camera, reproduction. Dec 1999.
Constructing Intelligibility, SF Camerawork, Vol 26 No.2 Fall Winter 99, pg. 5. Reproduction
Batchen, Geoffrey. From Genre to Generic, Art on Paper, Jan Feb 99, p.48 reproduction
1998 Batchen, Geoffrey. Ellen Garvens Morphic Resonance, Creative Camera, Oct/Nov, London England. Pages 30 –35
1995 Messer, William. FotoFest , The New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL. March. reproduction
Brown, Peter. From the Edge- Images of the World, SPOT, Houston Center for Photography, spring issue, Houston, TX
1993 Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice, The Village Voice, New York, NY, March 9
Schwabsky, Barry. New York Reviews, Sculpture, Washington, DC, July-August, Vol. 12, No. 4, p. 54, b&w reproduction
1992 Photographs at Spaces, Cleveland Plain Dealer, May
1991 Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice, The Village Voice, New York, NY, August 13, p. 100
1991 Handy, Ellen. Photography’s History/History’s Photography: Some Art Today and It’s Sources, Photography Center Quarterly #48, “Stealing From the Past,” Vol. 12, No. 3 1991, CPW, Woodstock, NY, p. 16 & 18, reproduction
1990 Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice, The Village Voice, New York, NY, January 9, color reproduction.
1990 Mahoney, Robert. New York Reviews, Arts Magazine, New York, NY, March
1990 Wise, Kelly. When Photographers Create Their Own Fictional Worlds, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, April 21
1989 Carroll, Charles Francis, Photo Explorations of the ’80s, The Valley Advocate, MA, October 16
1986 Grundberg, Andy. Critics’Choices, New York Times, New York, NY, June
Review, Photo Japan, July
1985 Zwinger, Susan. Black is Beautiful, The Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe, NM, November 29
Publications (catalogues books)
2000 Fontanel, Humboldt State University, Eureka, CA
1997 Contact Print, Artist Book, Fong and Fong Printers, Sacramento CA
1994 FotoFest, The Fifth International Festival of Photography, Houston, TX
1991 American Art Today: New Directions , Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, FL
1989 Fantasies, Fables and Fabrications: Photo-works from the 1980's, text by Trevor Richardson and Michael Coblyn , University of Massachusetts Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
Artluminum, text by Rudi MeyerAlcan-Lavalin Co., Montreal, Canada
1988 Photography on the Edge, text by Curtis Carter,The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
1987 Poetic Injury, the Surrealist Legacy in Post Modern Photography, text by Rosalind Krauss, Roger Denson, Suzaan Boettger, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Grants, Honors
2000 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship ($5,500)
1997 Artist Trust Project Grant, Artist Trust Seattle, WA ($1200)
1996 Royalty Research Fund Grant, University of Washington ($22,000)
1990 Oberlin College H.C. Powers Travel Grant for research in Egypt ($8,000)
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, Washington, DC ($5,000)
1979
1980
Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship for independent research in Cameroon, Africa ($18,000)
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Teaching Affiliation
1994- Associate Professor of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1990-
1994
Assistant Professor of Art, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH