Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
Close to the Ground, PDX, Portland, OR
The Properties of Paint, Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, OR

2006
Sun Spots, PDX, Portland, OR
Rain, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
Magic Valley, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2005
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
PDX, Portland, OR

2004
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN

2003
Romantic Landscape, PDX, Portland, OR
New Camp, Grover Thurston, Seattle, WA
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2002
Intersections II, PDX, Portland, OR
Intersections, Maryhill Museum of Art

2001
Retrospective, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000
Abstracts, PDX, Portland,OR
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999
Abstracts, PDX, Portland, OR
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

1998
PDX, Portland, OR
Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA
Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

1997
PDX, Portland, OR
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

1995
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1993
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1992
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Wentz Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

1991
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

1990
Cliff Michel Gallery, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, OR
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Boise Art Museum, ID

1988
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1986
C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis
Carnegie Center for the Arts, Walla Walla, WA

1984
Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA

1983
Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA

1982
Oregon State Governors Office, Salem, OR
Visual Arts Resources/Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Landscapes and Interiors: James Lavadour (traveled)

1981
Visual Arts Resources, Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007
Off-the-Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination, Smithsonian Institute National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY (catalogue)
18 Painters, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR

2005
Into the Fray: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Next, PDX, Portland, OR
Site Unseen: A Contemporary Look at Landscape, Savannah Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
A Sense of Place: Selections from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
New Tradition Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture, Art Train USA, Ann Arbor, MI (traveling USA by rail)

2004
Wood Work, J.G. Contemporary, New York, NY
Seattle Perspective, Seattle Convention Center, City of Seattle Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
The Grand View: Brierstadt to Brophy, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Clatsop Community College, Astoria, Oregon.

2003
2003 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Extreme Landscape, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Selections from the Elwood Collection, Artcher Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Northwest Masters, City Space, City of Seattle Portlable Works Collection, Seattle, WA

2001
The Beta Press Collection: A Decade in the Northwest, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Indian Time Millennial Project, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM
From Benton to Bartlet: Recent Acquisitions, Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA

2000
Physical Manifestations, PDX, Portland, OR

1999
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

1998
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Contemplating Eternity.
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington. Redefining Tradition: First Nations Artists and Their Work.
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. Gathered Into Earth: Contemporary Landscape Painting
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2nd International Triennial of Graphic Art Inter-Kontakt-Grafik Prague ‘98, Czech Republic. THE LABYRINTH: Visions and interpretations of the Eternal Myth in Contemporary Art.
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Twentieth Anniversary of the Betty Bowen Artist Award.
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID. A Common Thread.

1997
The High Desert Museum, Bend, OR, Rising from Tradition.

1996
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century (traveled to New Zealand): Museum of New Zealand, Wellington; Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganni; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland; Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch; Wailato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton.

1996-98
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Rediscovering the landscape of the Americas (traveled): Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Western Art Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.

1996
The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Romance of the Land: Native Northwest Visions
Mairie du Sixieme Arrondissement de Paris, France Twenty five American Print Artists: La Jeune Gravure
Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis Native Papers: Joe Fedderson, James Lavadour, Kay Walkingstick, Phil Young
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1995
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

1994
American Indian Contemporary Arts, From The Earth X, San Francisco, CA

1993
Jan Baum gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Sacred and the Profane
Portland Art Museum, 1993 Biennial.

1992
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National gallery of Canada (traveled): Mackenzie Art gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA Crossing Over/Changing Places: Artists and Collaborators (traveled): Anderson Gallery, Virginian Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, WA Decolonizing of the Mind.
Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA The Betty Bowen Legacy: Fourteen Years of Award Winning Art
The Gallery at Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Princeton, NJ MASTER PRINTS from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking: The First Five Years

1991
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ Shared Visions native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century (traveled): The Eirejorg Museum of American History and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN; The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of the American History and Art, Tulsa,OK; The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, The Customs House, New York, NY
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK Northwest Tales: Contemporary Narrative Painting.

1990
Security Pacific Corp. Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Undiminished Landscape
Museum of the Desert, Palm Springs, CA NORTHWEST x SOUTHWEST: PAINTED FICTIONS (traveled): Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ Celebrated Selections
Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA Tradition and Spirit: Contemporary Native American Art
Windhorse Gallery, Seattle, WA
Walters Hall Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ Printed in America

1989
Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, WA Roll on Columbia: Historic and Contemporary Landscapes of the Columbia River Gorge
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Figurative Show

1988
Seattle Art Museum, Washington Crossed Cultures: Five Contemporary native Northwest Artists
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA Artists of the Blue Mountains: 1910-1988
Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR Non-Objective Landscape

1987
Seattle Art Museum, Washington Northwest ‘87
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ Recent Generations: Native American Art 1910-1987
Portland Art Museum, Oregon New Directions Northwest: Contemporary Native American Art
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA Beyond Blue Mountains: A Traveling Collection of Contemporary Native American Artworks (traveled)
Read/Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX Contemporary Visions: Fifteen Native American Artists
Stremmel Galleries, Reno, NV Native American Art: Our Contemporary Visions

1986
Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR The Artist Interprets the landscape
Oregon Pavilion, Expo '86, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Oregon Artist Exhibition
Eastern Oregon State College, La Grande, OR Artist of Eastern Oregon on Tour (traveled)
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Northwest Now
Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA Oregon Artists Show

1984
Seattle Center House, Washington Seattle Urban League: Minority Artist Show
Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland No Beads No Trinkets: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Indian Artist
Elizabeth Leach gallery, Portland, OR
Touchstone Gallery, Spokane, WA Contemporary Native American Art
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ Innovations: New Expression in Native American Painting

1983
Portland Art Museum, Oregon 1983 Oregon Biennial
Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA Indian Artists of the 1980's

Selected Catalogs and Books

Helper, Vicki James Lavadour: Landscapes 2001, Northwest Museum of Art & Culture, Spokane, WA
Allen, Lois Contemporary Art in the North West Copyright 1995, Craftsman House G + B Arts International
Archurlera, Margaret Shared Visions: Native American painters and Sculptors in the 20th Century The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 1991
Brodsky, Judith Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Creative Printmaking: The First 5 Years The Gallery at Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, 1992
Chelette, Iona et al NORTHWEST X SOUTHWEST: PAINTED FICTIONS Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA 1990
Evens, Linda E. The Undiminished Landscape Security Pacific Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1990
Farmer, Jane Crossing Over/Changing Places: An Exhibition of Collaborative Print Projects and Paperworks The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1992
Longfish, George et al New Directions Northwest Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 1987
Nemelroff, Diane land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1992
Penney, David/Longfish George Native American Art Copyright 1994, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc.
Roberts, Prudence Northwest Viewpoints: James Lavadour Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 1990
Rynd, Chase W. The Betty Bowen Legacy: Fourteen Years of Award-Winning Art Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 1992
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Gallery of Canada National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1992
Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art Copyright 1994 Prentice-Hall Inc. a Simon & Schuster Co.
A World of Art. Edition: 2 ISBN: 0134760115, Copyright 1997 Prentice-Hall Inc. a Simon & Schuster Co.
Sims, Patterson Crossed Cultures: Five Contemporary Native Northwest Artists Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1989
Spanbauer, Tom L'homme qui tomba amourux de la lune/The Man ho ell in Love With the Moon (cover) 1994 Editions Stock pour la traduction francaise
Zevitas, Steven T. New American Paintings: a quarterly exhibition Open Studios Press, vol. 1, No. VI, Spring 1996

Selected Bibliography
Row, D.K. “Art Review: James Lavadour at Hallie Ford,” Oregonian, January 30, 2008
Cowan, Ron “Artistic Cataclysm:Exhibit at Hallie Ford Showcases the Talent of Painter James Lavadour,” Statesman Journal, February 10, 2008
Murry, Terry “Letting the Paint Speak,” The East Oregonian, February 10, 2008
Fogarty, Mark, Landscapes of the imagination featured in new exhibit, Indian Country Today, March 14, 2007
Bovee, Katherine, James and Joey Lavadour at PDX, PORT, September 2, 2006
Row, David, Master of the picturesque, A & E, The Oregonian, August 25, 2006
Jahn, Jeff, What to see?, PORT, August 2006
Dirks, Ryan, Visual Arts, Portland Mercury, March 17, 2005
Row, D.K., A&E Shows of Note, The Oregonian, Friday March 4, 2005
Portland Life, Portland Tribune, March 1, 2005
Genocchio, Benjamin. Landscapes That Push The Boundaries, The New York Times. Sunday, September 14, 2003.
Van Dongen, Susan. An Exhibit at the Printmaking Council Captures Native American Imagery and Mythology. PacketOnline. October 11. 2003.
Atiyeh, Meagan, The Organ, Vol. 1, Issue 2, November/December 2002. page 3
Row, D.K. Lavadour on Lavadour, The Oregonian, November 9, 2000
Duford, Daniel. The Deep Interior,Willamette Week, August 1999
Row, D.K. The lay of his land, The Oregonian, September,1998
Gragg, Randy. Ascending past regionalism The Oregonian, September,1997
Row, D.K. Native Fire, Willamette Week, October,1997
Smith, Tracy . James Lavadour at PDX, Art in America, March 1997
Allen, Lois. Looking at the Land , Artweek, August 12, 1990
Grounded in Oregon: Nature and Culture as the Local Ethnology in Portland. VISIONS, vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 30-32, Spring 1992
Crow's Shadow, a Foundation for Art at the Umatilla Reservation, Artweek, August 20, 1992, vol. 23, No. 22
Anderson, David Charles; Innovations: New Expression in Native American Painting, Artspace, Spring 1984
Barden, Renardo. Visual Arts: James Lavadour at Elizabeth Leach, Willamette Week, July, 1988
Land Forms, Willamette Week, August 12, 1990
Berger, David. Crossed Cultures, Seattle Times, April 12, 1989
Berkson, Bill. The Northwest Art Scene, Art in America, vol. 74, No. 7, July/September, 1986
Bryant, Elizabeth. James Lavadour: Anatomy of a Landscape. Reflex, vol. 4, No. 5, September, 1990
Carlson, Jay. Amoral landscape: James Lavadour at Elizabeth Leach, Reflex, vol. 2, No. 5, September, 1988
Chambers, Lori. Lasting Impressions, Rutgers Magazine, vol. 75, No. 5, Spring 1995.
Selected Works of Famous American Printmakers. Chinese Printmaking Magazine, No. 12, ISSN 1005-0787, 1997
Cohn, Terri. Conquistadors of the Void, Artweek, April, 1998
Dana, Gail. Waiting for the Muse, Willamette Week, February, 1989
Failing, Patricia. Sex, Landscape, and Videotapes: The Pacific Northwest, ARTnews, vol. 90, No. 10, December, 1991
Fiedler, Nadine; Spirit Negatives: James Lavadour at Wentz Gallery, PNCA/Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Reflex, vol. 7, No. 1, January/February, 1993
Gibson, Daniel; James Lavadour, Alchemist of Light,Native Peoples Arts & Lifeways, vol. XIII, Sept./Oct. 2000
Glowen, Ron; Review of Exhibitions: James Lavadour at Cliff Michel, Seattle, Art in America, vol. 78, No. 6, December, 1990
Gragg, Randy; James Lavadour: Merging Man and Nature, Oregonian, July 15, 1990
Presence as Absence: James Lavadour at the Oregon Art Institute, Artweek, San Francisco, September, 1990
James Lavadour's Mountain View Northwest Magazine/Portland Oregonian, November 26, 1989
Hackett, Regina; Crossed Cultures, Seattle Post Intelligencer, April 12, 1989
Kangas, Matthew; Un-representative Samplings: Northwest ‘87, The Seattle Weekly, August/September, 1987
Manuel, Bruce; Art Spawned by a Clash of Cultures, Christian Science Monitor, June 12, 1989
Nixon, Bruce; Contemporary Landscape Painting, Artweek, vol. 23, No. 23, September 3, 1992
Northwest Now: Tacoma Art Museum, Artweek, April 1986
Parr, Debra; Reviews: Native Paper: Gallery 210, University of Missouri, New Art Examiner, Vol. 24, No. 8, May, 1997
Row, D. K. ; Native Fire, Willamette Week, Vol. 29, No. 48, September 17, 1997
Jackson, Rushing W.; Recent Native American Art, Art Journal, vol. 51, No. 3, Fall 1992
Contingent Histories, Aesthetic Politics, New Art Examiner, vol. 20, No. 7, March 1993
Spirits in Time: Portfolio. Oregon Magazine, February/March 1987
Smallwood, Lyn; Reviews: James Lavadour at Cliff Michel, Seattle ARTnews, vol. 90, No. 1, January, 1991
Landscapes of the Mind Seattle Weekly, May 16, 1990
Smith, Tracy; James Lavadour at PDX, Art in America, March 1997
Strickland, Rennard; Shared Visions- Part III, Native Peoples Magazine, vol. 5, No. 2, Winter, 1992
Tarzan-Ament, Deloris; The Seattle Times, May 14, 1990
Updike, Robin Galleries: From landscapes, Artistic Inspiration. The Seattle Times, Feb. 18, 1997.
Watson, Scott; Whose Nation?, Canadian Art, vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1993
Whittemore, L.I. ; On Home Ground, The Oregonian, August 16, 1991

Selected Awards, Fellowships, & Commissions

2005
Eiteljorg Museum, Artist Fellowship, Indianapolis, IN
Commission, Ashforth Pacific Inc., Portland, OR

2004
Award for Visual Arts, Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA

2002
Oregon Arts Commission, North Mall Office Building, Salem, OR

1999
Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, Eastern Oregon University
Public Art Project. Washington State Football/Soccer Stadium and Exhibition Center Project, Seattle, WA

1998
1998 Joan Mitchell Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY

1994
1994 Oregon Governor's Arts Award, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR

1991
Betty Bowen Memorial Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum, Washington

1990
Fellowship to the Rutgers Center for the Innovative Print Making Rutgers, The University of New Jersey, New Brunswick,1989

1989
Northwest Major Works Award, Seattle Arts Commission, Washington

1987
Art in Public Places, Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA

1986
Oregon Arts Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR

1985
Art in Public Places, Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
Pendleton Arts Council, OR, Artist Advocate Project (sponsored to paint for one year)

1983
Art in Public places, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA

1982
Public Art Project. Washington State Arts Commission. Olympia, WA

1981
Artist in Schools Program, Eastern Oregon Regional Art Council, La Grande, OR

1980
Artist in Residence, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon

Collections

Bank of America Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Boise Art Museum, Idaho
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian reservation, Pendleton, OR
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA
Frank Russell & Company, Tacoma, WA
Gilkey Print Center, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR
Heathman Management Corporation, Portland, OR
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Hilton Corporation, Portland, OR
Jane Voorhess Zimmerlie Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
MicroSoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Pacific Northwest Bell Corporation, Seattle, WA
Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portable Works Collection, Multnomah County, Oregon
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Seattle Arts Commission, Washington
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Seattle Seahawks Stadium
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia
Western Heritage Savings and Loan, Pendleton, OR
West One Bank Corporation, Portland, OR
University of Oregon Library, Eugene, OR
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
U.S. Department of Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Washington D.C.

Community Art Services

1990 - present
Crow's Shadow Institute for the Arts: Founder, past president and current board member. Located on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Pendleton, OR