Born 1964 Seattle, Washington

Education
1999
MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College/ University of London.

1989
BFA in painting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

National Awards

2006
Gap Grant award

2001
International Residencies for Artists Grant

2000
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship

1996
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship

1995
Art Matters, Inc. New York Grant

1994
Travel Grant for MacDowell Residency

Local Awards

2006
Office of Arts and Culture purchase
4 Culture purchase award

2004
Betty Bowen Award (Seattle Art Museum)
Artist Trust – Fellowship Award
The Stranger Genius Award

2001
Seattle Collects – Purchase Award, Seattle Arts Commission

2000
Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award (Seattle Art Museum)
PONCHO Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Fine Arts

1992
Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant

1991
King County Arts Commission Gallery Grant

Residencies
2001
Vivienda Santa Iria, Penedo, Portugal

1995
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA

1994
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

Solo Exhibitions
2007
"Iampayingattention", Howard House, Seattle, WA
"Sin", Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2006
"The Lucky Ones", PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2004
"Wonderland", Howard House, Seattle, WA
"Apparent Horizon", PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Material Evidence: Artists Revisit Process, Curated by Ginger Gregg-Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox for the Bellevue Art Museum.

2003
PICA wall project, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2002
"Tetris Drawings and Other New Work", PDX Gallery, Portland, OR
"Acts of Drawing", Howard House, Seattle, WA

2000-01
"Borg Drawings-Resistance is Futile", Howard House, Seattle, WA

1996, 94, 92, 91
Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
New Work, PDX Contemporary Art, OR

2007
"As it Seems" curated by Pamela Meridith for Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
"Deceptively Simple", Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
"Circle Triangle Square", The Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA

2006
"Over and Over: Passion for Process" Austin Museum of Art, TX
"Take the Cake, the Stranger Genius Retrospective, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Paper Trails", Howard House, Seattle, WA
"Swallow Harder- Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection", Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2005
"Unexpected Watercolors", The Art Gym/Marylhurst University, curated by Terri Hopkins and Trude Parkinson
"Infrastructure", Voltaire Space, London, England
Over & Over, Krannert Art Museum and The Addison Gallery, Andover, MA, curated by Judith Hoos Fox & Ginger Duggan
Group Show, Sun Valley Arts Center, Sun Valley, ID

2003
"Out of Site - Fictional Architectural Spaces", Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2002
Drawing Center, New York, Selections, Benefit Show
"Cheap Thrills", The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Multiplex at Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA. Curated by Michael Van Horn

2001
"LineFormColor", Howard House, Seattle, WA
"12 Views", The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Abstracts on Paper and Mixed Media, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2000
"Ways of Living", Tablet Gallery, London, England

1999-2000
"Drawing Space", Curated by Beth Sellars at the Suyama Space, Seattle, WA

1999
"Air Hockey", Howard House, Seattle, WA
Goldsmiths College, 1999 MA show, London, England
Way of Living II, Paris, France
Way of Living, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, Curated by Rozalind Drummond

1998
"Insignificants", Malmo, Sweden
"Officeworld", London, England. Curated by Karolyn Hatton
"International Velvet", London, England
"Flashpoint", The Globe Gallery, Tyne and Wear, England

1996
"New Abstractions", Seattle Art Museum, Rental Sales Gallery, curated by Barbara Shaiman
"Drawings, by Beffel, Chambers, Haven, Jones, Martenson, & Millett", Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA

1995
"Abstraction = Representation. (10 Northwest artists)", Open Space Gallery, Victoria BC, Canada. Curated by Matthew Kangas

1994
"Contrari-wise Painting", The SPACE Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Steve LaRose

1992
"Sign of the Cross", Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
"Seattle Invitational – Here Today", Security Pacific Gallery. Curated by Chase Rynd, Director, collaboration with Gail Grinnell

1991
Peterkirk Gallery, Kirkland, WA. Juried by Carole Fuller and Sean Elwood of Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle
Visage, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA.Curated by Juan Alonso
"Five Artists / Five Walls", King County Arts Commission Gallery, Seattle, WA

1990
Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, curated by Benny Andrews

1988
Blake Gallery, Seattle, WA

Selected Bibliography

2008
Suzanne Beal, Victoria Haven at the Frye Art Museum and Howard House, Art in America, March

2007
Craig Brownson, An Infinite but Invisible Center, The Stranger, June 27th
Nate Lippens, Abstraction takes on Fresh Dimensions in Haven's 'Iampayingattention', Seattle P-I, June 28th

2006
Rivet Magazine, featured insert, volume 17
Grant Mandarino, Swallowing Seattle, Artnet.com, March 30th

2005
Art in America, September

2004
Emily Hall, Review of Wanderland, ArtForum, Dec, 2004, p. 201
Nate Lippens, Victoria Haven, An Artist Between Dimensions, The Stranger
Mathew Kangas, Landscapes, and the Terrain of the Body, Seattle Times, October 8th
Victoria Haven's Knife draws a singular 'Wonderland', Seattle P-I, October 1st
New American Paintings, Juried-Exhibition in Print, No. 49, Juror: Anne Ellegood, The Norton Family Foundation, New York, NY

2002
Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces (New Museum of Contemporary Art) Essays by Anne Ellegood, Mark Wigley and Rhonda Lane Howard
11/28 – 12/4/02; The Stranger, (Architecture: The Final Frontier)
11/1/02; Shiela Farr, (Review of Acts of Drawing, at Howard House), The Seattle Times

2000
12/14-20; The Stranger, Impossible Objects, page 45

1999
12/9; Seattle Weekly, p. 93
12/16; The Stranger, Bio, Victoria Haven
12/9; The Stranger, Shapely Art: Simple tools, page 41
11/11; The Seattle Times, Drawing the Lines, page 26
March: Art Access.com, Victoria Haven: Finding More than Meets the Eye

1996
New American Paintings, juried by Jenny Blessing (Guggenheim Museum), volume I, Number VI

1995
4/20; Seattle Post Intelligencer, Artworks for Aids show review

1994
May; New Art Examiner, Contrari-wise Painting

1993
July/Aug.; Reflex Magazine

1992
July 23; Willamette Week
June 15; The Seattle Times
June 3; Seattle Weekly
May 19; Seattle Post Intelligencer

1991
May; Reflex Magazine
April; The Arts Magazine

1990
October 12; The Seattle Times

Private Commissions

2007
Westlake/Terry Project, Seattle, WA

1999
Robert Ryman, New York, NY (wall drawing installation for private home)

1993
Talbot/Hagen Corporation, Bellingham, WA (Three 60 X 48 paintings for permanent collection)

Selected Collections

Washington State University
Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection
Amgen
Henry Art Gallery
4 Culture, King County
City of Seattle - Portable Works
Great Northern Annuities, Seattle, WA
Talbot/Hagen Corporation, Bellingham, WA
SAFECO Collection, Seattle, WA

Professional Activities

2006
Juror for Seattle Art Museum Annual Award
Lecturer and visiting critic at Central Washington University

2005
visiting critic at Cornish College of the Arts

2002 November
Out of Site panel discussion with Anne Ellegood, Adam Ross, Jason Rogenes, Rhonda Howard
Multi-Perspectives and Careening Order, Lecture at Henry Art Gallery

2001 Spring
Nominating Committee for the Ned Behnke (Neddy) Award in Painting

1996 July
Contemporary Arts council / Seattle Art Museum, Programming Committee

1996 May
GAP Grant Juror for Artist Trust of Washington

1995 November
Juror for Rogue River College Gallery, Northwest Annual Show

1994-97
Washington State Artist Trust Auction Committee

1995 Spring
Center on Contemporary Art – Seattle, Programming Committee

1993 June
Juror for the Women's Information Center – Cunningham Gallery, University of Washington