Curator of Photography, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Awards and Fellowships

2007
Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, American Masters Initiative, a $60,000.00 challenge grant in support of the Northwest Photography Series

2006
Acadia Summer Arts Program A.S.A.P. Residency, Bar Harbor, ME

2003
Acadia Summer Arts Program A.S.A.P. Residency, Bar Harbor, ME

2001
Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts, Pasadena, CA
Joshua Tree National Park Artist in Residence Fellowship, Joshua Tree, CA
The Governor’s Arts Awards in Oregon (brochure), Salem, OR

2000
Regional Arts and Culture Council Visual Artist Fellowship, Portland, OR

Exhibitions
2009
New Works, PDX, Portland, OR

2007
Hawaii to the Owyhee: A Bird's Eye View, PDX, Portland, OR

2006
The Roots of Clouds - Transcendence of Stone, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
A Sense of Place – Environmental Art, Columbia Art Gallery, Hood River, OR

2005
Next, PDX, Portland, OR
Photographs of Columbia River Basalt, Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, WA
Places, Pieces, and Hidden Histories, PDX, Portland, OR
Retrospective, Pendleton Art Center, Pendleton, OR
Around Oregon, 2005, Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR.
Geographies of the Same Stone, PDX, Portland, OR
Building – Tradition, an opening exhibition of the new Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
Touring exhibition: The Land Through A Lens - Highlights from the Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., catalog by Andy Grundberg.

2002
Sightseers and Sites Unseen, Northview Gallery, Portland Community College,
Sylvania Campus, Portland, Oregon.
Terry Toedtemeier - Photographs of Central Oregon and Points East and West,
Pinckney Center for the Arts, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon

2001
Northwest Narrative, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Between Light and Shadow: ; Photographs and Prints from the Gary Bettis Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

2000
Landforms From Molten Rock, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Invasive Basalt: Northern Oregon Coastal Headlands, PDX, Portland, OR
Physical Manifestation, PDX, Portland, OR

1999
Oregon Photographers: Oregon Landscapes, Northview Gallery, Portland Community College Sylvania, Portland, OR
Seeing Through Photography, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA

1998
Photographs by Terry Toedtemeier, The Oregon Committee for the Humanities, Portland, Oregon
The Collection of Richard and Judith Smooke, The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
Here and Now, Tidbit Gallery, Portland, OR
Nowhere Special, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1997
Pratt Museum, Homer AK
Recent Work, Dana Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula
Portland: Black and White, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

1996
Basalt Exposures, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
Basalt Exposures, Washington State University Museum of Art

1995
Basalt Exposures (a 15 year retrospective of 100 photographs), The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR
Selected Works, 1983-1995, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Crossing Borders: Challenging Ecological Thinking, The University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

1994
Regional Landscape Photography, S. K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, OR
High Desert Photographs, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
r.e., place, an Exhibition of Site-Oriented Contemporary Landscape Photography, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
East Coast/West Coast Photo Invitational, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Public Encounters - Selections from the State of Oregon’s Percent for Art Collection, A. N. Bush Gallery, Salem, OR

1993
Central Washington Museum of Art, Wenatchee, WA
West to the Oregon Territory, Maryhill Museum, Maryhill, WA

1992
Basalt Exposures, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Spirit of the West, curated by Tommy Griffin, Dennis O’Leary, Vicki Halper, and John Weber
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, touring exhibition organized by the National Museum of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.
Recent Work, Governor’s office, Oregon State Capitol, Salem, OR
Recent Work, Gallery of the art department of Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, OR

1991
Recent Work, Wentz Gallery, The Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
New Visions, Photographs of the contemporary Western Landscape,Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
The University of Oregon Museum of Art, Photography at Oregon Gallery annual auction & exhibition, Eugene, OR
1990
Barbara Fealy’s Gardens, invitational exhibition; catalog, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR
Contributing Artist: The Oregon Art Community, 1839-1989, The Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
Northwest Photographic Invitational, Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
Contemporary American Photography in the Soviet Union, invitational, exhibition touring Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Moscow, and Minsk. Organized by Jeffrey Kramer in cooperation with the Photographic Art Society of Lithuania

1989
The Columbia Gorge, gallery of the Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Invitational Exhibition, Timberline Lodge, Oregon
The Columbia Gorge, Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill, WA

1988
Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
Recent Work of Four Faculty Members of PNCA, Wentz Gallery of the Oregon Art
Institute, Portland, OR
Photographs of the Columbia Gorge, The Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
Road and Roadside: American Photographs, 1930-1986, curated by Russ Harris and Rhodal McKinney, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1987
America’s Uncommon Places: The Blessings of Liberty, group exhibition of sites from the National Register of Historic Places, curated by Eric Paddock, The Museum Gallery of the Sumner School
Blue Sky Gallery, group exhibition

1986
Columbia River Gorge, Vollum Art Center, Reed College, Portland, OR
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Blue Sky, Portland, OR
Artist Interprets the Landscape, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

1985
Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR, group exhibition
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman, College, Walla Walla, WA, one person show
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, group exhibition

1981-1984
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

1981
Wentz Gallery, The Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR

1980
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, invitational group exhibition
Eight Portland Photographers, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1979
Columbia Gallery of Photography, Columbia Missouri
Regional Photography and Printmaking, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
The Image Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, group exhibition

1978
The Image Center for Photography, Arahus, Denmark, one person exhibition of infrared photographs
Rice University, Houston, TX
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, touring exhibition organized by
Blue Sky Gallery
The White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR

1977
University of Pennsylvania, University Park, PA
The Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR group exhibition organized by Bill Hoppe
The Stanford Art Museum, Stanford CA, group exhibition

1976
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Blue Sky, Portland, OR

1975
Blue Sky, Portland, OR

Essays and Publications

2007
The Soul Remains - A Mineralogical Account of the Remarkable Transformation of the Cremation Canisters at the Oregon State Hospital, an essay on the photography of David Maisel prepared for the publication Library of Dust to be released in late 2007 by Chronicle Books, San Francisco.

Still Life: Objects, Apprehensions, and the Photography of Dianne Kornberg, an essay for the exhibition catalogue: Field Notes – Photographs by Dianne Kornberg, 1992-2007, the Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR

2006
Rock Stories, essay and photographs in Roots of Clouds – Transcendence of Stones, Boyden, Boyden, and Toedtemeier; Donald H. Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, in cooperation with Crab Quill Press
Photography’s Love Child: The Origins of the Snapshot, essay in Snapshot Chronicles, Princeton Architectural Press and The Reed Institute DBA Reed College

2005
Ian Boyden and ‘Meditations on the Breath of Trees’, exhibition brochure, Pendleton Art Center, Pendleton, OR
Exhibition brochure: The Power of Toys and the Emperor Reincarnate: The Art of Jim Riswold, at Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
Photography, Beauty and Change in the Columbia River Gorge: The First 50 Years, Maryhill Museum of Art, March 15-July 4
Focusing on the Columbia Gorge – Photography, Geology, and the Pioneer West Oregon, Historical Society Quarterly, pgs. 422-437; Vol. 105, No. 3

2004
Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory.
Exhibition catalog of the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2003
McArthur, Lewis A., Oregon Geographic Names, 5th edition, Oregon Historical Society Press and Washington State University Press. Cover photograph.
Grundberg, Andy, The Land Through A Lens - Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., exhibition catalogue.

2002
Toedtemeier, Terry, Headlands on the Minus Tide - Photographs from the Northern Oregon Coast, Open Spaces, Vol. 5, issue 1. (cover story)

2001
Taylor, Sue, Terry Toedtemeier at PDX, Art in America, April, pp. 149-150

2000
Gragg, Randy, The Oregon Landscape Inside Out, The Oregonian, October 22

1999
Gragg, Randy, Four Landscapes, Plazm Magazine, #21, June, Plazm Media, Portland, OR
Masteller, Rick, Seeing Through Photography, exhibition brochure, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, March

1998
The Breath of the Earth - Of Time and the Carbon Cycle, Washington State University, Spring, 1998. (article illustrations)
Gragg, Randy, Time and the Living Landscape, The Oregonian, January 28
Introductory photograph: Quantum Solution: Experimental Progress and Perspectives, by Andreas Sizman, Applied Physics B., publisher

1996
Smith, Tracy, Terry Toedtemeier at PDX, Art in America, April, pg 123-4; illustration
Witch of Kodakery, The Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins, 1969-1956; by Carole Glauber, 1996, Washington State University Press, introductory essay
Toedtemeier, Terry, Heritage Lost - Two Grand Houses Through the Lens of Minor White, Fred DeWolfe, Oregon Historical Society Press in cooperation with the Portland Art Museum, 1995; introduction; image sequencing; limited edition
Oregon Geology, September/October, 1995; publication of the Department of Oregon
Geology and Mineral Industries, cover photograph

1995
Toedtemeier, Terry, Basalt Exposures, an exhibition catalog from a 15 year retrospective exhibition at Marylhurst College. Essay;
afterword by Robert Adams, 15 duo tone prints Reflex, vol. 9, no. 10, November; exhibition review - Impeccable Eye, Technique to Match, by Nadine Fiedler; illustration
Allan, Lois, Contemporary Art in the Northwest, Craftsman House in association with G + B Arts International. Essay; three illustrations.
Toedtemeier, Terry, Photographing the American West, Paris Gibson Museum of Art, Missoula, MT, January. Exhibition brochure essay.

1994
Toedtemeier, Terry, r.e., place, Portland Community College, March. Exhibition essay.
Allan, Lois, Across the Great Divide - Terry Toedtemeier’s High Desert at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Artweek, December 1.
Toedtemeier, Terry, Basalt, Northwest Review, Vol. 32, No. 1. Essay; illustrations.
Toedtemeier, Terry, Oregon Photography: The First Fifty Years, Oregon Historical Society, Spring, vol. 94, no. 1, pgs. 36-76. Article; illustrations.

1992
Solitons in Nature, Doctor Yuji Kodama, Nikkei-Science (Japanese version of Scientific American, December,

1992
The Oregonian, article by Joel Weinstein, September 25, 1992, Photo Show Takes on Forces of Nature
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, exhibition catalog and postcard produced by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., distributed by Fotofolio, Inc., New York, NY
Between Home and Heaven, review by Richard B. Woodward, ARTnews, November

1991
Nature’s Underside, review by Randy Gragg, November 8, The Oregonian
Contributing Artist: The Oregon Art Community, 1839-1989, The Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, prepared by J.D. Cleaver
Perspectives 16: Christopher Rauschenberg: a mid-career retrospective, February,1991, The Portland Art Museum

1989
Art in the Eighties, December 31, The Oregonian

1988
Foto Fest, The International Month of Photography, page 211, published by Foto Fest
150 Years of Photography: Photographs from Private Collections in the Portland Area, December, exhibition catalog
Robert Adams, To Make It Home, Aperture Press, NY, statement about the artist’s work (cover)

1988
Perspectives 7: Roy DeCarava, April 1987, The Portland Art Museum, exhibition catalog

1987
Perspectives 10: Robert Adams, November 1987, The Portland Art Museum, retrospective exhibition catalog
Exposure, vol. 25 no.3 (fall, 1987), Quarterly of the Society for Photographic Education, Albuquerque, NM
Newsletter for Photo Educators, vol. 20, no. 2, 1987 Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY

1983
Photographic Artists and Innovators, Turner Brown and Elaine Partnow, MacMillan, NY

1980
Electric Flash Photography, Ronald G. Carraher and Colleen Chartier;
Van Nostrand, Reinhold, Littleton Educational Publishing, Inc.
Blue Sky, 1975-1980, Anniversary of an Alternative, The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Pair-o-dice press
Foto and Smallfilm Magazine, September 1979, Ravensborggade, Denmark, article, Modern American Photography

1979
The Professional Photographer, PAA Publications, Des Plains, IL, January, photograph and article on “Some Twenty Odd Visions”

1978
Afterimage, Visual Studies Workshop, January, Rochester, NY
Some Twenty Odd Visions, The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Pair-o-dice press, Portland, OR

1976
Creative Camera, Coo Press Ltd., Sept & Dec, London, England

Selected Collections

Robert Adams
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Gary Bettis Collection
King County Public Art, Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
Lewis and Clark University, Portland, OR
Joseph and Elaine Monson
Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Carlos Rivera and Lisa Andrus Rivera, Portland, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Richard and Judith Smooke
Springfield University, Springfield, IL
Stanford Art Museum, Stanford, CA
State of Oregon, Capitol Collection, Salem, OR
State of Oregon Public Lands Collection, Salem, OR
State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Portland, OR
Ernest Swigert
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Jean Vollum, Portland, OR
Vulcan Northwest, Seattle, WA
Washington State University, Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
Jim Winkler
Washington Arts Commission, Seattle, WA

Selected Professional Activities

1999
Selected artist for the 13th annual Art Beat celebrations at Sylvania, Rock Creek, and Cascade members of the Portland Community Colleges, Portland, OR, May 1999

1997
Introductory Essay: The Witch of Kadakery -- The Life and Times of Myra Albert Wiggins, Carole Glauber, Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA

1995
Introductory essay: Heritage Lost -- Two Great Houses Through the Lens of Minor White, Fred DeWolfe, The Oregon Histosrical Society Press
Founding board memeber of Gorge Trust -- a land trust for the Columbia River Gorge and Communities

1994
Curatorial essays: the history of photography; photography in the American West;
photography in the nuclear age;
Minor White in Oregon, 1938-42 (see publications).

1993
Project Director, Phase II construction of the Gordon and Vivian Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.

1992
A History of Oregon Photography - Centennial Exhibition, Portland Art Museum.

1990
Oregon Arts Commission Masters Fellowship.

1989
The History of Photography - A Sesquicentennial Celebration, Portland Art Museum.

1987
Oregon Arts Commission Photography Fellowship.

Lectures and Presentations

Changing Colors: a workshop on toning black and white photographs; Crow Shadow Institute, Pendleton, OR, April, 1999
What Geologists Call an “Explanation” - Terry Toedtemeier: on his photography, Portland Community Colleges, Rock Creek, Sylvania, and Cascade campuses, Portland, OR
Peculiar to Photography, slide lecture for the exhibition, “Seeing Through Photography,” Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, March 5, 1999
About Photographing Basalt, slide lecture at Blue Sky Photography Gallery, Portland, OR February 11, 1999
Hope Photographs: Thought from an Historic Perspective, slide lecture at the University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, February 17, 1999
Framing the Frontier - 19th Century Photography in the American West, slide presentation at Cheney Cowles Museum of Art, Spokane, WA, November,1998
Photography and Censorship, slide presentation, Portland State University, Portland, OR, March, 1998
Mysteries on a Plate Glass - Early Photography of Egypt, slide presentation, the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR