Marie Watt

Born
Seattle, WA (1967)

EDUCATION
1994-96 MFA in Painting and Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CN
1990-92 AFA in Museum Studies, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1986-90 BS in Speech Communications and Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton OR

2009
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Forget-Me-Not: Northwest Museum, Spokane, WA, Curated by Ben Mitchell
Heirloom: Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT, Curated by Stephen Glueckert

2008
Portraits, Greg Kucera, Seattle, WA
Heirloom, Curated by Stephen Glueckert, Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT
Fort, Installation, Portland Building, Portland, OR
Blanket Stories, Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole Art Association, Jackson, WY

2007
Blanket Stories: Compass, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit college, Beloit, WI
Custodian, Installation, Think Tank Education Space, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Tread Lightly, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2006
Blanket Stories: Almanac, Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Curated by Ben Mitchel, Casper, Wyoming; traveling to the Boise Art Museum, Curated by Sandy Harthorn, Boise, ID
Blanket Stories: Album, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Curated by Jennifer Gately, Ketchum, ID

2005
Blanket Stories: Ladder, Curated by Margaret Archuleta, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Blanket Stories: Receiving, Curated by Linda Tesner, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

2004
Continuum: Blanket Stories, Curated by Truman Lowe, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NY, NY
Blanket Stories: Sewing Bee, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR
Letter Ghosts and Recent Work, Clatsop Community College Gallery, Astoria, OR
Blanket Stories, PDX Gallery, Portland, OR

2003
Stack, Evergreen Galleries, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington

2002
PDX Window Project, PDX Gallery, Portland, OR
Governors Gallery, Coordinated by the Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
Sleep and Sleeplessness, PDX Gallery, Portland, OR

2001
Courier, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA

2000
Pedestrian, An In Situ Portland Project: Solo installation: River Overlook Park, Portland, OR

1999
Courier, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Navigation, Friendly House, Portland, OR
Introductory Show, two-artist exhibition: PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Metropolitan State College of Denver, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Twisted Path, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, MA

2008
Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art, Rosemary Berkel & Harry L Crisp II Museum, Southeast Missouri State U., Cape Girardeau, MI
Modern Art, Modern Lives: Then and Now, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, Curated by Andrea Mellard
Contemporary NW Art Award, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Curated by Jennifer Gately
Distaff Tool Kit: Traveling Exhibition, Curated by Rickie Solinger
Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Organized by Terri M. Hopkins (Director, The Art Gym) & John Olbrantz (Maribeth Collins Director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University)
Tradition and Change: A survey of Contemporary American Indian Art, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA

2007
Oh So Iroquois, Curated by Ryan Rice, Ottawa Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2006
No Reservations, Curated by Richard Klein, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CN
Migrations: Traveling group exhibition, University Gallery, Organized by Marge Devon (Director, Tamarind Institute), Albuquerque, NM
Neo-Sincerity: The difference between the comic and the cosmic is a single letter, ApexArt, Curated by Amei Wallach, New York, NY
Crow’s Shadow Institute Print Biennial, Hailey Ford Museum, Salem, OR

2005
Everything is Drawing, Curated by Rebecca Dobkins, Hailey Ford Museum, Salem, OR

2004 Artists Select: Invitational Group Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN

2003 Artists in Residence, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
Craft Biennial, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
Building Tradition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Form to Function, Kohler Gallery, Sheboygan, MI
18 Women Artists, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR

2002
Sitka Center Invitational, The World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
Sitka Collaboration Exhibition, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Slowness, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
New American Paintings: Juried Exhibition-in-Print: curated by Lisa Dennison, deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
Faculty Exhibition, North View Gallery, Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR
Inaugural Exhibition, Open Studios Gallery, Boston, and MA

2001
The Bellevue Annual, Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellevue, WA
Horse Tales, curated by Ezra Shales, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Contemporary Skeins, curated by Heather Rogers, Contemporary Craft Gallery, Portland, OR
PDX at CCC, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR

2000
Open Walls, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Traditional & Contemporary Native Women Artists, Museum of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Circle of Friends, curated by Lillian Pitt: Bush Barn Gallery, Salem, OR

1999
Introductory Show: two-artist exhibition: PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

1998
Time and Materials, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR

1997
The Uncommon Book, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID
The Oregon Biennial: Traveling group exhibition, curated by Katherine Kanjo: Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon; University of Oregon Museum, Eugene, Oregon; Hallie Brown Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
State of the Nations, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1996
Traditions and Transitions, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale University Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT

RESIDENCIES, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2009
Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Individual Artist Opportunity Grant
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Individual Artist Project Grant

2008
Patron Print, Gilkey Center, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
Fabric Workshop + Museum, Philadelphia, PN

2007
Anonymous Was A Woman, New York, New York
Artist in Residence, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit WI
National Museum of the American Indian and the Art in Embassies, Tamarind Institute Print Project, Albuquerque, NM; Washington, D.C.; and embassy locations throughout the globe.
Tamarind Institute, Printmaking Residency, Albuquerque, NM

2006
Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY

2005
Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Seattle, WA
Eiteljorg Museum Artist Fellowship Recipient (Jurors: Patterson Sims, Amei Wallach,Margaret Archuleta, Rick Bartow), Curator: Jennifer Campo McNutt, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN

2004
Visual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
Regional Arts and Culture Council: Project & Professional Development Grants Recipient, Portland, OR

2004-2003 Full-year Professional Sabbatical: Portland Community College, Portland, OR

2003
Crow’s Shadow Institute: Printmaking Residency, Pendlelton, OR
Senior Residency & Fellowship: Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

2002
Crow’s Shadow Institute: Printmaking Residency with Frank Janzen, Tamarind Master Printer, Pendleton
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology: Printmaking residency with Julia D’Amario, Pace Editions Master Printer,Otis, OR

2001
Vermont Studio Center: Full Fellowship
Regional Arts & Culture Council: Individual Artist Project Grant

2000
Regional Arts & Culture Council: In Situ Portland Project Grant

1996
Yale University: Elizabeth Cranfield Hicks Award for Drawing

1995–1996
College Art Association: Professional Development Fellowship

1995
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture: Full Fellowship

1994–1996
Seneca Nation of Indians: Academic Scholarship, Irving, NY
Philip Morris Foundation: Graduate Fellowship
American Indian Graduate Center: Graduate Fellowship

1994–1995
Americans for Indian Opportunity: Ambassador and Kellogg Fellow

1991–1992
National Gallery of Art: Internship: Design and Installation, and Education Department Collections

COLLECTIONS
Art 4 Culture, Seattle, WA
Boise Art Museum, Boise,ID
Crow’s Shadow Press, Pendleton, OR
Eco-Trust, Portland, OR
Eiteljorg Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Hailey Ford Art Museum, Salem, OR
Microsoft Collection, Redmond, WA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland Community College, Portland, OR
Arlene and Harold Schnitzer, OR
Jordan Schnitzer, Portland, OR
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Seattle City Light, Seattle, WA
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
The Friendly House, Portland, OR
Jeri Waxenberg, Sun Valley, ID
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI
Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Boise ID

Community Involvement
2008
Symposium & Panel Discussion, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges
Presenter, Portland State University, MFA Monday Night Lecture Series, Portland, OR

2007
Artist Lecture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2006
Diverse Voices/Diverse Media panelist, moderated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Visiting Artist, Department of Art and Design, Montclair University, Montclair, NJ
Artist Talk and Art Collaboration, SunValley Art Center, Ketchum, ID
Juror, Professional Development Fellowships, College Art Association, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Center, Boise State University, Boise, ID

2005-2006
Art Instructor, Journeys in Creativity, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR

2005
Visiting Artist lecturer, BA Students, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR

2004
College Art Association: Annual Conference, Session Chair, Seattle, WA

2003
The Evergreen State College: Visiting Artist Guest Speaker, Olympia, WA
Clatsop Community College: Visiting Artist Panelist, Astoria, OR
Cascade Aid’s Art for Life: Art Donation and Catalogue Participant. Portland, OR

2002
Crow’s Shadow Art Institute: Youth Mentor and Community Presentation, Pendleton, OR
Native American Youth Association: Pedestrian, a presentation to summer camp students, Portland, OR
Native American Youth Association: Volunteer Instructor, 8-week art and stone carving class, Portland, OR

2001–2002
Regional Arts and Culture Council: Juror, Wapato Corrections Facility, Portland, OR

2001
Native American Art Studies Association, Biennial Conference, Guest Speaker
Metropolitan Learning Center: Guest speaker on public art with high school students

1999–2001
Portland Community College: Chair, Welcoming Pole Project: commissioned/raised 30-foot totem pole by Kwaguilth Carver Richard Hunt. Involved fundraising, educational programs, and community outreach.
Pacific Northwest College of Art: Visiting artist, lecturer and guest critic

1996–2002
College Art Association: Member