Victoria Haven
http://www.vichaven.com
Education
1999
1989
National Awards
2001
2000
1996
1995
1994
Local Awards
2006
2004
2001
2000
1992
1991
Residencies
2001
1995
1994
Goldsmiths College/University of London, Masters in Fine Art.
University of Washington, Seattle, BFA in Painting.
International Residencies for Artists—Grant
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
Art Matters, Inc. New York Grant
Travel Grant for MacDowell Residency
Office of Arts and Culture Purchase
4Culture Purchase award
Gap Grant award
Artist Trust -Fellowship award
‘The Stranger’ Genius award for a visual artist
Seattle Art Museum (Betty Bowen) award
Seattle Collects -Purchase Award, Seattle Arts Commission
Poncho Special Recognition Award (Seattle Art Museum)
PONCHO Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Fine Arts
Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant
King County Arts Commission Gallery Grant
Vivenda Santa Iria, Penedo,Portugal
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
Upcoming Exhibitions
2007
Northwest Bienniel @ Tacoma Art Museum
2007
Circle-Triangle-Square, Archer Gallery , Clark College
2007
Frye Art museum special project
2007
Solo show—Howard House
Solo Exhibitions
2006
2004
2003
2002
2000/01
‘The Lucky Ones’ @ PDX Contemporary Art, Portland.
‘WONDERLAND’ @ Howard House, Seattle.
‘Apparent Horizon ‘ @ PDX Contemporary Art,Portland.
PICA wall project (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art) Foyer Wall Installation
‘Acts of Drawing’ @ Howard House, Seattle
Tetris Drawings and Other New Work @ PDX Contemporary Art, Portland,
‘Borg Drawings—Resistance if Futile’ @Howard House,Seattle, WA
Selected Group Exhibitons
2006
Over + Over: Passion for Process at The Austin Museum of Art, Texas.
‘Take the Cake’, The Stranger Genius Retrospective @ The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
‘Referencing Nature’ SAM Gallery, Seattle
‘Paper Trails’ @ Howard House, Seattle.
Swallow Harder - Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collectio’ @ Frye Art Museum:
2005
Infrastructure @ Voltaire Space, London, England
Group Show, Sun Valley Arts Center.
‘Unexpected Watercolor’ The Art Gym Portland
‘Over & Over’ Krannert Art Museum, IL/Addison Gallery , Andover MA/Katonah Museum of Art
2003
Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces, curated by Anne Ellegood from the New Museum &
Rhonda Howard. The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
2002
Drawing Center, New York, Selections Benefit Show
Multiplex at Bumbershoot , Seattle. Curated by Michael Van Horn
2001
LineFormColor, Howard House, Seattle Wa
"12 Views", Drawing Center, New York City, NY
Victoria Haven- page 2
2000
Ways of Living, Tablet Gallery, London
99/2000
1999
1999
1999
1998
1998
1998
1994
1992
Drawing Space, Curated by Beth Sellars at the Suyama Space, Seattle.
Air Hockey Howard House, Seattle Wa
Goldsmiths College, 1999 MA show.London, England
Ways of Living, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Curated by Rozalind Drummond
Insignificants, Malmo,Sweden
Officeworld, London, England. Curated by Karolyn Hatton
The Globe Gallery, Flashpoint, Tyne and Wear, England
The SPACE Gallery, Chicago, “Contrari-wise Painting”,
Jamison/Thomas Gallery, "Sign of the Cross", Portland, OR.
Publications and Reviews
2006
Rivet Magazine, Featured insert, Volume 17
Artnet.com, March 30, 2006 -Swallowing Seattle,by Grant Mandarino
2005
Art in America, September 2005 #8, p.62 (Report from Seaattle)
2004
ARTFORUM, XLIII. No 4, December Issue, p. 201 (review of ‘Wonderland’ show).
The Stranger, Vol 14 no.5, Oct 14-20 2004; The Stranger Genius Awards: Victoria Haven- An Artist
Between Dimensions by Nate Lippens.
http://www.thestranger.com/2004-10-14/ex6.html
10/08/04, Seattle Times; Landscapes, and the terrain of the body, by Matthew Kangas.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/visualarts/2002056878_visart08.html
2002
2000
1999
1994
1991
1990
10/01/04, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Victoria Haven’s knife draws a singular ‘Wonderland’. (What’s
Happening Section p. 22) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/193200_visual01.html
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;, (Review of "Acts of Drawing" at Howard House).The Seattle Times Sheila Farr
12/14-20;The Stranger, (Impossible Objects-review of "Borg Drawings" solo show @ Howard House,
Seattle)p.45.
12/9;Seattle Weekly; (Visual Arts Feature)p.93
12/16;The Stranger;(BIO:ART-Victoria Haven)
12/9;The Stranger;(Shapely Art: Simple Tools, Big Ideas in Local Drawing Show)p.41
11/11; The Seattle Times (Drawing the lines) Rev iew of Suyama Show .p.26
March; Art Access .com (Victoria Haven: Finding More Than Meets the E ye)
New American Paintings (A Quarterly Exhibition) juried by Jenny
Blessing (Guggenheim Museum). Volume I, Number VI. Spring 1996.
May ; New Art Examiner (review and photo printed of “Contrari-wise Painting” at the Space Gallery,
Chicago).
May; Reflex Magazine
(review of King County 'Five Artists-show)
October 12; The Seattle Times (review of local galleries)
Commissions
August 1999
Robert Ryman, New York, NY (wall drawing installation for private home)
July 1993
Talbot/Hagen Corporation, Bellingham, WA
(Three 60" x 48" paintings for permanent collection)
Selected Collections
Amgen
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
City of Seattle -Portable Works
4Culture, King County
Great Northern Annuities, Seattle, WA
Talbot/Hagen Corporation, Bellingham, WA
SAFECO Collection—Seattle, WA
Professional Activities
2005/2006
Served on jury for Seattle Art Museum’s annual award
Jan. 2006
lecturer and visiting critic at Central Washington University
May 2005
visiting critic at Cornish College of the Arts
Nov. 2002
"Multi-Perspectives and Careening Order" Lecture at Henry Art Gallery
Nov. 2002
"Out of Site" Panel discussion with Anne Ellegood, Adam Ross, Jason Rogenes,
Spring 2001
Nominating Committee for the Ned Behnke (Neddy)Award in Painting
July 1996Contemporary Arts Council/Seattle Art Museum, Programming comm..
May 1996
GAP Grant Juror for Artist Trust of Washington.
Spring 1995
Center On Contemporary Art- Seattle. Programming Committee.
Slide Registries:
White Columns, NY. http://registry.whitecolumns.org/