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Education
| 1999 | Goldsmiths College/University of London, Masters in Fine Art. |
| 1989 | University of Washington, Seattle, BFA in Painting. |
Awards
| 2010 | Open Satellite Northwest Artist Editions |
| 2010 | Jentel Residency, Wyoming |
| 2010 | Office of Arts and Culture-project grant |
| 2009 | Illinois State University –Visiting Artist Residency |
| 2009 | 4Culture project grant |
| 2006 | Office of Arts and Culture Purchase 4Culture Purchase award Gap Grant award |
| 2004 | Artist Trust - Fellowship award 'The Stranger' Genius award for a visual artist Seattle Art Museum (Betty Bowen) award |
| 2001 | Seattle Collects - Purchase Award, Seattle Arts Commission International Residencies for Artists - Grant |
| 2000 | Poncho Special Recognition Award (Seattle Art Museum) PONCHO Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Fine Arts Pollock-Krasner Fellowship |
| 1996 | Pollock-Krasner Fellowship |
| 1995 | Art Matters, Inc. New York Grant |
| 1994 | Travel Grant for MacDowell Residency |
| 1992 | Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant |
| 1991 | King County Arts Commission Gallery Grant |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2011 | Hit the North @ Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Hit the North @ PDX Contemporary Art,Portland. |
| 2009 | 'Higher…Higher' @ Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle. |
| 2008 | 'Splitting the Difference' @ PDX Contemporary Art, Portland |
| 2007 | 'Iampayingattention' @ Howard House |
| 2007 | 'Sin' @ Frye Art Museum (special project) |
| 2006 | 'The Lucky Ones' @ PDX Contemporary Art, Portland. |
| 2004 | 'Wonderland' @ Howard House 'Apparent Horizon' @ PDX Contemporary Art,Portland. |
| 2003 | PICA wall project (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art) Foyer Wall Installation |
| 2002 | 'Acts of Drawing' @ Howard House, Seattle Tetris Drawings and Other New Work @ PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, |
| 2000/01 | 'Borg Drawings-Resistance if Futile' @ Howard House,Seattle, WA |
| 1991-96 | Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle Wa. |
Selected Group Exhibitons
| 2011 | Reclaimed, Seattle Art Museum curated by Marisa Sánchez |
| 2011 | The Three Dimensional Line, Kirkland Arts Center curated by Ellen Ziegler |
| 2010/11 | Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery |
| Fall 2008 | Century 21, The Wright Space, Seattle 'Gimme' curated by Suzanne Beal for Cornish College of the Arts Gallery. |
| Fall 2007 | 'As it Seems' curated by Pamela Meredith for Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto. 'Deceptively Simple' @ Schneider Museum of Art-Southern Oregon University |
| 2007 | Circle-Triangle-Square, Archer Gallery, Clark College Northwest Bienniel @ Tacoma Art Museum |
| 2006 | Over and Over: Passion for Process @ 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 Collection @ Frye Art Museum |
| 2005 | Infrastructure @ Voltaire Space, London, England Group Show, Sun Valley Arts Center. 'Unexpected Watercolor' Marylhurst College/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 |
| 2000 | Ways of Living, Tablet Gallery, London |
| 99/2000 | Drawing Space, Curated by Beth Sellars at the Suyama Space, Seattle. |
| 1999 | Air Hockey Howard House, Seattle Wa |
| 1999 | Goldsmiths College, 1999 MA show.London, England |
| 1999 | Ways of Living, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Curated by Rozalind Drummond |
| 1998 | Insignificants, Malmo,Sweden |
| 1998 | Officeworld, London, England. Curated by Karolyn Hatton |
| 1998 | The Globe Gallery, Flashpoint, Tyne and Wear, England |
| 1994 | The SPACE Gallery, Chicago, "Contrari-wise Painting", |
| 1992 | Jamison/Thomas Gallery , "Sign of the Cross", Portland, OR. |
Residencies
| 2011 | Jentel Residency, Wyoming |
| 2001 | Vivenda Santa Iria, Penedo,Portugal |
| 1995 | Centrum, Port Townsend, WA |
| 1994 | The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH |
Publications and Reviews
| 2011 | New American Paintings-online; Hit the Pacific Northwest Artdish, Victoria Haven at Greg Kucera by Andrew Bartels, February 3, 2011 The Stranger, There's No Home Like Place by Jen Graves, January 25, 2011 |
| 2009 | Artweek, 40 no5, June 21, 2009, Victoria Haven at Greg Kucera Gallery by Elizabeth Pence City Arts Magazine, July 2009. “The Curator's Eye”. The Daily Serving. 5/12/2009 Art ltd. May 2009. Review of Higher…Higher by Suzanne Beal The Stranger, March 17, 2009. 'Looking Together' |
| 2008 | Art in America, March 2008, (Victoria Haven at the Frye Art Museum and Howard House by Suzanne Beal). |
| 2007 | The Stranger June 27th, 2007 An Infinite But Invisible Center by Craig Brownson Seattle P-I June 28th, 2007 Abstraction takes on fresh dimensions in Haven's 'Iampayingattention' by Nate Lippens |
| 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 Sranger, Vol 14 no.5, Oct 14-20 2004; The Stranger Genius Awards: Victoria Haven- An Artist Between Dimensions by Nate Lippens. 10/08/04, Seattle Times; Landscapes, and the terrain of the body, by Matthew Kangas. 10/01/04, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Victoria Haven's knife draws a singular 'Wonderland'. |
| 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 Sranger, (Architecture: The Final Frontier) 11/1/02; (Review of "Acts of Drawing" at Howard House).The Seattle Times Sheila Farr |
| 2000 | 12/14-20; The Sranger, (Impossible Objects-review of "Borg Drawings" solo show @ Howard House, Seattle)p.45. |
| 1999 | 12/9; Seattle Weekly; (Visual Arts Feature)p.93 12/16; The Sranger; (BIO:ART-Victoria Haven) 12/9; The Sranger; (Shapely Art: Simple Tools, Big Ideas in Local Drawing Show) p.41 11/11; The Seattle Times (Drawing the lines) Review of Suyama Show p.26 March; ArtAccess.com (Victoria Haven: Finding More Than Meets the Eye) New American Paintings (A Quarterly Exhibition) juried by Jenny Blessing (Guggenheim Museum). Volume I, Number VI. Spring 1996. |
| 1994 | May; New Art Examiner (review and photo printed of "Contrari-wise Painting" at the Space Gallery, Chicago). |
Commissions
| 2008 | King County Library installation –Black Diamond. Seattle City Light Lobby Project |
| 2007 | Westlake/Terry Project, Seattle. |
| 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
Jordan Schnitzer Collection
Washington State University
Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection
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 'Betty Bowen' 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 |
Slide Registries:
White Columns, NY. http://registry.whitecolumns.org/