http://www.vichaven.com

Education

1999	Goldsmiths College/University of London, Masters in Fine Art.
1989	University of Washington, Seattle, BFA in Painting.

National Awards

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 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
2000	Poncho 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	Vivenda Santa Iria, Penedo,Portugal
1995	Centrum, Port Townsend, WA
1994	The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

Upcoming Exhibitions

2007	Northwest Bienniel @ Tacoma Art Museum Circle-Triangle-Square @ Archer Gallery , Clark College Frye Art museum special project Solo show @ Howard House

Solo Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitons

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.

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 Sranger, 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 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
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).

Selected Collections & Commissions

Amgen, Seattle 4Culture, King County. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Robert Ryman, New York, NY (wall drawing installation for private home) City of Seattle -Portable Works Great Northern Annuities, Seattle, WA Talbot/Hagen Corporation, Bellingham, WA SAFECO Collection-Seattle, WA

Professional Activities
2005/2006 Served on jury for Seattle Art MuseumÕs 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 1996- Contemporary 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/