JOHN GRADE: BIO

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John Grade Born: Minneapolis, 1970. Resides: Seattle. Education: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. (B.F.A., 1992) SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Gallerie Ateliers L’H Du Siege, Acte de Naissance, Valenciennes, France. 2010 Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, New York, NY. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. Installation: Foret Scarpe Escaut la Region Nord Pas-de-Calais, France. 2009 Fabrica, Brighton, UK. Installation: Bitterlake Reservoir, Seattle, WA. University Wyoming Gallery, Laramie, WY. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA. 2008 Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA. Catalog. Suyama Space, Seattle, WA. Catalog. 2007 Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. 2006 Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. 2005 King County Performance Network, King County, WA. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. 2004 Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID. Catalog. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. 2003 Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. 2002 Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. 2000 Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR. King County Art Gallery, Seattle, WA. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY. Western Washington University Museum, Bellingham, WA. Catalog. 2009 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland. Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA. Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID. Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA. Catalog. 2007 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA. Catalog. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. 2006 SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. Catalog. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. Aqua Art, Miami, FL. 2005 Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibition, Seattle Center, WA. Catalog. San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. Aqua Art, Miami, FL. 2004 Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA. 2003 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA. 2002 Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY. Catalog. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibition, Seattle Center, WA. Catalog. San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA. 2001 Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. 2000 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA. Catalog. Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR. Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA. Catalog. 1999 Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibition, Seattle Center, WA. (Best of show award). Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. AWARDS 2011 Arlene Schnitzer Prize, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. Contemporary Northwest Art Award, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. Fellowship, Artist Trust Foundation, WA. (also Awarded in 2002). Grant, 4Culture, King County Artist Project Program, WA. (also Awarded in 2010, 2008, 2007, and 2004). 2010 Metcalf Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY. Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York, NY. (also Awarded in 2005). Grant, City of Seattle, City Artists Program, Seattle, WA. (also Awarded in 2009, 2008, 2005, and 2004). Grant, Artist Trust, GAP Program, Seattle, WA. (also Awarded in 2007, 2004, and 1999). 2005 Grant, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY. Catalogue. 2004 Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, NY. 1994 Grant, Middleditch Graduation Travel Award, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 1992 Departmental Distinction for Achievement in Drawing, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 1988 National Talent Search Foundation Full-Tuition Scholarship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY RESIDENCIES 2010 L’H Du Siege, Valenciennes, France. Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA. 2009 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. 2007 National Park Service, Grand Canyon, North Rim, AZ. MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. (Gottlieb Foundation Endowed Fellowship). 2006 Espy Foundation, Oysterville, WA. 2005 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland. Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA. (Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship). 2003 J M Kohler Arts Center and Foundry, Arts/Industry Program, Sheboygan, WI. SELECTED REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS 2011 Beal, Suzanne. “Seattle: Reclaiming Place and Nature”, Art Ltd. (May). Buckley, Annie. “Art and Ecology: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Art “, Huffington Post. (May 15). Charvet, Celia. “Une Sculpture Disparait”, La Chasse: John Grade, (plaquette), Acte de Naissance publishers, France. Translation: English, Neerlandais. Gontier, Fabrice. “La Chasse, Une Oeuvre Au Noir Nee Des Bois”, Judd, Ron. “Art of Decay: Harnessing the Thrill of Serendipity” Seattle Times, Photo and video gallery by Seattle Times staff photographer Alan Berner. (Sunday May 29, Front page). Laing-Malcolmson, Bonnie. “John Grade: Contemporary northwest Art Awards 2011” Exhibition Catalog, Published by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. Le Journal Metropole. (February 9). Labarre, Suzanne. “Ghostly Art Installation Haunts a French Forest”. CoDesign. Launay, Francois. “Exposition de John Grade à l’H du Siège”, Television Citoyenne (Canal), Valenciennes, France. (Jan 12). Lee, Soo Kyoung. “La Chasse 전체페이지보기,” Art Vent (Korea), (February). Miller, Matthew. “The Hidden Half Round” That Last Landscape, (Word Press), (Jan 20). Million, Jayme. “John Grade: La Chasse (The Hunt)”. DesignBoom, (Jan 7). Schnoor, Chris. “Beauty and the Beast: Northwest Environmental Art at BAM”, Boise Weekly, (Feb 2). Schnoor, Chris. “Q and A with Artist John Grade”, Boise Weekly, (Feb 2). Waterman, Ben. “A System of Generosity: John Grade’s Sculpture Circuit”, Ceramics Monthly, (March). 2010 Clark-Langager, Sarah. “Messengers in the Northwest”. Critical Messages exhibition catalog, University of Washington press, Seattle, WA. Faigin, Gary. “John Grade at Davidson Gallery” Artdish, September. Faigin, Gary and Richards, Jeremy. “Sculptures Built to Decay”, KUOW Presents (NPR), (Sept 16). Grade, John. “Collector & the Elephant Bed”, Arcade, (Sept). Graves, Jen. “The Things He Carries”, Stranger, (April 8). Harper, Glenn. “Scultura spogliata: scorticata, defomata, estaniata”, Quando è Scultura, Venice & École des Hautes Études, Paris. Et.al publishers, Milan. Kangas, Matthew. “John Grade: Davidson Galleries”, Art in America, (November). Kepferle, Amy. “Bloom: A Case For Impermanence”, Cascadia Weekly (April 7). Корсакова, Мария. “ИСКУССТВО И ДЕГРАДАЦИЯ” Domus # 28 Moscow, (Sept). Koplos, Janet.“Anticipation and Letting Go: John Grade”, Sculpture, (December). Ramljak, Suzanne. “John Grade: Engineering Entropy”, American Craft, (Oct). Schnoor, Christopher. “Profile: John Grade”, Art Lmt, (March). Warssam, Nancy. “Artist John Grade will hand over his ‘Circuit’ to nature”, Seattle Times (Sept 23). 2009 Buckley, Annie. “The Collector: New Naturalism”, Wild Blue Yonder (July). Cave, Emma. “John Grade: The Elephant Bed”, Brighton Fusion, Brighton, UK. (July). Davis, Brangien. “Datebook: Lip Service”, Seattle (July). Liu, Marian. “Identity, Refuge and Word of Mouth”, Seattle Times (May 7). Matilsky, Barbara. “Making Art New: Form and Process” Out of Bounds exhibition catalog, Whatcom Museum and Marquand Books Inc., Seattle, WA. Sheerin, Martin. “Ice Age Bacteria Invades Fabrica Gallery”, Culture 24, Brighton, UK. (July 16). Vinh, Tan. “Shedding Light on Art”, Seattle Times (Dec. 10). Worssam, Nancy. “Exhibit, Like New Museum, Breaks Boundaries”, Seattle Times (December 10). 2008 Beal, Suzanne. “John Grade: Lived History in Sculpture”, Sculpture (December). Catalani, Stefano. “The Natural Course of Things”, Dis/integration exhibition catalog, Bellevue, WA: Bellevue Arts Museum, 80 pgs. Devuono, Frances. “Seeps of Winter” exhibition catalog, Seattle, WA: Suyama Space. Farr, Sheila. “Hot ticket: John Grade at Suyama Space”, Seattle Times (March 21). Freewater, Milton. “Travel Documents”, Art Access (September). Graves, Jen. “The Roaming Sculptures of John Grade”, The Stranger (January 23). Graves, Jen. “Art Review: Active Persistence”, The Stranger (November 27). Grant, Adriana. “Seeps of Winter Could Make You Sick”, Seattle Weekly (Feb. 13). Grant, Adriana. “Furry Squeeze”, Seattle Weekly (October 2). Hackett, Regina. “Best Bet: John Grade”, Seattle PI (March 21). Hackett, Regina. “John Grade and Wade Kavanaugh Conjure with Materials”. Seattle PI(October 2) Moyer, Twylene. “Itinerary: John Grade, Suyama Space”, Sculpture (March). Moyer, Twylene. “Itinerary: John Grade, Bellevue Arts Museum”, Sculpture (Nov). Pence, Elizabeth. “John Grade: Bellevue Art Museum”, Artweek (December). Rutz, Dean. “When Art Imitates Life”, Seattle Times, (October 10). Schnoor, Christopher. “Multiple Lives: The Itinerant Sculpture of John Grade”, Dis/integration exhibition catalog, Bellevue, WA: Bellevue Arts Museum, 80 pgs. Schnoor, Christopher. “Art After the Isms”, Boise Weekly, (December 17). Simonini, Ross. “’Seeps” is on a Fascinating Path to Destruction”, Seattle PI (Mar 5). 2007 Gardener, Jan. “One Hundred Years and Change” Boston Globe (February 10). Silverman, Art. “Artists Retreat into Solitude” All Things Considered, National Public Radio (March 5). 2006 Curtis, Molly Norris. “Make the Grade” Art Access (June). Kangas, Matthew. “Installations that put you in their space”, Seattle Times (May 26). Hackett, Regina. “Best Bet”, Seattle Post Intelligencer (May 19). Louis Comfort Tiffany Awards 2005 catalogue, Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY. Pence, Elizabeth, “John Grade”, ArtUS (October). Schnoor, Christopher. “Cleavage”, Boise Weekly (July 5). Stracener, Brad. “Artist Finds Inspiration inside Crevasse”, Mountaineer (April). 2005 Farr, Sheila. “A Unified Group of Exhibitions”, Seattle Times (September 2). Koplos, Janet. “Report from Seattle, Plugged In and Caffeinated,” Art in America (September). Schnoor, Christopher. “Review: John Grade at Boise Art Museum,” Art in America (September). Sexton, Brenda. “Art on Display”, Enumclaw Courier-Herald, (front page, Sept. 28). Van Nostrand, Jess. Raw and Refined Exhibitioncatalogue, Seattle, WA. 2004 Kangas, Matthew. “Review: John Grade at Davidson Galleries,” Sculpture (Sept). Kangas, Matthew. “Excursions and Interventions”, John Grade: Sculpture and Drawings exhibition catalog, Boise, Idaho: Boise Art Museum, 64pgs. Republished in: “Relocations: Selected Art Essays and Interviews”, Midmarch Press, 2008. Oland, Dana. “Art Lesson,” Idaho Statesman (August 19). Oland, Dana. “John Grade: An Artist on the Verge,” Idaho Statesman (August 19). Schnoor, Christopher. “Art in Flux: John Grade’s World at Boise Art Museum” Boise Weekly (Nov 10). 2003 Bullis, Douglas. ed. 100 Artists of the West Coast. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Books. Frank, Hillary. “John Grade Interview: Artists Working in Industry,” Studio 360 program, National Public Radio (broadcast, June 14). 2002 Daftari, Fereshteh. Pratt Alumni exhibitioncatalog, Brooklyn, NY: Pratt Institute. 2000 Boas, Pat. “John Grade at Laura Russo Gallery,” Artweek (July). Byrne, Mary. Bellevue Sculpture exhibition catalog. Bellevue, WA: Bellevue Arts Commission. Ellison, Victoria. “Up-and-Coming Sculptor,” Seattle Weekly (April 20). Fahey, Anne. “Show and Tell,” Seattle Weekly (August 17). Hackett, Regina. “Art in Progress,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (July 11). Hall, Emily. “Bio: Art: John Grade,” The Stranger (November 23). Hall, Emily. “The Better Annual,” The Stranger (July 20). Josslin, Victoria. “Loss, Disintegration and Nostalgia at the Davidson Galleries,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (November 11).