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Born in 1967 in Seattle, WA; lives and works in Portland
EDUCATION
1994-96 MFA in Painting and Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1990-92 AFA in Museum Studies, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1986-90 BS in Speech Communications and Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Forget-Me-Not: Northwest Museum, Spokane, Washington
TBA: Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, Montana, Curated by Stephen Glueckert
2008
Portraits: Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Blanket Stories: Homestead, Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole Art Association, Jackson, Wyoming
2007
Blanket Stories: Compass, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit college, Beloit, Wisconsin
Custodian, Installation, Think Tank Education Space, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Tread Lightly, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
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, Idaho
Blanket Stories: Album, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Curated by Jennifer Gately, Ketchum, Idaho
2005
Blanket Stories: Ladder, Curated by Margaret Archuleta, Institute of American Indian Arts
Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Blanket Stories: Receiving, Curated by Linda Tesner, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland,
Oregon
2004
Continuum: Blanket Stories, Curated by Truman Lowe, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian,
NY, New York
Blanket Stories: Sewing Bee, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, Oregon
Letter Ghosts and Recent Work, Clatsop Community College Gallery, Astoria, Oregon
Blanket Stories, PDX Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2003
Stack, Evergreen Galleries, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
2002
PDX Window Project, PDX Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Governors Gallery, Coordinated by the Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, Oregon
Sleep and Sleeplessness, PDX Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2001
Courier, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, Washington
2000
Pedestrian, An In Situ Portland Project: Solo installation: River Overlook Park, Portland, Oregon
1999
Courier, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Navigation, Friendly House, Portland, Oregon
Introductory Show, two-artist exhibition: PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Twisted Path, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine
2008
Modern Art, Modern Lives: Then and Now, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, Curated by Andrea Mellard
Contemporary NW Art Award, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 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, Washington
2007
Oh So Iroquois, Curated by Ryan Rice, Ottawa Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
2006
No Reservations, Curated by Richard Klein, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Migrations: Traveling group exhibition, University Gallery, Organized by Marge Devon (Director, Tamarind Institute),
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Neo-Sincerity: The difference between the comic and the cosmic is a single letter, ApexArt, Curated by
Amei Wallach, New York, New York
Crow’s Shadow Institute Print Biennial, Hailey Ford Museum, Salem, Oregon
2005
Everything is Drawing, Curated by Rebecca Dobkins, Hailey Ford Museum, Salem, Oregon
2004
Artists Select: Invitational Group Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2003
Artists in Residence, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
Craft Biennial, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
Building Tradition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Form to Function, Kohler Gallery, Sheboygan, Michigan
18 Women Artists, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, Oregon
2002
Sitka Center Invitational, The World Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon
Sitka Collaboration Exhibition, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
Slowness, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon
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, Oregon
Inaugural Exhibition, Open Studios Gallery, Boston, and Massachusetts
2001
The Bellevue Annual, Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellevue, Washington
Horse Tales, curated by Ezra Shales, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Contemporary Skeins, curated by Heather Rogers, Contemporary Craft Gallery,
Portland, Oregon
PDX at CCC, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, Oregon
2000
Open Walls, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Traditional & Contemporary Native Women Artists, Museum of Anthropology, Washington State University,
Pullman, Washington
Circle of Friends, curated by Lillian Pitt: Bush Barn Gallery, Salem, Oregon.
1999
Introductory Show: two-artist exhibition: PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
1998
Time and Materials, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon
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, Oregon
State of the Nations, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996
Traditions and Transitions, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, Vermont
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale University Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2008
Patron Print, Gilkey Center, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Lower East Side Printshop Residency, New York, New York
Fabric Workshop + Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007
Anonymous Was A Woman, New York, New York
Artist in Residence, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit Wisconsin
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, New Mexico
2006
Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, New York, New York
2005
Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Seattle, Washington
Eiteljorg Museum Artist Fellowship Recipient (Jurors: Patterson Sims, Amei Wallach,Margaret Archuleta, Rick
Bartow), Curator: Jennifer Campo McNutt, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
2004
Visual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, Oregon
Regional Arts and Culture Council: Project & Professional Development Grants Recipient, Portland, OR
2004-2003
Full-year Professional Sabbatical: Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon
2003
Crow’s Shadow Institute: Printmaking Residency, Pendlelton, Oregon
Senior Residency & Fellowship: Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
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, Oregon
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Henry Sweets, “Blankets tell Stories,” Planet Jackson Hole, 23 June, 2008
John Motley, “The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards,” Portland Mercury, 19 June, 2008
Richard Speer, “Lowbrow Writ Large,” Willamette Week, 18 June, 2008
Brian Libby, “ Contemporary Northwest Art Awards,” The Oregonian, 15 June, 2008
Inara Verzemnieks, “Marie Watt’s Sewing Circle,” The Oregonian, 04, April 2008
2007
Cynthia Nadelman, “Tribal Hybrids” ArtNews, June 2007, pp. 122 127
Rock Huschka and David Kiehl, The 8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum
2006
Alison Cowan, “A Pile of Blankets, With Personal History Woven into the Fabric,” New York Times, Friday
August,25
Sue Taylor, “Blanket Stories: Ladder,” Art in America, January 2006
Andrea S. Norris, “American Indian Painting and Sculpture in Santa Fe” Review Magazine, March, pp.54-59
Simon Ortiz, Blanket Stories: Almanac, exhibition catalogue, the Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
Kathleen St. John, “Woven Wonders,” The Weekender insert, Casper Star-Tribune, April 21, 2006, pp.6-7
Holly Strother, “Cover yourself in Blanket Stories at the NIC,” Casper Journal, No. 27, pp. 27
2005
James H. Nottage, Ed., “Into the Fray,”, Eiteljorg Museum
Matt Feranto, “Marie Watt: The Blanket Project at the National Museum of the American Indian,” Art on Paper,
January/February, Vol.9, No.3, pp.80
Linda Tesner, “Blanket Stories: Receiving,” Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Porltand, OR
2004
The Oregonian: “Blanket Coverage”, Inara Verzemnieks, 08 August, Section E1 and E8
2003
Southwest Art: “The Next Generation”, Bonnie Gangelhoff, August 2003
Building Tradition: catalogue, essays by Ivan Doig and Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum.
Stuart Horodner, Slowness: catalogue, The Marylhurst Art Gym, Marylhurst University Press
2002
Willamette Week: “Sleep and Sleeplessness,” WW Pick, p.56, 16 January
Marie Watt 3806 Southeast 10th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97202
The Oregonian: “Slowness,” D.K. Row, 01 March
Art Papers: Portland: essay on the exhibit “Slowness” by Lois Allen, July/August
New American Painting: Curated Exhibition-in-Print, Open Studios Press, Number 37, Volume 6
2001
The Katonah Museum of Art, “Horse Tales: American Images and Icons,” essay by Ezra Shales
2000
The Oregonian: “Well-Rounded,” Bob Hicks, 05 June
Artweek: “Marie Watt at PDX,” Pat Boas, Vol. 30, No. 12
The Oregonian: “Of Myth and Personal Histories,” D.K. Row, 08 October
1999
The Oregonian: “Of Cornhusk and Cedar,” D.K. Row, 29 January 1999
1998
Willamette Week: “July Jems: Marie Watt and Julie Swan” Kate Bonasinga, 22 July
Portland Art Museum: “The Oregon Biennial,” essay by Katherine Kanjo
The Oregonian: “Art for Biennial: A Fresh Look,” Randy Gragg, 27 July
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