Born
1948, Detroit, MI
Education
1972 Welding, Wolverine Trade School
1969-71 Printmaking: Lithography and Etching, Wayne State University
1968-70 Printmaking: Lithography, Society of Arts and Crafts, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1967-68 BA in English Literature, Highland Park, Michigan JR College
1966-67 Buisness, English Literature, Eastern Michigan Universtiy, Ypsilanti
professional/teaching experience
1976-80 Glidden Paint Company, Teamsters Paint and Glass Union #206, Portland, OR
1976 Instructor, Columbia University, Chicago, IL
1975-76 Winnetka Art League, Winnetka, IL
Marshall Farm Press, Marshall, WI
1973-75 Assistant Printer, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL
1973 Instructor, University of Illinois, Circle Campus, Chicago, IL
1970-72 Assistant Printmaking Teacher, Oxbow Summer School of Painting, Saugatuk, MI
solo exhibitions
2006 "Uncertainty of a Dream", Habatat Galleries, Chicago, IL
"Tell the Truth", William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 "Horses and Heroes," Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
"Appearance," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 "Understand What Is Going On," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Extreme Probity," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
"The Perfect Compromise," Heller Gallery, New York, NY
"Anything that Suits Me," Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2003 "Ball, Bat and Glove," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
"Baseball is Second Only to Death," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
"Extreme Company," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 Heller Gallery, New York, NY
"Confidence," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
"Looking Glass Writing," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Intentions/Intrusions," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2000 "CHARACTER: standing, sitting, prone," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
"Heads Up," Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
1999 "New American Landscape," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
"Other Americans," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 "Learning To Fly," Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
"Memories and Regrets, Fits, Fears, Anguishes, Nightmares, Angers, and Neuroses,"
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Translucence," a retrospective, Paris Gibson Square Museum, Great Falls, MT
1997 "Descriptive Mentality," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 "Making Pictures," Rena Haveson Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
"Reflexions et Sensations," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Disorder in the Dress, (The Bad Girls are Back)," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
"Emotion, Beauty," Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1995 "dirtywhitegirls," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
"New Paintings," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 "We Are Not Here To Kill You," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
"First Lessons In Life," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
"Everything Unknown Is Grand," Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1993 "The Unidentified Woman," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Emotion Precedes Thought," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 "Deep Dark Motives," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
"The Woman Club," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
"As Far As It Goes," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
"About Relationships," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 "Line, Color, Emotion," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
"Moments," Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1990 "It's Against the Rules," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
"Simple Views," Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Women on Women in Women," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Women as a Second Language," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1989 "Certain Things," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1988 "White Women," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
"Recent Work," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
"Paintings and Screens," Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1986 "Traveling Show and Growing Up," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1986-82 The Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR
1986-83 Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 "Documents Northwest: The PONCHO Series," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Donnally/Hayes Gallery, Seattle, WA
1979 Gallery 299, Portland State University, Portland, OR
group exhibitions
2005 Second Annual World Glass Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
"ART," Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA, Curated by Deborah Paine
"Simply Red," Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
ArtSlate Biennial, Condon, OR
2004 "Build Wisely," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2003 "Medium Rare," Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
"fresh," Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
ArtSlate, Condon, OR
"Glass America, Red, White and Blue," Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
"Northwest Notables," Mirror Pond Gallery, Bend, OR
2001 COCA NW Annual, Seattle, WA
"Glass America," Heller Gallery, New York, NY, ArtSlate
2001 Invitational-Invitational, Condon, OR, Henry Sayre: Juror
"Perspective and Perception," L& B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
"The Glass Canvas," Heller Gallery, New York, NY
"Husbands and Wives," Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
"Celebrating Northwest Women," Rouge River College, OR
2000 "Whole/Hole," L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
"Open Walls," Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
1999 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
Bassett Auditorium, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Ann Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
ArtSpace-Lima, Lima, OH
1998 "Return to Belltown," William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Prints and Drawings, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 "Summer Group Show", Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
"for/by/about women," Morgan Mendelson Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 "The Mane Event," Ann Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
"Introduction," Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
"Husbands and Wives," Ralleigh Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
"The Tool Show," PICA, Portland, OR
"Fences Project, One Year Later," Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
"The Box," Bona Keane Decorative Arts, Portland, OR
1995 Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Washington Park "Fences Project," Tri-Met's Westside MAX and The Regional Arts and Cultural Council, Portland, OR (Collaboration with Mary Josephson)
"The Land," Biennial Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
"Dresses," Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
Women's Art Triennial, Maude Kerns Center, Eugene, OR
1994 "Inaugural Exhibition in Our New Space," Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pacific Northwest Annual," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
"Public Encounters," Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR
1993 "Showcase '93," Beaverton Arts Commission, Beaverton, OR
1992 "Art Cologne '92," Cologne, Germany, courtesy of Lafayette-Parke Gallery, NY & SF
"The Human Condition," Spokane Center Gallery, Eastern Washington Gallery, Spokane, WA
"On A Small Scale," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
"Faces: Group Invitational Exhibit," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
"Recent Works By Selected Gallery Artists," Esther Saks Fine Art, Ltd., Chicago, IL
"Sign of the Cross," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
"Spirit of the West: A Celebration of the Arts," West One Bank, Traveling Exhibition (Oregen, Idaho and Washington), Kristin M. Poole: Curator
1991 "Art Cologne '92", Cologne, Germany, courtesy of Lafayette-Parke Gallery, NY & SF
Oregon Biennial, Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR
"Sum of the Parts", Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
"The Art of the Print, Rembrandt to Warhol, Acquisitions from the Gordon
Gilkey Curatorial Years," Portland Art Museum, Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR
"Outside Boston," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
"PDX - CVO," Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1990 "Contemporary West Coast Sculpture," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
"Artquake," Portland, OR, Juried by Peter Plagens.
"Face, Figures, Gestures and Signs," Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR
"Portraits of Women," Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA
"The Art of the Contemporary Triptych," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Oregon Biennial, Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR
"Artquake," Portland, OR, Juried by Mary Beebe
"Face to Face," Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Sum of the Parts," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
"Face to Face," Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Sum of the Parts," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
"Small Works," Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 "Oregon Art Print Exhibition," Amerika Haus, Stuttgart, Germany
"Northwest Expressionism," Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullium, WA
"Northwest Expressionism," Schneider Museum, Ashland, OR
"Body Hell," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
"Artquake," Portland, OR, Patterson Sims:Juror
1987 "Northwest Expressionism," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
"Northwest '87," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
"Oregon, Washington Juried Exhibition of Art," Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA
1986 "Tenth Annual Small Works," New York University, New York, NY
"The Small Works Show," B.A.C.A., Juried by Geno Rodriguez, Brooklyn, New York, NY
"Ninth Annual Exhibition," University of California, Los Angeles Printmaking
Society, Greenwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Wright Art Gallery
"Art in the Mayor's Office, City Hall, Portland, OR
1985 "Portland Painting Now," Marylhurst College, Portland, OR
"Figuration; New Image," The Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR
"Oregon Biennial," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1984 "The City as Collector," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
"Sapporo-Portland Goodwill Print Exhibition," Portland State University, Portland, Or & Sapporo, Japan
"Erotics '84," Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR
1984 "Coast Show," Public Image, New York, NY
"Artquake," juried show, Portland, OR
1983 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
"Small Work's National '83", Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY
"Selected Works of Contemporary Art From the Permanent Collection," Portland Art Museum
"Art Since Century Twenty-One", Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA
"Los Angeles Print Society Invitational," El Camino College, Torrance, CA
"Big as Life," Marylhurst Education Center, Marylhurst, OR
"North Light Editions Print Show," Gallery 867, Salem, OR
"Small Works National '83," Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY
1982 "Artworks: Seattle," Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
The Fountain Fine Arts, Inc., Seattle, Wa.
"Northwest Prints '82," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
"Printmaker's Annual," Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
"Works on Paper," Wentz Gallery, Portland, OR
1981 "Oregon Bienniale," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
"Artquake," Portland, OR
"Summer Invitational, 10 Pacific Northwest Artists," Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
"20th Anniversary Group Show," The Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR
1980 "Works on Paper," Wentz Gallery, Portland, OR
1973 "The Forsythe Saga," Forsythe Building, Detroit, MI
selected public collections
New York Public Library, New York, NY Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Oregon Arts Commission
Harsh Investment, Portland, OR
Metropolitan Arts Commission, Portland, OR
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Portland Art Museum, Permanent Collection, Portland, OR
Washington Arts Commission
MicroSoft Corporation
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Boly/Welch, Portland, OR
Claremont Hotel, Oakland, CA
Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL
Oregon Health Sciences Univ., Portland, OR
Phias, Schmidt, Westerdahl, Portland, OR
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
awards
Espy Foundation, Artist-in-Residence, March 2006
‘Hot Shop’ Artist-in-Residence, Museum in Glass, Tacoma, WA, May 2006
Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for the Print Commissioned Print, 1999
AirTouch Cellular Commissioned Print 1998
Seattle Art Fair Commissioned Print, 1996
Beaverton Arts Commission, Best of Show, Painting 1995
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, Painting 1992
Oregon Arts Commission Individual Fellowship Award, 1984-85
State Fair All Oregon Art Annual Painting Prize, 1982
selected publications
Kangas, Matthew, "Through a Glass, Darkly", Glass Quarterly, No.113, Summer 2006, pp.28-32
Wagonfeld, Judy, “Paintings on Glass Create Robust Characters,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, WA, September 24, 2004
Clayton, Alec, “Northwest Biennial: Buildingwise,” Art Access, Vol. 13 No. 6, July/August 2004, pp.10-11
Krajewski, Sara, “'Northwest Biennial: Buildingwise' at the Tacoma Art Museum,” Artweek, July/August 2004, p. 32
Row, D.K. “ArtsWeek's Radar, Visual Arts: Gregory Grenon,” The Oregonian, April 11, 2004, p. E4
Row, D.K. “Shows of Note: Gregory Grenon,” The Oregonian, April 2, 2004, p. 27
McQuaid, Cate, “Grenon Puts Thorns, Roses of Femininity on Glass,” The Boston Globe, May 2001
Cowan, Ron, “Exposing the Human Form Through the Artists’ Influences, Statesman Journal, Salem, OR, May 2001
Hackett, Regina “Warehousse if Going Out With Artistic Flair,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 2001
Hall, Christopher, “Portland’s New Space for Art of the Northwest,” The New York Times,” Oct. 2000
Row, D.K., “Keeping it Real, The Oregonian, April, 1999
Bonansinga, Kate, “On the Subject of Women,” Willamette Week, April, 1999
Failing, Patricia, “Necessity is the Mother of Reinvention,” ARTnews, December 1997
Roth, Robin, “Grenon’s Gaze,” The Oregonian, October, 1997
“Arts, Entertainment & Recreation,” Express, Sun Valley, ID, May, 1996
“Intense Portland Artist to Speak at Library,” Express, Sun Valley, ID, May, 1996
Shearing, Graham, “Glass Painter Avoids Breaking Point,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA, 1996
Gragg, Randy, “Constructing Women from a Male Perspective,” The Oregonian, April, 1996
“The Bad Girls are Back,” The Oregonian, April, 1996
Thomas, Mary, “Arts & entertainment,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 1996
Oles, Brian Thomas, “Behind the Gaze,” AORTA, October/November, 1996
Lindberg. Ted, “Gregory Grenon: Paintings and Prints,” Preview, January, 1996
Burry-Trice, Pamela, “Art: Bringing People Together,” Ourtown, January, 1996
Hackett, Regina, Exhibits by Three Northwest Painters Offer No Surprises,” Seattle-Post Intelligencer, March, 1995
Edmunds, Kristy, Fences, Wyatt Group, 1995
McTaggart, Tom, “Manmade Women, Seattle Weekly, March, 1995
Foyston, John, Abstract Constructionists,” The Oregonian, 1995
Allen, Lois, Contemporary Art in the Northwest, University of Toronto Press, Buffalo, NY, 1995
Waddington, Chris, “A Master of Finesse, a Connoisseur of Expression,” Lagniappe, New Orleans, LA, January, 1994
Calas ,Terrington “Gregory Grenon,”, The New Orleans Art Review, Jan./Feb., 1994
Brookhardt, D. Eric, “Some Alarming Women,” New Orleans Weekly Gambit, January, 1994
Hicks, Bob, “Painter X-Rays Female Affliction,” The Oregonian, September, 1994
Gragg, Randy, “Grenon Returns to Roots for Print Show,” The Oregonian, August,1992
Berger,David, “From Any Angle, New Traver Gallery Is A Spiffy Showcase,” The Seattle Times, Mar. 5, 1992
“Face Lift: Traveling Show and Growing Up,” Willamette Week, Dec. 11, 1991
Gragg, Randy, “Greatness & Gregory Grenon,” The Oregonian, Oct. 20, 1991
Beardon, Renardo, “Voyeurs At the Margin,” Willamette Week, Mar. 8, 1990
Jellum, Keith, “Dancing Through the Glass: An Unrefracted View of Gregory Grenon,”Clinton St. Quarterly, Spring, 1990
“Simple Views Peer into Artist's Integrity,” Ginny Holbert, Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 26, 1990
“Different Look at the Female Form,” Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, Mar. 2, !990
Gregory Grenon Works Within A Strikingly Different Format,” Karen Mathieson, Seattle Times, Sept. 21, 1990
“Grenon's Women of 'Welfare Rococo’ Are In Full Control,” Regina Hackett, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 12, 1990
“Gregory Grenon,” Jae Carlson, Art Forum, Mar. 1989
“Shapes Geometric and Female,” Barry Johnson, The Oregonian, Nov. 18, 1988
“Gregory Grenon: When He's Not 'Making Pictures' He's Out Riding His Harley,” Michael Burgess, The Downtowner, May 4, 1987
“The Angry Young Man As Artist,” Barry Johnson, The Oregonian Sunday Magazine, May 3, 1987
Guenther, Bruce, Portland, OR 1986
“Around Town: Painter Gregory Grenon,” The Oregonian, Aug. 1985
“Documents Northwest: The PONCHO Series,” Bruce Guenther, Seattle Art Museum, Mar. 15--Apr. 15, 1994
“Artist's Dissolute Women Are Larger Than Life,” Regina Hackett, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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