Artist List    Jay Backstrand    Images  |  Bio Born: 1934, Salem, Oregon EDUCATION Slade School University of London, England, Fulbright Fellowship 1964-1965 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1958-1961 University of Colorado, Bolder, CO 1956-1957 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 1952-1954 AWARDS The Tesuque Foundation, Grant 1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant 1982 Hassam/Speicher Fund, American Academy, Purchase Award 1982 Portland State University, Purchase Award 1969 University of Oregon Art Museum, Purchase Award 1968, 1969 Seattle Art Museum, Katherine Baker Memorial Award 1966 Fulbright Grant for work and study in London 1964, 1965 Oregon Arts Foundation, Grant Smithsonian Institute National Gallery, Purchase Award ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center, Eugene, OR 2008 Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 2006 Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004 Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR 1987, 1990, 1992 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR 1987 “Strange,” Invitational Exhibition, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1984 Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA 1984 10 Year Retrospective, Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR 1984 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1984 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR 1983 Studio Exhibition, Portland, OR 1982 Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR 1968, 1977, 1981 Hanson Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978 GROUP EXHIBITIONS The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 “The Drawn Line,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2007 “8th Northwest Biennial,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 2007 “20th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 “Drawing(s): A 25th Anniversary Exhibition,” The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR 2005 “After,” Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR (invitational) 2002 “Art about Art,” Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 2001 “15 Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2001 “Figuration in the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection of Prints,” The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR 1997 “Northwest by Southwest,” Painted Fiction, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA 1990 “Northwest '87,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1987 “Oregon Biennial,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1983, 1987 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1982. 1982 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR 1981 “Northwest Artist-A-Review,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1980 “Drawing,” Invitational Exhibition, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1980 “American Drawing in Black and White,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 1980 “Northwest Invitational,” Seattle Pavilion, Seattle, WA 1975 “Art of the Pacific Northwest,” Smithsonian Institute, National Gallery, Washington, DC 1973-74 “Artists of Oregon,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1967, 1971, 1973 Northwest Artist Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1966, 1968, 1972 Western Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1971 Salt Lake City Art Museum, Salt Lake, UT 1971 WM Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1970 Lee Nordness Gallery, New York, NY 1969 Biennial of American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 1969 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1967 COLLECTIONS Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Citylights Collection, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, WA Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Grunwald Collection, University of California, San Diego, CA Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR Haseltine Collection of Pacific Northwest Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Hotel Lucia, Portland, OR Hotel Max, Seattle, WA Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Microsoft Corp., Seattle, WA Oregon State Public Arts Collection, State Capital, Salem, OR Oxford University Press Print Collection, England Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Schnitzer Investment Corp., Portland, OR Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Slade School University of London, London, England Smithsonian Institute, National Gallery, Washington, DC Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Westin Portland Hotel, Portland, OR RELATED EXPERIENCE Guest Lecturer, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 1971,1976,1987-1988 Associate Professor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1975-1986 Graduate Critic, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1979 Instructor, Drawing and Painting, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1970-1977 Co-Founder of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR 1971 PUBLICATIONS “Gallery at a Glance: Jay Backstrand,” Eugene Magazine, Fall 2008, Volume 3, Issue 3, p. 118 Row, D.K., “Portland art scene needs a contemporary showcase,” The Sunday Oregonian, Aug. 31, 2008, pp. O1, O6 Row, D.K. “Shows of Note,” The Oregonian, June 20, 2008, A&E, p. 36 Keefer, Bob, “Picture Tells a Story,” The Register Guard, Eugene, OR, May 22, 2008, pp. D1, D4 Pizzi, Donna, “Iconic Architecture, “ Portrait of Portland, Spring 2008, pp. 8, 18-29 Row, D.K. “Recently Reviewed: Jay Backstrand,” The Oregonian, Friday, May 18, 2007, A & E, p. 37 Row, D.K. “Recently Reviewed: ‘The Drawn Line,” The Oregonian, Friday, May 18, 2007, A & E, p. 37 Row, D.K. “Private Obsessions,” The Oregonian, May 14, 2007, pp. C1-C5 Row, D.K. “Jay Backstrand and the power of paint,” The Sunday Oregonian, May 13, 2007, p. O5 “Jay Backstrand, art ltd, May 2007, Color Plate, p. 16 Row, D.K. “The Magnificent 7?” The Oregonian, April 30, 2007, pp. D1, D3 Jay Backstrand, Exhibition Pamphlet with color plates, Laura Russo Gallery, Spring 2007 Hushka, Rock, The 8th Northwest Biennial, exhibition catalog, color plates, Tacoma Art Museum, Spring 2007, pp. 28-29 Hackett, Regina, “The artist lineup for Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 16, 2007 Clayton, Alec, “The 8th Northwest Biennial: Tacoma Art Museum, “ ArtAccess, March 2007, Volume 16, No. 2, pp. 10-11 Row, D.K. “Shows of Note: 8th Northwest Biennial,” The Oregonian, February 9, 2007, A&E, p. 37 Row, D.K. “Movers and Shapers: The top 10 players on Portland’s visual arts scene,” The Oregonian,” January 26, 2007, A & E, pp. 8-15 Row, D.K.,”Recently reviewed: Laura Russo Gallery,” The Oregonian, A & E, Friday, October 20, 2006, p.38 Row, D.K. “Laura Russo toasts 20 years atop Portland’s Art World,” The Sunday Oregonian, October 15, 2006, pp. O1 and O11 Row, D.K., “Portland Ascends: The Jupiter Art Fair tries to push the local art world into national orbit,” The Oregonian, A & E, Friday, September 29, 2006, pp. 10-13 The Laura Russo Gallery: Twenty Years, exhibition catalogue with color plates, 2006, pp. 7, 62 Keefer, Bob, “The Collector: For the namesake of the UO museum, art is a way of life,” Eugene Register- Guard, August 17, 2006, pp. B1, B3 Row, D.K. ?Master of the picturesque,? The Oregonian, August 25, 2006, A&E, pp. 36-37 Row, D.K. “D.K.’s Hot Sheet: The Tacoma Art Museum,” The Oregonian, August 18, 2006, A&E, p. 36 Row, D.K., “Shows of Note,” The Oregonian, April 7, 2006, p. 4 Basye, Ali. “Sunset Recommends: Artful Dreams,” Sunset Magazine (West Coast Issue), January 2006, p. 32 Row, D.K. “2005 In Review: Te Coming of Age Award,” The Sunday Oregonian, January 1, 2006, p. O8 Blake, Victoria, “A Quarter Century of Quality,” The Oregonian, A & E, December 2, 2005 Row, D.K. “Jay Backstrand,” The Oregonian, September 9,2005, A&E, p.22 Row,D.K. “The Prince Hamlet of Art, “ The Oregonian, September 1, 2005, Living Section, pp. E1-3 Row, D.K. “Of Prodigal Talents,” The Oregonian, November 23, 2003, pp. F1, F6 Cantor, Allyn, “Jay Backstrand: Recent Work,” Preview, The Gallery Guide, Nov/Dec/Jan 2003/2004, p. 54 Row, D.K. “First Thursday,” The Oregonian A&E, Friday, October 31, 2003, p. 27 Row, D.K. “Visual Visionaries,” The Oregonian A & E, cover story, September 19, 2003, pp. 4-14 Allan. Lois, “Jay Backstrand at Laura Russo Gallery,” Artweek, May 2002, p. 25 Row, D.K., “Critic’s Picks,” The Oregonian, March 7, 2002, p. E1 “Sunset Recommends: Artful Dreams,” Sunset Magazine, January 2006, p. 32 “Black Cherry,” 10 Day Planner, The Oregonian, March 1, 2002, p. 30 “Alumni Notes,” 1/4: Pacific Northwest College of Art Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2002, p. 4 Rusunen, Annie Pierce, “’Art within Art’ Offers Hints of Masterpieces,” The Columbian, February 12, 2001, p. D1 Row, D.K., ”Art Trek: The Next Generation,” The Oregonian, September 2, 1999, p. E1 Row, D.K., “Visual Arts,” The Oregonian, August 27, 1999, p. 71 Gragg, Randy, “Art ’98,” The Oregonian, January 1, 1999, p. 55 Gragg, Randy, “The Return of Backstrand,” The Oregonian, March 20, 1998, p. 58 Hopkins, Terri, Figuration in the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection of Prints, (exhibition catalogue), The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR, 1997 Gragg, Randy, “Brushes with the Past,” The Oregonian, August 1, 1997 Stirling, Kassandra Kelly, “Uncommon Visions,” Our Town, April 1990 Hough, Katherine Plake, Northwest by Southwest, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, 1990 Barden, Renardo, “Hot Seats,” Willamette Week, April 16-22, 1987, p. 22 Johnson, Barry, “Sculpting People’s Problems,” The Oregonian, April 10, 1987, p. F16 Allen, Lois, “Odyssey Toward Intuition,” Artweek, April 18, 1987, p. 24 Johnson, Barry, “Critic’s Choice,” The Oregonian, March 1987 Guenther, Bruce, 25th Anniversary Exhibition , Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR 1986 Blatter, Ed, “Jay Backstrand, ” Multnomah Magazine, February 1984, p. 11 Grunes, Dennis, “February Arts Choice, ” The Downtowner, February 1984 Hayakawa, Alan R., “The Many Faces of Backstrand’s Faces, ” The Oregonian, February 10, 1984, pp. H1, H4 Schmitt, Anne, “Desperate Images, ” Willamette Week, March 5, 1984 Strange, (exhibition catalogue), Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1984 Jay Backstrand Paintings 1977-83, exhibition catalogue, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR, Feb-Mar, 1984 Guenther, Bruce, 50 Northwest Artists, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1983, pp. 18-19 Burress, Charles, “A Touch of Northwest Class at The Claremont,” The Oregonian, July 31, 1983 American Drawing in Black and White 1970-80, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York 1980 Drawing: At the Henry, exhibition catalogue, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1980 Malicki, Mary, “Portland Center for the Visual Arts,” Stepping Out Magazine, Vol. 3. No. 3, Fall 1980, pp. 12-14 Art of The Pacific Northwest 1930-74, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC 1974 The 73rd Western Annual, exhibition catalogue, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1971, pp. 119, 133 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 1969 King, Nate, “Backstrand Show Termed Outstanding,” The Oregon Journal, March 1968 Hayakawa, Alan, “Russo Plus Wilson Plus Backstrand,” The Oregonian, September 1964 “Exhibition Scheduled by Trio,” The Oregonian, September 20, 1964 Fagen, Beth, “Exhibitions Opening At Image Gallery, “The Oregonian, June 24, 1962