Artist List    Anne Siems    Images  |  Bio Born: 1965, Berlin, Germany EDUCATION M.F.A., Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany 1991 Fulbright Scholarship for studies at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN 1986-87 ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY (upcoming) 2011 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN (upcoming) 2011 “Wolpertinger and Other Creatures,” Jacana Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2010 “Heart Branches and Strange Plants,” Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA 2010 “Taxonomy of the Velvet Forest,” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2010 “Connected,” David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2009 “Butterfly Flight and Other Stories,” Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA 2009 “Birds,” Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY 2009 “New Work,” Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008 “Lace,” Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2007 Muse, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2006 “Portraits,” Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 “The Gift of Dream,” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004 “Daydream,” Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 New Work, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT 2004 “Home,” David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2004 Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 2004 “Infant, Boy, Girl,” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2003 “Kinder,” Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 2003 “Children,” Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 2003 “Bloom,” Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 “This Vision,” David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2002 “Land in this Body,” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 “Erde,” Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 2001 Winston Wachter Mayer Gallery, New York, NY 2001 James Gallery, Houston, TX 1999, 2000, 2001 “From Within and Above,” Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 University of Texas, San Marcos, Texas 2000 “I Gather Myself Beneath Myself,” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee 1999 Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 1999 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 “Thoughts in the Night,” Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1998 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 1998 “Nocturnes,” The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1998 “Inside a Feathered Body,” Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1997 Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1993, 1995, 1996 “Unfolded in Stillness,” Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1996 The Membrane of My Breath, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 Botanical Vision, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID 1996 The Garden Behind Closed Eyes, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 1996 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994 California State University San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, San Bernardino, CA 1994 Oregon School of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR 1994 Flower Anatomy, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1994 Works of Summer, Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Invented Memory, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR 1994 University of Alaska-Anchorage, Anchorage, AK 1994 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993, 1994 Sorg Design, Berlin, Germany 1991 Light Band Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1990 Frank Wegener, Steuerberater, Berlin, Germany 1988 Hertin, Nordemann & Vinck, Berlin, Germany 1988 Cafe Ubersee, Berlin, Germany 1988 University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee 1987 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS “Taste,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2011 Sue Greenwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2011 “SUBstainability, Texas State University, Austin, TX 2011 “A Debt to Pleasure,” Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 2011 The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA 2010 Aqua Fair Miami, FL 2010 Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT 2010 “Fantastical Imagining,” Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE & Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD 2008-2009 “(In)Between,” Wexler Gallery, Featured artists include Damien Hirst, Randall Sellers, Adelaide Paul, Tim Tate, Anne Siems, Dirk Staschke and Joe Boruchow; Philadelphia, PA 2008 20th Anniversary Group Show, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2005 Reading Meaning: Word and Symbol in the Art of Squeak Cornwath, Leslie Dill, Leslie Anders Lee and Anne Siems, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Clairmont, CA 2004 Works on Paper, The Armory, New York, NY 1998 Director’s Council Exhibit, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN 1998 All Fired Up, Planned Parenthood Benefit, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 1998 The Garden Show, PICA, Portland, OR 1997 Works on Paper, The Armory, New York, NY 1997 Out of Eden, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO 1997 SAFECO Collection, Jundt Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 1997 Botanically Inspired: Geraldine Ondrizek & Anne Siems, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT 1997 Memphis College of Art Biennial, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN 1997 Beeswax, Soil Gallery, Seattle WA 1997 Images That Make the Heart Murmur, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996 Tree as Icon, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 1996 Seventh National Juried Exhibition, Viridian, New York, NY 1996 A Collective Endeavor: Artfair Seattle 1992-1995, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA 1996 Gardens: Primeval and Eternal, Delta Axis, Memphis, TN 1996 Paperworks, Cohen/Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1995 Open Space, Victoria, B.C. 1995 New Art '94, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 1994 Art Books, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994 Artist's Gardens, Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994 French & Siems, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent, Portland, OR 1993 Botanic, Sean Elwood Fine Art, Seattle, WA 1993 Issues of Response: Collaboration Among Three People, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 1993 Notes On Nature; The Last Acetate Show: Memorial to Red Spot, The Palladium, New York, NY 1992 Figure: 7, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1992 Northwest Juried Art: 1992, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 1992 Gallery Artists, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, OR 1992 Seattle Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA 1992 Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1992 Silences Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991 O-HDK, Berlin, Germany 1990 FBK, Berlin, Germany 1990 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung-FBK, Berlin, Germany 1989 Klasse Petrick Bei Siemens AG, Berlin, Germany 1988 COLLECTIONS Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK American Airlines, Seattle, WA Benziger Winery, Benziger Imagery Series, Sangiovese Chianti Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Bullivant Houser Bailey Harry Connick, Jr. Hallmark Collection, New York, NY Irene Mahler Fine Art, Seattle, WA Microsoft Collection, Redmond, WA Mueller Design Inc. Nestle USA, Glendale, CA Nordstrom Oregon Health and Science University, Kohler Pavilion, Portland, OR Safeco Collection, Seattle, WA Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA University Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA GRANTS AND AWARDS OCAC 90th Anniversary, Residency, Portland, OR 1997 Neddy Award Nominee, Seattle, WA 1996 Alice Rooney NW Women Artists Stipend for Pilchuck Glass School 1995 Artquake, Juror Ned Rifkin, 1st Prize, Drawing, Portland, OR 1994 PUBLICATIONS “‘A Debt to Pleasure’: Allegory and Realism in Contemporary Painting at Montserrat College of Art,” artdaily.org, March 5, 2011, online at http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=45366 “Through Field and Forest,” illustrated by Anne Siems, Small Magazine, Winter 2010, Issue 16, online at http://smallmagazine.net/index.asp?issue=17&page=8 Adams, Anne, “First Thursday Picks,” Portland Monthly, June 30, 2010, online at http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/blogs/culturephile-portland-arts/063010-firstthursday-cp/ Kangas, Matthew, “Anne Siems: ‘Taxonomy of the Velvet Forest’ at Grover/Thurston Gallery,” Art Ltd, March/April 2010, pp. 21-22 Pullin, Rachel, “Phantoms in the Woods: Anne Siems’s Hanted Old-Time Paintings of the Young,” The Stranger, www,thestranger,com, Seattle, WA, February 16, 2010 Koeppel, Fredric, “Separate Shows conjoined in truths,” GoMemphis, November 6, 2009 Cook, Greg, “Primitive Soul,” The Phoenix, Boston, Massachusetts, July 14, 2009 Speer, Richard, “Now Showing: Jan Reaves and Anne Siems,” Willamette Week, May 6, 2009, p. 53 Smith, Heather, “A Theatre of Memory,” TheOtherJournal.com, Issue #14, February 12, 2009 Cantor, Allyn, “Anne Siems: Tableau,” Preview, June / July / August 2007, Cover Image and p. 12 Reading Meaning: Word and Symbol in the Art of Squeak Cornwath, Leslie Dill, Leslie Anders Lee and Anne Siems, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. 2004 Updike, Robin. "New work explores psyche." Seattle Times. June 3, 1999 Josslin, Victoria. "Painters analyze identity through botany." Seattle Post-Intelligencer. June 25, 1999 Bonansinga, Kate. New Art Examiner. June 1999 Updike, Robin. Seattle Times. September 1997 Updike, Robin. Seattle Times. May 1996 Smith, Tracy. Art in America. October 1996 The Oregonian. January 20, 1995 ARTnews. December 1994 REFLEX. March/April, 1994 Laurence, Michael. Visions. Spring, 1994 Adamson, Loch. The New Art Examiner. May 1994 Lave, Rebecca. Willamette Week. June 1994 Cowan, Ron. Statesman Journal. June 3, 1994 Spiegel, Judith. Artscene. October 1993