ERIK SANDGREN
born 1952, Corvallis, OR

811 N. Thornton St., Aberdeen, WA 98520
phone h. (360) 538-0716 o. (360) 538-4176
esandgre@ghc.edu

http://www.broderickgallery.com
http://www.karinclarkegallery.com
http://www.portlandartmuseum.org

EDUCATION AND SPECIAL STUDY
1987 National Endowment for the Humanities/Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH; Summer Seminar in English Romanticism
1977 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
MFA painting and printmaking
Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut
BA magna cum laude with distinction in art.

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2006, 03 Artist in Residence, Alfred and Trafford Klotts Residency Program,
Rochefort-en-Terre, France Maryland Institute College of Art
2002 Grays Harbor College Faculty Excellence Development Grant
2001 Betty Brose Art About Agriculture Purchase Award, Oregon State University
2000 Grays Harbor College Faculty Excellence Development Grant
1998 Grays Harbor College President's Award for Faculty Excellence
1997 The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Meritorious
Achievement Award for Set Design, Lady in Black
1995-6 Fulbright Teaching Exchange, Hastings College of Art and Technologies, Hastings, England.
1992 Grant for Artist Projects (GAP) from Artist Trust: A Resource for Washington.
1989 Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Education Program Grant
1988 Chesapeake College Meritorious Service Award.
1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in English Romantic Literature and the Visual Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
1980 Oregon Committee for the Humanities Research and Project Grant.
1975-7 Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1974-5 Tuition Scholarship, Yale University.
1974 Ellen Battell-Stoeckel Scholarship Yale at Norfolk School for Music and Art.

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene, OR
CAPS Gallery, Saint Martins College, Lacy, WA
2005 Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR “Life Forces: Air and Water”
Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene,OR “Responsive Inventions/Inventive responses”
2004 Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR ”Reportage and Interpretations”
2003 John Spellman Library, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, WA
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR “Real and Imagined”
2002 Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Spirited Stone, Spirited Water”
Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR “Sandgren and Sandgren”
2001 Aberdeen Timberland Library, Aberdeen WA
2000 John Spellman Library, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, WA “Metamorphics”
1998 Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Humanities Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1996 Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR, "Two Generations: Sandgren and Sandgren"
John Spellman Library, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, WA
1994 Pierce College Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA "Symbolic History"
1993 Image Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Ilwaco Heritage Foundation, Ilwaco, WA
John Spellman Library, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen,WA
1992 Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, OR
1989 Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Wye Center, Queenstown, MD
Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD
1988 Arsenal Gallery, Department of Parks, New York, NY
Kent Island Federation of the Arts, Stevensville, MD
Image Gallery, Portland, OR “Nelson and Erik Sandgren”
1987 A.M. Adler Fine Arts, New York, NY
School #33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD “Inside Out: Donald Cook and Erik
Sandgren”
1986 Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, OR “Sandgren and Sandgren”
1985 Ford Gallery, Willamette University, Salem, OR “Dynamic Duo”

SELECTED JURIED, INVITATIONAL, AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR “This Bountiful Place”
Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene, OR
Pegasus Gallery, Corvallis, OR
Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA “Confluence”
Print Arts Northwest, Portland., OR “Birds on the Wing”
Portland Art Museum Rental / Sales Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Hult Center, Eugene, OR “This Everlasting Valley”
2004 Lessebo Handpapperbruk, Lessebo, Sweden
Faculty Exhibition, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
2003 Painters: Outside and Onsite, Valley Art Association, Forest Grove, OR
ArtSpace Gallery, Bay City, OR
2002 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition, Univ. of Hawaii, Hilo, HI
The Drawing Center’s 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition,
The Drawing Center, NewYork, NY
2002 CarnegieArt Center, Northwest Print Council, Oregon City, OR
Art About Agriculture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Jacobs Gallery Hult Center, Eugene, OR “Painters of Oregon Landscape”
PNCA, Portland, OR NWPC in conjunction with “Crossing Boundaries”
Spellman Library, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen WA
Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA "Northwest Natural: Meitsler, Randlett and Sandgren”
Pacific Lutheran University Gallery, Tacoma, WA "Turn of the Century"
Northwest Print Council, Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, OR
1999 Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA “>From Here to the Horizon: Artists of the Rural Landscape” curated by Susan Bennerstrom
Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR
Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
Taylor and Sons Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
John Spellman Library, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen WA “Raven, Glyph, Stone: Seen and Imagined”
1998 Stonington Gallery, Seattle, WA
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR "Northwest Expressions" juried exhibition
1998 Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH "Drawing from Perception ”
Governor's Gallery, Olympia, WA "China/Washington Print Exchange"
1997 The Oregon History Center, Portland, OR, "Print Art: A Northwest Regional Exhibition," juror: Roberta Waddell, Curator of Prints and Drawings N.Y.C. Public Library
ArtSpace Gallery, Bay City, OR, "Sandgren, Sandgren, Clarke, Heisel and Heisel"
Graystone Gallery, Portland, OR “Stark Raven Mad”
1996 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, E. Sussex, U.K "Cross Currents"
John Spellman Library, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen WA “A European Journey: Paintings by Erik Sandgren”
1995 University of Hawaii at Hilo, Pacific Rim International Juried Print Exhibition
State of the Arts Gallery, Olympia, WA
1994 University of Hawaii at Hilo, Northwest Print Invitational
University of Montana, Missoula, MT, Northwest Print Council Exhibition
1992 Kirsten Gallery, Seattle, WA "Magic, Myth and Vision"
1992 Image Gallery, Portland, OR "Forest Images from the Far Corner"
Northwest Print Council Community College Traveling Exhibition
Brigham City Museum, Brigham City, UT "Computer Art from the Western States"
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR "Art About Agriculture 1992"
1991 Governor's Office, Olympia, WA "Washington Printmakers"
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA "51st Annual Exhibition of Northwest Watercolors”
Haynes Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
"The Relief Print"
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR NWPC 10th Annual Exhibition
1990 University of Oregon Museum of Art, Department of Visual Resources, Eugene, OR "Computers and the Creative Process"
Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR “Silver Summer”
1989 Chicago Center for the Print, Chicago, IL, The Chicago Art Expo.
Maryland Institute College of Art “Artscape ’88” Baltimore, MD,
juror: Eric Fischl
NWPC-USIS, Buenos Aires, Argentina "Grabadores Norteamericanos"
1987 Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD "23rd Annual Juried Show”
juror: William Olander
1986 Beijing, P R C Northwest Print Council Traveling Exhibit
1985 Artists’ Choice Museum, New York, NY “The Figure in the Landscape”
Curators: Jack Beal and Judd Tully
School #33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD “Works on Paper,”
Curator: Nancy Lurie,
Wentz Gallery, PNWCA, Portland, OR "New Horizons in Printmaking"
1984 The Drawing Center, New York, NY “Selections 24,”
Galleri Norske Grafikere, Oslo, Norway
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT “The Art of Drawing”
University of Oregon Visual Arts Resources Traveling Exhibition “Watercolor: Oregon”
1983 Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ "National Drawing '83,"Bernard Chaet, juror
Maryland Statehouse, Annapolis, MD "Landscape: Five Baltimore Painters"
City Hall Gallery, Baltimore, MD "Contemporary Printmaking in Maryland"
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD "Maryland Artists Juried Exhibition"
El Camino College, Los Angeles, CA "Los Angeles Printmaking Society/Northwest Print Council Exchange Exhibition"
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA "43rd Annual Juried Exhibition of Northwest Watercolors"
1982 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
"Contemporary Expression in Traditional Media"
School #33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD "Figure I"
Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR "Oregon Printmakers Annual"
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR "Northwest Prints '82"

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS
This Bountiful Place: Art About Agriculture, the permanent Collection
Editor, Shelley Curtis, Oregon Historical Society Press and College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University, 2006
Coast On Over, Newport, OR Nov./Dec. 2001 p3 “Northwest Print Council show open at Visual Art Center”
Aberdeen Daily World, Friday, 5 October 2001 A2, “Open House at Aberdeen library honors artist Erik Sandgren” Sunday, 7 October 2001, photograph A1
Journey: AAA Magazine, “Washington Painters” January/February 2001
Crosscurrents: annual publication of the Washington Community and Technical College
Humanities Association - Vol 21, Fall 2004: 85, 89, 95, 97 Vol. 20, Fall 2003: 20,23,25, Vol. 19, Spring 2000: 35,39,49,52,53,56 Vol. 18, Fall 2000: 19,28, 29, Vol. 17, Fall 1999: 25, 28, 29, 32, Vol. 16, Fall 1998: 49, 97, 103, Vol. 15. Spring 97: cover, 52-55, 133
Prints Across the Pacific: 1998, NWPC illustrated project catalog
Aberdeen Daily World, Sunday, Dec. 8, 1996, Section B cover story "Profile" by M. Plaster
Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, Illustrated Exhibition Catalogue: Hilo, Hawaii
Illustrated Exhibition Catalogue: University of Hawaii at Hilo, NWPC Invitational
Raven Chronicles, Winter, Vol. 3, No. 2, Seattle. WA, contributing artist
Arnazella, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue WA, contributing artist
Exhibition Catalogue: 51st Annual Exhibition of Northwest Watercolors,
1991 Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Northwest Art and Artists, July-August 1990, “Mahlon Sweet Airport Mural”
New Art Examiner, March 1988, Vol.15, No.7, p.51, review by Carol Wood
Baltimore Sun, Dec. 8, 1987, 1C, Inverse Operations, review by John Dorsey
Talbot Banner, June 11, 1986, p7, Art in the Wild by W. Kirby
American Apocalypses by J. Robinson, Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1985, illustrations
Baltimore Cable 6, The Creators, televised interview series segment, Spring 1985
The Art of Drawing, Bernard Chaet, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 3rd Ed., 1983 fig’s 95, 117
Baltimore News American, Dec. 19, 1982, 1F, review by R.P. Harris
Newsletter for the Oregon Committee for the Humanities, 1980 The Car as Lens, by R. Lowry and E. Sandgren

ERIK SANDGREN
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Aberdeen Museum, Aberdeen, WA
Aberdeen Timberland Library, Aberdeen, WA
Arches Paper Co., New York, NY
Bishop Foundation, Bishop Center for Performing Arts, Aberdeen, WA
California Institute of the Arts,
Visual Arts Library Artists Book Collection, Valencia, CA
Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR
China National Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, Peoples Republic of China
Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Franklin Furnace Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Gilkey Print Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, WA
Grays Harbor Community Hospital, Aberdeen, WA
Guilford College Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, East Sussex, England
Hoquiam Timberland Library, Hoquiam, WA
Klippan AB/Lessebo Handpappersbruk, Lessebo, Sweden
Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
Montesano Timberland Library, Montesano, WA
Oregon State University, College of Agricultural Sciences, Corvallis, OR
Pierce College, Tacoma, WA
Polson Museum, Hoquiam, WA
Isabel Klots Collection, Rochefort-en Terre
Safeco Insurance Co. Corporate Art Collection, Seattle, WA
St. Martin's Abbey, Lacey, WA
Shelton Timberland Library, Shelton, WA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT