Victoria Adams
Born: Columbus OH
EDUCATION
1979 BFA, University of Washington, School of Art, Seattle WA
1973 BA Honors, Literature, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011 New Paintings, Arden Gallery, Boston MA
Horizon Variations, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
2010 Where Sky Meets Earth: The Luminous Landscapes of Victoria Adams, Tacoma Art
Museum, Northwest Perspectives Series (catalogue available)
Deep Blue Day, Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle WA
Written on the Sky, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
2009 Vantage, Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle WA
Lux Art Institute, Encinitas CA (with Artist’s Residency)
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner WA
2008 Updraft, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
Recent Landscapes, Arden Gallery, Boston MA
2006 Refugia, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
Weather Shift: Recent Landscapes, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle WA
2005 Natural Order: Recent Landscapes. Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
The Still Point: Recent Landscapes. Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
2004 Depths and Horizons: Recent Paintings. Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle WA
2003 Earth and Air: Recent Paintings. Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
2002 Recent Landscapes. Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle WA
2001 New Paintings. Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
Terrains. Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
2000 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
1999 Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art, New York NY
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
1998 Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale WA
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA
1997 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR
1996 Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
1995 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR
1994 Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA
1992 Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA
1990 Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle WA
Sheila Nussbaum Gallery, Millburn NJ
1986 Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle WA
Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton NY
1984 Albion College, Albion MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Chicago Art Fair, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
2009 Museum of NW Art, Dreaming: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Landscapes, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
Gage Academy of Art, Seattle WA
2008 Chicago Art Fair, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
Seeds of Compassion, Friesen Fine Art, Seattle WA
Art Palm Beach, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
2007 Landscapes, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
US Artists, Philadelphia PA, Somerville/Manning Gallery, Greenville DE
Art Toronto, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
The 8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
2006 ArtToronto, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
Art 2006, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
8th Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA
Landscapes Real & Imagined, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham MI
2005 North by Northwest, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York
8 Artists from the Northwest, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle
2004 A Sense of Place, Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma WA
Second Nature, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle
Chicago Art Fair., Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
The Grand View: From Bierstadt to Brophy, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner WA
Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA, (catalog), traveling to:
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings MT; Moore College of Art and Design, Phil. PA
Roberta Lieberman: A Sharp Eye: An Art Dealer's 40 Year Journey, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL
There, There: Landscape Now, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
2003 A Sofa Underneath a Painting, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA
Building Tradition: Gifts in Honor of the Northwest Art Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA (catalog)
2002 ANA 31, Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago IL, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
2001 Northwest Views: Selections from the Safeco Collection, Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago IL, Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
Gallery Artists, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
2000 Landscape Dialogue: The Henry Responds to Viewers, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA
San Francisco International Art Exhibition, San Francisco CA, Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA
The American Landscape,Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle WA
Reinventing Landscape, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
1999 San Francisco International Art Exhibition, San Francisco CA, Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Summer '99, Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art, New York NY
Sense of Place, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
From Here to the Horizon: Artists of the Rural Landscape, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham WA
1998 Movements of Grace: Spirit in the American Landscape, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York NY
San Francisco International Art Exhibition, San Francisco CA, Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1997 True Art: Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
Art Santa Fe International Artfair, Santa Fe NM, Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton FL
Seattle Artfair, Seattle WA, Gail Severn Gallery and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
1996 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibit, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR
Open Skies, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene OR
Chicago Artfair, Chicago IL, Elizabeth Leach Gallery
1995 Seattle Artfair, Seattle WA, Gail Severn Gallery and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID
Ledbetter/Lusk Gallery, Memphis TN
The Land: Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
Three Landscape Painters: Victoria Adams, James Lavadour, David Kroll, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA
Seattle Artfair, Seattle WA, Gail Severn Gallery and Grover/Thurston Gallery
Triton Contemporary Artfair, San Francisco CA, Gail Severn Gallery
1994 New Landscapes: West Coast, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID.
Sense of Place, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA
1993 New Landscape, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA
1991 American Art in Embassies Program, Lima Peru
1989 Northwest International Art Exhibition ,Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham WA
1987 Joint Faculty Exhibit, State University of New York, Potsdam NY
1985 Pacific States Printmakers, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI
1983 Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA
1980 Drawing Relationships with Prints, Davidson Gallery, Seattle WA
RESIDENCIES
2009 Lux Art Institute, Encinitas CA (with solo exhibition)
2002 Experimental Workshop, Emeryville CA
2000 Experimental Workshop, Emeryville CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Seattle University, Seattle WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner WA
G Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids MI
Boeing Corporate Headquarters, Chicago IL
Allen Foundation for the Arts, Seattle WA
Nordstrom Corporation, nationwide
U.S. Dept. of State, Washington D.C.
Art in Embassies Program, Lima, Peru
Zymogenetics, Seattle WA
University Club, Portland OR
Port of Seattle, Seattle WA
SAFECO Insurance, Seattle WA
City of Chicago, Chicago IL
Bank of America Corporation, Chicago IL and Seattle WA
FDIC, Chicago IL
US Bancorp, Portland OR
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Whatcom Community College, Bellingham WA
Washington State Public Schools, Seattle WA
Providence Hospital, Seattle WA
Swedish Hospital, Seattle WA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle WA
WRQ, Seattle WA
Kaiser Permanente, Portland OR
Collins Foundation, Portland OR
American Airlines, San Francisco CA
Texaco, White Plains NY
Ceasar’s Palace, Las Vegas NV
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Hushka, Rock, “Magnificent Solitude,” Where Sky Meets Earth: The Luminous Landscapes of Victoria Adams” exhibition catalogue essay, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
American Artist,
Veranda,
2009 Pincus, Robert, San Diego Union-Tribune, “Differing Visions,” May 7
2008 Leggio, Gail, American Arts Quarterly, Fall, “Art and Likeness: Realism in the Galleries”
Shaw, Reesey, Updraft, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID, catalogue essay
Rose, Joshua, American Art Collector, November, Arden Gallery exhibit reviewed
2007 “Savannah Chic,” Traditional Home, Nov., pp. 198-203
Hushka, Rock, The 8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, catalogue essay,
Rose, Joshua, American Art Collector, January, Gail Severn Gallery exhibit reviewed
2006 Rose, Joshua, American Art Collector, April, Winston Wachter Fine Art exhibit reviewed
2004 Sawahata, Lesa, "Gold Standard," Seattle Homes and Lifestyles, Feb., p. 60
Hushka, Rock, Building Tradition: Gifts in Honor of the Northwest Art Collection, catalogue essay, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
Hushka, Rock, "'Tis Nothing But What True Is: Traces of the Legacy of Lewis and Clark in Contemporary Art," Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory, catalogue essay, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
2003 Metropolitan Home, July/August, p. 119
2002 Gangelhoff, Bonnie, "Up, Down, and All Around: Six Western Painters," Southwest Art, February
2001 Glowen, Ron, "Northwest Representational Art," Northwest Views: Selections from the Safeco Collection. Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA (exhibition catalog)
Hawkins, Margaret, exhibition review, Chicago Sun-Times, 12/14
Durr-Albert, Stacy, "Fantasy Island," Timber Homes Illustrated, October
Howard, Rhonda Lane, "Preserving Desire: Neo-Romantic Views," Victoria Adams: Terrains, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID (exhibition catalog)
Howard, Rhonda Lane, "New Frontiers: Secondhand Landscape," Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA (catalogue essay)
Johnson, Ken, "New and Noteworthy, Victoria Adams," New York Times, 6/25
1997 New American Painting, Pacific Coast Edition, Needham, MA: Open Studios Press. Juror: Clare Bell, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Guggenheim Museum
Women Artists, San Raphael, CA: Cedco Publishing Company
1996 Updike, Robin, "Luminous Landscapes," Seattle Times, 7/12
1995 New American Painting, Western Edition, Needham, MA: Open Studios Press.
Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum
Updike, Robin, "The Land: Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum,” Seattle Times
Glowen, Ron, "The Land: Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum," Everett Herald
1991 Contemporary American Women Artists, San Raphael, CA: Cedco Publishing Company
Willow Springs, No. 29, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA