b. 1971, Dayton, Ohio
Lives and works in Portland, OR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
How to Explain Magic to a Dead Rabbit, Wieden+Kennedy Gallery, Portland, OR
2008
No Man's Land, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA, (catalogue)
2004
Domesticated, Art Concepts, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Animism, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1998
True Story, Midtown Plaza, Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
14th Annual PCNW Members’ Juried Exhibition, curated by Eric Fredericksen, The Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA
Group Show No. 31, curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, NYC, NY
Town & Country: Oregon at 150, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
Short Stories, Wendy Given and Diem Chau, Fifth Floor, Los Angeles, CA
Wolves and Urchins, Wendy Given, Hayley Barker, and Anne Mathern, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, OR
Green Light, Bank of America Building, exhibition loan from Joie Lassiter Gallery to Behringer Harvard, Charlotte, NC, (catalogue)
2008
Multiple Feeds, LAAA's Film & Video 825 and Otis College of Art and Design, curated by Erika Suderburg,
Democracy Forum at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Los Angeles, CA
Outside the Big-Box, Fifth Floor, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Staying Alive, curated by Mary Anna Pomonis, The Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2006
VITAS Film Festival, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Digital World: L.A., curated by S.E. Barnet, Los Angeles, CA
Niche.LA / Lounge 441, Los Angeles, CA
2004
A Minute on Camera, Oct. 21st, Salto Network Television, The Netherlands
Home Grown, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2003
City Zooms.Bremen.2003, Films from Cosmopolitan Cities with sea links,
Uebersee Museum Square, Bremen, Germany
2002
Graduate Thesis Show, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Drawing to a Close, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Gee-Gaws, curated by Jason Forrest, Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC
Work, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Eating, Building 130, Atlanta, GA
The Octavia Hill Project, My Sister's Room, Decatur, GA
1998
Wendy Given: Work, Soho 20, New York, NY
1997
Summer Selections, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Biennial, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Forty Winks for the Four-footed, Project Room, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1996
You Are Here, Atlanta, The Midtown Plaza Galleries, Atlanta, GA
1995
Matthew Burns, Leslie Harding, Wendy Given, Old Highland Bakery Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Essential Expressions, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Landscape, Memory, and Identity: Still More Stories from the World We Live In, King Plow Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; curated by Jerry Cullum, (catalogue)
200 x 200, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA
19, Old Highland Bakery Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1994
7, Urban Nirvana Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1993
Board of Directors Show, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Devils and Angels Show, Urban Nirvana Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Open=Hurt/Does Not Always=, Wendy Given and Cedric DeSouza, Gallery 100, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bowie, Chas. "Twin Collisions of Photos, Sculpture", The Oregonian, June 11, 2010.
Johnson, Barry. "Closing Oregon's Art Gap", The Oregonian, July 6, 2009.
"Independent Art", Bear Deluxe, #29 Summer 2009, p.32-33.
Pomonis, Mary Anna. "Diem Chau and Wendy Given at Fifth Floor", Artweek, June 2009, Volume 40, Issue 5, p.19.
Speer, Richard. "Warlord Sun King, Art Gym: Northwest artists herald the age of 'eco-baroque'", Willamette Week, Vol. 35/18, March 11,2009, p.52.
"Into The Wild", Voices, NY Arts Magazine, January/February 2009, Vol.14 No. 1/2, International Edition, p.12-13.
Parker, Virginia. “The Fine Art of Collecting”, Atlanta Magazine, Best of Atlanta, Vol. 48 No. 8., December 2008 p. 60.
Wood, Eve. “Staying Alive”, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles CA. artUS, Issue 20, Winter 2007.
Cullum, Jerry. “Atlanta Link Comes Vividly To The Forefront”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 18, 2004.
Cullum, Jerry. “Private Universe Lurks Beneath Cartoon Surface”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, August 4, 2000, p. Q8.
Forrest, Jason A. “Forty Winks for the Four Footed”, Art Papers, July/August 1997, p. 48.
Byrd, Cathy. Accent Nexus, Creative Loafing, April 19,1997, p. 28.
Melrod, George. “Alter Pieces Mix With Alter Egos”, Art & Antiques, Page 37, September 1995.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2010
Caldera Residency, February 2010, Sisters, OR
2009
Shortlist Award for Professional Photography, London International Competition (LICC), (catalog—LICC 02 edition)
2001
Betty and Monte Factor Graduate Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1993
The Gene Allcott Memorial Scholarship Merit Award in Painting, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1990-93
Presidential Scholarship, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
EDUCATION
2002
MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1993
BFA, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA