Paul Sutinen
I am an artist living in Portland, Oregon
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
1990-2015
Nine Gallery, Portland Oregon (annually)
2000
Paul Sutinen: Incidents and Ideas 1975-2000, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon
1992
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1990
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1988
Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1987
The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, Oregon
1984
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1981
Hallie Brown Ford Gallery, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
1976
Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, Oregon
Anne Hughes Gallery, Portland, Oregon
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2013
Fruits of Captiva, Rauschenberg Project Space, New York, New York
2012
Nine@25, Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2011
Bonnie Bronson Fellows: 20 Years, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
2007
Members Exhibition, Nine Gallery, Portland Oregon
2005
The Portland Grid Project, 7th Internationale Fototage, Mannheim / Ludwigshafen, Germany
One Foot After Another: Photography, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2003
Later, part of Core Sample, a festival of exhibitions, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2001
The Portland Grid Project, Nine Gallery
The Portland Grid Project, Buckley Center Gallery, University of Portland, Oregon
The Portland Grid Project, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Oregon
2000
Clackamas Sculpture Exposition, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon
1999
Carrying On, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Oregon
1998
Clackamas Sculpture Exposition, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon
1996
Blue Sky Gallery 20th Anniversary Show, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Oregon
1995
Dennis Cunningham and Paul Sutinen, Gresham City Hall, Gresham, Oregon
1994
RE-Presenting the Object, The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, Oregon
1993
Crosscut, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
1992
No on Nine Gallery, Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Sculpture in the Landscape, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, Oregon
1991
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
A Response to the Gulf War, Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Abstraction I: Focus on Form, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Unabandoned Abstraction, The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, Oregon
1990
Miniatures and Small Works, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
4/9ths, Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Clackamas Outdoor Sculpture Invitational, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon.
1989
Oregon Invitational Small Sculpture Exhibition, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
1988
Works on Paper by Sculptors, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1987
Art is the Center, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
Oregon Invitational Small Sculpture Exhibition, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
1986
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, Oregon
1985
Urban Artworks, The Public Art Space, Seattle, Washington
Blue Sky Gallery Tenth Birthday Show, Portland Center for the Visual Arts and Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
1982
Northwest Projects, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
1981
The Farm Project, Glowen Farm, Arlington, Washington
Walls, Siteworks for The Gym, The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, Oregon
1979
Paul Sutinen/Michael Bowley, Buckley Center Gallery, University of Portland, Oregon
1977
Greetings from Portland, Southern Exposure Gallery, Project Artaud, San Francisco, California
Michael Bowley/Paul Sutinen, Wentz Gallery, Museum Art School, Portland, Oregon
1972
Oregon Artists Under 35, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
DESIGN AND CONSULTING PROJECTS:
1999-2005
Arts Build Communities, program of the Oregon Arts Commission, public art consultant, member of design team. Consulted on public art project parameters and planning for the communities of Astoria, Boardman, Cave Junction, Coos Bay, Echo, Enterprise, Falls City, Lowell, Madras, Redmond, Umatilla, Woodburn, and White City, Oregon.
1996-2004
Oregon Holocaust Memorial, member of design team for memorial in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon.
1994-1996
Gresham City Hall, City of Gresham, Oregon. Collaboration with artist Dennis Cunningham on series of artworks integrated into new city office building.
1993-1998
Westside Light Rail, Tri-Met (transportation district, Washington, Multnomah and Clackamas counties, Oregon). Designer for Elmonica Operations Facility walkway, gateway and fencing. Consulted with architects, landscape architect, engineer and other artist on integration of projects into overall planning.
1988-1989
Master Action Plan for the Visual and Cultural Reclamation of Lincoln City, Oregon, sponsored by the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, funded through a Design Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Member of three person design team (landscape architect, community development specialist, artist). Co-writer of final report.
1986-1990
Discipline Based Art Education Advisory Committee, Portland Public Schools, Portland, Oregon. Art criticism consultant to the committee.
1984-1985
West Seattle Bridge Replacement, Phase II, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington. Artist member of design team. Designed artwork.
1983-1984
South Park Blocks Redevelopment Project, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Portland, Oregon. Artist member of design team. Designed and installed paving artwork.
COMMISSIONS:
2000-2001
Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem, Oregon. Stone paving inlay in new plaza.
1994-1996
Gresham City Hall Building, Gresham, Oregon. Three glass murals and collaborative paving work.
1989
Painted steel sculpture, Festival of Flowers, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, Oregon.
1987
Permanent outdoor artwork, Hopkins Family Collection, Portland, Oregon.
1985
Permanent artwork design, West Seattle Bridge Replacement Phase II, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington.
1984
Permanent sculpture, South Park Blocks Redevelopment Project, City of Portland, Oregon.
Drawings for proposed permanent artwork, Urban Artworks, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington.
1983
Temporary site/event related outdoor artwork, Artquake (arts festival), Portland, Oregon.
1982
Temporary site-related outdoor artwork, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon.
1979
Temporary site-related outdoor artwork, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, Oregon.
1976-1977
Drawings and temporary site-related outdoor artworks under the Art in Public Places Program, Metropolitan Arts Commission, Multnomah County and City of Portland, Oregon.
GRANTS AND RESIDENCY
2012
Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, Florida
2005
Bonnie Bronson Fellowship, Oregon Community Foundation
2000
Artist’s Project Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon
1979-1980
Art Critic’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
ART RELATED COMMUNITY SERVICE
2000-2004
Member of the Grants Review Committee, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon
1998-1999
Member of the Citizen Advisory Committee for Park Block 5, City of Portland, Oregon
1994-1996
Member of the Public Art Advisory Committee, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon
1983-1986
Member of the Board of Directors of Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Chair of the Exhibition Committee
ART CRITICISM EXPERIENCE
1980-
Freelance art critic. Articles and essays published in Oregon ArtsWatch (https://www.orartswatch.org/), Visions (Los Angeles), Artweek (Oakland), Vanguard (Vancouver, B.C.), Art Express (New York), National Arts Guide (Chicago), Oregon Arts Commission News, and in exhibition catalogs for Marylhurst University, and Portland Center for the Visual Arts
1974-1983
Art critic for Willamette Week newspaper; 194 articles published
1982
Panelist for discussion of “regional criticism,” convention of the American Section of the International Association of Art Critics, New York
1973-1974
Art critic for Oregon Times
1973
Art critic for The Portland Scribe
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Collier, Patrick, Spot On: Time for Nine, http://www.orartswatch.org/spot-on-time-for-nine/, September 24, 2012.
Inocencio, Maria, Nine@25, [exhibition catalog], Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2012.
Bonnie Bronson Fellows: 20 Years, [exhibition catalog, several writers], Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 2011.
Jahn, Jeff, Paul Sutinen at the Nine Gallery, PORT, http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2008/05/paul_sutinen_at.html, May 2, 2008
Hull, Roger, Paul Sutinen, Sculpture, Washington, DC, May 2001, p. 70.
Allan, Lois, Paul Sutinen: Incidents and Ideas 1975-2000, Marylhurst University,
Marylhurst, Oregon, 2000.
Photo Americas 2000 (CD-ROM), Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, 2000.
Walch, Dean M., Eyes of a City: A City of Eyes (CD-ROM), Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, 2000.
Walch, Dean M., 1998 Sculpture Exposition, Clackamas Community College (CD-ROM), Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon, 1998.
Row, D.K., Curating on a hunch, The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, May 8, 1998.
Walch, Dean M., Blue Sky Gallery 20th Anniversary CD-ROM, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, 1997.
Allan, Lois, Contemporary Art in the Northwest, Craftsman House, 1995.
Anderson, David R. , Art from the ground up, The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Dec. 30, 1994, p.B2.
Francis, Kevin, Is It Art?, Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon, Feb. 9-15, 1994, p. 57.
Gragg, Randy, Critic’s Choice — RE-Presenting the Object, The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Feb. 4, 1994, A&E p.26.
Ferranto, M.D., You call that art? RE-Presenting the Object at The Art Gym, Arts Oregon, Jan. 1994, p. 40.
Hopkins, Terri, Paul Sutinen , RE-Presenting the Object — evidence, notes and observations (exhibition catalog), The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Oregon, 1994.
Edmunds, Kristy; Roberts; Prudence; Toedtemeier, Terry; Weber, John, CROSSCUT, Contemporary Art from Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 1993, unpaginated.
Gragg, Randy, Critic’s Choice: Paul Sutinen, The Oregonian, Portland, February 12, 1993, p. A&E 29.
Weinstein, Joel, The art of seeing nature, The Oregonian, Portland, November 6, 1992, p. A&E 27.
Allan, Lois, Sculpture in the Landscape, Time/Space Relationships, Reflex, Seattle, November/December, 1992, P. 22.
Allan, Lois, “NO ON 9” AT NINE GALLERY (PORTLAND) , Reflex, Seattle, November/December, 1992, P. 27.
Norred, Chris, Exploring art from a different perspective, The Lake Oswego Review, Lake Oswego, Oregon, October 29, 1992, p. C1.
Bonansinga, Kate, Paul Sutinen, The Liberation of Reduction, Reflex, Seattle, July/August, 1992, p.16.
Whittemore, L.J., SERVICE TO THE IDEA: Conceptual Art in Portland, Reflex, Seattle, March/April, 1992, p.11.
Lawrence, Debra Y., REGIONAL ABSTRACTIONS, Reflex, Seattle, March/April 1991, p. 18.
Carlsson, Jae, ABSTRACTION: FOCUS ON FORM at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, (Portland), Reflex, Seattle, March/April 1991, p. 18.
Allan, Lois, Abstraction Undaunted, Artweek, Oakland, February 7, 1991, p. 17.
Henderson, Christine, Elizabeth Leach [Gallery], Willamette Week, Portland, January 31-February 6, 1991, p. 24.
Larson, John M., Marylhurst exhibit shows commitment to abstract art form, Lake Oswego Review, Oregon, January 31, 1991, p. C1.
Gragg, Randy, Old meets new, The Oregonian, Portland, January 18, 1991, p. R24.
Gragg, Randy, Formalism or not? Yes and no, The Oregonian, Portland, January 18, 1991, p. R25.
Hopkins, Terri, editor, Paul Sutinen (interview), Unabandoned Abstraction, Past and Present Works by Judy Cooke, Mel Katz, Lucinda Parker, Margaret Shirley, Paul Sutinen (exhibition catalog), The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Oregon, 1991.
Banyas, Rebecca, editor, What is Formalism? A discussion held in conjunction with Abstraction I: Focus on Form, an exhibit at Elizabeth Leach Gallery January 3-February 2, 1991, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, January 2, 1991.
Halloran, Anne-Marie, Experimental art show should arouse the curious, The Downtowner, Portland, December, 1990.
Gragg, Randy, Now, enjoy art in great outdoors, The Oregonian, Portland, April 27, 1990, p. R25.
Johnson, Barry, At Leach, how sculptors take to paper, The Oregonian, Portland, June 2, 1988.
Johnson, Barry, Gallery shows range from funky to austere, The Oregonian, Portland, June 2, 1988, p. B6.
Johnson, Barry, Sutinen’s artful ‘woodworks’ featured in Marylhurst show, The Oregonian, Portland, October 21, 1987.
Hopkins, Terri, Afterword, Paul Sutinen, Portland, Oregon, Five Works 1982-1987 (exhibition catalog), The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Oregon, 1987.
See Portland’s new arts complex—as part of a 2 1/4 mile tour of public art, Sunset, Menlo Park, California, August 1987.
Geology on the walls of Portland, Sunset, Menlo Park, California, March, 1986.
Sutinen, Paul, Wood in Wood, Willamette Week, Portland, October 12-18, 1982.
Ullman, Sabrina, Siteworks at Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Willamette Week, Portland, September 28-October 4, 1982.
Hayakawa, Alan, ’Sitework’ branching out all over, The Oregonian, Portland, September 17, 1982.
Cropp, Mildred L., Sutinen exhibit reflects visions, Collegian, Willamette University, Salem, November 12, 1981.
Steinman, Louise, Keeping ’em down on the farm…, The Oregonian, Portland, September 24, 1981.
Kangas, Matthew, DOWN ON THE FARM: ENVIRONMENTAL SCULPTURE INVITATIONAL, Artweek, Oakland, September 12, 1981.
Miller, Michael, Pair utilize ’space’, The Beacon, University of Portland, Oregon, April 5, 1979.
Sutinen, Paul, Sweep, High Performance, Los Angeles, Vol. 2, No. 3, September, 1979.
Sutinen, Paul, Chapters, Dropping Spheroids, High Performance, Los Angeles, Vol. 1, No. 3, September, 1978.
Murch, Anna Valentina, FOUR PORTLAND ARTISTS AND A PERFORMANCE WORK, Artweek, Oakland, February, 1977.
Hull, Roger, ART VIEWS: A SHOW THAT TELLS YOU TO TAKE A WALK, The Oregonian, Portland, December 12, 1976.
Hull, Roger, ART VIEWS: WHAT’S AT STAKE?, The Oregonian, Portland, April 18, 1976.
Zusman, Barbara, Art of Change, SUTINEN AND McINTIRE, Artweek, Oakland, April 10, 1976.
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