MARY ANN PETERS

Born: Beaumont, TX 1949
Lives and works in Seattle, WA

EDUCATION

1978 M.F.A University of Washington, Seattle, Wa; painting/drawing

1971 B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, Ca; printmaking

ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2006 James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000 Palimpsest Richard Hugo House, Seattle, Wa

1999 Myself Inside Your Story, onsite drawing, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, Wa

1998 If Thinking is Form, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, Wa

1996 Myself Inside Your Story, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, Wa

1995 Four Corners Open Studio, Seattle, Wa

1994 Notes, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Nugent Gallery, Portland, Or

1989 Espana, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Wa
And Now This, "Eyes of Love; Windows on AIDS" project, Seattle, Wa

1988 The Pool, 911 Contemporary Arts Center Windows Project, Seattle, Wa

1987 Eide (working drawings), Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Wa

1985 The Picture Wall, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Wa
Notes Towards the Picture Wall, Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, Wa

1984 Silent Partners, Marylhurst College, Portland, Or

1983 Silent Partners, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Wa

1981 New Work, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Wa

1980 Site Unseen, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Wa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 A Decade of Excellence: Celebrating the Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Wa.
Lucky 7, WinstonWachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA.

2004 Paperworks, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Perspectives; Selections for City of Seattle, 1% Program Trade & Convention Center, Seattle, Wa

2003 Variations of Abstraction, City Space Convention Center, Seattle, WA

2002 Northwest Masters, City Space Convention Center, Seattle, WA

2002 Artist in Residence, Hoffman Gallery, OCAC, Portland, Or

2000 Neddy Fellowship Behnke Foundation invitational, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA

1998 Neddy Fellowship Behnke Foundation invitational, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA Drawing, national invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA Northwesterners, Fresh Paint Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca

1997 Meeting in Art I, International Art Workshop, invitational, Istanbul, Turkey
Drawing, national invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Assoc., Seattle, WA

1996 Surface Stories, Clark College, Vancouver, WA

1995 Visionaries, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle , WA
Metaphor, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Seattle Noir Iinvitational, Vox Populi Gallery, Seattle, WA

1994 Spatial Flux: A Means of Expression, Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle, WA
Telling Stories: Looking for Narrative in Visual Art, Newmark Center, Seattle, WA

1993 Invitational, 1004 Gallery Port Townsend, Wa
Art Works for AIDS invitational, Seattle, WA
Proposals: New Projects at the Port Italia Gallery, Seattle, WA

1992 Lingua Franca, Falkirk Cultural Center, Richmond, CA
Women Painters in the Northwest, Viking Gallery, Bellingham, WA
Bill of Rights, David Shearer Gallery, Seattle, WA
Poncho Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA

1991 The Big and The Small of It, Northview Gallery, Portland Comm. Col., Portland, OR Artists Respond to the War, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Visual AIDS Project, New York City, NY
Poncho Invitational, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA
Notes towards Akbar’s Muse, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Notes towards Akbar’s Muse, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1990 Organic Abstraction, Bumbershoot Arts Festival invitational, Seattle. WA

1989 Northwest Annual, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

1988 University of Washington School of Art 1950-1980, Safeco Corp., Seattle, WA

1987 Aspects of Drawing; Abstraction, City of Seattle Public Art Space, Seattle, WA.
Focus: Seattle, San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, CA
Structures, Northwest Building Corporation, Seattle, WA
Decade of Abstraction, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA

1986 Abstract Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, WA
Centrum Prints, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA

1985 New Seattle Work, Safeco Corp., Seattle, WA

1984 Sylph Elegy, Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Acquisitions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

1983 Newcomers '83, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Northwest Today, Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Seattle Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art, Rental Gallery San Francisco, CA
Salon de Refuses, Seattle, WA

1982 Selected Gallery Artist,s Tom Lutrell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1981 Large Scale Painting, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1980 Eight Seattle Artists, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Cranberry Drawing Invitational Cranberry Institute, Boston, MA

1979 Collections from the City, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Seattle Drawing, and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA
19 Artists, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Wa
Seattle Selects, Arctic Building, Seattle, WA

GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2003 Northwest Institute of Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy (NIAUSI) residency

2002 Oregon College of Arts and Crafts masters residency and workshop director

2000 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA painting award recipient
Honors Program, King County Arts Commission Purchase Award winner

1998 Neddy Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA finalist, painting award
Artist Trust Ten-Year Presidents' Award for Artistic Achievement and Leadership, Washington State recipient
International Art Workshop, Association of Museums of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul, Turkey residency fellow

1995 Art Matters Foundation, New York City, NY individual artist fellow
Pilchuck School artist residency

1987 Private patronage, Barcelona, Spain residency

1986 Centrum Foundation, Northwest Print Project, Port Townsend, WA residency

1980 Seattle Arts Commission, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA exhibition grant

1978 Ford Foundation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA study grant
Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA master painting class scholarship

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS

Bailey/Boushay House and AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle, WA
City of Seattle, WA
Davis, Wright, Jones, Seattle, WA
Hughes Corporate Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA
Kargianis and Austin, Seattle, WA
King County Regional Justice Center, Seattle, WA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Olympic College, Bremerton, WA
Pacific Lutheran Universtiy, Tacoma, WA
Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA
Port of Seattle Headquarters, Seattle, WA
Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA
Rainier National Bank, Seattle, WA
Safeco Corporation, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Seattle City Light, Seattle, WA
Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA
Seattle Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA
University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA