STEVE DAVIS

 

Lives and works in Seattle                                         

         

EDUCATION

                    

                     1983            M.F.A., College of Art and Architecture, University of Idaho

     

                     1979            B.S. Communications‑Photo/Film, University of Idaho

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

                     2004/05       Visiting Faculty Member, (full time,) spring quarters.  The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.

 

                     1987-          Coordinator of Photographic Imaging / Adjunct Member of the Faculty present  The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.        

 

                     1989            Visiting Faculty, School of Communication, fall semester, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

                    

                     1980            Instructor, Applied Photography and Darkroom Techniques, Shasta                                    

                                        College, Redding, CA

AWARDS AND GRANTS

                             

                     2005            Research Foundation Grant, Evergreen State College, for The Rainier School, A Photographic Documentation

         

2002            1st Prize, Project Competition, ($5,000) Santa Fe Center for

                    Photography

 

           1992            Honorable Mention, Computer Art of the Western States, Brigham

                              City, UT

                    

                     1990            Award of Excellence, University & College Designers Association            

 

                     1988            Artist’s Fellowship, ($5,000) Washington State Arts Commission

 

                                        Honorable Mention, Sixth Annual Photo Metro Photography                                                                                     

                                        Competition, San Francisco, Ca

 

                     1986            Award of Merit, California Works, State Fair, Sacramento, Ca

 

                                         First Place, color category, 1986 SF Bay Guardian Photography

                                         Competition  Competition, San Francisco

                                       

                     1985            First Place, color category, Festival at the Lake, Oakland, Ca 

                             

                     1981            Silver Award, Seattle Design and Advertising Show 1981,

                                         Photography for Edward Kienholz art catalog, Seattle, WA 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

 

                     2005            Photoarts.com (online)     

 

                     2004            Pictures of Failure, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX          

 

                     1998            The Boys of Maple Lane, Gallery 2, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

 

                     1992            Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN

 

                     1989            Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX                

                                                           

                     1988            Prichard Gallery, Moscow, ID

 

                     1987            C‑R Gallery, Seattle

                    

                     1984            Donnally/Hayes, Seattle

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

                    

                     2006            Contrasting Objectives: Fifteen Pacific Northwest Photographers, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

 

                     2005             Vis a Vis Online (visavisphoto.com)

                    

                    2004/05/06   Heart Gallery Project, portraits of people under the care of the Dept.

of Social and Health Sciences, City Space Gallery, Seattle w/ other venues throughout the year

 

                                        Santa Fe Center for Photography, 10 year anniversary auction      

 

                     2003           Washington Center for Performing Arts, Olympia, WA

                                                  

Prichard Gallery, Exhibition and Auction, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

                     2002            Digital Imagination, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA  

 

2001            Disparate Measures, Olympia World News, Olympia, WA

 

Prichard Gallery, Exhibition and Auction, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

1998           Infinite Parameters, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

 

                   We're Your Future Too, The Children's Museum, Seattle, WA

 

1997            La ville multiple, 1st Biennale de la Photographie, Musee d'Art Wallon, Liege, Belgium

 

1996            Nirvana: Capitalism and the Consumed Image,

                    Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA  

 

1996            The Bridge: Siggraph 96 Art Show, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA              

                   

                    Current Events, Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

 

1996            CompuArt@unomaha, University of Omaha, Omaha, NE

 

                    Japan-O-Rama, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle

 

1995            Art as Signal: Inside the Loop, Krannert Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

                                                   

                                         Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA        

 

                                         Gallery 2, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA                    

 

                    1994             Second Biennial Auction/Exhibit, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

 

                    Mini Treasures: Art of the West, Holter Museum, Helena, MT      

 

1993                       Fast Art for an Accelerated Culture; part of Art/LA' 93                           

                                         Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA

 

Interfaced: Art and Technoculture, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

                    

Currents in Electronic Imaging, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA

 

Pictures from the Hyperworld, (with Vicki Demetre, Scott Rutledge, and Carl Toth, and Paul Lee,) Cyberspace Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

                                       

                                        Pictures from the Hyper-World, Washington State University Fine Arts

                                        Museum, Pullman, WA

                             

                     1992           SIGGRAPH Art Show, Chicago, IL

                                                 

                                        Spirit of the West, traveling exhibition, sponsored by WestOne Bank

                             

                                        Computer Art from the Western States, Brigham City Museum,

                                        Brigham City, UT

 

                     1991            National Computer Art Invitational, two year traveling exhibition                                      

 

                     1990            Northwest Annual 1990, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

                    

                                        Photography Faculty, The Evergreen State College

 

                     1989            Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR           

                    

                                         College of Art and Architecture Faculty Exhibition, Ridenbaugh Art                                

                                        Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

                             

                                        7 Faculty in Photography, from Washington State University, and the                                

                                        University of Idaho, Ridenbaugh Art Gallery, University of Idaho

 

                                        Gallery 4, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

 

                     1988            Sixth Annual Photo Metro Photography Competition, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                                       

                                        Centennial Alumni Show, traveling exhibition originating from the                              

                                        Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

                     1986            California Works, State Fair, Sacramento, CA

 

1985            California Works, State Fair, Sacramento, CA

 

                                        SF Bay Guardian Photography Competition, Climate Gallery,                                                                                                      

                                        San Francisco, CA

                             

                     1984            Architectural Spaces, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY

 

                     1983            20X20 Gallery, San Francisco 

 

                     1982            Inland Empire Photographers, Hoffman Gallery, Spokane, WA

 

                     1980            American Vision 1980, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New

                                         York

 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

 

                     2002            Pierce County Remann Hall Juvenile Incarceration Facility.  Sponsored through the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA

 

                     2000            Green Hill School, Incarceration Facility.  Sponsored through the Seattle Children’s Museum/Experimental Gallery  

 

                     1997              Maple Lane, Incarceration Facility.  Sponsored through the

                                        Seattle Children’s Museum/Experimental Gallery

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

                     2003            “What They Were Thinking,” The New York Times Magazine, July

                                         20     

 

                     2001            Barbara Houghton, Art and the Internet, Prentice Hall Publishers

         

                     1997            Interactions, volume IV.3, ACM, May + June

 

                     1996-00      Who’s Who in the West, Marquis, 26th, 27th, and 29th Editions

 

                     1996            Laura Lee Bennet, “’Public Selves Gone Stealth,” Washington Free

                                         Press, Nov-Dec

 

                                        Regina Hackett, “Nirvana Artists Explore the Gap between Reality and

                                         the Virtual World,” Seattle Post Intelligencer, Oct 18th, 18

 

                                        Website Review, Online Hot List, Photo District News, August

 

                     1994            Artweek, July 7 Issue

 

1993             Deborah J. Haynes, “Modern in Moscow, Postmodern in Pullman,” Visions Art Quarterly, Fall Issue, 29

 

Laura Meyers, “William Gibson Goes to the Art Fair,” with three photographs, Los Angeles Magazine, December Issue, 18

 

                     1992/96       Robert Hirsch, Exploring Color Photography, 2nd and 3rd Editions, W.C. Brown

 

CONFERENCES

 

                     2002            Presenter, Symposium, Review Santa Fe, Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts

 

                     2000            Panelist, “Opening a Conversation: Community Service in the Curriculum,” Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Cincinnati, OH                          

                    

                     1998            Presenter, "Pictures of Failure: Photography at Maple Lane,"