Selected Works / Exhibitions / Biography / Available Inventory
Claire Cowie
Born: 1975 Charlotte, NC
Lives and works in Seattle, WA
Education
MFA 1999 Printmaking, University of Washington, Seattle
BFA 1997 Printmaking, Washington University, St. Louis
1990 – 1993 North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem NC
Grants and Awards
2006 Nominated for: Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Nominated for: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2004 Neddy Artist Fellowship, Behnke Foundation Fellowship Award, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission
2000 GAP Award (Grants for Artist’s Projects) Artist Trust
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Pilgrimage, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2009
Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2008
12 Views, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
Tree, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2007
Homunculi, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
Snapshots, Clatsop Community College, Astoria WA
2006
Claire Cowie: Homecoming, Center on Creative Arts, St. Louis
About Strange Lands, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2005
Village Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
2004
Land Escapes James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2003
Flying Ladies of Leisure, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
A project involving a residency, an exhibition of past work, an exhibition of new work
Stagings: Claire Cowie and the Monsen Collection Photogravures, Henry Art Gallery
A collection-based photo exhibition built around a series of recent photogravures
Still Life on Blue, cherrydelosreyes Gallery, Los Angeles
2002
Stagings, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Show of Hands, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Summer Selection, Gallery at Aspira, Seattle, WA
2008
Light, Seeking Light, Western Bridge, Seattle
Century 21: Dealer’s Choice, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle
Traces and Accumulations, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle
2006
Feral Nature, University of Texas at Dallas
Beyond Limits, Shenzhen Art Institute Gallery, Shenzhen China
Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2005
A Decade of Excellence: The Neddy Artist Fellowship Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
Unexpected Watercolor Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland
Release/Capture Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA
2004
Summer Group Show, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles
2003
Crossroads: New Art From the Northwest, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
Dancing on the Walls, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland
2002
Multiplex, Bumbershoot, Seattle Center
32 Prints, Portland Art Museum, Portland
LAVA, Noodleworks Studio, Seattle (catalogue)
Introductions, Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle Art Museum
2001
TRANSmogrified, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
Unbecoming, Soil Cooperative, Seattle
2000
Intervals, Frames and Accelerations, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland
Plaster: Means/Ends, Soil Cooperative, Seattle
1999
2nd Annual Printmaking Exhibition, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA (juror’s award)
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, U. of Washington
Collections
Amgen Corporation, Seattle WA
4Culture Public Art Collection, Seattle WA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA
Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
University of Missouri, St. Louis MO
Artist Residencies
2003 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
2000 Centrum, Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend WA
Professional Service
2004 – Present Board Member, Henry Art Gallery
2003 Visiting Artist for Youth in Focus, an organization dedicated to photography
education for under-privileged children in the Seattle area
2002 – 2003 Programming Committee Member, Contemporary Art Council, Seattle Art
Museum
2001 – Present Board Member, Seattle Print Arts
1999 Publications/ Catalogue Chair, Graduate Student Committee, University of
Washington, Seattle WA
Bibliography
Janet Koplos, “Report from Seattle,” Art in America, September 2005 (image)
Emily Hall, “Claire Cowie: James Harris Gallery,” Artforum, May 2004 (image)
Judy Wagonfeld, “An Artist Cuts up Her Old Works to Create Intriguing Collages,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 5, 2004 (image)
Suzanne Beal, “The Tiny, the Indeterminate and the Ever-Changing,” ArtDish, http://www.artdish.com/the-dish.asp?ID=44 October 2003 (images)
Sara Krajewski, “Claire Cowie at the Henry Art Gallery,” Artweek, October 2003 Vol.34, Issue 8 p.26 (images)
Regina Hackett, “Henry’s fit to burst with its bounty of contemporary art,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 5, 2003 (image)
Leah Ollman, “Recasting Objects of Childhood,” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2003 (image)
Emily Hall, “Framed in Los Angeles,” The Stranger, May 8, 2003 (images)
Sheila Farr, “Northwest Art Converges at COCA’s Crossroads,” The Seattle Times, March 28, 2003 (image)
Elizabeth Brown and Lisa Corrin, “The Mountain is Out,” Modern Painters, Autumn 2002 p. 47
Emily Hall, “In and Out of Context: The Secret Life of Tschotkes,” The Stranger, July 11-17 2002, vol.11 no.43 (image)
Rhonda Howard “Claire Cowie: River in Human Skin,” LAVA 2002 catalogue, Thread, 2002 pp. 34-37 (image)
Sheila Farr, “Talent of the Future Taking Shape,” The Seattle Times, Jan 11 2002 (image)
Regina Hackett, “Things Change: Art is Becoming in a Material Way,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan 11 2002
Sheila Farr, “Rethinking What’s Beautiful and Beastly,” The Seattle Times, June 22, 2001
Cynthia Rose, “Artist’s Work Highlights Life’s Essential Anarchy,” The Seattle Times, December 10 1999 (image)
Grants and Awards
2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2004 Neddy Artist Fellowship, Behnke Foundation
Fellowship Award, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission
2000 GAP Award (Grants for Artist’s Projects) Artist Trust, Seattle
1998 Parnassus Scholarship, University of Washington
1997 Gonzales Fine Arts Scholarship, University of Washington
1995 Edmund H. Wuerpal Award for Printmaking, Washington University
1993 Washington University Scholarship
1992 John M. Ehle, Jr. Scholarship, N.C. School of the Arts, Winston-Salem