Loreen Matsushima

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:
1980 Master of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, New York
1978 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Hawaii
1974 Academy of Art College, San Francisco

GRANTS & AWARDS:
2026 Robert Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant
2019 Purchase Award, Fresh Perspective II, Seattle Arts and Culture Public Arts
2018 Purchase Award, Fresh Perspective, Seattle Arts and Culture Public Arts
2018 Sound Transit Art Program Artist Pool
2017 Seattle Arts and Culture Public Arts Roster 2017 -2020
2016 Seattle Arts and Culture Public Arts Boot Camp
2014 Hon Blue Purchase Award, Honolulu Printmakers 86th Juried Exhibition. Linekona Gallery
2007 Award “Viewer’s Choice” – Earth Matters, Juried Exhibition at University of Texas, Edinberg
1988 Purchase Award, The State Foundation on Culture and Arts Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
1987 Individual Artist Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
1984 Certificate of Excellence, International Art Competition, LA
1979 Pratt Studio Scholarship Award/Ford Foundation Matching Grant, New York
1979 Juror’s Award, Honolulu Printmakers 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Honolulu Academy of Arts – Juror Stanley William Haytor
1977 Award of Merit, University of Hawaii Art Contest – Juror Lila Twigg Smith, founder of The Contemporary Museum of Art (Hawaii)
1974 Award of Merit, Association of Honolulu Artists

PUBLIC ARTS COMMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS:
2016 Seattle Center Art Walkway Project Sponsored by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Temporary Installation: “Redacting the Skyline”
2016 Installation Preview of Redacting the Skyline – participant in the EMP Museum Seattle Mini Maker Fair
2024 Tidepools Magazine, Peninsula College Student Art/Literary Magazine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2026 Collins Pub, Seattle, Washington
2016 Imagine It Framed Gallery, Port Angeles, Washington
2004 Smith Street Gallery, Honolulu Hawaii
1990 Café Delphini, Santa Monica, Los Angeles

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Cedar Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii

EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Wintertide: Light Art Experience in the Sculpture Garden, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
2024 Exhibition at Reveille, Port Townsend, WA
2024 Wintertide: Light Art Experience in the Sculpture Garden, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
2023 Wintertide: Light Art Experience in the Sculpture Garden, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
2022 Wintertide: Light Art Experience in the Sculpture Garden, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
2022 Center For Contemporary Art Artists at the Seattle Design Festival
2021 Endurance of Change Exhibition, Sculpture Garden 2020, Port Angeles Fine Art Center
2020 Wintertide: Light Art Experience in the Sculpture Garden 2020, Port Angeles Fine Art Center
2019 Small Expressions, Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington, Juror Deanna Pindell
2018 Center on Contemporary Art CoCA Members Show: Creativity Persists, Seattle, WA
2017 Shoreline City Hall Gallery, “Contexture: Loreen Matsushima & Mi Young Margolis,” WA
2017 “Wind & Water” Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, Washington
2016 Matchbox XI, Cedar Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
2015 Small Expressions, Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington, Juror Susan Parke
2015 Matchbox XI, Cedar Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
2014 Honolulu Printmakers 86th Annual Juried Exhibition. Linekona Gallery- Hon Blue Purchase Award
2013 Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce Exhibition
2013 ZOONAMI, The Arts at Marks Garage
2012 Second Chances: Refuse to Reuse; Pegge Hopper Gallery
2012 Honolulu Printmakers 84th Annual Juried Exhibit., Linekona Gallery – Juror Prawat Laucharoen
2011 Honolulu Printmakers 83rd Annual Juried Exhibit, Linekona Gallery – Juror Koichi Yamamoto
2010 R&R – Recycling and Redefining the Everyday w/ Carol Sakihara, Koa Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
2008 EcoLogic Environmental Exhibition at Marks Garage, Honolulu, Hawaii
2008 March Juried Exhibition on Projekt30 – artist run online internet gallery
2008 GO GREEN, Main Street Gallery, Groton, New York
2007 Earth Matters, International Juried Exhibition, University of Texas, Edinburg
2007 Tinkered and Toyed, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii Gallery
2006 City and County of Honolulu Group Exhibition, Hawaii
2005 Feast for the Eyes, Sub Zero Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
2004 Tinkered and Toyed, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii Gallery
2004 The Women’s Show, Diamond Head Theatre Gallery; Honolulu
2003 The Downtown Art Show – Benefit for the Hawaii Consortium for the Arts
2002 Koa Art Gallery – Group Exhibition, Kapiolani Community College/Hawaii
2001 The Downtown Art Show –The Exhibit Space at 1132, Hawaii, 1998 Crossings France/Hawaii Reunion Exhibition; Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
1996 Hawaii’s First Art Website Virtual Gallery -pilot project sponsored by the City & County of Honolulu
1996 Hera: In Search of the Heroic – Celebration of Woman Artists- City and County of Honolulu
1994 Woman Artists of Hawaii, City and County of Honolulu
1989 Crossings ’89 France/Hawaii, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France-International exchange
1988 LAARTCORE Two Artists Exhibition, Los Angeles
1984 International Art Competition, Los Angeles -traveling art slide exhibition to 15 US museums
1984 Fox and Fowle Architects Group Exhibition, New York City
1983 Japanese Artists in Hawaii ’83 Group Exhibition, Amfac Gallery, Hawaii
1981 Emerging Five Artists, Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York City
1981 Shapescapes, Three Artists, Contemporary Art Center of Hawaii
1980 Four Artists, Nardin Galleries in New York City York
1980 Contemporary Prints, The Richards Gallery, New York City
1980 Masters of Fine Art Exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York
1979 Brooklyn Museum Community Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art
1979 Pratt Institute’s Scholarship Award Exhibition, New York
1979 Honolulu Printmakers 50th Anniversary Exhibition Honolulu Academy of Art, Juror Stanley William Haytor
1978 Artists of Honolulu, Sponsored by the City and County of Honolulu
1978 University of Hawaii Art Exhibition
1978 Association of Honolulu Artists, Juror Vincent Price

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1987 – 1991, Gallery Teacher, J. Paul Getty Museum of Art
1984 – 1986, Museum Instructor, Brooklyn Museum of Art

CURATOR:
1992 Curator, Hawaii Dept. of Education Artmobile – traveling artmobile exhibit, “The Traditions of Craft” for primary and secondary students statewide in public schools for 2 years.

SET DESIGN:
1984 -Set Design for Contexture, Susan Poland, Choreographer, Lower East Side, New York City

ARTICLES & CATALOGUES:
2026 “Tidepools” 62nd issue, magazine, Secret Worlds of Trees (monotype)
2024 “Tidepools” 60th issue, magazine, Mother Tree Receives the Gift of Light (monotype)
2025 Seattle Office of Arts & Culture website features on collection page “Ecotope – Light and Water
2018 “Creativity Persists”– 2018 CoCA Members Show and Catalog
2017 “Shoreline Area News” Contextured: MiYoung Margolis & Loreen Matsushima, City Hall Gallery
2016 Seattle Office of Arts & Culture website, “Seattle Center Sculpture Walk”
2010 Honolulu Advertiser, March 7, 2010; Art Review by Victoria Gail White, “Paradigm Shift”
2009 Ecologic exhibition catalogue
2007 Online Exhibit, Earth Matters, Texas University Pan American
1989 Exhibition Catalogue: Crossings ’89 France – Hawaii, Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris.
1981 Honolulu Advertiser, “Three Artists are Featured in Shapescapes’ Exhibit” by Ronn Ronck. Review of exhibition at The Contemporary Arts Center in Honolulu Hawaii.
1981 The Honolulu Star Bulletin, “Shapescapes” Review by Marcia Morse

ART JEWELRY DESIGN ARTICLES:
1985 The New York Magazine, art earring accessory for fashion section
1985 Ebony Magazine, art earring accessory for fashion section
1985 Art Gallery of Ontario Newsletter, Toronto Museum of Art

AFFILIATIONS/OTHER EXPERIENCES
2017 Member, Center for Contemporary Arts, WA
2016 Member of the Corvidae Printing Studio, WA
2008 2013 Hawaii Ecotourism, board member
2005 Koa Art Gallery board member
1997 Past president & board member of the Hawaii Consortium for the Arts
1993- 1997 Board member of the Hawaii Alliance for Arts Education

PANELIST/JUROR:
2018 Seattle Arts and Culture Public Art – Seattle Center Poetry Garden Selection Committee
2011 State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Grants Panel, Community Arts Program
2003 Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau’s Keep It Hawaii Awards Media Arts
2003 State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Grants Panel, Media Arts
1999 State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Grants Panel, Arts Education
1996 Sterling Awards, Arts Division, Brigham Young University
1996 Department of Education, Hawaii’s Annual Student Art Exhibition
1993 State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Grants Panel, Media Arts

COLLECTIONS:
Seattle Culture and the Arts Public Art

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts – Hawaii

Hon Blue Corporation, Honolulu Hawaii

NOAA

Paul Atkinson, Los Angeles, CA

Claudine Brown, Ex Deputy of Education, Smithsonian Institute, DC

Mr. & Mrs. Edward O’Rourke, Hawaii

Ms. Constance Gillan

Mrs. Elizabeth Bing, New York

Anonymous Private Collectors

Date of Birth: March 27, 1954; Honolulu, Hawaii