LOREEN MATSUSHIMA
1260 Glass Road
Port Angeles, WA 98362
Tel.360.457.2815
Mobile 808.392.4943
loreen1344@gmail.com
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:
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 Anniv.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:
2016 Seattle Center Art Walkway Project Sponsored by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Temporary Installation: “Redacting the Skyline”
2016 Installation of Redacting the Skyline – participant in the EMP Museum Seattle Mini Maker Faire
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Imagine It Framed Gallery, Port Angeles, Washington
2004 Smith Street Gallery, Honolulu Hawaii
1990 Café Delphini, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
EXHIBITIONS:
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:
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:
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, 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:
The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts – Hawaii
Hon Blue Corporation, Honolulu Hawaii
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
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