P E T E R D E L O R Y
BORN:
1948 Orleans, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
1974 MFA, University of Colorado School of Fine Arts, Boulder, Colorado
1972 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Harris Harvey Gallery, “A Silent Way,” Seattle, WA
2017 San Juan Islands Museum of Art, “Dialogues of the Forest”, Friday Harbor, WA
2015 Lisa Harris Gallery, “Winter Solos I,” Seattle, Washington
2013 Lisa Harris Gallery, “Tenuous Remnants,” Seattle, Washington
Forterra, “Walk in the Woods,” Seattle, Washington
2010 Lisa Harris Gallery, “The Falls,” Seattle, Washington
2008 SeaTac Airport, “Link in Process,” Sound Transit Artist in Residence, Seattle, Washington
“Dancers Waiting,” Kuhlman, Seattle, Washington
2007 Lisa Harris Gallery, “Balance,” Seattle, Washington
Seattle City Hall, “Link in Process,” Sound Transit Artist in Residence, Seattle, Washington
Cafe Paloma, "Neon of the West”, Seattle, Washington
2005 Cafe Paloma, "Ballard Locks', Seattle, Washington
2003 Lisa Harris Gallery, “Somewhere Along the Way,” Seattle, Washington
Café Paloma, “Lost in the Woods,” Seattle, Washington
2002 Café Paloma, “Landmark Revival: Pergola Construction,” Seattle Washington
2001 Lisa Harris Gallery, “Half Memory”, Seattle, Washington
Bank of America Gallery, “Cityworks”, Seattle, Washington
2000 Whitman College, “West by Northwest”, Walla Walla, Washington
1999 Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, Washington
1996 Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts Inc., “Blue Sky”, Portland, Oregon
1993 Menschel Gallery, “Light Work”, Syracuse, New York
1992 Lukman Glasgow Gallery, California Art Council, Sacramento, California
1991 Sandy Carson Gallery,” Short Stories: The West”, Denver, Colorado
Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1988 Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California
Sandra Berler Gallery, Chevy Chase, Maryland
1987 Scheinder Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon
1986 Magic Theatre, San Francisco, California
Gallery Iterform, Osaka, Japan
1985 Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho
1983 Portland School of Art, Portland, Maine
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
1982 Donnally/Hayes Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1982 University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
Carl Seimbab Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1981 Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1980 Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York
1979 Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, California
1978 Museum of Fine Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1977 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Harris Harvey Gallery, “Into the Landscape,” Seattle, Washington
2020 Harris Harvey Gallery, “Fall Perspectives," Seattle, Washington
2019 Harris Harvey Gallery, “Summer Reflections,” Seattle, Washington
2019 Harris Harvey Gallery, “Studies in Nature: Photographic Views,” Seattle, Washington
Photographic Center Northwest, “RIFFS,” Seattle, Washington
2016 Harris Harvey Gallery, “Winter’s Offering,” Seattle, Washington
2016 Lisa Harris Gallery, "31 for 32: Summer Salon," Seattle, Washington
2015 Minnesota Museum of American Art, “Summertime,” St. Paul, Minnesota
2014 Lisa Harris Gallery, “Seattle Icons,” Seattle, Washington
2012 Lisa Harris Gallery, “Photographic Wanderings,” Seattle, Washington
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, “Shoshone Falls: 3 Perspectives, “ Ketcham, Idaho
2011 Joslyn Art Museum, “American Landscape: Contemporary Photographs of the West,” Omaha, Nebraska
Seattle Art Museum, “Seattle as Collector,” Seattle, Washington
Trabant Coffee, “619 Western: Works of History,” Seattle, Washington
2009 Lisa Harris Gallery, “25th Anniversary Show,” Seattle, Washington
2008 Anchor Art Space, “Group Exhibit,” Anacortes, Washington
Lisa Harris Gallery, “Neon Suite”, with Richard Morhous, Seattle, Washington
2004 Lisa Harris Gallery, “20th Anniversary Show”, Seattle, Washington
2003 Gallery 110, “Defining Homeland,” Seattle, Washington
1999 Nevada Museum of Art, “The Altered Landscape”, Reno, Nevada
1998 The Art Museum, Princeton University, “The West: Recent Acquisitions of American Photography”, Princeton, New Jersey
Seafirst Gallery, “Springs Eternal”, Seattle, Washington
1997 Bumbershoot and Art Space, “Eye Contact”, Seattle, Washington
Biennial Tacoma Art Museum, “True Art”, Tacoma, Washington
Anderson Ranch, “Visiting Artist Exhibition”, Snow Mass, Colorado
Bellevue Art Museum, “Sixth Pacific Annual”, Bellevue, Washington
1996 San Francisco Art Institute, “Fifty Years of Photography”, San Francisco, California
Anne Reed Gallery, “Land Inspired”, Ketchum, Idaho
1995 Japanese American Historical Society, “Latent August, the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”, San Francisco, California
1995 Western Folk Life Center, “Native American Ranching; Crow Nation”, Elko, Nevada
1993 Etherton/Stern Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Camerawork, “Paradise Lost”, San Francisco, California
1991 The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Intuitive Eye”, Chicago, Illinois
TEACHING AND LECTURING:
1995 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1986-94 San Jose State University, San Jose, California
1991 Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
San Francisco City College, San Francisco, California
1989 San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1988 San Francisco City College, San Francisco, California
1987 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Society of Photographic Educators, Morro Bay, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1984-85 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1984 Film in the Cities, St Paul, Minnesota
1983 Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
Portland School of Art, Portland, Maine
Chicago Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois
1981 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Colorado Mountain College, “The Still Life”, The Arranged Photograph Symposium, Breckenridge, Colorado
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Henry Art Gallery, “The 50’s and 60’s in Photography and Culture”, Lecture Series, Seattle, Washington
1980 Northern Virginia College, Alexandria, Virginia
1979 University of Iowa, Iowa City
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2005 Photographic Center Northwest, “Focused” 10th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition,
Juror: Mary Virginia Swanson, 1st Place,
2003 Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington, Best in Exhibit
1997 Bellevue Art Museum, Sixth Pacific Northwest Annual, Photography Award
1988 American Art Museum Publication Competition, Award of Merit, “The Wild and the Innocent”
1987 California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, Photographers Book Fellowship, “The Wild and the Innocent”
1979 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
1976 Western States Arts Foundation, Idaho, Individual Artists Fellowship
COMMISSIONS:
2014 Camas School District photography commission, Washington State Arts Commission, Camas, Washington (in progress).
2006-2009, 2000-2003 Sound Transit, Photographer in Residence, Seattle, Washington 2004, Longfellow Creek Trail Way Finding Images, West Seattle
Five floral images, that were silkscreened and baked onto enamel steel. 40 signposts to mark the walking trail, each image 17"w X 27"h
9 Columns 9Artists, Seattle Tacoma International Airport, 18'h x 3'w glass mosaic column. "Champion", photo image of world's largest
Western Red Cedar Tree
2000 Wenatchee Mural Project, “Confluence”, 7'hx 47'w, multi-media work in collaboration with sculptor Kay Kirkpatrick, Wenatchee, Washington
1999 Seattle Arts Commission, Photographer in Residence, Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle, Washington
1996 Seattle Arts Commission, Photographer in Residence, Seattle Water Department
1985 Washington State Arts Commission, Art in Public Places, South Kitsap High School, color photo mural, Port Orchard, Washington
PUBLICATIONS:
2015 Creative Space Time Continuum: Histories and Futures Inside the Rainier Oven Building, essay by Erin Langner,
photography by artist, Arcade Magazine, Issue 33.3
2001 Railwork, The Rebirth in the Puget Sound Region, Sound Transit
1997 The Lure of the Local, by Lucy Lippard, The New Press, pages 13 and 14
1993 Buckaroo, Visions and Voices of the American Cowboy, Simon and Schuster/Callaway editions, 9 portraits
1991 Aperture, “The End of Wilderness”
1990 SF Magazine, “Profile”, interviewed by Stacey Colino,
1988 ArtWeek, “Wild and Innocent”, reviewed by, Peter Goin, Volume 19, #14
PHOTO/DESIGN Magazine, “Idea and Image” Profile, Issue 23
1987 The Wild and the Innocent, book with narrative and graphic design by artist, 48 pp. California Museum of Photography,
Riverside, California
1983 Camera Manichi, 6 p.p., Tokyo, Japan, 1983
1980 Picture Magazine, Hand Color Issue #17, 1980
1979 SX –70, Lustrum Press, New York, New York
1978 Self Portrayal, “The Photographic Image”, Friends of Photography
1976 After Image, article by Alex Sweetman, November issue
1974 Aperture, ”Portfolio of 28 Photographs”, 17:2 Issue
1973 Creative Camera, December Issue
Aperture, “Celebrations”
1972 Aperture, “Being Without Clothes’
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Overlake Medical Center, Bellevue, Washington
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts
University of Tennessee, Mulfordborough, Tennessee
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Worcester Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Polaroid Corporation, Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Idaho First National Bank, Idaho
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho
Fluor Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Cray Research Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle, Washington
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
First Banks of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Plains Arts Museum, Moorhead, Minnesota
Graham Nash Collection, Pasadena, California
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
David Ruttenburg Sr. Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Dain Bosworth, Denver, Colorado
Xerox Corporation, New York, New York
Levi Strauss Corporation, San Francisco, California
Paine Webber, New York, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Hallmark, Kansas City, Missouri
Amjen Corporation, Denver, Colorado
Regional Arts and Cultural Council, Portland, Oregon, Portable Works Purchase
Cellular One, Albany, Oregon
Freddie Mac, McLean, Virginia
Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, Washington
Seattle Water Department, Washington
Princeton University, New Jersey
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
The Brainerd Foundation, Seattle, Washington
The Brookings Institute, Washington, DC
City of Everett Washington