CURRICULUM VITAE Alyson Provax, born California, 1984.
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Maybe you know this feeling, Norco College Art Gallery, Norco CA
2024 There is so much I want to tell you, Cawein Gallery, Forest Grove OR
2024 To know what we say we know, Well Well Projects, Portland OR
2022 There is so much I want to tell you, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR
2021 But of course it’s hard to tell : collaborative exhibition with Serrah Russell at Well Well Projects, Portland, OR
2021 Into Gentle Ruin, 1122 Gallery, Portland, OR
2021 Old Long Since, Agenda, Portland, OR
2020 out of nothing, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA
2019 something nameless, multiple locations in Portland, OR
2018 you i everything else, Wolff Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 what happens in a dark place (collaborative exhibition with Serrah Russell), The Vestibule, Seattle, WA
2016 Out There, Wolff Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Each Day The Same, Violet Strays, violetstrays.com
2013. Begins Again, Armory, Portland, OR
2011 Durations, IPRC, Portland, OR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING Crocker Kingsley 2025, Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA
2024 Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Printing curated by Amy Burek and Zach Clark, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco CA
2024 Time Capsule, The Vestibule, Seattle WA
2023 Companions, The Vestibule, Seattle WA
2023 Mind and Hand, Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, Astoria OR
2023 Eight, Portland Correspondence Co-Op, Kenton Post Office, Portland OR
2022 1122 Day, 1122 Gallery, Portland, OR, 2022
2022 PhonoMorphoIdiot curated by Courtney Stubbert and Stephanie Parnes, Eugene Contemporary Art, Eugene OR
2022 The Extended Ear curated by Kris Blackmore and Hannah Newman, Carnation Contemporary, Portland OR
2022 The Inevitable Shadow, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR
2022 Spooky Season curated by Jessie Weitzel Le Grand, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR
2021 Describing Language: Thinking Through Access and Communication curated by Iris Williamson and Tiffany Harker, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Southern Indiana, New Harmony, IN
2021 Contemporary Letterpress, University of South Dakota Art Gallery, Vermilion, SD
2021 What do we have here?, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR
2020 Producing Space, organized by Outback Arthouse and National Monument Press, various locations
2020 The Work Around, organized by Carissa Burkett and Zemie Barr, various locations
2020 lone some, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2019 On the Tip of My Tongue curated by Katherine Spinella and Kristin Hough, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2018 Drawn Out curated by Zack Bent, SPAC Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 I say radical you say feminist curated by Senseney Stokes, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA
2018 A LONE presented by Vignettes and Gramma Press, at Mount Analogue and around Seattle, WA
2018 One Year of Resistance, The Untitled Space, New York, NY
2017 Many Lands curated by Ben Gannon, LxWxH/Bridge Productions, Seattle, WA
2017 Angry Women, The Untitled Space, New York, NY
2016 Herselves Collective Exhibition, Sala Project at Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, ES
2016 Variable States: Prints Now curated by Heather Lee Birdsong, Upfor, Portland, OR
2015 Bellingham National Art Exhibition curated by Scott Lawrimore, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2015 PNCA Alumni and Faculty Show curated by Mack McFarland, 511 Building, Portland, OR
2014 Off White curated by Chris Mullins, BC Gallery, Portland, OR, 2014
2014 Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, Youme Haus, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Oregon Artist Showcase curated by Elizabeth Spavento, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR
2013 Write Club, Paperish Mess, Chicago, IL
2012 Trust curated by Randy Gragg, Namita Gupta-Wiggers, Sarah Miller-Meigs, Deanne Rubinstein, and Stephanie Snyder, Swigert Commons, Portland, OR
2011 American Dream curated by Catherine Blackwell Peña, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Interactive curated by Karen Hamner, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Furthermore: The 8th Biennial Exhibition Curated by Lilly Wei, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 BIMPE V, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2007 Fiber, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, OR
2007 Welcome into the Fold, Rererato, Portland, OR
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Like things go away, in collaboration with Zach Clark and published by National Monument Press
2022 Berm, Issue 2
2021 Quotidian, Volume II
2020 The Racket, Issue 29 curated by Anna Rotty
2019 Buckman Journal, Issue 3
2019 what are we waiting for, published by Volumes Volumes
2018 Poetry Northwest
2016 can be indefinite on Daily Gramma, Gramma Press
2016 IRIS published by The Blush Room and Violet Strays
2013 Eleven Eleven Magazine, Issue #15
2010 Bearfight! Published by Banner Year Press
COLLECTIONS
SFMOMA Library
Harvard University Library
University of California Davis Library
University of California Santa Cruz
University of Richmond
EDUCATION
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Art, Printmaking, 2007
Cabrillo College, 2002-2005
INTERVIEWS
Alyson Provax & Serrah Russell ‘But of course it’s hard to tell’ https://artandaboutpdx.com/blog/artist-conversation-with-provax-and-russell Sept 2021
Amanda Clem interviews Alyson Provax, KBOO Art Focus https://kboo.fm/media/65312-amanda-clem-interviews-alyson-provax-about-her-exhibition-you-i-everything-else May 2018
Conversations: Provax & Russell, The Vestibule http://thevestibule.org/conversations-provax-russell/ Nov 2017
Alyson Provax, Buy Some Damn Art http://www.buysomedamnart.com/pages/alyson-provax Nov 2013
The Chromosome of Creativity: Alyson Provax, 135 minutes answering questions and editing responses, Wake Up Now http://wake-up-now.blogspot.pt/2013/05/the-chromosome-of-creativity-alyson.html May 2013
Alyson Provax, Printsy Blog, http://printsy.blogspot.com/2011/04/interview-with-alyson-provax.html April 2011
PRESS
Alyson Provax’s islands of perception, Oregon Artswatch, Hannah Krafcik, June 19, 2024
There is so much I want to tell you, co-published by Oregon Artswatch and Out of the Box, Jennifer Rabin, August 24, 2022
Alyson Provax: Out of Nothing, Oregon Artswatch, Lindsay Costello, November 7, 2020
Summer art experiences are mostly online, but some are slowly happening again in person, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 2020
Only The Lonely, Gary Singh, Metro Silicon Valley, June 24, 2020
Montalvo hits the Bay Area’s streets with new public exhibition: Artwork on bus shelters and billboards examines loneliness, Sal Pizarro, San Jose Mercury News, June 13, 2020
Critical Viewing - Various Locations: something nameless, Lindsay Costello, Art & About PDX, June 5, 2019
Puzzling Billboard Messages In Seattle Are Part Of Art Project On Loneliness, Paula Wissel, KNKX, May 31, 2018
Five Billboards in Seattle Washington, Brangien Davis, Crosscut, May 25, 2018
Here Are the Five Openings We're Most Excited to See This Week by Shannon Gormley, Willamette Week, May 2, 2018
'A LONE' Permeates the City with Poetry and Visual Art by Margo Vansynghel, City Arts Magazine, May 2, 2018
Alyson Provax 'you i everything else' Art & About PDX, May 2, 2018
This Art Show Celebrates One Year of Resistance Against Trump by Anna Wesche, Bust, January 2018
Alyson Provax Creates Animated Visual Poetry by Andrew Engelson, Cascadia Magazine, December 4, 2017
So, Rage is Officially Our Default Setting by Nancy Won, The Kit, March 9, 2017
Protesting with Paint: The Growing Movement of Anti-Trump Art by Stav Ziv, Newsweek, January 21, 2017
These Artworks Capture Female Rage Over a Trump Inauguration by Tori Latham, New York Magazine, January 20, 2017
20 Pieces of Affordable Art Your 2017 Needs Now by Sean Santiago, Lonny, January 17, 2017
rise up, nasty women: artists respond to trump by Andrea Alessi, ArtSlant, Januaury 13, 2017
Herselves by Irene Pujadas, Butxaca, December 14, 2016
The Space Between 0 and 1: Printmaking and Digital Technology in Portland by Matthew A. Coleman, Art in Print, July-August 2016
Out There by Jennifer Rabin, Willamette Week, June 15, 2016
Variable States: Prints Now by Jennifer Rabin, Willamette Week, Mar 24, 2016
5 Young Female Artists Who Should Definitely Be On Your Radar by Jessica Learish, Bustle, Nov 19, 2015
Artist Crush: Alyson Provax by Kate Singleton, Art Hound,Nov 21, 2013
Alyson Provax by Jeff Hamada, Booooooom, April 12, 2012
I’m Jealous of Alyson Provax by Danielle Krysta, The Jealous Curator, April 4, 2013
The Durations, Another Something & Company, Oct 20, 2011
Time Wasting Experiments, Fault Magazine, faultmagazine.com/blog, May 28, 2011
The Weekend Guide, Daily Candy, Apr 14, 2011
Time Wasting Experiments, Design Crush, Apr 1, 2011
Spring Forward, fieldguided.blogspot.com, Mar 13, 2011
Alyson Provax, Alison Feldmann, teenangster.net Feb 16 2010
Interactive at Woman Made Gallery, Time Out Chicago July 16-22, 2009