CURRICULUM VITAE Alyson Provax, born California, 1984.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING *There is so much I want to tell you, Cawein Gallery, Forest Grove OR, September 2024
UPCOMING *To know what we say we know, Well Well Projects, Portland OR, June 2024
Time Capsule, The Vestibule, Seattle WA, February, 2024
Companions, The Vestibule, Seattle WA, November 2023
Mind and Hand, Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, Astoria OR, 2023
Eight, Portland Correspondence Co-Op, Kenton Post Office, Portland OR, 2023
1122 Day, 1122 Gallery, Portland, OR, 2022
*There is so much I want to tell you, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR, 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
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
Contemporary Letterpress, University of South Dakota Art Gallery, 2021
*Old Long Since, Agenda, Portland, OR 2021
What do we have here?, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR 2021
*out of nothing, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA, 2020
Producing Space, organized by Outback Arthouse and National Monument Press, 2020
The Work Around, organized by Carissa Burkett and Zemie Barr, 2020
lone some, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, 2020
On the Tip of My Tongue curated by Katherine Spinella and Kristin Hough, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2019
*something nameless, multiple locations in Portland, OR, 2019
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
*you i everything else, Wolff Gallery, Portland, OR, 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, 2018
what happens in a dark place (collaborative exhibition with Serrah Russell), The Vestibule, Seattle, WA 2017-2018
Many Lands curated by Ben Gannon, LxWxH/Bridge Productions, Seattle, WA 2017
Angry Women, The Untitled Space, New York, NY 2017
Herselves Collective Exhibition, Sala Project at Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, ES, 2016 - 2017
*Out There, Wolff Gallery, Portland, OR, 2016
Variable States: Prints Now curated by Heather Lee Birdsong, Upfor, Portland, OR, 2016
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, 2015
*Each Day The Same, Violet Strays, violetstrays.com, 2014
Off White, BC Gallery, Portland, OR, 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, 2014
*Begins Again, Armory, Portland, OR, 2013
Write Club, Paperish Mess, Chicago, IL, 2013
Trust curated by Randy Gragg, Namita Gupta-Wiggers, Sarah Miller-Meigs, Deanne Rubinstein, and Stephanie Snyder, Swigert Commons, Portland, OR, 2012
*Durations, IPRC, Portland, OR, 2011
American Dream curated by Catherine Blackwell Peña, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2011
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, 2009
BIMPE V, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2008
Fiber, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, OR, 2007
Welcome into the Fold, Rererato, Portland, OR, 2007
*indicates a solo exhibition
PUBLICATIONS
Like things go away, in collaboration with Zach Clark and published by National Monument Press, 2023
Berm Issue 2, 2022
Quotidian Volume II, 2021
The Racket, Issue 29, curated by Anna Rotty, November 2020
Buckman Journal, Issue 3, December 2019
what are we waiting for, published by Volumes Volumes, 2019
Poetry Northwest, Winter-Spring 2018
can be indefinite on Daily Gramma, Gramma Press, 2016
IRIS published by The Blush Room and Violet Strays, 2016
Eleven Eleven Magazine, Issue #15, 2013
Bearfight! Published by Banner Year Press, 2010
COLLECTIONS
SFMOMA Library
Harvard University Library
University of California Davis Library
University of California Santa Cruz
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
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