Born Columbus, OH.      Resides Vashon Island, WA
EDUCATION
1979 BFA, University of Washington Seattle, WA
1973 BA Honors, Literature
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
2006 Gail Severn Gallery
Refugia
Ketchum ID
Winston Wachter Fine Art
Weather Shift: Recent Landscapes
Seattle WA
2005 Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID
2004 Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle, WA
2003 Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID
2002 Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle, WA
2001 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Chicago, IL
2000 Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum ID
Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland, OR
Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID
1999 Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art New York, NY
Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum ID
1998 Maryhill Museum of Art Goldendale, WA
1997 Grover/Thurston Gallery Seattle, WA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland, OR
1996 Grover/Thurston Gallery Seattle, WA
Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID
1995  Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland, OR
1994  Grover/Thurston Gallery Seattle, WA
1992 Grover/Thurston Gallery Seattle, WA
1990 Lisa Harris Gallery Seattle, WA
Sheila Nussbaum Gallery Millburn, NJ
1986 Lisa Harris Gallery Seattle, WA
1984  Brush Art Gallery
St. Lawrence University,
Canton, NY
Albion College Albion, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 ArtToronto, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec
Art 2006, Galerie de Bellefeuille Montreal, Quebec
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
8th Annual Realism Invitational
San Francisco, CA
David Klein Gallery
Landscapes Real & Imagined
Birmingham, MI
2005 Winston Wächter Fine Art
North by Northwest
New York. NY
Winston Wächter Fine Art,
Lucky 7: 7 Women Artists from the Northwest
Seattle, WA
2004 Tacoma Art Museum
A Sense of Place
Tacoma, WA
Winston Wächter Fine Art
Second Nature
Seattle, WA
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
Chicago Art Fair
Chicago, IL
Museum of Northwest Art
The Grand View: From Bierstadt to Brophy
La Conner, WA
Tacoma Art Museum
Lewis and Clark Territory
Tacoma, WA
Yellowstone Art Museum
Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory
Traveling to:
Billings, MT and Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
A Sharp Eye: An Art Dealer's 40 Year Journey
Chicago, IL
2003 Western Gallery,
Western Washington University,
Bellingham, WA
Tacoma Art Museum
A Sofa Underneath a Painting
Tacoma, WA
2002 Holter Museum of Art
ANA 31
Helena, MT
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
Chicago Art Fair
Chicago, IL
2001 Frye Art Museum
Northwest Views: Selections from the Safeco Collection
Seattle, WA
Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
Chicago Art Fair
Chicago, IL
2000 Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington
Landscape Dialogue: The Henry Responds to Viewers
Seattle, WA
Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
San Francisco International Art Exhibition
San Francisco, CA
Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington
Shifting Ground:Transformed Views of the American Landscape
Seattle, WA
Winston Wächter Fine Art
The American Landscape
Seattle, WA
Gail Severn Gallery
Reinventing Landscape
Ketchum, ID
1999 Elizabeth Leach Gallery
San Francisco International Art Exhibition
San Francisco, CA
Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art
Summer '99
New York, NY
Gail Severn Gallery
Sense of Place
Ketchum, ID
Whatcom Museum of History and Art
From Here to the Horizon: Artists of the Rural Landscape.
Bellingham, WA
1998 Winston Wächter Fine Art
Movements of Grace:
Spirit in the American Landscape
New York, NY
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
San Francisco International Art Exhibition
San Francisco, CA
Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID
1997 Tacoma Art Museum
True Art: Northwest Biennial
Tacoma, WA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Art Santa Fe International Artfair
Santa Fe, NM
Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID
Coplan Gallery Boca Raton, FL
Gail Severn Gallery and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Seattle Artfair
Seattle, WA
1996 Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition
Portland, OR
University of Oregon Museum of Art
Open Skies
Eugene, OR
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Chicago Artfair
Chicago, IL
1995 Gail Severn Gallery and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Seattle Artfair
Seattle, WA
Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum, ID
Ledbetter/Lusk Gallery Memphis, TN
Tacoma Art Museum
The Land: Northwest Biennial
Tacoma, WA
Grover/Thurston Gallery
Three Landscape Painters:
Victoria Adams, James Lavadour, David Kroll
Seattle, WA
Gail Severn Gallery and Grover/Thurston Gallery
Seattle Artfair
Seattle, WA
Gail Severn Gallery
Triton Contemporary Artfair
San Francisco, CA
1994 Elizabeth Leach Gallery
New Landscapes: West Coast
Portland, OR
Gail Severn Gallery
Sense of Place
Ketchum, ID
Grover/Thurston Gallery Seattle, WA
1993    Elizabeth Leach Gallery
New Landscape
Portland, OR
Grover/Thurston Gallery Seattle, WA
1991 American Art in Embassies Program Lima, Peru
1989 Whatcom Museum of History and Art
Northwest International Art Exhibition
Bellingham, WA
1987  Roland Gibson Gallery
State University of New York
Joint Faculty Exhibition
Potsdam NY
1985 University of Hawaii
Pacific States Printmakers
Hilo, HI
1983 Kittredge Gallery
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA
1980 Davidson Gallery
Drawing Relationships with Prints
Seattle, WA
AWARDS
1994 WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowships for Painting, Honorable Mention
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, WA
Museum of Northwest Art La Conner, WA
Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI
Boeing Corporate Headquarters Chicago, IL
Allen Foundation for the Arts Seattle, WA
Nordstrom Corporation Seattle, WA
Zymogenetics Seattle, WA
University Club Portland, OR
Port of Seattle Seattle, WA
SAFECO Insurance Seattle, WA
City of Chicago Chicago, IL
Bank of America Corporation Chicago, IL
Seattle, WA
FDIC Chicago, IL
US Bancorp Portland, OR
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Whatcom Community College Bellingham, WA
Washington State Public Schools Seattle, WA
Providence Hospital Seattle, WA
Swedish Hospital Seattle, WA
University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
WRQ Seattle, WA
Kaiser Permanente Portland, OR
Collins Foundation Portland, OR
American Airlines San Francisco, CA
Texaco White Plains, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2007  American Art Collector, January, Gail Severn Gallery exhibition reviewed.
2006 American Art Collector, April, pp. 166-69, Winston Wachter Fine Art exhibit reviewed
2004 "Gold Standard," Lesa Sawahata, Seattle Homes and Lifestyles
February, p. 60.
Building Tradition: Gifts in Honor of the Northwest Art Collection
Catalog essay,Rock  Hushka, Associate Curator, Tacoma Art Museum
"'Tis Nothing But What True Is: Traces of the Legacy of Lewis and Clark in Contemporary Art,
"Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory,
Catalog essay, Rock Hushka, Associate Curator, Tacoma Art Museum
2003 Metropolitan Home, July/August, p. 119
2002 "Up, Down, and All Around: Six Western Painters,"
Bonnie Gangelhoff and Alice Herrin,
Southwest Art, February
2001 "Northwest Representational Art," Ron Glowen, Northwest Views: Selections from the Safeco Collection.
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA  (exhibition catalog)
Exhibition Review, Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun-Times
"Fantasy Island," Stacy Durr Albert, Timber Homes Illustrated, October "Preserving Desire: Neo-Romantic Views," Rhonda Lane Howard, Associate Curator, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, Victoria Adams: Terrains (exhibition catalog)
2000 "New Frontiers: Secondhand Landscape," Rhonda Lane Howard, Associate Curator, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape (catalogue essay) "New and Noteworthy, Victoria Adams," Ken Johnson, New York Times, 6/25
1997 New American Painting, Pacific Coast Edition, Needham, MA: Open Studios Press. Juror: Clare Bell, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Guggenheim Museum Women Artists, San Raphael, CA: Cedco Publishing Company
1996 "Luminous Landscapes," Robin Updike, Seattle Times, 7/12
1995 New American Painting, Western Edition, Needham, MA Open Studios Press. Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum "The Land: Tacoma Art Museum," Robin Updike, Seattle Times "The Land," Ron Glowen, Everett Herald
1991 Contemporary American Women Artists, San Raphael, CA: Cedco Publishing Company Willow Springs, No. 29, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA