Tamara Stephas

Selected Exhibitions

2013 The Meaning of Wood, Lower Columbia College Rose Center for the Arts, Longview, WA. Curated by Suze Woolf. (July)
2013 Small Voids, Portland, OR and Oakland, CA (traveling pop-up events)
2013 Edge, Gage & More, Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
2013 Edges, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 Supplemental Geology, ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Fruition, Rosen Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2012 Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Small Voids, Pioneer Square Artwalk, Seattle, WA
2012 10x10x10xTieton, Tieton Arts & Humanities, Tieton, WA
2012 A Celebration of Washington Artists, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2012 CVG Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA
2011 NEED|WANT: Matters of Priority, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture,
Spokane, WA
2011 Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Projects: From the Gage Drawing & Painting Atelier, Pioneer Square Artwalk, Seattle, WA
2011 Fate of the Forest, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2011 The World Through Story, Ida Culver House Broadview, Seattle, WA
2011 CVG Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA
2010 Instructions for Initial Conditions, Drift Station/Parallax Space, Lincoln, NE
2010 Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle WA
2010 OK Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Art and Agriculture, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
2010 Unclad, Gallery by the Bay, Stanwood, WA
2009 Faces and Figures, University House, Issaquah, WA
2009 Other Worlds, Jupiter Arts Center, Centralia, WA
2009 OK Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Best of Gage, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2009 From Classical to Modern, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2008 Art + Politics, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA. Curated by Richard V. West
2008 Beauty in Context, Bethany Community Church, Seattle, WA
2008 Best of Gage, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2008 Questioning Silence, ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Intersections, Blowing Sands Glass Studio/Laura Frost Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Women Painters of Washington Juried Exhibition,
Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA
2007 Surreal and Organic, Shoreline Center Gallery, Shoreline/Lake Forest Park, WA
2007 National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Associated Arts of Ocean Shores, Ocean Shores, WA
2007 Convergence: 14 Emerging NW Artists, Burien Arts Gallery, Burien, WA
2006 Day of the Dead, Phinney Center Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Untimed, Trabant, Seattle, WA (solo)
2006 Meditations on Time, Aurafice, Seattle, WA (solo)
2005 Columbia Riverfest Jazz Festival, Portland, OR (featured artist)
2005 Inaugural Show, Nexxus, Seattle, WA
2004 Madison Valley Art Show, Seattle, WA

Honors and Awards

2013 Art Walk Award, Spring 2013. 3rd place among all January-April exhibitors. City Arts Magazine, Seattle WA
2009 3rd prize, landscape. Best of Gage Annual Student Awards, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
Juror: Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum
2008 1st prize, sculpture. Best of Gage Annual Student Awards, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
Juror: Billy Howard, Director of Howard House, Seattle
2007 Honorable mention. National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Associated Arts of Ocean Shores, Ocean Shores, OR

Education

2009 Graduate, Drawing and Painting Atelier, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2006 Artist Trust EDGE Professional Development Program, Seattle, WA
1997 M.Sc. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. Member of the Dynamic Graphics Project Lab
1989 B.A. Magna Cum Laude Willamette University, Salem, OR