Erik ReeL
Shows [selected]
2025 Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
2024 Laura Vincent, Portland, Oregon [solo]
2023 PLACE, Portland, Oregon [solo]
2018 Butler Institute for American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
GraySpace, Santa Barbara, California [solo]
2017 CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California
Epiphany, Ojai, California [solo]
Contemporary Abstraction, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, California
2016 Art for Global Ecology, Postmodern, Washington DC
Erik ReeL : Full Circle, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California [solo]
2015 Out of the Great Wide Open, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California
Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, California
2014 SCIART, Camarillo, California [solo]
Rebar, Tool Room, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, California [solo]
Standing in Boots, with Nash Rightmer, WAV, Ventura, California
2013 Tabula Rasa, 643 Project Space, Ventura, California [solo]
2012 SCIART, Camarillo, California
Pistol Productions, Ventura, California
2011 Markings, B Street Projects, Oxnard, California [solo]
Signs of a Lost Civilization, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, California [solo]
2010 Print Electronico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Epocha Nueva, El Fuego Del Futuro, Casa Del Mexicano, Santa Paula, California
2009 Turbulence, with Vonder Gray, Galerie 251, Ventura, California
California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, California
2008 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California [solo]
I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007 Rainbow Alliance LGBTQ+ Support Network, Ventura, California
2006 Picasso, Chagall + Contemporary Prints, Modern Masters, Palm Desert, California
Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California [solo]
2005 Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, California
Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California [solo]
2004 71st SAGA Annual, Society of American Graphic Artists [SAGA], New York City
University of Wisconsin
McNeese State University, Louisiana, curator: Matthew Pruit, Menil Collection
ArtLink Contemporary, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Montpelier Center for the Arts, Montpelier, Virginia
Las Vegas Center for Art and Design, Las Vegas, New Mexico
Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California [solo]
Landscape Unlimited, Chicago, Illinois
2003 Lisa Kurts, Memphis, Tennessee
Linda Moore, San Diego, California
Signal+Noise, Center for Research in Electronic Art & TEchnology (CREATE), UCSB
Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, California
2002 Lisa Kurts, Memphis, Tennessee
2000 Artists For World Peace, Kobe, Japan
1987 Mazey Hickey, Seattle, Washington [solo]
1986 Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, Washington [solo]
1985 123 Jackson Street, Seattle, Washington [solo]
New York, LA, Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle, Los Angeles, New York
Seattle Art Museum, curator: Gene Barto, Brooklyn Museum of Art
1984 Cornish Institute of Allied Arts, Seattle, Washington [solo]
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington [solo]
City of Seattle Collects, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, curator: Howard Fox, LACMA
Performance with dancers, Cornish Institute of Allied Arts, Seattle, Washington
123 Jackson Street, Seattle, Washington [solo]
Burning Angels, performance with dancers, Virginia Street Studio, Seattle, Washington
A Reading After Robbe-Grillet, Cabaret Apocalypse, Seattle, Washington
Silver Birds, performance, Poetry Seattle, Washington
Krakatoa Kriterion, curator, 123 Jackson Street, Seattle, Washington
1983 123 Jackson Street, Seattle, Washington [solo]
Performance w/ Stuart Dempster, K. Hunt, Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1982 Performance with Sue Ann Harkey, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, Washington
A Reading After Robbe-Grillet, performance with K. Hunt, Poetry Seattle, Washington
1981 Performance with Sue Ann Harkey, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
and/or, Seattle, Washington [solo]
1980 Dale Chihuly et al., Foster/White, Seattle, Washington
1979 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington [solo]
William Traver, Seattle, Washington
and/or, Seattle, Washington [solo]
1978 A Reading After Robbe Grillet, solo performance, Cabaret Apocalypse, Seattle
6500 x 20, Color Xerox International, and/or, Seattle, Washington
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Performance, choreographed by K. Hunt, Washington Hall, Seattle, Washington
1977 Alexander Sasanoff, Seattle, Washington [solo]
International Flux Fest, curator: George Maciunas, and/or, Seattle, Washington
1976 Del Mar Museum, Corpus Christie, Texas, curator: Wayne Thiebaud
1975 Alexander Sasanoff, Seattle, Washington [solo]
Art in Transit, original pilot, and/or, Seattle Transit, King County Metro, Washington
Collections
Represented in private collections based in Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Paris, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and Seoul. Public collections include the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Seattle City Light, City of Seattle, Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Ventura County, Whitman College.
Education
1980-82 University of Washington, graduate study, art history
1975 University of Washington, BA
1974 University of California, Berkeley
1971-73 Whitman College, Washington
Teaching
Seattle Central College, color theory, painting, life drawing, art history 1978-1983
University of Washington, Seattle, art history, graduate student TA 1980
Fort Worden Gifted High School Program, Pt. Townsend, Washington 1978, 1979
Public Service
Governor's Award for Public Service, Washington State, 1985
Seattle Arts Commission Special Task Force on Media 1977
Seattle Arts Commission Special Task Force on Educational Institutions 1977
born: 1952, Seattle