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Select Solo Shows
2018 GraySpace Gallery, Erik ReeL: Zero Point, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 Morris Graves Museum of Art, Erik ReeL: Full Circle, Eureka, CA *
2014 SCIART, Silence, Camarillo, CA
Museum of Ventura County, Rebar, Ventura, CA
2013 643 Project Space, Tabula Rasa, Ventura, CA *
2011 B Street Project Space, Markings, Oxnard, CA
2009 Laurel Ventura Gallery, Ventura, Viva la Vida, CA *
2008 Love House, ReeL at the Love House, Ventura, CA
UC Santa Barbara Faculty Club, CA
Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2005 Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2004 Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2003 Santa Barbara Film Commission, CA
University of California Santa Barbara Faculty Club, CA
Delphine Gallery, Night Mind, Santa Barbara, CA
Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2002 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
University of California Santa Barbara Faculty Club, CA
2001 University of California Santa Barbara Faculty Club, CA
Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2000 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1988-96 did not exhibit
1987 Mazey Hickey Gallery, Faces, Seattle, WA
1986 Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA
1985 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
Cornish Institute for Allied Arts, Seattle, WA
1982 The Vogue, Warehouse Paintings, Seattle, WA
1981 and/or alternative space, Seattle, WA
1979 and/or alternative space, Seattle, WA
Evergreen State College, The Face of Death, Olympia, WA
1977 Alexander Sasanoff Gallery, Paintings, Seattle, WA
1975 Alexander Sasanoff Gallery, Drawings, Seattle, WA
1974 Ocean Sands, Ocean Shores, WA
Select Group Shows
2018 Butler Institute for American Art, 82nd National Midyear, OH
2017 Czong Institute of Contemporary Art [CICA Museum], Seoul, South Korea
Porch Gallery, Epiphany, Ojai, CA
Morris Graves Museum of Art, From the Collection, Eureka, CA
Sullivan Goss Gallery, Contemporary Abstraction, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 Postmodern Gallery, For the Earth, Washington, DC
2015 Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Out of the Great Wide Open, CA
Museum of Ventura County, Retablos for Peace, CA
2014 WAV, Standing in Boots [with Nash Rightmer] Ventura, CA
Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA
Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 SCIART, Camarillo, CA
2011 Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA
2010 Print Electronico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Casa Del Mexicano, Epocha Nueva, Santa Paula, CA
Laurel Ventura Gallery, Ventura, CA
2009 251 Laurel Gallery, Turbulence [with Vonder Gray], Ventura, CA
Cal State University Channel Islands Invitational, Camarillo, CA
Pistol Productions, Ventura, CA
Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA
2008 I-5, Los Angeles, CA
251 Laurel Gallery, Earth and Sky, Ventura, CA
Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, CA
Caruso Woods Gallery, Gay Pride Show, Santa Barbara, CA
2007 Caruso Woods Gallery, Gay Pride Show, Santa Barbara, CA
LGBTI Support Network, Rainbow Alliance, Ventura, CA
2006 Elizabeth Edwards Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2005 Elizabeth Edwards Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2004 Society of American Graphic Artists, 71st SAGA Annual Print Show, New York, NY
University of Wisconsin, 17th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, Kenosha, WS *
McNeese State University, LA, c: Matthew Pruit, Sr. Curator, Menil Collection, Houston
Montpelier Center for the Arts, Montpelier, VI
Las Vegas Center for Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
Artlink Contemporary, Fort Wayne, IN
Landscape Unlimited, Chicago, IL
CREATE + Media Art Lab, Signal+Noise, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Caruso Woods Gallery, Ventura, CA
Elizabeth Edwards Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2003 Elizabeth Edwards Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego, CA
Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
2002 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
Contemporary Art Forum, Forum-ulations, Santa Barbara, CA
2001 Contemporary Art Forum, Focus on the Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2000 Contemporary Art Forum, Focus on the Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Pavilion for World Peace, Artists for World Peace, Kobe, Japan
Karpeles Museum, Artists for World Peace, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1986-98 did not exhibit in group shows
1985 Center on Contemporary Art, New York, LA, Seattle, New York, NY
Center on Contemporary Art, New York, LA, Seattle, Los Angeles, CA
Center on Contemporary Art, New York, LA, Seattle, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum, East-West Dialog, c: Gene Barto, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1984 Seattle Art Museum, City of Seattle Collects, c: Howard Fox [LACMA], Seattle
Cornish Institute for the Arts, Burning Angels, performance, Seattle, WA
Seattle Pacific University, Face to Face [with Jimmy Jet], WA
Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Silver Birds, performance [w/ Sue Ann Harkey], WA
Seattle Art Museum, Night Mind, performance [w/ Sue Ann Harkey], WA
Poetry Seattle, A Reading After Robbe-Grillet, performance [w/ K. Hunt], WA
1983 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 Seattle 1% for Art purchase, Seattle, WA
1980 Foster/White Gallery, Chihuly et al., Seattle, WA
1979 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1978 and/or alternative space, 6500 x 20 International Color Xerox Invitational, Seattle, WA
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1977 and/or alternative space, International Flux Fest, c: George Maciunas, Seattle, WA
1976 Del Mar Museum, Drawing on the West Coast, c: W. Thiebaud, Corpus Christie, TX
Education
1975 University of Washington, summa cum laude, art history
1974 University of California, Berkeley
1971-73 Whitman College, mathematics
1952 born, Seattle
Erik ReeL is a post-contemporary artist addressing issues related to mark-making and signification. His work is represented by collections in New York, Berlin, London, Seoul, Los Angeles, Paris, Buenos Aires, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Oakland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Indianapolis, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Fe [NM]. Public collections include Seattle City Light, the Museum of Ventura County, the City of Seattle, and the Morris Graves Museum of Art.
Erik ReeL, #1270 Seat of Power, 2009, courtesy private collection
