publication or catalog with show *
Select Solo Shows
2018 Erik ReeL: Zero Point, GraySpace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 Erik ReeL: Full Circle, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2014 Silence, SCIART, Camarillo, CA
2014 Rebar, Museum of Ventura County, CA
2013 Tabula Rasa, 643 Project Space, Ventura, CA
2011 Markings, B Street Project Space, Oxnard, CA
2009 Viva la Vida, Laurel Ventura, CA *
2008 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, CA
2005 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, CA
2004 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, CA
2003 Santa Barbara Film Commission, CA
1988-99 did not exhibit
1987 Faces, Mazey Hickey Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986 Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA
1985 123 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 123 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 Cornish Institute for Allied Arts, Seattle, WA
1981 and/or alternative space, Seattle, WA
1979 and/or alternative space, Seattle, WA
1979 The Face of Death, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1977 Paintings, Alexander Sasanoff Gallery, Seattle, WA
1975 Drawings, Alexander Sasanoff Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected Group Shows
2018 82nd National Midyear, Butler Institute for American Art, OH
2017 Art for Living, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Epiphany, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA
2017 From the Collection, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2017 Contemporary Abstraction, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 For the Earth, Postmodern, Washington, DC
2015 Out of the Great Wide Open, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
2015 Retablos for Peace, Museum of Ventura County, CA
2014 Standing in Boots [with Nash Rightmer] WAV, Ventura, CA
2014 Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA
2014 Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 SCIART, Camarillo, CA
2011 Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA
2010 Print Electronico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Epocha Nueva, Casa Del Mexicano, Santa Paula, CA
2009 Turbulence [with Vonder Gray], 255 Laurel, Ventura, CA
2009 Cal State University Channel Islands Invitational, Camarillo, CA
2009 Pistol Productions, Ventura, CA
2009 Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA
2008 I-5, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Earth and Sky, 255 Laurel, Ventura, CA
2008 Gay Pride, Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, CA
2007 Gay Pride, Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, CA
2007 Rainbow Alliance, LGBTQ Support Network, Ventura, CA
2006 Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, CA
2005 Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, CA
2004 Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, NY
2004 University of Wisconsin, WS *
2004 McNeese State University, LA, c: M. Druit, Senior Curator, Menil Collection, Houston
2004 Montpelier Center for the Arts, Montpelier, VI
2004 Las Vegas Center for Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Artlink Contemporary, Fort Wayne, IN
2004 Landscape Unlimited, Chicago, IL
2004 Signal+Noise, CREATE, Media Art Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara
2004 Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, CA
2003 Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, CA
2003 Linda Moore, San Diego, CA
2003 Lisa Kurts, Memphis, TN
2002 Lisa Kurts, Memphis, TN
2000 Artists for World Peace, Pavilion for World Peace, Kobe, Japan
2000 Artists for World Peace, Karpeles Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
1986-99 did not exhibit in group shows
1985 New York, LA, Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1985 New York, LA, Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1985 New York, LA, Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1985 East-West Dialog, c: Gene Barto, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum
1985 Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1984 City of Seattle Collects, c: Howard Fox [LACMA], Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
1984 Burning Angels, performance, Cornish Institute for the Arts, Seattle, WA
1984 Face to Face [with Jimmy Jet], Seattle Pacific University, WA
1984 Silver Birds, performance [w/ Sue Ann Harkey], Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, WA
1984 Night Mind, performance [w/ Sue Ann Harkey], Seattle Art Museum, WA
1984 A Reading After Robbe-Grillet, performance [w/ K. Hunt], Poetry Seattle, WA
1983 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 Performance, w/ Stuart Dempster, Kathleen Hunt, Seattle, WA
1980 Chihuly et al., Foster/White, Seattle, WA
1979 William Traver, Seattle, WA
1979 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1978 6500 x 20 International, Seattle, WA
1978 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1977 International Flux Fest, c: George Maciunas, Seattle, WA
1976 10th National Drawing Show, c: W. Thiebaud, Del Mar Museum, Corpus Christie, TX
Born in Seattle in 1952, 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
