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Past Exhibitions

Exhibitions at the Schneider Museum of Art
from 1986 to the Present
2013      
   January

Seeing 8
SOU Art Faculty Exhibit
Marlene Alt, David Bithell, Cody Bustamante, Miles Inada, Kathleen Murney, Peg Sjogren, Robin Strangfeld & Tracy Templeton

Then and Now
Prints and Pastels by Lyle Matoush

 
   March

The Metaphysics of Notation
Mark Applebaum

 
 2012      
  January SEVEN (re)Thinking Ceramics
By Jae Won Lee, Julie York, Tsehai Johnson, Brendan Tang,
Matthew Scheatzle, Justin Novak, Hoon Lee
 
  March Narrative, Mechanism, and the Digital Thread
David Bithell, Ali Momeni, Jenny Vogel
 
  May The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
Bill Armstrong. Carel Balth, Ellen Carey, Roland Fischer, Michael Flomen, Manuel Geerinck, Shirine Gill, Barbara Kasten, Seth Lambert, Charles Lindsay Edward Mapplethorpe, Chris McCaw, Roger Newton, Beatrice Pediconi, Jack Sal, Penelope Umbrico, Randy West, Silvio Wolf, and Ilan Wolff.
 
  June Paintings by Eva Lake and Jewels of the Navajo Loom - The Rugs of Teec Nos Pos  
  September Selections from Portland 2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art
Akihiko Miyoshi, Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Ariana Jacob, Arnold J. Kemp, Ben Buswell, Ben Rosenberg, Chris Knight, Cynthia Lahti, Daniel Duford, Dustin Zemel, Erik Geschke, Mack McFarland, Marie Sivak, Matt McCormick, Sang-Ah Choi, Susan Seubert & Vanessa Calvert
 
2011      
  January Third Views, Second Sights: a re-photographic survey of the American West
By Mark Klett, Byron Wolfe & others
 
  March The Indigenous Tourist: Andries Fourie
Accumulation/Dissipation by Kevin Haas
 
  April SOU Art Faculty Show  
  June Views of the Inner Eye:
Ellen Van Fleet, Morris Graves & M.R. Renjan
 
  September Mi Linda Soledad: Emilio Lobato
Felt to Steel: Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller
 
2010      
  January Zhi Lin: From Tiananmen Square to Promontory Summit  
  March Disparate Spirits: Wood Sculpture & Installation
The Work of Mike Rathbun, W. Scott Trimble & Alison Saar
 
  May The Mythical State of Jefferson  
  July Ashland in Love: 75 years of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival  
  September Unintended Consequences & the Digital Age  
  December The Art of Invention: Sculpture: Daniel A. Henderson
The Lost Museum: Shaura Kumar
Undercast: works by Brett Phares
 
2009      
  January Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies: Alissa Arp, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, SOU  
  April Southern Oregon University Art Faculty Show  
  July Gee's Bend Quilts  
  September Harmonie Universelle: Four Continents of Musical Instruments
from the SOU Schuman Collection
and recent additions to the Permanent Collection of the Schneider Museum of Art
 
2008      
  January SKIN: selected works ((1968-2008): Walter Jule  
  February Cross-currents: International Prints from the University of Alberta  
  March Idea, Text & Image
Chavez Ravine 1949: Don Normark (photographs)
Kim Abele (mixed media)
Charles Gaines (photography, prints & drawings)
 
  April Artist as Social Critic: Enrique Chagoya, Betye Saar, Roger Shimomura & Ben Sakoguchi  
  July The Properties of Paint: James Lavadour  
  September Selections from Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts
Paintings & Sculpture 1979-2006: Sherry Markowitz Shimmer
 
2007      
  January Measures of Time: David Burnett  
  February The Light Becomes Us: Dennis Dunleavy  
  March Selections from the Permanent Collection  
  May SOU Art Faculty Show with Emeriti & Alumni  
  July From the Ancient World to the Silk Road: The Zundel Collection  
  September Elegantly Frugal, Deceptively Simple (minimalist art)  
2006      
  January The Vanishing: Re-Presenting the Chinese in the American West
Sojourners in a Golden Land: The Chinese Presence in Southern Oregon
 
  March International Women's Exhibition  
  April Soaring Spirits / Feet of Clay (ceramics)
by Ron Nagle, Luis Burmudez, Stephen De Staebler, Philip Cornelius, Sana Krusoe, Danae Mattes
 
  June Objects of Desire: Selections from the Crowell Collection
Northwest Coast Native American sculpture & contemporary glass by William Morris
 
  September SMA 20th Anniversary
Emblems, Effigies & Enigmas: The Art of John Buck
(wood carvings and prints)
 
2005      
  January SOU Art Faculty  
  March Keys to the Koop: Humor & Satire in Contemporary Printmaking
Selections from the Jordan Schnitzer Foundation
 
  May Northwest Matriarchs: 12 Proto-feminists from Oregon & Washington  
  July Retrospective: Robert Emory Johnson  
  September Landscape Exhibition  
2004      
  January A Taste of Raymond Saunders  
  March 4 Artists / 4 Installations
Marlene Alt, Mineko Grimmer, Yuriko Yamaguchi & Connie Zehr
 
  May Mark Making (drawing)  
  July Shakespeare as Muse  
  October Eloquent Objects: Portrait of a Community  
2003      
  January International Prints: Ernest F. de Soto Workshop  
  March Pressure Points: Recent Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan & Mina Schnitzer Foundation  
  May Art Faculty Biennial - 2003  
  June Fire in the Heart: The Creative Process
Society of Layerists in Multi-Media
 
  September Challenge VI - Roots: Insights & Inspirations in Contemporary Turned Objects  
  December Contemporary Silver Servers: The Rabinovitch Collection  
2002      
  January Figure Studies: Works on Paper, 1989-2001: Nathan Oliveira  
  March The Heart Mountain Story (photographs)
by Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel
 
  April Digital Frontiers: Photography's Future at Nash Editions  
  May Regional Perspectives
Art from southern Oregon & northern California
 
  June Crater Lake Centennial Exhibition  
  October Wood, Paper, Bamboo, Glass: Kazuo Kadonaga  
2001      
  February What's a Girl to do?
Paintings by Mary Snowden
Domestic Constructions by Helen Cohen
 
  April SOU Art Faculty  
  June Scenic Design of Richard L. Hay, Oregon Shakespeare Festival  
  October Contemporary Animation & Comic Book Art  
2000      
  January Sisters of the Light
Myra Wiggins, Lily White & Sarah Ladd
Photo Secessionists
 
  March Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home by Lillian Pitt
Stories by Rick Bartow
 
  April Recent work & selected pieces from the Lyle Matoush Collection  
  June Sheen of Silver, Weight of Air (contemporary aluminum)
Guest Curator: Lloyd Herman
 
  October Transforming Traditions: Judy Pfaff  
1999      
  January Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints
Art Nouveau Glass & Pottery
 
  February Black and White Photomontage: Romare Bearden
The Listening Project: Carolyn Speranza
The Opportunity for Misunderstanding is Clear: Carolyn Speranza
Listen to the Body: Shabad
 
  April AnOther Western: Pipo Nguyen
SOU Art Faculty
 
  June Endangered Species: Andy Warhol
Soup to Nuts: Pop Art & it's Legacy
 
  October Wild Beasts: Roy De Forest & Gaylen Hansen  
1998      
  January Two in Montana: Deborah Butterfield & John Buck
Fabrications: Photography in the United States (Pipo & Friends)
 
  March 1997 Oregon Biennial
Contemporary European Photography
 
  May Recent Work by Hung Lui
Contemporary European Photography
 
  June Quilt National '97
Silver Servers: Collection of Seymour Rabinovitch
Treehaven by Waldo Peirce
 
  September Across the Continents: Selections from the Permanent Collection  
1997      
  January Seed Systems by Will Martin  
  February Beyond the Sun: Philip McCracken (Sculpture)
Around the Curve: Kay French (painting)
Selections from the Bud Knapp Collection
 
  March Retrospective: Robert Alston
Photographs by Nata Piaskowski
Paintings by Keith Boyle
 
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show
Early Drawings & Works on Paper
 
  June DADA rode a Bicycle/MOMA was a Peddler: Kurt Wold  
  September Landshark: John Slawta
Paintings by Scott Greene
 
  October Trashformations  
1996      
  January Virtual Reality: Trompe L'oeil Work in Clay
Community Mural Project
 
  February Tribal Identity: James Luna  
  April Evacuation Work: Miné Okubo  
  May Basalt Exposures: Terry Toedtemeier  
  June Chihuly Baskets  
  September Stonework in America: Andy Goldsworthy  
1995      
  January Listening Devices: Sheri Simons  
  February Juggernaut: Installation by local artists Bruce Bayard & John Collins  
  March Sea Island Series! Africa Series: Carrie Mae Weems  
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show  
  June Navajo Textiles: Durango Collection  
  September Recent Paintings: Alberto Ray
Selections from the Permanent Collection
 
  November Miracles of Mexican Folk Art: Retablos & Ex-votos  
1994      
  January Natural Voices: The Northwest Landscape  
  February Photographs from the diRosa Collection  
  April Contemporary Work: Rogue Valley Collections  
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show  
  July A Retrospective: Eugene Bennett  
  September Mark Bornowski & Margarita Léon
The Lion King: Bob Smith (drawings)
 
  November Bronzes & Drawings: Terry Allen  
  December Living in the Mouth of the World: D.R. Wagner  
1993      
  January Prints: Wayne Thiebaud  
  March An American Master: Jacob Lawrence  
  April Painting & Constructions: Kieth Boyle  
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show  
  July Selections from the Permenant Collection  
  September Measure 5 Show
Ritual Spirits: Art of New Guinea
 
  November The Submuloc Show: Columbus Wohs  
1992      
  January Intimate Views: Still Life Selections from Janss Collection  
  March Photojournalism Since Vietnam  
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show  
  July Oregon Biennial  
  August Selections from the Permanent Collection  
  September Contemporary Soviet Art  
  October Africa: Between Myth & Reality by Betty LaDuke  
  December The Sporting Woman  
1991      
  January Strong Tea: Richard Notkin
Selections from the Permanent Collection
 
  April Land of Morning Calm: Contemporary Korean Metal & Fiber  
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show  
  July Peirce & Hemingway Connection  
  September Selections from the Rene & Veronica diRosa Collection  
  November European Art of the 19th Century  
  December The Era of Mozart  
1990      
  January African Mask Collection  
  February Ceramics: Richard Shaw  
  March African Collection  
  April The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger  
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show  
  June Recent Work: Fritz Scholder  
  August Fiber Directions: West Coast  
  October Photography: Susan Rankaitis
Photography: Robert Heinecken
 
  December Oregon Biennial  
1989      
  January Zundel Collection  
  February Raku Ceramics: Paul Soldner  
  April Naturalism: Janss Collection  
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show  
  June Scuplture: Suzanne Klotz  
  August The Candy Store  
  October Northwest Print Council
The Rise and Fall of Taste: David Giese
 
  December Posters: David Gaines
Recent Work: Robert DeVoe
 
1988      
  January Luminous Impressions: Prints from Glass
Works on Paper: Waldo Peirce
 
  February Romanticism
Seven T.V.'s: Ed Keinholtz
Berlin Photographs: Marsh & Michael Burns
 
  March Prints & Lithographs: Christo  
  May SOSC Art Faculty Show  
  June Oregon Biennial  
  July Prints from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts  
  August New Sculpture: Rod Kagen
Contemporary Prints & Drawings
 
  October Northwest Ceramics  
  November Rogue Valley Collections  
  December Zundell Collection  
1987      
  January Commitment to Vision  
  February Photographs: Peter DeLory  
  March Will Martin  
  April - May New Directions Northwest  
  June Marie Louise Feldenheimer and Francisco Amighetti  
  July Structured Vision (photography)  
  August Chinese Prints  
  September Contemporary Cups  
  November M. Sjogren and C. Bustamante  
1986      
  September Selections from the Portland Art Museum  
  December Northwest Artists