Laurel Bustamante

EDUCATION

1999    BFA, Southern Oregon University (summa cum laude)
1986    San Francisco State University
1983    San Francisco Academy of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016    Flowers from Mars, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013    Lost Gardens, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2011    Nightbirds, REM Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2010    Birds, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, 0R
2009    Nocturnes in India, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001    Connections: Laurel Engel & Eileen Bowie, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2000    Curaçao: To Return to the Sea, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2000    Signals from a New Order, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
1999    New Work, Thorndike Gallery, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
1999    Heresy, Central Art Gallery, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
1993    Lifeblood, Los Medanos Gallery, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016    Salon: Portland 2016 Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2016    Exploring Reality,  Schneider Art Museum, Oregon Center for the Arts, Ashland, OR
2014    New Work by Gallery Artists, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2012    Group Exhibition: Gallery Artists, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2012    Summer Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012    Smalls, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2010    Small Works, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009    The Toy Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002    Crater Lake Centennial Exhibition, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
2001    Abstraction 2001, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2001    Taste of Ashland, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2000    Four Ashland Artists, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2000    Southern Oregon University Alumni, Center for the Visual Arts, Ashland, OR
2000    Introductions, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
1999    Exposicion Grafica Entre Dos Paises, Sala Polivalente, University of Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico
1998    Recent Graduates ‘98, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1998    Tidal Wave, Dorothy Stolp Theatre Gallery, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
1997    The Aids Show, The OtherArt Gallery, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
1997    En Route, Lavern Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
1995    The Mask Show, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
1993    Contemporary Collections on Loan, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IA
1992    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992    Small Paintings, Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA
1991    Fifth Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA; Regina Almaguer, curator
1991    Kala Institute Annual Art Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
1989    Celebration of the Arts 1989, 3rd Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA, Carl Worth, curator
1988    Art: The Other Industry, Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA;
1987    Four Painters, Merry the Dog Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987    Emeryville 1st Annual Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA, Sidra Stitch, curator

AWARDS AND ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2013    Finalist, Portland Art Museum Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland, OR
2001    Crater Lake National Park Artists in Residence Program, Crater Lake, Oregon
2000    Artist on Location Project, (residency) Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Exploring Reality, (Catalogue) Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR, 2016
Laurel Bustamante: The Listening Stillness, (Cat.) Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2014
Laurel Bustamante presents ‘Lost Gardens,’  Editor’s Pick, Portland Monthly Magazine, April 4, 2013
Speer, Richard, “Laurel Bustamante: Lost Gardens,” Willamette Week, Portland, OR  (Apr. 2013)
“Laurel Bustamante Presents, “Lost Gardens,” Editor’s Pick, Portland Monthly Magazine, (Apr. 2013)
“Museum Announces Artists for Contemporary Northwest Art Awards: Q&A with Curator Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson” Portal: Portland Art Museum Magazine, Vol, 2, Issue 2, (January 2013); 15
“Laurel Bustamante at Lora Schlesinger Gallery,” Coagula Art Journal, Huntington Beach, CA (Sept. 2012)
Aldous, Vickie., “Birds in the Night,” Ashland Daily Tidings, Ashland, OR (October 2010); 4
Vandenberg, Julie., “The Work of Laurel Bustamante,” Sneak Preview, Ashland, OR  (October 1010) 7
Zellen, Jody,  “Lora Schlesinger Gallery,” Artscene, Los Angeles, CA (September 2009); 15
Bayard, B. Allen., “Artist on Location Project,” The Ashland Daily Tidings, Ashland, OR (September 2000) 3
Almaguer, Regina, “1991 Fifth Annual Emeryville Exhibition of Art,” (Cat.) Bachus Press, Inc., Berkeley, CA,  (October 1991) 14
Crohn, Jennifer, “Art as a Civic Virtue,” The East Bay Guardian, Oakland, CA (November 1991); 51
Worth, Carl, “Emeryville Celebration of the Arts 1989: 3rd Annual Art Exhibition:“Art, the Other Industry,” (Cat. Ill.) Photon Press, Emeryville, CA (1989); 10
Tomilson, Robert, “Art, the Other Industry: Emeryville Exhibition 88”  (Cat. Ill.) Albany Press,  Albany, CA (1988); 6
Tomilson, Robert, “Emeryville 1st Annual Art Exhibition: Art, the Other Industry”  (Cat. Ill.) Albany Press, Albany, CA (1987); 12

COLLECTIONS

Timeworks, San Francisco, California
Avila Beach Hotel, Curaçao, Netherlands, Antilles
Private collections in New York, California, Oregon, Texas, North Carolina, and New Mexico