Curatorial History

A list (in chronological order) of exhibitions curated and organized by Sean Elwood

2010

Resurrectine
Ronald Feldman Gallery - New York, New York
May 15 – June 26
(Curated with Ronald Feldman, Martina Batan and Marco Nocella)

2004

Face Off
Ronald Feldman Gallery - New York, New York
October 23 – November 27
(Curated with Ronald Feldman, Martina Batan and Marco Nocella)

2003

Ameri©an Dre@m
Ronald Feldman Gallery - New York, New York
February 22 – April 5
(Curated with Ronald Feldman, Martina Batan and Marco Nocella)

2002

Toyland
Alysia Duckler Gallery- Portland, Oregon

1999

Places in Time - Paintings by Liza Von Rosensteil
Key Tower Exhibition Space- Seattle, Washington
March - April

Paper Wealth - Works on Paper by Cris Bruch
Kirkland Art Center- Kirkland, Washington
February 11 - March 27

SEEditions - Prints Published by Sean Elwood ****
Greg Kucera Gallery- Seattle, Washington
February 4 - February 27

1998

Wall Works by Mark Calderon
Key Tower Exhibition Space
April - June 31

1997

Fields of Vision
Northwest Color Abstraction in the 1970s
Key Tower Exhibition Space
November - March 31

The Objects in Hangar 2
Former Sand Point Naval Air Base, Seattle, Washington
September - November 2
(An exhibition of installations and artworks installed in an abandoned aircraft hanger)

Fay Jones- A Decade of Prints
Kirkland Art Center- Kirkland, Washington
May 8 - June 7

Printworks
Kirkland Art Center- Kirkland, Washington
January - February 8
Glen Alps, Debbie Bell, Joan Ross Blaedel, Cris Bruch, Greg Colfax, Lockwood Dennis, Joe Feddersen, Karen Ganz, Anne Gardner, Jonelle Johnson, Fay Jones, Valerie McEvoy, Nancy Mee and Dennis Evans, Deborah Mersky, Jeffry Mitchell, Alison Mollner, Mark Mueller, Barbara Noah, Julia Ricketts, Elizabeth Sandvig, Shirley Scheier, Elizabeth Tapper, William Turner, Fries Undine, Susan Zucola

Numerous exhibitions in municipal spaces drawn from City of Seattle's 1% for Art Portable Works Collection.

1996

Environs
Seattle City Light Headquarters- Seattle, Washington
(Installation of large public collection into nine floors of new headquarters building).
February - On-going exhibition
Over 200 artists

1995

Pinocchio
Eastern Washington State University Art Department Gallery- Cheney, Washington
November 10 - December 8

Kunstkabinett
Center on Contemporary Art- Seattle, Washington
July 8 - August 18
Art Aubrey, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Hanne Darboven, Marita Dingus, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Dan Eskenazi, Fred Gibbons, Nole Giulini, Kathy Glowen,Ron Glowen, Jim Hamilton, Connie Hatch, David Ireland, Suzanne McClelland, Jeffry Mitchell, Mark Mumford, Portia Munson, Paul Natkin, Yvonne Puffer, Elaine Reichek, Elliot Schwartz, Dale Travous, Fries Undine and Shawn Ferris, Kumi Yamashita

1994

Stealth
Seafirst Gallery- Seattle, Washington
January 20 - March 11
Arakawa, Gail Bard, Paul Berger, Roxanne Blanchard, Troy Brauntuch, Nancy Burson, Jack Chevalier, Nancy Chunn, Keith Cottingham, Bev Dolittle, Scott Fife, Trey Friedman, Vernon Fisher, Jack Goldstein, Lynn Hamrick, Connie HatchYvette Helin, Robert Herdlein, Jasper Johns, John King, Katlyn Leighton, Marilyn Lysohir, Christopher Makos, Christian Marclay, Alden Mason, Suzanne McClelland, Jeffry Mitchell, Elizabeth Murray, Patrick Nagatani, Barbara Noah, Shirley Scheier, Susan Seniuk, Cindy Sherman, Roger Shimomura, David Smith, Joshua Stern, Frank Video, Andy Warhol, Darren Waterson

Time Away- A Selection of Prints from the Centrum Artist's Residency Program
Tacoma Art Museum- Tacoma, Washington
December 17 - March 6
Juan Alonzo, Gail Bard, Linda Beaumont, Weldon Butler, Ed Cain, Mark Calderon, Robert Carlson, George Chacona, Rita Chavez, Edward Cox, Michael Dalcero, Dianne Dickeman, Michael Ehle, Joe Max Emminger, Claudia Fitch, Ann Gardner, Galen Garwood, Gail Grinnell, Paul Harcharik, Alfred Harris, Juliana Heyne, Tina Hoggatt, Claudia Hollander, Fay Jones, Lorna Jordan, Lisa Kluge, Cheryl Leo-Guin, Gene Gentry McMahon, Debra Mersky, Peter Millet, Jeffry Mitchell, Marl Mueller, Barbara Noah, Caroline Orr, Virginia Paquette, Mary Anne Peters, Laura Popenoe, Jill Reynolds, Jose Luis Rodriequez, Kay Rood, Nori Sato, Elizabeth Sandvig, Shirley Scheier, T. Ellen Sollod, Michael Spafford, Patricia Way

1993

Heads or Tales***
MIA Gallery- Seattle, Washington
July 1 - August 1
Zoa Ace, Jano Argue, Margi Beyers, Ken Bova, Bill Brewer, Joy Broom, Robert Carlson, Tony Cramer, Roy DeForest, Joe Max Emminger, Cindy Evans, Reverand Howard Finster, Tim Fowler, Kathy Glowen, Stephen Powers, Andrew Shachat, Martha Stearn, Inez Storer, Mose Tolliver, Terry Turrell, William T. Wiley, Anne Grgich, Dilmus Hall, Ken Indermark, Todd McKie, Daniael Minter, Laura Popenoe

Botanic (A flower show for the dead of winter)
Sean Elwood Fine Arts- Seattle, Washington
February 7 - March 7
Margi Beyers, Pat DeCaro, Dianne Dickeman, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Joe Max Emminger, Gail Grinnell, Alfred Harris, Jody Isaacson, Robert Janz, Peggy Jarrell-Kaplan, Fay Jones, Ken Kelly, Elizabeth McKinne, Jeffry Mitchell, Don Myhre, Kay Rood, Donald Saff, Shirley Scheier, Donald Sultan, Hannah Wilke,Terry Winters, Robert Yoder. With an installation by Anne Siems

1992

Talking to Myself-Drawings by John King
Sean Elwood Fine Arts- Seattle, Washington
November 19 - December 21

Of Modest Means
Sean Elwood Fine Arts- Seattle, Washington
October 15 - November 8
Linda Beaumont, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Dane Goodman, Robert Herdlein, Yolanda McKay, Michael Miller, John Ploof, Joshua Stern, Hannah Wilke

Exhibition and Sale for Christy Klyver
Sean Elwood Fine Arts- Seattle, Washington
September 27

1991

Collaborators
Tacoma Art Museum- Tacoma, Washington
April 12 - May 26
A group exhibition of Nine artworks made by over 80 artists

Centrum Prints & Pilchuck Prints
New Vector Corporation
Bellevue, Washington

November House- Jon Gierlich*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
February 28 - March 23

Masami Teraoka- Studies and Prints*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
January 10 - February 16

1990

Objects of Our Affection (II)*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
December 6-20
Gloria Bornstein. Cris Bruch, Scott Fife, Claudia Fitch, Mark Fuller, Jon Geirlich, Lynn Hamrick, Ilse Kluge, John Lavin, Robbie Miller, Susan Plum

Is It All Right To Go There? - Works by Lynn Hamrick*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
October 4 - November 30

John M. King-Paintings and Drawings
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
September 6-29

Komar & Melamid-In America (A Retrospective of Prints and Multiples)
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
July 19 - September 1

Shirley Scheier - Wildflowers & Nightmares*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
June 14 - July 14

Gloria Bornstein - Playing Alive*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
April 27 - June 7

Claudia Fitch - Recent Work*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
March 9 - April 21

Jon Gierlich - Village, A Drawing*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
January 18 - March 3

Objects of Our Affection*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
December 14 - January 13
Gloria Bornstein, Elizabeth Bryant, Scott Fife, Claudia Fitch, John Hawkley, Robert Herdlein, John M. King, Alan Lande, Dutch Meyer, Shirley Scheier, Kevin Wildermuth

1989

Cris Bruch- Plain Air*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
October 26 - December 9

Dennis Adams, Christian Boltanski, Alfredo Jaar
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
September 7 - October 21

Gloria Bornstein, Cris Bruch, Shirley Scheier-Works In Progress*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
August 3-27

Charlie Schmidt- Under One Roof
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
July 6-29

Hugh Webb- Recent Work*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
June 2-30

In Her Image (Autophotography)
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
April 20 - May 27
Vicki Demetre, Felecia Oh!, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Hannah Wilke

Scott Fife*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
March 3 - April 1

Andy Warhol- Citizen Warhol
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
February 2-25

Lorna Jordan- Computer Drawings, 1985-1987*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
Jan. 6-28

1988

Cris Bruch- Cart's Desire*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
November 25 - December 30

Editions: East and West
Cheney Cowles Museum- Spokane, Washington
October 14 - November 13

Gloria Bornstein - New Works on Paper*
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
October 11 - November 19

Joseph Beuys & Marcel Duchamp- Multiples
Fuller/Elwood Gallery- Seattle, Washington
August 25 - October 8

Centrum Prints
Italia Restaurant- Seattle, Washington
April 7 - July 7
(Curated with Irene Mahler, Mahler Fine Arts)

In Residence /Port Townsend
A Selection of prints from the Centrum Visual Artist Residency Program- Franklin House Gallery- Port Townsend, Washington
February 5

Centrum Print
Port Angeles Art Center- Port Angeles, Washington

1985

Two Years Out - Print Editions by Strother/Elwood Art Editions
John Nichols Gallery- New York, New York

1984

The Big Picture
John Nichols Gallery- New York, New York

Socialites and Satellites - an exhibition of design, fashion and art from the 1950s
Ronald Feldman Gallery- New York, New York

1983

"1984"**
Ronald Feldman Gallery- New York, New York

Atomic Salon**
Ronald Feldman Gallery- New York, New York

(In addition to the above two shows, I was responsible for the installation and design of every exhibition at the Feldman Gallery for a six year period.)

* Exhibitions curated with Carole Fuller for Fuller/Elwood Gallery
** Group exhibitions curated with Ronald Feldman for Ronald Feldman Gallery.
*** Group exhibition curated with Gene Gentry McMahon

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