EDUCATION
B.A., Austin College, Sherman, TX

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
"Nose Touches Twig," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2008
"Weather," PDX Window Project, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Things Turning," a collaboration with Jerry Mayer, NINE Gallery at Blue Sky, Portland, OR

2007
"Undergrowth," Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX

2006
"Speciation," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2005
Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
"Thin Air," Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX

2004
"Meadow," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Out of Doors," Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2003
"Mum," Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR
"Variation," Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, Texas

2002
"Trail and Other Things," Commencement Gallery, City of Tacoma Art Commission, Tacoma, WA
"Arrangements," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2001
"Jubilee," PDX Window Project, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Small Sculpture: Ellen George," Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
"Ellen George," Visual Art Center Gallery, Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
"Ellen George," Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX

2000
"Post Mark: Objects by Ellen George," Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX
"Special Handling," Lower Columbia College Art Gallery, Longview, WA

1999
"Little Tin Boxes," Commencement Gallery 9th St. Window, Tacoma, WA

1997
"Round," Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
"Nocturnes, New Work by Ellen George," Artists Repertory theater, Portland, OR
"He Dreams of Flying," Gallery 114, Portland, OR

1995
"Magic 8 Ball Paintings," Gallery 114, Portland, OR

1994
"Learning to Count," Gallery 114

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Group Show, PDX Across the Hall, Portland, OR

2009
"Open Stacks," PDX Across the Hall, Portland, OR
"Winter Light," Leo Michelson, curator. Collaboration with Jerry Mayer. Beppu Wiarda Gallery Portland OR

2008
"Weight," Mount Hood Community College Visual Arts Gallery, Portland OR
"Turning Things," collaboration with Jerry Mayer, Nine Gallery, Portland OR
"Volume," Jeff Jahn, curator. Collaboration with Jerry Mayer. Worksound, Portland OR

2007
"Building Tradition: Contemporary Northwest Art from Tacoma Art Museum," Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham, WA
"The Hook Up," Jesse Hayward, curator, New American Art Union, Portland, OR

2006
"In Clover," Scott Wayne Indiana, curator, Guestroom Gallery, Portland, OR
"Grey/Area," TJ Norris, curator, Guestroom Gallery, Portland, OR
"Thread Counts Project," Brookline, MA

2005
"Good Bird/Bad Bird," Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery, Portland, OR
"War Drawings," Visual Arts Center, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
"Fresh Trouble," freshtrouble.com, Jeff Jahn, curator, Portland, OR
"3rd Around Oregon Annual," ArtCentric Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
"Juried Exhibition," Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2004
"21 Years of Studios: Friends of Carton Services," Haze Gallery and Carton Services, Portland, OR
"Summer Group Show," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Pacific Northwest Annual," Adell McMillan Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
"Building Tradition," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA catalogue

2003
"Symbiont/Synthetic," Core Sample, Jeff Jahn, curator, Portland, OR
"Building Tradition," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA catalogue
"2003 Biennial Review of NW Art & Craft," Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
"Dancing on the Walls," Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
"Alias," Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR

2002
"The Box Show," Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
"Work," Center Space, Portland, OR
"Abstract Realism," Mail Art Show, Manchester, England brochure

2001
"2001 Pacific Northwest Annual," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
"New Works," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Tacoma Art Museum’s Sixth Northwest Biennial: Pleasure Craft," Tacoma, WA (received Juror’s Award)
"Celebrate Northwest Women 2001," Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
"Recycled Treasures," White Sturgeon Art Gallery, Water Resources Education Center, Vancouver, WA

2000
"Holiday Box," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Holiday Group Show," Gallery Artists, Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX
"Traditional Methods/Transcendent Expressions," Kathryn Cawein Gallery, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
"The 7th Annual International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition," University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (Selected for traveling exhibit through 2002)
"The Art Is In The Mail(ing): Mail Art Exhibit complementing: Ray Johnson: Correspondences," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

1999
"The Inquisitive Object: A Biennial Review of NW Art & Craft," Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR (Received Award of Merit)
"Mail Art Exhibit in conjunction with Ray Johnson: Correspondences," Whitney Museum of Art, New York, New York
"South Sound Annual," Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA
"Beyond the Fold: Artist’s Books from Traditional to Cutting Edge," The Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ

1998
"Co-operators," Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
"Christmas at tidbit, tidbit," Portland, OR
"11th Annual Miniature Show," Cannon Beach Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR

1997
"In/Visible," The Spare Room, Salem, OR

1996
"Celebrate Northwest Women 1996," Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR

1994
"National Small Painting & Sculpture Exhibition," Boise State University, Boise, ID

GRANTS/AWARDS
2009
"Grant for Artist Projects," Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission

2002
"Award Recipient, Grants for Artist Projects (GAP)," Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
"Special Recognition Award," Art Port Townsend 2002 Annual Juried Exhibit, Port Townsend, WA Jim McDonald, Curator: Safeco Collection, Jurist

2001
"Juror’s Award," Tacoma Art Museum’s Sixth Northwest Biennial: Pleasure Craft, Tacoma, WA

1999
"Award of Merit," The Inquisitive Object: A Biennial Review of NW Art & Craft, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009
Speer, Richard, "PDX Contemporary Art: Mary Henry, Ellen George," Willamette Week, May 6.
"Vancouver artist tackles new medium," The Columbian, May 3.
Douglas, Arcy, "Ellen George's Nose Touches Twig at PDX Contemporary Art, PORT, May 1.

2008
Row, D.K. “Hotel Art Goes High-end at The Nines,” Ultimate Northwest, December
Row, D.K. “The art at the Nines Hotel,” The Oregonian, November 26
“Shows of Note,” The Oregonian, October 31
Speer, Richard. “Then Nines,” Willamette Week, October 29
Speer, Richard. “Volume at Worksound,” Willamette Week. September 17
Jahn, Jeff. “Last Chance Reviews,” PORT, August 1
Norris, TJ. “Beautiful Things,” Unblogged, July 30

2007
Holmes, Justin. “Tribeza Pick/Joan Wich Gallery,” Tribeza. November
Pence, Elizabeth.“Building Tradition at the Whatcom Museum,” Artweek, February
Wiggers, Namita Gupta.“Ellen George, PDX Contemporary Art,” Artlies, Summer

2006
D.K. Row, “Beauty to the Max, Minimally,” The Orgegonian, June 5

2005
“Ellen George at Archer Gallery,” PORT, October 24
Jahn, Jeff. “Portland Art in 2004... and 2005,” Critical i. NW Drizzle. January

2004
Terranova, Charissa N. “Ellen George Out of Doors,” Dallas Observer, October
Zamudio, Raul. ArtNexus, AAF New York
Allan, Lois. “Ellen George at PDX,” Artweek, May
Jahn, Jeff. “The Imports,” Critical i. NW Drizzle. April
Hayward, Jesse. “Ellen George, PDX Contemporary Art.” The Organ, Summer

2003
Zotos, John, “Ellen George: Variation”, Artlies: A Texas Art Journal, Summer
Row, D.K., “Two Cultural Views, One Voice.” The Oregonian, May 9
Jahn, Jeff. “View From Portland”. Modern Painters. Spring, 2003

2002
Graves, Jen. “The Arts: TAM’s Stone Wave Soul. . .” The New Tribune, December 8
Jahn, Jeff. “Chicago, PDX & Ellen George.” Critical i, NW Scuttle, June
Lambert, Lisa. “One Review/WW Pick.” Willamette Week, June 5

2001
Hackett, Regina. “Northwest Pluck at BAM.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer,October 23
Kangas, Matthew. “Works in BAM’s Annual Resist Traditional Categories.” Seattle Times, October 19
Graves, Jen. “Chicago Painter Picked Pieces For ‘Pleasure Craft’ Northwest Biennial Exhibit.” The News Tribune, June 22
Taylor, M. Khalil. “George Uses Miniature.” University of Houston Daily Cougar, March 27

1999
Bischoff, Dan. “Bound for Pleasure. The Star Ledger, September 24
Zingaro, Maria. “South Orange Exhibit Writes the Book on Originality,” Essex Journal, September 19
Zimmer, William. “Books Speaking Volumes, Often From Their Covers.” The New York Times, September 19

1997
Ferranto, Matt. “Spare Art.” Untitled, March

1994
Ferranto, Matt. “Count Basic.” Arts Oregon, April/May

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Nines, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Portland, OR
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
4 Culture and King County Public Art, Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
Museum of East Texas, Lukin, TX