EDUCATION
1999 Goldsmiths College/University of London, Masters in Fine Art.
1989 University of Washington, Seattle, BFA in Painting.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
"Higher...Higher," Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008
"Splitting the Difference," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2007
‘Iampayingattention’, Howard House, Seattle, WA
SIN, Frye Art Museum special project, Seattle, WA

2006
"The Lucky Ones," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2004
"WONDERLAND," Howard House, Seattle, WA
"Apparent Horizon," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2003
PICA wall project (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art) Foyer Wall Installation, Portland, OR

2002
"Acts of Drawing," Howard House, Seattle, WA
"Tetris Drawings and Other New Work," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2000/01
"Borg Drawings—Resistance is Futile," Howard House, Seattle, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
"Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010," Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
"Vantage," Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA

2008
"Century 21; Dealer’s Choice," The Wright Space, Seattle, WA
"Gimme," curated by Suzanne Beal for Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

2007
"As it Seems," curated by Pamela Meredith for Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
"Elegantly Frugal, Deceptively Simple," Schneider Museum of Art-Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
"Circle-Triangle-Square," Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
"Northwest Biennial," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2006
"Over + Over: Passion for Process," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
"Take the Cake," The Stranger Genius Retrospective, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Paper Trails," Howard House, Seattle, WA
"Swallow Harder - Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2005
"Infrastructure," Voltaire Space, London, England
Group Show, Sun Valley Arts Center. Sun Valley, ID
"Unexpected Watercolor," The Art Gym, Portland, OR
"Over & Over," Krannert Art Museum, IL/Addison Gallery , Andover MA/Katonah Museum of Art

2003
"Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces," curated by Anne Ellegood from the New Museum & Rhonda Howard. The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2002
Selections Benefit Show, Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Multiplex at Bumbershoot," Curated by Michael Van Horn, Seattle, WA

2001
"12 Views," Drawing Center, New York City, NY

2000
"Ways of Living," Tablet Gallery, London

1999/2000
"Drawing Space," Curated by Beth Sellars, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA

1999
MA show, Goldsmiths College, London, England
"Ways of Living," Curated by Rozalind Drummond, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1998
"Insignificants," Malmo, Sweden
"The Globe Gallery," Flashpoint, Tyne and Wear, England

1994
"Contrari-wise Painting," The SPACE Gallery, Chicago, IL

1992
"Sign of the Cross," Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR

AWARDS
2009
Illinois State University, Visiting Artist Residency
4Culture project grant

2006
Office of Arts and Culture Purchase
4Culture Purchase award
Gap Grant award

2004
Artist Trust -Fellowship award
‘The Stranger’ Genius award for a visual artist
Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen award

2001
International Residencies for Artists—Grant
Seattle Collects -Purchase Award, Seattle Arts Commission

2000
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
Poncho Special Recognition Award (Seattle Art Museum)
PONCHO Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Fine Arts

1996
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship

1995
Art Matters, Inc. New York Grant

1994
Travel Grant for MacDowell Residency

1992
Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant

1991
King County Arts Commission Gallery Grant

RESIDENCIES
2001
Vivenda Santa Iria, Penedo, Portugal

1995
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA

1994
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2010
Malon, Micah, "Vantage," Critics Picks, Artforum, January.

2009
"The Curator's Eye," CityArts, July 1.
Pence, Elizabeth, “Victoria Haven at Greg Kucera Gallery,” Artweek, June, 2009.
Gibson, Allison, “Victoria Haven,” Daily Serving, May 12, 2009.
Beal, Suzanne, “victoria haven,” art ltd., May 2009.
Contant, Paul, “We Can Work It Out,” the Stranger, March 17, 2009.

2008
“Victoria Haven at the Frye Art Museum and Howard House”, Suzanne Beal, Art in America, March

2007
“An Infinite But Invisible Center”, Craig Brownson, The Stranger, June 27th
“Abstraction takes on fresh dimensions in Haven's 'Iampayingattention'”, Nate Lippens, Seattle P-I June 28th

2006
Rivet Magazine, Featured insert, Volume 17
Mandarino, Grant, “Swallowing Seattle," Artnet.com, March 30th

2005
“Report from Seattle”, Art in America, September 2005 #8, p.62

2004
ARTFORUM, XLIII. No 4, December Issue, p. 201 (review of ‘Wonderland’ show).
“The Stranger Genius Awards: Victoria Haven- An Artist Between Dimensions”, Nate Lippens, The Stranger, Vol 14 no.5, Oct 14-20
“Landscapes, and the Terrain of the Body”, Matthew Kangas, Seattle Times, October 8
“Victoria Haven’s knife draws a singular ‘Wonderland’”, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 1st

2002
“Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces” (New Museum of Contemporary Art) Essays by Anne Ellegood, Mark Wigley and Rhonda Lane Howard.
“Architecture: The Final Frontier”, The Stranger, November 28th
Review of "Acts of Drawing" at Howard House. Sheila Farr, The Seattle Times

2000
“Impossible Objects”,The Stranger, December 14th

1999
12/9;Seattle Weekly; (Visual Arts Feature)p.93
12/16;The Stranger;(BIO:ART-Victoria Haven)
12/9;The Stranger;(Shapely Art: Simple Tools, Big Ideas in Local Drawing Show)p.41
11/11; The Seattle Times (Drawing the lines) Rev iew of Suyama Show .p.26
March; Art Access.com (Victoria Haven: Finding More Than Meets the E ye)
New American Paintings (A Quarterly Exhibition) juried by Jenny Blessing (Guggenheim Museum). Volume I, Number VI. Spring 1996

1994
May ; New Art Examiner (review and photo printed of “Contrari-wise Painting” at the Space Gallery, Chicago).

1991
May; Reflex Magazine (review of King County 'Five Artists-show)

COMMISSIONS
2008
Seattle City Light Lobby Project, Seattle, WA
King County Library installation – Black Diamond

2007
Westlake/Terry Project, Foyer Installation, Seattle, WA

1999
Robert Ryman, New York, NY (wall drawing installation for private home)

1993
Talbot/Hagen Corporation, Bellingham, WA (Three 60" x 48" paintings for permanent collection)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Washington State University
Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection
Amgen
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
City of Seattle -Portable Works
4Culture, King County
Great Northern Annuities, Seattle, WA
Talbot/Hagen Corporation, Bellingham, WA
SAFECO Collection—Seattle, WA

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2005/2006
Served on jury for Seattle Art Museum’s annual award
2006
Lecturer and visiting critic at Central Washington University, January
2005
visiting critic at Cornish College of the Arts, May
2002
"Multi-Perspectives and Careening Order" Lecture at Henry Art Gallery, November
2002
"Out of Site" Panel discussion with Anne Ellegood, Adam Ross, Jason Rogenes, November
2001
Nominating Committee for the Ned Behnke (Neddy)Award in Painting, Spring
1996
Contemporary Arts Council/Seattle Art Museum, Programming comm., July
1996
GAP Grant Juror for Artist Trust of Washington, May
1995
Center On Contemporary Art- Seattle. Programming Committee, Spring

SLIDE REGISTRIES
White Columns, NY. http://registry.whitecolumns.org/
Drawing Center, NY