TAD SAVINAR

BORN
1950 Portland, OR

EDUCATION
1973
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
1992
Autumn Harvest AIDS/Hospice Event, Co-Chair, Portland, OR

1979-86
Instructor of Art, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

1979-80
PCVA Exhibition Committee Chair, Portland, OR

1978
Set Designer, So & So & So & So Dance Company

1977-82
PCVA Board Member, Portland OR

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2008
Not Just Another Pretty Picture, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2006
City in a Box, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2004
Savage, Portland, OR

2001
Savage, Portland, OR

1999
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR

1997
S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, OR

1994
Savage Fine Art, Portland, OR

1992
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1991, 1989, 1988
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1985
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1984
Reed College, Portland, OR
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

1983
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Pennsylvania State University, College Station, PA
The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

1982
Artist's Space, New York
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR

1980
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1979
Eastern Washington University, Cheny, WA

1978
And/Or, Seattle, WA

1977
Blue Sky Photography Gallery, Portland, OR

1976
Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA
Wentz Gallery, Museum Art School, Portland, OR
Northwest Artist's Workshop, Portland, OR

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Nice to Meet You, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

2011
oomph, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2007
Drawing(s): 40+ artists/200works- A 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR

2004 - 2005
Keys to the Koop: Humor in Contemporary Printmaking, west coast museums

2001 - 2004
Pressure Points, touring print show, west coast museums

1999, 1998, 1997
Meyerson Nowinski, Seattle, WA
International Print Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Object to Image, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or
Prints from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR

1996
Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, WA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
The Art Gym, Portland, OR

1995
Savage Fine Art, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Chapman College, Los Angeles, CA
University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene, OR

1994
Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

1993
Savage Fine Art, Portland, OR
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1991
Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1987
Baskerville-Watson Gallery, New York, NY

1986
CEPA, (Collins-Milazzo curators) Buffalo, NY

1985
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA
MO David Gallery, NY
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1984
Chapman College, Los Angeles, CA
Artist's Space, New York, NY

1980
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

1979
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

1978
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
PCVA, Portland, OR
San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1976
Cheny Cowles Art Museum, Spokane, WA

1975
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA
Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR

1974
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Corvallis Art Museum, Corvallis, OR
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR
Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA

1973
Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
1998
A.S.A.P. residency, Northeast Harbor, ME
Governor's Arts Award, OR

1997
Ucross Foundation, residency, Wyoming

1995
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship, Painting

1991
Portland Metropolitan Arts Commission Travel Grant
Fabric Workshop, residency, Philadelphia

1987, 1986, 1984
Portland Metropolitan Arts Commission Project Grant

1984
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship, Sculpture

1984
National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Project Grant, Performance

1983
Oregon Arts Commission Individual Fellowship, Sculpture

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Archives, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Norton Museum, Miami Beach, FL
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
University of California Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
The Fabric Workshop Archives, Philadelphia, PA

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Phillip Morris Corporation, New York, NY
J. Berggruen, San Francisco, CA
James Winkler Company, Portland, OR
Aratex, Burbank, CA
Oregon Health Science Center, Portland, OR
Tonkin, Torp, Galen, Portland, OR
G. Stroemple, Portland, OR
A. Schnitzer, Portland, OR
S. French, New York, NY
J. Schnitzer, Portland, OR
T. Hopkins, Portland, OR

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
1995-98
City Hall Renovation Commission, Portland, OR

1992-98
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA

1998-1999
San Jose Fire Station No. 1, San Jose, CA

1995-96
University of Texas at San Antonio, TX

1994
Temple Beth Israel, Portland, OR

1990
Mentor Graphics Headquarters, Portland, OR
U.S. Customs Office, Sumas, WA
State Lands Building, Salem, OR

1985
City of Seattle, Suite of Prints

1980
City of Portland, Suite of Prints

1980
City of Eugene, Installation Work

DESIGN TEAM PROJECTS
1999
Columbine High School Memorial Design Team

2001
NJ State WW II Memorial Design Team

1998 - 2008
Seattle Light Rail

1999 - 2008
Phoenix Light Rail

2004
Portland Downtown Light Rail

1995 - 96
River District Right of Way Design Team, Portland, OR

1998
Forest Park Light Rail Station Area Plan, St. Louis, MO
Street Scape Standards Design Project, Anchorage, AK
Eagle River Downtown Circulation Master Plan, Eagle River, AK
Community Building Design, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA
Multi Modal Transit Station, Everett, WA

1992-98
Tri Met Light Rail Design Team, Portland, OR

1997-99
Harborside Light Rail Station, Jersey City, NJ

1997
Lincoln Street Bridge Design Team, Spokane WA

1999
Pacific Avenue Overpass Design Team, Everett, WA

1996 - 98
Commercial Park Blocks Re-design, Volunteer, Portland, OR

1997
Stockyards Building, Portland, OR

1996-97
PED to MAX Station Area Design Team, Gresham, OR
Main Street Re-Design, Salt Lake City, UT

1996
Oregon Holocaust Memorial Design Team, Portland, OR
Oregon Garden Project, Silverton, OR
LINK Public Transit Design Team, Chelan and Douglas Counties, WA
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, San Jose, CA

1995-96
Transit Center Design Team, Eugene OR

1995
Plaza Design Team, Eugene, OR

PLANNING PROJECTS
1996-97
Light Rail Public Art Master Plan, Salt Lake City, UT

1998
Dome Area Master Plan, Tacoma, WA

1995-97
Southwest Community Plan Task Force, Portland, OR

1998
405 Lid Study, Portland, OR
Downtown Plan, Portland, OR

1995
San Francisco Presidio Re-development Project, San Francisco, CA

1992 - 94
Rio Salado Public Art Master Plan, Tempe, AZ

1991-92
Future Focus, Portland, OR

1992 - 93
2000 Plus, Portland, OR

THEATER WORKS
1994
Wrote COVER SHOT. Produced by Portland Repertory Theater, Portland, OR

1990
Commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to write an original work

1988
Wrote and designed THE FOUR MICKIES. Produced by Artist's Repertory Theater, Portland, OR

1986
Wrote, directed, produced, and designed AUTOFLEX at PCVA and the Portland Civic Theater
Wrote RE-WIRED. Commissioned and produced by the Portland Civic Theater
Wrote, designed, and directed BRUSHFIRES. Produced by P. C.T.

1982-87
Conceived, designed, and co-created TALK RADIO (performance work) in collaboration with Eric Bogosian, which premiered at Portland Center for the Visual Arts in 1985. Produced in 1987 by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival and placed in the Archive of Theater on Film. Feature film version directed by Oliver Stone and released by Universal Pictures, 1989

FUNDING PANEL PARTICIPATION
1998
Ucross Residency Program Selection Panel

1997
National Endowment for the Arts Museum Planning and Stabilization Panel

1995
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Organizations

1993-94
Portland Metropolitan Arts Commission, Artists Projects

1993
Oregon Arts Commission, Artists Projects
Warhol Foundation/Rockefeller Foundation Regional Initiative Funding

1991
Panel Member, Artists Projects, Oregon Arts Commission

1990
Chair, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Organization Panel
Funding Consultant, Meyer Memorial Trust, Portland, OR

1989
Panel Member, NEA/Visual Arts Organization Panel

1987
Panel Member, NEA/Rockefeller Foundation Inter-Arts Grants