Curator of Photography, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2007
Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, American Masters Initiative, a $60,000.00 challenge grant in support of the Northwest Photography Series

2006
Acadia Summer Arts Program A.S.A.P. Residency, Bar Harbor, ME

2003
Acadia Summer Arts Program A.S.A.P. Residency, Bar Harbor, ME

2001
Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts, Pasadena, CA
Joshua Tree National Park Artist in Residence Fellowship, Joshua Tree, CA
The Governor’s Arts Awards in Oregon (brochure), Salem, OR

2000
Regional Arts and Culture Council Visual Artist Fellowship, Portland, OR

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
"Unfinished Business," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2009
"Trees," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Early Work, Terry Toedtemeier," Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
"Portraits, a tribute to the life and work of Terry Toedtemeier," curated by Mark Woolley, Worksound, Portland, OR

2007
"Hawaii to the Owyhee:  A Bird's Eye View," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2005
"Photographs of Columbia River Basalt," Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, WA
"Places, Pieces, and Hidden Histories," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Retrospective, Pendleton Art Center, Pendleton, OR

2002
"Sightseers and Sites Unseen: Photographs of the Columbia Gorge," 2-person show with Fritz Liedtke, Northview Gallery, Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR
"Terry Toedtemeier - Photographs of Central Oregon and Points East and West," Pinckney Center for the Arts, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR

2000
"Landforms From Molten Rock," Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
"Invasive Basalt: Northern Oregon Coastal Headlands," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

1998
"Photographs by Terry Toedtemeier," The Oregon Committee for the Humanities, Portland, OR
"Nowhere Special," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1996
"Basalt Exposures," Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
"Basalt Exposures," Washington State University Museum of Art

1995
"Basalt Exposures (a 15 year retrospective of 100 photographs)," The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR

1994
"High Desert Photographs," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1993
Central Washington Museum of Art, Wenatchee, WA
"West to the Oregon Territory," Maryhill Museum, Maryhill, WA

1992
"Basalt Exposures," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1986
"Artist Interprets the Landscape," Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

1985
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman, College, Walla Walla, WA, one person show

1981
Wentz Gallery, The Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR

1979
Columbia Gallery of Photography, Columbia Missouri
"Regional Photography and Printmaking," Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
The Image Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

1978
The Image Center for Photography, Arahus, Denmark, one person exhibition of infrared photographs, Rice University, Houston, TX
The White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR

1977
University of Pennsylvania, University Park, PA

1976
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Blue Sky, Portland, OR

1975
Blue Sky, Portland, OR

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - 2012
Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Libreville, Gabon

2009
"PNCA at 100," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
"Figures in the Landscape," curated by Jennifer Stoots, Guestroom Gallery, Portland, OR

2006
"The Roots of Clouds - Transcendence of Stone," Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
"A Sense of Place – Environmental Art," Columbia Art Gallery, Hood River, OR

2005
"Next," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Around Oregon," Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR

2003
"Geographies of the Same Stone," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Building – Tradition," an opening exhibition of the new Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Touring exhibition: "The Land Through A Lens - Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art," Museum, Washington, D.C., catalog by Andy Grundberg

2001
"Northwest Narrative," Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Between Light and Shadow: ; Photographs and Prints from the Gary Bettis Collection," Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

2000
"Physical Manifestation," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

1999
"Oregon Photographers: Oregon Landscapes," Northview Gallery, Portland Community College Sylvania, Portland, OR
"Seeing Through Photography," Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA

1998
"The Collection of Richard and Judith Smooke," The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
"Here and Now," Tidbit Gallery, Portland, OR

1997
Pratt Museum, Homer, AK
"Recent Work," Dana Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
"Portland: Black and White," Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

1995
"Selected Works, 1983-1995," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
"Crossing Borders: Challenging Ecological Thinking," The University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

1994
"Regional Landscape Photography," S. K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, OR
"r.e., place, an Exhibition of Site-Oriented Contemporary Landscape Photography," Portland Community College, Portland, OR
"East Coast/West Coast Photo Invitational," Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
"Public Encounters - Selections from the State of Oregon’s Percent for Art Collection," A.N. Bush Gallery, Salem, OR

1992
"Spirit of the West," curated by Tommy Griffin, Dennis O’Leary, Vicki Halper and John Weber
"Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography," touring exhibition organized by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.
"Recent Work," Governor’s office, Oregon State Capitol, Salem, OR
"Recent Work," Gallery of the art department of Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, OR

1991
"Recent Work, Wentz Gallery," The Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
"New Visions, Photographs of the contemporary Western Landscape," Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
"Photography at Oregon Gallery annual auction & exhibition," The University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

1990
"Barbara Fealy’s Gardens, invitational exhibition," Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR
"Contributing Artist: The Oregon Art Community, 1839-1989," The Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
Northwest Photographic Invitational, Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
"Contemporary American Photography in the Soviet Union," invitational exhibition touring Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Moscow, and Minsk, Organized by Jeffrey Kramer in cooperation with the Photographic Art Society of Lithuania

1989
"The Columbia Gorge," gallery of the Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Invitational Exhibition, Timberline Lodge, OR
"The Columbia Gorge," Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill, WA

1988
Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
"Recent Work of Four Faculty Members of PNCA," Wentz Gallery of the Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR
"Photographs of the Columbia Gorge," The Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
"Road and Roadside: American Photographs, 1930-1986," curated by Russ Harris and Rhodal McKinney, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1987
"America’s Uncommon Places: The Blessings of Liberty," group exhibition of sites from the National Register of Historic Places, curated by Eric Paddock, The Museum Gallery of the Sumner School, Washington D.C.
Group Exhibition, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

1986
"Columbia River Gorge," Vollum Art Center, Reed College, Portland, OR
"Tenth Anniversary Exhibition," Blue Sky, Portland, OR

1985
Group Exhibition, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR
Group Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1981-1984
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

1980
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, invitational group exhibition
"Eight Portland Photographers," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1979
"Regional Photography and Printmaking," Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Group Exhibition, The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1978
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, touring exhibition organized by Blue Sky Gallery

1977
The Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR - group exhibition organized by Bill Hoppe
The Stanford Art Museum, Stanford CA - group exhibition

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Robert Adams
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Gary Bettis Collection
King County Public Art, Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
Lewis and Clark University, Portland, OR
Joseph and Elaine Monson
Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Carlos Rivera and Lisa Andrus Rivera, Portland, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Richard and Judith Smooke
Springfield University, Springfield, IL
Stanford Art Museum, Stanford, CA
State of Oregon, Capitol Collection, Salem, OR
State of Oregon Public Lands Collection, Salem, OR
State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Portland, OR
Ernest Swigert
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Jean Vollum, Portland, OR
Vulcan Northwest, Seattle, WA
Washington State University, Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
Jim Winkler
Washington Arts Commission, Seattle, WA

Selected Professional Activities

1999
Selected artist for the 13th annual Art Beat celebrations at Sylvania, Rock Creek, and Cascade members of the Portland Community Colleges, Portland, OR, May 1999

1997
Introductory Essay: The Witch of Kadakery -- The Life and Times of Myra Albert Wiggins, Carole Glauber, Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA

1995
Introductory essay: Heritage Lost -- Two Great Houses Through the Lens of Minor White, Fred DeWolfe, The Oregon Histosrical Society Press
Founding board memeber of Gorge Trust -- a land trust for the Columbia River Gorge and Communities

1994
Curatorial essays: the history of photography; photography in the American West;
photography in the nuclear age;
Minor White in Oregon, 1938-42 (see publications).

1993
Project Director, Phase II construction of the Gordon and Vivian Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.

1992
A History of Oregon Photography - Centennial Exhibition, Portland Art Museum.

1990
Oregon Arts Commission Masters Fellowship.

1989
The History of Photography - A Sesquicentennial Celebration, Portland Art Museum.

1987
Oregon Arts Commission Photography Fellowship.

Lectures and Presentations

Changing Colors: a workshop on toning black and white photographs; Crow Shadow Institute, Pendleton, OR, April, 1999
What Geologists Call an “Explanation” - Terry Toedtemeier: on his photography, Portland Community Colleges, Rock Creek, Sylvania, and Cascade campuses, Portland, OR
Peculiar to Photography, slide lecture for the exhibition, “Seeing Through Photography,” Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, March 5, 1999
About Photographing Basalt, slide lecture at Blue Sky Photography Gallery, Portland, OR February 11, 1999
Hope Photographs: Thought from an Historic Perspective, slide lecture at the University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, February 17, 1999
Framing the Frontier - 19th Century Photography in the American West, slide presentation at Cheney Cowles Museum of Art, Spokane, WA, November,1998
Photography and Censorship, slide presentation, Portland State University, Portland, OR, March, 1998
Mysteries on a Plate Glass - Early Photography of Egypt, slide presentation, the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR