Lisa Onstad

Exhibitions

• Flood - April 25, 2009

CV

Education
Certificate in Craft, Book Arts 2001
Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Master of Arts, Art Therapy 1991
College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
Bachelor of Arts, Painting and Psychology 1986 Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

Exhibitions, selected
Solo and Two-Person
Aggregate, Centrum Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR 2005
New Work, solo show, Blue Gallery, Gearhart, OR 2004
The Pleasure Garden, solo show, Blue Gallery, Gearhart, OR 2003
Topography of a Bird, solo show, L & B Viewing Room, Portland, OR 1999
Small Things, Tank Gallery, Portland, OR 1998
Group
Metaphor Taking Shape, Sterling Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2008
Book Arts Road Trip, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN 2007
An Artist Collects: Artist-Made Books from the Collection of Barbara Tetenbaum, 2006
Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR
The Art of the Book: Bay Area Treasures, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA 2006
Book Works 2006, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA 2006
A Year in Berkeley, Hunt and Gather, Santa Fe, NM 2005
Jupiter Hotel, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR 2005
Living Routes and Roots, Interstate Firehouse, Portland, OR 2004
Book Arts Invitational, Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gattenburg, TN 2003
Feathered Friends, motel Gallery, Portland, OR 2003
April Is the Cruelest Month, Broadside Show, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR 2002
15th Annual Miniature Show, Cannon Beach Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR 2002
Northwest Bookfest Book Arts Exhibition, Stadium Exhibition Center, Seattle, WA 2001
2001 Craft Biennial, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR 2001
The Persistence of Memory, Waterstone Gallery, Portland, OR 2001
The Inquisitive Object, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR 1999
Letterpress Extravaganza, E State, Portland, Oregon 1999
Bedtime Stories, L & B Viewing Room, Portland, OR 1998

Collections,
Atelier Vis-à-Vis, Marseille, France
Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Harvard University Special Collections, Cambridge, MA
Multnomah County Library Special Collections, Portland, OR
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
University of Washington Special Collections, Seattle, WA
Yale University Special Collections, New Haven, CT
private collections

Teaching Experience
Workshop Instructor, San Francisco Center for the Book, CA mixed media workshops
Workshop Instructor, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR book arts workshops
Workshop Instructor, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, California painting and book arts workshops

Awards/Honors
Project Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY 2005
Second Place, Northwest Bookfest Book Arts Exhibition, Stadium Exhibition Center, 2001
Seattle, WA
Merit Award, 2001 Craft Biennial, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, 2001
Portland, OR

Bibliography
David Jury, Book Art Object: Codex International Book Fair. Oak Knoll Press, 2008
Aggregate Memory, collaboration with macy Chadwick