TY ENNIS // CV

Born 1981 in Spokane, WA
Lives and works in Portland, OR

EDUCATION
2003    Pacific Northwest College of Art, BFA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023    Innerbloom, Nationale (Portland, OR)
2018    The Marble Fountain, Nationale (Portland, OR)
2016    Stupid Man, Nationale (Portland, OR)
2013    JKJKJK, Nationale (Portland, OR)
2012    JKJKJK, Prole Drift (Seattle, WA)
2009    You’ll Love It Here: The Lilac City Track Murders ’96-’98, New American Art Union (Portland, OR)
2006    The Bronze Loss, New American Art Union (Portland, OR)
2005    “What it all meant,” New American Art Union (Portland, OR)
2004    “Everything is great here, maybe,” New American Art Union (Portland, OR)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016    Ty Ennis, Shaun O'Dell, and Alessandro Pessoli, William H Bothy (Los Angeles, CA)
            Studies // A Group Show, Nationale (Portland, OR)
            Spanning Histories, Juried PNCA Alumni Art Auction, Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR)
2014    In Rooms, Open Gallery (Portland, OR)
2010    InterSection: the lines that brought us here, New American Art Union (Portland, OR)
            “April is the cruellest month,” Nationale (Portland, OR)
2008    Zeitgeist: A Changing Landscape, Pulliam Deffenbaugh (Portland, OR)
2007    invisible.other, New American Art Union (Portland, OR)
2006    Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR)
             Cross Axis: West (Memphis) East, Marshall Arts (Memphis, TN)
2005    25 Years of Drawing at the Art Gym, Art Gym at Marylhurst University (Portland, OR)
2003    Modern Zoo, Portland Art Center (Portland, OR)

PUBLICATIONS
2016     Stupid Man, exhibition catalog, Nationale (Portland, OR)
2014    “I cannot remember,” Luc Tuymans: Graphic Works - Kristalnacht to Technicolor, PNCA (Portland, OR)
2013    JKJKJK, exhibition catalog, Nationale (Portland, OR)

SELECTED PRESS
2018    Essay by Corey Mansfield, The Marble Fountain, November 20
Katie Bernstein, Day Off with Ty Ennis, Bloom, June 24
2016    Essay by Daniel Kine, Stupid Man exhibition catalog, June 15
2016    Interview with Gabi Lewton-Leopold, Nationale blog, June 1
2016    Jennifer Rabin, WW Favorite Art Shows for June 1–7, Willamette Week, May 31
2014    Matthew Kyba, In Conversation with Delaney Allen, Ty Ennis, and Jaik Faulk, Publication Studio
2013    Jenna Lechner, Porn and Patterns: 21st Century Vanitas in Portland, Daily Serving, April 9
2012    Jen Graves, Porn and Portland: Ty Ennis Looks at Dirty Pictures, The Stranger, October 3
2009    Katrina Sarson, Painter Ty Ennis, Oregon Art Beat (OPB), October 8
             John Motley, Ty Ennis: Portland, OR, Art Papers, September/October
             Jeff Jahn, Ty Ennis’ You’ll Love it Here at NAUU, PORT, August 15
2007    Daniel Duford, Ty Ennis at New American Art Union, Art Week, February
2006    New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition
2005    John Motley, “What it all Meant,” The Portland Mercury, November 17

GRANTS & AWARDS
2018     Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission & The Ford Family Foundation (Salem, OR)
2016     Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council (Portland, OR) 
2016     Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission (Salem, OR)
2002 Vivian & Gordon Gilkey Printmaking Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR)
2000 Anne K. & Lawrence C. Shaw Memorial Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR)

COLLECTIONS
Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Salem, OR)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014 Robert E. Gilpin, The Black Back Door, co-curated with May Barruel, Nationale (Portland, OR)
2011/13 Merchants in Residence, Nationale (Portland, OR)
Invited artists include: Storm Tharp, Jon Raymond, Midori Hirose, Norm Sajovie, and Golden Retriever

REPRESENTATION
Nationale (Portland, OR)