Patte Loper
Antarctica 2007/2008/2009/2010  
For a Thousand Summers 2009  
Video 2009/2010  
North by Northwest 2007  
Deer 2006  
Video 2006  
Animals 2005/2004  
Video and Installation 2003/2004  
Monsters 2002  
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  SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Empire, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy (two person exhibition with Edward Del Rosario)
2009 For a Thousand Summers, Judi Rotenberg Gallery Boston, MA
2008 A Peculiar Brightness in the Sky, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 A New Way North, Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
2006 Let Our Beauty Ease Your Grief, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Everything Beautiful is Far Away, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Octet, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Monster, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2001 Monster, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
2000 The Treachery of Alice Grymeston, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 The World is not Enough, online exhibition curated by Carl J. Ferrero
The Secret Language of Animals, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2009 The There, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Colletiva, The Flat – Massimo Carasi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2008 Editioned, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pulse Art Fair, solo project, Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
2007 Bilingual, Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
A House is not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Meconio, GASP Gallery, Boston, MA
Farewell 511, Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
Feminism ain’t An Aesthetic, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Tres Personi: The Flat, Massimo Carasi Milan, Italy
Infrequently Asked Questions, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
2006 Pixel Dolls, Meat-Space and Everything All At Once, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
The Social History of Objects, TripleCandie, New York, NY
Word, Platform Gallery," Seattle, WA
Portfolio One, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
New American Paintings, Exhibition in Print, Northeast Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
2005 Partners, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Bilingual: A Screening of Film and Video Projects that Exist Within the Framework of Painting and Drawing, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
5 Painters, Platform Gallery, Seattle
Four-color Pen Show, Van Harrison Gallery, Chicago
2004 Four-color Pen Show, Locust Projects, The General Store, Milwaukee
Pseudononymous (with Ken Fandell), 1506 Projects, Seattle
Print Portfolio, Platform Gallery, Seattle
Selections, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York
Northwest Biennial: Building Wise, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Contemporary Perspectives, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Sonoma, CA
Artist Trust Annual Auction, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
2003 Project Wall, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York
They Shoot Painters, Don’t They?, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
11 Faculty, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington Univ., Ellensburg, WA
2002 Now in Residence, Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe
Group Show, OSP Gallery, Open Studios Press, Boston
Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
2001 Operating Systems, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle
Jewelry as an Object of Installation, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2000 Perches in the Soul, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
From the Back Room, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1998 Over Easy, Savoring the Feminine, Gallery 1078, Chico, CA
A Spoon Full of Sugar, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Figuring the Decorative—The Body Meets Pattern and Decoration, Diego Rivera
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Small Works – The Sequel, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Shrink, Southern Exposure, San Francisco

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brian Miller, “Visual Arts: Navigating by Memory”, Seattle Weekly, December 22, 2009
Regina Hackett, “Patte Loper's current landscape work has a unique appeal” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 10, 2008
Sheila Farr, “Even in the depths of darkness, a little lightness finds a way in” Seattle Times, June 27, 2008
Ruth Lopez. “Hybrid Transmission: Tradition and Technology Merge at Glass Curtain’s ‘Bilingual,’” Time Out Chicago, November 22, 2007
Cate McQuaid. “She Takes Control With Her Bodies of Work,” Boston Globe, Nov. 8, 2007
Sara S. King. “Santa Fe Summer Preview,” Art In America, June 1, 2007
Ben Davis. “Scope Hampered?” Artnet Magazine, July 20, 2006
Lucia Enriquez. “Bats and cats in root beer and deer, deer everywhere,” The Seattle Times, June 9, 2006
Jen Graves. “Into the woods,” The Stranger, June 1–June 7 2006
Regina Hackett. “Galleries explore a new world of landscapes,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 9, 2006
Molly Norris. “Let’s Face the Easel and Dance,” Art Access, November 2005
Andrew Engelson. “Five Painters,” Seattle Weekly, July 13 – 19, 2005
Ruth Graham. “Art Calendar,” New York Sun, April 14, 2005
Judy Wagonfeld. “Innovative Pieces rise above the Rigid Foundation of ‘Buildingwise’,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 30, 2004
Emily Hall. “Art News,” The Stranger, February 12-18 2004, 40
Emily Hall. “The Stranger Suggests,” The Stranger, February 5-11 2004, 23
Amy Berk. “New York Notebook,” Stretcher, www.stretcher.org, September 25, 2003
Matthew Kangas, “Respite from the Cold and Gray in Belltown,” The Seattle Times, December 5, 2003
Randy Wood, “The Armory Show,” Tablet Magazine, March 2003
Maria Porges. “Jewelry as Installation,” American Craft, February/March 2002, 74.
Olga Azar. “‘Monster’ an elegant meeting of art and mind,” Mill Valley Herald, February 5 – 11, 2002, 1.
New American Paintings. Pacific Coast Competition Vol. 6, January 2002
Meredith Goldsmith. “She’s a Superfreak” Chico Examiner, Chico, CA, November 2001
Art In America Annual Guide 2001-2002, Artists Index
Matthew Kangas. “Northwest Annual 2001,” Seattle Times, Friday, June 1, 2001
Regina Hackett. “Warehouse is going out with artistic flair,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sunday, May 25, 2001
Art In America Annual Guide 2000-2001, Artists Index
Art in America Annual Guide 1999-2000, Artists Index
I magazine, exhibition announcement with photograph, San Francisco, CA Spring 1999, 14.

EDUCATION
1997 MFA San Francisco Art Institute
1990 BS Florida State University

TEACHING
2004 - Present: Regular Faculty, SMFA
1999 - 2004: Assistant Professor, Central Washington University

AWARDS
2002 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship.
This award recognizes an artist’s creative excellence and accomplishment, professional achievement and continuing dedication to their artistic discipline
Summer Research Leave Grant
College of Graduate Studies, Central Washington University
Received a competitive grant to complete body of work about feral children
2001 Juror’s Award, Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle, WA
Juror: Michael Sweney, Director of Charles Cowles Gallery, NY
Summer Creativity Grant, College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University
Received a competitive grant to complete work for “Monster” series
2000 Len Thayer Small Grants, Central Washington University
Co-wrote a grant awarded to Student Arts Council at Central Washington University to fund educational seven-day trip to New York City.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH
Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA
Rene di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy