SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR (forthcoming)
Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 The Future Royal Family of Antarctica, East/West Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007 Then Quite Suddenly We Were Simply No Longer Anywhere, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 New Work From An Early Spring, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 Subject Position, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Flayed, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Volume, August/September, Worksound, Portland, OR
Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Small Wonders, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Fresh Trouble, Portland, OR
Simply Red, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Cathedral Park Place/Haze Galley, Portland, OR
Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 Modern Zoo, Portland Center for Advancement of Culture, Portland, OR
Waste Stream, (large-scale installation for the Orlo Foundation) Portland, OR
2000 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Speer, Richard. Willamette Week, “Ply The Wood,” April 2010
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Gallivan, Joseph. Portland Tribune, “Joe Thurston Preview,” July 2007
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EDUCATION
1994 – BA, Humanities, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

AWARDS
2007 – Regional Arts and Culture Council - Professional Development Grant