BIOGRAPHY
Gary Wiseman is a Portland-based visual artist and curator. He works in video, installation, sculpture, relational aesthetics, event design, drawing, sound and performance. Wiseman has exhibited and performed in Australia, Canada, New York and Portland. He has held residencies in Portland, OR; Brooklyn, NY; and Long Island City, NY . Since 2007 he has received honarariums from Reed College and the Reed College Cooley Memorial Gallery, The Regional Arts and Culture Council (RAAC), Gallery Homeland, Flux Factory (NY) and the Portland Institute For Contemporary Art (PICA).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Overall Readings. Geographies. Reed College Arts Week (RAW). Performance. Portland, OR. April 2011
Cell Phone Novel. It’s For You: Conceptual Art and the Telephone (Featuring work by Yoko Ono and John Cage). Housatonic Museum of Art. Connecticut. January 2011.
Kid Gloves Two: Play and Disaster. H2O, Video installation. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (Brolly Arts), Salt Lake City, Utah. September - October 2010
Temporary Monument Three: The Outward Sign (Resolution). Public installation and performance. TSA Gallery. August 2010
Temporary Monument Two: Project, Reflect, Perform (Imagining Transitions and Social Shedding). Video and object based installation and performance (with Hoyun Son). Portland. July 2010
PLACE (The Settlement). Gallery, installation and performance project (with Gabe Flores and Palma Corral). Pioneer Place Mall. Portland. May 2010 (ongoing).
Temporary Monument One (Couldn’t Have Done It Without You). InterSections. Photo/Video Installation. New American Art Union. Portland. May 2010
28 Days of May(hem), 28 Days In May. 28 day residency, performance, installation and social experiment (With Gabe Flores). Charles Wittenmeier’s House. Portland. May 2010
I Love Urban Outfitters and Urban Outfitters Loves Me.Artist Book. Amsterdam Biennale. November – December 2009
Inside, Outside. Installation. Appendix Art Space. Portland. October 2009
Palace of Ashes. Installation. Manor of Art. Portland City Art. Portland. August 2009. (with Meredith Andrews)
Good Times In a Bad Economy. Live Post-Cinematic Experience. Portland, June 2009 (with Meredith Andrews)
Therefore Since We are Surrounded.Installation. Milepost 5. Portland. May 2009 (with Meredith Andrews)
Coffee Break. Four public performances. (in collaboration with Meredith Andrews, Jr. Ambassador’s, Courier Coffee, Two Tarts Bakery, Emily Stone and Athena Crane). Milepost 5. Portland. February - April 2009
Where Am I. Installation and performance. Igloo Gallery. Portland. January 2009. (with Meredith Andrews)
Wandering Restaurant. Going Places Doing Stuff. Flux Factory. Long Island City. NY. July 2008
Conversation Piece. Reed Arts Week (Ghosts).Reed College (Reed Radio Broadcast). Portland March 2008
Tea Project: After the Beginning, Prior to the End. (3 event/performances).Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance Conference. University of Regina. Canada. October 2007
BFF: Gary Wiseman Wants To Meet Your Best Friend. Nuit Blanche, IEG. Toronto. September 2007
Tea Project: Self Portrait:1980-2007. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art International Time Based Art Festival (PICA, TBA) in cooperation with the Reed College CooleyMemorial Gallery. 3 performance events. Portland. September 2007
Tea Project Renegade Tea Party Rememory Series (9 performances. Portland and NYC. March 2007 - Jan 2008
Ephemeral Temple Ltd: Jellyfish Temple 1.1: How To Build Something From Nothing. Michael Graves Portland Building. Temporary public art installation commissioned by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. Portland. November 2007
Tea Project: Renegade Tea Parties (9 event/performances). Portland and NYC. March 2006 – January 2007
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
Gary & Gabe: 28 Days In May(hem). 28 Days In May Project. Portland. May 1 - 28, 2010 28 Days In May
Fear of Getting Caught (The Death of Actaeon). RePort. Gallery 114. Portland. January 2010
Fear of Commitment 06 – 08. Incompletely. Gallery Homeland. Portland. Aug 2009
SIXSIXISX: A Co-Relational Weaving In Six Acts. Suddenly: Where We Are Nowexhibition for Reed College Cooley Memorial Gallery and Scratching the Surface for Gallery Homeland. (Three site-specific installations, six outdoor dinners, multiple performances). Portland. September – October 2008
Affair. (Performance).Secrets.Launch Pad Gallery. Portland. September 2007
X-mas Survival Kit. Kurb Gallery. Perth, Australia. December 2002
Black Reflection Pool.(Installation involving a hotel swimming pool). Hotel 6151. Perth, Australia. 2002
PERFORMANCE
Dream Situation: Franch. Gallery Homeland. Portland, OR. June 2008 (with M. Blash)
Penny For Your Thoughts.(Interactive performance in various locations, documentation installed as sound recordings, drawings and book). various locations. Portland. February 2008 (with Amy Steel)
Dream Situation: Pranch Dip.Portland Art Center. Portland, OR. July 2006 (With M. Blash)
PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, TEACHING
Pacific Northwest College Of Art (PNCA)
Mid term thesis review panel, 2010
Intermediate Photography. Substitute Instructor. 2010
Intermediate Photography. Guest Critique. 2010
Advance Studio. Guest Critique. 2010
Mid term Review. Guest Critique. 2010
Noontime Lecture Series. Lecture. 2008
Foundations class. Lecture/discussion 2008
Summer Studio Program. Presentation and collaborative class performance. 2007
PICA (Portland Institute For Contemporary Art)
International Time Based Art Festival. On the Road panel discussion. 2007
Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance Conference.
University of Regina. Canada. (With Key note Speaker Harrell Fletcher). October 2007
CURATION
Drawings by Tom Cramer.Floyd’s. Portland. December 2009
Self(Project)ions. Milepost 5. Portland. April 2008
Sacred Pop: Brand New Icons for a Brand New Era. Stumptown. Portland. February 2008
Kitchen Sink PDX III: Step Into My Office. 5000 sq. ft. office space in Portland CBD. January – April 2007
Kitchen Sink PDX II: Welcome Home Stranger. Vacant House. Portland. July 2006
Kitchen Sink PDX I: Kitchen Sink. Portland. January 2005
Kitchen Sink PDX was a series of nomadic, large-scale, multidisciplinary art events. Each event was designed to facilitate collaboration and dialogue across disciplines within the creative community.
WRITING AND INTERVIEWS
Gallery Homeland: East West Project
RESIDENCIES
Milepost 5. Portland. March – May 2009
You Are My Salvation (YAMS) Residency Program. Brooklyn, NY. 2008
BIOGRAPHY
Gary Wiseman is a Portland-based visual artist and curator. He works in video, installation, sculpture, relational aesthetics, event design, drawing, sound and performance. Wiseman has exhibited and performed in Australia, Canada, New York and Portland. He has held residencies in Portland, OR; Brooklyn, NY; and Long Island City, NY . Since 2007 he has received honarariums from Reed College and the Reed College Cooley Memorial Gallery, The Regional Arts and Culture Council (RAAC), Gallery Homeland, Flux Factory (NY) and the Portland Institute For Contemporary Art (PICA).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Overall Readings. Geographies. Reed College Arts Week (RAW). Performance. Portland, OR. April 2011
Cell Phone Novel. It’s For You: Conceptual Art and the Telephone (Featuring work by Yoko Ono and John Cage). Housatonic Museum of Art. Connecticut. January 2011.
Kid Gloves Two: Play and Disaster. H2O, Video installation. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (Brolly Arts), Salt Lake City, Utah. September - October 2010
Temporary Monument Three: The Outward Sign (Resolution). Public installation and performance. TSA Gallery. August 2010
Temporary Monument Two: Project, Reflect, Perform (Imagining Transitions and Social Shedding). Video and object based installation and performance (with Hoyun Son). Portland. July 2010
PLACE (The Settlement). Gallery, installation and performance project (with Gabe Flores and Palma Corral). Pioneer Place Mall. Portland. May 2010 (ongoing).
Temporary Monument One (Couldn’t Have Done It Without You). InterSections. Photo/Video Installation. New American Art Union. Portland. May 2010
28 Days of May(hem), 28 Days In May. 28 day residency, performance, installation and social experiment (With Gabe Flores). Charles Wittenmeier’s House. Portland. May 2010
I Love Urban Outfitters and Urban Outfitters Loves Me.Artist Book. Amsterdam Biennale. November – December 2009
Inside, Outside. Installation. Appendix Art Space. Portland. October 2009
Palace of Ashes. Installation. Manor of Art. Portland City Art. Portland. August 2009. (with Meredith Andrews)
Good Times In a Bad Economy. Live Post-Cinematic Experience. Portland, June 2009 (with Meredith Andrews)
Therefore Since We are Surrounded.Installation. Milepost 5. Portland. May 2009 (with Meredith Andrews)
Coffee Break. Four public performances. (in collaboration with Meredith Andrews, Jr. Ambassador’s, Courier Coffee, Two Tarts Bakery, Emily Stone and Athena Crane). Milepost 5. Portland. February - April 2009
Where Am I. Installation and performance. Igloo Gallery. Portland. January 2009. (with Meredith Andrews)
Wandering Restaurant. Going Places Doing Stuff. Flux Factory. Long Island City. NY. July 2008
Conversation Piece. Reed Arts Week (Ghosts).Reed College (Reed Radio Broadcast). Portland March 2008
Tea Project: After the Beginning, Prior to the End. (3 event/performances).Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance Conference. University of Regina. Canada. October 2007
BFF: Gary Wiseman Wants To Meet Your Best Friend. Nuit Blanche, IEG. Toronto. September 2007
Tea Project: Self Portrait:1980-2007. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art International Time Based Art Festival (PICA, TBA) in cooperation with the Reed College CooleyMemorial Gallery. 3 performance events. Portland. September 2007
Tea Project Renegade Tea Party Rememory Series (9 performances. Portland and NYC. March 2007 - Jan 2008
Ephemeral Temple Ltd: Jellyfish Temple 1.1: How To Build Something From Nothing. Michael Graves Portland Building. Temporary public art installation commissioned by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. Portland. November 2007
Tea Project: Renegade Tea Parties (9 event/performances). Portland and NYC. March 2006 – January 2007
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
Gary & Gabe: 28 Days In May(hem). 28 Days In May Project. Portland. May 1 - 28, 2010 28 Days In May
Fear of Getting Caught (The Death of Actaeon). RePort. Gallery 114. Portland. January 2010
Fear of Commitment 06 – 08. Incompletely. Gallery Homeland. Portland. Aug 2009
SIXSIXISX: A Co-Relational Weaving In Six Acts. Suddenly: Where We Are Nowexhibition for Reed College Cooley Memorial Gallery and Scratching the Surface for Gallery Homeland. (Three site-specific installations, six outdoor dinners, multiple performances). Portland. September – October 2008
Affair. (Performance).Secrets.Launch Pad Gallery. Portland. September 2007
X-mas Survival Kit. Kurb Gallery. Perth, Australia. December 2002
Black Reflection Pool.(Installation involving a hotel swimming pool). Hotel 6151. Perth, Australia. 2002
PERFORMANCE
Dream Situation: Franch. Gallery Homeland. Portland, OR. June 2008 (with M. Blash)
Penny For Your Thoughts.(Interactive performance in various locations, documentation installed as sound recordings, drawings and book). various locations. Portland. February 2008 (with Amy Steel)
Dream Situation: Pranch Dip.Portland Art Center. Portland, OR. July 2006 (With M. Blash)
PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, TEACHING
Pacific Northwest College Of Art (PNCA)
Mid term thesis review panel, 2010
Intermediate Photography. Substitute Instructor. 2010
Intermediate Photography. Guest Critique. 2010
Advance Studio. Guest Critique. 2010
Mid term Review. Guest Critique. 2010
Noontime Lecture Series. Lecture. 2008
Foundations class. Lecture/discussion 2008
Summer Studio Program. Presentation and collaborative class performance. 2007
PICA (Portland Institute For Contemporary Art)
International Time Based Art Festival. On the Road panel discussion. 2007
Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance Conference.
University of Regina. Canada. (With Key note Speaker Harrell Fletcher). October 2007
CURATION
Drawings by Tom Cramer.Floyd’s. Portland. December 2009
Self(Project)ions. Milepost 5. Portland. April 2008
Sacred Pop: Brand New Icons for a Brand New Era. Stumptown. Portland. February 2008
Kitchen Sink PDX III: Step Into My Office. 5000 sq. ft. office space in Portland CBD. January – April 2007
Kitchen Sink PDX II: Welcome Home Stranger. Vacant House. Portland. July 2006
Kitchen Sink PDX I: Kitchen Sink. Portland. January 2005
Kitchen Sink PDX was a series of nomadic, large-scale, multidisciplinary art events. Each event was designed to facilitate collaboration and dialogue across disciplines within the creative community.
WRITING AND INTERVIEWS
Gallery Homeland: East West Project
RESIDENCIES
Milepost 5. Portland. March – May 2009
You Are My Salvation (YAMS) Residency Program. Brooklyn, NY. 2008
