PK
Born: 1950,
Springfield, Illinois
EDUCATION
1991 M.F.A. with Distinction, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM
1990 M.A., with Distinction, University of New Mexico
1988 B.F.A., Magna Cum Laude, Cornish College of the
Arts, Seattle, WA
1972 R.N., St. John's Hospital School of Nursing,
Springfield, IL
COLLECTIONS
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Triton Art Museum, San Jose, California
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Jonson Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Numerous private collections
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Guest Shed Gallery, (September '15), Seattle, WA
2007 Pinocchio & Other Stories, Catherine Person Gallery,
Seattle, WA
2005 The Fifth Vital Sign, Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
2002 This Could Happen To You, Solomon Fine Art, Seatle, WA
2001 Leavings, EyreMoore Gallery. Seattle, WA
2000 A rouse is a rouse is a rouse, Gallery Soolip,
West Hollywood, CA
1999 double space, drawings and paintings, Gallery Soolip,
West Hollywood
1999 What Is Left, drawings and paintings, Davidson Galleries,
Seattle, WA
1998 Through Lines, drawings and paintings, Gallery Soolip,
West Hollywood
1998 The Box Project, 168 drawings at four venues in Pasadena, CA:
Armory Center for the Arts, Pacific Oaks College, Perkins and
Willes Architectural Offices, and All Saints Church. An on-going
project to fund mentors for at-risk children & train nurses in Malawi
1998 Fuse, collaboration drawings with Liam Everett, Skagit Valley
College Art Gallery, Mt. Vernon, WA
1997 Fuse, collaboration drawings with Liam Everett, Lucia Douglas
Gallery, Bellingham, WA
1997 Drawings, Davidson Galleries, Seattle
1996 Eleven Scenes, large-scale mural drawings in graphite, Bailey-Boushay
AIDS Hospice, Seattle, WA
1994 Washington, two-week on-site performance about the Balkan war,
Washington, D.C.
1993 A Wait, A Body, installation and performance piece, with Jeff
Krueger, Cornish College, Seattle
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Not My President, Bleu Velvet Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016 35 Live, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2015 Drawings, Bainbridge Island Library, Bainbridge Island, WA
2015 Introductions, Guest Shed Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Un/conscious Bent, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2013 First Light, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Winslow, WA
2012 Who Does She Think She Is?, Toshiro Kaplan, Seattle, WA
2011 Social Security, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2011 Bipartisan, Mural Project, UWTacoma, Tacoma, WA
2010 Tenfold, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 High Line, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Fired Up, Ready to Wear, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Group Show, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle
2005 Small Works, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Between the Words, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2004 Group, Colombia Street Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2004 Rosso, Atelier 31, Seattle, WA
2003 Kathryn Jacobi and Pam Keeley, Northwest College of Art,
Poulsbo, WA
2003 The Last Judgement Project, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
2003 Two, Solomon Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
2003 Introductions, Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 Tranquility, Solomon Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
2002 Exquisite Corpse, Bumbershot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
2002- Fables of La Fontaine, international group show,
traveling to Aix-en-Provence, Rome, Baltimore, Seattle
2002 Introductions, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2002 Juried Exhibition 2002, Patricia Correia Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
2001 Recent Acquisitions, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2000 Pamela Keeley, EyreMoore Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 Figurative Work, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
1998 Small Works II, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1998 Construct for Thought,, Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
1998 Local Press, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, WA
1997 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1997 Figure On Paper, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1997 Memory & Mourning, Washington State History Museum,
Tacoma, WA
1997 New To The Gallery, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996 Interior Lines, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1996 Marking Time, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, WA
1996 Works on Paper, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1996 Group Works, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Small and Sublime, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Recent Drawings, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1995 Book of Ours, Printmakers’ Studio, Edinburgh, Scotland
1995 Book of Ours, print exhibition at Stone Metal Gallery,
San Antonio
1994 Our Community: Portraits and Self-Portraits, juried exhibition,
University of Idaho (Moscow) and Washington State University
(Pullman)
1994 The American Dream, Central Arts Collective Gallery,
Tucson, Az.
1993 Reconstructing Identity, NW Regional Women's Caucus for Art,
Seattle, WA
1991 New and Returning Faculty, Fisher Gallery,
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
1991 ShortStories, Graham Gallery, Albuquerque
GALLERY TALKS, LECTURES AND READINGS
2006 “Hurricane Katrina: Artist and Nurse As Chronicler”,
Invited lectures, Bellevue Arts Museum and University of
Washington, Tacoma
2005 “The History of Pain in Art”, West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV
1998 “Talk Guerrilla Girls”, Panel discussion on women in the arts,
Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1998 “Pain and Passion in Art”, a dialogue with Dr. Don Thomas in
conjunction with the Box Project, All Saints Church,
Pasadena, CA
1998 “Collaboration Drawings”, Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon, WA
1997 “Memory & Mourning”, artists’ panel, WA. State History Museum,
Tacoma, WA
1994 "Political Art and Political Artists," Penelope Loucas Gallery ,
Tacoma, WA
1994 "Joseph Beuys: A Feminist Perspective," Bellevue Art Museum,
in conjunction with Joseph Beuys exhibition, Bellevue, WA
1993 "Work and Criticism," guest presentation, Women's Caucus
for Art, Seattle , WA
1992 "The Direction of the Critical Gaze," co-panelist, Henry Art
Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle , WA
1992 "Hitching Post-Minimalism," co-panelist, Second Thursday
Program, Seattle
1991 "A Wait, A Body," public lecture as recipient of Friends of Art
Prize, University Museum, University of New Mexico
PUBLICATIONS
Fables of La Fontaine- Illustrated - ed. Koren Christofides, University of
Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2006
ARTIST AS CHRONICLER, Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle, WA 2006
pk/01, Eyre Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2001
Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest,
Laura Brunsman (Author), Ruth Askey (Editor), 1993
Reflex Arts Journal, Seattle, WA, numerous reviews, 1991-1993
REVIEWS
2004 Atelier 31 Gallery exhibit has 13 artists seeing red,
Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2004 Artist Trust Auction, Seattle P-I Staff, Seattle P-I
2003 Art varies from toss-aways to keepers, Regina Hackett,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2003 Posters, Poetry, Pigs, Andrew Engelson, Seattle Weekly
2003 Last Judgement, Catalog and Curator’s Statement,
Stefano Catalani
2002 Smaller Exhibitions Yield Bigger Rewards, Regina Hackett,
Seattle P-I
2001 Between the Lines of Surface and Ink, Victoria Josslin, Art Dish
2001 A Devotion to the Line, John Boylan, Art Dish
COMMUNITY ARTS
2016 Artists for Standing Rock, banner project organizer
2015 Artists for Sawant, fundraiser for Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant
2011 BipArtisan, Occupy movement commemorative mural, University of WA, Tacoma
2008 Artists for Obama, fundraiser organizer
1993-96 Seattle Women's Caucus for Art, Board of Directors,
Programming Committee Coordinator