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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018   Katie Bernstein, Day Off with Ty Ennis, Bloom, June 24
2016   Interview with Gabi Lewton-Leopold, Nationale blog, June 16
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

AWARDS
2018   Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission (Salem, OR)
2016   Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council (Portland, OR) 
2016   Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission (Salem, OR)
2009 Couture Award, New American Art Union (Portland, 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)

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)