About Cathy Chisholm

Cathy Chisholm is a native Oregonian. She lives in Portland and paints in Portland and northern New Mexico. She holds masters degrees in painting from Portland State University and counseling psychology from Lewis and Clark College. She exhibits her paintings in Oregon and New Mexico.

Solo Exhibits:

2010-2011 Oregon Health & Science University, Student Center
2009 Starbucks, West Linn, Oregon
2009 Starbucks, Lake Oswego, Oregon
2008 Baker and Spice, Paintings. Portland, Oregon
2007 "What the Bulter Saw" Collage Village Coffee Shop Portland, Oregon
2005 First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon
2003 Vermont Hills Coffee Shop, Portland, Oregon
1997 Streff Gallery, Shoen Library, Marylhurst College
1997 Center Gallery, Multnomah Art Center, Portland, Oregon
1995 Streff Gallery, Shoen Library, Marylhurst College
1995 Marco’s Restaurant, Portland, Oregon
1980 Doll Gardner Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Selected Group Exhibits:

2010 Around Oregon Annual, The Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon
2010 Gresham Art Advisory Committee Juried Show, "All that Jazz"
2009 "Art In the Pearl" Collaboration with Kicki Masthem, sculptor
2007 Wilder Nightengale Gallery, Miniature Show, Taos, New Mexico
2007 Around Oregon Annual, Art Centrix Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon juried by Stephanie Wiarda, Gail and Stan Beppu from Beppu Wiarda Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Sept. 27-Oct. 25
2007 "Toward Abstraction" Cascade Art Gallery Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon
2006 Cascadia Homes, Realtors, Portland, Oregon
2006 Gresham Art Advisory Committee Juried Art Exhibit, Gresham, Oregon
2005 Millicent Rodgers Museum, Taos, New Mexico, miniatures
2005 Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, Oregon
2004 Multnomah Art Center (with Ann Faricy), Portland, Oregon
2003 Lake Oswego Festival of Arts, Open Show, Lake Oswego, Oregon
2002 The Stables Gallery, juried, Taos, New Mexico
2002 The North Bean, juried.Taos, New Mexico
1997 Alder Gallery, juried, Le Petit V, Eugene, Oregon
1996 Women’s Vision International, juried, Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, Oregon
1979 Group Show of Women Photographers, juried, N.W. Portland, Oregon
1976 Valley Art Association, Forest Grove, Oregon

Collections:
2005 Portland Community College, Visual Resources Slide Library, Portland, Oregon
1995 Jane Keating and Christine Eagon Touring Slide Library, presented at World Council of Photography International Congress, Dublin, Ireland

Education:
Lewis and Clark College. M.Ed. Counseling Psychology 1980
Portland State University, MST Painting and Drawing 1969
University of Oregon, B.S. History 1961

Additional Study:
Paul Sparks, Photography, Cherie Hiser, Photography, Will Vinton and Bob Gardner, Roger Kukas, Animation, Carol Sutton, Computer Graphics, Lyn Turner, Painting. All in Portland. Michelle Cook, Painting, Taos, New Mexico. Ray Vinella, Taos, New Mexico.

Art Heroes:
Kicki Masthem, Milton Avery, Mel Katz, Lucinda Parker, Melinda Thorsnes, Henry Matisse.

Travel:
Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Bali, Australia, Thailand, Scotland, Israel, The Caribbean, Mexico, Western Canada. USA, England, Finland, Estonia, Cambodia

Related Experience:
Handbuilding with Clay, Multnomah Art Center, Kicki Masthem, Instructor, 2009-2010
Art Teacher, Tigard Public Schools- 1970-77
Painting Instructor, Portland Community College, Extention, 1971
Painting Instructor, Central Oregon Community College,Extention, 1964-67
Art Teacher, Bend Public Schools, 1966-63 and 1964-67
Contributing Writer to the Multnomah Village Post, Portland, Oregon, 1994-1995
Poetry published in Northwest Magazine, Lewis and Clark Literary Magazine-Central Oregon College, Literary Magazine, Bend, Oregon, Menucha Center for the Arts, Literary Magazine