Exhibits/Projects/Events
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Small School Artist Talk at The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (Oct 25, 2024, 6:00 PM)
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Seattle Art Fair, Russo Lee Gallery, Booth D07, Seattle, WA (July 25 – 28, 2024)
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Tinted Connections, Artist Conversation with curator India Lovejoy, hosted by Weedman Design Partners. Portland, OR (June 2024)
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Off Record, as part of Far Beyond the Walls, Contemporary art installation at the recently decommissioned Nevada State Maximum Security Prison, presented by Melhop Gallery (June - 30 September 2024); Artsy Online Exhibition through December 2024>
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Current Resident, Black Embodiments Studio, Seattle, WA (Spring 2024), Current Resident is an innovative public art project that delivers black art right to people’s doorsteps. In the first week of June, Jarrett’s project, Phenotyped, reached over 24,000 people in the Central District neighborhood of Seattle, WA through the USPS.
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Blackness is…the Refusal to be Reduced, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (May 18, 2024 - March 14, 2027), Guest curator, "Nikesha Breeze is presenting the work of six contemporary artists in "Blackness is…the Refusal to be Reduced" that includes a range of media from paintings, drawing, and sculpture to site-specific installations and film."
It Cut a Sky, solo exhibition at Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR (Nov 2023); opening reception, Thursday, Nov 2, 5:00-7:00
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Black Artists of Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (September 2023-April 2024),
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Crow's Shadow Print Release, 8 editions of lithographs created in residency, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR (Released Oct 2023); View/Purchase: https://www.crowsshadow.org/artists/109-xx_alison-gold/
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Lisa Jarrett + Jamele Wright Sr., a two-person exhibition at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (July 22-Aug 19 2023; reception July 29, 4:00-6:30)
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Seattle Art Fair, Russo Lee Gallery, Booth D07, July 27-30, 2023, Seattle, WA
Converge 45-Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship, Opening weekend: August 24-27, Exhibit runs Aug 24-Oct 14, 2023. Parallax Art Center, Portland, OR
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Femme Noire public art project participant in Seattle, WA, a partnership between Seattle Art Museum, Black Puffin, and Wa Na Wari located in Seattle's Central District (August 14th-September 30th, 2023)
BUT, WHY ARE YOU HERE?​, a group exhibition at Russo Lee Gallery with Intisar Abioto, Julian V.L. Gaines, Lisa Jarrett, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Samantha Wall, Portland, OR (June 2023)
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ART BEYOND, Schneider Museum of Art, Installation at Gambrel Annex barn, Ashland, OR (May-July 2023)
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"You see what your life has prepared you to see." Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) Commencement Address, Columbus, OH (May 2023)
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IN THE STUDIO, LISA JARRETT, Filmed at Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA (Oct/Nov 2022)
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1,000 MILES PER HOUR | 2022 FotoFocus Biennial | Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD), Columbus, OH, 9/15/2022-10/28/2022 (artist talk: Friday, Sept. 16, from 11:00-12:00 EST; opening recitation: Thursday, Sept. 15, artists panel at 4:00-5:00 EST )
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CROW'S SHADOW INSTITUTE of THE ARTS | Golden Spot Artist Residency reception | Crow's Shadow, Pendleton, OR (opening reception: Thursday, September 8, 5:00-7:00 PM PST)
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TWO CULTURES, ONE FAMILY: BUILDING FAMILY, FINDING HOME exhibition | Marjorie Barrack Museum of Art, Las Vegas, Nevada, 8/30/2022-1/28/2023 (opening reception: Friday, September 2, 5:00 PM PST)
HEART CONDITION exhibition | Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR, 6/2/2022-7/2/2022 (opening reception: Thursday, June 2, 6:00 PM PST)
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IT'S NICE TO BE A REGULAR SOMEWHERE: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRACTICE | Redmond Public Art Intensive, Redmond, WA, 9/2021
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER, 100 Questions: Tending and Collaborative Research Practice, Craftways 2021 Symposium: Tending to Craft, Center for Craft and Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC, 7/2021
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TIME BEING | Oregon Contemporary (formerly Disjecta), group exhibition curated by Blake Shell, Portland, OR, 6/18-8/8/2021 (reception 6/26/21, 5-8 PM)
SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRACTICE AT KSMoCA, Artist Talk at Texas Tech University, SCHOOL OF ART RACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE ARTS SPEAKERS' SERIES, 4/2/2021
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AFTER LIFE (we survive), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Art 25 Presents: Future Ancestors, group exhibition curated by Thea Quiray Tagle, virtual tour available, 11/9/2020-1/24/2020
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YOUTH, OUR CULTURAL WEALTH, Portland State University Equity Summit, virtual presentation about KSMoCA and Harriet Tubman Middle School Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice, 11/2020
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OLD LADY COMFORTS READING GROUP, a presentation and discussion about Alice Walker's 1972 essay, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" as part of Jaamil Olawale Kosoko's American Chameleon: The Living Installments, presented by FringeArts and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 9/16/2020
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CONVERSATIONS ON CARE: Let's Talk About It, Together: A Panel Discussion, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, 8/27/2020, 4:00 PST: zoom panel conversation with artists and academic professionals
CONVERSATIONS ON CARE: A Panel Discussion, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, 5/9/2020, 5:00 PST: zoom panel conversation with curator and artists, register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4015883633123/WN_r9QCxhMWQsKtguRmysbmiw
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HOUSE/FIELD/HOME, WA NA WARI, Seattle, WA 3/2020-9/2020, artists talk 9/1/2020
SHEEN, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR, 1/2/2020-2/2/2020
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In Dialogue, A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, as part of Hank Willis Thomas All Things Being Equal curated programming, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 11/2/2019
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Future Ancestors, Ori Gallery, Portland, OR, 10-11/2019
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Portland Biennial, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, 8/2019-11/2019
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(ON DRAWING), with Eleanor H Erskine, and Hugh Merrill, Littman + White Gallery, Portland 1/2019
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The Work Continues, Northview Gallery, Portland 10/2018
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Imagining Home: 100 Exercises in Empathy (Part 3), Russo Lee Gallery, Portland 9/2018
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Charcoal, Gallery 101, Seattle 8/2018
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Talk to Everyone and Everything about Race in Hood River, OR w/ Amanda Evans, and Lauren Moran, Columbia Center for the Arts 5/2018
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Elements of Reclamation, Ori Gallery, Portland, OR 02/2018
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Unstable Objects, Alice Gallery, Seattle, WA 09/2017
News
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OREGON ART BEAT: Artist Lisa Jarrett Explores the Politics of Difference
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OPB | OREGON ART BEAT, "THE PLACE WHERE YOU PERSIST," Season 2, Episode 10
OREGON ARTSWATCH: The Art of Learning: KSMoCA Adapts to the Pandemic
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the Stranger: Currently Hanging: "Migration Studies (No. 2) by Lisa Jarrett at Wa Na Wari
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HYPERALLERGIC: A Gallery Prioritizes Care in a Historically Black Seattle Neighborhood
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Portland Monthly: This Portland Artist Uses Her Own Hair to Explore Race
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Joan Mitchell Foundation Press Release
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ASAP Journal/b.O.s. 1.2 / How Many Licks? II
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ARTFORUM, The Slick & The Sticky
LA Weekly, The Slick & The Sticky
Missoula Independent, Hate Transformed
Independent Record, Lisa Jarrett: Broaching the Racial Divide