SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2021 Through the Looking Glass @ ArtReach Gallery, Portland
2020-21 Fragments @ Stumptown Downtown Cafe, Portland, OR
2020 Who Am I, Anyway? @ Nationale Gallery, Portland, OR
2019-20 Woodlands @ Portland International Airport, Portland, OR
2018 Disruptions @ ArtReach Gallery, Portland, OR
2014-15 Forest Paintings @ Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
1998-2014 Open Studios @ Seed Building, Portland, OR
2011 Drawings for the documentary film, “Everyday Sunshine: the Story of Fishbone”
2005 Material/Ethereal (two artists) @ Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2003 Paintings from My Second Childhood @ Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 More Dust and Vapors @ Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 New Paintings @ Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Carola Penn & Piotr Janowski @ The Polish Museum of American, Chicago, IL
1995 Compartments @ Acanthus Gallery (aka Mark Woolley Gallery), Portland, OR
1994 Recent Paintings @ Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 Silverton Art Center, Silverton, OR
1992 Assembled Paintings @ Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1991 Exteriors @ Cabell Center, Catlin Gabel School, Portland, OR
1990 New Work @ Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1988 Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
1987 Missing Pieces @ Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Around Oregon Annual @ The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
2012 Avoir un Don, Architecture, Concordia College, Portland, OR
2008 Three Artists @ Glen and Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsborough, OR
2008 Politik: Left, Right and Center @ North Bank Gallery, Vancouver, WA
2006 Alien and Sedition @ Woolley at Wonder, Portland, OR
2004 21 Years of Studios @ Cathedral Park Place, Portland, OR
2003 A Celebration of the Forest: Ten Years Later @ Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2001 A Celebration for Jack McLarty @ Portland Artists, Portland, OR
2002 City Change: Selections from the Visual Chronicle of Portland, Portland, OR
2000 Anniversary Exhibition @ Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 Art Slate @ Veterans’ Memorial Hall, Condon, OR
1997 Art Slate @ Veterans’ Memorial Hall, Condon, OR
1998 North and Northeast Portland: Selections from the Visual Chronicle of Portland @ Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR
1998 Heads @ Wentz Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1996 Let Them Eat Cake @ Mark Woolley Gallery
1994 Artquake @ Portland, OR
1993-94 Group shows @ Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 A Celebration of the Forest behind My House before Logging @ Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Reflective Environments @ Salem Art Association, Salem, OR
1991 Oregon Biennial @ Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1990 Never Before Funded @ Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
1990 Four Painters @ Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 Apartheid and Racism @ Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 Artquake @ Portland, OR
1989 Oregon Biennial @ Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1988 Artquake @ Portland, OR
SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR
SW Washington Medical Center, Vancouver, WA
Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
Yale School, Ariel, WA
Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
Kows for Kids on Parade, Portland, OR, Land O’ Lakes collection
Boly/Welch Building, Pat Welch, Portland, OR
Squaliqum High School, Bellingham, WA
Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR
Portland Visual Chronicles, Regional Arts & Culture Council, OR
Capitol Walls Mural Project, traveled to Salem, Beaverton, and Portland, OR
Paul Sposato and Richard Matkin, Portland, OR
Nancy and Andrew Glass, Portland, OR
Susan and Alan Trump, Calabasas, CA
The Esterle Family, Encino, CA
TEACHING
2003-5 Workshops @ Yale Valley Arts Festival, Ariel WA
1998 Workshop @ Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1990-94 PNCA Extension classes in painting, Portland, OR
RESIDENCY
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
OR Arts Watch, “Oregon Art Shows Shuttered but Not Forgotten,” March 2020
Carol Mazer, “Disruptions” 2019
Peter Frank, “The Human Ecology,” Artvoices Magazine, Spring 2015
The Daily News, Tom Paulu, Entertainment, 2/17/05
Portland Tribune, Weekend Life, 7/16/04
Oregonian, Arts and Entertainment, 4/18/03
Oregonian, “Pick Hit,” 5/25/01
Oregonian, D.K. Row, “Painters’ Painter” 5/8/98
The Polish Museum of America, catalog, Harold Johnson, “Carola Penn,” 1997
New American Paintings, Spring 1996, Volume 1, VI
Artweek, Lois Allan, “Carola Penn at Acanthus Gallery,” 12/95
Reflex, Matt Ferranto, “Carola Penn at Acanthus (Portland),” 12/95
Reflex, Lois Allan, “Retracing the Landscape,” 8/94
Artweek, Lois Allan, “Forest Lives; Julia Stoll Installation at Blackfish Gallery,” 1/6/94
Oregonian, Randy Gragg, “Anderson Moves Along Difficult Artistic Route,” 6/17/94
Artweek, Lois Allan, “Natural Acts; Reflective Environments at Bush Barn Art Center,” 4/8/93
Oregonian, Randy Gragg, “Critic’s Choice; Paintings with Weight,” 1992
Oregonian, Randy Gragg, “Critic’s Choice; More Than First Met the Eye,” 5/4/90
Willamette Week, Renardo Barden, “Openings; Portland State University,” 5/2/90
EDUCATION
1986 BFA, Painting, Pacific Northwest College of Art
1967 BA, Art, University of California, Berkeley
Studies in printmaking, calligraphy and lettering at Portland State University, Portland, OR