CURRICULUM VITAE

Teaching : experience

2008-2014 Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
2011-2014 Instructor Encaustic Class
2011-2014 Developed and facilitated Guest Artist Workshop Series, featuring Timothy McDowell, Lisa Pressman, Mark Rediske, Nicholas Wilton, and Andrea Schwartz-Feit
2008-2011 TA, encaustic class | Jeff Gunn, Instructor

Solo Shows

2022 “Exquisite Blues,” Riversea gallery, Astoria OR

Two Women Shows

2017 “Material Witness:” Wax-Paper-Stone, Claudia Hollister, Erika James, R.T. Leverich, Koch Gallery, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, WA
2016 “Flora Fiber Wax: Connections,” Claudia Hollister & Katherine Mead, In Bocca al Lupo Fine Art, Oregon City, OR

Art Fairs

2023 “Seattle Art Fair’, Bluesky Gallery, Portland, OR
2023 “Superfine Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2023 “Art Santa Fe”, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023 “Artexpo New York”, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 “Red Dot Miami FL”, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 “Art Expo Dallas TX”, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Selected Group Exhibitions : Cyanotype Prints & Collages

2024 “Flora”, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC.
2024 “2024 Northwest Photography Drawers”, BlueSky Gallery, Portland, OR
2023  “Holiday Show” Radius2023 “Holiday Show” Radius Gallery Missoula, MT.

2023  “Still[ed] Life, Celebrating Handmade Photographic Art”, Light Art Space, Silver City, NM
2023  “Opposing Forces”,  Remarque/new Ground works Print Shop, Albuquerque, NM
2023  “2023 Northwest Photography Drawers”, BlueSky Gallery, Portland, OR
2023  “Artsy”, Jen Tough Gallery, online
2023  “Artist Collective Spring 2023”, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe,NM
2023  “Into the Light”, on Artsy.net, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023  “10th Annual Abstract Sanctuary”, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, online
2022  “Works on Paper”, Brand 50, Annual National Juried Exhibition, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
2022  “Blurring the Lines”,  Remarque/new Ground works Print Shop, Albuquerque, NM
2022  “Artsy”, Jen Tough Gallery, online
2022  “Alive”, Sapphire Award, Gallery Ring, online
2022  “The Montgomery Photo Festival”, You Bao Zhu Gallery at Troy University, Troy, AL
2022  “The Montgomery Photo Festival”, Juror Anna Skillman, Stonehedge Gallery, Montgomery, AL
2022  “Everything Blue”, Modern Visual Arts Gallery”, Bethlehem, PA
2021   “Fresh Talent Exhibition,” Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge, WA

2021   “The Awakening,” LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR
2021   “Visions of Nature,” Light Art Space, Silver City, NM
2021   “Wandering Curves 2021,” NYC4 PA, online, Third Place winner
2021   “Woman Artists Making Their Mark,” O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, online
2021   “Juried Biennial Photography Show,” Fava Gallery, Oberlin, OH
2021   “2021 Photography Show,” Spanish Peaks Arts Council Gallery, La Veta, CO
2021   “Works on Paper,” Brand 49 Annual National Juried Exhibition, Brand Library and art Center, Glendale, CA
2021   “Blue,” O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, online
2021   “Lumiere,” Art Fluent, online 2021   “[Re]-Emergence!” Remarque/new Ground works Print Shop, Albuquerque, NM
2021   “Mono-Kromatic,” Praxis Gallery, Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
2021   “Artist Alliance Annual Show,” Artist Alliance, online
2021   “Sunshine Prints,” New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA
2020  “Small Works,” Artist Alliance, online
2020  “Botanical,” Las Laguna Gallery,Laguna, CA
2020  “Small Expressions 19,” Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2020   “Abstract Catalyst [ 7th Annual ],” Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland,OR
2020   “Let There Be,” Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2020   "Socially Distanced,” Artist Alliance, online
2020   “Punching Marshmallows,” Remarque/new Ground works Print Shop, Albuquerque, NM

Selected Group Exhibitions : Encaustic Paintings

2021 “Metamorphosis,” Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2021 “[re] Building,” Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2021 “Monochrome,” 311 Gallery, Raleigh NC
2021 “Artworks Northwest Biennial,” Hallie Brown Ford Gallery, Umpqua Valley Arts, Roseburg OR
2021 “Hanging Together,” Village Gallery and Frame Shop, Multnomah Village, OR
2020 Portland Open Studio’s, Portland, OR
2020 “[MMXX] : Beginnings,” Encaustic Art Institute, Santa FE, NM
2020 “Art in Isolation,” North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2019 Portland Open Studio’s, Portland, OR
2019 “Sanctuary,” Online Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Cascaide Aids Project Auction, Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2019 “Expressions West 2019,” Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
2019 “Small Works Exhibit 2019,” Sanger Gallery, Key West, FL
2019 “Object[ive],” Brookline Arts Center, Brookline MA
2019 “Survey of Contemporary Encaustic,” Chaffey Museum of Art, Ontario, CA
2018 “Flower Power,” Linus Gallery, LA, CA
2018 ADC Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Cascade Aids Project Auction Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2018 “Love Show,” Ford Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 EAI Members Juried Encaustic Show/Art of Wax, Museum of Encaustic Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017 "6th Annual Encaustic Exhibition”, 2017, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 “Flora & Fauna,” Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Cascade Aids Project Auction Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2016 “The Art of the Feast,” Invitational, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
2016 Cascade Aids Project Auction Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2015 “Contemporary Encaustics 2015,” Invitational, Royal Contemporary, Florence, CO
2015 “We Don’t Walk Alone,” In Bocca al Lupo Fine Art, Oregon City, OR
2014 “Second Annual Encaustic Exhibit,” PNCA, Portland, OR
2014 “Embedded,” Atelier 6000, Bend, OR
2013 “Members Show,” IEA, Received “Best in Show,” Santa Fe, NM
2012 “Exquisite Wax,” Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, OR
2012 “Radiance,” Art on Broadway, Beaverton, OR

Benefit Auctions

2019 Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2018 Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2017 Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2016 Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Silent Auction, Portland, OR

Representation

Fine Print Co., Australian based museum quality reproduction prints

Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Riversea Gallery, Astoria, OR

Professional : Experience

Silver : Porcelain

1996 - 2007

Permanent Collections, 1996 – 2007

The White House, Washington D.C.
Air Pax, Indianapolis, IN
Anderson Consulting, Houston, TX
Beth’ El Zedick, Synagogue, Indianapolis, IN
Boston Children’s Hospital, Waltham MA
Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL
Fineman & Associates Public Relations, San Francisco, CA
General Instrument, Horsham, PA
Hewlett Packard, Fort Collins, CO
Humana Medical, Cincinnati, OH
Kelsey Seybold Clinic, Houston TX
Longmont United Hospital, Longmont, CO
Loudon Medical Center, Leesburg, Va
Lucent Technologies, Littleton, CO
Marriott Denver Tech Center, Denver, CO
Moonstruck Chocolatier, PDX International Airport , 6th and Alder, Portland, OR
Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR
Spa at Reynolds Plantation Ritz Carlton, Greensboro, GA
Sunrise Woman & Children’s Hospital, Las Vegas NV
University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL 
Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, MD
Wildwood Restaurant, Portland, OR
Private Residences - United States, Mexico, & Europe

Personal

Claudia Hollister, (b. 1951, Oregon, USA)
Painting Studio, Portland, Oregon
claudia@claudiahollister.com | www.claudiahollister.com

Education

University of Oregon, BFA, Eugene, OR 1973