b: Hampton, VA, 1959 Lives and works in Seattle, WA Education 1984 BFA, University of Washington Solo Exhibitions 2012 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2011 The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY 2010 Walleyed, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008 Derek Eller Gallery, New York Drawings and Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 2006 Bovine: The Oregon Trail Reversed, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA 2002 Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Pictures, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999 Pulliam Defenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR White Columns, New York, NY Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1998 Pulliam Defenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 1997 Arcadia, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1995 New England Prospect, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA 1993 Americana, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991 Civil War Portraits, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA 1989 500 B.C., Traver Sutten Gallery, Seattle, WA 1987 Viking Union Gallery, Western WA University, Bellingham, WA 1985 Galleria Amagototis, Barcelona, Spain Group Exhibitions 2010 Summer at The Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Made in USA, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Common Jive, Elizabeth Foundation Project Space, New York, NY 2009 Supramundane, Ambach and Rice, Seattle, WA Finds Refined, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA Dimensional Invention, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 2008 The Secret Language of Things, Portland Art Museum, OR Deep Space Punctuated by Planets, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA dialogue: flat/form, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA Traces and Accumulations, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA 2007 Neddy Artist Fellowship Award Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, WA Chauney Peck + Whiting Tennis, The Helm, Tacoma, WA Ulrich Painters and Poets, Wichita State University, Indianapolis, IN A House is Not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY 2002 I Just Can’t Pretend, curated by Dan Torop, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Postmodern Pastoral, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA 1994 Contrariwise Painting, Artists Space, Chicago, IL 1993 Limner Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Thicket Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Modern Madonnas II, raison d’etre, Seattle, WA 1988 Rooms 75 Cents, OK Hotel, Seattle, WA 1987 Modern Madonnas I, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA Sensualists, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1986 Enterart Gallery, Seattle, WA Traver Sutten Gallery, Seattle, WA Awards 2008 Arlene Schnitzer Prize, Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum 2007 12th Annual Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum 1993 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, American Series Selected Biblography 2011 Janairo, Michael. 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"Whiting Tennis". The Brooklyn Rail. May. 2006 Graves, Jen. “ The Door is Ajar”. The Stranger. October 17. 2004 McQuaid, Cate. “House of Plenty”. The Boston Globe. May 7. 2002 Levin, Kim. “I Just Can’t Pretend”. The Village Voice. July 30: p 95. Mahoney, Robert. “Landscape”. Time Out New York. February 21-28: p 51. McQuaid, Cate. “Postmodern Pastoral”. The Boston Globe. January 19. 2001 Kunitz, Daniel. “Gallery Chronicle”. The New Criterion. November. p 54. Johnson, Ken. “Whiting Tennis”. The New York Times. September 28. 2000 Hackett, Regina. “Whiting Tennis”. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. June 2. 1999 Milne, Victoria. “Whiting Tennis”. Art in America. July: p 105. Fredericksen, Eric. “Colonial Chic”. The Stranger. February 4: p 17. Updike, Robin. “Whiting Tennis’ 1999”. The Seattle Times. January 15. 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