Born: Hampton, VA, 1959 Lives and works in Seattle, WA Education BFA, University of Washington, 1984 Solo Exhibitions 2011 The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Galleries, Saratoga Springs, NY (forthcoming) Derek Eller Gallery (forthcoming) 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 1993 “Americana”, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle 1991 “Civil War portraits”, William Traver Gallery, Seattle 1989 “500B.C.”, Traver Sutten Gallery, Seattle 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 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 1992 Thicket Gallery, New York 1989 “Modern Madonnas II”, raison d’etre, Seattle 1988 “Rooms 75 Cents”, OK Hotel, Seattle 1987 “Modern Madonnas I”, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle “Sensualists”, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle 1986 Enterart Gallery, Seattle Traver Sutten Gallery, Seattle Awards Arlene Schnitzer Prize, Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum, 2008 12th Annual Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum, 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, American Series, 1993 Selected Biblography 2009 Boucher, Brian, "Whiting Tennis," Art in America, Jan 2009, p. 114 2008 Sorkin, Jenni, "Whiting Tennis," frieze, Sept 2008 Motley, John. “Contemporary Northwest Art Awards,” The Portland Mercury, June 19 - June 25 Barton, Randall. "Museum's showcase turns spotlight on five NW artists,” Portland Tribune, June 18 Libby, Brian. “Art currents, narrower but deeper,” The Oregonian, June 16 McAdams, Shane. "Whiting Tennis," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2006 Graves, Jen. “ The Door is Ajar,” The Stranger,Oct 17 2004 McQuaid, Cate. “House of Plenty,” The Boston Globe, May 7 2002 Levin, Kim. “I Just Can’t Pretend,” The Village Voice, July30, p. 95 Mahoney, Robert. “Landscape,” Time Out New York, Feb. 21-28, p51 McQuaid, Cate. “Postmodern Pastoral,” The Boston Globe, Jan. 19 2001 Kunitz, Daniel. “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion, November. p54 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, p. 105 Fredericksen, Eric. “Colonial Chic,” The Stranger, February 4, p. 17 Updike, Robin. “Whiting Tennis’ 1999,” The Seattle Times, January 15 Selected Collections Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Amerada Hess Corporation, New York, NY Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA Penn David McFarland, Inc., Dallas , TX Nordstrom’s, Seattle, WA Vulcan Ventures Inc., Bellevue, WA Go to top