RESUME

Education
MFA, California College of the Arts
BA, Simon’s Rock at Bard College

Public Collections
Berkeley Art Museum
Kala Art Institute
International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Solo Exhibitions 
2022 Some Women, Nine Gallery, Portland
2018 State Dinner, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati
2017 Trouble at Home, Stroboskop Gallery, Warsaw
     Soft Actor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara
2014 An Exhibition That Might Exist, Feldman Gallery at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland
2012 La Borinqueña (collaboration with A. Will Brown), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2009 Assembly, line, image, system, Miller Gallery at Linfield College, Linfield
     Like Magic, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City
2006 Bean Gilsdorf & Dan Gilsdorf, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro
     A Change of Scenery, Portland Modern, Portland

Selected Group Exhibitions 
2021 Time Being, Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland
2020 Born to Be Alive, Season, Seattle
     Fashion-Conscious, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga
2019 DEAR LUCY, Upfor Gallery, Portland
2018 Between Here and the Machine, Carnation Contemporary, Portland 
     Facsimile, Ace Hotel, Chicago 
     Companion Pieces, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati
     Reliant Objects, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland
     Spirited Probabilities, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2017 Takeover, Alter Space, San Francisco
     Broad Stripes and Bright Stars, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven
     xoxoxo, Salon Akademii, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
2016 Rocky Landscape, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
     Rocky Landscape, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
     Rocky Landscape, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
     Transforming Milk Into Milk, RedLine Center for Contemporary Art, Denver
     Thinking of You: Bean Gilsdorf & Ray Mack, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco
     Mistaken Impressions, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco
2015 Triple Take, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco
     Make Things (Happen), Interface Gallery, Oakland
2014 Strange Bedfellows, Kaplan Gallery at VisArts, Rockland
     Social in Practice: The Art of Collaboration, New York University, New York
     Social in Practice: The Art of Collaboration, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York
     Dead Ringer, Fowler Project Space, Brooklyn
2013 Systems of (Dis)comfort, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland
     Social Fabric, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
2012 In Formation, Berkeley Central Arts Passage, Berkeley
     Caravanniversary, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito
     Matter, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
     Past Future Now, Oddball Film + Video, San Francisco
     Shifter, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco
     Tell the Truth and Run, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito
     Sphere of Influence, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley
2011 Annual Exhibition, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
     Tarnów: 1000 years of modernity, BWA-Galeria Miejska, Tarnow, Poland
     Odds Are 13:1, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
     Hammarby!, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
     Materiality, LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene
2010 To Live and Draw In LA, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro
     Soft, Future Studio, Los Angeles
     Fiber Art From East and West, Wuhan Textile University Library Gallery, Wuhan, China
2009 Quilt National, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
2008 Transformations, National Exhibition Center, Birmingham, England
     Transformations, Alberton City Hall, Gauteng, South Africa
2007 Craft Biennial, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland
     Quilt National, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
     FR8, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro
2006 Transformations, National Exhibition Center, Birmingham, England
     Quilt National, American Textile History Museum, Lowell
     Needle Culture, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff 
2005 Affair at the Jupiter Hotel (art fair, courtesy Gallery 500), Portland
     Extra/ordinary, The Cube Gallery, Kansas City, MO
     Quilt National, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose
     Visions, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside
2004 Sin Tax, Gallery 500, Portland
     ANA 33, Holter Museum of Art, Helena
     Le Arti Tessili Valcellina Award, Arti Tessili Centro Attivita Culturali, Maniago, Italy

Selected Awards
2022 Oregon Arts Commission Professional Opportunity Grant, Salem
2021 Regional Arts and Culture Council Make Grant, Portland
2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, New York
2020 Oregon Arts Commission Grant, Portland
2016 Fulbright Fellowship, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Fulbright Fellowship, Warsaw, Poland
2012 Bess Winspear Memorial Scholarship, The Banff Centre, Banff
2011 Graduate Fellowship Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito
2011 Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2009 Graduate Full Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco

Residencies
2022 Lower Cavity Artist Residency, Holyoke
2019 Pine Meadow Ranch Artist Residency, Sisters
2018 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles
     Spaces Art Writer in Residence, Cleveland
2014 Little Paper Planes Residency, San Francisco
     Cannonball Visiting Artist Residency, Miami
2013 Sou’wester Artist Residency, Sou'wester Lodge, Seaview
2012 Thematic Residency, The Banff Centre, Banff
     Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley

Selected Bibliography
2021
Connor Reed, “The Best Oregon-Made Movies, Books, Music & Art of 2021,” Portland Monthly, December 8, 2021    
Craft & the Hyperobject (book), Center for Arts Research, University of Oregon, April 2021
2020    
Amelia Rina, "Studio Visit: Bean Gilsdorf," BOMB Magazine, December 16, 2020
Elizaveta A. Shneyderman, "Love Letter to Bean Gilsdorf," Variable West, October 20, 2020
2018    
Editorial, "Between Here and the Machine," JOURNAL.FYI, December 5, 2019         
Will Brown, “Bean Gilsdorf: Arts Writing + Cleveland,” Arthopper, October 17, 2018
Editorial, "Resource: Bean Gilsdorf, State Dinner," The Rib, September 18, 2018
Roula Seikaly, “Soft Power,” Humble Arts Foundation, September 6, 2018  
Hrag Vartanian, "Required Reading," Hyperallergic, March 18, 2018
Carolina Miranda, "Essential Arts & Culture," Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2018
2017     
Stephen Grant, “A Contemporary Art Gallery in New Haven Invites Artists to Reflect on the 
American Flag,” Huffington Post, June 14, 2017
Karolina Plinta, “Zombie internet atakuje,” Szum, May 26, 2017
Michael Paglia, “Transforming Milk Into Milk at RedLine,” Denver Westword, September 21, 2017
2016     
Mark Taylor, “Past, Present, No Future,” emptypictures.net, June 6, 2016
Kimberly Chun, “Local artists take a look at American identity,” SF Chronicle,  May 18, 2016
2015    
Sean J. Patrick Carney, "Site-Specific Comedy," Art in America, May 29, 2015
2014     
John Motley, “Bean Gilsdorf's 'An Exhibition That Might Exist' at PNCA plays with texts,” The 
Oregonian, February 17, 2014 
Jodie Cavalier and Linden How, “An Interview with Bean Gilsdorf,” Untitled Magazine (PNCA.edu blog), March 16, 2014
Gil Roth, “The Realm of the Possible,” The Virtual Memories Podcast, February 9, 2014
2013      
Amanda Roscoe Mayo, "Pressed Flowers: Bean Gilsdorf Living History Museum," Mosshouse.net, December 5, 2013
Lisa Young-De Leon, “Social Fabric: Questioning the Fibers of Our Material Existence,” Life in LA, March 4, 2013 
Sandra Barrera, “The Politics of Cloth, Yarn, and Sequins at the Craft and Folk Art Museum,” Daily News, March 1, 2013
Joshua Kim, “Remembering is Everything,” Art Practical, February 14, 2013 
Micol Hebron, “Social Fabric,” Journal of Modern Craft, vol. 6, issue 3, Nov. 2013  
Julie Wolfson, “Social Fabric: Seven artists turn fabric into a tactile discussion of culture, commerce and war,” Cool Hunting, February 5, 2013
2012    
Will Brown, “Puerto Rico: La Borinqueña,” in Americana (book), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Lindsey Westbrook, "Bean Gilsdorf: Help Desk," Glance Magazine, fall 2012
Jacquelyn Gleisner, "HELP!" Art21.com, April 12, 2012
2011    
Danielle Sommer, "The Last Charge: Bean Gilsdorf at Mission Comics and Art," KQED.org, February 15, 2011
2009    
Chas Bowie, "Donal Mosher at Disjecta and Bean Gilsdorf at Linfield College," The Oregonian, October 2, 2009
Steve Brisendine, "Cool Quilts for a Warm Day: Bean Gilsdorf at Sherry Leedy 
Contemporary Art,” eReview.org, May 31, 2009 
Chris Packham, "From Portland to Huehuetenango," Kansas City Pitch, May 20, 2009
2008    
Lisa Radon "Bean Gilsdorf: Critiquing Cultural Icons," Surface Design Journal, Fall 2008
Drusilla Cole, Textiles Now (book), Laurence King Publishers