photo Katy Weaver
Shelley Jordon is a Brooklyn born painter and moving image artist who explores the intersection between interior and exterior worlds and connections between past and present experiences. She was the 2010 Visual Arts Fellow for the pilot program of the American Academy in Jerusalem and a recipient of a 2010 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Fellowship Award, a Fulbright-Hayes Group Travel Research Grant to Yemen and Tunisia, a 2010 OSU Center for the Humanities Fellowship Award, and an Oregon Artist’s Fellowship Award in Painting. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including the Frye Museum in Seattle, WA, The Wexner Center For the Arts in Columbus, OH, The Oregon Jewish Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Museo Cultural, Santa Fe New Mexico, the Tacoma Art Museum, The Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece, Mabaada (the Lab), Jerusalem, Israel and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME. Her award-winning hand-painted animations have been screened at venues in Sydney, Australia, Jerusalem, Israel, Los Angeles, CA, Beirut, Lebanon, Sardinia, Italy, and Hamburg, Germany, where she won "Best Art and Animation" Award at the Radar/Hamburg Film Festival. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her MFA from Brooklyn College. Jordon, a Professor of Art at Oregon State University, has particpated in artist residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the American Academy in Rome. She recently participated in " the A-Team; Artists For Social Change", at NOASS, a floating art center, in Riga, Latvia, where she exhibited and gave a presentation about her work.
Shelley lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, David, daughter, Clara and their "career-change" guide dog, Spanky. They summer on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland, Maine.
Education
MFA, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
BFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC, Regents Scholarship
Awards/ Grants/ Fellowships
2012 Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
Ford Family Career Opportunity Grant
2010 American Academy in Jerusalem, Visual Artist Fellow, (pilot program)
Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship Award
Center For the Humanities Fellowship Award, Oregon State University
Professional Development Award, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
“Best Art and Animation Award”, Radar Hamburg Independent Film Festival, Hamburg Germany
2009 “Silver Coyote, Critic’s Choice Award”, Gold Coyote l Super Short Film and Video Competition, Marylhurst, OR
“Judges Award”, Ken Turan, Northwest Film and Video Festival, PDX, OR
OSU Library Research Travel Grant Award to Berlin
LL Stewart Faculty Development Award, Oregon State University
2004 CLA Research Grant, Oregon State University
Artist Residencies
2012 Lucas Artists Residency Program at the Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA (collaboration with composer Kurt Rohde)
2010 Wexner Center For the Arts; Film and Video Residency, Columbus Ohio
2009 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (also 1995)
2007 Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild, CA,
Selected One-person Exhibition
2012 “A Public Private View”, (two-person), Art Institute, Oranim Academic College, Israel
“Anita’s Journey”, Fleckinstein Gallery, Flint Art Institute, Flint, Michigan
“Perceptual Interiorities; an Animated Sound Performance”, collaboration with musicians Dana Reason and Kevin Patton. Art Center, Corvallis, OR
2011 “Materfamilias”, Fairbanks, Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2010 “Flying/Falling”, Dwek Gallery, Mishenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
“Mabaada,( the Lab)”, Jerusalem, Israel
2004 “Clouds and Other Recent Paintings, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA,
“Viewpoints”, North Gallery, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL,
2003 “Skies and Still Lifes”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 “Revealing Beauty “, Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
1999 ”Reflections on Light”, Holter Museum of Art, Helena Montana
1996 "Interior Views," Linda Hodges Gallery - Seattle, WA
1995 "Roman Still Lifes and Other Recent Paintings," Augen Gallery ,PDX, OR
“Recent Paintings”, Kittredge Gallery - University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
"The Rome Paintings," West Gallery OSU, Corvallis, OR
1994 "Reflections on Italian Light," Grover/Thurston Gallery - Seattle, WA
1993 Buckley Center Gallery - University of Portland, Portland, OR
Grover/Thurston Gallery - Seattle, WA
1992 Mary Hill Museum - Goldendale, WA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 “Freedom From Memory”, Meta House, Phnom Phenh, Cambodia
“DysTorpia”, Outpost Artist Recource, Queens, NY (catalogue)
“Festival de Cine Judio”, Caracas, Venezuela
“Warsaw Jewish Film Festival”, Kinoteca, Warsaw, Poland
“UK Jewish Film Festival”, London, England
“Currents 2012”, El Museo Cutural, Santa Fe New Mexico (catalogue)
“A Virtual Memorial – Commemorative Interventions” NOASS, in conjunction with the Riga Ghetto and Holocaust Museum, Riga, Latvia
“Lois Dodd and Her Students”, Firehouse Center, Damariscotta, ME (catalogue)
2011 “CologneOff Vll , Art and the City”, International Video Art Festival, the Sunflower Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Budapest International Short Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary, Waterpieces Contemporary and Video Art Festival Riga/Latvia
“Athens Video Art Festival”, Technopolis Municipality of Athens, Greece
“Animacall Project”, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece
“Currents 2011”, El Museo Cutural, Santa Fe New Mexico
“Vancouver Jewish Film Festival”, Vancouver, BC
“Sydney Underground Film Festival”, Marrickville, Australia
“Skepto International Film Festival”, Sardinia, Italy, Milan, Bologna, Rimini, Ravenna, Florence, Perugia, Naples and Madrid, Spain
2010 “Family History”, Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, OR
“Motherlode”, Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
“Interiors”, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
“Radar Hamburg Independent Film Festival”, Hamburg, Germany
“Portland International Film Festival”, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“The Other Venice Film festival”, LA, CA
“LunaFest”, Corvallis, OR
“Oregon Lens”, Oregon Public Broadcasting
2009 “Little Gods”, Hybrid Gallery, Portland, OR
“Sydney Underground Film Festival”, Marrickville, Australia
“Tacoma Film Festival”, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“Gold Coyote Sesquicentennial Super Short Film and Video Competition”, Marylhurst, OR
“Eugene International Film Festival, Eugene, OR
“36th Annual Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland Art Museum
2007 “Painting's Edge Exhibit at RAM,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
“Paintings Edge Artists in Residence Exhibition”, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild, CA
“Realism”, Bennett Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2003 “Portland Museum of Art Biennial”, Portland, Maine
“Core Sample: Painting Portland, Art Gym, Marylhurst College, PDX, OR
“Art Equinox”, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana
Public Collections
Alpenrose Corporation, Portland, OR
Bennett & Company, Newburyport, MA
City of Portland, Visual Chronicle Collection, Portland, OR
City of Portland Portable Works Collection
Department of Licensing, Vancouver, WA, Percent for Art Collection
Edison Elementary School, Tacoma, WA, Percent for Art Collection
Enro Corporation, New York, NY
Franklin Middle School, Yakima, WA Percent For Art Collection
Grayco Corporation, Portland, OR
Jewish Museum, Berlin
Oregon Jewish Museum
Nordstrom's Inc., Seattle, WA
Tin House Publishing, Portland, OR
University of Washington Hospital, Seattle, WA
Valley Library, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Percent for Art Collection
Numerous Private Collections