GALA BENT

 EDUCATION

1999 State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY) Buffalo, New York MFA (Master of Fine Arts),
Interdisciplinary Visual Arts
1997 Ball State University Muncie, Indiana, 1997 BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts), Painting, Art History
minor

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023    The Garden at Night, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle WA
2022   Exhibition in Concert with Artist Residency at Mount Angel Abbey,
The Alvar Aalto Library at Mount Angel Abbey. St. Benedict, Oregon
2022   Quiet Moments…, with Anne Hirondelle, and Ellen George,
J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020 At the Edge of the Sky,Foster White Gallery in partnership with G.Gibson Projects for Seattle
Deconstructed Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2019 UnderWaterOuterSpace, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon Univ, LaGrande, OR
You Go Ahead (No You First) Round 2, 4Culture Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Particle Playlist, G. Gibson Gallery,Seattle, WA
2016 Biographic, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Everything Seems to be Coming Together, Whitworth University Bryan Oliver Gallery, Spokane,
WA
2015 A Chorus for the Multiverse, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 The Ether and the Mantle, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
A Building for Breathing, collaborative exhibition with Serrah Russell at Gage Academy
Violet Strays, digital exhibition in conjunction with “36 Chambers” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2012 Geology of Longing, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 O Mountain, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Plans for the New City, Half/Dozen Gallery Portland, OR
Overgrown, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2008 Warm Blooded, Seattle Pacific Art Center, Seattle, WA
Home on the Range Studio Intensive Residency (with Zack Bent), Crawl Space Gallery, Seattle,
WA
2007 Lark Books, Asheville, NC
2006 Naturelle, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN (with Penelope Dullaghan)
2004 Underpinning, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN (with Zack Bent)
2002 Fruition: New Work by Gala Bent, Taylor University in Upland, IN Gordy Fine Art in Muncie, IN
2000 Dynamic Stabilization Exercises, Mitchell Place Gallery, Muncie, IN
1999 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Center for Research + Culture, SUNY Buffalo, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 OFF THE WALL, J. Rinehart Gallery
2021 Always On: Art and Motherhood, SOIL gallery, Seattle, WA
Shaun Kardinal Art Museum (SKAM), Museum of Museums (MoM), Seattle, WA
2019 Coiffed, SOIL gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Seattle Art Fair Seattle, WA
2017 Sunnudagssíðdegi Með Listamönnum (Sunday Afternoon Exhibition), Blue Bank, Þingeri,
Iceland
2016 Matched Makers: Northwest Artist Couples, Northwest Museum of Art, La Conner, WA
Nine Evenings Squared (9e2), King Street Station, Seattle WA
2015 Knew Normal (curated by Nancy Zastudil and including Dario Robleto, Mel Chin and Ryan
Pierce) 516ARTS, Albuquerque, NM
Dwell (with Eirik Johnson, Lori Nix and Julie Blackmon et al), G.Gibson Gallery Seattle, WA
Out of Sight, (Curated by Kirsten Anderson, Sierra Stinson, Sharon Arnold and Greg Lundgren)
King Street Station, Seattle, WA
The Work In Between, (curated and commissioned by Karen Brummund) Calvin College, Grand
Rapids, MI
2014 Sitka Invitational, Portland, OR
NEPO 5K, Seattle, WA
Strange Coupling with Nicholas Strobelt, Seattle, WA
2013 Concerns for the Environment, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA
TEDxPDX, exhibition and auction in concert with TED conference, Portland Museum
of Art, Portland, OR
Stormy Weather, Archimedes Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
APRIL fest, Vignettes, Seattle, WA
Atmospheric Weather, Exhibition of Artwork from Seattle Public Utilities Collection, Seattle, WA
2012 Open Interval, Cullom Gallery, Seattle (with Garek Druss and D.W. Burnam)
ELLES: SAM Gallery, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
Homage to Elles, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
End of the World, Compound Gallery, Portland, OR
The Neddy at Cornish, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Red Current, Sweet Fruit, Roq la Rue, Seattle, WA
Videoformes 2012, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
Scripts and Systems, LAL, Lexington, KY
2011 Contemporary Drawing in the Northwest, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
A Good Line: Artists on Poems, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA
New Views: The Carl and Hilda Morris Foundation Young Artist Exhibition, Laura Russo Gallery,
Portland, OR
[too] Much [too] Little, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA (with Counsel Langley and
Sharon Arnold)
2010 Aqua Art Miami, with G.Gibson Gallery, Miami, FL
Print Nation, These Days Gallery, Perth Australia
Xanadu: A stately Pleasure Dome, SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA
Strange Coupling, Seattle WA (collaboration with Nuala Ni Flathhuin)
Kaleidoscope, Gage Academy Steele Gallery, Seattle (with Chauney Peck and Matt Sellars)
Transubstantial, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA (with Colleen Hayward, Heidi
Schwegler and Renee Zettle-Sterling)
2009 The 9th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
DWG: A Look at Contemporary Mark Making, OHGE ltd., Seattle, WA
Summer Introductions ’09, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Allegoric, The Architrouve, Chicago, IL
On, of and about Paper, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA
Draw In, 00130 Gallery, Helsinki Finland
Unusual Animals, The Helm, Tacoma, WA (with Zack Bent and Ellen Ito)
2007 Allegoric, Chicago Country Club, Chicago, IL & Bridge Art Fair, London, England Mostly Loves
Clouds, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN
2005 Embracing the Gift, Azusa Pacific University, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape and Space, College of Architecture and Planning, Muncie, IN, Taylor University Metcalf
Gallery, Upland, IN
Glory Be: Taylor University Faculty Exhibition, Taylor University Metcalf Gallery, Upland, IN,
Honeywell Center, Wabash, IN
2004 Species of Light, Book Release Exhibition, Mitchell Place Gallery, Muncie IN
2003 Up and About, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN
2001 Open Space: Art About the Land, Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie IN, Anderson
Fine Arts Center, Anderson IN Art Association of Henry County, New Castle, IN
1998 Albright Knox Museum’s 47th Annual Western New York Show (Collaboration with Zack Bent)
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York Object D’art National traveling exhibition; a project of
Sandbox/Simparch National touring exhibition
Graduate Exhibition, Center for Research + Culture, SUNY Buffalo, NY

AWARDS + RESIDENCIES

2022   Mount Angel Institute. St. Benedict, Oregon
2018 Two Dot Residency, Two Dot, Montana
2017 Westfjords Residency, Þingeri, Iceland
2016 NEPO Travel Agency Residency, Brno, Czech Republic
2014 Nomination for Northwest Art Awards Portland Art Museum
Inaugural Print Residency Seattle Pacific University
2013 CityArts Best of Fall Art Walk Awards First Place
2012 The Neddy at Cornish Finalist
2011 Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency, with Master Printmaker Julia D'Amario,
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Oct 2011)
Artist Trust GAP grant, Seattle WA
4Culture Individual Artist Grant, Seattle WA 2011
2008 CityArtist Grant Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle 2010
Artist Trust GAP grant, Seattle WA
Crawl Space Gallery Residency, Seattle WA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS  

Microsoft Art Collection ¬ Redmond, WA  
Washington State Art Collection ¬ Seattle, WA 
Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection ¬ Seattle, WA  
Swedish Hospital ¬ Seattle, WA 
Jordan Schnitzer Print Collection, Portland, OR 
Taylor University - Upland, IN 
Ball State University ¬College of Arts ¬ Muncie, IN 
Peninsula College- Port Angeles, WA  

ARTIST LECTURES + WORKSHOPS

2019 Lecture for UnderWaterOuterSpace Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon Univ, LaGrande, OR
2015 Henry Art Gallery ArtVenture in connection with Ann Hamilton’s exhibition The COMMON Sense
Microsoft Art Collection Artist Lecture Series ¬ Redmond, WA
Sitka Center for Art + Ecology ¬ Otis, OR Illustration in Watermedia
Cornish College of the Arts¬ Seattle WA Bridging the Gap: Mixed media painting and
drawing
2014 Cornish College of the Arts- Seattle, WA Bridging the Gap: Mixed media painting and drawing
2013 Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park ¬ Sketching Workshop
Vessel Gallery ¬ Oakland, CA ¬ Artist’s Talk in conjunction with Concerns for the Environment
group show
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology ¬ Otis, OR - Bookmaking Workshop
Cornish College of the Arts¬ Seattle WA Color Theory- intensive workshop for H.S.Students
2012 Western Washington University- Bellingham, WA Visiting artist lecture
G.Gibson Gallery- Geology of Longing ¬ artist talk
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology ¬ Otis, OR - Bookmaking Workshop
Cornish College of the Arts¬ Seattle WA Drawing from Life- intensive workshop for
H.S. Students
2011 G.Gibson Gallery ¬ Seattle WA ¬ artist talk
2010 Gage Academy of Art ¬ Seattle WA ¬artist talk

CURATORIAL WORK

Co-curator (with Zack Bent) of Benders, an exhibition at NEPO House, Seattle, WA 2012

Wrote essay for catalog. Artists included Nathaniel Russell, Calvin Ross Carl, Lee Piechocki, Maria Gamboa and Molly Epstein

Curator of the exhibition A Sureness of Hand: 500 Years of Drawings from the Permanent

Collection, Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN, 1999

Lectured in conjunction with the drawing exhibition, including a “Friday with Friends” lecture-- Pencils, Pens and Paper: The Materials and Techniques of Drawing (November 1999) and a Gallery Talk: Doodles, Sketches and Plans: The Drawing as Preparatory Study (December 1999)

Co-curator (with Jon Stine) of the exhibition Mirror with a Memory: A Century of Photography, Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN, 2000

Led tours and talks in conjunction with the photography exhibition, including a Gallery Talk: Photographic Memory: A Short History of Photography (February 2000)

TEACHING

Cornish College of the Arts: Seattle, WA

Program Leader and Studio Faculty in Shared Foundation Program: 2014-2020 Full time faculty in Design, Full Professor 2020-present
Adjunct Professor: Fall 2013, Spring 2014 Seattle Pacific University: Seattle, WA
Assistant Professor of Art: October 2008- June 2012 Adjunct Professor: January 2007- June 2008
Taylor University: Upland, IN
Assistant Professor of Art: September 2002- May 2006 Adjunct Professor: September 2001- May 2002
Ball State University: Muncie, IN Adjunct Professor: August 1999-May 2001
State University New York (SUNY) at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY Instructor of Record: August 1997- May 1999

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A World From Dust Ben McFarland. (28 illustrations in support of biochemistry text) Oxford University Press, March 2016

New American Paintings Erin Langner. “Wrestling Between Dimensions: Q + A with Gala Bent” March 2015

Image Journal Hannah Notess. “Hanging Gardens: The Drawings of Gala Bent” Issue 82 Fall 2014 p. 45-52

Art Ltd. ¬ Suzanne Beal. “Gala Bent: Geology of Longing at G. Gibson Gallery.” May/June 2012 p. 26-7

NPR’s All Songs Considered Blog (premier of video for The Polyphonic Spree & article) Dec 4, 2012

Poetry Northwest (cover art and Back/Draft) Volume VII, Issue 2, Fall & Winter 2012-13

Sun Worshippers ed. Sierra Stinson, book release at Family Business, NY, NY July 2012

Yen Magazine (commissioned illustration/interview), issue 56 (p.56), Australia 2012

Madison Journal of Literary Criticism (cover art), Spring 2012

Our Beautiful Robotic Hearts (cover art), Writers in the Schools: a Program of Seattle Arts & Lectures, Student Poetry & Prose 2010/11

Contemporary Drawing Margaret Davidson, pp. 128-9 pub. Watson- Guptill, April 2011

Seattle Magazine Volume 19, Number 10 “Meet Your Makers” (pg. 46), October 2010

Open Lab Magazine (feature/interview) Issue #6 pp. 8-11, New York, NY 2011

Humanize Magazine (feature/interview) Issue #14 pp. 20-31, Madrid, Spain

Redefine Magazine (interview) August 2011

Magnética Magazine issue 21 (pg. 71), Lisbon, Portugal, August 2010

Maguila Magazine issue #14, São Paulo, Brazil, January 2010

Paper Spaceship (cover and feature) Brooklyn, NY, December 2009

The Stranger (cover art) Nov 19 - 25, 2009 Vol. 19, No. 11 Seattle, WA

Rubymag #32 (feature) <ruby-mag.com.ar> Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rivet Magazine R19 The Power Issue July 2007 Ill. “Redcloud” p.26

CIVASeen “25 Emerging Artists” Vol. IV 2004: pp.7-8

Seattle Weekly Adriana Grant“I Saw This: Never Never Land: Gala Bent at Gallery4Culture” April 14, 2009

The Stranger Jen Graves. “The New Guard” February 2, 2010 “Just Asking: Twenty-Six Questions for the NW Biennial” February 12, 2009

Another Bouncing Ball Regina Hackett. “Gala Bent: May the Force Be With Your” April 29, 2009

Seattle Art Examiner Eleanor Pachaud. “Monsters in the Shower Drain” May 20 2009

Translinguistic Other Emily Pothast. “Water of Life” November 29, 2008

Seattle Magazine Brangien Davis “The View from Here”. February 2009.

Best of Joey Veltkamp “Gala Bent at 4Culture” April 3, 2009