Artists in the News
AUGUST 2024
Musée reviews Eli Craven’s exhibition Touching.
Musée reviews Dongwook Lee’s exhibition Wozu.
Willamatte Week reviews Eli Craven and Dongwook Lee’s exhibitions.
JULY 2024
Enjoy this exhibition review of Cammie Toloui’s The Lusty Lady on Museé.
MAY 2024
Portland Monthly lists Dylan Hausthor’s What The Rain Might Bring as one of The Curated Things to Do in Portland.
APRIL 2024
Museé reviews André Ramos-Woodard’s BLACK SNAFU.
Enjoy this interview of Fazilat Soukhakian’s exhibition Queer in Utah on Variable West.
Congratulations to the 7 Blue Sky past and upcoming artists who've been named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows: Sara Bennett, Carlos Diaz, Lucas Foglia, Dylan Hausthor, Greta Pratt, Margaret Stratton, and Ada Trillo.
Oregon ArtsWatch features Toni Pepe’s exhibition Mothercraft in VizArts Monthly.
FEBRUARY 2024
Enjoy this feature of Sage Sohier’s project Passing Time on LENSCRATCH.
JANUARY 2024
Oregon ArtsWatch reviews Ebenezer Galluzzo’s exhibition As a Home Changes.
NOVEMBER 2023
Enjoy this feature of Rebecca Marimutu’s exhibition Portraits Adhered on ArtForum.
JULY 2023
Museé features Erik Östensson’s Tjärnen.
MAY 2023
Robin Friend talks about Bastard Countryside on KBOO Art Focus.
APRIL 2023
Congratulations to our past exhibiting artists, Deanna Dikeman and Laura Larson, who have been named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows.
MARCH 2023
Read this interview between Corianton Hale from Portland Mercury and Sam Geballe about their exhibition Self-Untitled.
FEBRUARY 2023
Enjoy this exhibition review of Diego Moreno’s In My Mind There is Never Silence on Museé.
JANUARY 2023
Rachel Papo’s project It’s Been Pouring, the Dark Secret of the First Year of Motherhood has been featured on CNN Style.
NOVEMBER 2022
Enjoy this review of Jordanna Kalman’s Jordanna and the Masters of Photography and Lee Materazzi’s pushed in on Oregon ArtsWatch.
AUGUST 2022
Juxtapose Magazine features Jeremiah Ariaz’s Louisiana Trail Riders.
Portland Monthly lists Yuyang Zhang’s stupid little life as one of The Coolest Gallery Shows in Portland Right Now.
Enjoy this exhibition review of Yuyang Zhang’s stupid little life on Portland Tribune.
Yuyang Zhang talks about stupid little life on KBOO Art Focus.
JULY 2022
Kelli Connell talks about Double Life, 20 Years on KBOO Art Focus.
Our 2021 PNW Drawers artist Jessica Hays and 2022 PNW Drawers artist Megan Hansen are featured in The 2022 LENSSCRATCH Student Prize: 25 To Watch.
JUNE 2022
Please enjoy this interview with Matthew Moore on his project Post-Socialist Landscapes on Severna Park Voice.
Blind Magazine covers Luis Manuel Diaz’s project El Césped del Otro Lado (The Grass on The Other Side).
MAY 2022
Enjoy this exhibition review of Matthew Moore’s Post-Socialist Landscapes on Museé.
APRIL 2022
Congratulations to the 13 photographers who've been named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows, with many Blue Sky Artists (listed in bold) among this esteemed list! Keliy Anderson-Staley, Gary Burnley, Kelli Connell, Sam Contis, Kristen Joy Emack, Odette England, Nancy Elizabeth Floyd, Philip David Heying, Robert Bruce Langham III, Lorie Novak, Ed Panar, Mimi Plumb, and Rebecca Soderholm.
MARCH 2022
Enjoy this interview from WE ARE magazine with our December exhibiting artist, Sonia Lenzi.
Read this review of Birthe Piontek’s exhibition Abendlied by Justin Duyao on Oregon Artswatch.
FEBRUARY 2022
Enjoy this exhibition review of Ingeborg Gerdes’ Out West on Variable West.
Oregon ArtsWatch covers Ward Shortridge’s exhibition Beauty That Thrives Under the Ravages of Time.
JANUARY 2022
Oregon ArtsWatch features Kensuke Koike’s exhibition Dear Friend in VizArts Monthly.
DECEMBER 2021
Lora Webb Nichols’ book Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948 has been selected one of Time’s 20 Best Photobooks of 2021.
Tommy Kha is the receipient of the 2021 Next Step Award, presented by Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. In addition to a $10,000 grant, Kha will publish a book with Aperture and have an exhibition at Baxter St at CCNY.
It is with great sadness that we learn the passing of Robert Cumming, who was best known for his conceptual photographs. Blue Sky proudly exhibited his work in 1979.
NOVEMBER 2021
Carl Bower talks about Private Fears in KBOO Art Focus.
SEPTEMBER 2021
Nicole Jean Hill speaks with Lenscratch about the Lora Webb Nichols archive.
JULY 2021
The New Yorker highlights the archive of Lora Webb Nichols.
JUNE 2021
Enjoy this lively Oregon ArtsWatch article discussing the current Nine Gallery exhibition of Blue Sky Co-Founder, Chris Rauschenberg, and highlights of his impressive contributions in the photo community.
MAY 2021
Oregon Live covers the Johnnie Chatman’s I forgot where we were…
APRIL 2021
Enjoy this presentation that tells the story of Kid Pix, created by Blue Sky Co-Founder, Board Member, Photographer and Inspiration, Craig Hickman.
MARCH 2021
Check out this recent NPR article on the debut book, Remnants of An Exodus, by photographer Al J Thompson, whose work will come to Blue Sky Gallery in September 2021.
FEBRUARY 2021
Congratulations to the many Blue Sky Artists who made the Inaugural Silver List.
JANUARY 2021
The New York Times honors its Favorite Photos of 2020, featuring Blue Sky Artist.
See Irina Rozovsky’s grasp of Movement during Quarantine
Revel in Jared Soares’ photos of the Dance Recital during the Pandemic
Witness Gioncarlo Valentinos’s Portraits of Self-Regard, as Black Photographers reflect on this moment in America
Blue Sky Founder Chris Rauschenberg’s Exhibition Looking at India at Elizabeth Leach Gallery - January 2021
Blue Sky Artist and Board Member, Kris Graves’ work featured on the December Cover of National Geographic
DECEMBER 2020
New Yorker article featuring the work of Nancy Floyd
NOVEMBER 2020
You and Yours - Group Exhibition featuring 5 Blue Sky artists -- Justyna Badach, Matt Eich, Tara Sellios, Jennifer Thoreson, and Ian van Coller)
Gioncarlo Valentine honored in PDN’s 2020 The 30
OCTOBER 2020
The Griffin Museum honors the passing of David Pace along with our Blue Sky Memorial on the No Strings Wall
Sara Bennett @ Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration Group Show at MoMA PS1
Dawoud Bey is among The Greats in the NY Times.
SEPTEMBER 2020
Featuring several past and upcoming Blue Sky Artists, En Foco Announces Traveling Exhibition Dos Mundos: (Re)constructing Narratives at SUNY
Jon Henry’s Stranger Fruit (Feb/March 2021, En Foco Prize Winner) in Oct. issue of National Geographic; he also won the Maine Media Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture for the project.
AUGUST 2020
Jared Soares for National Geographic (August 2020):
APRIL 2020
Zun Lee awarded Guggenheim fellowship (April 2020):