Education
University of California, Berkeley, M.A. (studied with Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Robert Colescott)
San Francisco State College, B.A. (studied with novelist George Price)
Chabot College, Hayward, California, A.A.
Laney College, Oakland, California (studied with Bay Area Visionary Artists Gerald Gooch and Robert Moon
Solo Exhibitions
“Lifeline (phases of the moon),” Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon, May - August 2024
“Miraculous Occurrences,” Salem Convention Center and Salem Public Library, Salem, Oregon, September 2023 - January 2024
“One If By Land,” Gray Lab Studio, Salem, Oregon, 2019
“Time Transfixed,” Gretchen Schuette Gallery, Salem, Oregon, 2016
“Motion,” Guistina Gallery, Oregon State University, 2009
“Vermeer Paints Saturn,” Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon, 1996
“Begin the Revolution,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1995
“Luna Park: Meditations on Life in a Violent Land,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1992
“Modern Times,” Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1982
Group Exhibitions
“CaFE & WESTAF’s 50 Years,” 50 Artists: A Celebration of the West, 2024
“Art of the Word,” Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, California, (catalogue published), 2024
“ConTEXT II," Art Fluent Online National Exhibition, 2023
"Abrazo (Embrace),” Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, Oregon, (catalogue published), 2023
“San Diego Museum of Art Spring Artists Guild Online National Online Exhibition,” Hugh M. Davies, Juror, California, 2023
“WATER,” Marin Society of Artists National Online Exhibition, 3rd Place Award. Kim Eagles Smith, Juror, Marin, California, 2023
“Aqua,” Gallerium Galleries International Juried Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 2023
“Night Visions,” National Juried Exhibition, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2022
“MOOD,” Art Fluent Online Gallery National Exhibition, Amy Mathews Neill, Juror, 2022
“MOTION 2022,” Art Fluent Online Gallery National Exhibition, Amy Mathews Neill, Juror, 2022
“Expressions West 2022,” Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Coos Bay Art Museum, April 2022
“Anti-WAR 2022,” DIVERSA, Canada, International Online Exhibition, 2022
“Humanity,” Art Fluent, International Online Exhibition, Massachusetts, Directors Choice Award, 2022
“Subject and Object, Book Four: A Photographic Look at the Visual Arts,” catalogue published by Aaron Johnson, Portland, Oregon, 2022
“Black Rectangle Collective Group Exhibition,” Gretchen Schuette Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon, 2022
“A Generous Kingdom 6: Symbolism, Story, and Beyond,” Verium Ultimum Gallery, Portland, Oregon (Juror: Jennifer Gillia Cutshall), 2022 (catalogue published),
“True Blue,” National Online Juried Exhibition, (Juror: Amy Mathews Neill), 2021
‘Chiaroscuro,” National Online Juried Exhibition, (Juror: Angela Phillips), 2021
“2021 San Diego Museum at Art Artist Guild International Exhibition (online), San Diego, California (Juror: Anita Feldman, Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs and Education, SDMA), June 8 - August 8, 2021
“2021 Artworks Northwest Biennial, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, Oregon (Juror: Grace Kook- Anderson, Curator of Northwest Art, Portland Art Museum), June 11 - August 23, 2021
“That Which Surrounds You,” National Juried Exhibition, Arts Benicia, Benicia, California, (Juror: Asya Abdrahman, online), June 19 - August 1, 2021
“These Truths,” Gallery 114, National Juried Exhibition, Portland, Oregon (online), May 6 - 29, 2021
“Disrupted Realism” National Painting Exhibition, Buckham Gallery, Flint, Michigan (Juror: John Seed), gallery exhibition April 9 - May 15, 2021
“Blue,” O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, National Juried Exhibition, Mill Valley, California (Juror: Jen Tough, online), May 17 - July 2, 2021
“Heroes, Heroines, & Heroic Acts,” National Juried Exhibition, Flager County Art League, Palm Beach, Florida. Second Place Award: Painting, (Juror: Robert Leedy, online), April 17 - June 12, 2021
“HEELED: A WESTERN BALLAD,” Dab Art, Ventura, California, 2021, (Curator: Yessica Torres), February 27 - April 18, 2021
“PANIC,” National Juried Exhibition (Online), O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, California (Juror: Chester Arnold), November 16 - December 31, 2020
“Get the Message: Words and Images,” National Juried Exhibition (Online), Benicia Arts Center, Benicia, California (Juror: Dewitt Chang), November 14 - December 31, 2020
“Art In The Time Of Corona,” Dab Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2020
“Recent Art Acquisitions: Hung Liu, Alison Saar, Enrique Chagoya, Gary Westford,” Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon, 2020
“Signals,” Gray Lab Studio, 2020
“40th Anniversary Group Show,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2019
“Empire of Dirt”, Dab Art Gallery, Ventura, California, 2018
“Change in 2018,” Gallery 104, New York City, New York, 2018
Volume Two, A Group Exhibition: Westford, Napack, McGuigan, Hausser, High Street Gallery, Salem, Oregon, 2018
Anniversary Group Exhibition, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2015
“Radius 25,” Bush Barn Art Center, 2015
“Lure of the Local: Northwest Artists,” Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon, 2001
“New Artists at Blackfish,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1991
Artquake: All Oregon juried exhibition, Portland, Oregon (Juror: Henry Hopkins, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), 1991
Artquake: All Oregon juried exhibition, Portland, Oregon (Juror: Patterson Simms, Curator, Seattle Art Museum), 1988
“Introductions,” Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1979
Installation view “Recent Art Acquisitions: Alison Saar, Hung Liu, Enrique Chagoya, Gary Westford,” Hallie Ford Museum of Art, February 2020
Museum & Curatorial Work
“Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashions of the 1960s,” Portland Art Museum, October 2024 - March 30 2025 (Exhibition Consultant)
“Lights, Color, Fashion: Psychedelic Posters and Patterns of 1960s San Francisco from the Gary Westford Collection,” The Museum at Bethel Woods at Woodstock, New York, April 4 - December 31, 2021. Co-Curator with Julia Fell, Assistant Curator, The Museum at Bethel Woods. All posters and fashions from the Gary Westford collection.
“Behind the Beyond: Psychedelic Posters and Fashion from San Francisco 1966-71,” Hallie Ford Museum of Art, June 3 - August 27, 2017. Co- Curator, with John Olbrantz, Director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon. All posters and fashions from the Gary Westford collection.
Turned On!: American Blacklight Posters 1967 - 71, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, May 13-July 16, 2017. Co- Curator, with John Olbrantz, Director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon
“When Six WAS Nine: Rock Posters from San Francisco,” Hallie Ford Museum of Art, May 26-September 16, 2007 Co- Curator, with John Olbrantz, Director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon
“American Rock Posters 1930 - 2007,” Bush Barn Art Center, Summer 2007, Paula Booth, Director
Publications
Behind the Beyond: Psychedelic Posters and Fashion from San Francisco 1966-71, Gary Westford, 2017, Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, Friesen’s Book Division publisher, ISBN: 978-1-930957-77-0
Art For Everyone, Chemeketa Art Faculty, Chemeketa Community College, 2017, Chemeketa Press, ISBN: 978-1-943536-15-1
Prison Related Film and Video Work
“Pro and Con,” an animated film by Johanna Priestly and Joan Gratz, Hardwork Productions (nine minutes),1993
“Inside and Out: Art from Prison- A Documentary,” Patricia Leahy and Michael Seitz, Producers (thirty minutes), Mt. Hood Community College TV, 1993
Permanent Collections
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon
Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon
Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon
Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, Oregon
Numerous private collections
Awards and Honors
Gary Westford / Robin Havenick Community Connection Award, established 2014, Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, Oregon
Frank Carr Memorial National Teacher of the Year in Corrections Education (Northwest Region), Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, 1991
Nominee, Northwest Region Teacher of the Year, Corrections Education, Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, 1990