Lynne Woods Turner

Exhibitions, CV, Press




Born 1951, Dallas, TX
Lives and works in Portland, OR


SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2020
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2019
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2016
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Galley Joe, Miami, FL

2015
Danese/Corey, New York, NY

2013
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2011
Danese, New York, NY

2010
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

2004
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2003
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2002
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

1993
Mt. Hood Community College, Portland, OR

1988
Northview Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR

1984
Lane Community College, Eugene, OR

1983
Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

1982
William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA


SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Women and Abstraction, 1741–Now, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

2022
Vince Skelly and Lynne Woods Turner, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR

2020
Abstraction Hot & Cool, Danese/Corey, New York, NY

2019
What’s going on?, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
What Needs to Be Said, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR and Umpqua Valley Art Association, Roseburg, OR

2018
Flower(s) In Concrete, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR

2017
Walk the Distance and Slow Down, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
The Line, Site 131, Dallas, TX

2016
Wood + Paper + Earth, Drive-By Projects, Boston, MA
Drawing Conclusions, Danese Corey, New York, NY
A Conversation Between A Mirror And The Sea, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
Music To My Eyes, Syzygy, New York, NY
Curators’ Choices: The Greg Kucera and Larry Yocum Collection, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2015
Boolean Expressions, Lewis Gluckman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
With a Clear Mind, works from the Miller Meigs Collection, Lumber Room, Portland, OR
In Line: Drawings by Sharon Etgar, German Stegmaier & Lynne Woods Turner, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2014
Simply Drawn: Gifts to the Columbus Museum from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
It Hurts So Good To Be Loved So Bad, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2013
Line, Color, and Form, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2012
Ladies’ Choice, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Cool Calm Collected, Danese, New York, NY
Construct, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PA

2011
Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Interior Margins, Lumber Room, Portland, OR
Walking the Line III, Kudleck van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Drawn, Taped, Burned, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Works on Paper II, Danese, New York, NY

2010
Geometric Progressions: Eleven Painters, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
Works on Paper, Danese, New York, NY
Made In USA, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2009
Formulation, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Of, On, or About: 50 Paper Works, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
50 Very Small Drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Curvilinear, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Marks on Paper, USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Walking the Line, Kudleck van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany Dimensions of Nature: New Acquisitions, 2006-2008, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

2007
Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Gridlock, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Erotic Drawing, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Drawings and Works on Paper II: Selected Artist from the US, Patrick Heide Arts, London

2004
Pink, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

2003
Fine Lines, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Way to Blue, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Components, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2002
Suspend and Levitate, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA

2000
Introducing Drawings by Four Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

1999
The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Planes of Color, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Zen Spirit, The Invisible Thread, Karen McCready Gallery, New York, NY

1996
Selections Summer ’96, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1985
Blackfish Gallery Sixth Anniversary Exhibition, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

1984
Seattle City Portable Works Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

1981
Selections, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Four New Fish, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

1980
Introductions 80, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1978
Small Works Exhibition, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
Celebration of Women Artists, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR

1977
Iowa Artists’ Annual, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

1976
Iowa Invitational, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, IA


AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2022
Guggenheim Fellowship

2020
MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2018
Oregon Arts Commission, Career Opportunity Grant

2016
Hallie Ford Fellowship, Ford Family Foundation

2016
Bonnie Bronson Fellowship

1992
Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship


COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Alliance Bernstein, Tokyo
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Bank of America, World Headquarters Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Modern Master Tapestries, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT


EDUCATION

1973
BFA, Stephens College, Columnia, MO

1977
MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA