Artist List    J.D. Perkin    Images  |  Bio Born: 1956 EDUCATION Portland State University, Portland OR, B.S. 1984 ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009 “Burned and Bloom,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2008 “Second Skin,” in collaboration with Anne Thompson, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR 2007 Gallery La Greca, San Francisco, CA 1994, 1995 Palace Gallery, Portland, OR 1994 LaLuna, Living Room Gallery, Portland, OR 1994 Blue Gallery, Portland, OR 1989 Friction Gallery, Portland, OR 1982 GROUP EXHIBITIONS The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 “Clay as Sculpture,” Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR 2008 “Natural Cycles,” Tryon Creek State Park, Portland, OR 2007 “20th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 “2006 Sitka Art Invitational,” Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR 2006 Frost Art Center, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 2006 “Mixed Media Sculptural Works: J.D. Perkin and Anne Thompson, “ George Fox University 2006 “One Mile West: site specific wood sculpture,” Cathedral Park Place, Portland, OR 2006 "Sculptural Clay," at the Modern Zoo, Cathedral Park Place in St. Johns, Portland, OR 2003 "St. Johns Window Project," Visual, Literary & Performing Arts in Downtown St. Johns, Portland, OR 2003 “Goat Song,” 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA 2001 “15th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2001 “Go Figure! The Human Form in Contemporary Art,” Bush Barn, Salem, OR 2001 “PDX Objects,” Portland International Airport, Portland, OR 2001 “The Inquisitive Object: A Biennial Review of Northwest Art & Craft,” Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR 1999 Lead Annex, Seattle, WA 1997 “Made for Interiors,” Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR 1997 “River Street Artists,” Open Studio, Portland, OR 1997 BonaKeane, Portland, OR 1996 Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 1996 Vena Cava Gallery, Portland, OR 1994 “Pulse/Impulse,” Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Portland, OR 1990 Visual Arts Gallery, Arts Festival, Portland, OR 1989 “Erotic Art Show,” Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR 1989 PDXS Gallery, Portland, OR 1986 “Directions for Proper Use,” The Company We Keep, Portland, OR 1986 Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School of Art and Craft, Portland, OR 1986 “On the Job,” Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR 1986 “Erotic Art show,” Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR 1986 Gallery 299, Portland, State University, Portland, OR 1985 COMMISSIONS Nordstrom, Portland, OR 1997, 1998 “Five Hands,” Portland Development Commission, Portland, OR 1996 AIDS Memorial Sculpture, AIDS Memorial Room, Theatre Theater, Portland, OR 1996 “Steelhead,” Memorial sculpture, Gladstone, OR 1995 COLLECTIONS AIDS Memorial Room, Theatre! Theater!, Portland, OR Hotel Lucia, Portland, OR Nordstrom, Portland, OR Portland Development Commission, Portland, OR Tin House, Portland, OR PERFORMANCES “Murder Most Rare, Gladstone Mystery Players, Gladstone, OR 1997 “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” Civic Auditorium, Portland, OR 1994 “Remnant Yard,” Urban Art Workers, Stark Raving Theater, Portland, OR 1993 “Dirt Box,” Portland Civic Theater Blue Room, Portland, OR 1991 “Dredd County,” Urban Art Workers, Blue Gallery, Portland, OR 1990 “Steelhead,” ArtQuake, Portland State University Park Blocks, Portland, OR 1987 “Steelhead,” Club 9, San Francisco, CA 1987 “Steelhead,” Club DV8, San Francisco, CA 1987 “On the Job,” Urban Art Workers, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR 1986 “Steelhead,” Local Rococo Fashion Show, Portland, OR 1986 “Build a Home,” Urban Art Workers, PDX Gallery, Portland, OR 1986 “Night Job,” Urban Art Workers, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR 1986 “Steelhead Goes to College,” Portland State University, Portland, OR 1986 “SculptureConfusion,” Urban Art Workers, Where’s the Art Gallery, Portland, OR 1986 “Steelhead,” Heart Theater, Portland, OR 1986 “Sculpture to Induce Seasickness,” Project Space, Eugene, OR 1983 “Dance Till it Hurts,” Project Space, Eugene, OR 1983 AWARDS Metropolitan Arts Commission, “Dirt Box,” Portland Civic Theater, Portland, OR 1990 Award of Excellence in Painting, School of Fine and Performance Arts, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1984 PUBLICATIONS “Craft 101,” Art on the Vine Auction Catalog, March 15, 2008, p. 38 “Pulse: J.D. Perkin, The Laura Russo Gallery,” art ltd, January 2008, p. 84 Foley, Margaret, “Portfolio: The Body As Sculpture,” Oregon Home, November / December 2007, p. 23 Allan, Lois, “Second Skin,” Sculpture Magazine, September 2007 Row, D.K. “D.K.’s Hot Sheet: The Northwest’s finest public art,” The Oregonian, October 5, 2007, A & E, p. 40 Duford, Daniel, “‘The Other Portland’ and ‘Second Skin’ at the Portland Art Center,” Artweek, March 2007, pp. 22-23 Neugarten, Rachel, “Finding where we fit,” The Oregonian, February 2, 2007, A& E, pp. 35, 37 “Arund Town,” ARTnotes, Regional Arts & Culture Council, January/February 2007 Row, D.K. “Post-holiday feasting for the eyes: Portland Art Center,” The Oregonian, Thursday, January 4, 2007, pp. E1, E3 “Sitka Art Invitational,” featured artist in advertisement, Willamette Week, November 8, 2006, p. 57 “J.D. Perkin’s Giant Ceramic Figures,” Oregon Art Beat, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Channel 10, first broadcast September 28, 2006 Culverwell, Wendy, “You gotta have art,” Portland Executive Home and Life, Fall 2006, pp. 10, 54-55 Culverwell, Wendy, “ER Doctor Builds a Life of Art,” Portland Executive Home & Life (a supplement to the Portland Business Journal), Summer 2006, p. 30 “sustainable Portland,” The Daily Journal of Commerce, Supplement. February 24, 2006 (cover image) “Upfront: J.D. Perkin,” Ceramics Monthly, March 2006, Page 22 Hauser, Susan, “A Young Hotel Defies Conventional Wisdom,” Portland Tribune, August 2002 “J.D. Perkin,” PSU Magazine, Spring 2002 Row, D.K., “Critic’s Picks,” The Oregonian, June, 2000 Row, D.K., “An Intimacy Between Objects,” The Oregonian, August 1999 “Visual Arts,” Willamette Week, July 1999 Row, D.K., From Regal to Psychedelic,” The Oregonian, July 1999