Education

2001
MFA, Rutgers University, Visual Arts Department, New Brunswick, NJ

1998
Prague Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, CR

1996
Fulbright Grant, Prague Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, CR

1983
Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1982
BFA, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006
Amo Gallery, Inaugural exhibition "You'd Be Home Now" Waitsburg, WA. August-September

2005
Howard House “Landscape Flair”, Seattle, WA. May-June


Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
Center on Contemporary Art, “Coupling IV: Secret Handshake”, Seattle, WA. March

2005
PDX Contemporary Art, “Hi, It’s Me (Box)” or “AOK-PDX”, Window Installation, Portland, OR. July
Kirkland Arts Center, “Release & Capture”, March-May
Ten63, “Gretchen Bennett and Elizabeth Schula”, Long Island City, Queens, NY. January-March

2004
Howard House “Sell Out”, Seattle, WA. December
Thread Shop; “Everyday Art”, Ballard, WA. November-January
Ambrosino Gallery, “Cake Walk”, Miami, FL. May-July
Bronx Museum, “AIM 24”, Bronx, NY. April-June
Art In General Window, “AOKNY”, New York, NY. January-February
SOIL Gallery, “Topography of Home”, Seattle, WA. March-April
Tribeca Loft Exhibition, “The Very Rich Hours”, New York, NY. May

2003
Make Do, 5" x 7" exhibition space in the Organ Review of the Arts, “Sex. Lust. You.”, Portland, OR. November
Smack Mellon Studios, “Custom Fit”, DUMBO, Brooklyn. April-June

2002
COCA, Pacific Northwest Annual Exhibition, “Pack”, Seattle, WA. June-August
PS122 Gallery, “Gretchen Bennett and Suzanne Walters”, New York, NY. January-February

2001
Zeitgeist Gallery, “Paper”, Seattle, WA. August-September

2000
PS122 Gallery, Installation, “Pack”, New York, NY.

1999
Zeitgeist Gallery, “Gretchen Bennett”, Seattle, WA. August-September

1998
Prague Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, CR

1996
Prague Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, CR

1994
Bellevue Art Museum, April-June


Upcoming

2006
Bronx River Art Center, "Drift", group show, Eilleen Torpey curator, Bronx, NY. November-December
Mt. Scott Park, "inclover" one-day outdoor group show, Scott Wayne Indiana curator, Portland OR. August

2007
Kirkland Arts Center, “Help Me, I’m Hurt”, group show, Suzanne Beal curator, Kirkland, WA. September-October


Additional Art Venues

Ong Ong magazine, Dutch Sticker edition, Volume 3
PEEL Magazine Black Book, "Dying Fawn", issue six
Pierogi Flat File Project, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing Center Viewing Program Slide Registry, New York, NY
Artist Space Irving Sandler Artist File Online, New York, NY

Awards

2006
4Culture Arts Special Projects Program Grant, Sticker Edition Project “Viral Migration of Landscape”,
Seattle, WA

2005
Willard Espy Foundation residency, Oysterville, WA. June
Artist Trust GAP Grant

2004
Artist Trust Fellowship
Centrum Arts residency. Port Townsend, WA. May-June
Bronx Museum, AIM residency, with accompanying exhibition: “AIM 24”, Bronx, NY. March-June

2003
Corporation of YADDO residency, Saratoga Springs, NY. December-January

1999
Bob Watts Memorial Scholarship, Rutgers University,
Visual Arts Department, New Brunswick, NJ

1996
Fulbright Grant, Prague Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, CR


Articles

2005
Conner, Jill, “Gretchen Bennett at Howard House”, ARTWEEK. September
Lippens, Nate, “Viral Migration”, The Stranger, June
Hackett, Regina, “Northwest Artists Deliver a Superb Flight of Fancy in
auntie m., “Coffee with an Art Star”, Three Imaginary Girls, June
‘Release & Capture’,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March

2004
Conner, Jill, “The Very Rich Hours”, Contemporary. August
Hall, Emily, “Manufactured Word; The Natural Beauty of Integral Parts”, The Stranger, March
Hackett, Regina, “New Work by Gretchen Bennett and Debra Baxter”, The Seattle Post Intelligencer, March

2003
Conner, Jill, “New Work; Smack Mellon Studios, Custom Fit”, Contemporary. August

2002
Conner, Jill, “New Work by Gretchen Bennett and Suzanne Walters”, NYArts. February

2001
Hall, Emily, “Brilliant Mind-fucks”, The Stranger, September

1999
Rose, Cynthia, “Gretchen Bennett”, The Seattle Times. October