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Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2021.22 Fulbright US Scholar Program Research Grant, SK
2017 Neddy Artist Award Finalist in Open Medium, Seattle, WA
2014 Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award, Seattle, WA
2010 Artist Trust GAP Grant, Seattle, WA
2008 Fractured Atlas Development Grant, New York, NY
2006 Arts Special Projects Grant, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2005 Artist Trust Fellowship, Seattle, WA
1996 Student Fulbright Grant, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Glass in Architecture, Prague, CZ
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Veronica Project Space, Seattle, WA (upcoming)
2020 Cro55ings Instagram art exhibition platform, curated by Johanna K. Becker and John Monteith, August
2019 Frye Art Museum, Gretchen Frances Bennett: Air…, Seattle, WA
2017 Bridge Productions, The Rough Draft of Everything, Seattle, WA
2017 Vignettes Gallery, Derelict, you’re not coming back, I mean that in the nicest way, rest, Seattle, WA
2016 Indivisible Gallery, A message for the passerby; a record or report, Portland, OR
2015 The Alice Gallery, Project Diana, The ‘M’ Word for an Unfolded World Map, Seattle, WA
2014 The Vermont College of Fine Arts, “M. Diary,” Postgraduate exhibition and reading, Montpelier, VT
2011 Vignettes Gallery, Tahoma, Seattle, WA
2010 Seattle Art Museum, video installation, I Don’t Blame You, Seattle, WA
2008 Howard House Gallery, Hello, Seattle, WA
2005 Howard House Gallery, Landscape Flair, Seattle, WA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Double Garage, Seattle, WA (upcoming)
2024 SOIL Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (upcoming)
2021.22 Peep Space Flat File 2021/22 exhibition, Tarrytown NY
2019 Veronica Project Space, October 2019, Seattle, WA
2019 SNAG Gallery, Gretchen Frances Bennett and Amelia Layton Reed, Seattle, WA
2018 Becoming American, published monograph, performance, San Juan Island, WA
2018 Fire in the Mountains, Jackson, WY
2018 Neddy Artist Award Exhibition, studio e gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 RED MAY online exhibition by This Might Not Work, Tru Truth, May 2017, Seattle, WA, Helsinki, FI
2016 Greg Kucera Gallery, The Potato Eaters, Seattle, WA
2015 King Street Station, Out of Sight, Seattle, WA
2015 NEPO 5k Don’t Run, Soft Plaques, Seattle, WA
2014 Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Idleness, “M. Diary,” Seattle, WA
2014 33 Orchard, AS/Orchard, New York, NY
2013 The Hedreen Gallery Seattle University, The rug pulled out from underneath; you lie on the floor, Seattle, WA
2012 The Drawing Center and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, River to River Festival: Windfall Alphabet, Governors Island, NY
2012 Tacoma Art Museum 10th Northwest Biennial, Seattle Catalog LLC (with Matthew Offenbacher, and Wynne Greenwood), Tacoma, WA
2011 Grimm Gallery, Heel Gezellig, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Seattle Art Museum, Kurt, Seattle, WA
2010 Henry Art Gallery, Work Song (Gift Shop), Seattle, WA
2010 Henry Art Gallery, The Atlas of Gifted Ideas (Gift Shop), Seattle, WA
2009 Gallery Atsui, Serial Material, Paper Trail, Vancouver, BC
2009 Open Satellite Northwest Edition, Dying Fawn, Bellevue, WA
2008 TESTPATTERN, “It's You That I Love”, two-channel online sound piece
2007 Western Bridge, Kit Bashing, Seattle, WA
2004 The Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Fellowship, Artists in The Marketplace (AIM) 24 Residency Exhibition, Bronx, NY
2002 PS122 Gallery, Gretchen Bennett and Suzanne Walters, New York, NY
2002 Smack Mellon, Custom Fit, Brooklyn, NY
Published Creative Writing, Print
Cold Cube Press – essays: “Whisper, I Want Corn,” monographs. Seattle, WA, October 2019, Veronica Project Space, Seattle, WA, October 2019.
Earth Saga Press, Letters from Earth – essay: “Like My Heart,” Edited by Tine Bek, Glasgow, United Kingdom, September 2017.
La Norda Specialo, # 14 – essay: “Teenage Experience,” Edited by Rumi Koshino, Seattle, WA, January, 2017.
La Norda Specialo, # 9 – essay: “The Cat Moving Ever Closer,” Edited by Matthew Offenbacher, Seattle, WA, January, 2013.
Published Writing About Art, Online
Vignettes, In the Studio, “Pure and Whole, Tough and Tender. Home. Alive.” 2017.
Vignettes, In the Studio, “The Lifesaving Qualities of Joey Veltkamp’s Large Quilted Work.” 2016.
Vignettes, In the Studio, “Klara Glasova: Wonderland.” 2015.
Published Art Writing, Print
La Norda Specialo, # 8 – The Art History Series 1 Czech Cubism! “There is a Crack in Everything.” Edited by Matthew Offenbacher. Seattle, WA, March, 2014.
La Norda Specialo, # 6 – “Gretchen Bennett and Shaw Osha: Conversations” Edited by Matthew Offenbacher. Seattle, WA, February, 2010.
La Norda Specialo, # 1 – “Untitled.” Edited by Matthew Offenbacher. Seattle, WA, April, 2008.
Residencies and Research Experience
2021.22 Fulbright US Scholar Program Research Grant, SK
2019 Hedgebrook Master Class Writing Residency with Lan Samantha Chang, Whidbey Island, WA, US
2016 Mathew Day Jackson and Laura Seymore Gift Residency, Wilson WY, US
2011 Corporation of YADDO Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, US
2010 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency, Governors Island, NY, US
2009 The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008 The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 Centrum Visual Artists Residency, Port Townsend, WA, US
2004 The Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Fellowship, Bronx, NY, US
2005 The Willard Espy Foundation Visual Artists Residency, Oysterville, WA, US
2003 Corporation of YADDO Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, US
Lectures, Performances, and Readings
2019 Lecture/Presentation, The Evergreen State College Art Lecture Series, Olympia, WA
2019 Frye Art Museum, “Rising,” performance by Gretchen Frances Bennett and Brit Ruggirello, Seattle, WA
2016 Reading: “Here Is 1972,” Holiday Forever Gallery, Jackson, WY
2016 Reading: “Here Is 1972,” Indivisible Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Reading: “Here Is 1972,” for the series, This Might Not Work, INCA (Institute for New Connotative Action), Seattle, WA
2014 Lecture: “Windfall Alphabet,” Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Labs with Sierra Nelson, San Juan Island, WA
2014 Lecture/Presentation, The Evergreen State College Art Lecture Series, Olympia, WA
2014 Presentation, Betty Bowen Artist Awards, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2012 Lecture/Presentation, The Evergreen State College Art Lecture Series, Seattle Catalog (Sea-Cat):
Gretchen Bennett, Matt Offenbacher and Wynne Greenwood, Olympia, WA
2010 Lecture/Presentation, The Evergreen State College Art Lecture Series, Olympia, WA
Teaching Experience
2009-24 Adjunct Faculty, Seattle University, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Seattle, WA
2023 Adjunct Professor, Cornish College of the Arts, Art Department, Seattle, WA
2023 Guest Faculty, The Evergreen State College Summer, Aesthetics and Visual Arts, Olympia, WA
2022.23 Visual Art program Vermont College of the Fine Arts Artist Mentor
2017.2018 Visual Art program Vermont College of the Fine Arts Artist Mentor
2016 Visiting Lecturer, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA
2015.16 Visiting Faculty, The Evergreen State College Summer, Aesthetics and Visual Arts, Olympia, WA
2013 Visiting Faculty, Studio Art Seminar Course taught by Seattle Catalog (Sea-Cat):
Gretchen Bennett, Matt Offenbacher and Wynne Greenwood, University of Washington, Visual Arts Dept., Seattle, WA
2011-15 Visiting Faculty, Edmonds Community College, Visual Arts Digital Imaging Department, Lynwood, WA
2011 Adjunct Professor Digital Arts, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2010 Gage Academy Youth program, Seattle, WA
2009 Youth Arts Program at Centrum, Port Townsend, WA
2007 Teacher’s Assistant to Marian Karel, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2004-05 Adjunct Professor, Foundations and Sculpture, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2001-02 Adjunct Professor Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Design, New Brunswick, NJ
1999-00 Student Teacher, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Sculpture, New Brunswick, NJ
Print Media Bibliography of My Work
Keimig, Jasmyne, “Using Colored Pencils to Transcend the Digital,” The Seattle Stranger, February 27, 2019.
“Vulnerable Narratives: Interview with Gretchen Frances Bennett and Emily Hanako Momohara,” COAST|noCOAST Issue No. 1, September 2018.
Manitach, Amanda, “Violence Sublime,” City Arts Magazine, May 25, 2013.
Graves, Jen; Langner, Erin, “California, Seattle, and Las Vegas,” The Seattle Stranger, January 14, 2010.
Offenbacher, Matthew, “Green Gothic,” La Especial Norte #4, June 2009.
Graves, Jen, “Here We Are Now: Gretchen Bennett Colors in Kurt Cobain,” The Seattle Stranger, April 3, 2008.
Graves, Jen, “Model Behavior. Putting Things Together Wrong at Western Bridge,” The Seattle Stranger, April 12, 2007.
Haynes, Jim, “Yann Novak & Gretchen Bennett; The East River Project Vol 1”, Wire, Outer Limits Review, September 2007.
Graves, Jen, “Hear Here; The Invisible District of Brooklyn and Seattle”, The Seattle Stranger, November 2006
Hall, Emily, “Manufactured World: The Natural Beauty of Inelegant Parts,” The Seattle Stranger, March 11, 2004.
Conner, Jill, “The Very Rich Hours”, Contemporary, August 2004.
Conner, Jill, “New Work; Smack Mellon Studios, Custom Fit" Contemporary, August 2003.
Conner, Jill, “New Work by Gretchen Bennett and Suzanne Walters”, NYArts, February 2002.
Hall, Emily, “Brilliant Mindfucks,” The Seattle Stranger, April 23, 2001.
Online Media Bibliography of My Work
“A glimpse into a cross section of the cultural & political present in the text & mixed media works of AQNB, October 2019,” January 6, 2020.
Manitach, Amanda, “A Site-Responsive Exhibition Explores Identity,” City Arts Magazine, July, 27, 2018.
Milne, Stefan, “Get Yourself to the Frye. It’s Full of Excellent Exhibitions,” Seattle Met, Wednesday, March 20, 2019.
Flock T.s., “The Frye Has Never Looked Better, and that is Saying Something,” Vanguard Seattle, Thursday, March 14, 2019.
Vansynghel, Margo, “On the Tenderness in the Everyday: Gretchen Frances Bennett,” City Arts Magazine, Friday, July 21, 2017.
Butler, Sharon, “Gretchen Frances Bennett’s Tenderness,” Two Coats of Paint, July 17, 2017.
“When Something Passes: A conversation between Gretchen Frances Bennett & MKNZ,” Vignettes in the Studio, May 2017.
Arnold, Sharon, “Gretchen Frances Bennett \ The Rough Draft of Everything,” July 2017.
Arnold, Sharon, “The Tenderness Movement,” City Arts Magazine, Friday, October 14, 2016.
Fitzgerald, Aidan, “Gretchen Frances Bennett: To Catch Something Moving, and Make It Still,” Vignettes, In The Studio.
Manitach, Amanda, “The Conversation: Gretchen Bennett And Matthew Offenbacher,” New American Paintings, July 25, 2012.
Powers, Jessica, “Cat Powered: Gretchen Bennett at Seattle Art Museum,” ARTSlant Worldwide, March 30, 2010.
Butler, Sharon, “Gretchen Bennett’s Love Letters to Kurt Cobain In Seattle,” Two Coats of Paint, April 4, 2008.
Additional Professional Experience
2022 Slovak Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport; evaluator for the Periodic Assessment of Research, Development, Artistic and Other Creative Activities.
2002.03 Studio Assistant to Jim Hodges, New York, NY
1986-2010 Bennett has worked on a wide range of projects for advertising, design, and education concerns and has received awards from such organizations as Communication Arts, the American Advertising Federation (Addy), Archive, and Print.
Education
2015-22 Richard Hugo House, writing courses, Seattle, WA
2014 Postgraduate Studies, The Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2001 MFA, Rutgers University, MGSA, New Brunswick, NJ
1998 Independent Studies, Department of Glass in Architecture, Academy of Arts,
Architecture, and Design, Prague, CZ
1996 Student Fulbright, Department of Glass in Architecture, Academy of Arts,
Architecture, and Design, Prague, CZ
1990-95 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1984-89 School of Visual Concepts, design and copywriting, Seattle, WA
1983 Art Center College of Design, Advertising and Design, Pasadena, CA
1983 BFA, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA