Geraldine Ondrizek

• 1994
  • MFA, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
• 1985
  • BFA, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• 2006-2022
  • Professor of Art, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Current Projects

• 2023
  • Germination/Gestation, Bio Art Studio Residency, The School of Visual Art, New York .
• 2022-24
  • Curated, Transitions and Transformations: The Constant Flux of Our Personal Structures, featured in the exhibition, Personal Structures at the European Cultural Center during the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice Italy.
• 2019-24
  • Becoming You, A book showing the process of human egg fertilization, gestation and genetic testing. Written by Shizuko Takahashi '95 M.D. Ph.D The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Ethics, Obstetrics and Gynecology with images by Geraldine Ondrizek, Professor of Art Reed College. Forthcoming, Shougakukan Publishers, Japan 2022.

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Commissions

• 2019
  • Becoming You, A book showing the process of human egg fertilization, gestation and genetic testing. Written by Shizuko Takahashi '95 M.D. Ph.D The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Ethics, Obstetrics and Gynecology with images by Geraldine Ondrizek, Professor of Art Reed College. Forthcoming, Shougakukan Publishers, Japan 2022.
• 2017
  • Geraldine Ondrizek, Chromosome Painting Edition II and Gene Chips, BAM, The Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
• 2016
  • The Origins of Bio Metric Data, Cornish College, Presidents Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
  • Tracing Genetic Inheritance: Recent Work By Geraldine Ondrizek, Evergreen College Gallery, Olympia, Washington.
  • Translocations, Cellular and Chromosome Painting, Musrara Mix Festival, Nassir School of Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 2016, Jerusalem, Israel.
• 2015
  • Open Studio, Momentum AIR, Berlin, Germany.
  • Chromosome Painting Edition II, Fi2 Gallery ZGF Architects, Portland, Oregon.
• 2014
  • Shades of White, Artist Project Space, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
• 2013
  • Inner Space Global Matters, University of Houston, NASA at the Johnson Space, Florida International University, Miami Urban Studios Gallery, Miami, Florida.
• 2012
  • Chromosome Painting, and works from 2009-12, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, Washington.
• 2011
  • Cellular, Sound Wall and Case Study, Portland Art Museum Apex Award Exhibition, Portland, Oregon.
• 2009
  • Sounds of Cells Dividing, The Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
• 2008
  • Sound Wall, CAMAC Art Center, Marnay Sur Seine, France.
  • DNA Fingerprints, The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, Illinois.
• 2007
  • Geraldine Ondrizek: M 168/ Repairing RNA, Donald H. Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington .
• 2006
  • M168: Tracing the Y Chromosome, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon.
  • DNA Fingerprints, Portland Building, Portland, Oregon.
• 2005
  • Repairing RNA, Mooney Exhibition Center, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York.
• 2004
  • Repairing RNA, The Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
• 2003
  • RNA, DNA, Gasworks, London, England.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023
  • Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY.
  • Hand Me Down, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA.
• 2022-24
  • Curated, Transitions and Transformations: The Constant Flux of Our Personal Structures, featured in the exhibition, Personal Structures at the European Cultural Center during the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice Italy.
• 2021
  • Unseen, form and concept Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• 2019-22
  • WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID, Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts, Salem, Oregon; Umpqua Valley Art Center, Roseberg, Oregon; Disjecta, Portland, Oregon; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon.
• 2019
  • ASKXXI: Arts and Science Knowledge Building in the XXI Century, Arts and Science Knowledge Building in the XXI Century, Universidad Catolica de la Santísima Concepción, CIBAS, Chile, .
• 2018
  • Quartett, no. 4- Diary Lex Experimental Art and Literature, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• 2017
  • Plant Cure a Collaborative project with The New York Academy of Medicine, curated by Madeline Rosenberg , Haber Space, New York, New York.
  • Natura Mathmatica, Central Booking, Haber Space, New York, New York .
• 2016
  • Quartet, Lex Experimental Art and Literature, Museum Schloss Burgk, Burgk, Germany.
  • 9e2 Nine More Evenings - Fifty More Years, King Street Station, Seattle, Washington.
  • Technology And The Evolution Of The Artist’s Book, The Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, England.
• 2015
  • Exo Global, ZKM | Center for Media, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Sculpture in Two Dimensions, The College of William and Mary, Andrews Gallery, , Williamsburg, Virginia.
• 2013
  • Screening of Cellular, Fourth Annual Feminist Art History Conference, American University and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
• 2010
  • Mind and Matter: Technology, Science, Nature and Culture, Shelton Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska.
• 2009
  • Book Ends, Pyramid Atlantic, Alexandria, Virginia.
• 2008
  • The Mattress Factory 30th Anniversary Exhibition, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• 2021
  • The Biogenetic Gaze, Works by Geraldine Ondrizek: Jane Chin Davidson, The Ford Family Foundation.
• 2019
  • What Needs to Be Said, Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts: Diana Nawi.
  • APEX Exhibitions 2007– 2017, Grace Cook Anderson and Bonnie Lange Malcolmson, Northwest Curators of Art, The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
• 2018
  • Art Lex Encyclopedia for Literature and Art, Edited and assembled by Gerhild Ebel / Cover and box fabrication Helmut Löhr, Berlin & Halle, Germany.
• 2017
  • Quartett, Lex Experimental Art and Literature, Artist book, Published by the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon, Berlin, Germany: Published by Gerhild Ebel.
• 2016
  • Natural Mathematica, curated by Madeline Rosenberg, Haber Space a Gallery for Art and Science, New York, New York.
  • Technology and Evolution of the Book, design by Anna Jones and Patrick Burnier, The Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, England.
• 2015
  • Cover Design: Eugenic Nation, Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, Dr. Alexander Stern, University of California Press.
  • Global Exo-Evolution, curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM | Center for Media, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany.
• 2013
  • Inner Space Global Matter; Recording the Structures Within, Geraldine Ondrizek works from 2009-2012, with essays by curator and Art Historian, Jane Chin Davidson, and Art Historian Alpesh Patel.
• 2012
  • Chromosome Painting, and work from 2009-12, The Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington.
• 2007
  • M168 Works by Geraldine Ondrizek, Donald H. Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.
• 1997
  • Libri, with an essay by Patricia Failing, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.
• 1990
  • Mattress Factory: Installation and Performance, 1982–1989, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• 2018-19
  • US Embassy Santiago Chile Public Affairs Grant ASKXXI: Arts and Science Knowledge Building in the XXI Century
    Santiago, Chile
    
• 2018
  • USA Artist Award 2018, one of 500 American Artist Nominated
    
• 2016
  • Mellon Foundation, For the American Association of Liberal Art Colleges; Swathmore, Vasser, Reed, Grinnell, Oberlin Designing Curriculum and Exhibitions on Art and Science from 2016-2018
    
• 2015
  • Momentum The Global Platform for Time-Based-Art: Film/ Video, New Media, Performance and Sound Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianplatz, Berlin
    
• 2014
  • The Hallie Ford Individual Artist Fellowship
    The Ford Family Foundation
    
• 2013
  • The Oregon Arts Commission and The Hallie Ford Career Development Grant
    
• 2012
  • NASA and the Houston Endowment, Exhibition Support
    
• 2009-10
  • Genetic Medicine Clinic Art Commission
    University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
    
• 2008
  • CAMAC Art Center
    UNESCO International Artist in Residency Program Marnay sur Seine, France
    
• 2006
  • Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship
    Salem, Oregon
    
• 2003
  • Artist in Residence
    Gasworks, London, England
    
• 1998
  • Artist in Residence
    Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
    

Lectures

• 2023
  • The School of Visual Art, New York, New York
• 2022
  • The European Cultural Center, Venice, Italy
• 2021
  • Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon
  • University of Nevada School of Art, Reno, Nevada
• 2020
  • Arizona State University, Herberger Institute for Design and the Art, Phoenix, Arizona
• 2019
  • Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
  • DXARTS, The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
• 2018
  • ASKXXI: Arts and Science Knowledge Building in the XXI Century, US Embassy Santiago Public Affairs Grant, Santiago, Chile.
  • Art and Science Residency and Lecture, Friday Harbor Marine Biology Research Station, Friday Harbor, Washington.
• 2017
  • Ecological Society of America, Presentation with Thesis student Leila Pyle, I'm a salmon: the role of Oncorhynchus spp. in storytelling and place-making the Pacific Northwest and implications in a changing climate. Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon.
• 2016
  • The Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington.
  • Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Washington.
  • Evergreen College, Olympia, Washington.
• 2015
  • Oregon Health Science University, School of Medicine, Portland, Oregon.
  • Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Washington.
• 2014
  • Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
  • Third International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging, Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2013
  • The International Conference on Art and Society, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Hamilton College, Clinton, New York.
• 2012
  • CalArts, Los Angeles, California.
  • The University of Houston, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.
• 2011
  • The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
  • Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon.
• 2010
  • Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium at the Shelton Museum, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
• 2009
  • University of Washington 50th Anniversary of Medical Genetics, Seattle, Washington.
  • Western Washington University Department of Art, Bellingham, Washington.
  • The Conference on Art and Society, Venice, Italy.
  • Goldsmith College, The University of London, London, England.
  • Royal College of Art, London, England.
• 2008
  • Columbia College of Art, Chicago, Illinois.
• 2007
  • Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.

• • WVU Cancer Institute, Berkeley Medical Center
• • Sanofi-Genzyme
• • Johns Hopkins University
• • MIT, The Massachusetts institute of Technology
• • Florida International University
• • The Portland Art Museum
• • Reed College
• • University of Washington Hospital, Department of Medical Genetics
• • Lafayette College
• • Selected Private Collections: Dr. Robin Bennett, Nicola Stewart Cadenas, Jane Chin Davidson, Amelia Jones, The Lipkin Family, Dr. Arno Motulsky, Eric Payson, Diane Samuels and Henry Reise, The Trembley Family