Grant Hottle is a painter and professor whose art has been shown in solo, two person collaborations, and group exhibits across the country. He makes paintings that “echo comics and metal bands, but are neither. They are not a concrete reference, but musings on influence and the inescapable media culture in which we all flail.” (Bell) His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the City of Portland Portable Works Collection, the University of Oregon, and Portland Community College Rock Creek. Hottle is the head of painting and foundations at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, and lives and works in Portland, Oregon with his dog Otis.
granthottle@gmail.com
Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2007 MFA in painting and drawing, University of Oregon, Eugene
2003 BFA with distinction in painting, University of Oklahoma, Norman
2002 Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, the Netherlands
EXHIBITIONS
•Solo or Two-Person Show
2020
Goodwitch/Badwitch, Museum of Museums, Seattle WA, curated by Greg Lundgren and Bri Luna (upcoming)
Making a Better Painting: Thinking Through Practice, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR – symposium and exhibition including catalog
2018
• B-Sides and Outtakes, Local Branch, Portland OR
Faculty Biennial, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver WA
2017
Many Lands, Bridge Productions, Seattle WA, curated by Ben Gannon
2016
• In Denial, collaboration with Paula Rebsom, SOIL, Seattle WA
Out of Sight, Kings Street Station, Seattle WA, curated by Greg Lundgren and Sierra Stinson
And From This Distance One Might Never Imagine That It Is Alive, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst OR, curated by Blake Shell
2015
• AFTERMATH, collaboration with Paula Rebsom, Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, produced by Tilt: Export, funded by a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation and GOCA UCCS
• Throw Me the Idol I Throw You the Whip, Carl & Sloan Contemporary, Portland OR
• Column of Smoke, Pillar of Ash, City Hall, Vancouver WA
2014
Mas Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA, Organized by ARTRA Curatorial
In Rooms, Open Gallery, Portland OR
Flatlands, Nisus Gallery, Portland OR
Faculty Biennial, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver WA
2013
• Forecast, collaboration with Paula Rebsom, Funded by RACC, Portland Building Installation Space, Portland OR
A Painting and Its Curious History, Northview Gallery, Portland Community College Sylvania, Portland OR
Resumo, Nisus Gallery, Portland OR
2012
Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Disjecta, Portland OR, Curated by Prudence F Roberts
• White Edges: Works on Paper, Boise Cascade Gallery at Southern Oregon University, Ashland OR
True Places, Swarm Gallery, Oakland CA
Tenses of Landscape, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR, Curated by Sam King
2011
New Views, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland OR
Inventing an Illusive Space, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland WA, Curated by Chad Wasser
Chain Letter, Samson Gallery, Boston MA
Home, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis MN
Keep 'em Coming, Half/Dozen Gallery, Portland OR
Faculty Biennial 2011, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver WA
2010
Stories, SAM Gallery, Seattle WA
• So Domestic, Half/Dozen Gallery, Portland OR
I Want To Feel At Home Here, Milepost 5, Portland OR, Curated by Megan Sheminske
100% ORGANIC, Gallery Homeland, Portland OR, Curated by Paul Middendorf
• So Romantic, Studio West, Eugene OR
Fog: A Spring Group Show, Half/Dozen Gallery, Portland OR
Faculty Art Show, Arnold Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR
Departure Point, Garbageman Astronaut Project Space, Portland OR
2009
Summer Introductions, SAM Gallery, Seattle WA
West Coast Drawings VIII, Davidson Galleries, Seattle WA, Curated by Norman Lundin
Considered Space, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver WA, Curated by Marjorie Hirsch
Drawing is a Verb, Ouch My Eye, Seattle WA
Transactions, ARK Studios, Seattle WA
2008
• Grant Hottle at jáce gáce, jáce gáce, Portland OR
Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, Saugatuck MI
2007
Soft, Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Portland OR, Curated by Kristan Kennedy
Recent Graduates, Blackfish Gallery, Portland OR
Oregon State Faculty Art Show, Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis OR
MFA Exhibition 2007, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene OR
UO at DIVA, Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, Eugene OR, Curated by Kartz Ucci and Anya Kivarkis
2002
Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, the Netherlands
AWARDS
2020 Artist in Residence – Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2016 Foundations Fund Faculty Development Grant, Clark College
2014 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation in support of AFTERMATH
Foundations Fund Faculty Development Grant, Clark College
2013 Installation Art Series Honorarium for Forecast, Regional Arts and Culture Council
Foundations Fund Faculty Development Grant, Clark College
Adjunct Faculty Development Fund Grant, Clark College (also 2011, 2010)
2008 Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency – Artist in Residence
2007 School of Architecture and Allied Arts Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, University of Oregon
2005 Ralph Baker Memorial Award in Painting
TEACHING
2016 - present
Professor, Area Head of Painting and Foundations, Clark College, Vancouver WA
2013 - 2016
Art Instructor, Area Head of Painting and Foundations, Clark College, Vancouver WA
2013 - 2015
MFA Committee Member and Mentor, Committee Chair (2014-15), Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland OR
2008 – 2012
Adjunct Faculty, Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR
Visiting Assistant Professor 2009
2010 – 2013
Adjunct Faculty, Clark College, Vancouver WA
2010
Guest Lecturer, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst OR
2007 – 2008
Adjunct Faculty, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR
Adjunct Faculty, University of Oregon, Eugene OR
2005 – 2007
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon, Eugene OR
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Portable Works Collection of the City of Portland and Multnomah County – Oh Ursula
Modera Pearl, in partnership with Heidi McBride & Co., Portland OR – This’d Be A Beautiful Death (Laocoön)
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem OR - Antique Collector
Portland Community College Rock Creek, Portland OR - Facing North
University of Oregon College of Education, HEDCO Education Building, Eugene OR - Wall Cloud
University of Oklahoma Permanent Print Collection, Norman OK - Guardian
The Tower, Oklahoma City OK
Oklahoma Children's Hospital, Oklahoma City OK
ARTIST LECTURES
Washington State University Vancouver, 2020
GOCA, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, 2015
Lewis and Clark College, Visiting Artist Series, 2014
Art Beat 2014, Portland Community College Rock Creek, Panelist for Creativity Symposium 2014
Northview Gallery, Portland Community College Sylvania, 2013
Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Disjecta 2012
Art Beat 2011, Portland Community College Cascades 2011
Pacific Northwest College of Art 2011
Praxis Philosophy and Art Collaboration, Place Gallery, Portland 2011
Ox-Bow School of Art 2008
University of Oregon 2008
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
Artist Spotlight, BOOOOOOOM, August 4, 2016
Barry Johnson, Considering the Art Gym’s Abstractions, Oregon ArtsWatch, Feb 23, 2016
And From This Distance One Might Never Imagine That It Is Alive Catalog, essays by Graham W Bell and Sue Taylor, 2016
Graham W Bell, Tape, Space, and Metal: A Discussion with Grant Hottle, Noise and Color PDX, January 6, 2015
Megan Burbank, If Dollhouses Were Honest: Tiny Domestic Spaces at Open Gallery, Portland Mercury Blogtown PDX, November 12, 2014
Sam King, Tenses of Landscape Pt. 5, MW Capacity, October 30, 2012
Painters' Table Blog Feature, Tenses of Landscape, October 18, 2012
Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art Catalog, essays by Prudence F Roberts, Natilee Heron, and Lisa Radon, 2012
Graham W Bell, The Positive Side of Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Oregon Arts Watch, April 14, 2012
Richard Speer, Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Willamette Week, March 20, 2012
Andrew Bartel, Inventing an Illusive Space, Artdish Magazine, August 2011
Blake Shell, 2011 Curatorial Roundup, www. Portlandart.net, January 30, 2011
Timothy Mahan, Keep 'Em Coming Show Catalog, Half/Dozen Gallery, 2011
John Motley, The Oregonian, Review: New Shows at Blue Sky Gallery and Laura Russo Gallery, Jan 21, 2011
Eva Lake, KBOO Art Focus 90.7 FM, Timothy Mahan and Grant Hottle Interview, November 30, 2010
Nell Mack, Half/Dozen Gallery Interview Series 1-3. Halfdozengallery.com/blog, Nov-Dec, 2010
Timothy Mahan, Grant Hottle: So Domestic Catalog, Half/Dozen Gallery, 2010
Half/Dozen Gallery, Grant Hottle: Small Drawings, Limited edition artist book, 2010
Visual Resource Center, Lewis and Clark College, Image/Idea: Seattle Art Museum Gallery and LC Professor Grant Hottle, Lcrvc.blogspot.com, October 6, 2010
Bob Keefer, Small Gallery Makes a Big Splash, The Register Guard Arts, August 19, 2010
Megan Scheminske, Studio Visit: Grant Hottle, www.openwidepdx.com, March 14, 2010
Matthew Kangas, West Coast Drawings: Drawings VIII at Davidson Gallery, Artltdmag.com, September 2009
Gary Faigin, West Coast Drawings VIII at Davidson Gallery, www.artdish.com, July 17, 2009
Norman Lundin, West Coast Drawings – Drawings VIII Show Catalog, Koplin Del Rio Gallery and Norman Lundin, 2009
Timothy Mahan, Fog: A Spring Group Show Catalog, Half/Dozen Gallery, 2009