Darren Orange

EDUCATION:
Western Washington University. B.A. Fine Arts 1999
Ucross Foundation Residency Fellow 2013
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Cascadian Slipstream part 2, Astoria Dec 2015
Lower Columbia College 2015
Orange On Blue, Astoria Or. 2015
PUB Gallery Peninsula College 2013
OCCA. Newport Oregon 2012
Columbia Bank Portland OR. August 2010
Terraqueous, Astoria OR. June 2010
Riversea Gallery Astoria OR. August 2007
Lunar Boy Gallery Astoria OR. April 2006
Shidoni Gallery Santa Fe NM. June 2005
Alderbrook Station Astoria OR. Sept. 2004
Lovelake Gallery Portland OR. April 2004
Fire Place Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College Gresham OR. May 2003

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
OPB Art Beat group exhibition. Peoples Gallery Portland Or. 2014
Graeter Art Gallery, Portland Or. 2012
Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland Or. April 2012
200 Years of Astoria Artists Clatsop County Heritage Museum 2011
Beaverton Arts Commission 29th Art Showcase 2011
Launch Pad Gallery Portland 2010
12x16 Gallery Portland OR. 2009
Prints for Pica Monothon, Portland Or. 2008
"Originally From" Allied Arts Yakima WA.Oct 07
Crows Shadow Institute Monothon Nov. 2007
War Images, Clatsop Community College Oct. 2006
Simon Edwards Gallery, Yakima WA. May 2004
Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia. April 2004
“Art For Life” Cascade Aids Project, Portland OR. April 2004
Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica CA. Dec. 2003
“Art For Life” Cascade Aids Project, Portland OR. May 2003
“Next Now” Littman Gallery, P.S.U.  Portland OR. April 2003
Cannon Beach Arts Gallery, Cannon Beach OR. April 2003
 
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
Less is More,  Mitchell Gallery, St. Johns College. Juror Domic Iocono of the Syracuse University Art Gallery. 2014
Around Oregon Annual, The Art Center, Corvallis OR. 2013 Juror Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson.
Industry and Art Working Waterfront Coalition. 2012 Portland Or. Juror Elizabeth Leach
Portland Open Studio Tour 2012. Juror Martha Lee, Russo Gallery
Photo Craft National Competition. Lightbox Gallery Astoria Oregon.
Museum of the Americas Miami Fl.
Open Wide 2, BWAC Brooklyn NY Juror Nat Trottman curator Guggenhiem Museum 2011
Expressions West, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay Oregon. 2011
10x10 Juried exhibition Tieton WA. Greg Kucera, Gail Gibson, 2010
Oregon Arts Commission Opportunity Grant Award 2009
Oregon State Fair, Salem OR. 2009
Au Naturel International Figurative Show, Juror Rick Bartow, 2009
Au Naturel Clatsop Community College, Juror Margaret Bullock, Tacoma Art Museum 2008
Cannon Beach Arts Gallery, Juror Jennifer Gately, Portland Art Museum August 2007
Cannon Beach Arts Gallery, Juror Marnie Stark. Portland Art Museum. Feb. 2007
Allied Arts Gallery, Juror Susan Coliton, of Paul G Allen Foundation. Yakima WA. Aug.2006
Cannon Beach Arts Gallery, Juror Charles Froelick. Cannon Beach OR. May 2006
Cannon Beach Arts Gallery. Juror Stuart Horodner, Cannon Beach OR. March 2004
Allied Arts Gallery, Curator Michael Klein (Microsoft Collection) Yakima WA. 2003
Cascade Aids Project, Live Auction Catalog. Curator Michael Klein.  Portland OR. May 2003

PUBLISHED ARTICLES: 
OPB Radio State of Wonder Dec 2015
OPB Radio “State of Wonder” June 2015
Rain Magazine 2015
Willamette Week Feb 4th 2015
Our Coast Magazine 2014
OPB Radio “State of Wonder”April 19th 2014
Oregon Public Broadcasting tv Art Beat #1515, 2014
KBOO, Art Talk Nov. 5th 2013
Northwest News Network July 25th 2013
1859 Magazine, Oregon’s Creative Impact March 2013
Oregon Coast Council For The Arts video documentary of Darren Orange studio work. 2012
Art LTD Magazine 2011
Rain Magazine 2011
“At Waters Edge” Adam Carlsen, Donald Masterson
Willamette Week by Richard Speer April 7th 2004 Portland OR.
The Oregonian, Beyond the Pearl. D.K. Row April 2003
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Board of Directors, Liberty Theater 2016
Board of Directors, Astoria Visual Arts 2015
OPB State of Wonder panel discussion Astoria Or. 2015
Oregon Public Broadcasting in OPB studio live painting 2015
Movie poster, “What’s Your Pleasure” 2014
Album cover, Holiday Friends, Northwest Recording Artists. 2014
Book cover, “Kilned Again” P. Mattson McDonald. 2014
Peninsula College Guest Speaker 2013
Ucross Foundation Residency Fellow 2013
Ford Family Foundation Ucross Residency expense grant 2013
Cannon Beach Photo Review 2012 with Jim Leisy, Portland Art Museum Board Member
Clatsop Community College recruitment guest speaker 2011
Oregon Arts Commission Opportunity Grant 2009
Crow Shadow Institute Workshop 2006
Shidoni Gallery and Foundry associate 2005
Site Santa Fe Volunteer 2005
Interstate Max Public Art Collection 2004
 
COLLECTIONS:
Ron Howard, Actor/Producer
Bob Adams, MacArthur Fellow (photography)
Ceren Aksan, International Award Winning Violinist.
Lindi Oretega, CCMA, Roots Artist Of The Year Award. International Recording Artist
H.G Bissenger Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Elizabeth Pitcairn and the Luzerne Music Center (home of the Red Violin)
Columbia Memorial Hospital
Clatsop Community College
Tri Met PDX public art