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Tyson Grumm
Tyson Grumm was born in Newcastle, Wyoming, USA in 1972. He studied at the Southern Oregon University where he received his Bachelors in Fine Art in 1996. Grumm’s freeze-framed images capture a world where the only clues to the past and the future can be derived from the figures located within fantastic surroundings. Consequently, each work reveals a story that is only partially told, enabling each viewer to contribute their own unique story to the completion of each of Grumm’s works. His paintings invite us into a unique and often at times, nostalgic world of imaginative imagery. The artist relies on common objects from his surroundings to provide a certain degree of familiarity in his work. The objects appear to him as he begins painting and then, if by chance they begin to work themselves into his composition. His figures appear to be both characters and caricatures, distinctive and unusual, often with historical significance. Created entirely in the mind of the artist, these colorful and imaginative works juxtapose seemingly incongruous elements, such as humans, wild animals, and whimsical back drops within each frame, resulting in a bizarre world where everything is topsy-turvy. Grumm has exhibited widely throughout the USA and his first London solo show this year was a great success. His works can be found in many private and public collections in Europe and the USA.
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cv / exhibition history / awards
1972
Born Newcastle, WY
Education
1996
B.F.A. Painting—Southern Oregon State University, Ashland, OR
1991
A.A. Degree—Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
Selected Exhibitions
2005
Albemarle Gallery, Eclectic Encounters, Group Exhibition, London, UK
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Annual Solo Exhibition, Kirkland, WA
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Introductions, Group Exhibitoin, Charlotte, NC
2004
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Characters of the Alphabet, Kirkland, WA
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, 6th Annual Realism Invitiational, San Francisco, CA
Froelick Gallery, Clown Show, Group Exhibition, Portland, OR
2003
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Eclecticon, Kirkland, WA
Albemarle Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Group Exhibition, London, UK
Robert Berman Gallery, LandLoper, Santa Monica, CA
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Introductions—Tyson Grumm: The Year of the Palindrome, Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
R2 Gallery, The New Collection, Group Exhibition, New York, NY2002
Froelick Gallery, Eccentric Neighborhood, Portland, OR
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2001
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Building Pieces in a Modern Style, Kirkland, WA
Victoria Boyce Gallery, Group Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ
Storyopolis, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Froelick Gallery, Winter Group Exhibition, Portland, OR
2000
Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Now See This: The Reintroduction of Tyson Grumm, Portland, OR
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Life is a Limerick, Kirkland, WA
8th Annual Sitka Art Invitational, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
1999
Blackfish Gallery, Leonard’s Odyssey, Portland, OR
Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, The Last Works of Thomas Ginsbrow, Kirkland, WA
7th Annual Sitka Art Invitational, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
1998
Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, Annual Solo Exhibition, Kirkland, WA
Provenance Gallery, Eugene, OR
Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1997
Blackfish Gallery, The World I Didn’t Create, Portland, OR
Provenance Gallery, Group Exhibtion, Eugene, OR
5th Annual Sitka Art Invitational, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
1996
Southern Oregon State University—Central Gallery, Invention of Flight, Ashland, OR (thesis)
Blackfish Gallery, Two-Person Exhibition, Portland, OR
Selected Collections
Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, WA
Catalysis Corporation, Seattle, WA
City of Portland, Oregon—Multnomah County Portable Works Collection
The Golf Course at Newcastle, Bellevue, WA
Oh Boy Oberto, Seattle, WA
Oregon State University—Valley Library, Corvallis, OR
Southern Oregon University—Office of the President, Ashland, OR
