Tamara Stephas
Honors and Awards
| 2022 | Juror's Choice Award, An Invitation to the Lighter Side, Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph, OR |
| 2018 | Best Three Dimensional Art, Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts, Joseph, OR |
| 2017 | Creative Residency, Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA |
| 2013 | GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA |
| City Arts Magazine Spring Art Walk Award, Seattle, WA | |
| 2009 | Best of Gage Annual Student Awards, 3rd place landscape, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA |
| 2008 | Best of Gage Annual Student Awards, 1st place sculpture, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA |
| 2007 | Honorable mention, National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Associated Arts of Ocean Shores, Ocean Shores, WA |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2025 | Emerald Spring Painting Exhibition, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR |
| 2022 | An Invitation to the Lighter Side, Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph, OR |
| 2021 | Art in the Time of Corona (Vol. 2), Dab Art Company, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2020 | Hello From Lockdown, Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph, OR |
| Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts Juried Exhibit, Joseph, OR | |
| 10x10x10xTieton, Tieton Arts & Humanities, Tieton, WA | |
| Well+Being, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA | |
| 2019 | Women On the Edge, Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph, OR |
| Winter in America, Gallery 114, Portland, OR | |
| 2018 | 12 x 12 Squared, Franklin Crossing, Bend, OR |
| Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts Juried Exhibit, Joseph, OR | |
| Just Painting: All About Color, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Bend, OR | |
| 12 x 12 Squared, Betty Gray Gallery, Sunriver, OR | |
| 2017 | Icon, Lynn Hanson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2016 | Fine Art Juried Show, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA |
| 2015 | Transect, Axis Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo) |
| Wall Flowers, The Shooting Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| Trees, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Capitol Hill Art Invasion, Site-specific temporary installation, Seattle, WA | |
| 25 Alumni, Axis Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| The Meaning of Wood, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA | |
| 2014 | 25 Alumni, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA |
| Burien Arts Gallery, Burien, WA | |
| Pentimenti, University Unitarian Church, Seattle, WA (solo) | |
| The Meaning of Wood, South Puget Sound Community College Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA |
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| 2013 | Curve and Lineal Tales, Tashiro Kaplan Corridor Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| CoCA Collision: Past, Present & Future, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA | |
| The Meaning of Wood, Lower Columbia College Rose Center for the Arts, Longview, WA | |
| Nature in the Balance, Whatcom Museum, Bellevue, WA | |
| Small Voids, Portland, OR and Oakland, CA (traveling pop-up events) | |
| Edge, Gage & More, Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA | |
| Edges, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA (two person show) | |
| Supplemental Geology, ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| 2012 | Fruition, Rosen Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA |
| Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| Small Voids, Pioneer Square Artwalk, Seattle, WA | |
| 10x10x10xTieton, Tieton Arts & Humanities, Tieton, WA | |
| A Celebration of Washington Artists, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA | |
| CVG Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA | |
| 2011 | NEED|WANT: Matters of Priority, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA |
| Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| Projects: From the Gage Drawing & Painting Atelier, Pioneer Square Artwalk, Seattle, WA | |
| Fate of the Forest, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA | |
| The World Through Story, Ida Culver House Broadview, Seattle, WA | |
| CVG Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA | |
| 2010 | Instructions for Initial Conditions, Drift Station/Parallax Space, Lincoln, NE |
| Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle WA | |
| OK Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| Art and Agriculture, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR | |
| Unclad, Gallery by the Bay, Stanwood, WA | |
| 2009 | Faces and Figures, University House, Issaquah, WA |
| Other Worlds, Jupiter Arts Center, Centralia, WA | |
| OK Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| Best of Gage, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA | |
| From Classical to Modern, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA | |
| 2008 | Art + Politics, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA. Curated by Richard V. West |
| Beauty in Context, Bethany Community Church, Seattle, WA | |
| Best of Gage, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA | |
| Questioning Silence, ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| 2007 | Intersections, Blowing Sands Glass Studio/Laura Frost Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| Women Painters of Washington Juried Exhibition, Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA |
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| Surreal and Organic, Shoreline Center Gallery, Shoreline/Lake Forest Park, WA | |
| National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Associated Arts of Ocean Shores, Ocean Shores, WA | |
| Convergence: 14 Emerging NW Artists, Burien Arts Gallery, Burien, WA | |
| 2006 | Day of the Dead, Phinney Center Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| Untimed, Trabant, Seattle, WA (solo) | |
| Meditations on Time, Aurafice, Seattle, WA (solo) | |
| 2005 | Columbia Riverfest Jazz Festival, Portland, OR (featured artist) |
| Inaugural Show, Nexxus, Seattle, WA | |
| 2004 | Madison Valley Art Show, Seattle, WA |
Education
| 2009 | Graduate, Drawing and Painting Atelier, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA |
| 2006 | Artist Trust EDGE Professional Development Program, Seattle, WA |
| 1997 | M.Sc. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. Member of the Dynamic Graphics Project Lab |
| 1989 | B.A. Magna Cum Laude Willamette University, Salem, OR |