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Phone: 773-556-2502
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Commissions
2016
The Jungle Platform Gallery, Seattle Washington
Model Pictures Arrowhead Gallery Waubonsee Community College
2014
Model Pictures Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL.
2013
This is The Place Platform Gallery, Seattle Washington
2011
Dismantled Spaces Platform Gallery, Seattle Washington
2009
Contained Within Platform Gallery, Seattle Washington
2008
New Work by Ross Sawyers Bryon Oliver Gallery, Whitworth University, Spokane Washington
Clear Blue, Sky Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, Washington
2007
Divided Spaces Platform Gallery, Seattle Washington
2006
ArtWall Commission Art In The Loop Foundation, Kansas City Missouri
2004
Current Work by Ross Sawyers Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
MoCP At 40 Museum of Contemporary Photography
2014
Suffuse / Diffuse ACME Gallery, Los Angeles California
The Space Between Eastern Illinois University, Chicago Illinois
2013
Foam Talents at RosPhoto RosPhoto St. Petersburg Russio
The Ghost of Architecture Henry Art Museum, Seattle WA.
Unseen Photography Fair WesterGasfabriek, Amsterdam
Flash Forward Group Exhibition Flash Forward Festival, Boston MA
2012
In Search of (traveling) Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Art & Design Gallery, University of Kansas ,North Branch Projects, Chicago IL
2010
Thinking Photography, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Missouri
Contemporary Works from the Monsen Family Collection, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Washington
2009
Feed 2009, Biennial, 1708 Gallery, Richmond Virginia
9th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma Washington
2008
Editioned, Platform Gallery, Seattle Washginton
Dualities, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle Washington
35th Anniversary Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle Washington
2007
Fall Showcase, 2007, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York City, New York
Home Sweet Home, Soil Gallery, Seattle Washington
2006
CoCA Annual 2006, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle Washington
Facade, Soil Art Gallery, Seattle Washington
Coupling IV, Secret Handshake, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle Washington
Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Art Space at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City Missouri
Current Works 2001 Annual International Exhibition, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City Missouri
Bibliography and Publications
Jenn Graves "Picture Yourself Locked out of Housing" The Stranger Slog, March 11, 2016
Michael Upchurch "Discomfort and Defience: 2 Photography Shows about Homelessness and Slavery" The Seattle Times, March 3rd 2016
Jenn Graves “Real-Estate Snuff Porn: A Photographic Chronicle of the Housing Market” The Stranger, Vol 23 No. 8 October 23-29 2013
Michael Upchurch “The Ghost of Architecture Haunts Henry Art Gallery” The Seattle Times, August 16, 2013
“FOAM TALENT” Foam International Photography Magazine Issue #36, Fall 2013
Seth Sommerfeld. “A Fiendish Conversation with Ross Sawyers” Seattle Met, October 14, 2013
“Flash Forward Emerging Photographers 2012” Magenta Foundation
Gary Faigin. “Model Citizens: Ross Sawyers at Platform and Bill Finger at Punch” Artdish: Northwest forum on visual art, November 2009
Jeremy Richards “Mind Bending Models: Gary Fagin’s Reviews” KUOW Presents (radio show), November 21st 2009
Andrew Kozlowski, "Feed 2009 Review" Art Papers Magazine, September/October 2009
Ed. Rebecca Janes, "Catalogue; The Ninth Northwest Biennial" Tacoma Art Museum
Theresa Goffredo, “SAM Gallery: Marking a Milestone by Tracking Artists’ Journeys” The Everett Herald, May 16 2008
Frances Devuono, “Ross Sawyers at Platform”, Artweek Magazine, , Vol. 38, October 2007, Issue 6
Alice Thorson, “Great Wall of Art”, The Kansas City Star, November 5, 2006
Gala Bent, “Art Review, Ross Sawyers”, Asthamtickitty.com/sidebar, November 11, 2006
Society for Contemporary Photography National Conference 2016, Process, Manipulation and The Studio in Contemporary Photography
Photography Center Northwest, 2013, Artist Lecture
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City Missouri, 2013, Visiting Artist Lecture
Whitworth University, Spokane WA, 2008, Visiting Artist Lecture and Residency
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City Missouri, 2006, Visiting Artist Lecture
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Washington
The John and Shari Behnke Collection, Seattle, Washington
The Joseph & Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, Seattle, Washington
The John And Maxine Belger Family Foundation Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Fidelity Investments Corporate Collection, Boston, Massachusetts
King County Public Art Collection, Portable Works, King County, Washington
Whit worth University, Spokane, Washington
Master of Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle Washington, 2007
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City Missouri, 2002
Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago Photography Department, 2009 to Present
Lecturer of Photography (full time), University of California, Riverside, 2008 to 2009
Visiting Lecturer of Photography, University of Washington, 2007 to 2008