University of Washington, BFA in Painting, 1967
University of Indiana, MFA in Painting, 1970
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Museo del Art Costarricense, San Jose, COSTA RICA
Museu da Gravura Cidade, Curitiba, BRAZIL
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston TX
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
PUBLIC AND INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS:
American Embassy, BELIZE
Burden Corporation, New York, NY
King County Portable Collection, Seattle, WA
Meyer Memorial Trust, Portland, OR
New Photographics, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
State of Oregon Public Art Collection
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
2015 "The Big 100 of 2015," Oregon Arts Watch
2014 Artist Residency, Willapa Bay AiR, Oysterville, WA
2010 Top Fifty, Critical Mass 2010
2007 Commission for The Governor’s Art Awards, OR
2005 Sara Roby Award for Teaching, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2004 Artist Residency, The Whiteley Center, Friday Harbor Laboratories, San Juan Island, WA
2003 Artist Residency, The Whiteley Center, Friday Harbor Laboratories, San Juan Island, WA
2001 Artist Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
1994 Art in the Governor’s Office, Salem, OR
1987 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Madonna Comix, Lit Fest Orcas Island, Eastsound, WA
2018 The Lore Which Nature Brings, Prographica/Koplin del Rio, Seattle, WA
2016 For All We Know, Islands Museum of Art, Friday Harbor, WA (upcoming)
2015 Education of the Virgin, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
Madonna Comix, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Madonna Comix and Other Work with Poets, Western Gallery, Western Washington
University, Bellingham, WA
Then/Now 1992-2014, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Evidence of its Occurrence, Orcas Center, Eastsound, WA
2009 India Tigers, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Field Notes, retrospective exhibition, Western Gallery, WWU, Bellingham, WA
2007 Field Notes, retrospective exhibition, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
Out-of-Print, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Open Places, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 The Marine Algae Project, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Herbarium, Savage Fine Art, Portland, OR
2000 Inchoations, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
1998 Insecta, Insectary, Landscapes, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
Catlin Gabel School, Portland, OR
1997 Sticks, Stones, Bugs, Bones, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Jack-in-the-Box, Luciana, Insecta, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
India Tigers, Nohra Haime Gallery, NYC
1995 Cartwheel Suite, India Tigers, Savage Fine Art, Portland, OR
1994 Bone Stories, Comparative Anatomy, Nohra Haime Gallery, NYC
Art in the Governor's Office, Salem, OR
1993 Bone Stories, The Grids, Comparative Anatomy, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Mid-Columbia Regional Arts Council, Tri-Cities, WA
1989 Creative Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1988 E.J. Bellocq Gallery, Ruston, LO
1987 Dillingham Center for the Performing Arts, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
SoHo Photo, New York, NY
1986 Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR
Sunspot Gallery, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID
1985 Mind's Eye Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
1982 Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Said I Meant, Artpoetica, Brooklyn, NY
Remains, PS 122, Manhatten, NY
2018 Landscapes, Prographica, Seattle, WA
2016 The Black & White Photo Show, Things That Kill, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 This Music Crept By Me upon the Waters, Leslie Heller Workspace, NYC
2013 Bleak Beauty, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA
Summer Show, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA
Fierce, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2011 Critical Mass 2010,
-Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA
-Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
-Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2010 Motherlode, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
2009 Arachne, “Collaborative Vision, “The Poetic Dialogue Project”
-The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
-Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
-Bowling Green State University, OH
2006 New Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2004 Decade: 1994–2004, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
Pixel Re(s)volution, Visual Arts Center Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
2003 Core Sample, Symbiont/Synthetic, curated by Jeff Jahn, Portland, OR
Work by New Means: Digital Photographic Prints, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
2002 Learning to Look: Photographs From the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Collection, Ronna and Eric
Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
2001 Exposure, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Northwest Photography, House of Photography, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Six-Point Perspective, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MO
2000 EscapeLand, Zolla/Leiberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Oregon's 20th Century in Photography, curated by Terry Toedtemeier, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1999 Beauty in the Beast, Maryhill Museum, WA
The End, Tacoma Art Museum Biennial, Tacoma, WA
Portland Photographers, S.K.Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
Selections From the Jay Goodkind Collection, The Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
1997 Contemporary Photographs From the Permanent Collection, The Princeton University
The Garden Show, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Observation and Invention: Oregon Women Photographers 100 Years After the
Photo-Secession, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
The Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1996 Works on Paper, With Paper, and Drawings by Gallery Artists, Nohra Haime Gallery
Raven: Icons and Omens, Fisher Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
XV Anniversary Show, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Stories: Narrative and Sequence in the Graphic Arts, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1994 RE-presenting the Object, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
1993 Crosscut: Centennial Invitational Exhibition of Oregon Artists, Portland Art Museum,
Portland, OR
The Vision at the End of the Trail: A History of Oregon Photography,
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1992 Scale Shift, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1991 10,000 Eyes, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Still Life/Tableaux, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 Hand-altered Photographs, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Northwest Photographic Invitational, Maude Kerns Gallery, Eugene, OR
1989 Artquake, Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, OR
Field and Stream, Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, ID
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
1988 The Dead Animal Show, CAGE Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1987 Additions to the Permanent Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Crosscurrents: Experimental Visions in Photography, Herrett Art Museum, ID
Kanto Gakuin University, Yokahama, JAPAN
New Photographics/87, Central Washington University, Ellensberg, WA
Still Life Exhibition, Scheinbaum & Russek Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1986 Artquake, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
House and Garden Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
New Photographics/86, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington Un., Ellensburg, WA
Northwest Photographers, University of Montana, Bozeman, MT
1985 Artquake, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Northwest Photographers, Maltwood Gallery, University of Victoria, BC, CANADA
1984 First Annual Northwest Vision, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Gender Construction, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Kanto Gakuin University, Yokohama, JAPAN
Water, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED BOOKS:
Bindle, with poet Elisabeth Frost, Richochet Editions, Gold Line Press, USC, 2015
Madonna Comix, with poet Celia Bland, Media F8, Franklin Beedle & Assoc. Inc. 2014
India Tigers, William James & Co., 2009
Field Notes: Photographs by Dianne Kornberg 1992-2007, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, 2007
100 Artists of the West Coast, Schiffer Publishing, 2003
Selected Works, The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, l996
Contemporary Art in the Northwest, Craftsman House , 1995
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Allan, Lois, Contemporary Art in the Northwest, Craftsman House with G & B Arts International, 1995
--------------, “Dianne Kornberg at Savage Fine Art,” Artweek, July 1995
--------------, “Dianne Kornberg at Elizabeth Leach Gallery,” Reflex Magazine, July 1993
Aletti, Vince, “Voice Choices,” The Village Voice, February 8, 1995
Borum, Ann Clements, Editor, 10,000 Eyes, Eastman Kodak Co. and Tommasson-Grant, 1991
Bullis, Douglas, 100 Artists of the West Coast, Schiffer Publishing, 2003
Druckler, G. “The Present Past, The Vision at the End of the Trail: A History of
Oregon Photography at the Portland Art Museum,” Artweek, January 1993
Ciezadlo, Janina, The Collaborative Vision, Chicago Artists’ News, April 2009
Dubinski, Allison, “Beauty in Biology,” Pacific Northwest College of Art BFA Catalog 2005–2006, Plazm Publishing, Portland, Oregon
Ellison, Victoria, “A Macabre but Moving Mortality,” The Oregonian, November 8, 1996
Francis, Kevin, “Is It Art?” Willamette Week, February 9–15, l994
Frascella, Larry, Photo/Design Magazine, May–June 1988 (portfolio and interview)
Gallivan, J. “Punk Is Showing Up All Over,” Portland Tribune, January 10, 2007
Gragg, Randy, “Dianne Kornberg Takes Anatomy Series to New York,” The Oregonian, January 1, l994
Guthrie, Danny, Gender Construction, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, 1984 (exhibition catalog)
Haber, John, haberarts.com, “Full Fathom Five,” Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC, July 2013
Hays, Johanna, Field & Stream, 16 Pacific Northwest Artists, University of Idaho/Prichard Art Gallery, February 1989 (exhibition catalog)
Hopkins, Terri, Re-presenting the Object: Evidence, Notes, and Observations, exhibition catalogue, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, January 1995
------------, “Observation and Invention: Oregon Women Photographers 100 Years After the Photo-Secession,” The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, September 1997
Jahn, Jeff, “Northwest Space, Art and Architecture — Dianne Kornberg, Savage Gallery, Portland,” www.nwdrizzle.com, October 2002
------------, “Symbiont/Synthetic,” Core Sample: Portland Art Now, Clear Cut Press, Astoria, Oregon, 2004 (exhibition catalog, DVD)
Jensen, Brooks, Lens Work Quarterly, No. 16, winter 1996/97 (portfolio of Jack-in-the-Box)
-----------, Lens Work Reproductions, 1998 (portfolio of reproduction gelatin silver prints)
Johnson, Barry, “Dianne Kornberg develops the ‘Madonna Bomb,’" Oregon Arts Watch, February 20, 2015
-----------, "The Big 100 of 2015" Oregon ArtsWatch, in Culture, News & Notes, December 31, 2015
Joyner and Monaghan, Focus on Photography, Davis Publications, Inc., 2007
Kanjo, Kathryn, Oregon Biennial 97, exhibition catalog, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 1997
Klein, Harriet, “Photographs by Dianne Kornberg and Sharon Harper,” www.digitalcity.com Portland, OR — What’s Going On, October 3, 2002
Lowrey, M., Northwest Originals, Oregon Women and Their Art, InUnison Publications, 1989
Rauschenberg, Christopher, “Eyes of a City: A City of Eyes • Portland Photography 1975—99” Blue Sky Gallery, 2000 (CD-ROM portfolio)
Raymond, Camela, “A Paradox of Morbidity, Life,” The Oregonian, June 23, 2000
Raymond, Jonathan, “The Fantasies of Facts,” The Oregonian, May 1, 1998
Roberts, Prudence, "Cartographies," Bindle, Richochet Editions, Gold Line Press, USC, 2015
Ross, Terry, “Hung-Up and Left to Dry,” The Oregonian, May 19, 1995
Roth, Evelyn, “Now and Then,” American Photographer, September 1987
Rothman, Alexander, "Collaboration as Translation," Drunken Boat 21 http://www.drunkenboat.com/db21/reviews
Sante, Luc, Foreword to Madonna Comix, Media F8, Franklin Beedle & Assoc. Inc. 2014
Speer, Richard, “Dianne Kornberg: Madonna Comix Project,” Willamette Week, February 17, 2015
Stabler, David, “Audacious, unsettling images of womanhood at Augen Gallery,” The Oregonian/Oregon Live, February 1, 2015
Stafford, Kim, “Dianne’s Infinite Fugue,” India Tigers, William James & Co., 2009
Toedtemeier, Terry, Selected Works, The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, l996
------------, “Still Life: Objects, Apprehensions, and the Photography of Dianne Kornberg,” Field Notes: Photographs by Dianne Kornberg 1992-2007, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, 2007
-----------, “Current Special Exhibitions,” Portland Art Museum, website and Museum Members’ Magazine, Fall 2003
--------------, “Work by New Means: Recent Digital Photographic Prints,” Portland Art Museum Members’ Magazine, Fall 2003
Ward, Logan, “Hot Contemporary Photographers, Coast to Coast,” American Photo,
March/April 1997
Weinstein, Joel, Editor, Mississippi Mud No. 38, The Mega-Weinstein Group, 1996 (portfolio of The Cartwheel Suite)
Willhour, Clint, “Dianne Kornberg’s India Tigers,” India Tigers, William James & Co., 2009
Bastard Heart, Raphael Dagold, 2014
Drunken Boat 20, Winter 2014
Lux V.1, LUMINA Literary Journal, 2013
Lux V.2, LUMINA Literary Journal, 2014
Poetry Northwest, The Photography Issue, July 2013
The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone, Nancy Pearson, 2015