Jim Lommasson Photographer
Recipient: Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize
from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Stories
of Survival and Remembrance: A Call to Action for Genocide
Prevention
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Illinois, 2022-2023
To Bear Witness (*a collaborative project with The Immigrant Story), Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, OR 2021
I Am An American (*a collaborative project with The Immigrant Story), Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, 2020
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. Maltz Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, 2021
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX, 2021
I Am my Story: Voices of Hope (*a collaborative project with The Immigrant Story), Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, 2021
DREAMs Deferred (*a collaborative project with The Immigrant Story), Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, 2020
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Dallas, TX, 2019
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, NY, 2019
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo, MI, 2019
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory The Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, IL, July 19, 2018 – Jan. 13, 2019
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria Japanese American National Museum, L.A., CA, 2018
What We Carried: Yazidis of Lincoln, Nebraska The Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 2018
Artifacts (Exit Wounds and What We Carried) National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL, 2018
What We Carried: Yazidis of Lincoln, Nebraska The Nebraska History Museum, Lincoln, NE, 2018
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria New Americans Museum, San Diego, CA, 2017
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI, 2016
What We Carried: Stories by Iraqi Refugees Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, IL, 2016
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization Washington County Museum, Portland, OR, 2012
Oaks Park Pentimento The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 2007
SOLO SHOWS:
What We Carried: Threads PLACE Gallery, Portland, OR. 2021
Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan Art Adventure Gallery, Madras, OR, 2020
Exit Wounds and What We Carried Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, OR, 2018
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH, 2018
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria Arab American Cultural Center Houston, TX, 2017
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca, NY
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria ALIF Center, Atlanta, GA, 2018
Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2015
Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 2016
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization City of Chicago Pedway, Chicago, IL, 2016
Exit Wounds and What We Carried Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2016
Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2015
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization” Unforgetting Iraq: In Search of Recovery, The New Century Art Guild, Kimballton, IA, 2014
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization Tamziq: Scattered and Connected, The Odysseus Project, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts. The Arsenal Center for the Arts. Boston, MA, 2013
Exit Wounds: Life After War - Soldiers’ Stories The Armory: Gerding Theater, Portland, OR, 2012
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR, 2011
Life After War: Soldiers’ Stories Washington State University, Tri-Cities, WA, 2010
Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 2010
Oaks Park Pentimento New American Art Union, Portland, OR, 2009
Exit Wounds Portland Community College, Portland, OR, April 2009
Exit Wounds VU Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 2009
American Fight Clubs First Person Festival of Memoir & Documentary, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, 2008
Exit Wounds New American Art Union, Portland, OR, October 2008
Heaven and Earth New American Art Union, Portland, OR, 2006
American Fight Clubs New American Art Union, Portland, OR, 2005
American Fight Clubs Basil Hallward Gallery, Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR, 2005
"on the road, revisited,” Gallery Untitled, Portland, OR, 2001
Night Visions Hallie Brown Ford Gallery, Willamette University, Salem, OR, 1994
Night Visions Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1989
Oaks Park White Gallery, Portland, OR 1983
Photographs Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR, 1983 & 1974
Collaboration: Lommasson/Anderson Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1981
Photographs Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR, 1978
Photographs Blue Sky Exhibition, Portland, OR, 1975
Photographs Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1974
GROUP SHOWS:
Capturing Power: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR, 2020
Shadow and Light Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, UK, 2019
A Matter of Memory George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, 2016
Conflict and Consequences The Wright Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 2015
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization handmade artist book “BOOK POWER REDUX” exhibit at University of Puget Sound, Collins Library, Puget Sound, WA, 2014
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization New Century Art Guild, Kimballton, IA, 2014
What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization handmade artist book “BOOK POWER REDUX” exhibit at 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2014
Navigating the Aftermath University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2011
Object of Focus: The Book Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR, 2011
Art of the Time Oregon State Capitol Art Collection, Salem, OR, 2011
I Wouldn’t Wish War on My Worst Enemy handmade artist book for “BOOK POWER” exhibit, (Permament Collections) SF MoMA, Yale University, Reed College, and University of Washington.
The Hidden Costs of War Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, 2010
National Photography Competition Juror, Susan Kismaric, MoMA, Soho Photo, New York, NY, July 2009
The Odysseus Project: Finding Home Fort Point Gallery, Boston, MA, 2009
The Altered Landscape Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2007
Night Moves 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2007
Katrina Exposed New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2006
Second Annual National Juried Exhibition, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2006
Hand
& Eye: Fifteen Years of the Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize
Center For Documentary Studies at
Duke University, Durham, NC,
Sept. 2005-Jan. 2006
Photo National 2005, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, Aug.-Sept. 2005
Notes From All Over Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, 1998
Notes From All Over Marylhurst University Gallery, Marylhurst, OR, 1998
Visual Chronicles of Portland 1998, 1996, 2000
Blue Sky 20-Year Anniversary Show Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1995
History of Photography in Oregon Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1993
Public Hanging Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR, 1983
Oregon Biennial Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1983
Works on Paper Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 1982
Three Photographers Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 1981
Oregon Biennial Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1981
Seven Points of View The School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR, 1978
East-West Exchange Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 1976
Opening Invitational Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1975
Horseplay Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR, 1974
BOOKS:
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization – Lommasson Pictures, 2019
Stories
of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. –
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, 2018
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization – Blue Sky Book, 2017
Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan – Schiffer Books, 2015
Oaks Park Pentimento: Hidden Treasures Revealed – Oregon State Press, 2009
Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice & The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms – Stone Creek Publications 2005
EDUCATION:
Chief Joseph Elementary School, Portland, OR, 1964
Benson Polytechnic High School, (Graphic Arts) Portland, OR, 1968
Portland State University, (Bachelor of Science: Art) Portland, OR 1976
TEACHING:
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, Photography Department Chair, 1979-83
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, Photography Instructor, 1983
Linfield College, McMinnville, OR, Photography Instructor, 1983
Portland State University, Portland, OR, Photography Instructor, 1978-80
Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR, Photography Instructor, 1975-79
SELECTED AWARDS AND COLLECTIONS"
Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Oregon Humanities Conversation Grant: "Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home"
"What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization,” Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant
Oregon Arts Commission Fellowships 2005 and 2016
“I Wouldn’t Wish War on My Worst Enemy” & “What We Carried” hand made artist books in permanent collections at Yale University, SF MoMA, Library of Congress, Reed College, University of Oregon, University of Washington, University of Denver, Ohio University, University of California Irvine, University of Colorado, Baylor university, and Emory University.
Works in Permanent collections: Hallie Ford Museum, George Eastman House, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL, University of Oregon, Terry Toedtemeier Collection at the Portland Art Museum.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:
What We Carried: (Hyperallergic Article): https://hyperallergic.com/488061/refugees-tell-their-stories-through-mementos/
What We Carried: (Curiosity Magazine): https://www.curiositymag.com/2018/09/12/what-we-carried-jim-lommasson/
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory: http://lenscratch.com/2018/10/jim-lommasson/
DREAMs Deferred: (About DACA Dreamers): http://www.heuermontage.com/?p=21419
Jim Lommasson I 2405 NW Thurman Street I Portland, OR 97210 I 503.939.1939
jim@lommassonpictures.com
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