Jim Lommasson Photographer

 

Recipient: Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize 

from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University



MUSEUM SHOWS:

Stories of Survival and Remembrance: A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention

United Nations Headquarters NYC, 2023.

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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