b. 1971, Dayton, Ohio
Lives and works in Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2002
MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1993
BFA, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
AWARDS
2001
Betty and Monte Factor Graduate Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1993
The Gene Allcott Memorial Scholarship Merit Award in Painting, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1990-93
Presidential Scholarship, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
No Man's Land, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2004
Domesticated, Art Concepts, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Animism, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1998
True Story, Midtown Plaza, Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Wolves and Urchins, Wendy Given, Hayley Barker, and Anne Mathern, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, OR
2008
Multiple Feeds, LAAA's Film & Video 825 and Otis College of Art and Design, curated by Erika Suderburg,
Democracy Forum at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Los Angeles, CA
Outside the Big-Box, Fifth Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Staying Alive, The Winslow Garage, curated by Mary Anna Pomonis, Los Angeles, CA
2006
VITAS Film Festival, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Digital World: L.A., curated by S.E. Barnet, Los Angeles, CA
Niche.LA / Lounge 441, Los Angeles, CA
2004
A Minute on Camera, Oct. 21st, Salto Network Television, The Netherlands
Home Grown, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2003
City Zooms.Bremen.2003, Films from Cosmopolitan Cities with sea links,
Uebersee Museum Square, Bremen, Germany
2002
Graduate Thesis Show, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Drawing to a Close, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Gee-Gaws, curated by Jason Forrest, Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC
Work, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Eating, Building 130, Atlanta, GA
The Octavia Hill Project, My Sister's Room, Decatur, GA
1998
Wendy Given: Work, Soho 20, New York, NY
1997
Summer Selections, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Biennial, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Forty Winks for the Four-footed, Project Room, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1996
You Are Here, Atlanta, The Midtown Plaza Galleries, Atlanta, GA
1995
Matthew Burns, Leslie Harding, Wendy Given, Old Highland Bakery, Atlanta, GA
Essential Expressions, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Landscape, Memory, and Identity: Still More Stories from the World We Live In, King Plow Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; curated by Jerry Cullum, Catalogue
200 x 200, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA
19, Old Highland Bakery, Atlanta, GA
1994
7, Urban Nirvana Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1993
Board of Directors Show, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Devils and Angels Show, Urban Nirvana Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Open=Hurt/Does Not Always=, Wendy Given and Cedric DeSouza, Gallery 100, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Parker, Virginia. “The Fine Art of Collecting”, Atlanta Magazine, Best of Atlanta, Vol. 48 No. 8., December 2008 p. 60.
Wood, Eve. “Staying Alive”, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles CA. artUS, Issue 20, Winter 2007.
Cullum, Jerry. “Atlanta Link Comes Vividly To The Forefront”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 18, 2004.
Cullum, Jerry. “Private Universe Lurks Beneath Cartoon Surface”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, August 4, 2000, p. Q8.
Forrest, Jason A. “Forty Winks for the Four Footed”, Art Papers, July/August 1997, p. 48.
Byrd, Cathy. Accent Nexus, Creative Loafing, April 19,1997, p. 28.
Melrod, George. “Alter Pieces Mix With Alter Egos”, Art & Antiques, Page 37, September 1995.