Portia Hein

  

American, b. 1971

  

Lives and works in Los Angeles

 

EDUCATION

2000

M.F.A., University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

1993

B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

 

SOLO EXHIBITONS

2008 Portia Hein, Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 It’s gonna take a lot a love to change the way things are, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Jardin des Plantes, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2003 Portia Hein, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2007 Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA
  The Hammer Museum Curates at the Fox Studios, curated by James Elaine, Fox Studios, Los
  Angeles. CA
  Fata Morgana, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
  Public Park, Scoops, curated by John Pearson, Los Angeles, CA
2006 L.A. Now: Emerging Artists, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
  [keep feeling] Fascination, curated by Julie Joyce, Luckman Gallery, California State University
  Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Plainer: Contemporary Landscape in Southern California, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

  New American Talent, curated by Aimee Chang, Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary
  Art, Austin, TX (traveling exhibition)

 

El Dorado, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

  Hello Sunday, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY
 

Brussels Art Fair – Dominiqe Fiat, Paris, France

  Pulse Art Fair - Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY
2005

Step Into Liquid: Contemporary Watercolor Painting in Los Angeles, Pasadena Museum for

 

California Art, Pasadena, CA

  Honeymoon with Romeo, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
 

Untitled, Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China

  The Great Outdoors, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
 

Pacific Lines, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY

  LA Times, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
 

The World In Their Eye, University Art Gallery, California State University Dominguez Hills,

 

Carson, CA

  White Box Network, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
 

Not Too Loose and Not Too Tight, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY

 

FIAC – Anna Helwing Gallery, Paris, France

2004

Wicked Thicket, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX

 

Nature, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  ScopeCircle Committee for Emerging Art Exhibition, Christie’s Auction House, Beverly Hills, CA
  Basel Miami Beach – Anna Helwing Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2003 Papers, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
  The Great Drawing Show: 1550 – 2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  ACME.@Inman, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
  25 Annual Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Benefit Art Auction, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Mother’s Day, curated by Holly Myers, Women’s Club of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Serendipity, curated by Anna Kunz, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Sweet Anarchy, Coleman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  More! More! More!, curated by Laura Owens, Owens Studio & Chicago Project Room, Los
  Angeles, CA
  Grounded, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
  MFA Thesis Exhibition, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
1999 Sixty-First Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at  
  Austin, Austin, TX
  New Texas Talent, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
  Contemporary Realism, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 
  Dwelling Spaces, Group Exhibition Series, Chicago, IL
   
RESIDENCIES
2000 Atlantic Center for the Arts (selected by and studied with Master Artist Brice Marden) New
  Smyrna Beach, FL
1999 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
   
BILIOGRAPHY
   
2007 Ollman, Leah. “The Good Type of ‘Rogue,” Los Angeles Times, July 6, pE22.
  Nys Dambrot, Shana. “Rogue Wave 07: 12 Artists from Los Angeles, Art Review, August, p.126
  Melrod, George, Rogue Wave’07:12 Artists from Los Angeles, art ltd., September, p. 16
  Ehrenreich, Ben. “Fata Morgana.” Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, catalogue
2006

Joyce, Julie.”[keep feeling] Fascination,” Luckman Gallery at California State University Los

  Angeles, fold out catalogue
  Chang, Aimee. “New American Talent,” Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art
  catalogue
  Frank, Peter. “Museum Pick: Plainer: A Contemporary Take on Landscape,” LA Weekly, March3-9
  Grenier, Meredith. “Exhibiting Vision,” Daily Breeze, Feb. 5, p. B-1
2005 Jones, Leslie. “Liquid Los Angeles,” Pasadena Museum of California Art, fold-out catalogue
  Myers, Holly, “State of the Art 2005,” LA Weekly, Oct. 28-Nov. 3
2004 Jones, Leslie. “Step into Liquid,” Art on Paper. July/Aug., pp.40-45.