Markel Uriu
Education
2021-present Master of Landscape Architecture (in progress), Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
2011 B.A. Visual Arts, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Forthcoming
2022 Seeing | Seeds | Stories, Seattle Japanese Garden, Seattle, WA (invitational)
Selected Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2021 Unknowns, Elisabeth C Miller Library, Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (digital gallery) (solo)
2019 An Object Lesson, The Hedreen, Seattle University, Seattle, WA (solo)
2018 Future Landscapes, SOIL Gallery Backspace, Seattle, WA, (solo)
2017 Detritus, Method Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
2016 Measuring the Well, Lens Gallery, Boston, MA (duo)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Close to Home, Office of Arts and Culture, King Street Station, Seattle, WA (invitational)
2020 Seeing | Seeds | Stories, Seattle Japanese Garden, Seattle, WA (digital gallery) (invitational)
The Implications of a Simple Landscape, North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (invitational)
Blue Marble, Galeria Vida, Los Angeles, CA (digital gallery)
2019 Forward, Glassbox Gallery, Seattle, WA (group)
By and By: Hope for the Future, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA (group)
2018 The Harvest, curated by Sequoia Day O’Connell, Bridge Productions at The Factory, Seattle, WA (Invitational)
Venus Occults Jupiter, Art in Buildings, Love Apple Art Space, Ghent, NY (invitational)
Becoming American: Louder in the Dark, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA (group)
The Veil curated by Sequoia Day O’Connell, Bridge Productions, Seattle, WA (invitational)
Which SOIL Member are you?, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (group)
2017 A Candle for Invisible Things, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA (invitational)
Veil, Shunpike Seattle Storefronts, Seattle, WA (juried)
From the Foundation, Summer at SAM Program, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, with Lion’s Main Art Collective, Seattle, WA
(invitational)
Out Of Sight 2017, Vital 5 Productions, Seattle, WA (invitational)
Soil New Members Show: Seven Bodies, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA (group)
From Which We Rise curated by Satpreet Kahlon, The Alice Gallery, Seattle, WA (invitational)
2016 Intimately Unseen, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA (trio)
Transience, Lion’s Main Art Collective, King Street Station, Seattle WA (group)
2015 Erasure, VCR Gallery, Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, Lion’s Main Art Collective, Seattle,
WA (group)
Vibrations, Cairo Gallery, Seattle, WA (invitational)
2014 Portals, SoDo Commerce Building, Lion’s Main Art Collective, Seattle, WA (group)
2013 Homeward Found, Maxon Mills, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (group)
Awards and Residencies
2020 Art Projects Grant, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2018 Amazon Artist in Residence, Shunpike, Seattle, WA
2016 Artbridge Fellowship, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2013 The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Commissions and Installations
2019 Pangea Revisited, Permanent installation, Facebook Offices, Seattle, WA
2018 Crowned with Gold (Homeland), Permanent installation, Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, WA
Teaching, Lectures and Artist Talks
2020-present Facebook Open Arts, Teaching Artist, Seattle, WA
2020 Studio Critic, University of Washington, 404A Advanced Studio Midterm Review, Seattle, WA
Studio Critic, University of Washington, 404A Advanced Studio Final Review, Seattle, WA
2019 Guest lecturer, University of Washington, History of Urban Landscape Course, Seattle, WA
Artist talk, Crosscut Festival, An Object Lesson: Hedreen Gallery Seattle, WA
Guest lecturer, Evergreen College, Evergreen Art Lecture Series, Olympia, WA
Curatorial
2019 Panelist, Seattle Center Sculpture Walk 2019, Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
2017 Juror, 2018 Rockland Residency, Seattle, WA
2016 Co-curator, Othello Quartz Festival, Lion’s Main Art Collective, John C. Little Sr. Park, Seattle, WA
Co-curator, Transience, King Street Station, Lion’s Main Art Collective, Seattle WA
2015 Co-curator, Erasure, Lion’s Main Art Collective, VCR Gallery, Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, Seattle, WA
Collections
ArtsWA, North Hill Elementary School, Des Moines, WA
City of Seattle Civic Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Dale Chihuly Private Collection, Seattle, WA
Selected Publications, Interviews, and Press
2021 Untitled, Essay by Sharon Arnold, New Archives, May, online publication
2019 Markel Uriu, Praxis Interview Magazine, WYBCX, Yale Radio, Jul 24th, online publication
Artist Markel Uriu and her 12,000 paper Starlings, Video, Ep 6, Season 2019, KCTS9, Seattle, WA
A Swarm of starlings invades a Seattle gallery, Crosscut News, Mar 21, Seattle, WA
The Best Art Shows in Seattle Spring 2019, The Stranger, Mar 14, Seattle, WA
2018 Amazon's Artist-in-Residence Program Helps Employees Embrace Imagination, Seattle Business Magazine, Sept Issue, Seattle, WA
‘The Veil’ exhibition at Bridge Productions spans ideas of what’s seen and unseen, The Seattle Times, Aug 7, Seattle, WA
Cascadia, Calliope Magazine, March 18
2017 Maybe She’s Born with It, Maybe It’s Unpaid Reproductive Labor, The Seattle Weekly, May Issue, Seattle, WA
2016 Seattle’s Queer and Trans Art Collective Lion’s Main Shows Teeth in its New Show, The Seattle Weekly, May Issue, Seattle, WA
2013 Hyperallergic, Art Revitalizes an Old Mill: Photographs from the Wassaic Project, Aug 16, online publication
Organizational Affiliations
2020-21 The Future Ancient, (Member)
A community collective that planned six months of free programming for the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s reopening. Advised on the planning of programming.
2017-20 SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA (Member)
Artist-run gallery providing an experimental space for artists and curators to hold monthly shows. Helped maintain gallery operations, co-curated shows for space through open calls and facilitated and coordinated shows outside of Seattle including Eugene OR, New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA
2014-19 Lion’s Main Art Collective for Queer and Trans Artists, Seattle, WA (Member, Curator, Organizer)
One of ten main organizers. Organized and curated DIY pop-up shows, with the support of the City of Seattle. Coordinated projects for the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, and Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Facilitated weekly community meetings to share art and creative endeavors open to all.