b. Wichita Falls, TX
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Art, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, magna cum laude
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Earth Poems, Mariboe Gallery, Hightstown, NJ
2021
Palimpsest: Envelope Poems, Asia Pacific Cultural Center, Tacoma, WA
2020
Due Belle Voci (Two Beautiful Voices), ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017
WUNDERKAMMER: Into the Pink, Suzanne Zahr Gallery, Mercer Island, WA
Slash and Burn, ArtXchange North Gallery space, Seattle, WA
2016
Embodiment, School of Theology & Psychology, Seattle, WA
In the Loft, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015
Dialogue of the Unsent, Provincetown, MA
Senses, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
2013
The Body Incarnate, Shoreline Community College Art Gallery, Shoreline, WA
Portals, Northwest Encaustic Center, Seattle, WA
Khajuraho, Sev Shoon Building, guest artist of David French, Seattle, WA
2012
SKIN, artXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
Sensorium, The Encaustic Center, Richardson, TX – KERA (NPR affiliate) Art and Seek pick
2009
Breathing In, Breathing Out, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007
Samskara, Ferguson Gallery, Concordia University, Chicago, IL
2000
20 Women and Their Closets, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
New Work, Harper College, Palatine, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Process of Making, ERA Living/AMI, Mercer Island, WA, curated by Anna Macrae
Like Mother, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland WA
Into the Woods, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX, with artists Bonny Leibowitz and Pilar Uribe
2023
Faculty Show, Collin College, Plano, TX
Wall Hanging, The Vestibule Gallery, Seattle, WA, curated by Kascha Semonovitch
Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Patricia Miranda
Hiraeth, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA, curated by Sarah Jo Lightner
2022
Faculty Show, Collin College, Plano, TX
Fiber and Felt, University House Wallingford, Seattle, WA, curated by June Sekiguchi
Arts Fort Worth, Ft, Worth, TX, juried by Narong Tintamusik
Like Mother, White River Valley Museum, Auburn, WA
An Artist’s Photographic Eye, The Lakeshore, Seattle, WA
Like Mother, University House Wallingford, Seattle, WA
2021
(Re)Building, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY, juried by Jerry McLaughlin
Like Mother, Highline Heritage Museum, Burien, WA, curated by Kelly Lyles, Burien, WA
Like Mother, Vashon Center for the Arts, curated by Lynann Politte and Kelly Lyles, Vashon Island, WA
One in a Year, The Painting Center, New York, NY, juried by Kathy Cantwell and Shazzi Thomas
11th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, juried by Shamim M. Momin, Senior Curator, Henry Art Gallery
Wax Applications: Showcasing the Depth and Breadth of Encaustic and Cold Wax Mediums, University of Texas A&M-Commerce, Commerce, TX, juried by Jane Cornish Smith
2020
Glow, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
Tiny Assemblages, Artist Alliance, curated by Erin McCluskey Wheeler
Rough Around the Edges, online exhibition, curated by Jen Tough
Socially Distanced: Work Created in Lockdown, online exhibition, Jen Tough Gallery
Art of the Pandemic: Best Foot Forward, online exhibition published in Two Coats of Paint, Part 1, 7/2/20, curated by Joanne Mattera
Art during Covid, online exhibition, Part 2, 5/11/20
Bent, Cut, Cracked, Stapled, Smashed and Hammered, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA, juried by Kaveh Mojtabai, Founder and Publisher, Artscope magazine
The Legacy of an Artist Educator, South Texas College, McAllen, TX
2019
Frozen Gesture, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
Alchemy, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA
Anything But Flat, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA
Hurt, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
Reasons Revealed, Fong-Wheeler Atrium, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon, WA
Like Mother, North Seattle College Gallery, Seattle, WA
Slash & Burn, Green River College, Auburn, WA
2018
Folded, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Northwest Encaustic, Seattle, WA
Traveling Textiles, The Lakeshore, Seattle, WA
Exquisite Corpse, Bushwick Open Studios, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
PLEASE TOUCH, A/NT Gallery, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Salon des Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
Keep It 100, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA, curated by Winston Mascarenhas
Like Mother, Like Daughter (PLUS A FEW SONS), Aljoya Thornton Place, Seattle, WA, curated by L. Kelly Lyles and June Sekiguchi, Seattle, WA
Following a Thread, Ballard Works, Seattle, WA, curated by Cameron Mason
Like Mother, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Intersections: Natural, Intuitive, Intentional; Blakely Hall, Issaquah, WA, curated by Anna McRae
High in Fiber, Ida Culver Broadview, Seattle, WA
Connecting Threads, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA
2017
Eileen Fisher Chop Challenge, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
Wanderlust, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
Slash and Burn, Sammamish City Hall, Sammamish, WA
Like Mother, Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg, WA
Like Mother, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016
Square Foot Art Basel Miami, Projects Gallery, Miami, FL
Ekphrastic Assimilations, Vala Art Center, Redmond, WA
L X W X H, curator Ozlem Ayse Ozgur, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
S'Agapo, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
Presence/Absence, curator Martha Pfanschmidt; Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2015
Square Foot Art Basel Miami, Projects Gallery, Miami, FL
Paradise, Ugly Art Room, Corvallis, OR
Slash and Burn, curator Suze Woolf; Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
CRAVE, curator Stefano Catalani and Trimpin; Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
Celebrating 20 Years, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
Poetry of the Surface, ERA Living/Aljoya Northgate, Seattle, WA
2008-15
Annual Encaustic Invitational (every year), Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2014
Who Does She Think She Was?, TK Building, Seattle, WA
Unsettled Bodies, Phoenix Art Center, Phoenix, AZ
HOME, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013
Affordable Art Fair, Seattle, WA
(Inter)Connections, WOCA Projects, Ft. Worth, TX (Honorable Mention Award)
Bone and Blood, Squid 3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
NW Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Beyond Quotidian, Aljoya, Mercer Island, WA
Encaustic USA, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Elephant in the Room, Laconia Gallery Boston, MA
The Calligraphic Gesture, Tao Water Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Instructors Show, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012
Affordable Art Fair, Seattle, WA
The Wax Book, X Gallery, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
Instructors Show, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Water and Light, Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Affordable, but Priceless, Conrad Wilde Gallery, AAF, Los Angeles, CA
WAX, Pajarro Valley Arts Council, Watonsonville, CA
2011
Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, Kimball Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2010
American/Asian, Seattle City Hall, Seattle, WA
2009
Poncho Invitational, Western Bridge Gallery, Seattle, WA
American/Asian: A Tale of New Cultures, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
Beyond Matter, curator Nora Lawrence; Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
2008
In the Round, Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat College, Beverly, MA (two-person)
On the Edge, 301 Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
PONCHO Art Auction, curator Billy Howard; Seattle, WA
What Does Compassion Look Like?™, artXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004
Serene Silent Subdued Restrained Tranquil Calm Enticing Smooth Fair Refined Graceful Contemplative Relaxed Elegant Works, with Ben Dallas, Sally Havlis, Deborah Nance Kapoor, and Burleigh Kronquist, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2003
All or Nothing, with Jason Peot, Ben Dallas, Sally Havlis, Deborah Nance, and
Burleigh Kronquist, LIPA (Links for International Promotion of the Arts), Chicago, IL
Invitational, LIPA Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
20 Women, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Chicago Art Open, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
St. Charles Arts Festival, IL, curator Lynn Warren; St. Charles, IL
PUBLIC AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2021
Each/Other, contribution to a monumental artwork by artists Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt of embroidered message onto a bandana which will be incorporated into a forthcoming large scale sculpture for the Each/Other exhibition at Denver Art Museum, May 23–August 22, 2021.
2016
Ekphrastic Assimilations, with Michael G. Hickey and Michael Dylan Welch, Redmond, WA
2015
Dialogue: The Unsent, with artist Molly Geissman, Provincetown Library, Provincetown, MA
2007
Installation of Glo Lamson’s Prayer Curtain, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Catalog, Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, curated by Patricia Miranda
2021
Monmouth Museum online feature, March 8, 2021 edition
Artist Spotlight: Adrian Arleo & Deborah Kapoor, R&F Newsletter, Uncommon Surfaces, March 2, 2021 issue
2020
Joanne Mattera’s Art in the Time of Pandemic, Best Foot Forward, Part 1, 07/02/20
Joanne Mattera’s Art in the Time of COVID, Part 2, 5/11/20
2019
Cover of Encaustic Arts Magazine, Spring 2019 June 1 issue, 22-page article
2017
Vasari 21, Ann Landi on-line review of contemporary artists, June 16, 2017
Pro Wax Journal, quarterly magazine, March 19, 2017 issue, http://prowaxjournal2.blogspot.com
2016
Fiber Art Now, September 2016
Clark, David, "Length x Width x Depth at Conrad Wilde Gallery," The Artist's Periscope, April 24, 2016
Kapoor, Deborah, "Dialogue of the Unsent," Surface Design Journal, Winter 2015/2016 issue, Albuquerque, NM
Rooney, Ashley, “Encaustic in the 21st Century,” with foreword by Kim Bernard, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
2015
Mariano, Luciano, "Seattle Artist Shows Poetry Inspired Works," Bainbridge Island Review, Bainbridge, WA
Unsent, Provincetown Library, Provincetown, MA
Solberg, Gayle “Poetry of the Surface,” Bellevue College website, Bellevue, WA
2014
Nodine, Jane, “Sketchbooks, Journals, Notebooks … Collecting the Idea”, January 18, 2014
Winiarski, Deborah, “The Pull of Paper,” Pro Wax Journal, September 11, 2014
Catalog, “Who Does She Think She Was?,” TK Building, Seattle, WA
2013
Raymond, David, Art New England, "Elephant of the Room," Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA, June-July issue
Pollman, Lisa, “Artist Explores Crossover Between Cultures,” Seattle Vine
Kurek, Ellen, “New Art Program Uses PigmentedWax to Appeal to the Senses,” Bellevue College website, Bellevue,WA
Nash, Catherine, "Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper & Encaustic,” Nash/Renfrow Productions
Catalog, Calligraphic Gesture, Tao Water Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Catalog, Elephant in the Room, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
2012
Sipe, Lisa Marie, “Culture Seen,” September 5, 2012
Belto, Michelle, “Paper + Wax, Techniques for Combining Handmade Paper with Encaustic Paint,” North Light Books, artists’ gallery section
Catalog, "The Wax Book: Altered, Repurposed, Remade," Gallery X, Truro, MA
2012-2008
Catalog for Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ (one per year)
2011
Cohen-Roochvarg, Holly and Calderhead, Christopher “The World Encyclopedia of Calligraphy” Sterling Publishing, chapter on Indic scripts
Woolf, Daniella, lecture: Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2010
Spalding, Dolly, "Mindful Beeswax," Zocalo Tucson Magazine, July 30
Edmonds, Cora, lecture: (my work was her topic of) Art and Identity, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA
Woolf,Daniella, “Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility,” with foreword by Joanne Mattera, Waxy Buildup Press
Seale, Shelly, “Art as Cultural Exchange,” Seattle Woman Magazine
Lerner, Jenny, lecture: Artists in Wax, Fused Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009
Goslow, Brian, Artscope Magazine, Quincy, MA, May/June issue, images featured pp. 52-53
Coblentz, Jessica, "From My Dream of A Common Language," PHd Candidate/Boston College, Boston, MA, August 7
Catalog for exhibition Breath, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
Spadafora, Tracy, lecture: Tracy Spadafora Studios, Westborough, MA
Womack, Linda, lecture: Artists in Wax, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, and John C. Campbell Folk School, NC
2008
Studio Visit Magazine, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, Volume two
2001
Menon, Ramesh, “The Ramayana – A Modern Translation,” book jacket design, Writers Club Press, San Jose, CA
2000
Chicago Reader, Culture Club section, "20 Contemporary Women in Chicago," September 8
Chicago Sun-Times, "20 Women and Their Closets," September 8
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023
Climate Solutions Program Workshop, SouthSeattle College, Seattle, WA
2021
Equity and Excellence in Education (EEE) Grant, Social Justice and Activism in the Art Studio Classroom, South Seattle College, Seattle, WA
2020
BRIC Grant, for research on Anti-Bias Anti-Racist (ABAR) teaching materials for Teaching and Learning, South Seattle College, Seattle, WA
CERF+ Grant, Safeguarding + Sustaining Artists’ Careers, Montpelier, VT
Community of Inquiry, Practice and Excellence (CIPE) Grant, South Seattle College, Seattle, WA
2019
Faculty Development Grant, South Seattle College, Seattle, WA
2016
William Radcliffe Studio Challenge finalist, Michael Monroe, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2013
Honorable Mention, WOCA Projects Inter(connections), Fort Worth, TX
2002
Technology Grant, Harper College, Palatine, IL
Artists-in-Community Grant, Harper College, Palatine, IL
2000
Outstanding Faculty Award, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
1998
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago Cultural Grants Division, IL
PROFESSIONAL and CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2018
Curator, TENACIOUS, Suzanne Zahr Gallery, Mercer Island, WA
2017
Curator, Intersections: natural, intuitive, intentional, Blakely Hall, Issaquah, WA (catalog)
2016 - present
Curator, ERA Living, senior watercolor exhibitions Flight; Lovely Tree; Skies Above; Bloom, Seattle, WA
2014
Curator, Navigate, Tashiro Kaplan Building, of EDGE graduates work, Seattle, WA (catalog)
2001
Juror, Annual Members Show, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
1999-2001
Curator, Chicago Art Open, annual student show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999-2001
Chairperson, Board of Directors, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, IL
Juror, Grant Recipients, Beck Institute for the Arts, Chicago, IL
Content Editor for art history textbooks, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
RESIDENCIES
2019
M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
2018
M. David & Co., Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
2008
Sai Baba Temple, New Delhi, India
2006
Ajanta & Ellora Cave Temples, Maharashtra, India and Cholamandal Artists’ Colony, Chennai, India
2005
Hindu & Jain Temples, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India
2001
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1997
The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
2022
City of Bellevue, Permanent Works Collections, Bellevue, WA
2015
Provincetown Library, Provincetown, MA
2009
Sexton House, Tallahassee, FL
PUBLIC LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2012 Visiting Artist, The Encaustic Center, Richardson, TX
2011 Guest Lecturer, University House, Seattle, WA
2011 Visiting Artist, CoolMom.org, PACCAR Pavilion, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2010 Guest Lecturer, Lake Oswego 47th Festival of the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
2007 Visiting Artist, Concordia University, Chicago, IL
1990 Guest Lecturer, Richland Community College, Dallas,
INTERVIEWS
2017 Mercer Island Center for the Arts Radio Interview, by interviewer Keith Imper, June 23, 2017
ArtBEAT Radio Interview with KKNW 1150 AM radio host Pat Pauley, May 15, 2017
2012 Culture Seen: http://www.cultureseen.com/2012/09/05/artist-interview-deborah-kapoor/
2010 Seale, Shelly, “Art as Cultural Exchange,” Seattle Woman Magazine, Seattle, WA
Interview, Pioneer Press, "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South,” Art Institute, Chicago
1999 Yandel, Tim, Courier, Glen Ellyn, IL, ’20 Women and Their ‘Closet’ Lives’, College of DuPage
ARTS ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE
2001 – 1999 Chairperson, Board of Directors, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, IL
1994 – 1995 Assistant to Director, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 – 1992 Assistant Director of Major Gifts, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1992 – 1990 Assistant to Director, Mariboe Gallery, Hightstown, NJ
SPECIAL INTEREST TRAINING
2019
Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom by The Museum of Modern Art on Coursera.
2019, 2017, 2016, 2015
Frye Museum, Creative Aging Programs, Seattle, WA
2014
Wing Luke Museum, Oral History Projects, Seattle, WA
2007
Paula Roland Encaustic Printmaking week-long intensive, Ghost Ranch, NM
REPRESENTATION
ArtX Contemporary, a contemporary art gallery whose mission is cultural dialogue through art, reflecting the diversity of influences shaping the Seattle community and contemporary global culture, Seattle, WA
Convergence 3D7, member of women’s artist collective: 7 women, 3 countries, 3-d minded