Teaching Experience
2013-present: First Light Studio • Portland, OR
2012-present: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology • Otis, OR
2020-present: Oregon Society of Artists, Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking • Portland OR
2013-16: First light Studio (my studio) • Plein Air Painting • individual guidance • Portland, OR
2012-16: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology • Plein Air Painting and the Dao of Seeing • Otis, OR
2003-11: Tiger Cave Studio (my studio) • beg. – adv. painting & theory classes • Portland, OR
2007: Led art tour of Barcelona for 10 artists through PNCA • Barcelona, Spain
1998-12: Pacific Northwest College of Art • Drawing, Painting & Encaustic Painting • Portland, OR
1998-03: Oregon College of Art and Craft• Drawing • Portland, OR
1998: Pacific Northwest College of Art • Young Artists Project • Drawing • Portland, OR
1997-07: Pratt Fine Arts Center • Beginning Drawing and Encaustic Painting • Seattle, WA
1996: Summit High School • Seattle, WA • Drawing workshop with 7-12 grade levels.
Students produced award winning mixed media drawings.
Solo Exhibitions
2024: Moving : Stilling • Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA
2024: Heartbreak • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2021: Stone and Light • i.e.gallery • Edison, WA
2020: How to Love the World • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2019: Not Dark Yet • Augen Gallery • Portland OR
2017: Lokeshvara Moonlight • Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA
Walking Land and Sky • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2015: Dreaming of One and Two • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
Inaugural show • i.e. gallery • Edison, WA
2011: Transition • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2010 Undo Every Woven • Traver Gallery • Tacoma, WA
2008: Mind in Nature • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2007: Transparent World • Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA
2006: Stopping and Seeing • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2005: Mind Revealing Mind • William Traver Gallery • Tacoma, WA
2002: Taking & Sending • Laura Russo Gallery • Portland, OR
2001: Laura Russo Gallery • Portland, OR
1999: Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
1998: Remembrance • Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
1997: Dry Points and Monoprints • Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
1996: Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
1995: Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
Painting Retrospective • Oregon State University • Corvallis, OR
1994: Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA
1993: Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
1992: Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
1988: Cité Internationale des Arts • Paris, France
1987: Galería Lleonart • Barcelona, Spain
Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc • Barcelona, Spain
1985: Arthead Gallery • Seattle, WA
1984: Arthead Gallery • Seattle, WA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Surroundings – A Picture of the Land • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2020 Artists Under Quarantine • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2018 The Landscape – Paintings, Prints & Photographs • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2017 Winter Group Exhibition • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2017: West Travels East • Josephy Art Center • Joseph, OR
2016: Visions and Revisions: A Five Year Conversation • Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art • Portland, OR
Landscape as Perception • Curated by Janet Bland • Cannon Beach Arts Association Gallery • Cannon Beach, OR
Presence and Absence • Curated by Martha Pfanschmidt • Northwind Arts Center • Port Townsend, WA
The Sound of the World • Project RayOn • Curated by Horatio Hungyan Law • Nine Gallery • Portland, OR
2011: Specific Environments: Landscape as Metaphor. Curated by Leanne Goebel • Fort Collins, CO
2010: The Great Outdoors • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR
2008: What Does Compassion Look Like? • Friesen Gallery • Seattle, WA.
In conjunction with Seeds of Compassion retreat with Dalai Lama.
2007: Faculty Exhibit Pacific • Northwest College of Art • Portland, OR
2006: Co-Curated: “Impulse” exhibit of National Encaustic Painting/Sculpture • Portland Art Center • Portland, OR
2005: Printmakers Fired • Bullseye Connection Gallery • Portland, OR
2004: Gallery Artists • Traver Gallery • Tacoma, WA
2003: Outside Within • Friesen Gallery • Seattle, WA
2002: Sanctuary • Friesen Gallery• Seattle, WA and Sun Valley, ID
2001: Grace • Art Gym • Marylhurst University • Portland, OR
2000: Art Slate • Condon, OR
1997: The Garden Show • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art • Portland, OR
1997: Art Slate 97 • Juror’s Award • Condon, Oregon
The Tool Show • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art • Portland, OR
1996: Northwest International Juried Exhibition • Bellingham, WA
1995: Small Works by Gallery Artists • Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
ArtSlate ‘95 • Condon, OR • Juror’s Award
1994: Self Portrait Show • Bumbershoot Arts Festival • Seattle WA
1992: Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR
1991: Introductions • Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA
Washington/Oregon Juried Exhibition • Maryhill Museum • Maryhill, WA
1989: Cité Internationale des Arts • Paris, France
1988: Love Collection Gallery • Nagoya, Japan
1987: Galería Lleonart • Barcelona, Spain
Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc • Barcelona, Spain
1986: 25th Annual Int’l Drawing Competition • Joan Miró Foundation • Barcelona, Spain
1985: Francine Seders Gallery • Seattle, WA
Volunteer & Benefit Auctions
2009-15: Public Art Advisory Committee for Trimet Orange line from Portland to Milwaukie, OR
1995-2010: Cascade Aids Project • Portland, OR
2000-13: Mentoring to many artists young& old • Portland, OR
2003-08: Prints for PICA • Annual Fundraising Event • Portland, OR
2005: Pulse • Art Event & Auction for the Children’s Heart Fund • Portland, OR
Special piece created for Community Music Center Benefit Auction • Held at PNCA • Portland, OR
1996-2000: “COCA Painting Marathon” • Benefit for Center on Contemporary Art • Seattle, WA
1998-2013: Volunteer on building and organizational projects at KCC, a Buddhist Meditation Center • Portland, OR
Selected Collections
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Lluis Bosch (Joan Miro Foundation)
Galeria René Matras, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Lleonart, Barcelona, Spain
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Saks Fifth Avenue
Delta Airlines
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Oregon State University, Corvalis, OR
Seattle University, WA
Media
K.B. Dixon, “The Cultural Landscape: 11 Artists,” Oregon Artswatch, Oct. 27, 2021, Click here to read the article.
Paul Sutinen Interview, Oregon Artswatch, September 10, 2017, Click here to read the article.
Book Imagery
Ear to the Ground edited by Scott Davis • Woodcut author portraits • Cune Press 1997
The Soldier, the Builder, and the Diplomat by Steven Schlesser • Woodcuts • Cune Press 2002
Always Filling, Always Full – Tanka Poems byMaggie Chula • White Pine Press 2001
Connections In the Land of Disability by Alan Brightman • Palo Alto Press 2006
The Perfect Love We Seek, The Imperfect Love We Live by John Welwood • Shambhala Sun January, 2006
Awards
2nd Mention Joan Miró 25th Annual International Drawing Prize • 1986
Publications
Gunn, Jef. Undo Every Woven : Paintings and Prints by Jef Gunn, 2010
Snyder, Stephanie. “Mountains and Signs.” The Paintings of Jef Gunn, July 2005
Ellerston, Karrin. “Michael Brophy and Jef Gunn at Laura Russo Gallery.” The Oregonian, Aug 2001
Taylor, Sarah Ellen. “Grace,” exhibition catalog, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR. April 2001
Duckler, Garrett. “WW Art Choice.” Willamette Week, April 1992
Hacket, Regina. “Emerging Talent Recognized.” Seattle Post Intelligencer, Jan 1991
Carlsson, Jae. “Emerging Artists.” Reflex, March/April 1991
Borras, Maria Lluisa. “Arte.” El Pais, Barcelona, Spain, July 1986
“Cultura.” El Pais, Barcelona, Spain, July 1986
Education
2005 BFA, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR
1990-91 Institute for Creative Development, Seattle, WA
1988 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France – Painting Residency
1986-87 Independent Painting Residency, Barcelona, Spain
1982 Printmaking Apprenticeship with John Overton, Seattle, WA
1979-80 Travel, Painting, Art History study, Europe and Israel
1976-79 Painting Study with Professor Tom Allen, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
1975-77 Fine Arts and Applied Arts, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
1973-75 Fine Arts, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA