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Exhibitions

"Efflorescence," group show at Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2024

"Spectacle du Petite," group show at Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2024

"25th Anniversary Group Show," Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2023

"Lucid 2022," group show, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, VIC Australia, 2022

"Jungle," group show, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2022

"16th Annual Blab! Show," group show, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2021

"Seattle Decontructed Art Fair," group show, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2021

"Small Works 2021," group show, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, VIC Australia, 2021

"Botanicus," group show, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2021

"A New Utopia," group show, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2021

"15th Annual Blab! Show," group show, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2020

"Human Nature," solo show, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2020

"A Beautiful Ghost," group show, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2019

"Masters in Miniature," group show, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon, WA, 2018

"Lush Life 6," group show, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2018

"#MyMeToo," group show, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon WA, 2018

"Seattle Emerging Arts Fair," group show, Canvas, Seattle, WA, produced by Seattle Art Post, 2018

“Treasure Hunt,” group show, Valise Gallery, Vashon, WA, 2015

“Embedded Environments,” group show, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2001

“Recent Paintings,” two-person show, Theatre Pomegranate, San Francisco, CA, 1991

 

Published Work

"Bella Ormseth Personifies Flora & Fungi in Deliberate, Emotional Detail," Hi-Fructose magazine, Issue 71, Summer 2024, pages 78-85.

"The Art of Mushrooms/A Arte Dos Cogumelos" edited by Francesca Gavin, published by the Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal, 2022. My painting "The Sick Child" was included.

"PublicDisplay.Art" Volume 1, Issue 3, June-August 2022, included an article and images of my work.

"Evoking Dutch Genre Paintings, Intimate Scenes Peer into the Lives of Mushroom Characters," by Grace Ebert, published on the Colossal website, September, 27, 2021

"Paddenstoelen in Kunst, Cultuur en Natuur." Written and compiled by Antoon Kulmann and Dominique Clement of the Botanical Garden Nijmegen, and published by KNNV Uitgeverij, The Netherlands, 2020. My painting, "No Room at the Table," was included.

“Family Walks on Vashon Island,” by Bianca Perla, 2010, included my botanical illustrations

 

Other Experience

Artist-in-Residence, Vashon Center for the Arts, in partnership with Vashon Island School District, 2016

Visiting Art and Science Instructor, Vashon Island School District, 2014-2016

Interior Design Consultant, Bella Ormseth Design, Vashon, WA, 2005-2009

Product Engineering Manager, 2000-2001; Manager of Quality Assurance, 1996-2000, CycleLogic (formerly StarMedia Network); Miami, FL and San Francisco, CA

Project Manager, Center for Urban and Community Design, 1993-1996, University of Miami School of Architecture, Coral Gables, FL

Office Manager, 1991-1993, Robert Lamb Hart, Ltd., San Francisco, CA

Jewelry Designer and Fabricator, 1990, Ralph Lauren, Providence, RI

Assistant Teacher, freshman foundation drawing and children’s art programs, 1987-1990, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Education

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL: MBA in Computer Information Systems, 1996

            Graduated with Honors, Emery Means Findley, Jr. Scholarship 1995, 1996

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA in Painting, 1990

            Excellence in Painting Award, Providence Art Club, 1989

Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy, painting, 1988

Verrocchio Center of Art, Casole d’Elsa, Italy, drawing and painting, 1988

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