Tim Combs - Conversations via Art

Tim Combs

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2012, New Work, 77 Salon, Portland, OR
  • 2010, Gold Fish Bowl, Mayor's Office, City Hall, Portland, OR
  • 2010, New Work, Water Avenue Commerce Center, Portland, OR
  • 2009, Animalia, Moxie, Portland, OR
  • 2008, Birds + Trees + Flowers, Moxie, Portland, OR
  • 2008, Happy ReNew Year, Commissioner Dan Saltzman's Office, City Hall, Portland, OR
  • 2007, The Girls, Redux, Portland, OR
  • Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2011-2013, The Chair Affair, benefit for Community Warehouse, Portland, OR
  • 2011, Trillium Pop-Up Shop, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
  • 2011, Mario Robert, Tim Combs, Tyler Corbett, The Goodfoot, Portland, OR
  • 2010-2012, Works, The Old Church, Portland, OR
  • 2010, Attainable, Sustainable, Clark County Parade of Homes, Ridgefield, WA
  • 2010, Open the Door to Sustainability, benefit for the Rebuilding Center, Portland, OR
  • 2010, 8 X 8 Strong, Po' Boy Art, Portland, OR
  • 2009, Mixed: The Politics of Hybrid Identities, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
  • 2009, National League of Cites Conference Sustainable Art and Craft Show, Portland, OR
  • 2009, St. Johns + Art, Portland, OR
  • 2008, Ride Connection Gala, Gerding Theater at the Portland Armory Portland, OR
  • Selected Installations, Sculptures, Performances & Interventions

  • 2013, Mask Tape Project, PLACE, Pioneer Place Mall, Portland, OR
  • 2012, The Krispie Body, White Pride 2, PLACE, Pioneer Place Mall, Portland, OR
  • 2011, Knowledge Models Worlds, for Natural Philosophy: Status and Implications of Science in 2011, Praxis @ PLACE, Pioneer Place Mall, Portland, OR
  • 2011, The Chicken Head Folly, Lost and Found Show, Peoples Art of Portland, Portland, OR
  • 2011, Readings from The Tea Ceremonies, Partnership Art Show, 100th Monkey Studio, Portland, OR
  • 2010, 28 Days in May, Portland, OR
  • 2009, A Dandelion Bench to Remember, Live Debris -- Waterfront Found, East Bank Esplanade, Portland, OR
  • Community Action

  • 2012-2013, Business Outreach Programming Coordinator, SCRAP, Portland, OR
  • 2012, Board Member/Curator, Trillium Artisans, Portland, OR
  • 2012, Artist/Educator, Create Plenty, International Plastic Quilt Project, Portland, OR
  • 2011-2012, City Wide NGO Coordinator, Organizing Committee, Trash to Treasure, Portland, OR
  • 2010-2011, Member, Advisory Committee, 100th Monkey Studio, Portland, OR
  • 2010-2011, Gardening Science and Art Instructor, Chief Joseph Elementary After School Program, Portland, OR
  • 2010, Artist in Residence, Oregon School of the Deaf, Salem, OR
  • 2010, Presenter, Guerrilla Art Camp, 100thMonkey Studio, Portland, OR
  • 2009-2010, Heads-on-Sticks Demonstration Booth, Portland Home and Garden Show, Portland, OR
  • 2009, Graduation Speaker, 2009 Economic Opportunity Initiative, Portland, OR
  • Education

  • Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, Popular Culture Studies, 1992
  • Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, BA, Physical Sciences, BA, Social Sciences, 1990
  • Selected Publications

  • Green Fling, Oregon Home Magazine, July 5, 2011 http://www.oregonhomemagazine.com/decor/712-green-fling
  • Goldfish Bowl by Tim Combs, Mayor Sam Adams' Blog, September 13, 2010 http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/?a=317287&c=49518
  • The Well-Ordered Vegetable Garden, Fresh Dirt – Sunset.com, July 8, 2010 http://freshdirt.sunset.com/2010/07/the-wellordred-vegetable-garden.html
  • A final fling and farewell: Portland man turns losing his marriage and $1 million home into performance art, The Oregonian, June 19, 2010 http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2010/06/a_final_fling_and_farewell.html
  • St. Johns + Art: A Street With a View, Neighborhood Notes, 12, 2009 http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/np/st_johns/news/2009/10/st_johns__art_a_street_with_a_view/
  • Featured Artisan Interview - Tim Combs of The Reclamation Project, World of Good.com Blog, 1, 2009 http://community.worldofgood.com/trilliumartisans/blog/2009/09/0/featured_artisan_interview__ tim_combs_of_the_reclamation_project