Resume
G. STEPHEN YATES
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Painting - University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas - 1980
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing - University of Oregon, Eugene, OR - 1978
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho – 1970-72, 1975
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Juror's Award “Art Port Townsend” Port Townsend, WA 2015, 2008, 2001
Juror’s Award “18TH NW Internat’l” Whatcom Museum - Allied Arts, B’ham, WA 1998
Selected Artist “Artists & Poets Calendar” Bainbridge Is. Art Council, B.I., WA 1993
Selected Artist “NEA-WESTAF, Corporate Collectors Project” Santa Fe, NM., 1990
First Place Award “Drawing International 1990” BYU, Provo, UT 1990
Visual Arts Fellowship “ART MATTERS, INC.” New York, New York 1989
Visual Arts Fellowship “ARTIST TRUST” Seattle, WA 1988
Juror’s Award “8th Northwest International” Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 1988
Artist in Residence “CENTRUM Foundation” Port Townsend, WA 1988
Juror’s Award “Northwest Art ‘85” Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 1985
Juror’s Award “Washington Biennial” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1983
Best of Show “Port Townsend Art” Liz Svenson Gallery, Port Townsend, WA 1981
CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MetroHealth Medical Centers, Grand Rapids, MI 2016, 2015, 2014 (commissions)
Alexis Hotel, Seattle, WA 2015 (commission)
Properties NW, Seattle, WA 2014 (purchase)
Appropriate Balance Financial Services, Bellevue, WA 2014 (purchases)
Governor's Office, Washington State, Olympia, WA 2013 (purchase)
Jefferson County Museum of Art & History, Port Townsend 2013 (collection)
Smokey Point Medical Center, Everett, WA 2012 (commissions)
MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital Family Birth Center, Puyallup, WA 2012 (commission)
Everett Community College, Jackson Center, Everett, WA 2012 (purchase)
Good Samaritan Hospital, Gig Harbor, WA 2012 (commission)
Providence Hospital, Everett, WA 2011 (commission)
Cedarhurst Elementary School, Burien, WA 2011 (commission)
Metro Health Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 2011 (purchase)
Elements Too Building Complex, Bellevue, WA 2010 (commission)
Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 2009 (commissions)
Kipton Financial Services, New York, NY 2009 (commission)
Hyatt Hotel, Bellevue, WA 2009 (commission and purchases)
La Costa Resort, San Diego, CA 2009 (purchases)
St. Regis Buckhead Hotel, Atlanta, GA 2009 (purchases)
New Market Skills Center, Tumwater, WA 2008 (commission)
Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, WA 2007 (commission)
Lexus of Bellevue, Bellevue, WA 2007 (commission)
Kitsap Government Admin. Building, Port Orchard, WA 2006 (commission)
Woodmark Hotel, Kirkland, WA 2006 (commission)
Lincoln Square Atrium, Bellevue, WA 2005 (commission and purchases)
President Hotel Project, Kansas City, KS 2005 (commission)
Hilton Hotel, Vancouver, WA 2005 (commission)
Marriott Hotels, Louisville, KY 2005 (commission,) Orlando, San Francisco, 2007 (purchases)
Norm Dicks Bremerton Government Center, Bremerton, WA 2004 (purchase)
Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup, WA 2004 (commission)
Univ. of WA. Bothell - Cascadia Comm. College, Bothell, WA 2002 (commission)
City of Portland Collection, The Visual Chronicle Project, Portland, OR (commission)
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (purchases)
Crabbe-Husson Corporation, Portland, OR (purchases)
City of Seattle Permanent Collection, Seattle, WA (purchases)
City of Portland Permanent Collection, Portland, OR (purchase)
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA (purchase)
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (purchase)
Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA (purchase)
Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA (purchase)
Washington State Department of Transportation, Wenatchee, WA (purchase)
North Thurston District Auditorium, Lacey, WA (purchase)
Port Susan Middle School, Stanwood, WA (purchase)
Olympic View Middle School, Mukilteo, WA (purchase)
Boston Harbor Elementary School, Olympia, WA (purchase)
Idlewild Elementary School, Tacoma, WA (purchase)
Voyager Elementary School, Gig Harbor, WA (purchase)
Yacolt Elementary School, Yacolt, WA (purchase)
Zeiger Elementary School, Puyallup, WA (purchase)
ONE and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected)
Cosmology Paintings, Jefferson Museum of Art and History, Port Townsend, 2021
Contemporary Abstractionists - Hoy and Yates, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, 2016
A Sense of Energy and Movement, Ryan James Fine Art, Kirkland, WA 2015
Water, Leaves and Sticks, The Cannery, Port Townsend, WA 2012
Continuum, Marni Muir Gallery, Seattle, WA 2009
Recent Paintings, The Art Mine Gallery, Port Hadlock, WA 2007
Ecology Chronicles: Yates Paintings, WA. State Dept. of Ecology, Olympia, WA 2006
Waters, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, Washington 2005
New Prints, The Wild Coho, Port Townsend, WA 2004
Centrum Arts Foundation, McCurdy Pavilion, Port Townsend, WA 2002, 2003
The Alexis Hotel, Seattle, Washington 2002
Green River Community College, Auburn, Washington Fall 2001
Blue Heron Arts Center, Vashon, Washington 2000
Martin-Andrews Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington 2000
Edward Cain Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington 1998, 1990
1004 Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992
Franklin House Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington 1992, 1984
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, Washington 1989
Lynn McAllister Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985
Bruskin Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington 1986, 1985
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
CVG Annual Juried Exhibit, Bremerton, WA 2021
Small Expressions, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2020
Departures & Arrivals: Artists in Abstraction, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, BI, WA 2019
Yates, Nelson, Juvonen, The Old Alcohol Plant Gallery, Port Hadlock, WA 2019
Cadence, Ryan James Fine Arts, Kirkland, WA 2019
Expressions Northwest, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2018, 16, 15, 13, 08, 07, 05
Radical Change, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2016
1004 Gallery Revisited, Carnegie Public Library, Port Townsend, WA 2015
New Scapes, Port Townsend Gallery, Port Townsend, 2015
Alchemy of the Abstract, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2015
Small Expressions Northwest 13, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, 2014
Art Convergence 2014, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, 2014
Small Works, Bilinear Art Consulting, Seattle, WA, 2014
Art and the Word, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, 2014
Re-Opening, Carnegie Public Library, Port Townsend, 2014
Vistas, The Ryan James Gallery, Kirkland, WA 2013
CVG Annual, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA 2014
Inaugural Exhibit, Ryan James Gallery, Bellevue, WA 2013
Water, Peninsula College Gallery, Port Angeles, WA 2013
Small Expressions, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2013
Collision, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 2013
Art of the Garden, Schack Arts Center, Everett, WA 2013
Maritime Art: 1880-2013, Jefferson County Museum of Art & History, Port Townsend, 2013
New Work, Ryan James Gallery, Bellevue, WA 2013
The CVG Annual Juried Exhibit, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA 2012
25! A Silver Legacy, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA 2011
18th Juried Exhibit, Schack Arts Center, Everett, WA 2011
Expressions Northwest, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2010
Invitational Exhibit, That Art Gal Gallery, Bellevue Square, Bellevue, WA 2010
Neighborhood, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend, WA 2010
Morris Graves Centenary Invitational, Mystic Sons of Morris Graves -
Seattle Lodge 93, Rock/Dement Art Space, Seattle, WA 2010
The Shape of Water, Maritime Center, Port Townsend, WA 2010
Next, Art at the Pier, Anacortes, WA 2010
Sea, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2010
Strait Art, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA 2010
Mountains, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2008
Cross Pollination, 4 Person Show, Northwind Art Center, Pt Townsend, WA 2008
Unorganization; Collaborations, The Art Mine, Port Hadlock, WA 2008
Spring Fling, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007
Stark, The Art Mine, Port Hadlock, WA 2007
Small Expressions, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2007
Then and Now, Northwind Arts Center, Pt. Townsend, WA 2006
20 Years, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Pt. Angeles, WA 2006
Square One, The Art Mine Gallery, Port Hadlock, WA 2006
Poncho 5th Annual Invitational, Seattle, WA, 2006
Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Summer Introductions, 2005
Strait Art, Part 1, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Pt. Angeles, WA 2005
Group Show, Patricia Cameron Fine Arts, Seattle, WA 2005
Abstractions, Juried Exhibit, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2003, 2004
Small Works, Juried Exhibit, Jefferson Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA 2002
Invitational Exhibit, The Frank Russell Company, Tacoma, WA 2002
New Work, Patricia Cameron Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2002
Art from the City of Dreams, The University House, Seattle, WA 2002
Art in Port Townsend, Juried Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Rose City Zeitgeist, Visual Chronicle, City Hall, Portland, OR 2001.
Pleasure Craft, Washington Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 2001.
Canterbury Fair, Juried Exhibit, City of Kent, Kent, WA 2001.
The Community, Juried Exhibit, South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA 2001.
Art on the Hill, Univ. of WA-Olympic Natural Resource Center, Forks WA 1999.
Inaugural Exhibit, Martin Andrews Gallery, Port Townsend, WA 1998.
Artists and Collectors, Edward Cain Gallery, Port Townsend, WA 1998.
Northwest Internationals, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 1998, 1996, 1988, 1986.
Another Peninsula, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA 1996.
The 1004 Gallery Group Exhibits, Port Townsend, WA 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992.
Microsoft Collection, Henry Gallery, Univ. of WA Seattle, Washington, 1993.
Artist Trust Fellowship Recipients, (Touring) E. Washington Univ., Cheney, WA 1992.
Drawing International, Secured Gallery, B.Y.U., Provo, Utah 1990.
Northwest Annual, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington 1990, 1985.
Art Quake, City of Portland, Portland, Oregon 1989.
Juried Art Exhibit, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington 1989.
Earth Views, Gallery Mesa, Mesa, Arizona 1989.
Figurative, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon 1989.
From the Mind of the Artist, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 1988.
Northwest Printmakers, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery 1988.
Contemporary Landscapes, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon 1988.
Annual NW Watercolors, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1987, 1985.
Northwest ‘87, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1987.
Masks: Facing the World, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 1987.
Pacific States Drawings and Prints, University of Hawaii-Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii 1987.
Northwest Now, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1986.
Open House, Bumbershoot, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA 1986.
East West East Collaborative Gallery (City, County, State) Seattle Center, 1985.
New Artists, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA 1985.
Northwest Art ‘85, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 1985.
Northwest Juried Exhibit, Alcoa Gallery, Wenatchee, WA 1985.
Seattle Sampler, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 1985.
Northwest Crafts Gallery, Two Person Exhibit, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA 1985.
Faculty Exhibit, Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, WA 1984.
Washington Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1983.
Port Townsend Art, Juried Exhibitions, Port Townsend, WA 1983, 1982, 1981.
Idaho Biennial Painting, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho 1981.
5th National Drawing Exhibit, Brainerd Gallery, S.U.N.Y., Potsdam N.Y., 1981.
14th National Painting & Sculpture, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio 1981.
National Juried Exhibits, Secured Gallery, B.Y.U., Provo, Utah 1985, 1981, 1980.
Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri 1980.
National Watercolor Biennial, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ 1980.
Paintings: 1978-1980, Thesis Exhibit, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1979.
5th Annual Juried Paintings, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas 1979.
National Biennial Drawing Exhibit, College of St. Mary, Omaha, Nebraska 1978.
New Artists, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 1978.
Gallery 141 Group Exhibit, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 1978.
Dreamscapes, Northside Gallery, Eugene, Oregon 1978.