Ian H. Boyden
Ian Boyden Studios
Crab Quill Press
Education
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
M.A. in the History of Art, December 1998.
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
B.A. in Art History and East Asian Studies, May 1995.
Professional Experience
1997–present: Artist
1998–2007: Director of the Donald H. Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
Residencies, Fellowships & Awards
Grass Mountain Residency for the Arts, Otis, Oregon, 2013
Jia Yuan Artist-in-Residence, Suzhou, China, Spring 2012
Artist-in-Residence, Suzhou University, China, Fall 2011
Allison B. Allen Artist-in-Residence, Central College, Pella, IA, 2009
Voted Best Work on Paper—2007, Willamette Week, Portland, OR, 2007
Richard J. Franke Fellowship, Yale University, 1996-97
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, China, 1995-96
Freeman Prize for Excellence in East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, 1995
Beulah Friedman Prize for Excellence in Art History, Wesleyan University, 1995
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Flowing Movement: The Material Imagination of Ian Boyden. Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China.
Eccentric Orbits. Willow Gallery, Walla Walla, Washington.
Origins and Correspondences. Chengtan, Xinchang, Zhejiang, China.
Feathers Shed from a Meteor. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington.
Squaring the Circle. The Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Field of the Sky. The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Ian Boyden: Collaborative Artist's Books Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, Iowa.
Drinking with the Moon. Seven Hills Winery, Walla Walla, Washington.
Let the Stones Tell It: Recent paintings and collaborative book with Sam Hamill. Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Echoes of Earth, Part II. Seven Hills Winery, Walla Walla, Washington.
Habitations: Recent paintings and book with Sam Hamill. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington.
A Selection of Artist Books Produced by Crab Quill Press. Hauser Library, Reed College.
Echoes of Earth: Landscapes Interpreting the Terroir of Eastern Washington. Seven Hills Winery, Walla Walla, Washington.
Shorelines: Paintings by Ian H. Boyden. Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Standing on the Shores of Chaos: Paintings by Ian H. Boyden. Rogers Gallery, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
Alchemical Feathers: Paintings and Books by Ian H. Boyden. Foundry Gallery, Walla Walla, Washington.
Recent Paintings by Ian Boyden. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington.
Meditations on the Breath of Trees: Paintings by Ian Boyden. Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, Oregon.
Mirror Over Tunguska: Paintings by Ian Boyden. Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Translations from the Azurite: Paintings by Ian Boyden. Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, Idaho.
Road Through Sleep: Paintings by Ian Boyden. Woodward Canyon Winery, Lowden, Washington.
Virga and the Synaesthesia of Spheres: Paintings by Ian Boyden. Seven Hills Winery, Walla Walla, Washington.
Primordia and Other Fancies: Paintings by Ian Boyden. Grapefields, Walla Walla, Washington.
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Death and Life of Al-Muntanabbi Street. John Rylands Library, University of Manchester.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here. Wayne State University Library, Detroit, Michigan.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project. Joure Museum, Joure, Netherlands.
ONE OF A KIND, Part 1. Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Collection of the Southwest Meteorite Laboratory. Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona.
Conference on Book Destruction. University of London, London.
Object Focus: The Book. Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project, San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco, California.
Southwest Meteorite Laboratory, Geodecor, Tucson, Arizona.
Sitka Invitational, Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon.
Gadzooks! Amazing Books by Northwest Artists. Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, Washington.
Books & Broadsides. Lower Columbia College, Washington.
Scapes: Environments Interpreted. Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, California.
Art of Ink—2005. Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
Pushing the Margins. White Lotus Gallery, Eugene, Oregon.
Art of Ink—2005. New York Hall of Science, Brooklyn, New York.
The Enchantment of the Artist Book. Gilkey Center, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
The Field of Aki. Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Art of Ink—2004. Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama.
Art of Ink—2003. Shaanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xi'an, P.R.China.
Art of Ink—2002. Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
ArtWalla. Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, Washington.
Art of Ink—2001. National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taipei, Taiwan.
Art of Ink—2000. Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey.
Art of Ink—1999. Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, California.
Visible Poetry: The Word as Abstraction. Bush Barn Art Center, Salem Oregon.
Art of Ink—1999. Moolpha Group, Seoul, South Korea.
Book Arts at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Newport Visual Art Center, Newport, Oregon.
A Carousel at Birth. Wessel and Lieberman Booksellers, Seattle, Washington.
Gulou Exhibition Hall, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China.
Commissions, Artist Books, & Collaborative Projects
Lapland Moth. Unique book made from an iron meteorite.
Sidereal Heart. Unique book made from an iron meteorite.
The Heart of the Monster: Why the Pacific Northwest & Northern Rockies Must Not Become an ExxonMobil Conduit to the Alberta Tar Sands. I collaborated with Rick Bass, David Duncan, Steven Hawley, and Frederic Ohringer to produce this piece of environmental activism. Published by All Against The Haul (Missoula, MT).
Squaring the Circle. During the course of 2010, I collaborated extensively with Timothy C. Ely. Our work resulted in 23 paintings, many of which were debuted in the exhibition "Squaring the Circle" at The Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Field of the Sky. Unique book made from an iron meteorite with an accompanying painting made using the meteorite dust. Commissioned by Whitman College in memory of Rina Imperial. Hall of Science, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project. 130 printers and writers collaborated to produce broadsides in response to the bombing of Iraq. All proceeds go to Doctors Without Boarders.
Habitations. A collaborative manuscript book of paintings by Ian Boyden and poem by Sam Hamill. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
Ochi Grave Marker. Commemorative stone marker for the Fred and Yoshiko Ochi commissioned by the Ochi family. Idaho Falls, Idaho.
River Through the Valley of Fire. Graphic design of an exhibition catalogue for American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California.
Coexistence with Fire. Graphic design of an exhibition catalogue for American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California.
Etched in Stone: The Geology of City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park, Idaho. Graphic design of a book for Idaho Geological Society, Moscow, Idaho.
Conversations Across Time. Graphic design of an exhibition catalogue for C. G. Boerner, New York, New York.
The Oystercatcher and the Pearl Feather: A Sequence of Paintings by Ian H. Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
Near to the Place Where They Should Meet. A collaborative manuscript book of drawings and paintings by Ian H. Boyden and Timothy C. Ely. Jointly published by Crab Quill Press and Planetary Collage.
Segments Along A Horizon: A Sequence of Paintings by Ian H. Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
Convergences. A large-scale stone and bronze sculpture by Ian and Jennifer Boyden. Commissioned by Blue Mountain Arts Alliance and the City of Walla Walla.
The Creator is Without Words. A stone stele featuring the calligraphy of Bai Qianshen engraved into a basalt column. Produced for Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, Washington.
The Irreverences, Provocations & Connivances of Uncle Skulky. An artist's book featuring a suite of twenty-one prints, one self-portrait and several original drawings by Frank Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
The Field of Aki. An artist's book featuring a poem by Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro (Japanese, fl. Late 7th c.); written translation by Edward Morris; calligraphy by Bai Qianshen; and prints by Frank Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
Serpentine Torso. A stone and bronze collaborative sculpture with Wayne Chabre.
Evidence of Night. An artist's book featuring poems by Jennifer Boyden, prints and drawings by Frank Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
On the Synaesthesia of Spheres. Watercolors and essay by Ian Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
The Augury of a Cranefly. Collected, Composed & Calligraphed by Ian Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
Twenty Views of Cascade Head. An artist's book featuring prints by Charles Chu and Frank Boyden, poems by J. Cailin Oakes and Ian Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
Parts and Pieces: A Brief Bestiary. An artist's book featuring prints and drawings by Rick Bartow and Frank Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
Bird Spirits: Nine Pieces for Jane Boyden. An artist's book featuring piano pieces by William Bolcom, prints by Frank Boyden. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
Peach Blossom Fish: Selected Poems Composed & Calligraphed by Chang Ch'ung-ho. Chinese title: 桃花鱼. An artist's book featuring poems and calligraphy by Chang Ch'ung-ho and translations by Hans H. Frankel, Ian Boyden, and Edward Morris. Walla Walla, Washington: Crab Quill Press.
A Mischievity of Craneflies. Ian Boyden. Otis, Oregon: Crab Quill Press.
A Carousel at Birth. An artist's book featuring a poem by Ian Boyden, prints by Frank Boyden. Portland, Oregon: Salient Seedling Press.
Catalogues and Reviews
Bai, Qianshen, et. al., Flowing Movement: The Material Imagination of Ian Boyden. Shanghai: Shanghai Cultural Press (in cooperation with J.Y. Gallery and the Suzhou Museum), 2012.
Liu, Xin (刘欣), “An American Shares Stories About Chang Ch'ung-ho《桃花鱼·师徒情·苏州缘：一位美国人与张充和的故事》, Suzhou Ribao 《苏州日报》, January 15, 2012.
Wallace, Eileen, Masters: Book Arts: Major Works by Leading Artists. Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books, 2011.
Wilson, Mindy, “Percolations of the Void,” in The Georgia Review (Winter 2010).
Musolf, Peter, “The bottle as a mystic portal,” in Walla Walla Lifestyles (November 2010).
Sicha, Choire, “The Oldest Book in the World: Ian Boyden's Field of the Sky,” in Mischief + Mayhem (October 2, 2010).
Chen, Xiaowei (陈晓维), "Ian Boyden, Chang Ch'ung-ho, Peach Blossom Fish," 《薄英，充和，桃花鱼》online essay on 陈晓维的BLOG (http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_3f51e9190100kapz.html), (July 8, 2010).
Popova, Dena, “Boyden's literary, longing skeletons at Seven Hills Winery Tasting Room,” in Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (October 22, 2009).
Speer, Richard, “Ian Boyden: “Let The Stones Tell It” at Augen Gallery,” in art ltd. (March 2009, pg. 27), Woodland Hills, California.
Speer, Richard, “Ian Boyden at Augen,” in Willamette Week (Volume 33, Issue 20 (March 28, 2007), pg. 60), Portland, Oregon.
Walsh, Daniella, “Taking a fresh look at the land,” in Orange County Register, Arts and Entertainment pg. 15 (Oct 1, 2006).
Cowan, Ron, “Inspired by Chinese history, painter delves into chaos,” in The Statesman Journal (September 29, 2006), Salem, Oregon
Greenwood, Kevin, “Ian Boyden: At the Vibrant Epicenter,” in Standing on the Shores of Chaos. Salem, Oregon:Willamette University, 2006.
Hunter, Julia, “Ian Boyden's Alchemical Feathers,” in Alchemical Feathers. Walla Walla, Washington: Walla Walla Foundry, 2006.
Dong, Qiao (董桥) "Qianshen Bai brings a copy of Peach Blossom Fish" 《白谦慎带来了《桃花鱼》》, online essay appearing on Sina Xinwen Zhongxin (http://news.sina.com.cn/s/2005-07-26/17047330066.shtml), (June 13, 2005).
Toedtemeier, Terry, “On Ian Boyden and ‘Meditations on the Breath of Trees,'” in Meditations on the Breath of Trees. Pendleton, OR: Pendleton Center for the Arts, 2005.
Murry, Terry, “Artist catches the wind,” in the Eastern Oregonian (October 13, p. 6a), Pendleton, Oregon, 2005.
Lamberton, Daniel, “Geographical Blood: Ian Boyden's New Paintings,” in Translations from the Azurite/Mirror Over Tunguska: Paintings by Ian H. Boyden. Co-published by Ochi Fine Art (Ketchum, Idaho) and Augen Gallery (Portland, Oregon) 2005.
Kim, Sun Wuk, Art of Ink in America—2003. Xi'an, P.R.China: Shanxi Provincial Art Museum, 2002.
Kim, Sun Wuk, Art of Ink in America—2002. Portland, Oregon: Contemporary Crafts Gallery, 2002.
Kim, Sun Wuk, Art of Ink in America—2000. Newark, NJ: Rutgers University, 2000.
Publications
《激情·想象·创造——一位美国艺术家对中国书法元素的感悟与体验》"Passion, Imagination, Creativity: An American Artist's Perception of and Experience with Chinese Calligraphy.," in Chinese Calligraphy 《中国书法》, Beijing, April 2012, pg. 104-116.
“The Bloom of Breath” in Anna Hepler: Bloom. Suyama Space, Seattle, Washington, 2011.
“Chasing Shadows, Becoming Atlas,” in Timothy C. Ely—Line of Sight. Spokane, Washington: Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, 2010.
Reading Everything: A Cryptic Invitation from Ancient Iron. Walla Walla, Washington: Whitman College, 2010.
“道在瓦甓：华人德书作的意象,主题和风格,” in 《华人德书法作品集》 (Hua Rende's Calligraphy Works). Beijing: Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 2008.
Echoes of Earth: Landscapes Interpreting Terroir. Walla Walla, Washington: Seven Hills Winery, 2007.
“Some Observations about Frank Boyden as Collaborator and Accounts of His Book Projects at Crab Quill Press” in Frank Boyden: Prints and Books. Co-authored with Prudence Roberts. Salem, Oregon: Hallie-Ford Museum of Art, 2006.
“The Way can be found in bricks and shards: Juxtapositions of image, text and calligraphic style in the work of Hua Rende,” (translated by Mao Qiujin) in Zhongguo Shufa 《中国书法》(Chinese Calligraphy) 2006: vol. 11, pg. 77-80, Beijing, P.R. China.
“Reflections on Forgotten Surfaces: Hua Rende's exhibition of calligraphy at Whitman College,” (translated by Mao Qiujin) in Zhongguo Mohen meishu daokan 《中国墨痕美术导刊》(Ink Marks), 2006: vol. 11, pg. 1, Nangjing, P.R. China.
Roots of Clouds, Transcendence of Stones. Co-authored with Jennifer Boyden and Terry Toedtemeier. Walla Walla, Washington: Donald H. Sheehan Gallery (Whitman College), 2006.
Reflections on Forgotten Surfaces: The Calligraphy of Hua Rende. Walla Walla, Washington: Donald H. Sheehan Gallery (Whitman College), 2005.
The Tables of Jupiter: Graphic Work by Timothy C. Ely. Walla Walla, Washington: Donald H. Sheehan Gallery (Whitman College), 2004.
“Introduction” in Art of Ink in America—2002. Portland, Oregon: Contemporary Crafts Gallery, 2002.
Envoys: Prints by Rick Bartow. Walla Walla, Washington: Whitman College, January 2002.
Amid the Shore Reeds: A Japanese Screen from the Davis Collection. Walla Walla, Washington: Whitman College, January 2001.
Stone Brushes: Three Calligraphers from Suzhou. Portland, Oregon: Contemporary Crafts Gallery, July 2000.
A Carousel at Birth. Ian Boyden and Frank Boyden. Portland, Oregon: Salient Seedling Press, 1997.
“Discussing Eastern Jin Epitaphs in Conjunction with some Notes on Debates Concerning the Orchid Pavilion,” translation of 《論東晉墓誌兼及蘭亭序論辯》 by Hua Rende (华人德), in Early Medieval China 3 (August 1997). Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University.
The Peripatetic Brush: Four Contemporary Chinese Calligraphers and Their Use of the Past. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1995.
Selected Public Lectures Concerning Books, Text, and Painting
2011 “Heavy Book! Implications of Reading Meteoric Iron,” Central College, Pella, Iowa.
“Esoteric Pigments and the Material Imagination (two public talks),” Willow Gallery, Walla Walla, WA.
2010 “Carbon Trap: Meditations on Carbon as a Source Material,” The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
“From Dust to Rust: Reading an Iron Meteorite,” Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.
2009 “Ian Boyden's Collaborative Books,” Central College, Pella, Iowa
“Systems & Structures Behind the Codex,” Central College, Pella, Iowa.
2008 “Why a Book?” Reed College, Portland, Oregon
2006 “Invertebrate Scripts,” Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
2005 “The Calligraphy of Hua Rende,” University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
2005 “The way can be found in bricks and shards,” Portland Classical Chinese Garden, Portland, OR
Selected Exhibitions Curated/Organized
(Unless noted, the exhibitions listed below were at the Sheehan Gallery.)
M168: Works by Geraldine Ondrizek, 2007.
Instrument / Implement: Work by Buster Simpson, 2006.
Roots of Clouds, Transcendence of Stones. Co-curated with Jennifer Boyden and Terry Toedtemeier, 2006.
Reflections on Forgotten Surfaces: The Calligraphy of Hua Rende, 2005.
The Tables of Jupiter: Graphic Work by Timothy C. Ely, 2004.
Points of Contact: Shoichi Ida & Robert Kushner, Co-curated with Keiko Hara, 2003.
Legends of Rock & Roll: Photographs by Jim Marshall and Andrew Kent, 2003.
Embroidered Anatomies: Patrick Traer, 2002.
Metamorphosis/Web: Yuriko Yamaguchi, 2002.
Envoys: Prints by Rick Bartow, 2002.
PRINTSDRAWINGWRITING: Works by Terry Allen, 2001.
Time Spent With Text: an Installation by Kathy Kuehn, 2001.
Tom Prochaska: Thirty Years of Graphics, 2000.
Stone Brushes: Three Calligraphers from Suzhou, 2000 (Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon).
Crosscut Flame: Wood-fired Ceramics from the Jewel Creek Anagama, 2000.
Taste in Home Decorating: New Paintings by Roberto Juarez, 2000.
(stillness): Winifred Lutz, 2000.
West by Northwest: Photographs by Peter de Lory, 1999.
Weegee The Famous: Photographs from the Alan and Ellen Newberg Collection, 1999.
Claudia Bernardi: Traces/Huellas, 1998.
The Peripatetic Brush: Four Contemporary Chinese Calligraphers and Their Use of the Past, 1995 (Mansfield Freeman Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut).
Public/Corporate Collections
Crab Quill Press Books
Beijing University, Beijing, P.R. China.
Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Carleton College, New York, New York.
Chu-Griffis Collection, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.
Contemporary Crafts Museum, Portland, Oregon.
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
The Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
University of Michigan, Music Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
New York Public Library, New York, New York.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
Mansfield Freeman Center, Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
Reed College, Portland, Oregon.
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Stoll, Berne, Lokting & Shlachter, Portland, Oregon.
Suzhou University, Suzhou, P.R. China.
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Paintings & Sculpture
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon.
City of Walla Walla, Washington.
Seven Hills Winery, Walla Walla, Washington.
SPEX SamplePrep, Metuchen, New Jersy.
Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, Washington.
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.