Born: Chicago, IL; lives and works in Portland, OR
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2023 Idiom, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2023 The Body Moves with (an) Crowded Mind, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
2021 Sentinels, Sun Valley Museum of Art Project Space, Ketchum, ID
2019 Memo, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Logo(s), Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Portland2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Bush Barn, Salem, OR
2014 The Word Hand, PerformanceWorks NW, Portland, OR
2009 Record Record, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2008 Idiomsyncretic, Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
2005 Mutatis Mutandis, Northview Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 Reading & Writing #5, Metropolitan Center for Public Art, Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Sensate Objects, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
2022 Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts, 2017-19, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR,
2020 Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts 2017-19, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene
2018 Assemblage & Collage, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2017 New Modernism, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 Views from Oregon: Sixteen Artists, Ucross Foundation Gallery, Clearmont, WY
2016 Out of Sight, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
2016 and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
2015 Words, Words, Words, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 New Art 2.0, Eitlejorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
2014 All the News That’s Fit to Print, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2011 Sending Signals, Art Space, Ulsan, South Korea
2010 Re-Present, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 Portland 2010, A Biennial of Contemporary Art, White Box, Portland, OR
2006 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2006 The Daily News, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
2005 The Daily News, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2004 Drawn Fictions, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2003 Sorta, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
2002 Slowness, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
Selected Awards, Grants, Residencies
2019 New Work Commission, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Hailey ID
2018 Individual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission
2017 Hallie Ford Visual Arts Fellowship, The Ford Family Foundation
2017 Corporation of Yaddo Fellowship
2016 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
2015 Ucross Fellowship, Clearmont, WY
2013 Caldera Artist Residency, Sisters, OR
2013 Fellowship, Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2012 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship
2012 Golden Spot Artist Residency, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts
2006 Jurors’ Award, Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Public Collections
Library of Congress Prints and Photography Collection
Microsoft Corporation
Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR
Bonnie Bronson Collection, Reed College, Portland, OR
City of Portland Portable Works
Menashe Properties, Portland, OR
Selected Reviews, Essays and Catalogues
Collier, Patrick, "Pat Boas at Oregon Contemporary", Oregon Artswatch, Feb. 25, 2022
Sarah Sentilles, "Sentinels: Pat Boas and the Art of Reclaiming Freedom," Deeds Not Words exhibition catalogue, Sun Valley Museum of Art, 2021
Sun Valley Museum of Art, Deeds Not Words: Women Working for Change, 2021
The Ford Family Foundation, Pat Boas: Artist Guide, essay by Bean Gilsdorf, 2020
Grabner, Michelle and Prudence Roberts, A Reader on Place and Work/The Disjecta
Portland2016 Biennial, Disjecta, 2016
Art Gym, From this distance one might never imagine that it is alive, Marylhurst University, 2016
Snyder, S., T. Hopkins, Record Record, exhibition catalogue, Marylhurst University, 2009
Bowie, Chas, “All the faces fit to print,” The Oregonian, Oct. 16, 2009
Duford, Daniel, “’2006 Oregon Biennial’ at the Portland Art Museum,” Artweek, Oct 2006
Jablonski, Jeanine, Pat Boas: You have no companion but Night, OregonLive.com, 8/22/06
Bowie, Chas, “Two Views of the Oregon Biennial,” The Mercury, Aug. 3, 2006 (reproduction)
Schnoor, Christopher, “Paper Chase,” Boise Weekly, Feb 22, 2006
Zimmer, Willy, “Read All About it!”, The Casper Star-Tribune, 12/30/05
Blake, Victoria, “A Quarter-century of Quality,” The Oregonian A&E, Dec. 2, 2005
Tierney, Eric, “The Art of News,” Salt Lake Metro, April 2005
Kopman, Debra, “Previews,” Artweek, Feb 2005
Hackett, Regina, “Extra! Extra!: The Daily News,” Salt Lake Art Center (cat essay, repro) 2005
Hackett, Regina, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2/22/03
Stuart Horodner, Slowness, Marylhurst University, Feb 2003 (catalogue)
Allan, Lois, Portland Review, Art Papers, July/August, 2002, pp. 52-53