Research Highlights Archive

2021 Research Highlights

• John and Wohnee Ardnt’s Studio Gorm launched the Penna Collection with Memo Furniture, Seattle, WA.
   
• Wohnee Ardnt received a 2022 summer stipend for Humanities and Creative Arts from UO for a “Collaborative Lighting Design Project with Arita” and also was included in Design Pavilion’s AAPI Industrial designers feature.
   
• Jovencio de la Paz had a solo exhibitions of his algorithmic weavings the "Ghost and the Maze" at Specialist in Seattle, WA and "Cumulative Shadow" at Holding Contemporary in Portland, OR.
   
• Tannaz Farsi was a 2021-22 Fund for Faculty Excellence recipient selected by the Office of the Provost.
   
• Tannaz Farsi, Anya Kivarkis, and Jack Ryan-Snell were included in the traveling exhibition "What Needs to be Said" at the Schneider Museum of Art.
   
• Trygve Faste’s rigging knife design was selected as one of four finalists in the Gray Design Awards.
   
• Colin Ives’s collaborative audio visual piece "Aleph Earth" was on view at the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
   
• Ron Jude had a solo exhibition of his large-scale black-and-white photographs "12 Hz" at Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin, Germany and at the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
   
• Sylvan Lionni had a solo exhibition of his latest sculptures and paintings "double vision" at Taubert Contemporary in Berlin, Germany.
   
• Charlene Liu had a solo exhibition of paintings and prints "Lattice" at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, OR and also installed a group of large-scale paintings and woodcut prints "Hotpot/Mooncake" in the PNW Public Market in the recently opened Unthank Dining Hall in Eugene, OR.
   
• Christopher Michlig screened films “Friendship Pt. 1 & 2” and “A Thousand Little Dots” at Nowhere Gallery, Milan, Italy.
   
• Michael Salter was interviewed about his icon and logo design work in The Noun Project.
   
• Stacy Jo Scott had a solo exhibition of clay figures, masks and vessels "Lo, A Vase in the Dark" at Holding Contemporary in Portland, OR.
   
• Rick Silva was included in the group exhibitions Hors Piste at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Immigrant Artists of the American West at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington, From Seeing to Acting at Radical Reversibility in Amsterdam, and also curated an online exhibition for Feral File Fragments of a Hologram Rose.
   
• Susan Sokolowski was elected a National Academy of Inventors Fellow , was a Woolmark 2021 Institution Award Winner, and received a Wu Tsai Alliance grant for 3D Anthropometric Scanning & Machine Learning to Understand Sex Patterned Performance Geometries of Runners.
   
• Amanda Wojick created a site-specific public art sculpture “Call Number Cascade”, for the Salem Library in Oregon.
   
• Alex Xu’s shoe sole design for Columbia was produced.

2020 Research Highlights

• Hiba Ali was featured in online exhibitions “Moving Ether Way” curated by Holly Chang and Karina Iskandarsjah at Trinity Square Video’s V/Art Projects and Abra: Digital Exhibition in Left Contemporary, Windsor, ON and also completed residencies in the ADA DADA Residency program in Toronto, ON and the Squeaky Wheel Artist and Mentor in Residence, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY.
   
• John and Wonhee Ardnt/Studio Gorm launched Maru Collection for Memo, Seattle, WA.
   
• Jonathan Bagby curated the exhibition “Paper Dagger” and helped design and facilitate the inaugural season of the Transformation Residency, a residency program supporting transgender and gender-diverse visual artists in Oregon at Tropical Contemporary.
   
• Mika Boyd participated in the Ayatana Art and Science Research Residency “Germinate” in Ottawa, Canada, “Common Ground” at Eugene Contemporary Art, and the Mid-America Prints Council Biennial Conference, Power of Print, Themed Portfolio: “Banner Flags of Resistance and Revolution” at Kent State University.
   
• Tannaz Farsi had a solo exhibition “A More Perfect Union” at Holding Contemporary in Portland, OR and was featured in group exhibitions including “Migrating Bodies: For(Saking) Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness” at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, OR and “[In Flux :on influence, inspiration, transmission and transformation]” curated by Zahar Vacks at Ortega Y Gassetin Brooklyn, NY.
   
• Brian Gillis was featured in the 2020 Terrain Biennial, Enos Park, Springfield, IL, the 2020 International Conference on The Image Pop-Up Exhibition at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and his work was included in “Porcelain and Bone China” by Sasha Wardell, Crowood Press Ltd, UK.
   
• Colin Ives’ project “Aleph Earth” premiered at currents new media festival and was featured in an interview in Early Music America. He was an Oregon Arts Commission 2020 Individual Artist Fellowship recipient.
   
• Ron Jude’s monograph “12 Hz” was published by MACK, London and was included in “Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography” curated by Toby Jurovics at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE and in “Camera Austria: ‘What’s at Stake/What’s Missing?’” issue 150/151, 2020.
   
• Charlene Liu’s work was featured in the presentation “Another Beautiful Country: Cross-Cultural Hauntings in Chinese American Art” during a two-part symposium “Feminism in American Art History” supported by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and included in “Surface Impressions” at LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, NE.
   
• Donald Morgan received a 2020 Hallie Ford Fellowship.
   
• Kiersten Muenchinger’s “Position One Shooting Glove” (image) was a 2020 International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) finalist, presented “UOPD x Prison Blues” at the Design Principle & Practices Research Network conference at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, and was awarded a UO Remote Teaching Award.
   
• Jack Ryan, Anya Kivarkis, and Tannaz Farsi were featured in “[What Needs to be Said]: Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts” curated by Diana Nawi Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR.
   
• Stacy Jo Scott received a Career Opportunity Grant through the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation that will support an Artistic Researcher-in-Residence position at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway in Fall 2021.
   
• Erdem and Hale Selek/Selek Design received a 2020 Grey Magazine award in the product design category and were longlisted at Dezeen Awards 2020 for “Emerging Designer of the Year” and for “Homeware Design.”
   
• Rick Silva was included in “State of the Art 2020” at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American, Bentonville, AR, in 150 Media Stream in Chicago, IL and in Hors Piste, which opens January 22, 2021 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
   
• Susan Sokolowkski received an Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) 2020 Best Research Paper Award for “Investigation of 3D functional grip shape to design products for dog walking and hiking” and had over Over 240K reads of “Making masks at home – what you need to know about how to reduce the transmission of coronavirus” published in “The Conversation”, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
   
• Jessica Swanson participated in a residency at Createspace Wales, UK.
   
• Jessie Vala participated in the Archie Bray Residency in MT and collaborated with Carla Bengston in “Every Word was Once and Animal” at the JSMA, Eugene, OR.
   
• Ty Warren participated in the Transformation Residency with Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR.
   
• Amanda Wojick was selected for a commissioned project for the City of Salem’s Public Library to be installed in 2021.

2019 Research Highlights

• Wonhee Ardnt received a University of Oregon Faculty Excellence Award.
• John Arndt and Wonhee Ardnt/Studio Gorm were invited to design an installation for Google SPAN 2019, an annual technology and design conference in Brooklyn, New York.
• “Creatures: When Species Meet” curated by Steven Majticio at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio included work by Carla Bengtson.
• Jovencio de la Paz had a solo show at HOLDING Contemporary in Portland, Oregon titled “Innumerable _______hold close the _______”.
• The 2019 Portland Biennial at the Disjecta Contemporary Art Center included work by Jovencio de la Paz and Colin Ives.
•  “Part and Parcel- Art of the Iranian Diaspora” curated by Taraneh Hemami at the San Francisco Art Commission Galleries including work by Tannaz Farsi.
• Tannaz Farsi was named the 28th Bonnie Bronson Fellow.
• “What Needs to be Said, Hallie Ford Fellows Exhibition” curated by Diana Nawi at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, in Salem Oregon and scheduled to travel around the state included work by Tannaz Farsi, Anya Kivarkis, and Jack Ryan.
• Ron Jude was named a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.
• Sylvan Lionni had a solo exhibition “Standard Stack” at Stene Projects in Stockholm, Sweden.
   
• Kiersten Muenchinger won a Fulbright Specialist Program Award to Tirana, Albania.
• Harmonic Laboratory’s John Park exhibited “Awash” at the High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon and “Color Sound” in collaboration with the Eugene Symphony, Hult Center, Eugene, OR
• Jack Ryan had a solo exhibition “Sound and Suspicion” at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
• Erdem Selek and Hale Selek/Selek Design exhibited a series of household object designs at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.
• Hale Selek was awarded an IDSA Young Educator Award.
• Rick Silva had a solo exhibition “Liminal Territory” at TRANSFER Gallery in Los Angeles, California and was included in “Border Control” at Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
• The Tinker Hatfield Award for Innovation in Design was awarded to Susan Sokolowski to lead a team for Universal Design for Healthy Aging: Mobility, Metrics and Memory.
• Jessie Rose Vala, with collaborator Stephen Nachtigall, held The Yellow Forest Workshop at Truck Contemporary in Calgary, Canada.
• “Cherry Blossoms (weeping)” and “Cherry Blossoms (whirling)” by Amanda Wojick were commissioned by the Public Art Project for the University of Oregon Eugene campus’ Bean Hall.