graceann cummings
If you could see God’s mistake, would you be happy?
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Show Walls July 2-August 31, Gary Manuel Salon, Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art
2023 Featured Artist at West Seattle Artwalk, July 1-31, West Seattle Junction Association & West Seattle Arts Council, Zelda Zonk Boutique, West Seattle
2019 Featured in Envision Arts Magazine, August 13, Virtual Exhibition, Curator Ginger Cochran
2019 Paintings, May 15, Conception Arts, Seattle
2017 Paintings and Sketches, February 24-26, Parallax Art Fair, London
2012 Paintings, January 1-31, Verity Credit Union, Seattle
2011 Paintings, Mar. 2011-Dec. 2011, Verity Credit Union, Seattle
2011 Inside the Music in a Box with a Flashlight!?!, October 3-7, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Art Crush
2010 Inside the Music in a Box with a Flashlight!?!, October 14-17, Pilot Books, Seattle, Art Crush
2010 Paintings, July 15, Open Studio, Seattle
2009 Inside the Music in a Box with a Flashlight!?!, August 6, First Thursdays Art in the Park, Seattle
2007 Inside the Music in a Box with a Flashlight!?!, August 12-13, Sandpoint Arts and
Cultural Exchange(SPACE) Magnuson Park Gallery, Seattle
2006 Inside the Music Who Says Love Isn’t Dangerous?, June 17,
OutPost Gallery, Boston
2006 Inside the Music in a Box with a Flashlight!?!, January 20-21, Sandpoint Arts and Exchange
(SPACE) Magnuson Park, Seattle, Sponsor Don Hudgins Sedrat Arts
2005 Paintings, May 7- May 28, Support for artists program Bank of America, Seattle
2002 Inside the Music Paintings, August 17 – August 18, Arts in Nature Festival
presented by the Nature Conservancy, Seattle
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Paint the World, December 5-29, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2024 Red Dot Miami, December 4-8 World Wide Art, Miami, FL.
2024 Art San Diego, November 1-3, World Wide Art Booth 607, San Diego, CA
2024 Congratulations! Member Show, July 15-28, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2024 Art Expo New York, April 4-7, WorldWideArt-Artivita, Pier 36, New York City, NY
2023 Re-Imagine, July 1-31, CoCA Members Show, Curators Dave Francis, Ray Freeman, Seattle
2023 Time, June 1-August 1, Exhibizone, Ontario, Canada
2023 Expo Metro, June-July, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Awake, September 1- October 1, HMVC gallery New York, online representation
2022 Vitality, September 1- October 1, UNT CoLab Art Gallery Denton, TX
2022 Multifarious- National Juried Exhibition, August 6-September 3, d’Art Center, Curator Rick
Nickel, Norfolk VA
2022 Bower Center’s Paper Art National Juried Exhibition, July 15-August 20, Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford VA
2022 Golden 50 & Older, June 2- July, online exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2021 I Want To Believe, November 20-December 20, online exhibition, Biafarin Art Management
2021 Open Theme 2021, October 7-Nov.7, online exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2021 IMMIX 2021, September 4-October 4, Exhibizone Online Gallery, Biafarin Art Management
2021 Layers of Time, National 8th annual paper works juried exhibition, July 1 - July 18,
Upstream Gallery,Scarsdale, NY
2021 What is Beautiful, the Aesthetics of Pleasing the Mind, June 4-July 24, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas
City, MO
2021 34th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, March 25-May 6, McNeese State University, Curator Robyn Phillips, Lake Charles, LA
2020 October Group Show, September 30 – October 29, Jones Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2020 The 2nd Half - 50 and Over, September3-26, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2020 2020 Vision, March 5-June 25, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
2020 All Woman, February 26- March 24, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, Virtual Exhibition
2019 RUBY, December 1-31, Envision Arts Magazine, Virtual Exhibition
2019 Kristallnacht, November 16-December 17, SK art gallery, White Plains, NY
2019 Black + White, September 1- 30, Envision Arts Magazine, Curator Ginger Cochran, Online
2019 Gestault Projects 6, June 29-July 6, 2019, bG gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Bold Abstracts, June 13, 2019, Camelback Gallery, online
2019 Motherland, March 7- April 20, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
2018 555 Special Art Exhibition, July 1-July 30, Light, Space & Time Gallery, Curator John Math
2018 Creativity Persists, April 26-May 26, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle
2017 Make America Create Again, April 4, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle
2016 35 Live Members Show, March 3-April 23, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) Seattle
2015 Last Exit: Painting, September 11- October 10, Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC), Miami
2014 Who Are You?, November 7-28, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
2013 A Book About Death, September 30 – October 31, Tweed River Art Gallery,
Murwillumbah, New South Wales, AU
2013 CoCA Collision, October 4-November 4, Center on Contemporary Art Design Center,
Curators Chris Crites, Shawn Ferris, Joseph Roberts, Seattle
2011 A Book About Death, November 11-December 10, Quetzalcoatl Gallery, Seattle
2008 Violence Transformed, April 18 - May 9, Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Curator
Johnathan Shirland, Boston
2007 The Salon Show, August 6- August 28, Organization of Independent Artists, St. Francis
College, Brooklyn
2007 Works of Art on Paper, July 3- July 24, Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts & Sciences,
Curator Starr Figura, Long Beach Township
2007 Laugh, the Art of Humor, March 31- May 27, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for
the Arts, Curator Mark Luigi, Watertown
2007 Members and Friends, January 5 -26, Gallery 402, New York City
2006 'Present Tense' July 8 – July 28, ArtSPACE @ 16 gallery, Curator Heidi M. Marston, Malden
2006 Assemblage, Collage, Construction, May 5- May 25, Gallery 402, New York City
2006 Spin, January 12 – February 2, CVB space, Curator Cynthia van Buhler, New York City
2005 Member Show, November 27- January 12, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle
2003 Seclusion, October 4-5, Secluded Alley Works and Slender Means Society, Seattle
2003 We Are Not Alone Self Portrait Show, March 7- March 23, Secluded Alley Works, Curator Dan Ayala, Seattle
AWARDS
2023 Artististic Excellence Award, Juried competition for Red Dot Miami, Circle Foundation for
the Arts
2022 Honorable Mention, Multifarious- National Juried Exhibition, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
2018 Special Recognition, 555 Special Art Competition-Exhibition, Light, Space & Time gallery
2007 Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville
2005 Winner, Seattle Calendar images competition, Sponsored by Sedrat Arts.org
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Re-Imagine, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
2021 Exhibizone, IMMIX 2021, Biafarin Online Exhibition, Biafarin.com
publishing, Canada
2021 Thought Art Magazine 4th edition, www.thoughtartmagazine.com, LuLu
Press @ Thought Art
2021 34th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, Lake Charles, LA
McNeese State University Press
2016 35 Live: Members Show and Exhibition Catalog, Pg. 22, Center on Contemporary Art,
Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art Publications
2013 Talk to God II: A Book About Death- Australia, Digital Catalog, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, AU, The Good Guys Publication
2012 Talk to God: Pg. 60-61, A Book About Death, Exhibition Catalog, Quetzalcoatl Gallery,
Seattle, MagCloud Print Publishing
EDUCATION
1995 How to paint realistically, Instructor, Anne Fiske-Long, Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle
1989-91 Post-baccalaureate Piano Private Instruction, Edna Natkin, Julliard MMA piano performance
1985-87 Post-baccalaureate Piano Private Instruction, Bernice Maskin, Julliard BFA piano performance
1985 BFA Concert Performance, University of Florida, Honors, 1985