Damien Gilley

Born 1977, Westlake CA. Artist and educator working in Portland Oregon. Gilley reconfigures the built environment to create perceptual viewing experiences that complicate rational space. By combining influences from data visualization, prog rock, non-Euclidian geometry, and vintage computer graphics the works create hybrid viewing situations that utilize a variety of perspectival tropes. The works challenge the reliability of perception through the presentation of illusionistic wall drawings, indeterminate landscapes, modular forms, and images that extend the parameters of flatness.

He teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, University of Oregon, and more.

MFA Contemporary Art Practice (Portland State University)BFA New Media (Univ. Nevada Las Vegas)Damien Gilleys work has been exhibited nationally at venues including the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, Las Vegas Museum of Art, Arthouse in Austin, Texas, and in Portland at Rocksbox, The Center for Architecture, and Wieden+Kennedy, among others. His work has been reviewed in Artforum.com, the Oregonian, The Stranger and City Arts (Seattle), Willamette Week, Portland Mercury, the Austin Chronicle, and the Las Vegas Review Journal. He has received numerous awards including grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Oregon Arts Commission, from which he received an Artist Fellowship in 2010.

Recent Solo Exhibitions
2013
Suyama Space, Seattle WA
LA ART Book Fair, MOCA, Los Angeles
2012
Tetem Kunstruimte, Enschede, Netherlands,
Portland Community College, OR
2011
Linfield College, OR
Wieden+Kennedy HQ, OR
East/West Project, "The New New," with Dam Stuhltrager gallery, Berlin, DE
Portland Biennial 2010 , Portland, OR