Lynda Harwood-Swenson is an artist whose work focuses on the connections between social relationships, surrounding environment, beauty, and how those concepts interact with each other in our social and emotional landscape. 

She is a 2018 Vermont Studio Fellow, awarded by the Clowes Foundation, a 2016 recipient of the Artist Trust GAP Grant and her work is included in the City of Seattle Public Utilities Collection.   Swenson has worked in education at the Seattle Art Museum since 2010 and is currently the assistant manager for studio programs across three museum sites.

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Gallery Affiliations

Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA https://shiftgallery.org/lynda-harwood-swenson

Seattle Art Source

Awards

Storefronts Roster Grant, Shunpike, Seattle, WA 2022

Denis Diderot AIR Grant- 2020

Best in Show, Seattle Art Museum Staff Show, January 2019

Merit Award, The Printmakers’ Hand IV, Corvidae Press, July 2018

Clowes Fund Fellowship Award -  Vermont Studio Center Residency 2018

Artist Trust Gap (Grant for Artists Projects) Grant Award 2016-2017

City of Seattle Portable Works Collection Purchase Award: Your Body of Water 2016-2017

Residencies

Chateau d’Orquevaux, Champagne Ardenne, France, March 2022

In Cahoots, Petaluma, CA, September 2020

Vermont Studio Center, Printmaking Fellowship,Johnson VT, April 2018

Exhibition History

*indicates one or two person show

Shift At 20, A group show celebrating the 20th anniversary of Shift Gallery, Seattle ,WA, July 11- 27th 2024

*The Lonesome West, Photographs and Works on Paper : Casey Thurman and Lynda Harwood Swenson, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA June 6- June 29th 2024

Pink, Unpacked, Seattle Print Arts Member Show at The M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle Central College, Seattle, WA, March 11- May 1st ,2024

*Water Source: Lynda Harwood Swenson, Installation for The Window Gallery At Shift, Seattle WA, January 1- February 1, 2024

*Lynda Swenson:Paintings and Monotypes, Fancy 2921 East Madison, Seattle, WA July 15th - on going

Parallel Practice, A group exhibition with Waterstone Gallery, Portland ,OR and Shift Gallery, Seattle , WA at Shift Gallery, Seattle, July 6- 29th 2023

*Material Connections, Lynda Harwood Swenson and Anna Macrae, new works on paper, with two and three dimensional constructions. Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA, June 1st thru July 1st, 2023

On Food, Conviviality and Cultures, Photo, Video and Digital Visual Design International Group Exhibition curated by Loosenart at Millepiani exhibition space, Rome, Italy March 24- April 15, 2023

Shift in PDX, Waterstone Gallery, Portland, OR, Feb. 1 thru 28, 2023

For the Voices of Women in the Dissonant Symphony We Call Life, Studio 103, Seattle, WA, December 1-17th 2022

New Works On Paper and Photography: Lynda Swenson, Art Grice, Thomas Schworer, Athena Groves, The Tree House Cafe, Bainbridge Island, WA, Oct 5th thru Nov 30 2022

*Petaluma Landscapes, South Lake Union Storefronts, Amazon Vitrine, Thomas Street, Seattle, WA, October 25th- January 30, 2023

*Les Femmes, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA, October 6 - 30th, 2022

Shifting Gears, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA, -July 7th- 30, 2022

Fabulous!, Shift Gallery, December 1- 18, 2021, Seattle, WA

*Petaluma Landscapes, The Window Gallery at Shift, Seattle, WA, November 2021

Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, August 2021, represented through Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA

UnEditioned, June 1- July 31, 2021, virtual exhibition through Manhattan Graphics Center, curated by Katie Michel of Plant House Gallery, NYC

Shift Gallery Invitational, Aug 2- November 28th 2021, The Gardens at Town Square, Bellevue, WA

Island Ink, June 4th thru 27th, 2021, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA

From Green to Grey, April 2 through May 2021, virtual exhibition focused on climate change and climate policy in the USA, curated by June Sekiguchi, William Raines, and Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger

*Color, Light and Space, April 1- May 1, 2021, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA

Wa Na Wari Benefit Show, November- December 2020 (Virtual) Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA

Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, August 2020, works on view through Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA

Contemporary Northwest Print Invitational 2020, Davidson Gallery and Seattle Print Arts, Seattle WA, August 7th- September 27th, 2020, Juried by Thea Quiray Tagle

Annual Print Show Invitational, The Island Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA June 5- July 5th, 2020

Selections from Shift Gallery, M. David Gallery, Brooklyn, NY(Online thru Artsy) May 15- June 15th, 2020, Juried by Michael David and Stephanie Hargrave

Best of Shift, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA, Dec 5- Jan 1, 2020

Autumn Artistry, The Island Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA , Oct 1- October 27, 2019

Seattle Art Museum Staff Show, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA   August 1 - 31, 2019

Printmakers: New Work, The Island Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA , August 1- September 30, 2019

*Land of Nowhere, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA February 7 - March 3rd, 2019

Seattle Art Museum Staff Show, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA   January 3 - February 3, 2019

Ink and Print: West Coast Juried Printmaking Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay Oregon, Dec 14th - February 9th 2019. Juror: Nicole Pietrantoni, Whitman College.

The Printmakers’ Hand IV, Northwind Art Center and Corvidae Press, Port Townsend, WA July - 5-29, 2018 Juror Bob Kochs of Augen Gallery Portland.

Creativity Persists, COCA (Center on Contemporary Art), Seattle,  WA   May, 2018. Juror Jody Bento of Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle

Underbelly: Group Exhibition, H Gallery at Dab Art Center, Ventura, CA   October 14th - Nov. 26, 2017

Seattle Art Museum Staff Show, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA   August 29 - Sept 25th, 2017

BoBiennale, Kulturaustausch, Atelier ktg, Karin Templin-Glees, Bochum, Germany, June 9th - 18th, 2017 

Make America Create Again, COCA (Center on Contemporary Art), Seattle,  WA  April 6 - May 1st, 2017

Ink Garden Studio, Bainbridge Performing Arts, Bainbridge Island, WA, March 3rd - 31st, 2017

Adaptable: Facing the Future, Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Clemson University Gallery, South Carolina, February - March 2017

YOUR BODY OF WATER, City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Purchase Awards Show, City of Seattle Municipal Tower, Seattle, WA Feb - March, 2017

*Landscape & Figure: Works on Paper, By Others Gallery, Board and Vellum Seattle, WA Solo Exhibition December 2016 - January 2017

Pressing On, Seattle Print Arts at Shack Art Center, Everett, WA- November - December 2016

Intrigue III an Art Exhibit by Seattle Art Museum Staff, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA September - October 2016

Inky Spokes, a curated show of bicycle inspired art, Tacoma Art Museum, The Vera Project, Gigantic Bicycle Festival  May - June 2015

*TWO, Lynda Harwood Swenson and Phil Stoiber, Ballard Works, Seattle WA August - Sept 2014

Intrigue II an Art Exhibit Art by Seattle Art Museum Staff, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA June 2014

12 Years in the Woods: Arts Studio Gallery, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA January - March 2014

Last Look, Arts Studio Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA  May - June 2013

10x10x10 Tieton 2012, an art exhibition presented by Tieton Arts and Humanities, Tieton, WA August - October 2012

Seattle Print Arts Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle, WA July 2012

Intrigue: an Art Exhibit by Seattle Art Museum Staff, Art/Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle, WA, Feb - March 2012

Art For Haiti, The Mix Georgetown exhibition space, Seattle, WA April 2010

Overlap: Thirteen Women Printers, The Tree House Café, Bainbridge Island, WA March - April 2010

Wings, Marge Williams Center, Bainbridge Island, WA, December 2009 - January 2010

Monotypes and Collages, Bainbridge Performing Arts, Bainbridge Island, WA May 2009

Taking Flight: Nine Women Printers, The Tree House Café, Bainbridge Island, WA January - March 2009

*indicates solo or two person show