CV
Born in Montreal, CANADA
Lives and works in Washington state, USA
EDUCATION
2022 Northwestern University, MA in Counseling/Applied Psychology, magna cum laude, Chicago, IL
1995 Hamilton College, BA in Fine Arts, summa cum laude, Clinton, New York, USA
1994 Lorenzo de Medici, Florence, ITALY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Interview, Beauty Matters, “Beauty Disruptor: Catherine Haley Epstein on Decentering Scent”
2021 Interview, XOXO The Mag & Petals Magazine, Istanbul, TURKEY
2021 Art for Everyone, Oxford University Press, UK
2020 Olfactory Science Exchange, Diving into Nose Dive(s), THE NETHERLANDS
2020 Nez, The Olfactory Magazine, “Nose Dive, A Book about the Curious Seeking Potential Through Their Noses”, review, Spring/Summer print volume
2020 The Columbian, “Camas Fragrance Expert Knows Nose”
2020 Essencional, “When Words Don’t Exist to Describe Fragrance”
2020 Scent Trunk Journal, Q&A with Catherine Haley Epstein
2020 CaFleureBon “Profiles in American Perfumery”
2020 Perfume Society, “A Growing Vocabulary for Your Nose”
2020 Perfume Society, “Fragrant Reads We Recommend: Nose Dive”, UK
2020 The Flamingo Group,”Frame Vol. 4: Skin Deep”
2014 Portland Monthly Exhibition Pick of the Month, June 2013
2005 New York Times, “Profit, Not Jobs, in Silicon Valley”, page A1, Sunday July 3, 2005
2004 San Francisco Business Journal, “High IQ Achievers Retrain Their Brains”, December 31, 2004
AWARDS
2023 Lunder Institute, Artist Fellow, Colby College, Waterville, Maine USA
2018 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Middlebury College, Vermont USA
2017 Winner, Perfumed Plume Award in Journalism
2017 Camas Education Foundation (CEF), Living the Vision Award for work on arts in schools
2006 Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California USA
1995 J. Barney Moore Prize in Fine Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York USA
William Gillespie Prize in Fine Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York USA
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Author, Nose Dive
2019 Contributor, Aromatica Poetica
2015 - 2016 Contributor, Temporary Art Review
2016 Contributor, Picture Sentence, a quarterly contemporary journal encouraging dialogue in the arts
2013 Author, In a True Democracy the Many are Obligated to the Few, A Coloring Book
SOLO SHOWS
2020 “The Flower, The Witch & the Pool Toy”, Luke’s, Portland, Oregon USA
2019 “My Nose Made Me Do It”, Pushdot Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2018 Invisible Permission | An Exercise in Radical Listening, Luke's, Portland, Oregon USA
2017 “50 Days 50 Choices”, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, California USA
2015 “On Forgetting”, Pushdot Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2013 “Sorting the Seeds”, Pushdot Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2012 “Learning to Say No”, LinkSoul LAB, Oceanside, California USA
RECENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2023- present “The Red Table: Object Relations”, ongoing project initiated as short-term resident fellow at the Lunder Institute, Colby College, Waterville, Maine USA
2023 Fugue, featuring ongoing Salon des Refusés project, Portland, Oregon USA
2023 “My Nose Made Me Do It, mini-workshops at Fumerie in Portland, Oregon USA
2023 (ongoing since 2015) #50days50choices, a memorial to the Pulse Night Club Shooting
2022 Guest Lecturer, Advanced Museum Studies, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
2021 “Of Scent & Song”, Bealtaine Festival, Panelist in online discussion in conjunction with artist Ceara Conway’s project “How are You”, Dublin, IRELAND
2021 “Spell of the Senses”, Root Division, San Francisco, California USA
2020 Meet a Nose, Institute of Art & Olfaction, Los Angeles, California USA
2020 How to Use Scent in Your Design Practice, Portland Design Week
2020 "50 Days 50 Choices", NIAD Art Center, Richmond, California USA
2019 A Curious Scent Lab Workshop, NIAD Center, Richmond, California USA
2019 Artist Talk, Fumerie Parfumerie, Portland, Oregon USA
2019 Artist Talk & Workshop, "Scenting the Bates Motel", Institute of Art & Olfaction, Los Angeles, California USA
2019 Speaker, Esxence, Milan, ITALY
2019 Contributor, Nike's Blue Ribbon Studio's Internal Design Channel, Beaverton, Oregon USA
2018 Scent Curation & Product Development, Bode Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee USA
2018 Panelist, "Painting With Words, the Art of Creative Fragrance Writing", Perfumed Plume, Society of Illustrators, New York, New York USA
2018 "Scent and Art Workshop", Public Annex, Portland, Oregon USA
2018 Artist, "Small Faces" The Catskills Mountain Foundation, Hudson, New York USA
2018 Artist, "Can Touch This", Cascade Paragon Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2018 Artist Talk, Nike Headquarters, Beaverton, Oregon USA
2018 Workshop: "How to Use Scent in Your Art Practice", Working Library, Portland, Oregon USA
2018 Editor & Artist, "Text & Image", Washington Reid Gallery, Culver City, California USA
2017 Arte Contemporanea Per Busajo, benefit auction at La Loggia in Florence, ITALY
2017 “50 Days 50 Choices”, Pushdot Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2017 Curator, “On Coloring | An Exhibition on Contemporary Art History and Coloring III”, a fundraiser for arts in education, Luke’s, Portland, Oregon USA
2016 Co-Founder, Point + Line, an online experiment on new dialogue in contemporary art (duration of project 2016-2018)
2016 Exhibitor, AIX Scent Fair, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California USA
2016 “Suddenly Entire: Eleven Artists Draw”, Canon Gallery of Art, University of Western Oregon, Monmouth, Oregon USA
2016 Curator, “Rhythm, Pattern & Gesture”, NIAD Center, Richmond, California USA
2016 Curator, “On Coloring | An Exhibition on Contemporary Art History and Coloring II”, arts in education fundraiser, Pushdot Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2016 Exhibition, “Art For Everybody”, Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon USA
2015 On Color(ing), Rolling River Distillery (collaborative art project benefitting art education), Portland, Oregon USA
2012 Your Voices on Motherhood, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, California USA
2012 “Undressed”, Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2011 “Equine”, Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2011 “Drawing Connections”, Sienna Art Institute, Sienna, ITALY
2011 “Where Are We Now? Artists reflect on America ten years after 9/11”, Gretchen Schuette Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon USA
2011 “Birds & Bees”, LinkSoul LAB, Oceanside, California USA
2011 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Wide Open show (juror Nathan Trotman, Assoc. Curator, Solomon Guggenheim Museum of Art), New York USA
2011 “TEXT Show”, SOAP Gallery, San Francisco, California USA
2011 30th Annual Gender Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon USA
2011 “Once Upon a Town”, Second Story Gallery, Camas Public Library, Camas, Washington USA
2010 “Exchange with Sol Lewitt”, Cabinet NY and Mass MoCA
2010 “Facing Fear”, Launchpad Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
2009 “Mixed Metaphors”, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, California USA
2008 Rebels for Justice, Bronx, New York USA
2008 “Play”, Gallery One, Ellensburg, Washington USA
2008 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California USA
2008 “Optical Illusion”, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California USA
2008 “Grounded”, 16th Annual Juried Exhibit, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California USA
2007 “Domestic Departures”, Living Workshop, Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton, California USA
2007 “Mirabile Visu”, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, California USA
2007 “Childish Things”, 301 Bocano Gallery, San Francisco, California USA
2007 “Peace Camp”, Nettie Horne Gallery (previously Bricklane Gallery), London, UK
2007 X Marks the Spot, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California USA
2007 Big Pagoda, San Francisco, California USA
ARTS EDUCATION | COMMUNITY & BOARD WORK
2016 Point & Line, Board of Advisors, Seattle, Washington USA
2014 Visual Thinking Strategies, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, New York, New York USA
2014 Adjunct Lecturer, Art History, Clark College, Vancouver, Washington USA
2014-2016 Co-teacher for art class, Dorothy Fox Elementary School, Camas, Washington USA
2013-2020 Artist in Residence Chair, Dorothy Fox Elementary School, Camas, Washington USA
2012 Visual Thinking Strategies, completed training at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon USA
2009-2012 Right Brain Initiative, Advocacy Committee, Portland, Oregon USA
2008 The Urban School, Guest Lecturer, San Francisco, California USA
2005 Chair of the Arts Patrons Council for Levi Strauss/San Francisco Chronicle Youth Arts Festival, San Francisco, California USA
2005 Girls for a Change, Art Workshop Facilitator, San Jose, California USA
2003 Visual Thinking Strategies, marketing materials, teacher training, museum collection/school curriculum integration, San Francisco, California USA
WORKSHOPS/RESIDENCY
2012 Artist in Residence, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (Rosenclaire), Montespertoli, ITALY
2009 Resident, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont USA
2008 Contemporary Art & the Everyday, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (Rosenclaire), Berkeley, California USA
2007 Concept in Art Practice, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (Rosenclaire), Montespertoli, ITALY
2006 Art History, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (Rosenclaire), San Francisco, California USA
2006 Concept & Critque, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (Rosenclaire), Brooklyn, New York USA
2005 Mixed Media, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (Rosenclaire), Montespertoli, ITALY
2002 Artist in Residence, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (Rosenclaire), Montespertoli, ITALY
CURATING & PROGRAMMING
2009 Curator, Mary Lamboley – Recent Work, VIVA, Sebastopol, California USA
2008 Curator, Begin Anywhere, 23HAM, Berkeley, California USA
2007 Curator, Mapping Reason, VIVA, Sebastopol, California USA
2006 Curator, The Water Project, Thoreau Galleries, The Presidio, San Francisco, California USA
2006 Curator, ArtEdu, VIVA, Sebastopol, California USA
2006 Curator, Don’t Believe Everything You Think, VIVA, Sebastopol, California USA
2004 Host and organizer, Engage! political fundraiser, featuring works from 35 artists nationwide, San Francisco, California USA
2004-2005 Owner, Director and Curator, Haley Martin Galleries, San Francisco, California USA
Curated, set-up and promoted exhibits of national and international emerging and mid-career contemporary artists; managed gallery operations and finances; developed exhibition press materials and catalogs; managed artist, client and vendor relations; developed community relations and outreach.
1996-1998 Gallery Manager, S. Bernstein & Company, San Francisco, California USA
Manager for gallery specializing in museum-quality ancient Chinese jade and artifacts. Researched and wrote detailed descriptions of inventory for use in sales materials; managed accounting, invoicing and vendor relations; facilitated symposiums with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
COMMUNITY SERVICE & OUTREACH
2019 "Easy Art Big Impact", taught elementary school teachers how to introduce creative thinking to the art-starved classroom, Camas, Washington USA
2014-2020 Volunteer Teaching Artist, Camas Public Schools, Camas, Washington USA
2015 Facilitated school-wide art project with 450 students for permanent installation, Dorothy Fox School, Camas, Washington USA
2015 National Panel Member for Grant Review, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC USA
2009 Created artwork for families at the Children’s Relief Nursery, Portland, Oregon USA
2007 Donated artwork to Headlands Center for the Art’s Annual Benefit Auction, Sausalito, California USA
2005 Chair and Host of Hospitality House’s 20th Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, California USA
2004 Auction Committee, Annual Fundraiser, Southern Exposure, San Francisco California USA
2004 Art Advisory Committee for Access Institute’s “Art Attack” Auction, San Francisco, California USA
2004 Procured new website by Kirshenbaum Bond Partners for de Young Museum’s Art Point Group, San Francisco, California USA
MUSEUMS
2012 Portland Art Museum, Board Member, Contemporary Arts Council, Portland, Oregon USA
2005 Crocker Museum, Guest Speaker, “Neo-Mod: Northern California Abstraction” exhibit, Sacramento, California USA
2004 de Young Museum, Member of the Art Point Board, San Francisco, California USA
1995 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Assistant to the Director of Public Relations, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Fielded journalist inquiries on current exhibits and questions on collections, wrote press releases, represented PR Director at Museums of Boston (MOB) meetings, conducted survey to test comfort level with increasing ticket prices for special exhibitions.