1. Personal Details
Mike Vos (b. 1986)
mikevos.com / studiomikevos@gmail.com
2. Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Fragile, Tenuous Worlds, Laura Vincent Design & Gallery, Portland, OR
2024 Somewhere in Another Place, Basil Hallward Gallery, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR
2024 A Thin Wall of Vellum, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
2022 Sitka Artist Residency Retrospective, Blue Sky Gallery Library, Portland, OR
2020 Someday This Will All Be Gone, Pushdot Studio & Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Dead Cities / Fjallraven special event, Fjallraven Clothing Store, Portland, OR
2019 A Perception of Color and a Notion of Time, Land Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Dead Cities, Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Dead Cities, Cheryl Sallee Gallery, Auburn, WA
2017 Dead Cities, Pro Photo Supply, Portland, OR
2012 A Vision of a New Dawn, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Group Exhibitions
2025 Artworks Northwest Biennial, second place curator’s choice, Roseburg, OR
2025 The Place, LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland
2025 Future Forward, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA
2023 The Place, Bær Arts Center, Hofsös, Iceland
2023 You Belong Among the Wildflowers, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2023 Pacific Northwest Drawers, Curated by Crista Dix from The Griffin Museum of Photography, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2023 Cazadores de Paraíso, El Palmar Gallery, Mexico City
2022 20 year anniversary, Pushdot Studio
2022 Reverberation, PCNW’s 25th Juried Photography Exhibition, Selected as 1st place - Curator’s Choice
2022 Fill Your Cup, curated by Roslyn Julia, hosted by Too Tired Project (tootiredproject.com/fill-your-cup)
2021 Light Conversation Vol. 2 Juried Exhibition, Small Talk Collective, Portland, OR
2021 For All Before and After (Bellwether Arts Festival), beadworker, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2021 Pacific Northwest Drawers, Curated by Yaelle S. Amir and Aaron Turner, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Light Conversation Vol. 1 Juried Exhibition, Small Talk Collective, Portland, OR
2019 Here/There Gallery Farewell Show, Here/There Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 Photography That Matters Juried Exhibition, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
2017 Storytelling, Newspace Photo Center, Portland, OR
2017 Midwest Center for Photography Juried Exhibition, Wichita, Kansas
2017 Of Memory, Bone & Myth Juried Exhibition, Col Eugene Myers Gallery of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2016 On Democracy Juried Exhibition, Newspace Photo Center, Portland, OR
3. Bibliography
Monographs
2024 Somewhere in Another Place, Buckman Publishing, edited by Liza Faktor
Exhibition Catalogs
2025 Bær, LÁ Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland, authored by Katia Klose, statement by Steinunn Jónsdottir
2023 The Place, Bær Art Center, Hofsós, Iceland, authored by Katia Klose, statement by Jane K. Royal
2023 Cazadores de Paraíso, El Palmar Gallery, Mexico City, MX, statement by Michel Blancsubé
Print media
2021 Oregon Humanities Magazine, Beyond issue, full page bleed with caption, December, oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/beyond-fallwinter-2021/people-places-things-4/
2020 Willamette Week, Ghost Town, commissioned by WW to document businesses closed due to COVID-19 (April 2020)
2020 JRNL issue 4, published by Fotofilmic and juried by Katherine Harris Pomerantz, director of photography for Time Magazine (April 2020) fotofilmic.com/jrnl-spring-2020
2019 Buckman Journal issue 003, Arts & Literary Magazine, Portland, OR
2019 Hamburger Eyes no. 37 (January 2019), hamburgereyes.com
2016 Pomeroy, Charles,Tsunami Reflections - Otsuchi Remembered, Telemachus Press, LLC, 2014, pg. 99,100, 101, 102, 104
Digital Publications
2025 Oregon Artswatch, (Double) Exposed to the Elements by Brian Libby, orartswatch.org/double-exposed-to-the-elements
2021 Oregon Artswatch, Seeing Double article by Brian Libby, orartswatch.org/seeing-double
2018 Light Journal issue 09, Online Publication, December 2018, light-journal.com
2017 Aint-Bad Magazine, Online Publication, September 2017, aint-bad.com/article/2017/09/26/mike-vos
4. Collections
Listasafn Árnesinga (LÁ Museum), Hveragerði, Iceland
Evergreen State College, Gallery Photoland, Olympia, WA
Pushdot Gallery & Studio Permanent Collection, Portland, OR
Portland City Public Collection, Permanently Sited Works, City Council Chambers, Portland, OR
Portland City Public Collection, Permanently Sited Works, City Hall - Mayor’s Office, Portland, OR
Portland City Public Collection, Portable Works, City Hall - Mayor’s Office, Portland, OR
Portland City Public Collection, Permanently Sited Works, Vanport Building, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Portland, OR
5. Residencies
2026 ArtsIceland, studio and artist residency, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2025 Sitka Arts Fellowship Residency, studio and artist residency, Otis, Oregon
2024 MASS MoCA, alumni artist residency, North Adams, MA
2023 Akureyri Art Museum, studio and artist residency, Akureyri, Iceland
2022 Cobertizo, studio and artist residency, Jilotepec, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 MASS MoCA, studio and artist residency, supported by the Ford Family Foundation, North Adams, MA
2022 Bær Art Center, studio and artist residency Hofsós, Iceland
2021 Sitka Arts in conjunction with Blue Sky Gallery, studio and artist residency, Otis, Oregon
2021 Caldera Arts, studio and artist residency, supported by the Ford Family Foundation, Sisters, Oregon
2019 Vermont Studio Center, studio and artist residency, Johnson, Vermont
2017 Jentel Arts, studio and artist residency, Banner, Wyoming
6. Awards & Grants
2026 Photography Fellowship, the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
2025 Photography Fellowship, the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
2023 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Portland, OR
2023 Arts3C Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2022 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Portland, OR
2022 Project Grant, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, New Jersey
2022 1st place - Curator’s Choice, PCNW’s 25th Juried Photography Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2022 Artist Resilience Award, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2021 Make / Learn / Build grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2021 Winner of the Summer Film Photo Contest sponsored by Kodak Professional and hosted by Pro Photo Supply in Portland, OR
2020 Support Beam grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2019 Winner of the Summer Film Photo Contest sponsored by Kodak Professional and hosted by Pro Photo Supply in Portland, OR. First place in the Abstract category and Honorable Mention in the Environment category, Portland, OR
2019 Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2017 Winner of the Freshwater Trust photo contest sponsored by Pro Photo Supply, Portland, OR
7. Community Outreach & Experience
2025 & 2026 Teaching Fellowship with the Sitka Center for Arts & Ecology
2022 Youth Visual Storytelling Class, Bay City Arts Center, Bay City, OR
2022 Youth Visual Storytelling Class, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR
2022 Youth Visual Storytelling Class, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR
2022 Exploring Visual Narratives Youth Class, The Bodecker Foundation, Portland, OR
2021 Youth Visual Storytelling Class, NW Film Center and Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2021 Youth Visual Storytelling Workshop, Caldera Arts, Sisters, OR
8. Gallery Affiliation
Laura Vincent Design & Gallery, Portland, OR
El Palmar Gallery, Mexico City, MX