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Home / Gallery / Exhibitions / Past Exhibitions

Exhibition Archive

2025

Fringe Practice
Alternative Methods in Photography

April 7 – June 12, 2025

A New Look at Photo History:
Treasures from the Solander Collection

January 9 – March 20, 2025

2024

Traces of the Manifest: Victoria Sambunaris
October 24 – December 15, 2024

Lens Flair: PCNW’s Benefit Preview Exhibition
September 12 – 29, 2024

26th Juried Photography Exhibition: Being Present
June 27 – August 11, 2024

Alterations
March 28 – June 2, 2024

STRANGER FRUIT: Work by Jon Henry
January 11 – March 17, 2024

2023

Sunshady Days: A 50 year Retrospective of Bumbershoot
November 9 – December 7, 2023

PCNW’S 2023 Benefit Auction Preview Exhibition
September 14 – October 15

2023 Thesis Exhibition: Jenny Hansen Das, Leila Kirske, and Chad Lund
June 22 – August 10, 2023

Imminent Existence: Critical Mass 2022 Top 50
March 30 – June 4, 2023

OUTCRY: Works from Whitney Bradshaw
January 12 – March 16, 2023

2022

Rewriting Art History
Work by Kelli Connell, Natalie Krick, and Hanita Swartz

October 27- December 8, 2022

Golden Hour: PCNW’s 2022 benefit auction preview exhibition
September 12 – October 12, 2022

2022 Thesis Exhibition: Rachel Demy, Gwendolyn Emmminger, Andy Holton, Janet Politte, and Matthew Ragen
June 25 – August 14, 2022

Reverberation: PCNW’s 25th Juried Exhibition
April 7 – June 5, 2022

Pained Vistas: curated by Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly of Humble Arts Foundation
January 13 – March 17, 2022

2021

Portraits and Identity: Photographs from the collection of Robert E. Jackson
November 11 – December 9, 2021

Collective Vision: PCNW’s Auction Preview Exhibition 
September 23 – October 21, 2021

Time Capsule – PCNW’s 24th Annual Juried Exhibition
June 24 – August 12, 2021

Inside Out: A group exhibition by the Push/Pull Collective 
April 29  – June 10, 2021

To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults
January 14  – April 15, 2021

2020

Examining the American Dream
September 24 – December 10, 2020

2020 Thesis Exhibition
July 6 – August 27, 2020

23rd Juried Photography Exhibition, Distinction
March 26 – June 25, 2020

Exploring Passages Within the Black Diaspora
January 16 – March 16, 2020

2019

Innovation at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Photography
September 19 – December 15, 2019

2019 Thesis Exhibition: Gabriela Cociuba, Elisabeth Vasquez Hein, Selena Kearney, Sarah D. King, and James Kuan
June 27 – August 18, 2019

RIFFS: A Residency and Works-in-Progress Exhibition
April 4 – June 9, 2019

22nd Juried Exhibition
January 7 – March 14, 2019

2018

By The Book: 9+ Designers
September 18 – December 13, 2018

2018 Thesis Exhibition: Leah Freed and Lesley Low
June 28 – August 19, 2018

All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party
April 20 – June 10, 2018

Jun Ahn: On the Verge
January 8 – April 8, 2018

2017

Notions of Home
September 14 – December 10, 2017

Thesis 2017
June 29 – August 10, 2017

21st Juried Exhibition
March 27 – June 11, 2017

The Boomer List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
January 12 – March 12, 2017

2016

Finding Our Place
November 19 – December 18, 2016

Eugene Richards, “Enduring Freedom”
September 8 – November 13, 2016

2016 Thesis Exhibition
June 30 – August 14, 2016

Riffs
April 14 – June 15, 2016

Salt / Water
January 7 – April 3, 2016

2015

Punctum: 20th Annual Juried Exhibition
Juror: Julia Dolan, PhD, Minor White Curator of Photography, Portland Art Museum
November 12 – December 20, 2015

Me and My Selfie
September 10 – October 31, 2015

PCNW Thesis Exhibition: Suzanne Fiore, Andrej Gregov, & Kristin Zwiers
July 2 – August 15, 2015

Henry Horenstein: Racing Days
April 9 – June 13, 2015

Terminal: On Mortality and Beauty
January 8 – April 4, 2015

2014

Well Read: Visual Explorations of the Book
November 6 – December 20, 2014

Richard Renaldi, Touching Strangers
September 10 – October 29, 2014

Documentary: 19th Annual Photography Exhibition
Juror: Whitney C. Johnson, Director of Photography,
The New Yorker
August 1 – 29, 2014

Thesis Exhibition
Jon MacLaren, Stacy Osterman, Anna Ream & Britland Tracy

June 26 – July 24, 2014

Process
March 13 – June 15, 2014 

Question Bridge: Black Males
& SEEN: An Exploration of the Inside and the Out, The Then and the Now, By the (Still) Invisible Men
Curated by Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Michelle Dunn Marsh and Ann Pallesen, PCNW
January 16 – March 8, 2014

2013

Our Lives…Fleeting Timelines
November 1, 2013 – March 9, 2014

Holly Andres, The Homecoming
October 24, 2013 – January 5, 2014

NW Focus: Benefit
September 20 – October 16, 2013

Musings: 18th Annual Photo Competition
Juror: John A. Bennette
August 2 – September 15, 2013

Long Shot Exhibition Preview
July 22 – 27, 2013
Long Shot Event: July 27, 6-9 PM

Photo Center Thesis Exhibition
Daniel Hawkins, Chris Letcher & Patrick Names

June 3 – July 15, 2013

New Work: Photo Center and Seattle University Alumni
June 3 – July 15, 2013

Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers
Curated by Anne Leighton Massoni
and Libby Rowe
April 4 – May 28, 2013

Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows
February 1 – March 23, 2013

Zachary Burns: Footprints of Water
January 2 – March 23, 2013

ReVision: Photo Center Faculty Exhibition
January 1 – 28, 2013

2012

Social Order: Women Photographers from Iran, India and Afghanistan
October 26 – December 15, 2012

Chip Rountree
Strangers and Fortune Tellers, China

November 1 – December 15, 2012

Industrial Evolution, Photographs by Howard Hsu
October 1 – 28, 2012

Photolust Benefit Auction Preview
October 1 – 20, 2012
Auction Event: October 20

The Ruby Project
September 10 – September 28, 2012

Equivalents: 17th Annual Photo
Competition Exhibition
Juror: W.M. Hunt
August 3 – September 18, 2012

Washing State High School Competition
July 4 – August 25, 2012

Long Shot
July 28, 2012

Thesis Exhibition, Mary Callahan, Ray Deardorf and Kaitlin Roos
June 1 – July 15, 2012

Photo Center’s Volunteer Exhibition
June 1 – 30, 2012

Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography
April 6 – May 27, 2012

Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness & Everything Else
Critical Mass 2011, Juror: Darius Himes

February 18 – March 23, 2012

surFACE: Contemporary Wet Plate Collodion Portraiture
January 5 – February 15, 2012

2011

Rock & Roll, Jini Dellaccio
November 1 – December 16, 2011

Photolust 6th Annual Benefit Auction
October 22, 2011

Aground: 16th Annual Photo Competition Exhibition
Juror: Karen Irvine, Curator, MoCP
August 5th – October 12th, 2011

Ella Morton
Snaeland: Photographs from Iceland

August 5 – October 12, 2011

Thesis Exhibition: Andy Cox, Michael Clements & Alumni New Work
June 3 – July 15, 2011

The Dust Never Settles. Wyatt Gallery, Jennifer Shaw & Dave Anderson
April 22 – May 29, 2011

Large Format Photography by students of Jahnavi Lisa Barnes
May 5 – 26, 2011 (Upstairs)

Washington State High School Photography Competition Exhibition 2010
March 19 – April 30, 2011 (Upstairs)

Push Pin Show
April 1 – 17, 2011

Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010, Juror: Todd Hido
March 3 – 25, 2011

Henry Horenstein, SHOW
January 21 – February 27, 2011

2010

15th Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, Juror: Crista Dix
December 3, 2010 – January 15, 2011

Stacey Sanner:Keeping A Blue Light On: A Citizen’s Tribute to the Seattle Police Department
November 23, 2010 – January 15, 2011

Picture Us: Photo Center Faculty Exhibition
October 8 – November 24, 2010

PHOTOLUST: 5th Annual Benefit Auction
October 2, 2010

Present Tense: 15th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
August 13 – September 17, 2010

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition
June 10 – July 31, 2010

EXPOSED: Critical Mass 2009
March 5 – May 18, 2010

Blue Earth Alliance: Art as Activism
January 22 – February 28, 2010

2009

Photo Center NW Members’ Exhibition 2009
December 4, 2009 – January 15, 2010

The Curve: Center’s Award Recipients
October 8 – November 5, 2009

Counter-Photography, Japan’s Artists Today
September 11 – October 5, 2009

Slow Healing: A project by Andrew Hida
August 2 – September 4, 2009

Photo-Op, 14th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
July 13 – September 4, 2009

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2009
June 1 – July 10, 2009

Andy Freeberg, Guardians & Sentry: Sitting in the Art World
May 1 – May 29, 2009

Christina Seely, Lux
March 30 – April 27, 2009

Identity, Costume, Cliché: Korean Photography Today
March 2 – March 27, 2009

Work, Idling & Pod People
January 16 – February 27, 2009

2008

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Exhibition 2008
December 3, 2008 – January 13, 2009

Beth Dow, In the Garden & Ann Mitchell, Val Verde
November 3 – 30, 2008

Bird Studies
October 3 – 31, 2008

Please Ring Bell, 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
July 11 – August 28, 2008

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2008
June 2 – July 7, 2008

Sugar and Spice
May 2 – 28, 2008

Crossing the Water: A Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World
April 1 – 29, 2008

What’s not to Love?
March 1 – 28, 2008

Snowbound & The Last Iceberg
January 19 – February 27, 2008

2007

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Exhibition 2007
November 30, 2007 – January 15, 2008

Cheap Shot, Plastic Cameras: The Low Tech of High Art
November 2 – 28, 2007

CREEPSHOW
October 3 – 31, 2007

Up & Now, 12th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
July 13 – August 30, 2007

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2007
June 8 – July 10, 2007

A Delicate Balance
May 11 – June 5, 2007

Mark Yankus, Time and Again
April 2 – May 8, 2007

Rachel Papo, Serial No. 3817131
March 2 – 30, 2007

Jonas Bendiksen, Satellites
January 19 – February 27, 2007

2006

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Exhibition 2006
December 1, 2006 – January 15, 2007

Chick Flick
November 3 – 29, 2006

El Corazon de Oaxaca
October 2 – 31, 2006

Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny Over the Years
October 2 – October 31, 2006

Rebecca Norris Webb, The Glass Between Us
September 2 – 29, 2006

Resonance, 11th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
July 14 – August 30, 2006

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2006: featuring Jo Johnson, Maylee Noah, and Loewyn Young
June 6 – July 11, 2006

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2006: featuring Jaime Forero, Karl Lindgren and Sarah Nelson
May 19 – June 13, 2006

Jessica Todd Harper, Portraits from Private Spaces
April 3 – May 15, 2006

Jonathan Moller, Our Culture is Our Resistance
March 2 – 31, 2006

Todd Hido, Unfinished Narratives
January 17 – February 27, 2006

2005

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Exhibition 2005
December 2, 2005 – January 15, 2006

Jason Fulford, Sunbird & Crushed
October 17 – November 29, 2005

Chris Jordan, Intolerable Beauty
September 1 – October 15, 2005

Focused: 10th Annual Competition Exhibition
July 15 – August 29, 2005

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2005
June 1 – July 10, 2005

Hiroshi Watanabe: Two Home Countries
April 15 – May 30, 2005

Fotografenbüro
March 2 – April 13, 2005

Elinor Carucci, Closer
February 1 – 27, 2005

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Exhibition 2005
January 4 – 28, 2005

2004

Photographs from the Photo Center Collection & Paris Salon Show
December 1 – 19, 2004

Eduardo Calderón – Fotografías
October 28 – November 29, 2004

Past/Forward: Aperture at 50
August 31 – October 23, 2004

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2004: Nick Duers, Benno Jones, Amy Mullen, Jane Patterson, Lara Pederson Randolph
June 18 – July 13, 2004

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2004: Bellen Drake, Charles Miró-Quesada, Laurel Schultz, Luke Strosnider, Kerry M. Zimmerman
May 18 – June 15, 2004

Graciela Iturbide
April 1 – May 15, 2004

A Collector’s Eye: An Exhibition of Photographs from the Collection of Paul Brainerd
March 1 – 29, 2004

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Show 2004
January 3 – 29, 2004

2003

Paris Salon Show
December 1 – 19, 2003

Bruce Davidson – East 100th Street 1966 – 1968
December 1 – 19, 2003

Ken Rosenthal – Seen and Not Seen
November 1 – 29, 2003

Seth Thompson – Poca Luz
October 1 – 30, 2003

Sustaining Vision: 8th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
August 1 – September 28, 2003

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2003: Reema Abu-Gheida, Paul Ford, Kim Hood, Shelli Hyrkas-Joo, Michael Stadler, Stephanie Costa, Laura Gillan, Jolanta Kotlarczyk, Bob Munro & Rebekah Schmidt
July 2 – 29, 2003

Harold E. Edgerton – Seeing the Unseen
May 2 – 29, 2003

Lincoln Clarkes – Heroines
April 1 – 29, 2003

Heidi L. Kirkpatrick – From My Window Seat
March 1 – 30, 2003

David Samuel Robbins – Himalayan Odyssey
February 1 – 27, 2003

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Exhibition
January 3 – 30, 2003

2002

Wes Pope – Pop66: pop can pinhole photos of Route 66
December 1 – 20, 2002

Nancy LeVine – A Dog’s Book of Truths
November 1 – 29, 2002

Ann Pallesen – Sleeper
October 1 – 30, 2002

Andrew Miksys, Artist-in-Residence – Paper Heart
September 4 – 29, 2002

Personal Viewpoints: 7th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
July 12 – August 30, 2002

The Paris Salon Show
July 1 – 7, 2002

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2002
June 2 – 29, 2002

Kubota Gardens
May 3 – 30, 2002

Jeffrey Braverman – Chalkboard Portraits
May 2 – 30, 2002

John Lewis – Manifest Destiny
April 2 – 29, 2002

Weegee the Famous (Authur Fellig)
March 1 – 30, 2002

Steven N. Meyers – Botanical Radiographs, Fine Art X-Ray Photography
February 1 – 27, 2002

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Exhibition 2002
January 3 – 30, 2002

2001

Elliott Erwitt – Snaps
November 6 – December 21, 2001

Take My Picture: Emerging Artists Show
October 4 – November 3, 2001

Espíritu de México/Spirit of Mexico – Contemporary Mexican Photography
August 16 – September 29, 2001

Within/Without: Contemporary Photographs of Cuba
August 28 – September 3, 2001

Beneath the Surface: 6th Annual Juried Photographic Competition
July 5 – August 14, 2001

Photo Center NW Thesis Exhibition 2001
June 1 – 29, 2001

Paul Sundberg – Lith Prints
May 1 – 30, 2001

Gary Oliveira – Stranded Analogies
April 2 – 29, 2001

David Walega – Pinhole Series
March 2 – 30, 2001

John Molloy – two
February 2 – 27, 2001

Photo Center NW Members’ Juried Show 2001
January 3 – 30, 2001

2000

Peggy Washburn
December 2 – 31, 2000

Take My Picture – Emerging Artists Show
November 2 – 18, 2000

Richard Lewis – Dry Falls and Flooded Valleys: The Columbia Basin Revisited
October 2 – 30, 2000

Tim Greyhavens – Runes and Incantations
September 5 – 29, 2000

Courteney Coolidge – American Families: Beyond the White Picket Fence, Celebrating the changing face of American Families
July 7, 2000 – August 30, 2000

Jenn Reidel – In Her Dreams
June 2 – 29, 2000

Gertrude Blom – Chiapas, México Bearing Witness
May 3 – 30, 2000

Claire Garoutte – Cuba
April 3 – 29, 2000

Gary Grenell – Green Lake Biodiversity
March 3 – 30, 2000

WTO Conference Week: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
February 4 – March 29, 2000

Timothy Payne Karr – Hanoi Photographs
February 2 – 28, 2000

Scott Bickell – Recent Photographs
Tom Feher – Recent Platinum & Palladium Prints
January 4 – 30, 2000

1999

Photo Center NW Members’ Holiday Juried Exhibition
December 3 – 31, 1999

Take My Picture
November 2 – 30, 1999

A Vision Honored: 5th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
October 1 – 31, 1999

Linda Connor – In the Last Decade
September 3 – 28, 1999

Beth Yarnelle Edwards – Suburban Dreams
August 1 – 30, 1999

David Johnson – Impressioni Italiane (Italian Impressions)
July 1 – 30, 1999

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