Pam Douglas has been in decades of shows including the California African American Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the LA Art Show, and the USC Fisher Museum of Art. Grants and awards include the Puffin Foundation, Mozaik Philanthropy, Vibrant Cities, Repaint History, The Next Big Thing, Irvine Fine Arts Center and others.
Website: http://pamdouglasart.com
Facebook: PamDouglasArt
Instagram: @pamdouglasart
Email: pamdouglaswords@aol.com
Phone: 310-391-9010 Cell: 310-902-9248
Education:
Columbia University, Masters, painting, art education
Vassar College, B.A, creative writing, studio art, art history
Art Students League of NY, drawing
Selected Solo Shows
2021 Sanctuary Parts One, Two and Three, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles
2020 Sanctuary Part One, Gallery 825, West Hollywood
2019 Artifacts of Grace, Los Angeles Art Show, L.A. Convention Center
2016 Rhythms, TAG Gallery
2014 The Life of Air, TAG Gallery
2012 Water Series, 6-month exhibit, The California African American Museum
2009 The Sepia and Seekers Series, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2006 Of Land and Sea, James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station
Selected Featured and Group Shows
2023 Human Rights Exhibition, College of the Sequoias, CA
We the People, Ontario Museum of History and Art, CA
The Portrait Show, California Heritage Museum
2022 Crocker Kingsley award show at Blue Line Arts
Curator: Emma Saperstein, Chief Curator, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
Made In California, Brea Gallery, CA
Products of Empire, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
Curator: Badir McCleary
Occupy the Moment, Women’s Caucus for Art convention, Chicago
100th Anniversary show, Women Painters West, Brand Library Gallery, Glendale
2021 The Next Big Thing, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Curator: Peter Mays, Exec. Director, Los Angeles Art Association
Art and Hope at the End of the Tunnel, USC Fisher Museum of Art
Curator: Edward Goldman
Reflections, LAUNCH /Korean Cultural Center
Curator: Terrell Tilford, Director, Band of Vices
All Media 2021, Irvine Fine Arts Center
Curator: Taylor Bythewood-Porter, California African American Museum
Summer Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art
Juror: Anita Feldman, Deputy Director, San Diego Museum of Art.
Hope Springs Eternal, Women Painters West
Open Show, Los Angeles Art Association
Curator: Shana Nys Dambrot, Arts Editor LA Weekly
Madre, ShockBoxx Gallery
2020 TarFest, Launch LA
Juror: Holly Jerger, Exhibits Curator, Craft Contemporary Museum
Activism + Art, SoLA Gallery
Geographics, Los Angeles Art Association
Mirror in the Dark, Visionary Art
2019 Pulse of LA 2019, SoLA Gallery
Curator: Art Critic Holly Tempo
2018 Connections, San Diego Museum of Art
Juror: Ariel Plotek, Curator of Contemporary Art, S. D. Museum of Art
Seismic Shift, LAUNCH LA
Juror: MacKensie Stevens, Hammer Museum
BUNK, LAAA/Gallery 825
Juror: Alix Sloan, Sloan Fine Art
2017 Speaking of Trees, Studio C Gallery, Santa Fe Art Colony
Unintended Consequences, Chaffey Museum of Art
Juror: Steve Thomas, Curator, Riverside Museum of Art
2016 Artcore Annual Competition and Exhibition
Curators: Andi Campognone, Peter Frank, Tracey Landworth, Ramone Munoz, Mark Steven Greenfield
Lampourage Gallery, The Brewery
Juror: Ron Pekar
2015 Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica
2014 Gallery Five08, Santa Monica
2009 Tarfest
Juror: Howard Wolff, Director of Contemporary Art, LACMA
2008 I5 Gallery, Brewery Art Complex, L.A.
Curator: Matt Gleason
2008 Capelli D’Angeli award show, The Paesaggio, Hartford, Conn.
2007 The California Open, TAG Gallery, Santa Monica
Recent Grants and Awards:
2022 Puffin Foundation Grant
Future Art Award from Mozaik Philanthropy
Individual Artist grant from Repaint History
2021 “The Next Big Thing,” 2nd Prize, Studio Channel Islands
Individual Artist Grant from Vibrant Cities
1st Prize, “Hope Springs Eternal,” Gallery Gitana /Women Painters West
Irvine Fine Arts Center, curator’s award
Selected Recent Media:
LA Art Documents videos:
Part One, 2019: https://youtu.be/D3lgFun3L8Q
Part Two, 2020: https://youtu.be/dVdXWs22f-M
Part Three, 2021: https://youtu.be/6fckQKnbw68
March 2021, by Genie Davis, Art & Cake: “Pam Douglas’ Sanctuary Reaches an Epic Conclusion with Sanctuary 3” https://artandcakela.com/2021/03/13/pam-douglas-at-tag/
2020, Review in DiversionsLA: http://diversionsla.com/pam-douglassanctuary-part-two-offers-exceptional-images-of-escape-and-memorial/
Diversions article 10-20 http://diversionsla.com/pam-douglas-sanctuary-part-two-offers-exceptional-images-of-escape-and-memorial/
Shoebox interview 7-20 https://shoeboxpr.com/2020/07/17/in-the-studio-with-pam-douglas/
Shoebox interview 4-20 https://shoeboxpr.com/2020/04/16/shoebox-conversations-pam-douglas/
Voyagela interview http://voyagela.com/interview/art-life-pam-douglas/
Huff Post review by Shana Nys Dambrot. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-douglas-eyes-to-see_b_59c9e5b8e4b0b7022a646d6d
Art and Cake Review. https://artandcakela.com/2017/09/19/seeing-sight-artist-pam-douglas/
Diversions LA review. https://www.diversionsla.com/transcendence-through-rhythms-artist-pam-douglas-at-tag-gallery/
Creators review by Tanja M. Laden. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4q9jw/la-tv-writer-meets-ancient-visionary-art-cots
Affiliations:
Black Artists in LA
International Association for Art (a partner of UNESCO)
Los Angeles Art Association
Shoebox Arts
Women’s Caucus for Art
Women Painters West
Writers Guild of America, west
Professional:
1996 to Present: Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts