Artist bio & RÉSUmé
Mandee Schroer is a Portland-based painter and printmaker whose work is exhibited both locally and internationally. She serves as an adjunct professor of art at Portland State University and Clackamas Community College, and regularly teaches printmaking workshops in Portland and Mexico.
Schroer's recent exhibitions and residencies include the Curb Gallery in the Pearl (2024); Pauling Gallery (2024); Caldera Alumni Artist Residency in Sisters, Oregon (2017); Pence Pinckney Gallery at Central Oregon Community College in Bend, Oregon (2017); and the Alexander Gallery at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon (2016). She has also participated in prestigious residencies such as the Caldera Artist Residency in Sisters, Oregon (2015);
Arquetopia Artist Residency Program in Oaxaca, Mexico (2013); and Proyecto Ace’s Artist Printmaking Residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011). In 2011, Schroer completed a mixed-media commission for Portland State University’s La Casa Latina Center.
Additionally, her work was featured in The Last Book - El Último Libro, a project curated by Luis Camnitzer, which was displayed at the National Library of Buenos Aires, the Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland, and the New York Public Library (2009). Her artwork has also been published in Volume Magazine (Issue #15) and Portland Modern (Issue #5).
EDUCATION
2007 MFA, Contemporary Art Practices, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2000 BFA, Studio Art - Drawing/Painting, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
SOLO, TWO & Three PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 (September - upcoming) Hoffman Gallery, Manzanita, OR (three-person exhibition)
2024 Paulsen Gallery, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR (solo exhibition)
2024 Plate Tectonics, Curb Gallery, Portland, OR (solo exhibition)
2018 Inner States, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR (two-person exhibition)
2017 Deviation & Iterations, Pinckney Gallery, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR (solo exhibition)
2016 From Side to Side of Discomfort, PDX Gallery Window, Portland, OR (solo exhibition)
2010 Like Wise I’m Sure, The Vestibule, Disjecta, Portland, OR (two-person collaborative)
2009 Disaster Capitalist, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR (two-person exhibition)
2008. Place and Identity, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, OR (three-person exhibition)
2007 Go or Move Quickly and Lightly Over or on a Surface, MK Gallery, Portland, OR (solo exhibition)
1999 Landscape, ASA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (two-person exhibition)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Faculty Group Show, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
2024 MHCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, MHCC Arts Center, Troutdale, OR
2023 MHCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, MHCC Arts Center, Troutdale, OR
2022 Deep Looking, Saranac Art Gallery, Spokane, WA
2021 ESTAMPA, Terrain Gallery, Spokane, WA (juried print exhibition)
2020 MHCC Human Resources Office, on view, Troutdale, OR
2019 MHCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, MHCC Arts Center, Troutdale, OR
2019 Ink & Print: West Coast Juried Printmaking, Coos Art Museum (juried by Nicole Pietrantoni)
2018 Cascade Aids Auction, Juried, Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2014 Faculty Group Show, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
2011 La Casa Latina, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2011 El Ultimo Libro, a project by Luis Camnitzer, New York Public Library, New York, NY
2011 Signed and Numbered, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
2011 The Last Book, a project by Luis Camnitzer, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Live + Work, South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
2011 Holy Sheet! Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
2011 Outlook, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR (juried by James Yood)
2011 The Last Book, a project by Luis Camnitzer, National Library Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008 We Are All Wrong and It’s Alright, Igloo Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Cross Section ’08, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 The Environmentalists - Portland Modern, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR (curated by Victor Maldonado)
2008 Graduate Show, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR (chosen as sole representative of MFA program)
2008 Kitchen Sink: Step Into My Office, 520 NW Davis, Portland, OR (curated by Gary Wiseman)
2006 Pigs In Ether, MK Gallery, Portland, OR (curated by Brad Craw)
2006 Overlapping Lines, Gallery H, Ulsan, Korea
2006 I Know You Are, But What Am I?, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 Shimmer, Fort 105, Albuquerque, NM
2001 D.H. Lawrence Ranch Show, Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2001 New Era Art, 516 Art Space Magnifico, Albuquerque, NM
2001 D.H. Lawrence Ranch Show, Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2001 Make Sense, ASA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
PUBLIC LECTURES
2017 Central Community College, Bend, OR
2016 Clackamas Community College, Alexander Gallery, Oregon City, OR
2011 Star Gazer Residency, Guest Lecturer, Corbett, OR
2007 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Summer School Youth Program, Portland, OR
2007 Portland State University, MFA Thesis Lecture, Portland, OR
2006 Portland Community College, Friday Lecture Series, Portland, OR
EXHIBITION JUROR
2016 Central Oregon Community College, Student Show, Bend, OR
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2017 Caldera Arts Alumni Community Residency – Sisters, OR
2015 Caldera Arts Artist Residency, Golden Spot Award – Sisters, OR
2013 Arquetopia – Special Residency in Textiles & Fiber Arts, Oaxaca, Mexico
2011 Proyecto ‘Ace Printmaking Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 D.H. Lawrence Ranch Wilderness Studies residency, Utah
1999 D.H. Lawrence Ranch Wilderness Studies residency, Northern NM
PUBLICATIONS
Matt Rowning, Abstract Art Comes to Alexander, Clackamas Print, January 2016
John Kirkland, New meeting place opens at Portland State as part of university's outreach to Latino students, Oregon Live, June, 2011
Diario EL PAIS, El último libro de Luis Camnitzer, Hojas perennes, January 5, 2009
Volume Magazine Issue #15 - The Last Book, June 2008
The Oregonian, Portland Modern as Talent Scout, Brian Libby, July 13, 2007
Portland Modern Publication Issue no. 5, July 2007
PDX Art, Blog by Jamie Marie Waelchli, May 22, 2007. www.artportland.blogspot.com
The Oregonian, Everyone and the Kitchen Sink, D.K. Row, April 15, 2007
The Daily Vanguard, Vague Memories, James Jack, February 21, 2007
COMMITTEES & VOLUNTEER
2013-2016 MFAHH - PSU MFA Alumni & Artist Lecture Art Auction committee member & co-founder
2013-2015 PSUFA Labor-Management Committee
2008-2012 PSU Art Alumni Committee member
2008 Caldera, Art Auction volunteer
2008 Caldera, Hello Neighbor Project, Exhibition Installation volunteer
2007 PICA’s TBA Festival, Exhibition Installation volunteer
2006 & 2007 PSU’s Annual High & Low Art Auction and Gala, volunteer & organizer
COLLECTIONS
2013 Portland State University, La Casa Latina