EDUCATION
2014 Master of Fine Arts Painting, SUNY Albany, Albany NY
2011 Bachelor of Science Painting/Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
2010 Academic Semester Abroad School for International Training, New Delhi India
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle WA, 2023-Present
Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle WA, 2019-2023
Stay Home Gallery, Paris TN, 2022
SOIL Artist-Run Gallery, Seattle WA, 2018-2021
COLLECTIONS
Microsoft Collection
Facebook Collection
Port of Seattle
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Beauty + Violence Foster/White Gallery, Seattle WA
2022 Equal + Opposite Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle WA
2020 Systematic Calculated Government Sanctioned SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA
They Didn’t Realize We Were Seeds Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle WA
2018 Studio e Presents: Ilana Zweschi Gallery Frames, Seattle WA
Practice & Form Two-Person Exhibition (w/ Lauren Fejarang), Stroble and Sands, Seattle WA
2017 Cannibal Cornish Playhouse, Seattle WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Seattle Art Fair, Lumen Field Boot C7, Seattle WA
Elements: Air, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle WA
Applied Arts, Specialist, Seattle WA
2023 Dynamics of Flow The Carnegie, Covington KY
Maternal Perspectives Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest IL
2022 Rhythms and Roles Stay Home Gallery, Paris TN
Garden LADIE’S ROOM, Los Angeles CA
back2school Friend of a Friend Gallery, Denver CO
Dinner With Agnes Martin Vestibule, Seattle WA
Moist SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA
2021 OFF THE WALL, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle WA
For the Love of Math!, Seattle Universal Math Museum presents at Suzanne Zahr Gallery, Seattle WA
Goodwitch/Badwitch, Museum of Museums, Seattle WA
Querencia, Greenhouse Auction, online
2020 2020 Flat File Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York NY
2019 While Supplies Last: Museum Edition Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA
By & By: Hope for the Future Durden and Ray (artist and curator), Los Angeles CA
Forward: Means Glassbox Gallery, Seattle WA
Forever Again Specialist Gallery, Seattle WA
2018 N(y)oo SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA
Every Movement Reveals Us Ditch Projects, Springfield OR
Becoming American: Louder in the Dark SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA
Art Ç Math Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle WA
Out of Sight: A Survey of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest Vital 5 Productions, Seattle WA
2017 Time and Space Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do South Korea
2016 Out of Sight: A Survey of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest, Vital 5 Productions, Seattle WA
2015 #PAPER Treason Art Gallery, Seattle WA
Bemis Fall Art Show Bemis Studios, Seattle WA
2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition University at Albany Art Museum, Albany NY
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2024 Cargo Container Vinyl Mural, Tukwila Community Center, Tukwila WA
2022 Little Free Library, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, WA
2021 Meta Mural, Meta Office, Seattle WA
GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2022 DASH Grant, Grant Recipient, Seattle WA
2021 Facebook Open Arts, Artist, Seattle WA
2019 Two Dot Artist Residency, Two Dot, MT
2014 M.F.A Departmental Thesis Award, SUNY Albany
2010 Benjamin A Gillman Scholarship, Award to Study Art in India
SELECTED REVIEWS/FEATURES
Griswold, Marty, “Ilana Zweschi”, PublicDisplay.Art, Vol 3, Issue 2, July-Aug 2024, p 30-31
I Like Your Work Podcast, “Studio Visit: Ilana Zweschi”, July 30, 2024, link
King, Angela, “Sea-Tac Airport now hosting Little Free Libraries”, KUOW.org, Dec 16, 2022
Milne, S. (2020, July 22). What Does a Very Online Art World Look Like? Seattle Met, July/August 2020, 153-155.
New American Paintings, No. 145, Pacific Coast Issue, 2019
Smith, Kevin. “Ilana Zweschi.” 52 Critical Painters, 9 Sept. 2019, www.kevvvin.net/52criticalpainters/ilanazweschi.
Mothes, Kate. “Ilana Zweschi.” Young Space, 18 Feb. 2019, www.yngspc.com/artists/2019/02/ilana-zweschi/.
Cook, Katherine and Daniel Finkel, “Ilana Zweschi”, Art Ç Math. (Exhibition book) Feb 2018
Clemans, Gayle. “Visual-Arts Picks: Ilana Zweschi at Cornish Playhouse.” Seattle Times, 26 May 2017, p. 24
FreshPaintMagazine, October International Issue 15. 2016. p.110 and back cover
“Ilana Zweschi.” ArtMazeMag, 14 Nov. 2016, www.artmazemag.com/ilana-zweschi/
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Associate Professor, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA, 2017- Present
Adjunct Faculty, North Seattle College, Seattle WA, 2018 - Present
Part Time Faculty, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline WA, 2017-18
Part Time Faculty, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 2015-16
ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES
2024 Gallery Talk, Beauty + Violence, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle WA , Aug 18
Artist Talk, Clark College, Vancouver WA, Oct 23
Virtual Visiting Artist Lecture Series, North Seattle College, Seattle WA, March 4
2022 Artist Talk, Equal + Opposite, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle WA
2021 Visiting Critic, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Juror, Student Exhibition, Siena College, Loudonville NY
2020 Guest Lecture, Color Harmony & Palette Building, Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
2018 4 Person Artist Talk, North Seattle College, Seattle WA
Guest Lecture, Simultaneous Contrast and Optics, North Seattle College, Seattle WA
2016 Artist Talk, Faculty/Staff Research Presentation, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA
2015 Artist Talk, Fred and Ted Talk, Artist Talk, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY