Jim
Lommasson
2405 NW Thurman St.
Portland, OR 97210
503.939.1939 (Cell)
jim@lommassonpictures.com
Recipient of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from The
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Books:
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of
Civilization
– Lommasson Pictures, 2019
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory – Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, 2018
Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and
Afghanistan – Schiffer Books, 2015
Oaks Park Pentimento: Hidden
Treasures Revealed
– Oregon State Press, 2009
Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice &
The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms – Stone
Creek Publications 2005
Solo Museum
Exhibitions:
“To Bear Witness” ” (*a collaborative project with The
Immigrant Story), Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, OR 2021
“What We Carried: Threads” PLACE Gallery, Portland, OR. 2021
“Stories
of Survival: Object. Image. Memory.” Maltz Museum,
Cleveland, Ohio, 2021
“Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory.” Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX, 2021
“I
Am my Story: Voices of Hope” (*a
collaborative project with The Immigrant Story), Oregon Historical Society,
Portland, OR, 2021
“DREAMs Deferred,” (*a collaborative project with The Immigrant Story),
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, 2020
“Stories
of Survival: Object. Image. Memory.” The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Dallas, TX, 2019
“What We Carried: Fragments and
Memories from Iraq and Syria” The Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, NY, 2019
“What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and
Syria” Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo,
MI, 2019
“Stories
of Survival: Object. Image. Memory” The Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, IL, July 19, 2018 – Jan. 13,
2019
“What We Carried: Fragments and
Memories from Iraq and Syria” Japanese
American National Museum, L.A., CA, 2018
“What
We Carried: Yazidis of Lincoln, Nebraska” The Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 2018
“Artifacts” National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL, 2018
“What We Carried: Yazidis of Lincoln,
Nebraska” The Nebraska History Museum,
Lincoln, NE, 2018
“What We Carried: Fragments and
Memories from Iraq and Syria” New Americans Museum, San Diego, CA, 2017
“What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle
of Civilization” Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI, 2016
“What We Carried:
Stories by Iraqi Refugees” Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, IL, 2016
"What We Carried: Fragments from
the Cradle of Civilization," Washington County Museum, Portland, OR, 2012
“Oaks Park Pentimento,” The Portland
Art Museum, Portland, OR, 2007
Solo
Exhibitions:
“Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life
After Iraq and Afghanistan” Art Adventure Gallery, Madras, OR, 2020
“Exit
Wounds and What We Carried” Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, OR, 2018
"What
We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and Syria” Baldwin Wallace
University, Berea, OH, 2018
“What We Carried: Fragments and
Memories from Iraq and Syria” Arab American Cultural Center Houston,
TX, 2017
“What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from Iraq and
Syria” Women's Rights National
Historical Park, Seneca, NY
“What We Carried: Fragments and
Memories from Iraq and Syria” ALIF Center, Atlanta, GA, 2018
“Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life
After Iraq and Afghanistan” Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2015
“Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life
After Iraq and Afghanistan” Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 2016
“What We Carried: Fragments from the
Cradle of Civilization” City of Chicago Pedway, Chicago, IL, 2016
“Exit Wounds and
What We Carried” Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2016
“Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories –
Life After Iraq and Afghanistan” Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2015
“What We Carried: Fragments from the
Cradle of Civilization” Unforgetting Iraq: In Search of Recovery, The New
Century Art Guild, Kimballton, IA, 2014
“What We Carried: Fragments from the
Cradle of Civilization” in conjunction with Tamziq: Scattered and Connected, The
Odysseus Project, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social
Consequences, University of Massachusetts. The Arsenal Center for the Arts.
Boston, MA, 2013
“Exit Wounds: Life After War - Soldiers’
Stories,” The Armory: Gerding Theater, Portland, OR, 2012
"What We Carried: Fragments from
the Cradle of Civilization," Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR, 2011
“Life After War: Soldiers’ Stories,”
Washington State University, Tri-Cities, WA, Nov. 8-Nov. 26, 2010
“Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories,” University
of the South, Sewanee, TN, Jan. 22-Feb. 21, 2010
“Oaks Park
Pentimento,” New American Art Union, Portland, OR, 2009
“Exit Wounds,” Portland Community
College, Portland, OR, April 2009
“Exit Wounds,” VU Gallery, Western
Washington University, Bellingham, WA, March 2009
“American Fight Clubs,” First Person
Festival of Memoir & Documentary, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia,
2008
“Exit Wounds,” New
American Art Union, Portland, OR, October 2008
“Heaven and Earth,” New American Art
Union, Portland, OR, 2006
"American
Fight Clubs," New American Art Union, Portland, OR, 2005
"American Fight Clubs,"
Basil Hallward Gallery, Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR, 2005
“on the road,
revisited,” Gallery Untitled, Portland, OR, 2001
"American Fight Clubs,"
Mahlum Architects/Photo Americas 2000, Portland, OR, 2000
“Night Visions,” Hallie Brown Ford
Gallery, Willamette University, Salem, OR, 1994
“Night Visions,”
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1989
"Oaks Park," White Gallery,
Portland, OR 1983
Camerawork
Gallery, Portland, OR, 1983 & 1974
Littman Gallery, Collaboration:
Lommasson/Anderson, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1981
Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR,
1978
First Blue Sky Exhibition, Portland,
OR, 1975
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA,
1974
Group
Exhibitions:
“Capturing Power: Works on Paper from
the Permanent Collection,” Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR, 2020
“Shadow
and Light,” Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, UK,
2019
“What We Carried: Fragments from the
Cradle of Civilization,” Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR, 2019
“A Matter of Memory,” George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, 2016
“Conflict and Consequences,” The
Wright Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 2015
“What We Carried: Fragments from the
Cradle of Civilization” handmade artist book “BOOK POWER REDUX” exhibit at
University of Puget Sound, Collins Library, Puget Sound, WA, 2014
“What We Carried: Fragments from the
Cradle of Civilization,” New Century Art Guild, Kimballton, IA, 2014
“What We Carried: Fragments from the
Cradle of Civilization,” handmade artist book “BOOK POWER REDUX” exhibit at 23
Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2014
"Navigating
the Aftermath," University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2011
"Object of Focus: The
Book," Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR, 2011
"Art of the
Time," Oregon State Capitol Art Collection, Salem, OR, 2011
“I Wouldn’t Wish War on My Worst
Enemy” handmade artist book for “BOOK POWER” exhibit, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland,
OR, 2010; books purchased by SF MoMA, Yale University, Reed College, and University
of Washington.
"The Hidden
Costs of War,” Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, 2010
National Photography Competition:
Juror, Susan Kismaric, MoMA, Soho Photo, New York, NY, July 2009
“The Odysseus
Project: Finding Home,” Fort Point Gallery, Boston, MA, 2009
“Photo+Book Self-Published
Photography Books,”23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, March 2009
“The Altered Landscape,” Newspace
Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2007
“Night Moves,” 23 Sandy Gallery,
Portland, OR, 2007
“Katrina Exposed,” New Orleans Museum
of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2006
Second Annual National Juried
Exhibition, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2006
“Hand & Eye: Fifteen Years of the
Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize,” Center For Documentary Studies at
Duke University, Durham, NC, Sept. 2005-Jan. 2006
Photo National
2005, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, Aug.-Sept. 2005
"Notes From All Over," Hoffman
Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, 1998
“Notes From All Over,” Marylhurst
University Gallery, Marylhurst, OR, 1998
"Visual
Chronicles of Portland," 1998, 1996, 2000
"Blue Sky 20-Year Anniversary
Show," Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1995
"History of
Photography in Oregon," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1993
"Public Hanging," Portland
Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR, 1983
"Oregon
Biennial," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1983
"Works on Paper," Pacific
Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 1982
"Three
Photographers," Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 1981
"Oregon Biennial," Portland
Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1981
"Seven
Points of View," The School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR, 1978
"East-West Exchange,"
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 1976
"Opening
Invitational," Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1975
"Horseplay," Portland
Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR, 1974
Education:
Chief Joseph Elementary School,
Portland, OR, 1964
Benson Polytechnic High School,
(Graphic Arts) Portland, OR, 1968
Portland State University, (Bachelor
of Science: Art) Portland, OR 1976
Teaching
Experience:
Pacific Northwest
College of Art, Portland, OR, Photography Department Chair, 1979-83
Lewis & Clark
College, Portland, OR, Photography Instructor, 1983
Linfield College, McMinnville, OR,
Photography Instructor, 1983
Portland State
University, Portland, OR, Photography Instructor, 1978-80
Marylhurst University, Marylhurst,
OR, Photography Instructor, 1975-79
Selected Awards
and Public or Institutional Collections:
Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Oregon Humanities Conversation Grant:
"Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home"
"What We Carried: Fragments from
the Cradle of Civilization,” Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant
Oregon
Arts Commission Fellowships 2005 and 2016
“I Wouldn’t Wish War on My Worst
Enemy” & “What We Carried” hand made artist books in permanent collections
at Yale University, SF MoMA, Library of Congress, Reed College, University of
Oregon, University of Washington, University of Denver, Ohio University,
University of California Irvine, University of Colorado, Baylor university, and
Emory University.
Works in Permanent collections: Hallie
Ford Museum, George Eastman House, Museum
of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL, University of Oregon, Terry Toedtemeier Collection at the Portland Art Museum.
Selected Articles and Reviews:
What We Carried: (Hyperallergic Article): https://hyperallergic.com/488061/refugees-tell-their-stories-through-mementos/
What We Carried: (Curiosity Magazine): https://www.curiositymag.com/2018/09/12/what-we-carried-jim-lommasson/
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory: http://lenscratch.com/2018/10/jim-lommasson/
DREAMs Deferred: (About DACA
Dreamers): http://www.heuermontage.com/?p=21419
Blogs about
projects:
What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization:
https://whatwecarried.com/
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory: https://objectimagememory.blogspot.com/
What We Carried: Kalamazoo Valley Museum: https://whatwecarriedkalamazoo.blogspot.com/
What We Carried: Yazidis of Lincoln,
Nebraska: https://lincolnyazidis.blogspot.com/
Exit Wounds:
Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan: http://lifeafterwar-soldiersstories.blogspot.com/
Oaks Park
Pentimento: Portland’s Lost and Found Carousel Art: http://oaksparkpentimento.blogspot.com/
American
Fight Clubs: http://jimlommassonphotographer.blogspot.com/
Jim
Lommasson Photographer: Four Projects: http://jimlommassonphotographer.blogspot.com/
Selected video interviews about the
projects:
OPB
Oregon Art Beat: Photographs Matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Audou4B2UYc
Goodman
Theater Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gCQsy9gVc8
Iraqi
Alhurra TV Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6yub6Xm6v4
Alas is today similar to yesterday? Despair, sickness, and foreignness.
"It's Strange How Happy This Makes Me Feel" – Zaid Aljebori, Iraq 
A Wartime Log for British Prisoners. Harry Reuse, Germany. (Click photos to ENLARGE)
