Espacio Vilches
UC Santiago
March 16 - 28, 2025
Reception: March 21 @ 1pm
Santiago, Chile

Artists and scholars Michael Boonstra and Andrew Myers, from Oregon State University's College of Liberal Arts, will be present at the UC School of the Arts from Monday, March 17th to Friday, March 21st, holding a workshop and an open studio at Espacio Vilches. This activity will feature the participation of Professor Luis Prato's students, who are beginning their residency workshop.

The connection between the scholars and the UC School of the Arts dates back to 2022, when Professor Luis Prato completed a research and creative sabbatical at the College of Forestry at Oregon State University in Oregon, United States. During his stay, Prato connected with Professors Boonstra and Myers, specialists in sculpture and drawing, who invited him to participate in an art and science camp held annually in a major forest reserve in Oregon. This camp, which integrates contact with nature and the presence of prominent artists, inspired the idea of ​​creating a collaboration between the two educational institutions. Boonstra and Myers' visit to the UC School of Art marks the beginning of this academic exchange, with a view to future joint projects, including camps or artist residencies in Chilean Patagonia.

The Arts Center
May 15 – July 5, 2025
Opening Reception + Panel Discussion: Thursday, May 15, 5:30 – 7 PM

The Arts Center is thrilled to exhibit the exceptional work created during the inaugural Wildfire + Water residency at Playa at Summer Lake. This timely exhibition explores environmental, spiritual and socio-political issues not only affecting the Chewaucan region, but the entire world.

With the work of 9 artists (listed below) and over a dozen collaborators, Wildfire + Water may leave gallery visitors with more questions than answers, but by engaging with this exhibition, viewers will be confronted with complex, and at times controversial, perspectives that will require thoughtful consideration and empathy to fully understand.

The Arts Center invites everyone to take a slow deep look not only at the art created, but at the practical wisdom, theology and science that inspired the work.

PRAx
September 21-December 21, 2024
Stirek Gallery
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

The exhibition How to Carry Water brings together contemporary visual artists and humanities scholars in shared observations and questions about watersheds. In this expanded conversation, the term “watershed” refers not only to ecological structures, but also to the spatial, temporal and cultural entities that catalyze collectivity and life alongside bodies of water. The exhibition considers how the lenses of history, philosophy and creative practice allow for alternative methods of witnessing the human relationship to water.

Curators: Ashley Stull Meyers, Mary Jones and Thomas Hart Horning Chief Curator of Art, Science, and Technology and Kelly Bosworth, Mary Jones and Thomas Hart Horning Assistant Professor of Public History and Ethnomusicology.

Reser Center for the Arts
March 15 – May 10, 2023
Beaverton, Oregon

Informed by environmental changes, artists Christine Bourdette and Michael Boonstra take a close look at the altered lands surrounding us. Instigated by radical events such as fire, erosion, or geologic fracturing, the artists focus on the earth’s metamorphosis, distortions, upheavals, and shifts. A metaphor for the human experience, the works explore fragility, loss, and memory as a path to gradual growth and regeneration.

Artist Talk with Michael Boonstra & Christine Bourdette
Wednesday, April 5 | 6:30 – 8 pm

Altered Terrain Opening Reception & First Friday
Friday, April 7 | 6 – 9 pm

July 7-30, 2022
Featured artists from the Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture Residency Program.
Pendleton Center for the Arts
Pendleton, Oregon

June, 2022
willamette river contours
A new commissioned work at the Lane County Farmers' Market Pavilion in downtown Eugene, Oregon.
Eugene Cultural Services.

March, 2022
perpetual processes
A commissioned series of works for the State of Oregon Treasury's Resiliency Building in Salem, Oregon.

September 18 – December 18, 2021
An exhibition curated by Jonathan Bucci at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon. More information about the exhibition can be found here.

November 2 - December 21, 2020
A Gray Space Project and Eugene Contemporary Art Collaboration.
Gray Space Project
ANTI-AESTHETIC
245 W 8th Ave., Eugene, OR

November, 2020
Solo show of new work.
Truckenbrod Gallery
517 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis, OR

June, 2020
44°37’19.668” N 124°2’43.86” W (for Charles)
A new commissioned work on the Oregon State University Hatfield campus in Newport, Oregon. OSU Marine Studies Building

Summer 2020
Group exhibition/reading room at ANTI-AESTHETIC
antiaesthetic.com
245 W 8th Ave, Eugene, OR

August 18, 2019
Gray Space Project and Signal Fire Collaboration
Fall Creek, Oregon

November 2 - December 29, 2018
Solo exhibition of recent work.
At Liberty Arts Collaborative
Source Weekly Review by Teafly Peterson
849 NW Wall Street
Bend, Oregon

December 8 - 16
Sisters, Oregon
Caldera Arts

November 2 - 25, 2018
An exhibition focused on the local and global issues facing our oceans featuring OSU faculty and student work.
Newport Visual Arts Center
Newport, Oregon

August 24 - September 6, 2018
Sisters, Oregon
roundhousefoundation.org

May 26 - June 28, 2018 - Gray Space Exhibition
May 26 - Vicki Amorose Performance + Tailgate Party 6-9pm
Slightly Coffee
Eugene, Oregon

July 2 - August 30, 2018
Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon.
liberalarts.oregonstate.edu

March 13-17, 2018
Collaborative exhibition with Amanda Salov, Dylan Beck, and Scott Klasek.
Artists Image Resource
Pittsburgh, PA

December 20 - January 15, 2018
CEI Artworks, Corvallis, OR
Outpost1000.com
Artist spotlight in the Gazette-Times

November 10 - December 30, 2017
At Liberty, Bend, Oregon
highdesertmuseum.org

Artist Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Free and open to the public.
art.wisc.edu

A PNW collective or artists examining place.
More information about the project can be found at:
grayspaceproject.com

June 17 - June 23, 2017
Southeastern Oregon Backpacking Outing
www.signalfirearts.org

May 5 - May 29, 2017
James May Gallery, Algoma, Wisconsin.
jamesmaygallery.com

April 13 - May 27, 2017
The Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
theartscenter.net/microbiomes-see-unsee…

January 4 - February 18, 2017
Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, Oregon.
www.chehalemculturalcenter.org

July 9 - September 18, 2016
Disjecta
Portland Biennial Site

Fairbanks Gallery
April 4-27, 2016
Corvallis, Oregon.

http://salemart.org
Salem, OR
May 6 - June 25, 2016

www.duplexgallery.com
November 5 - December 18
Portland, Oregon.

http://soilart.org
Seattle, WA
October 1- October 31, 2015

Collaborative project with Andy Myers in Harrisburg, Oregon.
theartscenter.net
August - December, 2015

http://www.playasummerlake.org
May 6 - June 25, 2016
Summer Lake, OR
September, 2015