Biography of:
Rick Bartow
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A wide range of cultural experiences inspire Rick Bartow’s drawings, paintings, sculpture, and prints. American Indian transformation myths are the heart of much of his work. Bartow lives and works on the Oregon coast, where he observes hawk, raven and eagle—the subjects that populate his artwork. Rick is a member of the Wiyot tribe from Northwestern California.
In 1969, Rick Bartow earned a Bachelors of Arts in Art Education from Western Oregon State University. Soon after, Bartow served in the Vietnam War for thirteen months, 1970-1971. He returned to art making several years after his military service ended. In the interim, Bartow worked in many fields including fishing, bartending, building maintenance, and teaching. Currently he is an active blues guitarist.
Bartow is a professional artist, with solo exhibition at galleries in Japan, Germany, New Zealand, Mexico, Oregon and Washington. In 2003 he inaugurated the Continuum 12 series at the National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan. The traveling exhibit My Eye, with color catalog, ended its run at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington, after visiting museums at Notre Dame University, Texas Tech University and Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Some of his recent group exhibitions include Twentieth Century American Sculpture at The White House, Washington, D.C., organized by the Heard Museum; Indian Reality Today, at Westfaliches Landesmuseum fur Naturkunde, Munster, Germany; Head, Heart and Hands, organized by the Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery in Louisville, KY and traveling to the American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Indian Time at the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM; and The Museum of Art & Design’s Changing Hands 2: Art Without Reservation, New York, NY
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HEARD MUSEUM
