BORN: 1958

EDUCATION
1991 AA, The Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, WA
1981 BA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Constructs, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2020 Rhythm and Rhyme, Zinc Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2017 Vibrations, Walker Contemporary, Waitsfield, VT
2012 New Work, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Drops of Life, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Wild Type, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA
2010 Inner Fictions, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 Exposition: John Dempcy, Galerie Pierrick Touchefue, Sceaux, France
2009 Notations, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA
2009 Signals, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Encounters, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Gallery II, Chicago, IL
2008 Modulations, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Passages, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014 Carrie McGee & John Dempcy, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 John Dempcy & Alicia Tormey, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Fusion: John Dempcy & Aileen Chong, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2010 John Dempcy & Thierry Feuz, Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Sceaux, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Featured Artist, Ryan James Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2020 Open Call-Small Works, Zinc Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2019 Endless Summer, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2019 Blind Study, Zinc Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2019 Seattle Art Fair, with Zinc Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2019 Winter Group Show, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 Mission Infinite & The Possibility of Art, Walker Contemporary, Waitsfield, VA
2015 Summer Group Show, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Gallery Artists, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Hall/Spassov Gallery, Bellevue, WA
2013 Pattern & Process, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Spring Group Show, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2012 Radiance, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Let Me Wander In Your Garden, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Spring Group Show, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2012 Los Angeles Affordable Art Fair, with Conrad Wilde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Aqua Art Fair, with Conrad Wilde Gallery, Miami, FL
2011 Small Works Show, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Innovations: Aqua Art Fair,  with Conrad Wilde Gallery, Miami, FL
2011 BLUE, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 Aqua Art Fair,  with Conrad Wilde Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 Chic Art Fair, with Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Paris, France
2010 Art San Diego 2010, with Julie Nester Gallery, San DIego, CA
2010 Abstraction, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2010 Group Show, Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Sceaux, France
2010 NYC Affordable Art Fair, with Julie Nester Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Oasis, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2010 Spring Group Show, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2010 Lille Art Fair, Lille, France
2010 Taste Restaurant, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2009 John Dempcy, Kathleen Waterloo, and Hyunmee Lee, JK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Relative Geometries II, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2008 Big Impressions II, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2008 Relative Geometries II, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2008 Encore: Season Highlights, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2008 35th Anniversary Celebration, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Big Impressions, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2007 Relative Geometries, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2007 Group Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Summer Introductions 2006, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA

AWARDS
2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient
2008 PONCHO 8th Annual Invitational Art Auction, Artistic Merit Award, Seattle, WA
2007 PONCHO 7th Annual Invitational Art Auction, Artistic Merit Award, Seattle, WA

PRESS
2012 Speer, Richard. “John Dempcy: New Work,” Willamette Week, 6/12
“Subtle Modulations, John Dempcy.” Folly, an online publication, December 2011 issue, pp. 3-11
Exhibitions: “Wild Type,” John Dempcy, American Contemporary Art, January 2011 issue, p. 39
McQuaid, Cate. “Psychedelic drops, John Dempcy: Wild Type,” Boston Globe, January 2011
Speer, Richard. “Best of 2010 – Best show of 2010,” Willamette Week, Dec. 29-Jan. 4, pg. 31
Speer, Richard. “Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest, Huffington Post, July 2010
2010 Speer, Richard. “Recommendation: John Dempcy,” Visual Art Source, 7/10
2010 Speer, Richard. “John Dempcy at Augen,” Willamette Week, 7/10
“New exhibit focuses on the abstract,” Park Record, July 2010
Nakel. Loma. “John Dempcy,” Arts Interview, January, 2010
Speer, Richard. “Visual Arts Best of 2008,” Willamette Week, January 2009.
“Met Home of the Month,” Metropolitan Home, September 2008, p. 128. (illustration)
2008 Speer, Richard. “From Seattle, With Gusto,” Willamette Week, 7/08
Row, D.K. “From Spitfires to Dots,” The Oregonian A&E, July 11, 2008, p. 37.
Hackett, Regina. “In the Galleries: April,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 5, 2007. (illustrated)
Time Style & Design. Spring 2007, p. 40. (illustration)
Hackett, Regina. “Serial in Seattle,” Visual Codec, March 2006. (illustrated)

COLLECTIONS
Cheryl Ramberg Ford & Allyn Ford Alumni Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Pan Pacific Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
Seattle Grand Sheraton, Seattle, WA
Swedish Medical Group, Mill Creek, WA
Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas, NV
Retina Consultants, Seattle, WA
Westin LAX, Los Angeles, CA

MISC
2011 CD cover for The Humans, Sugar Rush
2010 Painting featured in Amazon.com commercial
2009 Painting featured in the movie, “World’s Greatest Dad”