INTERSTATE: where I-90 meets I-82, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA (juror: Alexis Silva)

Kinship, Kinhouse Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

* Each Step Pronounced, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR 

* A Thousand Words Will Never Tell the Whole Story, Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA

2024

Composition/Decomposition, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA

* Covered Up in Dailiness, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR 

Selfhood, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2023

Barnstorm, Punch Projects, Ellensburg, WA

Between Spaces, Wavelength Space, Nashville, TN

Bewilderment, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, LaGrande, OR (three-person exhibition)

* Invisible Labor, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR 

2022

Roundhouse Foundation: Featured Artist from the RMRCAA Residency Program, Pendleton Art Center, Pendleton, OR

Barnstorm, Punch Projects, Ellensburg, WA

Bewilderment, The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR (three-person exhibition)

2021

* Soft Ambition, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR 

Second Date, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR

2020

Reflections, ANTI-AESTHETIC, Eugene, OR

TOUCH, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL (curator: Gina Lee Robbins)
IF/THEN, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR
* Bruised Topography, Forsberg Gallery, Rose Center for the Arts. Lower Columbia Community College, Longview, WA 

2019

INTERSTATE: where I-90 meets I-82, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA (juror: Grace Kook-Anderson)

* Reinventing Landscape, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA 
* I Want to Lie Upon an Open Hillside, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR 

2018

First Date, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR

Barnstorm 2018, Punch Projects, Ellensburg, WA (juror: Ginger Ewing)
Gray Space Project at ECA, Eugene Contemporary Art, Eugene, OR
It Went Like This: The Skyline was Beautiful on Fire, South Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Art, Montpelier, VT (juror: Meg Onli)
* Recapture, Main Gallery, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR 

2017

Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residents Exhibition, The Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE (curator: Amanda Smith)
Grassroots, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (curators: Pamela Callahan and Deb Flagel)
Barnstorm, Punch Projects, Ellensburg, WA

2016

Sediments, Sequences, and Solitude, traveling exhibition, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR; Atelier 6000, Bend, OR; Umpqua Valley Art Center, Roseburg, OR (curator: Deborah Springstead Ford, catalog)
Salon: Portland2016 Biennial, The Studio Visits, Disjecta, Portland, OR (curator: Michelle Grabner)
The Residents, Eisentrager Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (curator:Amanda Smith)

2015

* Surveyed, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

* Not Simply Here, Betty Faves Art Gallery, Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, OR 
Bellingham National, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA (juror: Scott Lawrimore)
* When They Fall, They Always Make Noise, Gretchen Schuette Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR 

2014

Oregon Art Beat Alumni Exhibit, The Peoples Gallery, Portland, OR (invitational)
17th International Open, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL (juror: Myra Green)
New Works to the Permanent Collection, The Art Gallery, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR

2013

Thoughts and Longings, The Art Center, Corvallis, OR (three-person exhibition)

* To the Rumored Garden, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, LaGrand, OR 
The Bitters: Fuck it!, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI (curator: Stephen Schudlich)
Road Trip, Work Gallery, Detroit, MI (curator: Stephen Schudlich)
Food: Friend or Foe, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Arlington, VA (juror: April Wood)
Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR (curator: Hester Coucke)

2012

* It May Take Longer, The Brink Gallery, Missoula, MT 

America!, Work Gallery, Detroit, MI (curator: Joe Levickas)
15th International Open, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL (juror: Linda Warren)

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Artist Lecture with Charlie Ann Hopkins and M Acuff, Eastern Oregon University

Artist Lecture, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR (February 21, 2018)
Artist Lecture, Bend Art Center, Bend, OR (February 6, 2018)
Artist Talk, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR (December 5, 2015)
Artist Talk, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR (April 8, 2015)
KHN Open Studios, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (March 19, 2015)
Playa Presents Open Studio Event, PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR (January 24, 2015)
Artist Lecture, Eastern Oregon University, LaGrande, OR (October 2, 2013)
Jentel Presents, Sage Gallery, Sheridan, WY (February 23, 2012)
Shadow Effects: Interview on the Jefferson Exchange, Jefferson Public Radio (February 17, 2012)

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Kinhouse Exhibition 2025, Kinhouse Gallery, 2025 (Kaylan Buteyn and Dana Caldera, authors)

Overlap and Outliers: the Artists of Carnation Contemporary, Carnation Contemporary, 2022 

Caprario, Kathleen, CAFE 541: Social Patterns, The Register Guard, Eugene, OR (June 11,

2020)

2015-2019 Connective Conversations Curator/Critic Tours and Lectures, The Ford Family

Foundation and the University of Oregon, 2020 (pg 46-47, 248)

Clayton, Alec, Architecture, memory and nature: Study of Site and Space at 950

Gallery, Weekly Volcano (August 9, 2018)

Beating the Bounds, Hobblebush Books, 2016 (cover art)

Disjecta, The Disjecta Portland2016 Biennial (accompanying photo book to A Reader on
Place and Work), Artful Dragon Press, 2016 (page 3)
William J. Simmons, Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art (Review), Art Papers,
September/October issue, 2016 (page 62)
Sediments, Sequences, and Solitude, PLAYA, 2016 (pages 20 and 53)
Connective Conversations: Inside Oregon Art, 2011-2014, The Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon, 2015 (pages 80-83)

Sabina Poole, Renee Couture: A trailer with a view, Oregon ArtsWatch: Oregon's Arts & Culture (September 9, 2015) (http://www.orartswatch.org/renee-couture-a-trailer-with-a-view/)

Bob Keefer, Gallery's contemporary pieces reflect on life today, The Register Guard, Eugene, OR (January 27, 2014)
Heather Hansman, Renee Couture and the Art of Logging, Adventure Journal (July 25, 2013)

Sierra Crane Murdoch, The gray area: a conversation with artist Renee Couture, High Country

News, volume 45, number 7 (April 29, 2013)
Raino Isto, Interview with Renee Couture, parts 1 and 2, AfterArt, (March 2013

(http://afterart.wordpress.com/2013/03/)
Mike Midlo, Producer, Oregon Art Beat, featured artist, Oregon Public Broadcast, Portland, OR

(January 24, 2013; re-broadcast January 27, 2013; can be streamed on-line)
Kate Ostergren, Rural Oregon Inspires Artist Renee Couture, Oregon Public Broadcast (Art & Life

section of website) (January 20, 2013)
Melissa Mylchreest, Chopping Wood: Renee Couture sees the forest for the trees, Missoula

Independent (November 1, 2012)
Editorial Board, Artist offers novel perspective on familiar timber debate, The News Review

(February 22, 2012)
Ryan Imondi, Shadow Effects shows all sides of timber, The News Review (February 10, 2012)
Versal 10, international literary & arts publication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; pages 65 and

162 (2012)

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Coordinator, Percent for Art Program, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR

March 2020 - present

Gallery Manager, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
spring 2013, winter/spring 2016, winter/spring 2017, spring 2020, fall 2022 - summer 2023
Artist-Mentor, San Francisco Art Institute (Low Residency MFA Program), San Francisco, CA
fall 2012
Adjunct Fine Art Faculty, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
winter 2008 - 2020

Applicant Reviewer, Pine Meadow Ranch Artist Residency Program, Sisters, OR

2021-2023

Applicant Reviewer, Douglas County Cultural Coalition, Roseburg, OR
2018 - 2024
Applicant Reviewer, PLAYA Foundation Artist Residency Program, Summer Lake, OR
2015 - 2017, 2024 - 2025