Simple Thoughts and Complicated Animals Biography / Peres Projects

(b. 1975, Bremerton, Washington)
Lives and works in Portland, Oregon

Current exhibitions:
"Several Landscapes," Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois, July 5 - August 16, 2008

Recent solo exhibitions:
"American Dreams," curated by Tania Pardo, MUSAC, Leon, Spain, 2008
"Simple Thoughts and Complicated Animals," Peres Projects Berlin, 2008
"Loaded, Nailed, and short on Cash," Peres Projects, LA, 2006
"You have more freedom than you are using," Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Solo Exhibition, Vilma Gold, London, UK, 2005
Solo Exhibition, 404 Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy, 2005
"Some of the best things I know," Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2004

Recent group exhibitions:
"Discover the Landscape," Orangery Museum, Gera, Germany, 2008
"Several Landscapes," Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois, 2008
"Important If True (Hootenanny in E.)," Burnet Art Gallery at Chambers, the Luxury Art Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2008
"Contemporary Northwest Art Awards," Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2008
"Shape of Things to Come," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2008
"Legend," curated by Alexis Vaillant, Domaine Departemental de Chamarande, France, 2008
"Gravity's Rainbow," Peres Projects Athens, 2007
"8th Northwest Biennial," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, 2007
"Phantasmania," Kemper Museum of Contemporart Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2006
"1627-2007," artnews projects, Berlin, Germany, 2006
"Let's go camping," John Connelly Presents, New York, 2006
"There's no fooling you (the classics)," Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
"Montezuma's Revenge," Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, 2006
"The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2005
"Growing Up Absurd," Hebert Read Gallery, Kent, UK, 2005

Attoe has been featured in Art Forum, The L.A. Times, Art Review, and The New York Times.