Nate Herth
My art evokes the energy and motion of the world. I am compelled by the tension between the conscious deliberation of human action and the perpetual non-conscious activity of the atmosphere that surrounds us. The volatile interaction of these two antipodes – the built environment and the natural – produces a collision of contrasting visual stimuli that I reflect upon in my work.

I am pierced and transported by the margins that construct the bailiwick of my subjective perception and ocular reality. The disparate, yet balanced edges that frame my lens and scaffold my visual manifesto produce a harmonious resonance between otherwise unlikely bedfellows – urban and rural; landscape and man; organic and inorganic; harmony and tumult; patterns and abstraction. The touchstone of my creative philosophy is the meditative inquiry into this beautiful disquiet that engulfs each of us.
Nate Herth Artist

Nate Herth was born in San Francisco, CA, and has been a Seattle resident since 2001. He was raised in the manifold Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, and moved to the bucolic wheat fields of Walla Walla, WA to attend Whitman College. As a student, he studied printmaking, drawing and painting and worked under Keiko Hara and Anna Hepler. Currently a master teaching artist, Nate provides immersive, multidisciplinary arts education for students K-12. The diverse nature of his upbringing, education and career expressively parallels the balanced cacophony of his work.

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Coral Space, part of Equinox Studio, Seattle, WA
2018 Currents, The Promenade Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Transparency Installation, Queen Hotel Studio, Seattle, WA
2009 Transparent Storefront Works, Nancy Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Condition Paintings, University of WA Tacoma, Iron Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2009 Mixed Work, Icon Coffee Gallery, Fremont Art Walk, Seattle, WA
2009 Watercolor Basement, Icon Coffee Gallery, Fremont Art Walk, Seattle, WA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 Super Cooper 10, City Hall Galleries, Seattle, WA 
2014 Pianos in the Parks, Seattle, WA
2014 Who Are U, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2013 Gage Academy, Rosen Gallery, Teaching Artists, Seattle, WA
2011 Open Daybook Exhibition, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA
2010 Mystic Sons of Morris Graves, Rock/Dement Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Cafe Review, Café Cugini, Seattle, WA
2009 Surreal, Capitol Hill Watercolor Society, Café Racer, Seattle, WA
2009 Cops and Calder, Seattle Art Museum ReMix, Seattle, WA
2008 We Regret to Inform You, Joe Bar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Youth Instructors Show, Steele Gallery, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2008 Boats, Buildings and Bridges, University House, Seattle, WA
2006 Disaster, Capitol Hill Watercolor Society, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2006 Anthem, Composers Forum collaboration with filmmaker Randy Walker for composer Christopher DeLaurenti, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
2005 define: BOOK, Art Books Press, Seattle, WA
2005 Unbroken, Capitol Hill Watercolor Society, Capitol Hill Art Center, Seattle, WA
2004 Small Works Seasonal Show, Vain Upper Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Zine Show, Art Books Press, Seattle, WA
2004 Capital Hill Watercolor Society, Forgotten Works Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Capital Hill Watercolor Society, Secluded Alley Works, Seattle, WA
2004 Matinee Show, Marie Antoinette Gallery, Seattle, WA

Teaching Artist Youth Arts Education

2016-2017 Teaching Artist, Seattle's Office of Arts and Culture, Public Art Grant, Seattle, WA
2017 Youth Theater Co-Director, Defiance, Seattle Rep, DON Grant, Seattle, WA
2017 Using Arts as a Catalyst for Social Change: Columbia City Youth Theater Group, Seattle, WA
2016 Teaching Artist Guild: Issue 06: Intersections of Teaching Artistry and Social Justice, Seattle, WA
2012-2015 Arts Corps’ Creative School Initiative, Teaching Artist, Seattle, WA
2014-2015 City of Seattle Creative Advantage Teaching Artist, Seattle, WA
2010-2015 Seattle Art Museum, Teaching Artist and Facilitator, Seattle, WAst
2010-2012 CTE Visual Communications Instructor, SIG FTE, Stewart Middle School, Tacoma, WA
2008-2010 Seattle Art Museum, Museum Educator for Youth, Family and Community, Seattle, WA
2007-2008 Tacoma School of the Arts, Adjunct Artist, Tacoma, WA
2007-2014 The Bush School, Visiting Part-time Teacher, Seattle, WA
2004-2014 Gage Academy of Art , Youth Program Instructor, Seattle, WA test
2005-2014 Seattle Art Museum, Teaching Artist, Seattle, WA

Education and Professional Development Solo Exhibitions

2017 Peacemaking and Healing for Social Emotional Learning, Seattle, WA
2015 Trauma Stewardship with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Seattle, WA
2013 Youth Program Quality Assessment, (YPQA), Art Corps, Seattle, WA
2013 Arts and Social Justice Institute, Arts Corps, Seattle, WA
2012 White Privilege Conference, Seattle, WA
2011 CTE Probationary Certification Visual Communications, Tacoma, WA
2010 Community of Thinkers, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2008 People's Institute, Undoing Racism, Seattle, WA
2007 Edge Program Participant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
1998 Intern artist-assistant to Jim Dine and Pace Editions, Walla Walla, WA
1997 Intern with Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, WA
1997 Artist Assistant to Keiko Hara, Walla Walla, WAtest
1994 Urban High School, San Francisco, CA
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