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COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC ART
2010 Imaginary Landscape | Tukwila Longacres Sounder Station, Sound Transit | Seattle, Washington.
2010 Light Sculpture | Auburn City Hall Plaza Renovation | Auburn, Washington.
2010 Bell Street Park | Seattle Parks and Recreation | Seattle, Washington.
2009 Sky Within | McClellan Station, Sound Transit Link Light Rail | Seattle, Washington.
2008 Shady Liberty | ELDI Pedestrian Bridge | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2007 Roosevennavelt | 4Culture, 10 acre Park-and-Ride | Seattle, Washington.
2004 Comfort Zone | Harborview Hospital, Pat Steel Building | Seattle, Washington.
2002 Roosevelt Park | Master Plan, City of Bellingham | Bellingham, Washington.
2002 Leopard Sky | George Bush International Airport | Houston, Texas.
2001 Garden Panels | with Ries Niemi, Wiggum Park | Everett, Washington.
2001 Show and Hide | Mead Building | Portland, Oregon.
2000 Underground Girl | Metro Redline Subway Station, Hollywood and Highland | Hollywood, California.
2000 Light Overhead | Pico Boulevard Street Improvements | Santa Monica, California.
1997 Castro Valley Welcome | Redwood Road Street Reconstruction | Castro Valley, California.
1996 City Yard | Wisconsin Center | Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1997 Gateways, Standards, Memory Pins | Kent Regional Justice Center | Kent, Washington.
1996 XX Marks the Spot | Federal Aviation Agency Tower, LAX Airport | Los Angeles, California.
1989 Commemorative Ground Ring | Sculpture Chicago'89, Chicago Historical Society | Chicago, Illinois.
1981 Interior | Raison d'Etre, Espresso Bar | Seattle, Washington.

SPECIAL PROJECTS
2011 Tlingit | Edison, Washington
2011 Inventory | Mattress Factory Museum | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2009 New Trade Route Clothing Launch | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Edison, Washington
2009 Capuchas Para Pensar | Espacio Tramando: 5 Bienal Internacional Arte Textil | Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007 Run'erway | Performance, Samish Flats | Bow, Washington.
2006 We're Busy | Performance, Lucia Douglass Gallery loading dock | Bellingham, Washington.
2003 Art Outside | Temporary installation, The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center | Port Angeles, Washington.
2002 Palmear | Temporary installation, Hedges and Edges | West Hollywood, California.
1999 River Walk | Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1996 Garden Matrix | Abington Art Center | Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
1994 Island of Lights | Hoover Union Community Initiated Project | Los Angeles, California.
1992 Urband | Traffic Signal Ring, Union Station | Los Angeles, California.
1992 Traffic Necklace | Las Vegas, Nevada.
1992 Vermonica | Urban Candelabra | Los Angeles, California.
1988 Water Palace | Portable Fountain made of bathtubs and sinks | Formica Corporation | New York, New York.

APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS
2009 Year in Review | Columnseum | Public Art Network
2008 Grand Prize for Design | Underground Girl | Metal Architecture.
2005 Public Art in Review | Comfort Zone | Art in America.
2004 Public Art in Review | Leopard Sky | Art in America.
2002 Public Art in Review | Show and Hide | Art in America.
2001 Award of Merit Lumen West Awards | Illuminating Engineering Society | Los Angeles Section.
2001 Best Subway Station | New Times, Los Angeles | Carefree Guide to L.A. March 8-14.
2001 Beautification Award | Highland MetroRail Station, Los Angeles Business Council | Los Angeles, California.
2000 Public Art in Review | Underground Girl | Art in America.
2000 Best Installation Outside of New York at an Alternative Institution | Nomination, International Art Critics Association.
1999 The Westside Prize | Westside Urban Forum, "Pico Boulevard Streetscape Plan" | Santa Monica, California.
1993 Ojai Arts Commission | Ojai, California.
1992 Meritorious Achievement Award | Vermonica | City of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, California.
1989 Barnsdall Art Park | Board of Overseers | Los Angeles, California.
1986 40 Under 40 | Interiors Magazine, September Issue.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Return | Pittsburgh Glass Center | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2009 Map of Everything | Pittsburgh Center for the Arts | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2007 Pageant | Dear Edison Gallery | Edison, Washington.
2006 Made In Bow | Lucia Douglas Gallery | Bellingham, Washington.
2004 Solo | The Foundry | Houston, Texas.
2002 Cozy | Dirt Gallery | Los Angeles, California.
2002 Objects between Subjects | Lewis and Clark Gallery | Portland, Oregon.
2002 More questions than answers | Centre D'etudes d'Architcture et Ubanisme | Saintes, France.
2000 sown | Esther Claypool Gallery | Seattle, Washington.
2000 Clearing | Consolidated Works | Seattle, Washington.
1999 Industrial Strength Art | Port Angeles Fine Arts Center | Port Angeles, Washington.
1991 Sculpture | Nancy Lurie Gallery | Chicago, Illinois.
1990 Vocabulary | MIA Gallery | Seattle, Washington.
1988 City Bejewelled | MIA Gallery | Seattle, Washington.
1983 Cultural Relativity | Rubin/Mardin Gallery | Seattle, Washington.
1983 America in a Box | Memory and Lands of the 20th Century | Florence, Italy.
1981 International Furnishings | Rubin/Mardin Gallery | Seattle, Washington.
1980 The Princess and the Pea | Rosco Louie Gallery | Seattle, Washington.
1979 Domestic Set Up | Foster White Gallery | Seattle, Washington.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Primary Structures | San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles | San Jose, California
2011 Wingspan: Paradise Now | Anchor Art Space | Anacortes, Washington
2010 Cutting Edge | Textile Arts Center | Brooklyn, New York
2010 Between: Installation, Mixed Media, and Sculpture | Gallery Cygnus | La Conner, Washington.
2010 Imagining Home | Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2010 Fiberart International 2010 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2010 Show of Hands | Whatcom Museum | Bellingham, Washington.
2010 Klein and Niemi | Punch Gallery | Seattle, Washington.
2009 Fashionista's | Orange County Center for Contemporary Art | Santa Ana, California.
2009 Odd Fits | Pasadena City College | Pasadena, California.
2007 Similar Differences | Art League Houston | Houston, Texas.
2007 Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting | Museum of Art and Design | New York, New York.
2005 the things we loved first | Shift Collaborative Studio | Seattle, Washington.
2005 Exposed | Rudolph Projects and Cultural Arts Council of Houston / Harris County Gallery | Houston, Texas.
2003 Fashion is Art | Curated by Thread for Art: Rhonda Howard and Rebecca Richards | Seattle, Washington.
2002 Art of the Americas | Art Basel Miami Amigos | Miami, Florida.
2002 Let 'er Rip Again International | Edison Eye Gallery | Edison, Washington.
2000 Materials, Process, Meaning | Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho | Moscow, Idaho.
1999 Hey | Viking Union Gallery, WWU | Bellingham, Washington.
1998 Metalcraft | Western Gallery | Bellingham, Washington.
1996 Let 'er Rip | Edison Eye Gallery | Edison, Washington.
1992 Nine One Special | Union Station | Los Angeles, California.
1992 Summer Lighting | Dreadnought Seamens Hospital | Greenwich, England.
1992 Revolution | The Works Gallery, curated by Stuart Katz | Long Beach, California.
1991 Legacy of Karl Blossfeldt | Jan Turner Gallery, curated by Malinda Wyatt | Los Angeles, California.
1991 Big Objects | Tacoma Art Museum | Tacoma, Washington.
1991 Empty Pedestal Project | Storefront for Art and Architecture | New York, New York.
1991 Front and Back/ In and Out | Nancy Lurie Gallery | Chicago, Illinois.
1990 Metro/Metro | New Art from Atlanta and LA, curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn | Atlanta, Georgia.
1990 Recycled Los Angeles | Artists Space. New York City, New York Municipal Art Gallery | Los Angeles, California.
1989 Group Show | La Luz de Jesus | Los Angeles, California.
1989 Sculpture Chicago | Equitable Building and Northwestern University | Chicago, Illinois.
1989 Rites of Spring | Suzanne Rezak Gallery | Chicago, Illinois.
1988 Before and After | Center on Contemporary Art | Seattle, Washington.
1988 Information as Ornament | Feature/Suzanne Rezak Gallery | Chicago, Illinois.
1986 American Pop Culture | La Foret Museum | Tokyo, Japan.
1985 Magical Mystery Tour | Municipal Gallery of Los Angeles, Barnsdall Park | Los Angeles, California.
1985 Workshop Experiments | Brattleboro Museum and Art Center | Brattleboro, Vermont.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED
1981 The Figure in American Art | Museum of the Southwest | Corpus Christi, Texas.
1981 Choice & Chance | P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources | Long Island City, New York.
1981 Win, Place, or Show | Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington.
1980 Women on Women | Kohler Art Center | Sheboygen, Wisconsin.
1980 In Site | Five Person Show, Womens Building | Los Angeles, California.
1978 Installation | Open Space Gallery | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011 National Institute of Design | Open Elective | Ahmedabad, India
2005 San Francisco Art Institute | Spring Intensive | San Francisco, California.
1994 University of California at Santa Barbara | Lecturer/Teaching Pool | Santa Barbara, California.
1988-91 Otis School at Parsons | Co-Chair, Environmental Department | Los Angeles, California.
1986-88 Art Center College of Design | Environmental /Academic Departments | Pasadena, California.
1971-72 Instituto Allende | Assistant Instructor, Textile Processes | San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.

RELATED EXPERIENCE
2010 Lecturer | University of Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2004 Keynote Speaker | Metals Symposium | Seattle Art Museum | Seattle, Washington.
2004 Visiting Artist Series | San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, California.
2003 Americans in the Arts: Pan Conference | Keynote Panel Defining Success | Portland, Oregon.
2000 Opening Day Speaker | Emily Carr College of Art | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1989 Advisory Board | New Art Examiner Magazine.
1983-86 Partner | "A2Z" | Design and Architecture Firm.
1983-86 Inventions: Lino Rug | 1983 prototypes, 1986 line of Navajoleum rug in mini-production.
1984 Artist- in-residence | Pilchuck School | Stanwood, Washington.
1984 Juror and/or Grants Program for Artists | Seattle, Washington.
1984 Consultant | Bumgardner Architects, Interior Installation | Seattle, Washington.
1982-84 Consultant | Olson/Walker Architects, Design Team for South Arcade, Interiors | Seattle, Washington.
1979-83 Board Member and Founding Member | Center on Contemporary Art | Seattle, Washington.
1976 Self-employed as artist.

PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS, CATALOGUES
2009 Sheila Klein | Encyclopedia Destructica | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2008 Phelps, Janet | Similar Differences. Houston Art League | Houston, Texas.
2005 Bennett, David | Metro: The Story of the Underground Railway.
2002 Martin, Susan | Twenty 02: 20 Years of the Santa Monica Arts Commission | City of Santa Monica | Santa Monica, California.
2002 Tesner, Linda | Objects Between Subjects: Sheila Klein | Lewis and Clark College | Portland, Oregon.
2002 Schick, Monica | Discoveries: Eclectic Art of the Midwest Airlines Center | WI Center Dist. | Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1999 Emerson, Sherry | Artistic Illumination | Klipsun, Western Washington University | Bellingham, Washington.
1996 Burnham, E. Laura | The Garden Matrix | Abington Art Center | Jenkinstown, Pennsylvania.
1997 Carole Fuller and Robert Mittenthal | Metalcraft | Western Washington University | Bellingham, Washington.
1995 Kahn Robin and Kathy Acker | Time Capsule | Creative Time | New York, New York.
1993 Brunsman and Askey | Modernism and Beyond: Women: Artists of the Pacific Northwest | March Arts Press.
1990 Rethinking the Beverly Center | Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design | Los Angeles, California.
1988 "Information as Ornament" | Feature Gallery/Suzanne Rezak Gallery | Chicago, Illinois.
1983 Gunther, Bruce | 50 Northwest Artists | Chronicle Books | San Francisco, California.
1982-83 The List | Sixth Edition | New York, New York.
1978 Gunther, Bruce | "Diverse Directions" | Washington State University | Pullman, Washington.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Port Angeles Art Center | Port Angeles, Washington
4culture Portable Works Collection | Seattle, Washington.
Chicago Historical Society | Chicago, Illinois.
Bequest of Anne Gerber | Seattle Art Museum | Seattle, Washington.
Formica Corporation | Cincinnati, Ohio.
Il Barbaro | Collection of Objects by Artists and Architects | Sienna, Italy.
Seattle First National Bank | Seattle, Washington.
Washington State | Portable Works Collection.
Seattle Arts Commission | Portable Works Collection

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