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2025 ⦁ Chad Wentzel Arts and Crafts,solo exhibition Jodi CO, Seattle WA
⦁ Decor for Honcho Campout queer arts festival, Artemis PA
2024 ⦁ Seattle Art Fair, Seattle WA, USA. Exhibited new works with Housewright Gallery
⦁ Creation of 25 large scale custom works for clients around the USA
⦁ Yakima Valley Quilters Guild Exhibition, Honorable Mention Awardee. Yakima WA, USA
2023 ⦁ Market Market art and retail gallery Palm Springs CA, USA
⦁ Large scale architectural Commission for Bill True residence, Leschi Seattle WA, USA
⦁ Quit part time restaurant job to focus full time on creative practice
2022 ⦁ "Friends of Jeffry Mitchel" exhibition Housewright Gallery, Seattle WA, USA
⦁ Decor for High and Tight, a seasonal underground after hours dance party, both Spring and Fall, Seattle WA, USA
⦁ Lizzie Palooza, retail pop up Bridgehampton, NY, USA
⦁ Yakima Valley Quilters guild show Yakima Convention Center, Yakima WA, USA
2021 ⦁ LTD NYC, Spring retail pop up New York, NY, USA
⦁ Work in the collection of TV personality Kelly Rippa
⦁ Began working part time waiting tables to supplement my art making
2020 ⦁ “Garage Gallery” exhibition held in my garage of the work I made over lockdown for my neighbors and friends to visit, Seattle WA/ Global via Zoom
⦁ Began selling my quilts which allowed me to buy my first car ever
⦁ Moved to the hills outside of Yakima, WA, USA
⦁ Created collection paper maché masks for attendees of my 40th birthday picnic
⦁ Window display at Spruce Apothecary retail store, Seattle WA, USA
2019 ⦁ Installed taxidermy and ancient textiles for opening of Burke Museum, Seattle WA, USA
⦁ "Safe Space" exhibition at the Detroit Public Library, Detroit MI, USA
⦁ "Lighting concepts" at Next Space Design Gallery Detroit MI, USA
⦁ Grand Tour retail store, Palm Beach FL, USA
⦁ Designed mobile pop up store and merchandise collection for Reef Mercantile, cannabis retail store Seattle WA
⦁ Tapped maple trees and cooked sap down to syrup by myself, Frankenmuth MI, USA
2018 ⦁ "Chad Wentzel Made" Next Space Design Gallery Detroit, MI, USA
⦁ Decor for Club Toilet at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Detroit MI, USA
⦁ Decor for Closer, underground dance music event, Sundays, Los Angeles CA, USA
⦁ Decor for Honcho Campout, Americas premier queer dance music festival Artemas, PA, USA
⦁ Ritual and Ceremony, homegoods retail store Brooklyn NY, USA
2017 ⦁ Decor for Mocho City, monthly underground dance music event, Detroit MI, USA
2009-2016 ⦁ Visual Creative Manager for clothing brand Eileen Fisher where I was responsible for creative direction for window displays for 62 stores globally, New York NY, USA
2010 ⦁ Collaboration with Anne Fenton for works in her show “Moment Magnitude” Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA, USA
⦁ Created a hand sewn bunny shaped pillow featured in Playboy Magazine
2007-2010 ⦁ “Design Assistant Chad” reality home design show Sell This House, the A&E network
2004-2008 ⦁ Artist member of Crawl Space Gallery Seattle WA, USA
2007 ⦁ Moved to New York
2005-2006 ⦁ Studio Assistant, Dale Chihuly Studios, Seattle WA, USA
1999-2003 ⦁ University of Washington Seattle
BFA Printmaking minor in Art History
BA Interdisciplinary Art
Minor Art History
1980Born Tacoma WA, USA