2026 Art in the West: High Desert Museum, Bend, OR

2025   This is the Land the Sunset Washes: OSU President’s Residence Exhibit, Corvallis OR

2024   Cosmic Bell Ringers: Memorial Union Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

2024 Standing, Still: After the Flames, Estes Park, Colorado

2024 Arboreal: Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, NY

2023 Ground Truths: Stories of Fire, Confluence Lab, Prichard Art Gallery, Moscow ID

2022 Fire and Ice: Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA

2021 Embodied Forest: ecoartspace an online exhibition 

2020   Art About Agriculture: Giustina Gallery, OSU, Corvallis, OR

2020 Fractured: photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2020 A Wildling Retrospective: Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA

2019 Facing West: Camera Portraits from the Bancroft Collection, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, CA

2016 A Curator’s Eye: Karen Sinsheimer, Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA

2016 Rot: The Afterlife of Trees World Forestry Center, Portland OR

2016 Rot: The Afterlife of Trees The Art Center, Corvallis, OR

2013 Fear and Loathing API Index at Photo Eye, Katherine Ware curator

2009 RSVP1 ‘Arbor’ Michael Mezzeo Gallery New York City, NY 

2008 Critical Mass Finalist - Photolucida, Portland, OR 

2008 It Happened in the Forest - The Art Center, Corvallis, OR

2008 Please Ring Bell - Photography Center Northwest, Seattle WA, Rod Slemmons Juror 

2007 Made in Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2007 Passion in Black and White - ArtCentric, Corvallis, Oregon

2006 Art as Catalyst - ArtCentric - Corvallis, Oregon

2003 Helmut Gernsheim - A Life in Photography - Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Germany 

2001 Altered Landscapes - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 

1995 Contemporary Photography - Roemer Museum, Hildesheim 

1990 Four Viewpoints, Four Vistas, Photographs from the American Landscape, Cabrillo Arts Center, Santa Barbara, CA 

1989 Northland Akademy of Art and Science, Norway 

1989 Visions XX – Ventura College, Ventura CA

1988 Works From the Permanent Collection - Santa Barbara Museum of Art,  Santa Barbara, CA 

1986 This Golden Land - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

1986 Landscape as Metaphor - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 

Monographs

2026 Sunday Drive, Roadside Americana by David Paul Bayles, Alder Ego Press

2023 Sap In Their Veins - Portraits of Loggers and the Trees They Fell, Alder Ego Press and Oregon State University Press

2003 Urban Forest – Images of Trees in the Human Landscape, published by Sierra Club Books

Books Published In

2026   Routledge Handbook on Environmental Humanities, After the fire: Wonder, ecological grief and place-based interdisciplinary research in the Anthropocene, by Vincent J Miller, David Paul Bayles and Frederick J Swanson

2023 Artists Activating Sustainability The Oregon Story, by Barbara Sellers Young published by Anthem Press

2012 The Birth of Photography: Highlights of the Gernsheim Collection  published by Reiss Englehorn Museum

2004 American Photography 20 published by Amilus Inc. 

2003 Helmut Gernsheim, Pioneer of Photo History, published by Hatje Cantz,

1995 Contemporary Photography – Roemer - Museum Hildesheim, Germany

1991 Sierra Pacific, Bud Tomascheski

1988 Contemporary Photographers, Saint James Press, England

Exhibition Catalogs

2021 Embodied Forest: Exhibition Catalog published by Watts Arts Publications

2007 Made in Santa Barbara  Exhibition Catalogue by Santa Barbara Museum of Art

2023 Means and Matters, Trees Humanity and Reaching for the Light, Essay by Dr. Rebecca Senf, March 2023  

2023   Treeline, Following Fire Q and A with Kayla Seaforth, March 2023

2022   Harpers Magazine, Tree Sleuths by Lauren Markham, August 2022 

2022   Commonweal, March, ‘Tears and Ashes’, Essay by Vincent J. Miller, Holiday Farm Fire images accompany the essay ppg. 28-35 and the cover image

2021   Oregon Arts Watch, January, Private Lives of the Trees, by Blake Andrews 

2021 The Site Magazine,  May, ʻPortalsʻ Essay by Erin Moore, ppg 44-47

2020   Commonweal, January, ‘A Cathedral Not Made by Hands’, Essay by Vincent Miller, Old Growth Dialogue

images accompany the essay ppg. 20-25 and the cover

2020 Metropolis Magazine, July, ʻErin Mooreʻs Pipeline Portals Are a Spatial Response to Fossil Fuel Infrastructureʻ

by Timothy A. Schuler  (Online edition)

2019   Terrain, May 28, ‘Outside of Time: Forest Landscapes’

2019   Terra, Spring Issue, ‘Alliance Thrives in Ancient Forest’, Ian Vorster ppg. 7, 11 and cover

2017 Muybridge’s Horse Nov. 13, From Chainsaw to Camera, A Life with Trees

2017   Corvallis Gazette Times Feb. 2, ‘Of Trees and Men’, Bennett Hall

2017 Santa Barbara News Press Jan. 10, Feature Story ‘Out on a Limb’ by Brett Leigh Dicks

2016 Edge of Humanity, Dec. 21, ‘Working in the Woods’ (Online edition)

2016 Santa Barbara News Press Dec 2, Review of Trees in Transition by Josef Woodard

2012 SHOTS Magazine, Winter, Falling Trees, ppg 8-13

2011 QUOTE Magazine, March, Vallende Bomen – pages 78 - 87

2010 Orion Magazine, March/April, Falling Trees, ppg 71- 76

2007 Rangefinder Magazine, January, Observations on Inspiration article and images by David Paul Bayles,  page 171-172

2005 Nature Conservancy Spring, photographs for “The City Wild” essay by Adele Conover ppg 31- 35

2005 American Society of Photographers  Spring, “Symbiotic” ppg 18

2004 Bloomsbury Review, January, Book review Urban Forest

2003 Kodak – ProPass Magazine – December 15 – Article “Finding a Balance”

2003 The Chronicle Review – December 19 – Book Review Urban Forest  ppg 18-19

2003 Christian Science Monitor – December 9  – Review “Seeing the City Through the Trees” by Greg Palmer – Page 20.

2003 Audubon, December – Article “Global Warning” by David Malakoff – ppg 48

2003 Audubon, December, review Urban Forest; Images of Trees in the Human Landscape by Lindsay Carswell – ppg 96.

2003 Spirituality & Health, November/December, review Urban Forest; Images of Trees in the Human Landscape

by Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat – ppg 69

2003 Rangefinder Magazine, December, Profile – “Both Sides Now” by Steven Dantzig – ppg 44 – 49

2003 Sierra, September/October, “Urban Trees, Planting Roots in the City by Sam Boykin – ppg 40 - 45

2002 Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 17, “The Urban Forest” by Richard Cheverton – Pages 16 – 19.

1995 Pasadena Magazine, Summer - Ah Wilderness - ppg 35 - 39 

1988 Santa Barbara Magazine, March/April – Urban Forest – ppg 18 – 24

1987 Outdoor Photographer, May - Pedaling Down Life’s Highway - ppg 64 - 67

1991 Photo Metro, September, ppg 7

1984 Night Light Magazine, January - ppg 1 - 4

Baldwin Photographic Archive and Collection, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Howard Stein Collection, New York City

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Helmut Gernsheim Collection, Lugano, Switzerland

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris France

The Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA

Stoel Rives LLC, Portland, OR

2026 Following Fire: A World Premiere Oratorio created by Third Angle New Music and Oregon Repertory Youth Choir

An oratorio performed by the youth choir who wrote poems based on the exhibiton. Their poetry was the source for the

composers. It was performed with multi-media projection by David Paul Bayles, at the World Forestry Center in Portland and at

PRAx performing arts center at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

2024 Oregon Arts Commission, Career Opportunity Grant 

2023 Spring Creek Project, Exhibition Support Grant

2022 Spring Creek Project, Lopez Artist Residency  

2022 Pine Meadow Ranch, Center for Arts and Agriculture

2018 Ongoing Artist in Residence, HJ Andrews Experimental Forest

2004 Epson America $7,000 Grant - Printer, Paper, Ink

2004 Millers Professional Imaging $1,500 Grant

1988 Mendocino County Museum $500 Honorarium

2025   In Trees I Trust, Eugene Natural History Society, Eugene, Oregon

2024   Living With Trees: My History Our History, Corvallis History Museum, Oregon

2023 Sap In Their Veins, Forest History Society, Raleigh Durham, North Carolina

2022 Artist Talk, Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University

2021 Standing, Still., Spring Creek Project, Oregon State University

2021 Standing, Still., Overlook Lecture Series, Fuller Center, University of Oregon

2021 Sap In Their Veins, Artist Talk / Panel Discussion, New England College

2020 A Path Through the Forest, Artist Talk, Corvallis Arts Guild

2019 Sap in Their Veins, Artist Exhibit Talk, Prichard Art Gallery

2019 Sap in Their Veins, Artist Exhibit Talk, Benton County History Museum 

2017 From Chainsaw to Camera: A Life With Trees, Academy of Life Long Learning

2017 From Chainsaw to Camera: A Life With Trees, SPE Northwest Regional

2017 Presentation, Willamette Valley Photographers Guild

2009 Guest Lecturer, Western Conference International Society of Arborists

2004 Guest Lecturer Brooks Institute of Photography

2004 Guest Teacher Santa Monica City College

2003 Guest Teacher Santa Monica City College

2002 Guest Teacher Santa Monica City College 

1989 Northland Academy of Art & Science, Norway

1985 Learning Tree, Workshop Series 

Master Photographer Designation from PPA (Professional Photographers of America)

Fuji Masterpiece Award; Kodak Gallery Award; Fellowship – Professional Photographers of California; Numerous Images selected for the Traveling Loan Collection of PPA