CV David Paul Bayles
1952 Born, The Dalles, Oregon
1972 AA Degree, Moorpark Community College
1980 BA Brooks Institute of Photography
2003 Honorary Masters Degree Brooks Institute of Photography
2017 The Bancroft Special Collections Library at UC Berkeley created the David Paul Bayles Photographic Archive as a permanent home for his life’s work.
Solo Exhibitions
2028 Following Fire: Corvallis Museum, Corvallis, OR
2026 Hollow and Still: High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
2025 Following Fire: Discovery Museum, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
2024 Following Fire: Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2023 Sap In Their Veins: Museum of Culture and Environment, CWU, Ellensburg, WA
2022 Paradox of Place: Orchard, Woodpile, Watershed Truckenbrod Gallery, Corvallis, OR
2022 Still, Trees: The Baldwin Photographic Gallery, MTSU Murfreesboro, TN
2021 Sap in Their Veins: New England College, Henniker, NH
2019 Sap in Their Veins: Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, ID
2019 Portraits of Men: Truckenbrod Gallery, Corvallis, OR
2019 Sap in Their Veins: Benton County Museum, OR
2018 Old Growth Dialogue: Truckenbrod Gallery, Corvallis, OR
2016 Trees in Transition: The Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA
2009 Falling Trees: 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland OR
2004 Urban Forest: Irene Carlson Gallery, University of La Verne, CA
2000 Portraits/Figures: Santa Monica College Art Gallery
1993 Long Days, Long Hours, Hard Work: Photographs of the 20th Century Logger, World Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon
1992 Long Days, Long Hours and Hard Work: Photographs of the 20th Century Logger, Redding Museum of Art and History, Redding, CA
1990 Long Days, Long Hours and Hard Work: Photographs of the 20th Century Logger, Mendocino County Museum, Willits, CA
1989 Long Days, Long Hours, and Hard Work: Photographs of the 20th Century Logger, Fort Bragg Center for the Arts
1988 Urban Forest: Frameworks Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1986 New Works: New Media Gallery, Ventura College, Ventura, CA
1984 Cycle of Visions: Western States Museum of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA
1982 Recent Photographs: Carnegie Cultural Arts Center, Oxnard, CA
Group Exhibitions
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 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
Performance
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
Books - 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
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 Catalogues
2021 Embodied Forest: Exhibition Catalog published by Watts Arts Publications
2007 Made in Santa Barbara Exhibition Catalogue by Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Articles and Publications
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
Selected Collections
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
Grants / Residencies
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
Teaching / Lectures / Presentations
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
Professional Awards
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