Curriculum Vitae

Lettie Jane Rennekamp (she/they)

b. 1982 Louisville, KY
Lives and works in Portland, OR

lettiejane@gmail.com / www.lettiejane.com / www.instagram.com/lettiejanemakes

Lettie Jane Rennekamp is an illustrator and artist based in Portland, Oregon by way of Kentucky. Her work is deeply relational and often centers on the figure and what it means to inhabit a body in this world. She makes illustrations that are bold and tender at the same time, depicting motherhood, varying versions of gender expression, community, and nature. 

Solo & Two Person Art Shows

2025 - Strength Comes In Many Forms, Radius Art Studio, Portland, OR

2024 - Tending: Who You Take Care Of And Who Takes Care Of You, Purple Door Gallery, Portland, OR

Messy Bodies, Albina Press Coffee, Portland, OR

2023 - A Sketch Can Be A Painting (with Cole Lyons), Radius Art Studio, Portland, OR

2022 - 2022 Calendar Reveal, Radius Art Studio, Portland, OR

2021 - The Shape I am In, Radius Art Studio, Portland, OR

2020 - Peaks and Valleys, Adelsheim Vineyard, Newberg, OR

2019 - Our Bodies Are (with Amy Subach), Unionknott, Portland, OR

2018 - Many Queens: Interpretations of the Tarot (with Amy Subach), Unionknott, Portland, OR

2017 - Mary Oliver Illustrations - Ps&Qs Market, Portland, OR 97211

2014 - Barn Quilts, Nooworks, San Francisco, CA

2013 - Ouroboros, Grain & Gristle, Portland, OR

Golden Halos, Lauretta Jean's Pie Shop, Portland, OR

2009- To Face Unafraid the Plans that We've Made (with Jarrett Mitchell), Threadless, Chicago, IL

Requiem for the Lost Ladies, Gallery4 Pearl, Provincetown, MA

2008 - The Wheel of Animal Constellation Territory, White Rabbit, Iowa City, IA

They May Help Mediate With Spirits: A Show Of Masks, Triple Base, San Francisco, CA

2007 - Homegrown Eating Machine (with Jarrett Mitchell), 118 Birchwood, Louisville, KY

2006 - Crestfallen, Woodward Flats, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2024 - Ulna Community Art Show, Olympic Mills, Portland, OR

Wax, A Sometimes Gallery, Portland, OR

Leach Botanical Gardens Fundraiser, Leach Gardens, Portland, OR

2023 - Selfies & Self Care, Radius Art Studio, Portland, OR

2022 - Ulna Community Art Show, Olympic Mills, Portland, OR

2021 - Selfies & Self Care, Radius Art Studio, Portland, OR

Group Show, Fishbowl Gallery, Portland, OR

2019 - Tarot Talk, Seagrape Apothecary, Portland, OR

2008 - Imagine Art Auction – St. Francis High School, Louisville, KY

2007- Dollar Bill Project – Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 - Staind Alive – National Product, San Francisco, CA

2005 - Show & Tell – Hayes Valley Market, San Francisco, CA

Altered & Strangely Democratic – Playspace Gallery, San Francisco

A Family Affair – The Garage, San Francisco

Collage Show – Private Place Gallery, San Francisco

Fifth Annual Monster Drawing Rally – Southern Exposure, San Francisco

Printers Group Exposition – Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco

2004 - The Coconut Lotion Stop Motion Commotion – Artists Television Access, San Francisco.

Collectors Edition – Triple Base, San Francisco

Careless Whispers – Triple Base, San Francisco

Post Postcard 8 – The Lab, San Francisco

Time – Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco

2003 - To Do – Needles & Pins, San Francisco

3rd Annual Monster Drawing Rally – Southern Exposure, San Francisco

Post Post Card 7 – The Lab, San Francisco

Curator

2024 - Ulna Community Art Show, Olympic Mills, Portland, OR

2024 - If Not Now, When? Deeper Drawing Group Show at Radius Art Studio, Portland, OR

Residencies

2024 - Sou’wester Artist Residency, Seaview, WA

Things To Look Forward To, Milkwood Farm, South Kortright, NY 

2023 - Centrum Independent Residency, Port Townsend, WA

Suttle Lodge Artist Residency, Sisters, OR

Seed To Plate Tour, Tokyo & Kobe, Japan 

2021 - Artist Mother Residency, Paris, TN

2019 - Sou’wester Artist Residency, Seaview, WA

Notable Works

Many Queens Tarot - a gender-inclusive tarot deck published by Andrews McMeel

Line Time - a podcast by artists for artists / short invitations to create abstract drawings

Part owner and operator of Ulna Art Studio LLP, an art studio in an old Portland warehouse that offers painting and drawing classes.

Mural Clients

Boeing, Smoke Free Oregon, The City of Tigard, Advantis Credit Union, Grand Image Art Consulting for Google, Scratch Meats, Seagrape Apothecary, Artifact Creative Recycle, Radius Art Center, Open Hand and Health, Pinckney Clay, Shipping Port Brewery, Flying Coyote Farm, Dove Vivi Pizza, Portland Play Project, Sandy River Studio, Pacific Crest Community School

Individuals: Chris Bailey, Shannon Beutel, Cora Deve, Graham Hallberg, Jamie Youren, Mike Bennett and Michelle Kraus-Bennett, Lisa Hole, Gabe Haynes, Janna Cody, Bruce and Darrin Neumeier, Louisa Nueman, Aubree Bernier-Clarke, Brooke Fitchen, Heather Webb, Rin Noelle, Emily Plummer, Jolyn Fry, Kathy Wright, Dave Carter & Jenny Mundy, Maria Vashakidze, Susan & Kirk Andrews, Cielle Charron

Teaching Experience

Teaching Philosophy: Lettie Jane aims to create a supportive community in the classroom where students are encouraged to experiment and stretch their expectations of themselves. She believes fostering a passion for creative work will change the world for better.

Ulna Art Studio (part owner & operator), 2021- present 

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Fall 2021 - Spring 2023

Radius Art Studio, 2019 - 2021

Pacific Crest Community School, 2017- 2023 

Awards: 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Award: outstanding educator, represented by a student work selected for national honors

Education 

2002 - 2005: San Francisco Art Institute: BFA in Printmaking

Bronze Roller Award, Spring Show Honors 

2000 - 2001: Rhode Island School of Design: Foundations Year

Continuing Education: 

2012 - 2016: Portland Community College: Ceramic Continuing Education

2011: Pacific Northwest College of Art: Illustration Fundamental CE with Ryan Bubnis