BORN: Elma, Washington

EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Washington State University, Pullman, WA
B.A. Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Painting tutorial with Joan Brown, Centrum Artists Seminar, Port Townsend, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2000 Music as the Muse, The Upstage, Port Townsend, WA
1994 Miracles, Mysteries and the Mundane, The 1004 Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
1992 Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA (Also 1981, 1978)
1977 Watercolors: Linda Okazaki, Washington State Arts Services, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Traveling Exhibit

AWARDS:
1993 Centrum Foundation, Artist Residency, Printmaking, Port Townsend, WA
1993 About Face, Tacoma Art Museum, Juror's Award

SELECTED GROUPS EXHIBITIONS:
2007 Going Postal, Art Dialogue, Port Townsend Art Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
2006 Interactions: Art & Art, Art Dialogue, Joe Wheeler Theatre, Port Townsend, WA
2006 Sacred Shrines, Art Dialogue, Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Port Townsend, WA
2006 Then and Now: Collectors and Their Artists, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA
2005 Interactions: Art & Art, Joe Wheeler Theatre, Port Townsend, WA
2004 For Love of the Land, Jefferson Land Trust, The Cannery, Port Townsend, WA
2002 "Art from the City of Dreams", University House, Seattle, WA
2000 APT Annual Juried Exhibit, Point Hudson Pavilion, Port Townsend, WA
2000 Jazz Festival Centrum, Jazz Portfolio 2000, McCurdy Pavilion, Port Townsend, WA
2000 Millennium Art: Then and Now, Jefferson county Historical Society, Port Townsend
2000 Millennium Images: Ireland and America, Residency with Irish & Washington artisits at Centrum, Fort Worden, Port Townsend, WA
1999 Artists and Music, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Artists and Collectors, Ed Cain Galleries, Port Townsend, WA
1998 Water, Martin Andrews Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
1996 Raven: Icons and Omens, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
1995 Dreams/Visions: Seattle Art Museum, Rental Sales Gallery, Ten Artists
Paintings: Linda Okazaki, Photographs: Glenn Rudolph, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Artist Trust 7th Annual Art Auction, Newark Building, Seattle, WA
1993 Come See, University of Washington Medical Center, Artist in Residence Program Invitational, Seattle, WA
About Face, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
XX: An Exhibition on the Occasion of the Women's Caucus for Art National Conference, Francine Seders Gallery II, Seattle, WA
1992 Water Works, USWest New Vector Group, Bellevue, WA
25th Anniversary Exhibitions: The Middle Years 1973-80, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 Bumbershoot Turns 20, Bumbershoot, The Seattle Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
1989 Watercolor, Watercolor, Watercolor, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Strait Art Part II, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
One Hundred Years of Washington Art: New Perspective, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Microsoft Exhibition of Works for Permanent Collection, Microsoft Corporation, Remond, WA
1986 Bob Haft, Linda Okazaki, Joy Broom, Jerry Leisure, Gallery 4, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Figure: Narrative, Whatcom County Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
Fantasy, Two Person show, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 The City as Collector: Selections from Seattle's Public Art Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Little Romances, Little Fictions, Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983-84 Living with the Volcano, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, Traveling Exhibit
1983 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Invitational, New York, NY
Northwest Acquisitions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Drawings, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
12th Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
1981 Washington Women Artists, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
1980 Faculty Exhibit, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Nine Washington Artists, Sonoma State university, Rohnert Park, CA
1978 Okazaki: Paintings, Okazaki:Photographs, Two person show, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
Faculty Exhibit, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1977 Siler and Okazaki, The Languid and the Loathsome, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Northwest Eccentric Artists, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
Artist from the Other Side, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Pullman, WA 99163, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1976-77 Paper: An Invitational Exhibition, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, State University College, Fredonia, NY
1975 Fanciful Images from a Female, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Freese and Okazaki, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Drawings, Freese and Okazaki, Albion College, Albion, MI
1972 Northwest Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS:
Bittner and Barker, Seattle, WA
Centrum Foundation, Commission for Posters, 10th Annual Season, Port Townsend, WA
Junior League of Seattle, Seattle, WA
King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Seattle Arts Commission: City Light and Harborview Portable Works Collectiosn, Seattle, WA
Bumbershoot Arts Festival Poster Commission, Seattle, WA
Robert Pfannebecker Art Collection, Lancaster, PA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA

REVIEWS AND PERIODICALS:
2001 Worthley, Martha, Soul Salmon are Swimming Your Way, Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader, February 28, 2001
2000 Worthley, Martha, Follow Okazaki's Muse at The Upstage, Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader, July 26, 2000
1999 Scott Wilson, "Juried Art Show and Studio Tour", Supplement to The Leader, Port Townsend, WA. October 6
1996 Glowen, Ron. "Secret Languages, Raven." The Herald, Everett, WA. July 12
1993 Tarzan Ament, Deloris, "Finding Ourselves Through Our Faces." The Seattle Times, March 25.
1993 Hackett, Regina. "Individualists' Styles Share the Spotlight in Show of Women Artists." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 19.
1992 Lenihan, Jean. "Pursued by Paintings." Seattle Weekly, February 12
1991 Seniuk, Jake. "Please and Thank Yous Exhibition." On Center. Vol.III, No.3, Autumn.
1990 Simpson, Peter. "Encounters with Crows." Peninsula Magazine, Summer.
1989 Mattern, Heidi. "A Dreamer's Image." The Port Townsend Leader, Summer Magazine
1986 Connell, Joan. "Exhibit Lets Figures Tell Stories." Bellingham Herald, February 2.
1984 Crumbow, Robert C. "The City as Collector: Seattle City Light Leads the Way." Seattle Arts, September.
1984 Kangas, Matthew. "Little Romances/Little Fictions." Vanguard, May.
1981 Glowen, Ron. "Dreamy Dichotomies." Artweek, September, 26.

Community Service:
2007 Port Townsend Arts Commissioner, Port Townsend, WA
2007 New Building Aesthetics Committee, Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Port Townsend, WA
2007-05 Port Townsend Film Festival, Port Townsend, WA