DAWN NIELSON
artist + curator rooted in place, material, slowness + meaning

2026 – HELD GROUND, Artist & Curator, Group Exhibition, Venue TBA

2026 – Cathedral Ridge Winery, November & December, Group Exhibition, Hood River, OR

2026 – The Atlas of Contemporary Women Artists | North America Vol. 1,

             Women United Art Movement, Czech Republic

2026 – POSTCARD, summer season, The Curators Gallery, Paris, France

2026 – Club V, May - April, All Women’s Art Show at Ford Gallery, Portland, OR

2026 – Keep It Wild, May Group Exhibition at Arrowleaf, White Salmon, WA

2026 – Gallery 408, February Group Exhibition, All About Love, Camas WA

2025 – Cathedral Ridge Winery, September & October Group Exhibition, Hood River, OR

2025 – Artists of the Gorge, Group Show, Stevenson Library, Stevenson, WA

2025 – Vancouver Arts & Music Festival, Juried Art Show, Vancouver, WA

2025 – Women United ART MAGAZINE Issue X, Spring 2025, Editor-In-Chief/Curator: Mona Lerch

2025 – Keep It Wild, May Group Exhibition at Arrowleaf, White Salmon, WA

2025 – A Whisper 2 A Scream - Healing Through the Arts exhibition by

            OH Art Foundation - Group Exhibition March 21 - May 10 at Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL

2025 – Alberta Street Gallery, March 6x6x6 Community Show, Portland, OR

2025 – Art at the Cave, February Group Exhibition, Love is Love, Vancouver, WA

2024 – Stevenson Downtown Association (A Main Street Organization) & Skamania County Chamber

             of Commerce, digital design office mural, Stevenson, WA

2024 – Cathedral Ridge Winery, June & July Three Women Exhibition, Hood River, OR

2024 – Skamania County Fair & Timber Carnival, brand design, Stevenson, WA

2024 - 2023 – Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour, Kamanė Studio

2024 – Encaustic Wax Painting Performance - Columbia Gorge Museum, March Gala, Stevenson, WA

2023 – Skamania County Fair & Timber Carnival mural located on Wind River Pharmacy, Stevenson, WA

2023 – Artists of the Gorge, Group Show, Stevenson Library, Stevenson, WA

2022 – Group Art Exhibition for Skamania County Reads - The Music of Bee's by Eileen Garvin,

             Stevenson Library, Stevenson, WA

2022 – P-Town Ol'Skool! A Group Art Show!, ARTV Gallery at ADX, Portland, OR

2021 - 2022 – Skyline Health, Curator of Art in a Healthcare Environment,

             Skyline Health Medical Clinic Remodel project, White Salmon, WA

2021 – Artists of the Gorge, Group Show, Stevenson Library, Stevenson, WA

2021 – CANCER: Never Give Up, International Online Group Exhibition, Gallerium Art, Ontario, Canada

2021 – Skate Deck Show, ARTV Gallery at ADX, Portland, OR

2021 – Skyline Health, Curator of Art in a Healthcare Environment,

             Main Lobby Remodel project, White Salmon, WA

2017 - 2021 – Kamanė Studio [design & construction], Stevenson, WA

2020 – Skyline Health, Curator of Art in a Healthcare Environment,

             New Emergency Department expansion project, White Salmon, WA

2019 – Artists of the Gorge, Group Show, Stevenson Library, Stevenson, WA

2019 – Art & Wine Fusion, Exhibition, Bingen, WA

2018 - 2019 – Solo Exhibition & Curator, Skyline Health, White Salmon, WA

2018 – PrOMSI, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry [OMSI], SE Portland OR

2017 – Two-artist Exhibition at The Gallery at Cerulean, The Pearl District, NW Portland OR 

2017 – Artists of the Gorge, Group Show, Stevenson Library, Stevenson, WA

2016 - 2017 – Solo Exhibition & Curator & Program Creator, Legacy Comprehensive Cancer Center -

              Good Samaritan Hospital, NW Portland OR

2016 – August First Thursday, weaving wire, performance as art making, PNCA, NW Portland OR

2016 – First Thursday Exhibition/Lemelson Innovation Studio, PNCA, NW Portland OR

2016 – Ocean's Exhibit, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry [OMSI], SE Portland OR

2015 – NW Noggin, Installation Photograph for Society of Neuroscience 2015 Conference,

             Washington DC

2015 – Vashon Allied Arts: Blue Heron Gallery, March Exhibition, Vashon Island, WA

2014 – Axon of Repose: Thesis Exhibition, PNCA, Portland, OR

2014 – Artists of the Gorge, Group Show, Stevenson Library, Stevenson, WA

2014 – Get Caught in Our Net: Memory, Drugs and Perineuronal Nets, sculpture & Curator,

            NW Noggin at Velo Cult, Portland, OR

2014 – BFA Gallery, Co-Curator and artist, Rape Culture, PNCA, NW Portland, OR

2013 – The Shins, It's Only Life, music video, set design/production team member, 

             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fweNLKBCh5A  Portland, OR

2012 – 100 Show, Wieden + Kennedy, NW Portland, OR

2010 – STORE Gallery, REFUSALON, Portland, OR

2009 – Wild Arts Fest, Juried Show, Artist & Curator, Audubon Society of Portland, NW Portland, OR

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Press & Print:

2026 – The Atlas of Contemporary Women Artists | North America (issue),

2025 – Women United ART MAGAZINE Issue X, Spring 2025

2024 – Columbia Gorge News, artist interview

2023 – Gorge Magazine, featured artist, spring publication

2021 – The Book of Arts: Cancer, published by Gallerium Art, Ontario, Canada

2016 – KGW, Channel 8, Portland Today Morning Show [art presentation & interview]

2016 – Legacy Health System, Artist in Health Care Solo Exhibition at Good Samaritan Hospital interview​​​

2015 – Viewbook, Axon of Repose, Pacific Northwest Collage of Art, Fall

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