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2010 - present

DAWN NIELSON

A R T I S T

a t  k a m a n ė  s t u d i o

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

2024 – Skamania County Fair & Timber Carnival, designed their new brand, Stevenson, WA

2024, 2023 Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour, Kamanė Studio, April

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

2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 – ARTBLISS HOTEL Featured artist in cottage #2 & Curator, Stevenson, WA

2023 – Skamania County Fair & Timber Carnival mural located on the west side of

            Wind River Pharmacy Stevenson, WA

2023, 2022, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 – Artists of the Gorge, Group Show, Stevenson Library,

            Stevenson, WA

2023, 2022, 2021 – Stevenson Downtown Association (A Main Street Organization), Artist & Artist

            Group Coordinator for Stevenson's Streatery Project, 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

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

             Skyline Health Medical Clinic Remodel project, White Salmon, WA

2022, 2020 – Curator & Program Creator, Basement Gallery, Skyline Health, White Salmon, WA

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

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

2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 – Kamanė Studio [design & construction], Stevenson, WA

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

             New Emergency Department expansion project, White Salmon, WA

2020 – Skamania County Chamber of Commerce, Christmas in the Gorge video, Stevenson, WA

2020, 2019 – ARTBLISS HOTEL (brand, exterior & interior design) Grand Opening 2020, Stevenson, WA

2019 – Creative Host: Community Collaborative Art Making Open House, Skyline Health, White Salmon, WA2019 – Art & Wine Fusion, Gallery Tent Exhibition, Bingen, WA

2019 – Experience Skamania County Magazine, Skamania County, WA

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

2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 – Rotating Series of Work & Curator, Salon Bella, Stevenson WA
2018 – Solo Exhibition & Curator, [May – July, a structure fire destroyed over 30 pieces of art], 

             Mugs Coffee, Bingen, 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 – PNCA Gala SHINE ON!, Yale Union, SE Portland OR 

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

              Good Samaritan Hospital, NW Portland OR

2016 – Fall Show/BridgeLab, PNCA, NW Portland OR

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

2016 – PNCA Gala: Illuminated, utilitarian sculpture, Falcon Building, 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

2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 – Skamania County Chamber of Commerce, 

             Website Scenic Photography, Stevenson WA

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

             Washington DC

2015 – HOME/LESS, PNCA, NW Portland OR

2015 – PNCA Fall '15 Viewbook, Axon of Repose 2014 Installation, PNCA, Portland OR

2015 – Albatross Gallery, PICA TADADA!, Portland OR

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

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

2014 – Swigert Gallery, Last Call, PNCA, NW Portland OR

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

2013 – The General Fine Arts Gallery, Solo Exhibition & Curator, PNCA, NW Portland OR

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

2012, 2011 – Store Front Art Project, Skamania County EDC, Stevenson WA

2011 – Willamette Week Cover Art simulation, digital illustration, Liberal Arts Gallery PNCA, Portland OR

2011 – In Flux Gallery, GFA Merit Scholarship Show, PNCA, Portland OR

2010 – STORE Gallery, REFUSALON, Portland OR

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

2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 – Bahma Coffee Bar, Artist & Gallery Curator, Stevenson WA

Press:

2023 Gorge Magazine, featured artist, spring publication

2020 Skyline Health Publication, Artist in Health Care Breast Cancer Survivor interview

2019 – The Enterprise, Artist in Health Care interview

2017 – Legacy Health System, Artist in Health Care Cancer Survivor art practice update interview

            October 4, 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

Currently Showing at:

Carson Art Garage, Carson, WA

Artbliss Hotel, Stevenson, WA

El Rio Texicantina, Stevenson, WA

Collections:

Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center and Museum, Stevenson WA

Richard Meeker/Willamette Week, NW Portland, OR

Carson Elementary School, Carson WA

Residencies:

2009 - Stevenson-Carson School District, 3rd grade student collaborative mosaic tile/permanent installation

2010 - present

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