2010 - present
DAWN NIELSON
A R T I S T
a t k a m a n ė s t u d i o
2025 – Cathedral Ridge Winery, September & October Group Exhibition, Hood River, OR
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 – Carson Art Garage, Art Block Party, encaustic wax art demo, Carson, WA
2025 – Alberta Street Gallery, March 6x6x6 Community Show, Portland, OR
2025 – Art at the Cave, February Group Exhibition, Love is Love, Vancouver, WA
2020 - 2025 – ARTBLISS HOTEL Featured artist in cottage #2 & Curator, Stevenson, 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, designed their new brand, Stevenson, WA
2023 - 2024 – Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour, Kamanė Studio
2024 – Encaustic Wax Painting Performance - Columbia Gorge Museum, March Gala, Stevenson, WA2023 –
Skamania County Fair & Timber Carnival mural located on Wind River Pharmacy, Stevenson, WA
2014 - 2017, 2019, 2021 - 2023 – Artists of the Gorge, Group Show, Stevenson Library,
Stevenson, WA
2021 - 2023 – 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
2021 - 2022 – Skyline Health, Curator of Art in a Healthcare Environment,
Skyline Health Medical Clinic Remodel project, White Salmon, WA
2020 - 2022 – 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
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
2020 – Skamania County Chamber of Commerce, Christmas in the Gorge video, Stevenson, WA
2019 - 2020 – ARTBLISS HOTEL (brand, exterior & interior design) Grand Opening 2020, Stevenson, WA
2019 – Creative Host: Community Collaborative Art Making Open House, Skyline Health, White Salmon, WA
2019 – Art & Wine Fusion, Gallery Tent Exhibition, Bingen, WA
2019 – Experience Skamania County Magazine, Skamania County, WA
2018 - 2019 – Solo Exhibition & Curator, Skyline Health, White Salmon, WA
2015 - 2019 – 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
2016 - 2017 – 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
2012 - 2016 – 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
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
Art at the Cave, Vancouver, 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