Bio
Anna Daedalus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation and book arts. Her solo and collaborative work has been exhibited in regional galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest, including SOIL Gallery in Seattle, Littman Gallery at Portland State University, and Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland. Anna and her artist husband, Kerry Davis, co-founded Roll-Up Gallery, an erstwhile contemporary exhibition space in Portland, Oregon. Anna holds a BA from Reed College and she lives and works perched above a Sitka spruce swamp near the mouth of the Columbia River.
Anna daedalus curriculum vitae
Solo & Collaborative Exhibitions
2024 Enfolded, Hoffman Center for the Arts, Manzanita, OR
Swamp Concerto, with Kerry Davis, Astoria Visual Arts Gallery, Astoria, OR
2023 Decomposure, with Kerry Davis (and Jon Gottshall’s Delete Background), Luke’s Frame Shop, Portland, OR
2022 Open Channels: A Wetlands Dialogue, with Kerry Davis and Jon Gottshall, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
2018 Emergent Florae, TOC Concert Hall, Portland, OR
Enfolded, Roll-Up Gallery, Portland, OR
Still Life, Roll-Up Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 Indexing and Interference, with Kerry Davis, Roll-Up Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Bas-Relief, with Kerry Davis, Roll-Up Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Leaping Darkness, with Kerry Davis, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2014 Columbia River Shadows, with Kerry Davis, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
Shadows: Hiroshima to Hanford, with Kerry Davis, Arts & Communication Magnet Academy, Beaverton, OR
2013 Shadows, with Kerry Davis, Hamersly Library, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
Shadows, with Kerry Davis, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, Portland, OR
Portrait of a Process:13 Hats (collaborative works by collective), SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
13 Hats at 12x16 (collaborative works by collective), 12x16 Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 Evidence, Collaborative Works by 13 Hats, Denizen Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Studio Thirty, Portland, OR
2009 Zoom Studio, Portland, OR
2004 60-Watt Fairy Tales (solo), Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
Group Exhibitions
2024 Pacific Northwest Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR, Aline Smithson, juror
2023 Sitka Art Invitational, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
AVA Members’ Show, Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria, OR, Bill Ittman, juror
2022 In Comfort of Chaos, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA, Hanako O’Leary, juror
Sitka Art Invitational, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Broadsides, Collins Gallery, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
Members’ Invitational, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
2021 Sitka Art Invitational, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
2019 Quadraphotique, Roll-Up Gallery, Portland, OR
PNW40, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR, Terry Novak, juror
2018 Books & Boxes, Roll-Up Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 Make America Create Again, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, Deborah Paine, juror
Women March On, 12x16 Gallery, Portland, OR - Invitational
2016 In Scene, The Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR - Invitational
Particles on the Wall traveling exhibition, Cascadia College, Bothell and The Reach Museum, Richland, WA
2015 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 12x16 Gallery, Portland, OR
Unnamed Photography Ensemble, Glyph Arts Space, Portland, OR
Particles on the Wall traveling exhibition, Maxey Museum, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Landscape, Plates-to-Pixels, Portland, OR (online gallery), Christopher Bennett, juror
2014 Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Julia Dolan Ph.D., juror
Particles on the Wall traveling exhibition, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, Seattle, WA
2013 Members’ Choice, 12x16 Gallery, Portland, OR
Camera Work: Contemporary Portraiture, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
Particles on the Wall, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Ecotrust Building, Portland, OR
2012 Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro
Artists Book Cornucopia III, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, Tony White, juror
Broadsides, Multnomah Arts Center Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Object Poems, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, curated by David Abel
Welcome to My World, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Last-Ditch Attempt to Appear Normal, with Harriet Sanderson, Society for Disability Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
2005 The Carl and Hilda Morris Foundation Young Artist Exhibition, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
Members’ Juried Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, Susan Rosenberg, juror
Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery
2004 Bumberbiennale 2004: Consumables, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA, Matthew Kangas, curator
Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
Square Room, Seattle, WA
Spring Show, Bemis Building, Seattle, WA
Public art, video & performance
2013 Circuit Rider Walking with Maryrose Larkin, Rural Storefronts Public Art Project (NEA grant), Brownsville, OR
Shadow Box, photogram booth with Kerry Davis for Shadows, White Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 Portland Shadows Project with Kerry Davis, Hiroshima commemoration, Director Park, Portland, OR
Liminal Presents Gertrude Stein, Liminal Space, Portland, OR
2011 Dadashop Quartet, Studio Thirty, Portland, OR
2010 Rearrangutan, Found/Sorted, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Organizam, A Mutant Cabaret of Non-Acts, Performance Works NorthWest, Portland, OR
2009 Parallaxis: Music and Moving Pictures, co-producer, FearNoMusic, Portland, OR
Spare Room 100, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
2008 Demagnetic Cabaret, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
2007 The Theory of Love, lecture-opera by John Berendzen, Portland, OR & Northwest New Works Festival, On The Boards, Seattle, WA
Publications & Publishing
Palus (2021; Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, Canada; monograph with Kerry Davis)
River Arts, Reimagining the Columbia across Borders (2018; Selkirk College, BC, Canada; symposium catalogue)
Make America Create Again (2017; CoCA, Seattle, WA; exhibition catalogue)
The Inflectionist Review Anthology of Poetry (2015; Inflectionist Review Press, Portland, OR; cover and 12 images with Kerry Davis)
The Notebook of False Purgatories (Standard Schaefer; 2013; Chax Press, Tucson, AZ; cover image with Kerry Davis)
The Feralist (2013; literature & arts journal, Portland, OR; cover & interior pages)
camptrailer (2012, November issue; poetry & arts journal, c_L, Portland, OR; cover)
13 Hats at Mother Foucault’s (2012; chapbook anthology, Portland, OR)
Yew Journal (2012, April issue; online women’s poetry and arts journal; images with poetry by Endi Bogue Hartigan)
The Name of This Intersection Is Frost (Maryrose Larkin; 2010; Shearsman Books Ltd, England; cover image)
Publisher
Bas-Relief (2016; Portland, OR; exhibition catalogue with Kerry Davis)
or fact a formal treatment (2016; Portland, OR; print portfolio featuring Rob Schlegel and Robert Schlegel)
Shadows (2013; Portland, OR; exhibition catalogue with Kerry Davis)
Boards & Memberships
Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria, OR, 2023-current
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 2017
13 Hats (2011–2013; Portland, OR; artists’ and writers’ collective, member)
The Feralist (2012; Portland, OR; literature & arts journal, editorial board)
Collections
Regional Arts & Culture Council Portable Works
SF MoMa Library
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
Beinecke Library, Yale University
University of British Columbia Library
Colorado College Library
University of Colorado Library
University of Denver Library
University of Washington Special Collections
John Wilson Special Collections, Multnomah County Library
Private collections
Grants, Panels & Awards
2024 Juror’s top ten, Pacific Northwest Drawers, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR, Aline Smithson, juror
2023 Juror’s award, Astoria Visual Arts Members’ Show, Bill Ittman, juror
2016 Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR, awarded to collaborator Kerry Davis
2013 Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2009 Panelist, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR, Multi-Discipline Project Grants Panel
Talks & Visiting Artist
2024 Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria, OR, for Swamp Concerto exhibition, Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis.
2022 Gallery 114, Portland, OR, for Wetland Dialogue exhibition with Jon Gottshall, Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis.
2021 Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, B.C., “Palus” remote residency project artist talk, Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis.
2018 Selkirk College, Castlegar, B.C., River Arts: Reimagining the Columbia Across Borders Symposium, Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis. Hosted by Selkirk College and Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
2016 Portland Art Museum Photography Council, “Chiaroscuro,” Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis.
The Schneider Museum of Art, for In Scene exhibition and Earth Week. Funded by Bonneville Environmental Foundation, Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis.
2015 Portland State University Littman Gallery, for Leaping Darkness exhibition, Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis
2014 Glyph Arts Space, “From Hiroshima to Fukushima,” Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis.
Arts & Communication Magnet Academy, Beaverton, OR, “Shadows: Hiroshima to Hanford” talk and workshop with high school students, Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis.
2013 EcoTrust, Portland Oregon, for Particles on the Wall exhibit.
Residencies
2021 Oxygen Art Centre (remote), Nelson, B.C., Palus project and publication with Kerry Davis
Curation
Roll-Up Gallery (2015–2019; Portland, OR; Cofounder; rotating visual art exhibits and cultural events)
12x16 gallery (April 2017; Portland, OR; Alt Photo Five for Portland Photography Month)
Glyph Arts Space (2013–2015; Portland, OR; monthly visual art and literary exhibits and events)
Education
1999 Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
1993 Reed College, B.A., Spanish Literature, Portland, OR
1985–89 Cornish College of the Arts preparatory dance program, Seattle, WA
1986–87 Instituto Mendez y Pelayo, Barcelona, Spain
1985 Partners of the Americas international exchange, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1974–85 Jordan College Academy of Dance, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN