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Anya Roberts-Toney
Portland OR US
Updated: 2024-09-21 16:32:38

RESUME

Anya Roberts-Toney

Bio:

Anya Roberts-Toney's oil paintings and works on paper explore feminine power through the lens of motherhood, witches, and a feminine-charged landscape. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum, and has been exhibited locally and nationally at locations including Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Dust to Dust Projects, Nationale, The Portland ‘Pataphysical Society, the Office at Russo Lee, Somos Gallery, and Stephanie Chefas Projects. She is a winner of the Hopper Prize, a recipient of both a Photography Documentation Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission (with additional funding from the Ford Family Foundation), and a recipient of the Stumptown Artist Fellowship. Anya received her BA in Studio Art from Brown University and her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Originally from Seattle, WA, she lives and works in Portland, OR, where she is represented by Nationale.

 

C.V.

 

Born in Seattle, WA, 1984.
Lives and works in Portland, OR.

 

EDUCATION

 

2014   M.F.A. Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2006   B.A. Visual Art, Brown University, Providence, RI
2004   Summer Arts Abroad, School of Visual Arts, Florence, Italy

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2023 Water Witch Moon Mother, Nationale, Portland, OR
2023 Four paintings presented on Platform, a David Zwirner project
2021  If She Floats, Nationale, Portland, OR
2020 Summer's Eve, Nationale, Portland, OR 
2019 Soft Curses, Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
2018   The Fairest, The Portland 'Pataphysical Society, Portland, OR (curated by Sam Hopple)
           All Sacred Objects Are Dangerous, Stumptown, Portland, OR (Stumptown Artist Fellowship Exhibition)
2017   The Love Object, The Office at Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR
2015   In the Room the Women Come and Go, Pond Gallery, Portland, OR
2014   Lana, Lloyd Center Nordstrom, Portland, OR
2013   Recent Paintings, Energy Bar, Portland, OR
          Close, Central Gallery, Portland, OR
2012   Of House and Home, Coffeehouse Northwest, Portland, OR
2006   New Works, List Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024   A Place Between, La Loma Annex, Los Angeles, CA (Four-person group show curated by Nationale)
          New Seasons Fantasy, Marmo, Shelton, WA
2021   Group Show #7, Shrine, New York, NY (virtual)
2018   Unlimited, PAGE Space, Portland, OR
           The Way of Flowers, Dust to Dust, Portland, OR
           36 Questions, Esther Building Art Space, Vancouver, WA
2017   Unlimited, PAGE Space, Portland, OR
           The Black and White Show, The Gallery at Cerulean, Portland, OR
           Nasty Women Portland, Killjoy Collective, Portland, OR
2016   Annual Art Auction (live auction), Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
2015   Annual Art Auction (live auction), Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
          Salon Salon, The Portland 'Pataphysical Society, Portland, OR
2014   Annual Art Auction (silent auction), Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
          PACE Launch Party Pop-up Gallery (curated by Duplex Gallery), Portland, OR
          Bellwether, Swigert Commons, PNCA, Portland, OR
          Thaw, Pond Gallery, Portland, OR
2013   VS Open Studios, Visual Studies Studio, Portland, OR
          Versus, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
          Femme Fatales, Somos Gallery, Salinas, CA
2012   Part One, The Lodge Gallery, Portland, OR
          VS Open Studios, Visual Studies Studio, Portland, OR
          Portland Artists Kumite Finalists Show, Contrary Café, Portland, OR
          Portland Artists Kumite, Contrary Café, Portland, OR
          Emerging Artist Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2007   dioRAMA, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2006   Senior Art Exhibition, List Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

 

AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

 

2022    Individual Artist Grant, Hopper Prize (guest jurors Tyler Blackwell and Caitlin Julia Rubin).
2020  Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR—with additional funding from The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg, OR
2018   Stumptown Artist Fellowship, Portland, OR
2013   Merit Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2012   Merit Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
          Third Place, Portland Artists Kumite, Portland, OR
2004  Honorable Mention, Macalester College Annual Art Exhibition, St. Paul, MN

 

SELECTED PRESS

 

04/26/22:  Interview with Anya Roberts-Toney, The Hopper Prize.

11/02/21:     VizArts Monthly: Exploratory work in fresh spaces, Lindsay Costello, Oregon Arts Watch. 

09/22/20:     Review, Lindsay Costello, Art & About PDX.

08/21/20:     Anya Roberts-Toney’s Radiant Ignitions, Paul Maziar.

11/25/19:     Featured Artist, 52 Critical Painters.

6/28/19:       Featured Artist, Pretty Girls Making Cool Shit.

10/2/18:       VizArts Monthly: Big shows on tap, Oregon Arts Watch.               

12/23/16:     How I Became an Art Thief. Victim: PDX Artist Anya Roberts-Toney, Momsicle.

10/6/15:       Featured Artist, Panhandler Magazine (University of West Florida).

9/8/15:         Anya Roberts-Toney at Pond Gallery, Richard Schemmerer, PDX Art Now Magazine.

7/27/15:       Interview with Anya Roberts-Toney, Pond Gallery Blog.

10/7/14:       Featured Artist, 365 Artists 365 Days (A Frank Juarez Gallery/ Greymatter Gallery Project).

2/28/12:       Northwest Artist Anya Roberts-Toney, Momsicle.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

 

Represented Artist, Nationale, Portland, OR, 2020 - present
The Painting Center Registry, New York, NY, 2015-2019

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Portland Art Museum, Gift of Scott Musch