Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Anya Roberts-Toney
Bio:
Anya Roberts-Toney's oil paintings and works on paper explore themes related to motherhood, the visibility/availability of the female figure, and a desire for connection with the natural world. 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 recipient of the Stumptown Artist Fellowship, an Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant (with additional funding from the Ford Family Foundation), and the Fall 2021 Hopper Prize Grant. Roberts-Toney 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, Roberts-Toney 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
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