Anna Fidler

Anna Fidler (b. 1973, Traverse City, Michigan) lives in Corvallis, Oregon where she teaches studio art at Oregon State University. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, in 1995 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Portland State University in 2005. Fidler has had solo exhib... itions at The Boise Art Museum, APEX at The Portland Art Museum, Johansson Projects in Oakland, Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Oregon, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon, and has been widely exhibited at such venues as The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art, The University of Southern California, The Tacoma Art Museum and The Sun Valley Center for the Arts. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, The Washington Post, The Oregonian and The San Francisco Chronicle. Grants and awards include an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, a Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant, and residencies at Paintings Edge in Idyllwild, California and The Sun Valley Center for the Arts. Her work is held in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, The Boise Art Museum, Portland Portable Works Collection and Seattle Portable Works Collection. Fidler is represented by Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland and exhibits with Johansson Projects in Oakland. Excerpt from Anna Fidlers Energy Portraits: We, Too, Are Vibrant Matter by Sarah Sentilles Can you feel it? They are gathering. Under the moon. On the dance floor. In libraries and artist studios and kitchens. In the woods. In the dark. Their crowns enormous. Their wings unfurled. Spell casters. Makers. Dreamers. Taking the limits of what you thought was possible and stretching them wide.Read More