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Bio

b. 1973. Traverse City, Michigan.
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon

Education

2005 MFA, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
1995 BFA, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan


One and Two Person Exhibitions

2009
Disjecta, Portland, OR, (forthcoming)
See Line Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Fever”

2008
Little Cakes, New York, NY, “Beachcombers”

2007
Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland

2006
Stealth Arts, Birmingham, AL, “Fajada Strands”


Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
See Line Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, “Booth 1812”

2008
Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA, “Portals”
Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR, “Zeitgeist”

2007
Japan Society, New York, NY, “More Than Nature”
A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, “Girl on Guy”
The Apartment Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Crab and Caviar’”

2006
Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington D.C. “Landslide”
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California. “2006 Southern California Open”, Ann Philbin, Juror.
Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Fevered Days Like Waters Cool”
Aqua Art Miami, Platform Gallery, Miami, FL.
Space 301, Mobile, Alabama, “Art and Place 1: Place as Muse”
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, “Echo, Filter, Mod”
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, “2006 Oregon Biennial”, Jennifer Gately, Curator.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ”Invitationals”
HaNNa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Forever Home”

2005
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA ”Painting’s Edge”
Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR, ”Color from Within”

2004
Platform Gallery, Seattle, Washington, “Paperwork”
High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, California, “Pet Rocks”

2003
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, “Cross Roads”
Core Sample, Portland, OR, “Capture and Release”

2001
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, ”2001 Pacific Northwest Annual”
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, “Pleasure Craft”
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, “2001 Oregon Biennial”, Bruce Guenther, Curator.


Curatorial

Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA, “Still Life Show”
MilePost 5, Portland, OR, “Still Life Show”
Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR, “FREE LOVE GODS: Works on Paper from the Far West and Wild East”
Boxlift Building Open Studios, Portland Oregon



Selected Grants, Awards, Residencies

2009 The Brink Award (nomination), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, New York
2005 RACC Individual Artist Project Grant, Fajada Strands, Portland, Oregon
2004-05 Painting’s Edge Residency, Idyllwild, California


Selected Bibliography

Allan, Lois. “2001 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum,” Artweek, July/August 2001. 12-13.
Bowie, Chas. “Anna Fidler: Oblivious Peninsulas”, Portland Mercury, 8 December 2005.
Bullis, Douglas. 100 Artists of the West Coast. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer, 2003.
Crow, Kelly. ‘Small Collectors.’ The Wall Street Journal, Friday 14 September 2007. W1, W10 (photo).
Duford, Daniel. ‘’2006 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum.’ Artweek, October 2006, Volume 37 Issue 8.
Pg. 18-19 (work on cover).
Eisenhart, Mary. ‘Don’t Miss: Portals.’ San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2008.
Gately, Jennifer. “With Fresh Eyes.” In 2006 Oregon Biennial (catalogue), Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Pg. 10-11.
Guenther, Bruce. “Repeated Exposures.” In 2001 Oregon Biennial (catalogue), Portland Ant Museum, Oregon. Pg. 14.
Hicks, Bob. “The Oregon Biennial: Not the Usual Suspects,”The Oregonian, (Portland) 1 May 2001.
Jehanno, Mikael. ‘Anna Fidler’. Savoir Magazine (Air France in-flight magazine), January 2007.
New American Paintings: MFA Edition. Wellesley, Massachusetts; Open Studio Press, 2005.
New American Paintings: Pacific Coast Edition. Wellesley, Massachusetts; Open Studio Press, 2005.
Morris, Barbara. ‘Portals’ at Johansson Projects.’ Artweek, July/August 2008,
Norris, TJ. “Paint: The New Frontier.” Oregonian (Portland), 5 December 2005.
Peterson, Isaac. “Anna Fidler: Oblivious Peninsulas, “ 28 December 2005, (http://www.portlandart.net)
Roberts, Prudence. “Mistique: New Works on Paper by Anna Fidler,” Artweek, September/October 2007.
Volume 38 Issue 7. Pg. 21.
Row, D.K. “The Oregon Biennial.” The Oregonian (Portland), A&E, pg. 14, 28 July 2006.
Storck, Jeanne. ‘Portals: Jen Stark, Anna Fidler, and Jana Flynn’, Flavor-Pill, San Francisco, 8 May 2008.
http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2008/5/15/jen-stark-anna-fidler-and-jana-flynn-portals?context=ongoing