CV

Fernanda D’Agostino
Portland, Oregon.
fernandadagostino.com
nandada@aol.com
@nandadagostino

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Full-Scale Installations

2024
After the Anthropocene, (with ProLab Dance), Zidell Shipyards, Portland, OR
Mar, Mar e Mar, Newport Art Museum, RI, and PRAx Center, Corvallis, OR
When We Were Ocean, (with ProLab Dance), Kendall Planetarium, Portland, OR

2023
Break to Build (with ProLab Dance), Zidell Shipyards, Portland, OR
Chrysalis/Generativity, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR

2022
Within the Caldera, Mt. Tabor Caldera Amphitheater, Portland Parks Foundation, Portland, OR
Emergence, Kelly Point Park; Portland Parks Foundation, Portland, OR
Movement, Memory Mirage, Neon was Never Brighter Festival; Chinatown Media Arts Collective & Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, CA
In the Glass House, (with Pink Martini), Bella Madrona, Portland, OR
Resist/Restore, CETI (Creative and Emergent Technology Institute), Portland State University, Portland, OR

2021
Letters from Earth, Venice VR Expanded, Portland Art Museum - Remote Site for Venice Film Festival New Media Exhibition (in response to Covid), Portland, OR
Sea Creatures, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Sea Creatures, Ignite Festival, AVA, Astoria, OR

2020 Acqua e Vita, Bellevue Arts Commission, Bellevue, WA
Against the Current, Time-Based Art Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
C’e la Luna, Virtual Venice Biennale, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Phases of the Moon, Three architectural installations, Portland International Film Festival, Portland Art Museum and Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR

2019 Borderline, 2000 sq. ft installation, Northwest Triennial The Map is Not the Territory, Portland Art Museum. Portland, OR

2018
Borderline/Decameron, Interactive installation, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Borderline/Mapping, Installation, OpenSignal PDX, Portland, OR
In/Body, Performance/Installation, (with Jaleesa Johnston and Sophia Wright Emigh), OpenSignal PDX, Portland, OR
Peace Mudras, Untitled Art Fair, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2017 Generativity, Indivisible, Portland, OR

2016 Generativity, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA

2014 Pool, Soundwave Biennial, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Pool, Three-person exhibition (with Gary Hill and Robert Cahen), Festival de La Imagen, Museum of Caldas, Colombia Research, Currents New Media 2014, Santa Fe, NM

2013 The Method of Loci, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR

2011 Pool, Bonnie Bronson Fellowship 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

2008 Motion Studies, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2007 Flight Studies, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2003 Theater of Memory, Installation, Core Sample, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR

2001 Secret of Shadows, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1996 Imagining the Other Side, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1995 Wishing Trees, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR

1994 Fate, (with Kristy Edmunds), Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1993 Abundance and Scarcity, Land based installation, Marylhurst University, OR

1992 Translations, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1992 Walking on Water, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

1991 Traveler’s Rest, (in collaboration with Dennis Kitz, sound), Randolph, VT

1989 Offering, Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

1989 Translations, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1986 In Bocca Al Lupo, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT

Selected Public Commissions

2015 Timeline, National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, Capital Crescent Trail, Bethesda, MD

2012 Shadow Play, Legacy Emanuel Randall Children’s Hospital, Portland, OR

2010 Intellectual Ecosystem, Custom Software, Video Projections, Holographic Screen, Portland State University Campus Center, Portland, OR

2009 Celestial Navigation, Sculpture and permanent Video Installation, SoundTransit SeaTac Airport Link Plaza, SeaTac Airport, WA

2009 Urban Hydrology, Downtown Transit Mall, Portland, OR

2008 Fluid Dynamics, 66th Avenue Gateway, East Bay Trail, Oakland, CA
The Long View, Laveen Conveyance Channel, Phoenix, AZ

2006 Garden of Strength, Mayfair Community Center, San Jose, CA
Theory of Everything Plaza, Everett College, Art & Science Building, Everett, WA
Lead Design Team Artist, New Columbia, Housing Authority of Portland, OR

2004 Flows and Eddies, Smith and Bybee Lakes Restoration, Portland, OR
Icons of Transformation, Overlook Station, Interstate Light rail, Portland, OR
Into the Green Wood, Greenwood Library, Seattle, WA

2003 Message in a Bottle, Water Quality Testing Lab, Seattle, WA
Creating a Place to Heal, Harborview Medical Center Campus Master Plan, Seattle, WA

2002 Unseen Worlds, 16-acre restoration project) Bureau of Environmental Services Design Team
Artist, Wet Weather Treatment Facility, Portland, OR

2001 Lead Design Team Artist, Tacoma Link Lightrail, Tacoma, WA
Night and Day, Theater District Station, Tacoma Link Lightrail, Tacoma, WA
Landscape Memories, Union Station South 19th Street, Tacoma Link Lightrail, Tacoma, WA
Three-block sculpture garden Washington State History Museum, sculptural transit shelter designed in collaboration with Miller Hull Architects, Tacoma, WA

1998 Bridge Between Cultures, Design Team Artist, Union Station, Seattle, WA

Selected Group Exhibitions & Festivals

2024 Imprint: Objects in Performance, Gallery 114, Portland, OR

2023 Out of Site, Pacific Northwest Artists Annual, Seattle Center, WA

2021 Our Cup is Broken, (with Sahra Brahim), Live performance between Riyadh, Portland and London
produced within the Liminal Performance Space, performance instrument created during Covid
lockdown, Shubbak Festival of Arab Art, London, UK

2020 Liminal Performance Space, (folio), New ArtFest, Lisbon, Portugal

2019 Borderline/Outpost, Portland Winter Light Festival, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2018 Generativity; Our Bones are Made of Starlight, 1A Space (off site venue), Art Basel Hong Kong
Generativity, Channels of Democracy, Women, Power and Video Art, Ft Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Peace Movements, Projections for performance art series, Safehouse, San Francisco, CA

2017 Unwalking the West, Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR
Salone del Mobile: Pool with O&A Architecture, Milan, Italy

2016 Open Sesame, Curated by Kristan Kennedy, The Lumber Room, Portland, OR

2015 The New Math, Currents 2015, Immersive Dome, Santa Fe, NM
TinaB Contemporary Art Festival, Budapest, Prague, Tel Aviv

2013 VideoAKT Biennale of Video Art, Curated by Angie Bonino, Barcelona, Spain

2012 Cyberfest, Co-Sponsored by The State Museum Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia
N-Minutes Festival, Shanghai, China
Video Guerrilha Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nederlands Instituute voor MediaKunst
Living Calligraphy, I’ve Travelled Far in Portland, Video Art, Pompidou Metz, France
Currents 2012, Santa Fe, NM
Motion Studies. Pool, Intellectual Ecosystem, Subtle Technologies, Toronto, Ontario

2011 The Shape of the Problem, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
From this Moment on, Greestone Gallery, Lincoln University, UK
Motion Studies, Flying Films Festival, Morgen Vogel Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2010 Motion Studies, Mumbai International Film Festival, National Film Board of India Invitational selection, Experimental Film
Mother Lode, The Art Gym, Marlyhurst, OR
Motion Studies, Electronic Visualization and Art, BCA, London, UK

2009 Motion Studies, Technarte, Bilbao, Spain
MadCat International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA

2008 Motion Studies, Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas, Marseille, France
Motion Studies, 809 International New Image Art Festival, Yichang, China

2004 23 on 9th, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2000 Wonder Women, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR

1998 Here/Now, Curated by Randy Gragg, Tidbit Gallery, Portland, OR

1997 Penetrating Image, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

1996 Fabrication & Collaboration, The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

1995 Four Northwest Artists in Search of Values, Ethics and Morals, Vollum Gallery, Portland, OR

1993 Crosscut, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
USA Today, Textielmuseum of the Netherlands, Tilburg & Helsinki, Finland

1992 Sculpture in the Landscape, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
Partitio, Performance collaboration and installation curated by Kristy Edmunds, Portland, OR

1990 Scripps Ceramics Annual, Lang Gallery, Claremont, CA

1988 East meets West, Contemporary Crafts, Portland, OR

1987 Frontiers in Fiber, United States State Department touring exhibition of Asia

1986 Third Western States Biennial, Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Awards

2024 Regional Arts and Culture Council, Professional Development Grant, Portland, OR

2023 Nominee, United States Artists Fellowship
Artist’s Project Grant, Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Community Foundation

2021 Oregon Arts Commission/Ford Family Foundation, Project Grant

2020 Oregon Arts Commission/Ford Family Foundation, Project Grant
Precipice Fund Award, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

2018 Alembic Residency and Fellowship, Performance Works Northwest
Artist’s Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Community Foundation
Precipice Fund Award, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

2017 New Media Fellowship, Open Signal, Portland, OR

2016 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist’s Fellowship
4Culture, Tech Specific Grant, Seattle, WA

2015 Oregon Arts Commission/Hallie Ford Foundation, Career Opportunity Grant

2014 Oregon Arts Commission, Career Opportunity Grant

2012 Oregon Arts Commission/Hallie Ford Foundation, Career Opportunity Grant

2011 Intellectual Ecosystem, Public Art Network National Year in Review Award for Innovation in Public Art
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Project Grant, Pool, Portland, OR

2009 Honor Award, Lindbergh Foundation, Motion Studies

2004 Overlook Park Station selected for Public Art Network’s National ‘Year in Review’

2003 Tacoma City Council Special Projects Award for Public Art Flintridge Foundation Fellowship, West Coast USA, Career award

2001 Honor Award for Citizen Involvement at the American Planning Association Annual Awards for Excellence Harborview Hospital Master Plan

2000 Regional Arts and Culture Council, Artist’s Project Grant, Portland, OR

1999 Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, Weller Street, Bridge Between Cultures

1995 Bonnie Bronson Award, Oregon Community Foundation

1994 National Endowment for The Arts, Regional Initiatives Project Grant

1993 Viewers' Choice Award, Crosscut, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Initiatives Grant New Genres

1987 Oregon Arts Council Individual Fellowship

1986 Finalist, Rome Prize Fellowship

1985 NEA Project Grant

Selected Publications/Media

2024 Diatom Ecology: from molecules to metacommunities by Nora I. Maidana (Editor), Magdalena
Licursi (Editor), Eduardo Morales (Editor) John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Scrivener Publishing LLC, Hoboken, NJ, Beverly, MA
Liminal Performance Space; Selected Portfolio; Issues! In Art Science and Technology,
University of Arizona Press as part of their Leonardo/MIT partnership

2020 Oregon Art Beat segment on Borderline, OPB
Mobile Projection Unit Uses Portable A/V Equipment to Screen Video Art
Everywhere From Silos to Under the Burnside Bridge, Willamette Week Best of Portland Issue; By Shannon Gormley | Published July 22

2017 Generativity: Understory, Archee; revue d'art en ligne: Montreal

2016 Generativity; Installation by Fernanda D’Agostino, Suyama Space, Catalog Essays by Beth Sellars and Justin Hoover, Seattle Weekly, Volume 41; Number 42 pg. 25, Every End is a New Beginning, TS Flock

2014 San Francisco Bay Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 42, Treading Water, Emma Stone review of Soundwave Biennial featuring Pool4
Entervista tra Fernanda D’Agostino e Curator Ricardo Dal Farra El Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas de la Universidad, Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2013 ArtForum, Critics’ Picks, Portland, OR, Stephanie Snyder, November 2013
Fernanda D’Agostino: The Method of Loci, Linda Tesner and Terri Hopkins, Marylhurst University Press

2012 Hyperallergic; ”Santa Fe Grows Its New Media Festival” by An Xiao Mina 07/06/2012, Santa Fe
New Mexican Passatiempo; ‘Lights, Projectors Action” Rob Dewitt, Cover & pg. 32,06/22/2012
Der Spiegel On Line; Projekt in Brasilien: Die Outdoor-Kunst 23.11.12

2011 Bonnie Bronson Fellows 20 Years: Linda Tesner: Lewis and Clark Press

2009 Ventilo n°232 du 12 au 25 novembre 2008, Pg.11 Marseille + Bouches-duRhône, France La Croisee Des Sciences Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Motion Studies)

2008 Think out Loud, Public Art, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, OR

2006 Colors of Architecture, Andrew Moor, Rizzoli, (two pages Greenwood Library)

2004 Core Sample; Portland Art Now, Gragg & Stadler, Clear Cut Press
Video and Film at “Core Sample,” Lois Allen, ArtWeek, January 2004, pg.33
Light Rail/Light Art, DK Rowe, Oregonian, April 25, pg. L1. (Overlook Station praised as one of three “great successes” in a mixed review of Tri-Mets Yellow Line)

2003 Rip Rap, Portland Bureau of Environment; Wetlands Restoration Project, Landscape Architecture Magazine, 6/03
Current Public Art in Portland, ArtWeek, June 16th 2003
Flintridge Foundation Catalogue;2002-2003 Fellowship Winners
Art in America; Art World; Flintridge Foundation Fellowships

2000 Abundance and Scarcity, Land Forum Magazine, Spacemaker Press, Boston,

1999 Female Dominance in Public Art, Cath Bruner, Arcade Magazine, Seattle, September
Design Landscape Forum, Peter Walker, Spacemaker Press, Boston. Featured

1996 A death in the family, Megan McMorran, The Oregonian, Feb. 2, 1996, p.16

1995 Contemporary Art in the Northwest, Lois Allan, Craftsman House, 1995

1994 Conceptual Art for Rush Hour, Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, May p. F1 Into Oblivion, Lois
Allan, Artweek, Feb. 3, 1994, p.15
Artists contemplate Fate, Joel Weinstein, The Oregonian, 1/15/94, pC9

1993 Art as a Growing Concern, Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, September 9, p. B4
Narratives of Repression, Iris Moore, Reflex, Sept. / Oct., p.21
USA Today: Textielkunst, Amersfoortse courant Velvws Dagblad
USA Today in Fiber Art, (catalogue), Netherlands Textile Muiseum, Tilburg

1992 Time / Space Relationships, Lois Allan, Reflex, Nov. / Dec., 1992

1986 Third Western States Biennial, Charlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Art Museum

Selected Experiences

2023 Artist in Residence Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Artist in Residence Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

2021 Creative Exchange Lab, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland Golden Spot
Residency, Caldera, Bend, OR
Panelist; The Nature of Cities Conference (online), Paris, France

2018/19 Alembic Residency, Performance Works Northwest, Portland, OR

2018 Visiting Artist, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2017 New Media Fellow; Open Signal, Portland, OR
Visiting Artist, Sarah Lawrence College
Artist Speaker Series, Portland Art Museum 5

2015 Invitado, Festival de la Imagen International Speaker series, University of Caldas, Colombia

2014 Visiting Artist, Sarah Lawrence College, Art Department, Bronxville, NY

2012 Artist in Residence; Can Serrat International Artists Center, Barcelona, Spain
Speaker, Subtle Technologies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2011 Visiting Artist; American Academy of Rome

2010 Speaker, EVA London, New Technology and Visual Arts, UK

2009 Panelist at Americans for the Arts National Conference, Art and Landscape Architecture, Seattle, WA

2008 Speaker, Technarte, Bilbao, Spain
Artist in Residence 809 International Artists Village, Yichang, China

2002 Visiting Artist, Rutgers University Graduate School of Art, NJ

2001 Panel Discussion, Art and Restoration; Society for Ecological Restoration Convention, Seattle, WA

1998 Panel Discussion, Art and Landscape Architecture, American Society of Landscape Architects
National Convention, Portland, OR

1985 Artist in Residence, Art Park, Lewiston, NY
Artist in Residence, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR

Selected Collections
Cyland Collection of Experimental Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MT
New York Public Library Artist's Books Collection, NY
Bonnie Bronson Collection, Reed College, Portland, OR
The Lumber Room Collection, Portland, OR
Collection of Terri and Bob Hopkins
Collection of Linda Tesner
Joan and John Shipley Collection

Selected Affiliations
A Creative and Emerging Technology Institute, Portland State University, OR
Collective Action Studio, San Francisco, California
Mobile Projection Unit, Portland, OR
In/Body, Portland, OR
OpenSignal PDX, Portland, OR