2023

• Making Time is on view May 4 - 27, 2023 at Russo Lee Gallery in Portland.

• My solo exhibition at The Heard Museum in Phoenix entitled The North Star Changes runs from April 7, 2023 to Feb 5, 2023. You can download the exhibition catalog with an essay by Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation). All the titles in the show are translated into the Cherokee syllabary by wahde galisgewi. Creation of the work funded in part by a grant from the Oregon Art Commission and The Ford Family Foundation.

• I’m honored to be part The Land Carries our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Curated by Juane Quick-to-See-Smith.

2022

• BIG NEWS!! I received The Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts. The Ford Family Foundation supports Oregon with generous funding in many areas including the arts. I’m honored to be among an amazing group of arts who have received this award in the past. Here’s the press release about this year’s awardees.

• Returns: Cherokee Art and Diaspora, curated by Dr. Ashley Holland is on view at Atlanta Contemporary through September 4. I’m honored to be showing with fellow Cherokees, Luzene Hill and Kade Twist.

• Russo Lee Gallery is attending the Seattle Art Fair. Check out my work there in July.

• I have work in the group show Visualizing Spaces, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, Univ of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana.

• Follies of Dominion is on view at Duhesa Gallery at University of Colorado in Ft. Collins. Here’s a great review in DARIA magazine.

• My installation Nexus: Share and Exchange is part of Where the Waters Together is at the Center for Contemporary Native Art in Portland.

2021

• Working Through, is on view through August at Russo Lee Gallery in Portland. I am happy to be represented by this great gallery.

• Lehuauakea and I created ᎩᎦᎨ x PŌ (Red x Black), a virtual exhibition as part of our NACF Mentor Fellowship. .

• My work is featured in this article exploring the connection between traditional Indigenous environmental knowledge and global environmental solutions. Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB)

• Partitioning is at Jordan Schnitzer Museum in an exhibition entitled Meeting points in conjunction with their Common Reading program featuring Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

• Township10 Residency in North Carolina hosted me and four fellow Cherokee women in their beautiful space to make work in our ancestral homelands.

2020

• My work is in the group show, Not Your Monolith, at Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, November 5 - December 19.

• The Native Arts and Culture Foundation (NACF) awarded me a Mentor Fellowship. NACF provides resources and opportunities to Native artists in ways that promote our careers and keep cultures alive. My apprentice is Portland-based artist, Lehuauakea Fernandez.

• I’m the set designer for Native Intelligence/Innate Intelligence, a dance performance choreographed by Christoper Morgan of CKM&A. Christoper and I were in residency at EMPAC in Troy, New York in February to build the set. An amazing experience all around!

• Found and Formed, a solo exhibition at Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State, University, Corvallis, OR, January 6 - January 29.

2019

• Gather Back is my first solo exhibition at Upfor Gallery in Portland, OR, November 6 - December 21.

• I received a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, which allowed me to make many more works of art.

• Poiesis, a group show curated by Stefanie Dykes, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, through Oct. 11.

• Intricate Forms is on view at the Ucross Gallery, June 3 - September 28 as part of my Native Fellowship Residency.

• yəhaw̓ Exhibition at the King Street Station, Seattle, WA features one of my works. Here is a great review of the show in Hyperallergic.

• Crossing Mnisose: An Indigenous Artist Collective, in conjunction with Mary Kathryn Nagle’s theatre production at Portland Center Stage at the Armory, Portland, OR April 13 - May 5.

• Fragments and Further Functions. Exhibit as part of Visiting Artist in Residence, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA, April 22 - May 10.

• Museum of Fort Collins is exhibiting Intricate Forms, showcasing my work and the work of Sydney Pursel as part of our Ucross Fellowship for Native Artists. On view January 18 - March 17.

• In January I spent two weeks at the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency at Sitka Center for the Arts. It was stimulating and productive time. It was an honor to work with master printer Julia D’Amario.

2018

• Upfor Gallery in Portland now represents my work. I am proud to be included in the wonderful group of artists represented by Upfor. Some of my work is up for viewing in their backroom space for the months of November and December.

• I have some exciting work/travel plans this year! I have received the Signal Fire Outpost Residency for August, the Bullseye Glass Residency in September, and Ucross Foundation Fellowship for Native American Visual Artist in November/December.

• c3:initiative, Pulp & Deckle Papermaking Residents Exhibition, March 31 - May 5.
  Opening reception, March 31, 11am -2pm, artists talk at noon. c3:initiative is located at 7326 N. Chicago, Portland.

• the texture of black, 2-person exhibition with Jenene Nagy, at Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA, Jan 8 - Feb 8.

• Recurring Chapters in the Book of Inevitable Outcomes is on view at Portland Center Stage at The Armory during the productions of Astoria and And So We Walked by Cherokee playwright DeLanna Studi.

2017

• Symmetry Breaking, a group show at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University is on view October 10 - December 10.

• First American Art has a great review of Connecting Lines in the Summer Issue. Read it here.

• Pulp & Deckle is a papermaking residency in Portland. That's where you'll find me in the month of July!

• The prints I created while at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts have been released. The are stark and graphic and I love them! There are four editions and they are available for purchase at Crow's Shadow.

• Connecting Lines, a two-person show with Luzene Hill, is at the Portland Art Museum's Center for Contemporary Native Art from March 11 - October 29, 2017.

• In January, I participated in Map(ing)2017 at Arizona State University. Map(ing) is a biennial project using the visual language of printmaking as a vehicle for visual communication and the sharing of culture, language and identity. Erin Joyce in Hyperallergic wrote a review of the 10-year anniversary of Map(ping). Here's a link to Focus Break, the print I made while there.

2016

• I'm grateful to be awarded a 2016 Fellowship in Visual Arts from the Native Arts & Culture Foundation. Thank you, NACF. To be in the company of this talented group of 2016 Fellows is an incredible honor.

• Portland Community College honored me with a Diamond Alumni Award. I'm proud of have been a part of this great educational facility. Here's a video profile they produced.

• Crow's Shadow 2016 Golden Spot Residency Award. I'm excited for the opportunity to create work in this world class print studio with master printer Frank Janzen in May 2016. Funded by The Ford Family Foundation.

• Bloom Variation is part of the Featured Objects Program, Bellevue Arts Museum, February-August 2016.

• I'm collaborating with Stephanie Dykes to present Marginal Environments at SCGI Conference, March 2016.

• Oregon Art Beat, posted a video update on my work.

• Printed, a group show, Butters Gallery, Portland, March 3 - April 2.

• Solo exhibition, A Further Gleaning, at North View Gallery on PCC's Sylvania Campus in Febuary 22- March 19, 2016. Artist Reception, February 27, 2-5pm. I received a Regional Arts & Culture Council 2016 Project Grant this exhibition.

• In January, I completed a large commissioned work for Four Seasons Resort - Lana’i at Manele Bay in conjunction with Julie Nester Gallery and Daniel Fine Art Services.

2015

• Award - Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2015 (read about it here and see great pictures on the blog of my fellow artist, Holly Wilson)

• Great review of the GLEAN exhibition in Visual Art Source.

• Glean|Recology Residency 2015 - My chance to glean at the Metro Transfer Station (commonly known as The Dump ) for 5 months! Info here and we five resident artists blog about it here.

• The Spaces Between, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR, January 8-30.

• Observations and Collections (juror - Jenifer Kent), Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, February 6 - March 6.

• Untitled, (solo exhibition), Grants Pass Art Museum, Grants Pass, OR, April 2 - May 29.

• Adaptations, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA, July 2 - August 1.

• GLEAN Resident Exhibition, Disjecta, Portland, OR, August 14.

• I'm teaching a workshop entitled "Starting in Pieces: Responding to Ideas and Materials" at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, Colorado, August 17 - 21 (see the class description).

• Glorious Underbelly, 209\\Gallery, Portland OR, September 12.

• Mentor Exhibit, Furthermore Gallery, OCAC+PNCA, Portland OR, November 6.

• Eiteljorg Museum Contemporary Art Fellows Exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN.

2014

• Anniversary Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA, December 3 - 31.

• Slash and Burn, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA, December 12, 2015 - January 30, 2016.

• Review of my exhibition at Julie Nester Gallery by Geoff Wichert, in the journal 15 Bytes, published by the non-profit group, Artists of Utah.

• Exhibition at Julie Nester Gallery, July 5-22, 2014

• Profile entitled Reiterations and Rifts about my work in Surface Design by Richard Speer.

• My 11-week residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center last fall was a most amazing experience. Creative fellow residents, great facilities and equipment, wonderful staff, and the stunning surroundings of Aspen made this one of the most memorable and productive times in my life. I was a resident in the Sculpture Department, but the residency allows for cross-departmental access, so I also worked in the Printmaking and Digital Media studios. It was a time of exploration for me, and while I only made a few pieces that I consider truly finished, I launched a bunch of ideas and am continuing the work back in my own studio. Thank you, Anderson Ranch, for giving artists focused time; and thank you, Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation, for grants to help make it all possible for me.

• Reiterations and Rifts, my first solo show at Butters Gallery, runs June 5 and runs through 29. If you are in Portland, please stop by June 5 or 6 for the openings. Here is a great review by Richard Speer of Willamette Week.

• Culture Seen Interview Lisa Sipe, artist and writer, visited my studio in April and posted this interview on her blog, Culture Seen. Thanks, Lisa.

• A.R.T. regard Talented sculptor and blogger, Andrew Tirado featured my studio in his blog, A.R.T regard today. Check it out here. Besides writing about art, Andy profiles artists in some of his posts, and today's post was the result of a conversation we had about Knolling, an obscure topic he wrote about earlier.

• I'm excited to be teaching at Anderson Ranch August 5-9. Sign up for a fun and creative week in the Rockies! Tell your friends. I took a workshop there last summer and it was an amazing experience. Great instructors, interesting fellow students, tasty food. I highly recommend it. And in your off hours you can hike in the high altitudes of Snowmass. Although most people are so busy and inspired in their classes that they work long past class hours.

• Watch a video on Mechanics of Hither and Yon on Oregon Art Beat at Portland International Airport

• Artist, Curator, and Art Professor, Avantika Bawa has invited me to speak about my work at Washington State University, Vancouver, WA this week.

• Metamorphosis at Butters Gallery! The show runs June 7 - 30.

• With the help of my amazing studio assistant, Leslie Vigeant, I published a book about my installation at the Portland International Airport. Mechanics of Hither and Yon by Brenda Mallory

• Multi-talented artist, Eva Lake, has invited me be on her weekly interview show, Art Focus, January 31, 11am, PST.

• cultureNOW: Museum Without Walls Mechanics of Hither and Yon is now part of the cultureNOW Museum Without Walls

• A nice article about my PDX installation. A nice article on Orgeon Public Broadcast Arts & Life section about Mechanics of Hither and Yon.

• Installation at PDX International

• Geoff Wichert reviews my show Julie Nestor Gallery in beautiful Park City, Utah. The show includes recent pieces from my Constrain to Vertical series, as well as the large wall piece, Protean Forms. The show runs from July 29 - August 31.