Annalise Neil
b. 1978
Lives and works in La Mesa, CA
SELECTED SOLO & DUAL EXHIBITIONS
2023
Echo’s Potential, solo show at OMA West at the Seabird, Oceanside, CA
Relational Gradient, solo show at Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
Holobiont, solo show at The William Herrick Health Library, La Mesa, CA
2022
On the Move, two-person exhibition, Trash Lamb Gallery, San Diego, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Unfold Projects Exhibition 01: We Must Imagine It ICA San Diego, Encinitas, CA
Organica, The Granger Hotel, San Diego, CA
Sanguine Glimmers, Hey Books, San Diego, CA
Fast Forward: Analog Photography as a Third Space, LA Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Analog--Made by Hand, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT
A Woman’s Place: Framing the Future, The Ebell, Los Angeles, CA
California Dreaming, Dorado 806, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Alliance Biennial, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2025
s(Light) of Hand, The Photographer's Eye, Escondido,CA
25 Years of The Drawing Show, San Diego Central Library's Judith Harris Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2024
Flora and Fauna, Techne Art Center/Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
s(Light) of Hand, The Photographer's Eye, Escondido,CA
32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Vox Populi XIX, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Order/Disorder: Belonging in Nature, La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla, CA
2023
Broken Mirror, Techne Art Center, Oceanside, CA
Size Matters, San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
If It Makes You Happy, Float Magazine
2022
Alternative Processes Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, NY
Flat Files, Collar Works, Troy, NY
6th Annual Alternative Photography Exhibition, The Image Flow, San Anselmo, CA
Out of the Blue, Acci Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Garden Universal, False Cast Gallery, La Mesa, CA
minis 2022, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
Myths and Fables, Analog Forever
Stories I Tell Myself, Visionary Art Collective
Zoonotic Hex, Field Projects, New York, NY
Love is an Action, The Front Gallery, San Ysidro, CA
2021
Less Than a Pair of Centenaries II, Trash Lamb Gallery, San Diego, CA
Presence of Mind, Seabird Hotel, Oceanside, CA
minis 2021, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Artist Intervenes, lenscratch.com
Values Matter, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA
Stretched Imagination: Artist Alliance at Ashton Gallery at Art on 30th, San Diego, CA
2020
Less Than a Pair of Centenaries, Trash Lamb Gallery, San Diego, CA
Aurora, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
November Show, Teros Gallery, San Diego, CA
Gallery Selections, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
29th Annual Juried Exhibition, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2020 Invitational, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2019
Artist Alliance 2019 Biennial, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Array, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
C-Note Show, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
All Media 2019, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Growing Wild by Artist Alliance, San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas, CA
minis 2019, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
OMA Artist Alliance: Creative License/ A Group Show, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
Cannon Art Gallery Juried Biennial, Carlsbad, CA
2018
Out of the Box Experimental Show, Honorable Mention, San Diego Watercolor Society,
San Diego, CA
27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Second Place and Leslie von Kolb Memorial Award, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Offbeat Nuances, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA
2017
H20 Portrayals, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA
Seeds of Inspiration, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA
Gales of Color, Juror’s Commendation, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA
Kick Start Experimental Show, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA
EDUCATION
BFA in Fine Art: Printmaking, Minor in Art History, The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY. Summa cum laude.
RESIDENCIES/INDEPENDENT ART STUDIES
Wild-Foraged Pigment Making with Daniela Naomi Molnar, Colton, OR
Hollow-core Glass Casting with Michael Endo, High Desert Observatory, Yucca Valley, CA
2026 Volcan Mountain Foundation Rubenson Endowment Resident
Kiln-working Class with Layo Bright and Dorie Guthrie, Pilchuck Glass School, Mt. Vernon, Washington 2025
Glass Casting, Cuttlefish Casting, Glass Cold Working Workshops at Y.V. Material Lab, Yucca Valley, CA 2024
Awarded Residency, Playa Summer Lake, OR, February 2023
Virtual Residency with Mira Schor, NYC Crit Club, Fall 2022
Visiting Critic Program with Deanna Evans, NYC Crit Club, Fall 2022
Cyanotype Workshop with Julia Whitney Barnes, Sugar Maples Center, Maplecrest, NY, August 2022
The Art and Science of Symbiosis Workshop with Dr. Diana Six, Playa Summer Lake, OR, September 2022
Art Career Intensive, NYC Crit Club, New York, NY, Summer 2021
Visiting Critic Program, NYC Crit Club, New York, NY, Spring 2021
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA
“No Neutral” poetry collection by Shin Yu Pai, cover artist
The Hand Magazine, Issue 39
In The Art Scene podcast, featured artist interview, January 29, 2023
thisiscolossal.com, featured artist, January 11, 2023
Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine, “Home” by Ginny Battson, article artist, Jan/Feb 2023
New Visionary Magazine, Issue 3 featured artist, (curated by Danielle Krysa)
ArtMaze Mag, Issue 27 featured artist, (curated by Karen Hesse Flatow)
Expansive Embrace, commissioned for On Being Project’s Starting Point, July 2022
Emergence Magazine, “On Death and Love” by Melanie Challenger, article artist, January 2022
Dynamic Mutuality, commissioned for On Being interview with Suzanne Simard, September 2021
SDVisualArts.net, web--lecture feature, July 2021
All She Makes Magazine, Inaugural Issue, Spring 2021
Artist Round Table, Oceanside Museum of Art, April 2020
Gallery Selections Exhibition Discussion, Sparks Gallery, August 2020
Artist Round Table, Oceanside Museum of Art, July 2021
Work held in public and private collections in the U.S., Europe and Asia