Isabella Saavedra
Lives in Portland, OR
EDUCATION:
2020 BS, Studio Art, Southern Oregon University
Public Art:
July 2025 Mt. Scott Community Center Installation | City of Portland + RACC | Portland, OR
Solo Exhibitions:
June 2024 Newport Performing Arts Center, Memories at Night, Newport, OR
April 2023 The Armory at Portland Center Stage, Prelude, Portland, OR
Dec 2022 Butte College Gallery, Amalgam I, Oroville, CA
Aug 2022 Catalyst Gallery, I Just Want to Be Everything, Ashland, OR
Mar 2020 CVA Galleries, Egocide, Ashland, OR
Group Exhibitions:
Oct. 2024 Leonard R. Fuller Gallery| Honoring Ancestors and Embracing Culture in the Modern World | Olympia, WA
June 2024 Newport Visual Arts Center | Where the Water Meets | Newport, OR
July 2023 Marie Watt Studio, I’d Prefer Not To, Portland OR
Jan 2022 1078 Gallery, The Women Within Me Are Tired, Chico, CA
Nov 2021 The Potentialist Workshop, Native American Heritage Month, Reno NV
Jan 2021 Liberty Arts Gallery, Fresh Fruit, Yreka CA
—- 2020 The Animus Collective, Barn Show, Talent, OR
—- 2020 Southern Oregon University, Queer Indigenous Gathering: State of the Union, Ashland, OR
—- 2019 CVA Galleries, On the Politics of Dead Rats, Ashland, OR
—- 2019 Blackbird Cafe, Untitled Group Show, Chico, CA
—- 2019 1078 Gallery, Queer Justice is Racial Justice, Chico, CA
—- 2019 Chico Center for the Arts, Puzzle Piece Show, Chico, CA
—- 2019 Museum of Northern California Art, Walls We Create, Chico, CA
Community Engagement and Residencies:
October 2024 Open Pot Community Dye Event with Made of Madder, Portland, OR
June 2024 Community Read + Look Activity, Newports Art Center, Newport, OR
October 2023 ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership Artist-In-Residence, Cleveland, OH
June 2023. p;ear BIPOC Artist-in-Residence, Portland, OR
Additional Accomplishments:
Nov 2019 Studio Assistant for Justin Favela
2021-2022 Props Artisan at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2022-2023 Studio Assistant for Marie Watt Studio
2023-Present Project Manager at Marie Watt Studio