Ananda Kesler

Ananda Kesler has exhibited her work in art museums as well as galleries throughout the U.S. and internationally, including: Galerie Metanoia in Paris, France; Galleria Il Sottoportego, in Venice, Italy; LACDA, Corridor 2122 Gallery and Crussell Fine Art Gallery, in California; David Barnett Gallery in Wisconsin; ICON Gallery, Teeple Hansen Gallery, Corner House Gallery, Gallery 56, and the Figge Art Museum and the Blanden Art Museum in Iowa. Her paintings are currently exhibited at the Freeport Art Museum in Illinois. In 2002 she received her BA in Fine Art from The University of Iowa. Ananda Kesler is represented by the David Barnett Gallery in Wisconsin.

Born 1976, Haifa, Israel.
At the age of twelve, her family immigrated to the U.S. and settled in the Midwest in a unique community based on practices such as meditation, yoga, and sustainable living. In 2002 she received her BA in Fine Art from the University of Iowa, and has continued her art education at Peralta College in California, Rajamangala College of Art in Thailand, and in Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy. Ananda has also studied textile design with master artisans in India and Java, Indonesia.

Kesler’s unconventional education- rooted in eas...

2010 Rajamangala University of Art and Design. Chiang Mai, Thailand. Textile Design.
2006-10 Teeple Art Institute, IA. Painting and Drawing
2003-05Peralta College, Berkeley, CA. Surface Design
2002 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. BA in Fine Art
2001 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy. Printmaking

2017 Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL. Found in Translation
Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA. Oak Hill Juried Exhibition
Anomaly Gallery, Ottumwa, IA. Resonance*
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI. Curated: The Creative Catalyst
Oskaloosa Art Center, Oskaloosa, IA. Seen/Unseen
2016 FIGGE Art Museum, Davenport, IA. Rock Island Exhibit Juried by Julie Widholm director of De Paul Art Museum.
Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL. Small Wonder group exhibition
Borrego Art Institute, Borrego, CA. The Art of Photography
ICON: Iowa Contemporary Art Gallery, Fairfield, IA. Black and White
2015 Gallery 56, Fairfield, IA. Life Inside*
Corridor 2120, Fresno, CA. Invisible Cities
2014 ICON: Iowa Contemporary Gallery, Fairfield, IA.
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
2013 Galerie Metanoia, Paris, France. Un Seul Grain de Riz
2011 Crussell Fine Art Gallery, Orange, CA. Rap-10
Teeple Hansen Gallery, Fairfield, IA. Gallery Artists
ICON: Iowa Contemporary Art Gallery, Fairfield, IA. Invitational
2010 Teeple Hansen Gallery, Fairfield, IA. Grand Reopening Show
David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
ICON: Iowa Contemporary Art Gallery, Fairfield, IA. Icon Artists
Teeple-Hansen Gallery, Fairfield, IA. Women’s S...