Aunde Cornely

aunde is a Pacific Northwest artist with Irish roots. Her current home is on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish tribes.

She is guided by questions of de-centering humans to expand conversations around the rights of Nature. If, according to Irish tradition, a spirit of “the Other Crowd” might be found in any form from the sea to the sky, how does one show that Otherworldly spirit?

"Intertidal", her series documenting climate driven storms and the ancient magic of the sea's transformational imagery, has been selected for PNW Drawers 2026 at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR.

Her work has been displayed in environmental exhibitions including "Creative People Leading Climate Action" at UMass, and "Earth Action Initiative" at UC Berkeley.

"Limina" received the Allied Arts MFA scholarship. She presented "Limina: Reflections of Identity through the Lens" at the American Conference for Irish Studies.

aunde holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. She is currently pursuing an MA in Humanities with a specialization in Medieval Irish Studies, where she hopes to weave together literature, archaeobotany, data, and art.

Please reach out for specific interests. She has many bodies of work in various states of completion and is happy ...

MA Humanities (In Progress), Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH

MFA Interdisciplinary Art with Decolonial Arts Praxis, Goddard College, Port Townsend, WA

AA Visual Communications, Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, WA

BS Mass Communication (Audio and Video Production)
Miami University, Oxford, OH

BA Speech Communication (Public Relations)
Miami University, Oxford, OH

Select Recent Exhibitions

2026 PNW Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

2025 Take Home A Nude, New York Academy of Art Gala at Phillips, New York, NY

2025 Chase The Light, Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA

2024 Take Home A Nude, New York Academy of Art Gala at Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2024 Eight Inches By, Graphite Arts Center, Edmonds, WA

2024 Member Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

2024 Chase The Light, Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA

2024 Irish Art Exhibition, The Armory at Seattle Center , Seattle, WA

2023 Take Home A Nude, New York Academy of Art Gala at Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2023 REIMAGINED Member Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

2023 Chase The Light, Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA

2022 Member Interactive Exhibit, Seattle Design Fest/Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

2022 Member Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

2022 Chase The Light, Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA

2022 Connection Member Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

2022 Writing the Land, Authors and Artists Festival, Northfield, MA

2021 Limina, MFA Scholarship Show, Allied Arts, Richland, WA

2021 Earth Action Initiative, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

2021 Creative Women Leading Climate...