Kandace Manning

Kandace Manning’s art explores humankind’s relationship with the natural environment and our perception of that environment. Her art practice is rooted in her interactions with nature and a desire to derive beauty from everyday experiences with the elements. She is inspired by the botanical, the cosmic, and everything in between. She weaves contemplation into layers of meaning in her work that create depth and a history of experience.

Her work explores the emotional impact of formal elements and their effect on the subjective human experience, and is an organic oscillation between theory and praxis where media follows concept. This has led her into papermaking, painting, digital photography, and mixed media sculpture.

Kandace Manning received her BFA from The Cooper Union, in New York City in 2010. She studied paper making while at the Cooper Union, and interned at Dieu Donne paper studio. She also previously studied at The Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR, where she studied figure drawing.

Her artwork is in multiple private collections and has been shown in multiple galleries including Imogen Gallery (Astoria, OR), Barrister’s Gallery (New Orleans, LA), Museum of People’s Art (Bay City, OR), Shoreline ...

BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
The Pacific Northwest College of Art

Seattle Art Fair, Conru Foundation Gallery, BEAUTY TRUTH LOVE, 2025

Il Bosco, Milwaukee, WI, Folk Magic,Group Exhibition, April 2024

Lloyd Center, Portland, OR, Braided River Campaign Permanent Exhibition, Group Exhibition, July 2023

Portland City Hall, Portland, OR, Braided River: Tales of the Lower Willamette, Group Exhibition, August 2022

Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR, Braided River: Lower Willamette Speaks, Group Exhibition, March 2022
Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, Textures and Patterns, Juried Online Exhibition, August 2021

Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR, Hook Pulp Weave, Invitational Group exhibition, December 2020

Modern Glaze, Shoreline, WA, Invitational Group exhibition, December 2019

Shoreline City Hall, Shoreline, WA, The Museum of UnNatural History, Group exhibition, November 2019

Kala Gallery, Astoria, OR, Boombox in the Sky with Diamonds, Group Exhibition, 2011

The Museum of People's Art, Bay City, OR, 2011

Cascade Aids Project, Donated Art for Auction Exhibition, 2010

Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA, Group Exhibition, 2010

The Cooper Union, NYC, Thesis Exhibition, The Melancholy of Women’s Work, 2010