Claudia Danielson is a photographer and printmaker living and working in the Twin Cities but her roots belong to the rural landscape of the Red River Valley.
Her artistic practice remains dedicated to analog methods with a special interest in historical processes. She maintains a traditional darkroom and is a co-op artist at Highpoint Center for Printmaking.
Claudia teaches printmaking workshops at The Minnesota Center for Book Arts and is a teaching assistant in the printmaking studio at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant as well as a Jerome Foundation Mentorship Grant through The Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Her most recent projects explore themes of conservation and stewardship as it applies to our natural environment. She seeks quiet dramas within and at the edges of the landscape to illuminate the cost of human sovereignty as it relates to our delicate biosphere. Her work presents a call for awareness, sensitivity and personal connection.
Recognitions
2019 Artist in Residence - Studio: Here, Minnesota State Fair
2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant recipient
2014/2015 MCBA/Jerome Foundation Book Arts Series V Mentorship recipient
2014 Juror award – Highpoint Center For Printmaking – Stand Out Prints; Juror Susan Tallman
Recent Exhibitions
2020
Minneapolis Institute of Art - Foot in the Door
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit
2019
Highpoint Center for Printmaking - Prints on Ice
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit - Studio: Here
Highpoint Center for Printmaking - Hot off the Press
International Graphic Festival, Cali, Columbia - CaliGrafica
2018
Highpoint Center For Printmaking - Prints on Ice
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit; Juror Mark Jensen
Highpoint Center For Printmaking - Hot off the Press
Winona Arts Center - Highpoint Center For Printmaking Co op exhibit
Minnesota Center For Book Arts - Compass; Finding Direction From The Natural World
2017
Highpoint Center For Printmaking - Prints on Ice
Minneapolis Photo Center - Life as a Landscape
2016
Highpoint Center For Printmaking - Stand Out Prints; Juror Elizabeth Wyckoff
Minnesota Center For Book Arts - Light Sensitive
2015
Minneapolis Photo Center - Chronicles; Jurors Tom Arndt and Sally Mars
Minnesota Center For Book Arts - MCBA/Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship Exhibition
Minnesota Center For Book Arts – Parts of a Whole
2014
Minneapolis Photo Center – The American Way; Jurors Tom Arndt and Sally Mars
Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon – Altered Views; Juror S. Gayle Stevens
Highpoint Center For Printmaking – Stand Out Prints; Juror Susan Tallman
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit; Juror John Marshall
The Arts Center of Saint Peter – Members +1
Stone Tap, Hudson, Wisconsin – Out Yonder
Photoplace Gallery, Vermont – Imagined Realities; Jurors Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
2013
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit; Juror Osama Esid
Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon – Emergence
Minneapolis Photo Center – Work/Play; Jurors Tom Arndt and Sally Mars
2012
Minneapolis Photo Center – In My Room; Juror Tom Arndt
Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon – Heavy Metal
The Darkroom Gallery, Vermont – Among Trees; Juror Beth Moon
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit; Juror Chuck Avery
Gallery 13, Minneapolis – This Time it’s Forever
2011
Minneapolis Photo Center – Remember Me For A Little While; Juror Tom Arndt
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis – Artists At Work
Traffic Zone Center For Visual Art, Minneapolis – Hand Tinted Nature(s)
J. Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta – Silent Auction Supporting Japan Tsunami Relief
Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara – Life Support Japan
Aline Smithson’s Lenscratch Blog – Luck
2010
Leon Hushcha Gallery, Minneapolis; Ten-piece collaboration with Garrison Keillor and Leon Hushcha
1650 Gallery, Los Angeles – Flower Power; Juror Lisa Subotnick
Minneapolis Photo Center – Personal Effects; Juror Tom Arndt
Photoplace Gallery, Vermont – Nostalgia; Juror Larissa LeClair
Photoplace Gallery, Vermont – Uncommon Portrait; Juror Cig Harvey
Minneapolis Institute of Art – Foot in the Door
Photoplace Gallery, Vermont – Animal Magnetism; Juror John Willis
Minneapolis Photo Center – Portrait; Juror David Little
2009
Photoplace Gallery, Vermont – Floral; Juror Sally Apfelbaum
Minnesota State Fair Fine Art Exhibit; Juror Doug Beasley
Permanent Collections
Science Museum of Minnesota
Health Foundations of Saint Paul
Publications
Featured
Twin Cities Spaces Magazine; Using Photography as Art, 2008
Static Magazine; Bun in the Oven, 2006
Saint Paul Pioneer Press; Portraits of Motherhood, 2000
Minnesota Midwives Magazine; Portfolio Highlight, 1997
Family Times Magazine; Photographing Your Little Works of Art, 1997
Minnesota Parent Magazine; Editor’s pick for Portraits of Motherhood, 1998
Contributing
MCBA Winter Book, 2015
The New York Times; The Road from Lake Wobegon, 2012
Twin Cities Metro Magazine; The Anti-Bodice Ripper, 2008
Minneapolis-Saint Paul Magazine; Waiting with Love, 2003
Minnesota Parent Baby Book; Becoming a Family, 1995
Florida Parent Magazine, Cover, 1995
Minnesota Parent Baby Book; The Hardest Decision, 1995