April A. Coppini
Education
1994 BFA, Alfred University, School of the Arts. Alfred, NY.
1990-91 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Life Raft, Imogen Gallery, Astoria OR
2025 Little Bright Spots/Big Migrations, Imogen Gallery, Astoria OR
2024 The Pond, Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR
2022 Oceans of Disbelief/Jungles of Longing, Imogen Gallery, Astoria OR
2020 Everything is Possible/ Nothing is Possible, Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR
2019 The Beauty of Wild Things, High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
2018 Trails of Teeth and Feathers/Drawing Through Grief, Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR
2017 New Drawings, The Artist’s Room Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Necessary Tempers, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Of Hounds and Hares, Imogen Gallery, Astoria OR
2015 New Drawings, Antler Gallery, Portland OR
2014 Charcoal Studies, Antler Gallery, Portland OR
Wild Refuge; Threatened Biodiversity of West Hayden Island, Annie Meyer Gallery, Portland OR
2012 New Drawings, Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery, Portland OR
Leave Room for the Invisible, Gallery 135, Portland OR
Birds and Insects, Antler Gallery, Portland OR
2011 Bumblebees and other Small Heroes, Annie Meyer Gallery, Portland OR
True Animal Stories, the Albina Press North, Portland OR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Summer Exhibition, Whitethorn Gallery, Clifden, Ireland
2021 Blue Review, Sugarlift Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Cascade Aids Project Juried Auction, Live Auction Selection, Portland, OR
Sitka Art Invitational, The World Forestry Center, Portland OR
2017 Cascade Aids Project Juried Auction, Live Auction Selection, Portland, OR
Sitka Art Invitational, The World Forestry Center, Portland OR
2016 Facing You; An Exploration of Portraiture, Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR
Black and White, The Artist’s Room Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Cascade Aids Project Juried Auction, Live Auction Selection, Portland, OR
2015 Drawing Deeper, Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Chemeketa College, Salem, OR
Barely Imagined Beings, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
Natural Selections, Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center, Eugene, OR
Cascade Aids Project Juried Auction, Silent Auction, Portland, OR
2014 Revolver, Antler Gallery/Hellion Gallery, Portland, OR
Spring Show, Rental Sales Gallery, PAM, Portland, OR
2013 Spring Show, Rental Sales Gallery, PAM, Portland, OR
Animalia, Redux Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 Black+ White+ One, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
New Artists Group Show, Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
April Coppini Drawings/Jocelyn Rahm Paintings, Beam & Anchor, Portland, OR
PUBLICATIONS
Marianne Monson, “Little Bright Spots: April Coppini at Imogen Gallery.” Discover Our Coast, 2025.
“April Coppini,” Art Grind Podcast, #72, 2022.
Stephen Gardner, Gateways to Drawing: A Complete Guide (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018).
J. Drew Lanham, Sparrow Envy (Hub City Press, 2016).
“Pulling Light From Darkness,” Artists On Art Magazine, #18, 2016.
“Pastorals Revisited,” The Artist’s Magazine, September, 2016.
“The Artist: April Coppini,” Luxe Interiors + Design, 2016.
TEACHING
2014 Charcoal Bees, 9th grade workshop, Portland Waldorf School, Portland, OR
2008 Painting and Play Classes, Ages 3-6, Home studio, Portland, OR
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2026 Juror for the drawing category, Susannah Kelly Award, Antler & Talon Galleries, Portland, OR
2010 Draw a Bee Project, the Albina Press South, Portland, OR
Solicited and Exhibited, children’s charcoal drawings of bees, University of Minnesota’s Bee Lab, St. Paul, MN
COMMISSIONS / COLLECTIONS
2026 Wild Game Rooster drawing, Tres Colline Vineyards, McMinnville, OR
2025 Luna moth drawings, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
2023 Luna moth drawings, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
2022 Luna moth drawings, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
2021 Boreal Woodland Caribou lifesize drawing, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, SK, Canada
Bull Elk, Bugling drawing, Amaterra Winery, Portland, OR
2020 Luna moth drawings, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
2019 Coyote, Howling drawing, Chelsea’s Kitchen Restaurants, Phoenix, AZ
Bumblebee and monarch drawings, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR
2018 Wild Bee drawing and Chardonnay label, Big Table Farms, Carlton, OR
2017 Bumblebee and monarch drawings, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR
2016 Sicilian Rooster and Honey Bees drawings, The Parlor Pizzeria, Phoenix, AZ
2015 Gloucester Old Spot Pig drawing, Chelsea’s Kitchen Restaurants, Phoenix, AZ
2014 Bumblebee and monarch drawings, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR
2012 Bantam Rooster drawing, Chelsea’s Kitchen Restaurants, Phoenix, AZ
2007 Black Bantam Rooster, Scratching 6’ drawing, Lincoln Restaurant, Portland, OR