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