Renata Daina currently lives and works between Los Angeles and Sydney where her multifaceted artistic practice draws from the earthly and otherworldly. She creates tactile abstractions utilizing labor-intensive techniques such as hand weaving, rope coiling, knotting, stitching, dyeing. Coiling itself is repetitive and circular in motion; the technique mimicking our cyclical relationship with nature. Sculptures and tapestries reference animist deities, biomorphic structures, spiritualism in twentieth century art, and poetic ecology, for example. Elusive and tangible forms shift from the softness of individual fibers to the solidity of dense webs. Handwoven textiles and repurposed fabrics move fluidly between surface textures and multi-dimensional structures delineating our physical and spiritual entanglement in an increasingly fragile ecosystem.
Raised in Sydney, Australia, Renata Daina learned traditional Lithuanian textile crafts from her grandmother, and is a fifth generation weaver. She received a BFA with Honors Cum Laude from the University of Southern California, and studied Fashion & Textile Design at the University of Technology Sydney. Daina has completed residencies at Bundanon and Township10, and has exhibited work in Australia, Europe, and the United States.
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Artist CV: Renata Daina
for complete CV please email your requestEDUCATION
2010 BFA, Honors Cum Laude, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2005-06 Fashion and Textile Design, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Chasing Sun, Becoming Moss, Connelly Martin Gallery, Austin, United States
2024 Amulet, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, United States
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 A Condition of Staying, Connelly Martin Outpost, Sun Valley, United States
2026 Spring Group Show, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2026 Milk Punch, Connelly Martin Gallery, Austin, United States
2025 Don’t Be Absurd, Contemporary Art Modern Project Gallery, Miami, United States
2025 Conceptual Romance, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, United States
2025 L.A. Rise, Keystone Gallery, Curated by Merchant Modern, Los Angeles, United States
2024 Sometimes A Wind Blows, Wonzimer, Los Angeles, United States
2024 Fiber Feast, Lakewood Cultural Center, Denver, United States
2024 Spring Group Show, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2023 Threads that Bind, Brea Gallery, United States, Co-curated by Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center
2023 Fall Group Show, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, United States
2023 Our Vision is Clouded, Warbling, London, United Kingdom
2023 Spring Group Show, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, United States
2023 Work, Ladies Room, Los Angeles, United States, Online
2023 Connective Threads: Across Materials, Methods, & Meanings, Palos Verdes Art Center, United States, Curated by Carrie Burckle and Jo Lauria
2022 Fall Group Show, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, United States
2022 Spring Group Show, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, United States
2022 Sending Love: Ukraine Crisis Relief, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, United States
2021 Fall Group Show, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, United States
2021 State of Health, Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech University, United States
2020 Postmarked, Crafting the Future, Penland School of Craft, Online
2011 On The Other Side, GallerySmith, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Xmas10, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, Australia
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2026 Artist in Residence, Bundanon, Illaroo, Australia
2022 Fiber Artist in Residence, Township10, Marshall, North Carolina
2021 Business of Art Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA
2010 New Talent in Visual Arts, Australian Lithuanian Arts Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
PUBLIC + PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, New York, and Sydney.
PRESS
2026 Eichert-Schäfer, Claudia. “Interview with Australian-Lithuanian textile artist Renata Daina.” Textile Art Magazine, October 2026.
2025 Popenhagen, Dr. Liuda. “Menininkės Renatos Dainos pastarieji pasiekimai.” Mūsų Pastogė [Australian Lithuanian Weekly], 17 December 2025, p. 13.
2025 Randhawa, Simran. “Loval gallery exhibition displays diverse range of art.” Yale Daily News, October 7, 2025.
2025 “Donne che tirano i fili del discorso sociale: Il progetto tessile della CAMP Gallery.” TXtileZine: Contemporary Fiber Textile Embroidery Art Zine, September 10, 2025.
2025 Pingel, Maile. “Bold Strokes.” Brentwood City Lifestyle, April 2025, p. 23-24.
2024 Foertig, Dominique Catherina. “23 Must-Follow Artists Closing the Year.” Catapult Contemporary, 10 December 2024.
2024 Carolina Castilho and Nina Seidel. “Connecting Back to Tactile Ways of Thinking
with Renata Daina.” Suboart Magazine, Nr. 24, July 2024, p.76-83.
2024 Editor Ruth Deaton. Frog Mag, Nr. 1, August 2024, p.3, 15, 18.
2024 Interviewer Jade Connolly, Meet the Artist, Monday, Talking with Creatives.
2023 Editor Robyn Graham, Our Vision is Clouded (London: Warbling, 2023), Exhibition
Catalog.
2023 “The Brea Gallery, in Collaboration with Muzeo, Hosts the 'Threads That Bind'.” Culture OC, 17 November 2023.
2023 Popenhagen, Liuda. “Buvusi Sydnėjiškė gyvena ir kuria Los Angeles.” Mūsų Pastogė
[Australian Lithuanian Weekly], 26 April 2023, p. 5.
2023 McWilliams, Chandler. “You See LA: April 2023.” UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, 10 April 2023.
2023 Dambrot, Shana Nys. “It’s International Women’s Day Every Day at this Los Angeles
Gallery.” LA Weekly, 9 March 2023.
2022 “Field Notes: Renata Daina.” warp and weft, December 2022.
2020 “State of Health: Illness, Recovery & Art.” Fiber Art Now, Vol. 9 (Fall 2020), p. 19.