Renata Daina is a Los Angeles based artist whose multifaceted practice draws from the earthly and otherworldly, intertwining personal and ancient mythologies. Fascinated by past and present modes of environmental empathy she creates tactile abstractions employing labor-intensive techniques such as hand weaving, rope coiling, knotting, stitching. The resulting soft structures reference animist deities, intricate connectivities of tree root systems, spiritual imagery, the act of crafting. Coiling itself is repetitive and circular in motion; the technique mimicking our cyclical relationship with nature. 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.
Born in the United States, raised in Australia, she learned traditional Lithuanian textile crafts from her grandmother, and is a fifth generation weaver. Daina 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 was a 2022 Fiber Artist in Residence at 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
SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Amulet, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, United States
2009 Greschagen Popenko, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 L.A. Rise, Keystone Gallery, Curated by Merchant Modern, Los Angeles, United States
2025 Commissioned site-specific sculpture, A34, Los Angeles, United States
2024 Sometimes A Wind Blows, Wonzimer, Los Angeles, United States
2024 Fall Group Show, Keystone Art Space, 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
2009 Apocalypse WOW!, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, United States
2009 Philo T. Pharnsworth, Casitas, Los Angeles, United States
2009 Everything Needs to be Locked Down, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, United
States
2009 Technology//Art, Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, United States
2008 Stop Down, USC Graduate Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles, United States
2008 Welcome to Catharsis, Union Station, Los Angeles, United States
2008 Annual Student Show, Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States
2008 1:1, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2007 Anonymous Works, Channel Islands Gallery, Camarillo, United States
2006 Australijos Lietuvių Dienos, Bankstown Arts Centre, Bankstown, Australia
2006 Fashion and Textiles, UTS Design Architecture Gallery, Sydney, Australia
PRESS
2024 Foertig, Dominique Catherina. “23 Must-Follow Artists Closing the Year.” Munchies Art
Club Magazine, 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 “Sometimes a Wind Blows.” Artillery Magazine, November December 2024.
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.
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
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