Meet the Artist
Ana Gadish-Linares (neé Ana Haydeé Linares) is a first-generation Cuban-American artist, illustrator, and designer. She creates interdisciplinary art that stimulates discussions on cultural identity, ancestry, mental health, and gender.
Ana has a BA in Fine Arts and Art History from the University of Florida and an MS in Arts Administration from Boston University. She has expertise in graphite drawing, printmaking, collage, letterpress, graphic design, and digital illustration.
She is currently living in a small suburb outside of San Francisco, CA with her husband, Or, and their two cats, Tulip and Domino.
Awards
Juror’s Choice, 1st Annual Photography and Digital Art Exhibition, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, 2022
First Prize Award for Fields of Linseed, Cotuit Center for the Arts, 2021
Honorable Mention Award for Looper, New York Center for Photographic Arts (NYC4PA), 2021
Honorable Mention Award for Victorian Outlaw 2020, View Center for Arts and Culture, 2021
Special Recognition for Excellence in Art, Light Space & Time Gallery, 2021
Special Recognition Award for Droplet Enveloped in Passion, Light Space & Time Gallery, 2021
Best in Show Award for Victorian Outlaw 2020, Cedarburg Art Museum, 2020
Best in Show Award for Crash, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, 2020
Fourth Place Award for Mr. Wrinkles, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, 2020
Honorable Mention Award for Council of Droplets, J. Mane Gallery, 2020
Honorable Mention Award for Ochún, J. Mane Gallery, 2020
Special Merit Award for Whisp, Light Space & Time Gallery, 2020
Special Recognition Award for Snow Berries, Light Space & Time Gallery, 2020
Special Recognition Award for Olives, Light Space & Time Gallery, 2020
Special Recognition Award for Hitchhikers, Light Space & Time Gallery, 2020
Exhibition History
2022
Human Faces and Figures, Las Lagunas Gallery
1st Annual Photography and Digital Art Exhibition, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery
2021
Botanical Art and Illustration, Las Lagunas Gallery
Children, Gallerium
Digital Art, Assemblage and Collage, Las Lagunas Gallery
FEMME Champions International Art Exhibition, Art Impact International
Nature: Landscape Serene and Savage, Modern Visual Arts (MVA) Gallery
Textures, Patterns, Shapes or Forms, Las Laguna Art Gallery
All in the Family, Cotuit Center for the Arts
Tropic of Color, Vestige Concept Gallery
Wandering Curves, New York Center for Photographic Arts (NYC4PA)
34th September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art
Botanical Juried Show, Tag 120 Gallery
Women’s Work, Indianapolis Art Center
Slice, Pence Gallery
Unprecedented: Arts Responds to 2020, View Center for Arts and Culture
Summer Open Juried Show, Falkirk Cultural Center
11th Annual Botanicals, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
EXPOSED 2021, Marin Society of Artists
Merged II, D’Art Centre
Call of The Wild, San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center/SCORE
ART and SOCIAL JUSTICE: Art for the People, By the People II, Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery
Exhibizone Winter Festival, Biafarin
Artistonish Magazine, March issue
Inspired By…, Village Theatre & Art Gallery
2021 H2O Online Art Exhibition, J. Mane Gallery
Faces and Figures, The Flagler County Art League
Persistence III, D’Art Gallery
Women in Art 2021, Las Laguna Art Gallery
3rd Mind Body Spirit Art Exhibition, J.Mane Gallery
Stand, Art Fluent
16th National Photography Exhibition, Fotofoto Gallery
2020: An International Juried Photography Exhibition, U. of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art
2020
3rd All Women Art Exhibition, J. Mane Gallery
Art in the Time of Corona, Dab Art
Shear Madness: Juried Collage Exhibition, Northville Art House
Critters 3, artlessBastard
Wild Things, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Photography 2020, Las Laguna Gallery
3rd Annual Women Artists, Fusion Arts
Seasons, J. Mane Gallery
2020 Botanicals, Las Lagunas Gallery
2020 ALL Animals, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
2020 ALL Water/Seascape, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
3rd Women Artists Art Exhibition, Fusion Art
Masters as Muses, Cedarburg Art Museum
Architecture, Envision Arts, 2020
2020 Water/Seascape, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
10th Annual Botanicals Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
2nd Annual Lines, Shapes, and Objects Exhibition, Fusion Art
Xposed - Naked & Not Afraid Exhibition, Knox Contemporary Gallery
EARLIER EXHIBITIONS
Intrinsic Traits, Solo Exhibition— Boston, MA 808 Gallery at Boston University, 2013
Memento Mori—Gainesville, FL, WARPhaus Gallery, 2012
ART BASH — Gainesville, FL, Fine Arts Gallery, 2011
Juried Exhibition—Gainesville, FL, The Hippodrome, 2011
TEA Literary Magazine—Gainesville, FL, University of Florida, 2010-2011