Dana Hawk

Acquired directly from the artist

In the collection of the Art Renewal Center, 2023

Tallahassee, FL, Portrait Society of America, 2021 Members Only Competition Winners, 6th Place Animals, (online exhibition), 2021

New York, NY, Sotheby’s, 16th International ARC Salon Exhibition, Honorable Mention Animals, July 14 – 24, 2023

Christine Egnoski, The 2021 Members Only Competition Winners, The Art of the Portrait, Tallahassee, 1st Quarter 2022

Natalia Joruk, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2022: Raymar Traditional Art Finalist Announced, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Australia, August 17, 2022 (online)

Samuel Peralta, Lunar Codex: The Polaris Collection, enclosed in cultural time capsule on the Griffin lunar lander, launched by SpaceX, and placed on the Moon in perpetuity, launch scheduled November 2024, illustrated

Various authors, International Realism: 16th International ARC Salon, ACC Art Books, Woodbridge, Suffolk 2023, (Honorable Mention Animals), illustrated p. 304

Dana Hawk is an oil painter specializing in animal and figurative work. She attended Missouri State University initially as an art student but switched to Cell and Molecular Biology, going on to receive a M.S. in Physical Therapy from the University of Colorado. She returned to art in 2003 and has been a recurring finalist in the Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition, received an Honorable Mention in ARC’s 15th International Salon Competition and again in the 16th International ARC Salon Competition with this painting of “Clingy Things of Where We’ve Been,” she was included in Salmagundi Club’s 40th Annual Open Exhibition, along with multiple group shows at Collins Galleries, RJD Gallery, Abend Gallery, Rehs Contemporary Gallery, and has had works published in Fine Art Connoisseur and American Art Collector magazines.