Dawn Endean has been making art for over 50 years. She has exhibited at the Turner Print Museum in Sacramento, CA; The Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, WA and Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, WA. In addition, she has shown at numerous galleries nationally and internationally including in Sweden at Detroit Stockholm Gallery; at Seattle's Davidson Galleries; Shift Gallery; Jacob Lawrence Gallery; and the Columbia City Gallery. Other regional venues include the Schack Art Center in Edmonds; The Island Gallery on Bainbridge Island; The Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend and Mighty Tieton in Tieton Washington; Gallery 25 in Fresno, CA and One Plus One Gallery in Helena Montana.

Her work is represented in collections throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as in New York, Stockholm, Florence and in the Bridwell Art Library at the University of Louisville.

Endean studied printmaking at Northern Illinois University, at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, and in San Miguel Allende and Oaxaca Mexico. She currently teaches Printmaking at her Seattle studio as well as at various regional arts venues.