Baker Artist Portfolios

Born in Ecuador Daniela Godoy,  earned her B.A, in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Upon graduating college, she was hired  as a photographer  to be a part of a research project sponsored by the Institute of Cultural Patrimony of Ecuador (a part of the Ecuadorian government).. The project  sought to preserve and documented the  Jahuay-  the ritual harvest songs of the  Puriah Indigenous community Chimborazo  Province of Ecuador. These songs dated back at least 500 years in Ecuadorian history and were in danger of disappearing. This project reconnected her to her maternal grandmother's indigenous roots because she was of the indigenous community where this song originates.

. Her her twenty-piece series of the Jahauy paintings has been exhibited both in solo shows  nationally and Internationally. Starting with her first solo exhibit Hungary in 2013. Later the same series traveled through 6 cities  in Ecuador in  (2014), and  finally the Casa la Cultura of Baltimore Maryland  in 2023. Her photographs have been part of several group shows and publications in NY and abroad. Her pictures and paintings have been featured on numerous book covers and print publications throughout the years. Most recently her portrait made the cover of Gonzalo Godoy : His Legacy, A Story of a popular Ecuadorian Musician Launched Oct 1 2024.

As a participant in The Exposure Award (Documentary Collection), one of her Jahuay portrait photographs was exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2015. Her plein air work has recently been exhibited at the Kennedy Center and other paintings reside in private collections, including Harvard’s Office for the Arts, , Romania, Ireland, Hungry, Ecuador, Tbilisi Georgia, and Germany, and the U. S. Finally two of her paintings are in the permeant collection of the Museo Del Pasillo in  Quito Ecuador .