Lisa Kellner        804-307-3726 LKellart@aol.com 
 
 
 
 

Lives and works in rural VA and Brooklyn NY.

Selected Exhibitions:

2010

Art on Paper 2010 Biennial Exhibition, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC
Unraveling Tradition, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
Let There Be White, meltemBIREY Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Emergence, Bahdeebahdu, curated by Brook Hine, Philadelphia, PA
Drawn To It, Amherst Street Gallery, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH


2009 

Suspended Presence, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI (solo)
Surfacing Beneath, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
A Proposition Ate My Marriage, LMCC Swing Space Residency Open House, New York, NY (Installation project)
Phantasma, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Mansion Project, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (catalogue)
The Body Politic, Brooklyn Arts Collective, The Jungle, Brooklyn, NY
Clamoring to Become Visible, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn NY
Fluid Identity, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD
Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids at Metro Pictures, New York, NY                  


2008

Inner Urban Sanctum, Providence Art Windows, Providence, RI (solo space)
Square Foot Show: Election '08, Art Gotham, New York, NY 
Material Meditation, New Art Center, Newton, MA  (catalogue)
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, AIB Gallery, Boston, MA  (catalogue)
Here and Now, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC (solo space)
Exintrinsic, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA
Contemporary Fiber, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Beneath The Skin, Mock Magazine Covers, Perfect 8 Magazine, Chashama, NY, NY
I Dream of Genomes, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York
Black and White, ArtDoxa.com (solo internet)

2007

9 x 10, WWP Gallery, Washington, DC
Art on the Gwynns Falls Trail 2007, Leakin Park, Baltimore, MD (solo space)
Strictly Painting, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Radius 250, Artspace, Richmond, VA
Saturated, Heinemann Myers Gallery, Bethesda, MD
WPA\Corcoran Centerpiece Project, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC

2006

Plain Matters, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo)
Open Call/Size Matters, RHYS Gallery, Boston, MA
Conversions, WPA/Corcoron at The Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA
for a(n) relation(s), ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
Spring Fieldwork, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA
Paper Trail, Gallery 6, Rockaway Beach, NY
The Unlikely Target, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC

2005

Open Studios Summer Residency, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Flux Redux, Art6 Gallery, Richmond, VA
The National Arts Program, Richmond Science Museum, Richmond, VA
American Drawing Biennial 8, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
New Work, Pots and Prints, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Artworks All Media Show, Artworks, Richmond, VA
Mixed Media Show, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Bibliography

2009
 

Catherine Bui, Interviews:  Lisa Kellner,  Title Magazine, Issue No. 4.

Anonda Bell, Forward and Artist Essay for Catalogue; Decadence and Decay:  The Manison Project, September 2009.

Mike Giuliano, Five local artists conspire to reveal 'Identity', Howard County Times, Feb. 12.

Esther Kim, Q & A with Artist Lisa Kellner,  Maryland Art Place On-line Newsletter, winter.

Kriston Capps, Reviews:  Washington, DC 'Here and Now', Transformer Gallery, Sculpture Magazine, January/February.

2008 

Ceci Mendez, forward for catalogue: Material Meditation, New Art Center.

Chris Bergeron, Living in a 'Material' whirl - Six artists 'Meditate' on everyday stuff, The 
Metrowest Daily News, October 5.

Denise Taylor, Exploring The Material World,  Boston Globe West, September 18.

Bob Thayer, Not Just Another Dive, The Providence Journal, September 16.

Hope Stockman, Current Galleries; Material Meditation, ArtScope, Sept/Oct ed.

Judith Barry, Director, Forward for catalogue, MFA in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition 
Catalogue,  Art  Institute of Boston.

Michael Newman, Thesis Advisor, MFA in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition Catalogue,  Art
Institute of Boston.

Maura Judkis, "
Closed Call:  Transformer wanted to comment on urban change.  It came 
sooner than expected, Washington City Paper, May 20.

Benjamin Genocchio,
Looking into the World of Genomes and Seeing an Unreliable 
Future
, The New York Times, March 2.

Jennifer Landis, Opinion: I Dream of Genomes, The East Hampton Star, March 26.

2007   

Kevin Mellema, 9x10: WPA/Corcoran Member Shows at the WWP Gallery, Falls Church News-Press, August 2.                       

Kriston Capps, Strictly Painting 6:  Color Field Revisted, Washington City Paper,          June 28.

Kate Paul, Washington Project for the Arts draws a Summer Crowd, WRC.     

2006  

J.T. Kirkland, Conversions Opening Tonight, Ellipse Arts Center blogspot, July 28.

J.T. Kirkland, Thinking about Art; Lisa Kellner @ ConversionsThinking  About Art Blog, July 25.

Robin Tierney, The Art of Becoming is Very Becoming, DC Examiner, July 22.

Awards / Residencies 

2010
BRIC Media Art Fellow, Brooklyn, NY

2009 
Swing Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural council, New York, NY 
Finalist, RGASA Exhibition, NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY
Semi-Finalist, Trawick Prize, Bethesda, MD

2007
Semi-Finalist, Trawick Prize, Bethesda, MD

2005  
First Place, All Media Show, Artworks, Richmond, VA

2004   
Honorable Mention, All Media Show, Artworks, Richmond, VA
School of Visual Arts Studio Residency Program, New York, NY

2003  
Residency Program, Jon Imber Studios, Stonington, ME

2000 
Residency Program, Accademia Caerite, Rome, Italy


Projects

2009
 
Embroidered Edifice, ongoing project

2008
Founding Member of G.O.A.T. (Group of Artists Talking), a collaborative group of artists.
Mock magazine ads, Perfect 8 Magazine.

2007  
Adrian Piper, Everything #10 , Public Art Performance, Creative Time, New York, NY.
       I was a participant. My journal has been archived on the Creative Time web site.  A  publication regarding this performance has been produced by Creative  Time.  

2006  
Two Thousand and Counting Essay, Daily Constitutional Magazine, Issue #2      

Education

2008 
     MFA, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

 

 

 

2004      Concentration in Painting and Drawing, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1987     BA, Boston University, Boston, MA

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