Lisa Kellner       March 23: Alive With Art Benefit, tickets thru Brooklyn Arts Council 804-307-3726 LKellart@aol.com 
 
 
 
 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009 

Suspended Presence, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Surfacing Beneath, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Proposition Ate My Marriage, LMCC Swing Space Residency Open House, New York, NY (Installation project)

2008

Inner Urban Sanctum, Providence Art Windows, Providence, RI
Black and White, ArtDoxa.com

2006 

Plain Matters, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2010

Material Juxtaposition, Amherst Street Gallery, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH

2008 

Exintrinsic, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA

Other Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

Emergence, Bahdeebahdu, curated by Brook Hine, Philadelphia, PA

2009

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

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
Contemporary Fiber, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Beneath The Skin, Mock Magazine Covers, Perfect 8 Magazine, Chashama, New York, NY
I Dream of Genomes, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York

2007 

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

2006 

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

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 KellnerMaryland 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 WorldBoston 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.
                                     

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

 Awards / Residencies 

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  

Ad for Artforum, Jeffrey Thompson's project.
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     

 

 
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