Evie McKenna is an artist, photographer and animator. Her mixed-media drawings, animations, and photographs are investigations of abstraction, myopia, and alternating color schemes. Exhibitions include the Queens Museum, the Concord Museum, Wave Hill House, and Ricco-Maresca gallery among others. Her films have been screened at festivals including the Big Eddy Film Festival, the Bruge International Film Festival, Laurie Olinder’s Harvest Festival and the Fantastical Films series in Callicoon. She has received a new works grant from the Queens Council on the Arts, the NYFA Catalogue Project grant and she received five SuCasa teaching artist grants. She has taught at School of Visual Arts, Pratt, Brooklyn College and Delaware Valley Arts Alliance among others. Residencies include Yaddo, the Montello Foundation, the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, the PS122 studio program and the Wave Hill Winter Artist Residency.
Exhibitions/Screenings
2025
Big Eddy Film Festival, Fantastic Film Festival, Lower East Side Harvest Films, West Kortright Film Festival, Silver Falls Film Festival, Dublin Movie Awards, Allentown Film Festival, Brooklyn International Short Awards, Anatolia Film Festival, TSTS Film Festival, Jeff Foto Fest, DVAA Arts in Sixes
2024
Wild Roof Journal, Fall issue, Smalls #14 Fantastical Films, Callicoon Theater, Callicoon Art Walk
Harvest Lungs, East Village Community Laurie Olinder, curator
New Memories Film Festival, Parksville, NY, Brooklyn International Film Fest,
Rome International Short Awards
2023
Big Eddy Film Festival, Narrowsburg, NY Film festival, Shorts, Official Selection Bruges International Film Festival, Belgium, Tarkovski Grant
Harvest Lungs, East Village Community Garden, screening curated by Lori Olinder
Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, Fantastical Films, curator Elizabeth Ennis
This Earth, Montello Artists group show, Concord Art Museum, Concord MA
Off Brand, A.R.T., Group show, Jackson Heights, NY
Lulea Film Festival, official selection, short film, Sweden
2022
Musee Magazine, Weekend Portfolio feature
ALTFF Film Festival finalist in Indie festival for Ultra Shorts category in Vancover
Tune in to Green, Experimental short film series online at Diaramaroom.com
2021
Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT, "This Earth", Montello Foundation
Astoria Film Festival three experimental animations, Heart of Gold, NYC
Michael Foley Gallery, NYC group show with Gerald Slota and Ellen Wallenstein
2020
QCA New Works, Artists Talk, Dec. 17th with Elaine Matczak, interviewer
Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa Program, Rochdale Village, Queens, NY
Art from the Epicenter,
2019
Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa Program, Newtown Center, Queens, NY Jackson Heights Art Talks, E77, Artists Talk
2018
Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa Program, Queensbridge Houses, NY School of Visual Arts, Photo Dept faculty show
2017
Wave Hill House, Wave Hill Gardens, Bronx, NY solo show
Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa Program online portfolio of Cambria Heights
2016
Open Source Gallery, group show, Brooklyn, NY
Montello Foundation, Montello, Nevada, artist residency
2015
Callicoon Trading, "Silhouettes", Callicoon, NY
Queens Museum Artists Market, Flushing Meadows, NY
SPARCS Program Artist, NYC Council on the Arts, Sunnyside, NY
2014
Wave Hill House, Bronx, NY Winter Artist Residency, exhibition
Arts Commons, traveling public arts exhibitions, Queens, NY
2013
School of Visual Arts, Photo Dept faculty show
2012
Catskill Art Society, "Ghosts of the Catskills," Livingston Manor, NY
Adelphi University Harley UC Gallery, Group Exhibition, Garden City, NY
2011
Mondo Studios, Queens NY, Artists open studio exhibition
2010
Society of Photographic Educators, Group Exhibition, University of the Arts, Phila
2009
Adelphi University, Klapper Center for Fine Arts, Garden City, NY
2008
Flux Factory, Queens, NY group exhibition New York, New York
Outsider Studio, Livingston Manor, NY
2007
AAVI, online exhibition with the school portal, Mexico City, Mexico
Outsider Studio, "Through An Optic Nerve", Livingston Manor, NY
2006
Queens Museum, "Queens International", Studio in A City, Queens, NY
Outsider Studio, Winter Show, Livingston Manor, NY
2005
Dry Good Arts Gallery, Livingston Manor, NY Welcome to My Home
2003
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY Minnesota Center for Photography, "Towards A Low End Theory"
2002
Queens Museum, "Everything All at Once", international exhibition with catalogue
Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, GA, "House", group show of photography
2001
Open City, portfolio from “Directions to My House”, online and literary journal
2000
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, "Seeds, Squares and Houses", three-person show
Von Lintel & Nusser Gallery, NY, "Unconscious Documentaries" curated by Paul Ha
The Meat Market Fair, White Columns entrant, Chelsea, New York
1999
Silverstein Gallery, New York, group show
White Columns, NY, "Visitor", curated by Lauren Ross
Brooklyn Brewery, New York, "Mothers Work"
1998
Richard Anderson Fine Arts, project space, New York
Williamsburg Arts & Cultural Center, "Williamsburg Bridges Tibet" Brooklyn Baird Center, South Orange, New Jersey, "Image after Image", group show
Gallery 292, New York, group show NYU/ICP alum
Richard Anderson Fine Arts, group exhibition curated by Casey Kaplan, NY
Awards
2020 Queens Council on the Arts, New Works Grant, NYC Dept of Art
Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa in Rochdale Village, Queens, Y
2019 Su Casa grant, Newtown Italian Center, Queens, NY
2018 Su Casa grant, Queensbridge Houses
2017 Montello Foundation Residency, Montello, Nevada
Su Casa grant, Cambria Heights, Alpha Phi Alpha center
2015 Sunnyside Community Houses, Sparks grant
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts, grant for catalogue project, “Directions to My House”
Artist Residencies
2017 Montello Foundation residency, Montello, Nevada
2014 Wave Hill, Winter Residency program, three-month project
1998 Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas artist residency
1994 PS 122, Artists studio recipient
1991 Yaddo, artist residency in Saratoga Springs, New York
1989 National Park Service, Ellis Island, New York, Visiting Artists Program
Education
MA New York University/ International Center of Photography, NY
BFA University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, photography and printmaking
Teaching
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York City
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
AAVI, D.F. Mexico City, Mexico
LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Publications/Reviews
including Musee Magazine, weekend portfolio series online, SUMA "This Earth", catalogue of exhibition of Montello Foundation residents environmental works, Everything All At Once, Queens Museum exhibition catalogue
Art Papers, Flash Art, Athens Banner-Herald, Directions to My House, self-published book of photograph of the built environment Open City, The New Yorker