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Exhibitions/Screenings

​​2025

Dublin Movie Awards, Allentown Film Festival, Brooklyn International Short Awards, screenings for short film Greener Greenie

TSTS Film Festival short film premiere Block Chain screened at New Memories in Parksville, NY

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2024 

Wild Roof Journal, Fall issue, Smalls #14    Fantastical Films, Callicoon Theater, Callicoon Art Walk           

Harvest Lungs, East Village Community garden screening, Laurie Olinder, curator           

New Memories Film Festival, Parksville, NY, short film presentation of three animations          

Brooklyn International Film Fest, semi-finalist 

Rome International Short Awards, semi-finalist

 

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, curated by 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 the Diaramaroom.com

 

2021 

Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT, "This Earth", Montello Foundation            

Astoria Film Festival, debut of 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, online auction and exhibit   

 

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  

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2014 

Wave Hill House, Bronx, NY Winter Artist Residency, exhibition                      

Arts Commons, traveling public arts exhibitions, Queens, NY

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​​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   â€‹

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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, New York                           

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, New York

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     

© 2025 by Evie McKenna.

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