CV | Evie McKenna

Exhibitions/Projects

2022 Musee Magazine, Weekend Portfolio feature, March 4th with text and photographs online

ALTFF Film Festival finalist in Indie festival for Ultra Shorts category in Vancover, CA

Tune in to Green, Experimental short film series online at the Diaramaroom.com, 3/3-5/31

2021 Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT, "This Earth", Montello Foundation group show

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 interview zoom live stream

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 with David Max Rothenberg

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 and open house

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

George Eastman House International, Rochester, NY Collection of Wm. H. Hunt
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, PA

2009 Adelphi University, Klapper Center for Fine Arts, Garden City, NY, group show
2008 Flux Factory, Queens, NY group exhibition New York, New York based on the Worlds Fair Panorama

Outsider Studio, Livingston Manor, NY A Soft Place to Land, group show

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 group show

Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN "Towards A Low End Theory"

2002 Queens Museum, "Everything All at Once",international exhibition with catalogue, NYC

Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, GA, "House", group show of international photographers

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", group show

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
2020 Queens Council on the Arts, SuCasa grants working with art courses and senior centers, working in

Rochdale Village,

2019 Su Casa grant, Newtown Italian Center,

2018 Su Casa grant, Queensbridge Houses

2017 Su Casa grant, Cambria Heights, Alpha Phi Alpha center

2015 Sunnyside Community Houses, Sparks grant for photography class and exhibition

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, Masters Program in photography

BFA University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, photography and printmaking

Teaching

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Adjunct Instructor in the Fine Arts Department

School of Visual Arts, New York City, Instructor in the Photo Department

Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, Adjunct Instructor in the Fine Arts Department

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Visiting Instructor in the Photo Department

AAVI, D.F. Mexico City, Mexico, Workshop Instructor in Photography School

LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY, Instructor in the Photo Department

Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Visiting Instructor in Photography

Publications/Reviews

Musee Magazine, Evie McKenna, weekend portfolio series online, March 4th intro

SUMA "This Earth", catalogue of exhibition of Montello Foundation residents environmental works

Queens International, Everything All At Once, Queens Museum exhibition catalogue

Art Papers, review, Queens International, catalogue of exhibition at Queens Museum

Flash Art, October/November 2002, review Queens International show
Athens Banner-Herald, review
Directions to My House, self published book of photographs of the built environment
Open City, Spring issue, portfolio published from Directions to My House
The New Yorker, review
The Village Voice
Williamsburg Weekly