Evie McKenna
Exhibitions/Projects
2022 Musee Magazine, Weekend Portfolio feature, March 4th with text and photographs online
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
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