EDUCATION
2017 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 BFA Purchase College, State University New York, Purchase, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming, "Public Work", Kuenstlerhaus Hotel Pfaelzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Upcoming, "New Luxury Art Show in Downtown Salt Lake", Nox Contemporary, Salt Lake City, UT
Upcoming, "Site Lines", Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, "Dangerous Professors", Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX
2018, "Summer Exhibition", Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2018, "Poor Kelsey Harrison...where have you been?", Adler & Floyd, Chicago, IL
2017-8, “Infinite Games”, Open House Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2017, “The Biography of a Thing”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2017, “A I R Tight”, Silent Funny, Chicago, IL
2017, “Our Rooms Share a Wall”, Collabo, Chicago, IL
2017, “MFA Show”, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2016, "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", Public Access, Chicago, IL
2016, “Sap”, Iridium, Chicago, IL
2015, “Cupid’s”, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
2015, "109 Years Since the Jungle", The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2015, "Bloomsday", Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY
2015, "Sharing is Caring/Hatred of Solitude", Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
2015, "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World", The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2014, "The Wind Up: Alphabet Party ", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2014, "Metaphysician, Heal Thyself", Gallery 1989, Larchmont, NY
2014, “Metaphysician, Heal Thyself”, 1019B, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2014, "Figment", Governors Island, New York, NY
2014, "Premium Quality", Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2013, "Figment", Boston, MA
2012, "I Should Have Been", Forum Art Space, Purchase, NY
2012, "Fuck You, I’ll See You Tomorrow", Forum Art Space, Purchase, NY
2012, "Piñata Factory", Rock N Roll Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2012, "Lotte Arts", 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
2012, "Pancakes and Booze", Artists Alley, San Francisco, CA
2012, "Eccentric Abstraction", Suites Gallery, Purchase, NY
2012, "Downtown Cabaret", 10 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
2012, "House/Home", The White Room, Purchase, NY
2011, "National Queer Arts Festival", SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2011, "Shop Mix Society", Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios, Santa Cruz, CA
2011, "Untitled", Aspect Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011, "LGBTQ Art Show", The Artists Alley, San Francisco, CA
2007, “Inaugural”, Ore Projektz, San Francisco, CA
RESIDENCIES
2018-9, Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art Artist in Residence, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, betOnest Open Residency, Angermünde, Germany
2017, Wassaic Project Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
2017, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2015, Brooklyn Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2014, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
2014, School of Making Thinking, East Branch, NY
2013, Collaborative Workspace Resident, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2017-Present, Assistant Professor (Non-Tenure Track), Department of Sculpture and Intermedia, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, Lecturer and Visiting Critic, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2017, Curator, “Cantering Loop”, Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL
2016, Lecturer and Moderator, Glazed Olympus: Transcendental Urban Architecture, ARCHTHEO '16/10th International Theory and History of Architecture Conference, Istanbul, TR
2016, Lecturer, Glazed Olympus: Transcendental Urban Architecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016, Coordinator and Founder, Theories of Space and Things Reading Group, Chicago, IL
2015, Lecturer, Tony Hawk Pro Skater: Dummy Muscle Memory, Words & [ ], The Darling Foundry, Montreal, QC
2015, Performer, Fall to Earth, Aspect-Ratio, Chicago, IL
2015, Performer, Fall to Earth, New Museum, New York, NY
2013, Organizer and Facilitator, Micro-Grant Dinner and Artist Talk, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY
2012, Organizer and Facilitator, Micro-Grant Dinner and Artist Talk, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
AWARDS
2019 Deans Travel Fund Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2018 Dean's Travel Fund Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2017, Dean's Professional Development Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2016, Dean's Professional Development Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2015-7 John and Mary Hoggins Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2014 Purchase College Public Art Grant, Purchase, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Poor Kelsey Harrison...where Have You Been?” The Visualist, 10 Mar. 2018, www.thevisualist.org/2018/03/poor-kelsey-harrisonwhere-have-you-been/.
Levitt, Aimee. “A ‘Dinner Party’ with no food, only smells.” Chicago Reader. Chicago Reader, 10 Apr. 2017. Web. 15 Apr. 2017.
Kelsey Harrison, “Earthbound Moon at Ballroom Projects.” Sixty Inches from Center, 20 Nov. 2016. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.
"VISUALIST." A Momentary Lapse of Reason: Kelsey Harrison, Stephen Lichty, Steve Reinke, Susanne M. Winterling. The Visualist, 10 Nov. 2016. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.
Lisa Jardine. "CREATIVE COLLABORATORS IN PORT CHESTER." . Hometown Media Group, 14 Nov. 2013.
2017 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 BFA Purchase College, State University New York, Purchase, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming, "Public Work", Kuenstlerhaus Hotel Pfaelzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Upcoming, "New Luxury Art Show in Downtown Salt Lake", Nox Contemporary, Salt Lake City, UT
Upcoming, "Site Lines", Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, "Dangerous Professors", Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX
2018, "Summer Exhibition", Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2018, "Poor Kelsey Harrison...where have you been?", Adler & Floyd, Chicago, IL
2017-8, “Infinite Games”, Open House Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2017, “The Biography of a Thing”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2017, “A I R Tight”, Silent Funny, Chicago, IL
2017, “Our Rooms Share a Wall”, Collabo, Chicago, IL
2017, “MFA Show”, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2016, "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", Public Access, Chicago, IL
2016, “Sap”, Iridium, Chicago, IL
2015, “Cupid’s”, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
2015, "109 Years Since the Jungle", The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2015, "Bloomsday", Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY
2015, "Sharing is Caring/Hatred of Solitude", Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
2015, "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World", The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2014, "The Wind Up: Alphabet Party ", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2014, "Metaphysician, Heal Thyself", Gallery 1989, Larchmont, NY
2014, “Metaphysician, Heal Thyself”, 1019B, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2014, "Figment", Governors Island, New York, NY
2014, "Premium Quality", Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2013, "Figment", Boston, MA
2012, "I Should Have Been", Forum Art Space, Purchase, NY
2012, "Fuck You, I’ll See You Tomorrow", Forum Art Space, Purchase, NY
2012, "Piñata Factory", Rock N Roll Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2012, "Lotte Arts", 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
2012, "Pancakes and Booze", Artists Alley, San Francisco, CA
2012, "Eccentric Abstraction", Suites Gallery, Purchase, NY
2012, "Downtown Cabaret", 10 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
2012, "House/Home", The White Room, Purchase, NY
2011, "National Queer Arts Festival", SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2011, "Shop Mix Society", Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios, Santa Cruz, CA
2011, "Untitled", Aspect Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011, "LGBTQ Art Show", The Artists Alley, San Francisco, CA
2007, “Inaugural”, Ore Projektz, San Francisco, CA
RESIDENCIES
2018-9, Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art Artist in Residence, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, betOnest Open Residency, Angermünde, Germany
2017, Wassaic Project Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
2017, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2015, Brooklyn Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2014, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
2014, School of Making Thinking, East Branch, NY
2013, Collaborative Workspace Resident, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2017-Present, Assistant Professor (Non-Tenure Track), Department of Sculpture and Intermedia, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, Lecturer and Visiting Critic, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2017, Curator, “Cantering Loop”, Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL
2016, Lecturer and Moderator, Glazed Olympus: Transcendental Urban Architecture, ARCHTHEO '16/10th International Theory and History of Architecture Conference, Istanbul, TR
2016, Lecturer, Glazed Olympus: Transcendental Urban Architecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016, Coordinator and Founder, Theories of Space and Things Reading Group, Chicago, IL
2015, Lecturer, Tony Hawk Pro Skater: Dummy Muscle Memory, Words & [ ], The Darling Foundry, Montreal, QC
2015, Performer, Fall to Earth, Aspect-Ratio, Chicago, IL
2015, Performer, Fall to Earth, New Museum, New York, NY
2013, Organizer and Facilitator, Micro-Grant Dinner and Artist Talk, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY
2012, Organizer and Facilitator, Micro-Grant Dinner and Artist Talk, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
AWARDS
2019 Deans Travel Fund Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2018 Dean's Travel Fund Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2017, Dean's Professional Development Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2016, Dean's Professional Development Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2015-7 John and Mary Hoggins Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2014 Purchase College Public Art Grant, Purchase, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Poor Kelsey Harrison...where Have You Been?” The Visualist, 10 Mar. 2018, www.thevisualist.org/2018/03/poor-kelsey-harrisonwhere-have-you-been/.
Levitt, Aimee. “A ‘Dinner Party’ with no food, only smells.” Chicago Reader. Chicago Reader, 10 Apr. 2017. Web. 15 Apr. 2017.
Kelsey Harrison, “Earthbound Moon at Ballroom Projects.” Sixty Inches from Center, 20 Nov. 2016. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.
"VISUALIST." A Momentary Lapse of Reason: Kelsey Harrison, Stephen Lichty, Steve Reinke, Susanne M. Winterling. The Visualist, 10 Nov. 2016. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.
Lisa Jardine. "CREATIVE COLLABORATORS IN PORT CHESTER." . Hometown Media Group, 14 Nov. 2013.